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LONDON  MAGAZINE 


JULY  TO  DECEMBER, 


1821. 


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ALPHABETICAL  TABLE 


or 


CONTENTS. 


Agricultiuil  Report,  Kk^  ^13,  SaS,  440»  GudlUh  Umaoa  o£;  816. 

667,684.  Cirtilaiii,  Madune,  SOS,  Sia-ifaa  hoBMn 

Alphabet  Studies,  47*  and  preaents  beiiowed  upon  her,  566L 

Angentein,  Mr.  his  ObHeetitm  of  Pfeint-  Catullus,  Lamb*s  translatton  of,  8(^-lli■ 

ings,  298i  merits,  87* 

Annan  Water,  Scenery  of,  237-  Gertosa,  the,  496. 

Anne  Boleyn,  Tragedy  of,  398.  Chaxacters ;  Chudeoer  at  Warwick  Castki 

Antiquary,  a  charMter,  263.  7 — Housekeeper   at  ditto,  11 — ^Bridget 

Apograph,  441.  EUa,  28— Sir  Gideon  Moubray,  49— 

Aqbatic  Pedestrianism,  86.  Sieur  de  BourddDe,  36— Foedor,  161-* 

Architecture,   Grecian  and   Gothic  com-  Judith  Macrone,  241 — ^An  AntiquanTf 

pared,  661.  264— AquiUius,  270— S.  Salt,   28L-. 

Asan-Aga's  Bride,  a  Morlachian  BaQad,  T.  Coventry,    281— Lovel,  282  —  P« 

41.  Pierson ;  D.  Harrington ;  Jackson,  981 

Astronomy,  676.  — R.   N.,  284— The  Morton  Family, 

Ayrshire,  Seenery  of,  262.  628—  Mark  Macmoran,    600 —  Mfliet 

Colvine,  696— F.  tibe  Oilman,  603. 

Bacciius,  representations  and  Statuea  of,  ^J^  ^g^entiy  into  Edinbuigh,  79. 

^mn,  44-remarka  on  the  Bofthea  ^;2«  for  phantcEs,  872, 386, 3^7^ 

Bea»ltiesofMonrt,Handd,ftc  323.  ^S^ij^!f^/?{T^u.  .    i  hm^ 

B«f,ita  antiquity  a.  a  natiooal  dish,  247.  aS^^S^'b^TSiS  18» 

^^^r^J^^°^^     ^  540L-Poem,11ieLaitofM«*,641- 

B-«ji««  W«d.,  14^PJ«e.  140.  ^S^^^tS^  "'  '^ 

Sl^SPAS.'M^IouK^'.  hm  ^'-Sr^^'^P^  •"•  '•'•  '^  ^ 

^^M«bme  de  SUST. -mpMhjr  CoSlSTt  ArffU  Room.,  »l_Mr. 

bJX*!^  .  d««ripdT.  pot,  26a-W.  Sr^tl  ^5^-  ^-^'•'  *^ 

Cook,  R.  engraver,  418. 

Caerlarerock  Castle,  129.  Codcery,  246. 

Caillaud's  Travels  in  Efflrp^  ^3.  Cook's  Grade,  432. 

Canova,  93— his  bust  <n  Buooapaite,  326  Copenhagen,  441. 

—statue  of  Washington,  442.  Copernicus,  Monument  to,  93. 


if                      ALPHABETICAL  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS.  [VoL  IV, 

CoR^ggk),  888  ■  enpavingi  from,  S89.  Elton,  Mr.  74. 

Como  in.  15a-hu  tnTds  through  Eng.  Engnvcra,  R.  Cook,  418~Taylor,  Har- 

Und,  IftC  vey,  419— Schiayonetti,    661— Burnet, 

Cowper,  479.  062. 

EngraTuigi,  ftom  Correggio,  289 — Tinto- 

D»uih  BJlad.,  414.  p  T^^  291-PoBdoro,  293. 

TwT^  VAVi  EptaphR,  274. 

TW^^  Ha«r^'.  Wnn^  Vn^rrir.^  ^  Estcphania  dc  Gentdmes,  a  Talc,  379. 

Doitatus,  Harvey  s  Wood  Engraving  of,  g,^  Exhibition,  638. 

•Tk*  1              r*  J      ^           o  J  1    •«     1 0A  Exhibition  at  Somerset  House,  66. 

Dialogue  on  Education,  on  Sadolca^s,  180.  ' 

IXalogue  on  the  Homeric  Pocmatia,  481. 

Dnma,    No.  XVIII:     Covent  Garden;  Family  Pride,  299. 

Hamlet,  80 — Macrcady,  81,  82 — ^Da-  FaktafTs  death,  admirable  manner  in  which 

mon  and  Pythias,  83 — ^Drury  Lane ;  the  related,  608. 

Queen's  Visit  there,  84— No.  XIX.  Ge-  Feastings,  ancient,  247. 

neral  Remarks,  197 — Covent  Garden ;  Fine  Arts,  at  Berlin,  94. 

Hamlet,    Henry   IV.   part   2d,    197—  Florentine  Institution,  326. 

JhuTj  Lane ;  Bob  Roy,  Mr.  Mackay,  Fountains  in  the  Metropolis,  remarks  on, 

I  I98-.The  English  Opera  House;  Miss  280. 

Xdly,   Wrench,    Harley,    WiUunaon,  Fox,  the  late  Charles,  621. 

i  Lofe*i  Dream,  lOd^Two-penoe;  Hay«  Fricastori,  transUtion  of  a  poem  by,  181. 

market  Theatre,  201— Terry,  Conway,  French  Poets,  Early;  C  Marot,  687* 

De  Camp,  Leoni  Lee,  201— No.  XX.  Fugitive  Litcntuxe,  49. 

St.  Evremond's  opinioiis  on  the  Frendi 

Diama,  319 — Kean;  Drury  Lane;  the     ^ ^..  ,.  ,    ^..        , 

Coronation,   Mountaineer,  321 -Hay-  ^Jj!_^^"tJ^^"  *^  64fiu..paLicet, 

mvket;   Rise  and  Fall,  Fontainbleau,  646--^ew  from  Ae  Sperone,  647-voy- 

Match-makinff;  Lyceum  Theatre;  Mil-  «  ■**  ^  i^hom,  648. 

kr*s  M«d,  322-:No.  XXI.  Dramatic  ^^>  ?"^v?^  't:n^^ 

.   Titles;  W  of  Private  Life;  Covent  S^^'.'^'tL^lS?"'  ^^^  a^ 

Oaide^,    426 -Mr.  Young;    Dmry  Oeijer  s  obj^vations  on  Poetry,  43. 

.  Lmc;  Coronation, 427— Gcraldi Duval;  Ji!!z^A'tL         xi  u      no    o- v. 

.   Bmi^;  Mis.  pivey;    Knight;   Bar!  ^**!^  ^"^"»5  ^^^^  6ia-Richter, 

mod;    Kve  Hundred    Pounds,  428—    nw^^' n^ A^a    ^        n-  .    r 

Knglish  Opera;    Cure  for  Coxcombs;  G«^  R<»n*no,  418,   &c-Prmts  from, 

Haymarket;  Venice  Preserved,  429—  n.i.«    a«*:         AA^ 

nJxXII.  Drury  Lane ;OeraldiDu-  fc'^"*"^;:!;  t^^'.       ,         ,       „ 

.^549-Covent  Garden;  MissDance;  ®^J"^,^  ^^Ta??*™^'    *^*" 

Ymmg,  5fiO-Macready,  6ol.-Charl«  .JS?',  ^i^4l^'  ^^' 

KmS^;  the  Exile,  662-Young;  M^  S^t^/'^ii  ^*7. 

Vinfag,  M3-^^ket;  MisTBlake,  g^T  «^^S  .2%W  11. 

5  MmIL  Corri,  M4-Russdl,   555—  0»y,  «  tus  opuuon  of  Colhns,  13. 

Ka  XXIII,  eeS-Miss  BakcweD,  667  n^  ^u^^'  v  ••  *      Ron    i> 

-Yoimg,a6e-Biis.Be«imont;  Jones,  ^"^"^  ^"^if^  Jy^^'h^^Tzl'^' 


6wl4&nS:Trw;Drur7Lan;67^  "^"^^  '^  i&4-Pa«ntod  Hall,  586. 

Cooper's  lago ;  Kean ;  C(Mtume,  67  L 

Dragon,  a,  diMovered  in  lock,  675.  Hamilton's  Garden  of  Florence,  Review  of. 

Dramatic  Sketch,  Theodore  and  Bertha,  57. 

S66.  ._—  SchoIsB  Italics  Pictnrs,  293. 

Dreams,  272,  380.  H*P^  ^^  ^^  *  Parish  Priest  in  Sweden, 

'  Harangue,  by  a  Sentimental  Traveller,  511. 

Eating,  EngHrii,  246.  Herapath,  Mr.,  his  vi^ionaiy  theories,  677- 

EdiiiboJi^  Letters  frtNn,  No.  III.  77.  Herbert's,  E.  I^ietters,  No.  1.  On  the  Coro- 

Education,  181— failure  of  the  Bell  and  nation,  184— No.  II.  A  Visit  to  Green- 

Lancasterian  System  in  Scotland,  378.  wich  Ilo^ital,  527. 

Egypt,  Scientiflc  Trwds  in,  93.  Ilolkham,  Sheep  sheering  at,  215. 

Bu,  papers  by,  vi2.  iilackery  End,  28—  Hdty,  Life  of,  51  & 

Jews,  Quakers,  Scotchmen,  and  other  Homer,   his  Batrachoroyomadiia;   269 — 

Imperfect  Sympathies,    152— The  Old  difiercnt  translations  of  it,  273— on  his 

Benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple,  279—  Poematia,  481 — translation  of  his  hymn 

Witcfaee  and  other  Night  Fears,  384—  to  Bacchus,  641. 

Grace   before    Me»l,    469i— My   First  Ilort's  New  Pantheon,  640. 

Play,  003.  House  of  Weeping,  from  Richter,  615. 


VoL  IV.l 


ALPHABETICAL  TABLE  OF  CONTENT^ 


lafluenee  of  Seanaj  on  Poetical 

250. 

Inner  Temple,  279* 
Isole  Borromee,  142. 
Itelian  Literatiue,  205,  442,  558. 
Italian  Singing,  650. 
Italy,  Education  in,  826. 

Janus*  Boudoir,  658. 

Jew!),  Quakers,  and  Scotchmen,  152. 

Jones,  Sir  W.,  life  of,  626. 

Judith  Macrone,  the  Prophetess,  241. 

Keats,  50 — quotation  from,  288. 
King  (The),  his  fine  taste  in  Pictures,  292. 
Kirk-Alloway  described  by  Bums,  251. 
Kitchener,  Dr.  432— Ode  to,  468. 

Lago  Maggiore,  140. 

Lamartine,  Mcditatknas  Poetiques,  review 

of,  277. 
Lamb's  Catullus,  reriew  of,  88. 
Last  Will  and  Testament,  the,  615. 
LatreJUe,  his  arrangement  of  insects,  676. 
Lavbach,  aoeount  of,  440. 
Ijeiaure  Hours,  No.  I.  Homer*s  Battle  of 

the  Frogs  and  Mice,  260 — No.  II.  Do. 

translat^  38a~.No.  III.  The  Homeric 

Poematia^  481 — No.  IV.  Bacchus,  or  the 

Pirates,  from  the  Homeric  Hymns,  639. 
Lemberg,  Public  Library  at,  96. 
Letters  from  Edinburgh,  No.  Ill,  77 — of 

Edward  Herbert,  No.  I,  184— No.  II, 

527. 
Letter  of  Edward  Gallowgate,  52 — Boma- 

by  Dandelion,  55--Senez  to  Van  Vink- 

boom8,d38. 
Lion*s  Head,  3,  119,  S35,  351,  465. 
Lisbon,   abolition  of  the  punishment   of 

Death  at,  541. 
Literary  and    Scientific,  98,    205,   326, 

441,  558. 
literaUue,  Armenian,  559. 
-,  Bohemian,  20^1. 


• — ,  Danish,  559. 
— -,  German,  205,  559. 
— .,  Italian,  205,  442,  558. 
-^  Russian,  205,  441. 
— ',  Spanish,  96,  208,  443. 
— ,  Swedish,  205. 
.,  Swiss,  94. 


lifes  of  the  Poets ;  No.  I.  Thomas  War- 
txm,  12l.>-No.  II.  Sir  William  Jones, 
625. 

Lolham  Brigs,  540 — I^es  written  at,  541. 

Lycophron,  not  obscure  in  his  style,  611. 

Mackintosh*s  (Sir  J.)  Forgery  Bill,  98. 

Mackery  End,  28. 

Madrid  in  1821,  313. 

Magalotti,  160. 

Malay,  a,  365. 

Malone**  Shakspeare,  265. 


Mandiena  (Abb6),  314. 

Mannen,  dianges  of,  at  Edinbarg^,  77* 

Marot,    Clement,    587—- uialysu    of  Uf 

poem  of  the  Temple  of  Cupid,  588. 
Marvdl*s  (Andrew)  lines  on  a  Crarden,  279> 
Mechanical  Inventions,  94. 
Mechanics,  677* 
Meizi  Library,  441. 
Memoir  of  Santuari,  172. 
Metaphysics,  677* 
Meteorology,  676. 
Milan,     145— Cathedral,      147_The«ii« 

deUa  Scala,  148. 
Miles  Colvine,  the  Cumberland  MaiSner, 

594. 
Mock  MS.  Sermons,  516. 
Music,  Theory  of  its  effects,  859 — obter- 

Tations,  650. 

.,  Report   of.    No.    XVII. 


King*s  Theatre,  Argyle  Rooms,  Hypo-> 
lite  Larsonneur,  Miss  Angelina  C^ni, 
M.  Moschelles,  CoIlard*s  improved  Pf- 
ano-forte,  The  Terpodion,  New  Mud- 
cal  Publications,  90,  91 ;  and  No. 
XVIII.  Mad.  CataUni,  202— Mr.  Mo- 
chelles'  Concert,  203— Mr.  S.  Wesley's 
Concert,  Mr.  Sapio,  New  Musical  Pub- 
lications, 204 — No.  XIX.  Mr.  Sapip, 
Mad.  Catalani^s  Concert,  Conceit  at 
St.  Margaret^s,  316 — Provincial  Music 
Aleetings,  Adoption  of  a  foreign  style  in 
music.  Mad.  Camporese,  Mrs.  SaLnoOf 
317 — ^Modern  Singers,  Oeneral  observa- 
tion on  the  present  state  of  the  art,  311 
New  Musical  Publications,  319L-.Na 
XX.  429 — Salisbury  Musical  Meeting, 
430— New  Musical  Publications,  430— 
No.  XXI.  Music  encouraged  only  at 
London.  555 — Mad.  Cataluii ;  M»oeU 
laneous  Intelligence ;  New  Publicationg, 
556-^No.  XXII.  Madame  CataUnu, 
&c  672— projected  Concert ;  Scottirfi 
Melodies ;  Grand  Royal  DivertimoitO; 
New  Publications,  673. 
M\isical  Society,  Austrian,  95» 

Naples,  population  of,  441. 

Natural  Histonr,   names   substituted   tar 

science  in,  48. 
New  Hymn  Book,  323. 
Nomenclature  of  Clouds,  334. 
Normans,  or  Normen,  412. 
Nubia,  559. 
Numismatics,  559. 


Opera,  Pleasures  of  the,  359. 

Opinion,  Consistency  of,  485. 

Opium,  Pleasures  of,  354 — the  excitement 

it  causes  not  succeeded  by  depression, 

368— Pains  of,  369. 
Eater,  Confessions  of  an  English, 

Part  I,  294— Part  II,  35.^ 
Optics,  676. 


AIiPHABBTIGAL  TABLE  OF  CONTSNT& 


CVdflV. 


Mntens  Oandy,  a»->Fiitdif  Danid,  70 
•*>MulraKl7y  JadcMm,  71— lAwrence, 
PIi^Um,  AllaD,  Thomson,  Stothard,  72 
^-Huton,  Lawrenoe,  73— Stothard,  Les- 
lie,  74~Martiti,  Stephanoff,  7^— Pous- 
nn,  176— Andiea  dd  Sarto,  287~Cor. 
ic|g^  Reyndds,  Fuseli,  288— Tinto- 
zetto,  289 — Polidoio  da  Caravaggio,  291 
•^Oiulio  Romano,  418 — Michad  An- 
sdo,  661— Oiorgione,  661— Watteau, 
862— Da  Vind,  663— Oom^gio,  663. 

flamtuig,  remarks  on,  177- 

FHrafimdies,  325. 

Pnalyiis  cared  by  a  thunder  storm,  676. 

Btfties  in  Poetry,  476. 

Ptety  spirit,  620. 

FMcDts,  New,   108,  223,  344,  460,  578, 
693. 

Frtnot,  definition  of  a  trae  one,  621. 

Brtnoage  of  the  Fine  Arts,  when  jadi* 
cioas,292. 

Ftake,Mr.  200. 

FUHpa*  Cyder,  Italian  Transktion,  160. 

Hctores,  remarks  on,  179. 

Fl^noouth  in  17th  Century,  167. 

BMCiy:  Old  Ballads,  18. 

Sonnet  from  Costanzo,  16. 

Sonnet  (Mikon  vidts  Galileo  in  prison), 
16. 

The  Heroes  of  Naples,  17- 

Oh !  Preston,  proud  Preston,  21. 

Kenmure*s  on  and  awa,  Willie,  24. 

Lament  for  Walter  Sdby,  2& 

Thoni^ta  and  Images,  by  Montgo- 
mery, 39. 

The  Hills  o*  Oallowa,  52. 

Hden  Grsme,  55. 

Extracts  ftom  Hamilton's  Poems,  60. 

Baflad,  by  John  CUure,  76. 

To  Hope,  85. 

To  VeramduB,  from  Catullus,  89. 

Sonnet  by  John  Clare,  128. 

Sir  William  Musmve,  132. 

Epistle  to  Elia,  137. 

Tat  Lawyer;  a  Picture,  in  Two  Cantos, 
148. 

Song  to  Twili^t,  167* 

T6  the  Sun,  168. 

^nnslation  of  Fiacastorio's  Epistle  to 
Torriano,  181. 

The  Champion's  Farewell,  235. 

O  Annan  runs  smoothly,  239. 

Bonnie  Mary  Halliday,  240. 

There's  bonnie  Lads  on  fairy  Nith,  241. 

Theodore  and  Bertha;  a  Dramatic 
Sketch,  256. 

Faiewell  to  Mary,  273. 

Love  in  a  Mist,  313. 

The  Battle  of  the  Frogs  and  Mice,  38& 

Sonnet,  a  Reflection  on  Summer,  400. 

Pladng  the  Parson,  405. 

Song  imitated  from  the  Italian,  411. 

The  Touinament  (Danish  Ballad),  414. 

Orm  Ungersvend  (do.),  415. 


Death  of  Sivatd  Snarentvcnd  (dow),  415, 

Child  Bonved  (do.),  416. 

The  Poet,  417- 

The  Hermit,  425. 

Song:  There  may  be  some  who  loved 
like  me,  439. 

Ode  to  Dr.  Kitchiner,  463. 

Ld,  by  Thibaut  of  Navarre,  474. 

Sonnet :  Daughters  of  England,  484. 

The  Departure  of  Summer,  493. 

Vers^  written  iti  an  Abum,  507* 

Sonnet ;  a  Dream,  by  Keats,  526. 

The  Last  of  Maich,  by  John  Clare, 
541. 

Childish  Recollections,  (do.),  542. 

Ballad ;  Winter's  gone,  (do.),  543. 

Ballad ;  I  Love  thee.  Sweet  Mary,  (do.)^ 
544. 

Pleasures,  Past,  ditto,  544. 

Translations  from  Marot,  590. 

O  Mariner,  O  Mariner,  596. 

Hjrmn  to  Bao:hus,  641. 

Translation  from  Ovid's  Metamorphoses, 
642. 

A  Boiled  Pig,  643. 

Psahns,  XLII.  and  XLIIL,  664. 

Sonnel;  We  wrestle  with  our  Fate,  665* 
Poetry,  remarks  on,  58*-difierent  parties 

in,    476 — ^legitimacy  in,  478 — Revdu- 

tionary  Sdiml,   480— —early    French, 

588. 
Portable  Houses,  96. 
Poussin,  on  a  Landscape  <^,  176. 
Prints,  collections  of,  459. 
Prophedes,  94. 
Pseudo-schohurship,  47- 

Public  Events,  Monthly  Register  of;  Id- 
surrcction  of  the  Greeks ;  Spdn,  97—* 
Domestic  News,  Parliament,  98— ^Mr. 
Hume ;  Commitments  tot  Libds,  99 — 
Death  of  Nraoleon,  200 — Insurrectian 
hi  Turkey ;  Return  of  the  King  of  For. 
tugd ;  Coronation,  21 1 — Ireland ;  Mrk 
Cadide's  Trid ;  Locd  Bank  Notes  at 
Manchester,  212-^Affiun  in  Turkey, 
326— Portugd ;  Death  of  the  Queen, 
327— Her  wm^  828— Her  F^men^ 
329— King's  Visit  to  Irdand,  330ui«li08f 
of  the  Mdra  Packet,  331— Conqpiney 
detected  at  Saragossa;  Rfdgnarion  of 
Morillo;  Addreases  of  (he  King  of 
Spdn,  444 — Affairs  between  Russia  and 
the  Porte;  United  States;  Interment  of 
Her  Majesty's  Remains,  445 — His  Ma- 
jesty's  Departure  from  Ireland ;  Bank 
Affairs ;  Inquest  on  Honey ;  Sir  Robert 
Wihwn,  44»— Affairs  in  Turkey,  560— 
In  Spdn  and  at  Lisbon,  561 — Trials  at 
Paris ;  Ireland,  502— King's  Arrivd  at 
Hanover;  Sir  Robert  Wilson,  563— 
Revenue,  &&  5G4— State  of  Affairs  in 
Oreece  ;  Mexico,  G79 — Disturbances  in 
Irdand;  the  King,  680 — ^Executions; 
Agriculturd  Distresses,  &c.  681. 


VoL  IV.J 


ALPHABETICAL  TABIiE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Quakers,  ibbi 

Rain  of  Silk,  93. 

Reading  aloud,  a  rare  aooompUflhment,  370. 

Recollections  in  a  Countzy  Churchyard, 
285. 

Resemblance  between  old  Danish  and  Eng- 
lish Ballads,  42. 

Hctrospect  of  the  Progress  of  Philosophy 
and  Science,  674— Ooology,  674 — Mi- 
neralogy ;  Botany  ;  Zoology,  675 — Me- 
teorology; Electricity  and  Magnetism; 
Optics;  Astronomy,  676— Mechanics ; 
Chemistry;  Metaphysics  and  Ethics, 
077— Education,  678. 

Khodomontades  Espagnoles,  35. 

Ricardo  (Mr.),  his  profoundness  as  a  Pplif 
tical  Economist,  371. 

Richter,  J.  P.  F.  606-~his  sWle  not  parti- 
cularly difficult, ^10— his  ^*  -^sthetik," 
610 — projected  Translationa  from,  612 
— happy  Life  of  a  Parish  Priest  in  Swe- 
den, 613— Last  Will  and  Testament, 
and  House  of  Weeping,  "61 5. 

Rogers*  ^^  |Iuman  I^*'  Italian  Trans* 
lationof,  2S. 

Rossini^s  defects  as  a  Composer,  317* 

Russian  Liteiatiire,  205,  44L 


Sackville,  Lord  Buckhurst,  267. 

t^oleti's  Dialogue  on  Education,  180. 

Hagas  of  the  Scandinavians,  44. 

Saint  Amand,  Memoir  of,  123. 

Saint  Evremond*s  Opinion  on  tlie  French 
Drama,  319. 

San  Carlo  Borromeo,  festival  of,  145. 

Santuari,  Memoir  of,  172. 

Saturday-night,  Pleasures  of,  360. 

Schiller,  607, 612. 

Scotchmen,  152. 

Sculpture,  by  Canova,  93, 442. 

Sentimental  Journey  from  Islington  to 
Waterloo  Bridge,  608. 

Sermons,  Mock  Manuscxipt,  516. 

Skeleton,  516. 

Shakspeare,  new  edition  of,  265 — conjec- 
tured to  be  the  ^tion  of  Spenser,  26(^^ 
argument  against  that  hypothesis,  266— 
exceUenoe  of,  608. 

Shelley,  Mr.  57. 

Shiel,  Mr.  83. 

sketches  on  the  Road,   No.  II.   Visit  to 

Vesuvius,   31 No.  III.    The  Lago 

Maggiore  and  Milan,  140. — No.  IV. 
495— No.  V.  644. 

Singers,  English,  318. 

Songs  of  the  People  of  the  Gothic  Race, 
41. 

Southey,  Dr.  487. 

Spanish  Carnival,  313. 

Spanish  Literature,  96,  208,  443. 

Spanish  Melodies,  319. 

Spearing,  Captain,  538. 


Spenser,  his  supposed  acquaintance  with 

Shakspeare,  265. 
Statue,  anecdote  of  one  discovered,  146. 

I    of  Washington,  442. 
Steam  Vessels,  559. 
Sterne,  Or8y*s  opinion  of,  14 — Tombof^ 

276— inferior  to  Richter,  609. 
Straw  used  as  a  conductor  to  lightmng, 

325. 
Street-walker,  305. 
Style,  Second-hand,  544. 
Sun-dials,  reflections  on,  279. 
Sweden,  Happy  Life  of  a  Parish  Priest 

in,  613. 
Sydney's,  Sir  P.  opinion  of  Gorbuduc,  267* 

Table  Talk,  No.  XL  On  a  Landscape  of 
Poussin,  176 — No.  XII.  On  Consistency 
of  Opinion,  485— No.  XIIL  On  the 
Spirit  of  Partisanship,  620. 

Terpodion,  a  new  Musical  Instrument,  92L 

Tcutonizans  (Grasmariensis)  on  Richter 
die  German  writer,  606. 

Theatre,  New,  Hay  market,  201. 
I  a  squeeze  at,  described,  670. 

Thomson,  the  PoeU  479. 

Thorvaldscn,  7L 

Thurma;  the  Antiquary,  253— Westmiiw 
ster  Abbey,  651. 

Tintoretto,  observations  on,  289. 

Tooke's,  J.  H.  Epitaph,  276. 

Torre  del  Greco,  33. 

Traditional  liiteraturc,  No.  VII.  The 
Death  of  Walter  Selby,  19— No.  VIII. 
The    Ghost  with  the    Golden  Casket, 

129 No.   IX.    Judith  Macrone  the 

Prophetess,  237— No.  X.  Placing  m 
Scottish  Minister,  401— No.  XI.  The 
Haunted  Ships,  499— No.  XII.  Mil« 
Colvinc,  the  Cumberland  Mariner,  59ii 

Travels  of  Cosmo  III.  review  of,  156. 

Travelling,  508. 

Trial  of  Barginet,  501— Flocon,  562. 

Tyrol  Wanderer,  172. 

Undine,  Illustrations  of,  420. 

Van  der  Kabel's  Will,  616. 

Von  Vinkbooms  on  the  Exhibition,  65— 
Dogmas  for  Dilettanti,  No.  I,  285— Nob 
II.  Giulio  Romano,  418— No.  IIL  Th« 
Amatcur*s  Boudoir,  or  a  Visit  to  Janos, 
655 — Letter  to,  on  the  Exeter  ExLibi* 
tion,  538, 

Varese,  144. 

Verbal  Imagination,  57* 

Vesuvius,  31,  34. 

Villa  d'Este,  144. 

Visconti,  326. 

Vocal  Science  in  England,  No.  III.  Mr. 
Braham,  61. 

Voluptuous  Songs,  miscalled  Religious,  325. 

Wamer'i;  Church  of  Epgland  Theology, 
516. 


m         ALPHABETICAL  TABLE  OF  00MTBNT8.  [ VoL  IV. 

Vvton^  Tbomat,  Life  of,  121.  Wheat,  prerention  of  imutm,  M7* 

Warwick  Casde,  6.  Winter  ETening  £i:^03rmentt,  367* 

Wwwick  VaK,  the,  7.  Witches,  384. 

Weather,  Ohienratianson  for  June,  328^  Wordtworth,  67»  487* 

for  July,  335— for  Auguat,  460— forSep- 

tmber,  588-.for  October,  686.  Zariadrea  and  Odatis,  a  Oredan  Story, 

Weat,  anecdote  of,  177-  127. 

Waitminster  Abbey,  651.  Zoology,  875. 


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LONDON    MAGAZINE 


No,  XIX. 


JULY,  1821. 


Vol.  IV. 


CONTENT^ 


V^  Uon'iK  putk 


Warwick  Cwde 6 

On  Gray's  Opinion  of  CoUins,  ufith  a 

Sommet  from  Coitamo 13 

Somnet    (MiUim  vititing  GaUleo  in 

PritOH) 16 

7%e  Heroes  of  Naples,  a  new  Ballad  17 

TaADITIOWAL  LlTE&ATUBE,  No.  VII. 

The  Dflatfa  of  Walter  StUhf. ...  19 
Mmdktaj  End*  in  Hertfocdi^biie  $  by 

Elia 28 

SM^cfaa  on  the  Roadf  No.  II dl 

Rodomontades  £q»a^;nolei 36 

Thoughts    and    Images;   by  James 

Montgomery. 30 

On  the  Songs  of  the  People  of  Gothic 

or  Teutonic  Race 41 

Alphabet  Studies,  and  Chinese  Imita- 

tioos 47 

Fngitife  Literature,  wUh  Ballads, ...  49 
Hanulton*s  Garden  of  Florence,  and 

other  Poems 57 

Sketch  of  the  Progress  of  Vocal  Sd- 

cncein£r^^and,No.III 61 


Exhibition  of  the  Rojal  Academy. . . 

BaUad,  by  John  Clare 76 

Letters  from  Edinburgh,  No.  Ill 77 

The  Drama,  No.  XVUL 

Macready's  Hamlet— Damon  and 

Pythias,  && 8eu-8ft 

To  Hope^a  Poem 85 

Lamb's  TransUitioQ  of  Catullus 86 

Report  of  MuaicNa  XVII 90 

LlTESABT    AND    SciEKTIFIC    IK- 

Ti!x.LIOENCE 93 


Abstract  of  Foreign  and  Domestic  Oc- 
currences      97 

Agricultural  Report 190 

Commercial  Report 101 

Works  preparing  fiir  Publication 
and  lately  publuhed,  Rreferments, 
Bankruptcies,  Births,  Marriages, 
Deaths,  Meteorological  Register, 
Mareets,  Stocks,  &«.....  104—1 16 


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THB  UON'B  HEAD. 


Thk  Uon'B  Head  is  dctern^ned  on  having  a  paw  in  the  Coronation :  It 
haa  serious  thoughts  of  putUng  in  its  claim  to  sit  on  the  right  side  of  Bri* 
tannia  (if  Britannia  intends  being  present)^  its  old  established  place^  as.tlie 
earliest  pocket-pieces  testify.  The  Lion's  Head  can  pledge  itself,  that  the 
Unicom  will  not  be  there,  so  that  there  will  certainly  be  nothing  to  i4)pre- 
bend  firom  that  old  and  graceless  broil  about  the  Crown :  at  any  rate>  Lion's 
Head  will  fight  lor  nothing  so  little  as  a  Crown  ;  and  Mr.  Dyxnoke  would  be 
by  to  settle  all  squabbles,  as  in  duty  bound.  Lion's  Head,  or  some  part  of 
its  family,  attended  heart  in  hand,  at  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion's  Coronation  ; 
and  it  will  certunly  prowl  its  way  into  Westminster  Hall,  on  the  approach^, 
ing  splendid  day,  and  bear  a  wa^hfid  eye  upon  the  cereiiiony.  Lion's  Head 
is  not  a  Dandy-lion,  but  its  mane  will  be  carefully  cut  and  turned  for  the 
occasion ;  and  it  will  go  ruffled,  like  a  true  British  Lion.  The  readers  of  the 
London  Magazine,  in  fine,  may  rest  assured,  that  Lion's  Head  will,  on  that 
day,  sedt  its  own  food,  and  not  trust  to  the  established  Jackalls  of  the 
diumal  press. 

We  promised  a  Plate  in  the  present  Number,  from  Mr.  Hilton's  picture, 
of  ^'  Nature  blowing  Bubbles  for  her  Children ; "  but  being  disappointed 
in  the  Engraving,  we  are  compelled  to  defer  the  fulfilment  of  our  promise 
till  next  month. 


Table  Talk,  No.  XL  and  the  Buccaneer,  will  certainly  appear  in  our  next 
Nivnber. 


We  really  cannot  commend  such  poetry  as  the  following,  and  say  wMi 
our  Correspondent  —  that  it  *^  mingles  delicacy,  tendeniess,  and  spright* 
Hness,  and  is  among  the  prettiest  that  has  been  written  on  thaV  poetic  fii^ 
vourite,  the  Nightingale" 

The  Nightingale^  pent  in  his  cage, 

CleoiB,  is  musical  still ; 
He  harpt  on  the  wires  in  his  mge., 

And  his  sighs  in  soft  melody  trill. 

Oh  !  hear  how  he  warbles  !  each  note 

Is  a  mystical,  soft  billet  douxy 
ikxit  post  to  the  woods,  from  his  throat. 

With  the  sweetest  and  saddest  adieu. 


We  wish  the  Author  of  the  "  Ballad  to  his  Mistress,"  had  been  near  the 
postman  of  the  woods,  mentioned  above,  as  he  might  have  compassed  a 
cheaper  delivery.  Surely  this  *'  earnest  of  future,  and  more  valuable  con- 
ributions,"  was  never  written  in  earnest. 


4  The  Li6n'»  Head. 

The  "  Poblic  Office  Clerk"  must  share  the  fate  of  many  of  his  brethren, 
and  be  dismissed. 


**  Two  Sorts  of  Men"  ahill  be  carefully  considered.  We  will^  as  a  learn- 
ed personage  says^  "  take  the  papers  home  with  us^  and  give  judgment  on 
a  future  day." 

J.  W.  G.  most  excuse  us  if  we  decline  inserting  the  ''  two  more  little 
effbrts  of  his  unfledged  muse^"  which  we  the  less  regret^  as  he  says^  ''  they 
cost  no  efibrt." 


Our  respect  for  the  original  of  Mr.  R— »'s  ''  poetic  paraphrases^"  impels 
ut  to  reftise  his  friendly  offer.  Non  hoc  eonveniunt  lyre.  And  if  it  were 
not  so,  the  lyre  he  dms  at  holding  is  too  heavy  for  his  hands,  judgmg  from 
the  specimen  he  has  sent  us. 

''  The  Lawyer,  a  Picture,"  is  quite  to  our  taste;  and  we  promise  our 
poetical  readers  a  treat,  by  the  insertion  of  it  in  our  next  number. 


The  paper  of  A.  W.  upon  the  encouragement  of  Autograph-Epitaphs-^ 
(a  species  of  writing  to  which  we  never  particularly  applied  our  minds)  par- 
takes rather  too  much  of  the  sombre  sobriety  of  its  siibject.  We  are  obliged 
by  the  offer  of  it  for  our  pages ;  but,  like  young  ladies  at  an  offer  of  anoUier 
description,  we  really  cannot  yet  make  up  our  minds. 


The  Translation  from  Earl  Conrad,  of  Kirchberg,  m  Praise  of  May,  will 
appear  in  our  next  We  may  answer  our  fair  Correspondent's  proverb  of  a 
^  day  after  the  fair,"  with  another:  ^*  a  miss  is  as  good  as  a  mile."  The 
season,  however,  seems  to  have  put  itself  off  to  oblige  her. 


M.  A.  will  see  that  we  have  availed  ourselves  of  one  of  his  papers.  •  We 
cannot  promise  as  to  the  rest,  for  we  have  really  not  yet  had  time  to  read 
them. 


»  

£.  R.  and  Zara,  and  the  author  of  the  versified  Epistle  on  Poetical  De- 
ception, are  unavoidably  deferred. 

The  proprietors  of  the  following  signatures  must  frame  excuses  the  most 
pleasant  to  their  own  feelings  for  our  omission  of  their  several  contributions. 
We  sincerely  thank  them  one  and  all  for  their  kind  intentions ;  but  the  pub- 
lic is  a  dainty  personage,  and  we  are  obUged  to  cater  cautiously.— Ensign  S. 
— H.  L.— Jack  Straw.— J.  J.  W. — Beta. — Chevalier.— James  with  his  Pocket 
Book.— Singultus. 

Our  Publishers  desire  to  say  a  word  or  two,  but  we  have  not  room  for 
them  this  time :  they  shall  have  a  fair  hearing  on  a  future  opportunity.  In 
the  mean  time,  the  Public  are  assured,  that  all  the  former  Contributors  to 
die  London  Maoazinb  are  earnest  in  giving  it  their  powerful  support ; 
and  the  contents  of  the  present  Number  are,  in  our  minds,  a  more  sub- 
stantial recommendation  than  a  thousand  promises. 


THR 


Imtlion  iWlagajtne. 


N^  XIX.  JULY,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


WARWICK  CASTLE. 
The  cattle  I  do  give  thee^—here^t  the  keyet.    Old  Ballad. 

If  any  one  would  choose  to  pay  Tisit,  for  unless  I  go  regularly  through 

Antiauity  a  visit,  and  see  her  in  ner  the    pictures    of  my  memory,  and 

erana  tiara  of  turrets,  sed  her  in  all  point  them  out  in  their  proper  lights 

ner  gloomy  glory, — not  dragging  on  and  sequent  courses,  I  become  con- 

a  graceless  existence,  in  ruined  cell,  fused  and  wandering,  like  the  pow- 

with  disordered  dress,  and  soiled  vi-  dered  guide  of  Hampton  Court,  who 

sage ;    but  clad   in   seemly   habili-  drags  along  his  aged  silken  feet,  from 

ments,  bearing  a  staid,  proud,  and  painting   to    painting,  day  by  day, 

flowing  countenance,  and  dwelling  and  hour  by  hour,  with  a  rigid  and 

m  a  home  that  seems  charmed,  and  tedious   precision — pointing    out    to 

not  distracted  by  time:— let  such  a  every  comer  the  same  picture,  from 

one  go  to  the  wooded  solitudes,  the  the  same  spot,  directing  the  visitor 

silent  courts,  the  pictured  waUs,  and  (every  visitor)  to  '^  stand  there  and 

rich  embrowned  floors  of  Warwick  admire  the  perspective,"  and  never 

Castle.    There  dwells  Antiquity  like  failing,  winter  and  summer  (I  have 

a  queen  !  There  she  holds  her  sombre  been  liiere  I  know  not  how  oft),  to 

state,   amid    spear  and  sword,  and  select  a  brass  pan  in  the  picture  of 

battle-axe  and  shield :  there  she  keeps  the  Deluge,  as  a  thinff  that   "  is 

rich   and  solemn  revel  through  all  reckoned  very  fine:"  Leave  him  to 

time.  The  air  takes  a  more  hallowed  his  own  course, — and  he  knows   a 

softness  from  her  presence ;  and  the  Rembrandt  firom  a  Guido,  a  Titian 

paintings  which  hang  in  her  halls,  from  a  Raphael,  a  Vandyke  from  a 

appear  to  warm  and  brighten  under  Sir  Peter  Lely ;  but  take  him  up  on 

Aer  mild  care  and  sovereignty.   Time  the  sudden,  and  call  him  back  to  a 

breathes  patientlv  upon  them,  and  picture  past  in  his  description,  or  to 

they  ripen  in  his  breath,  like  fruit  in  one  considerably  a  head  of  his  nar- 

the  ricn  mellowed  airs  of  autumn,  rative,  and  you  ruin  his  knowledge. 

The  Titian  che^  deepens  and  glows  lay  waste  his  recollections,  pillage 

into  rich  perfection;  the  black  hair  his  pictorial    saws  and  ancient  in- 

becomes  more  black,  magnificent,  in-  stances,  and  plunge  him  into  a  tu- 

tense.    The  velvet  garmenting,  and  mult  of  names,  from  which  he  cannot 

crimson  robe,  and  gloomy  fur,  seem  easily  extricate  himself,     I  have  his 

filled  with  Ui^ufipht.  All  around  looks  trick  to  a  nicety,  and  must  be  allow- 

sacred,  and  'dedicate  to  Time.   War-  ed  to  "  be^n  at  the  beginning,"  or 

wick  Castle  is  sure  the  palace  of  An-  I   shall  confound  oak  with  myrtle, 

tiquity :  and  here  let  me  tell  how  I  shade  with  sun  light,  and  vase  with 

found    that   gracious    and    queenly  cauldron.    Let  me  proceed  "  orderly, 

creature^  when  I  last  was  in  her  pre-  as  it  is  meet,"   or  you  ffet  nothing 

sence.    I  will  minutely  describe  my  true  of  me.     I  must,  if  the  reader 

Vol.  IV.  C 


6                                                 Warwick  Castle.  QJuly, 

love  me^  take  up  at  the  gate^  and  not  staid  on  the  bridge  longer  ''  than 

then  my  description  will  be  sure  to  one  with  moderate  haste  might  count 

prosper.  a  hundred."    I  proceed.   The  gate  of 

No— I  must  begin  with  the  bridge  the  castle  is  walled,  or  rather  rocked, 

that  leads  the  road  over  the  river  deeply  in ;  and  the  transition  from  the 

ithe  Avon !  Shakespeare's  Avon !)  coarse  road,  meagre  gravel,  and 
rom  Leamington  to  Warwick,— be-  barren  wall,  to  the  verdant  riches  of 
cause  I  once  beheld  from  it  one  of  the  garden,  to  its  soft  shades  and 
the  finest  scenes  of  evening-quiet  tender  lustres,  is  high  enchantment, 
and  beauty  that  ever  blessed  me  in  You  pass  the  gate,  and  the  world  is 
my  poetical  days.  The  sky  all  around  shut  out ! — You  enter,—  and  Adam's 
was  cloudless ;  so  much  so,  as  to  an«  banishment  seems  reversed.  I  would 
pear  thrice  spacious  over  my  head ;  only  recommend,  and  this  earnestly, 
and  the  set  sun  had  warmed  it,  and  that  all  lovers  of  the  picturesque 
tinted  it  with  a  soft  pink  lustre,  that  rush  onwards  immediately,  and  that 
made  it  extremely  calm  and  reposing  they  dally  not  with  a  sleek  modern 
to  the  eye.  Peace  "  sailed  upon  the  porter,  who  does  antiquity  great  dis- 
bosom of  the  air."  I  leaned  against  service  at  her  very  portal.  He  may 
the  parapet  of  the  bridge,  and  gazed  be  a  worthy  man,  but  he  should  not 
in  lazy  wonder  and  delight  at  the  stand  there  yet.  He  is  old— a  trifle 
castle.  It  crowned  the  river,  and  — but  not  old  enough  for  his  situa- 
looked  proudly  down  from  its  nest  of  tion.  He  ought  to  be  iw/hz-an- 
trees  and  ancient  rock,   as  though  nuated. 

watching  and  brooding  over  its  image  The  garden,  or  park,  for  I  know 
in  the  water,  silver  bright  beneath  it.  not  which  it  should  be  called,  is  plea- 
Nothing  could  be  more  strangely  still  santly  relieved  with  hill  and  slope, — 
and  clear ;  not  a  leaf  thrilled  .on  the  distance,  and  sweet  bomided  dells ; 
trees;  not  a  wave,  not  the  shudder  and  clumps  of  trees — not  of  those 

of  a  wave,  arose  to  break  the  mir-    slim,    young    things, saplings,    I 

rored  smootlmess  of  the  charmed  would  call  them, — which  usurp  the 
Avon  !  Every  sound  and  moving  ob-  name  of  trees  in  these  impoverished 
ject  even  confirmed  the  silence ;  for  times,  —  but  of  old  solid  family  trees, 
the  long  low  evening  moan  of  the  trees  of  character,  and  long  stand- 
cattle,  in  the  level  meadows  by  the  ing, — break  the  prospect  grandly  and 
river  side,  took  a  deep  far-off  echo,  irregidarly,  and  vary  the  ^een  ex- 
as  though  no  other  sound  was  alive  pause  of  grass  and  shrubs,  with  t)eau- 
to  disturb  or  break  it ;  and  the  pass-  tifiil  strewings  of  light  and  shade, 
ing  of  a  sparrow  across  the  air  was  The  castle  stands  at  no  great  dist- 
most  distinct,  and  apparently  most  ance  from  the  gate,  but  you  are  pur- 
solitary.  I  never  shall  forget  this  posely  and  cunningly  perplexed  with 
scene, — and  when  in  a  morning  of  a  winding  path,  that  will  have  its 
last  spring,  I  crossed  the  bridge  a-  own  way,  and  will  not  let  you  have 
new,  that  evening  arose  before  my  yours ;  and,  it  is  therefore  a  work  of 
eyes  in  its  placid  splendour  and  time  to  reach  the  foss  and  solemn 
beauty,  and  the  past  revived,  with  walls  of  this  noble  building.  To  l>e 
all  its  warm  and  slumberous  lustre,  candid,  I  must  own  that  my  shrewd- 
How  poor  does  the  scene  appear  in  ness  and  ingenuity  adopted  an  erring 
this  colourless  description,  ana  yet  it  path,  and  maintained  it  contrary  to 
seemed  to  contain  at  the  time  the  in-  the  advice  of  two  younf  creatures 
spiration    of    a    thousand    glowing  (women-kind,   as  my   fhend  Jona- 

Sages !    M'hy  did  I  not  *'  write  it  than  Oldbuck  hath  it)  who  accom- 

own "  at  the  moment  I  saw  it,  as  a  panied  me ;  and  thus  we  were  car- 

landscape-paintei:  colours  from  na-  ried  far  beyond  the  castle,  and,  in- 

ture ;    then  should    I  have    had    a  deed,  were  brought  to  the  greenery 

sketch   worthy  the  possessing:    but  before  its  time.    Greatly  were  my 

the  opportunity  is  gone  by,  and  such  associates  disconcerted,  and,  as  my 

evenuiffs  do  not  occur  frequently  in  powers  as  a  guide  were  considerably 

these  degenerate  days.      I  can  but  disordered,  I  attempted  no  excuse, 

exclaim  with  master  Shallow,  "  Ha !  but  sought  by  other  topics  to  divert 

o'  my  life,  if  I  were  young  again ! "  the  minds  of  my  friends  fi-om  the  re- 

The  reader  will  admit  that  I  have  collection   of  my    perversity.     We 


i  8910  Warunck  Catth.  7 

talkied  of  the  bettuty  of  the  day^  the  A  gardener  now  joined  us,  and 
oham  of  fin^  fcenerj,  the  pleasures  proceeded  forthwith  to  fasten  himself 
of  a  picturesoae  aolitudG— or  aU  those  upon  us  as  a  guide.  He  led  us  back 
deli^itSy  in  snort,  which  so  romantic  into  the  green>house,  from  which  we 
a  place  never  fails  to  suggest,  but  we  had  slily  and  quietly  oozed  at  his  ap- 
entered  the  greenery,  and  my  errors  proach,  and  with  tedious  officious- 
were  instantly  and  utterly  forgotten,  ness  went  into  a  prose  account  of  the 
The  tall  and  beautiful  myrtles,  the  vase,  hoeing  up  all  our  little  previous 
wide-roreading  geraniums,  the  grace-  poetical  feelings,  and  plainly  telling 
fill  and  ddicate  roses  of  every  v»-  us  that  the  handles  were  formed  of 
riety,  plants  of  the  most  rare  flow-  interwoven  vine-branches,  and  that 
er  and  odour,  were  disposed  around  the  basin  would  hold  one  hundred 
us  m  the  most  cunning  order^  and  and  sixty-three  gallons,  -  wine  mea- 
arran^d^  so  as  to  set  each  other's  sure.  He  then  descanted  on  the 
beaaties  ofi;  like  "  jewels  in  an  plants,  and  on  the  prospects,  and 
Ethiop's  ear." '  We  admired  in  si-  contrived  to  take  us  out  of  the  green- 
lence, — save  that  one  of  us  (1  will  house,  in  a  far  more  perplexed  and' 
not  cUsdose  the  name  of  the  Extra-  ignorant  state,  than  that  in  which  we 
vagent)  wished  for  the  possession  of  entered  it.  In  spite,  however,  of 
the  tallest  and  handsomest  geranium,  the  cruel  learning  of  our  guide,  we 
and  that  another  hinted  at  a  certain  forgave  him  in  the  open  air.  He  was 
mother  going  mad  in  such  a  paradise  an  old  man,  lame,  and  clothed  in  a 
of  plants.  In  the  midst  of  tne  most  grey  dress,  a  shade  darker  than  his 
delicate  stems  and  tender  leaves,  hair.  His  garments  and  general  ap- 
which  crept  and  twined  around,  as  pearance  were  remarkably  neat  and 
forming  a  verdant  nest,  stood  the  far-  placid,  and  he  might  have  been  mis- 
famed  vase,  presented  to  the  Earl  of  taken  for  a  quaker  of  the  forests — a 
Warwick  by  Sir  William  Hamilton,  romantic  sectarian.  I  myself  could- 
This  noble  fnece  of  antiquity,  with  not  but  conceit  him  to  be  a  kind  of 
its  silent  Bacchanalian  emblems,  and  lay-gardener,  let  loose  by  the  Earl 
&ir  shape  of  white  marble,  seemed  to  ornament  the  grounds  more  by 
to  us  a  fit  urn  to  hold  the  ashes  of  his  presence,  than  by  his  labour :  to 
Anacreoo.  Its  decorations  of  tlie  be  sure,  he  picked  a  weed  from  the 
vine-leaf,  and  the  grape,  would  fain  walk,  as  he  toiled  idly  and  relaxedly 
remind  us  of  joy,  ana  life,  and  love,  before  us,  and  rooted  up  a  stray  daisy 
I  and  or  so,  but  he  did  no  more ;  and  he 

the  wine,  had  no  spud,  no  spade,  no  hoe,  na 

Bnm^t  ftnm  the  gkxMoy  ton  with  vieny  hook,  no  blue  apron,  no  curved  claq[i 

•hine.  knife,  to  mark  mm  a  man  of  garden- 


But  there  is  in  the  pale  cold  stlU-  ?f  T"^*    ^"^  atood  before  us  an 

ness  of  the  white  marble,  a  mystery  f^^  gardener  onlv  !  His  long  ifrey 

that  touches  the  imaged  joy  to  sad-  lock*  curled  loosely  and  uregufarlr 

ness.    The  heart  becomes  awed  un-  JT^*^'?  f  ^^  shoulders,  and  around 

der  the  strange  and  tomb-like  quiet  ^  t^y^^i^^t^.J^'  "^^^K  ^^^ 

of  the  vase,  and  sr^cely  dares  to  ask  f^^^^^Ll^'*;^''^^^^**^^''!^^*?" 

^  browned  by  the  united  efforts  of  the 

What  Icaf-fringed  lege&d  haunts  about  its  air  and  sun.     His  step  was  heavy 

shape.  and  solemn,  as  though  he  dragged  at 

his  heels  all  his  past  years,  the  wi« 
We  gazed  upon  it  in  silence,  until  thered  weeds  and  brambles  of  exist- 
we  departed  froai  its  magic  presence,  ence.  I  thought  his  aged  face  hand- 
when  I  could  not  help  uttering  those  some,  and  my  companions  detected 
beautiful  lines,  which  the  most  ori-  in  it  a  kindly  and  benign  expression : 
^nal  poet  of  the  age  hath  conse-  and  I  have,  indeed,  remarked  or  fan- 
crated  to  an  imagmary  vase,  cied  that  men  who  associate   with 

^Id  pastoral !  ^^""^   «*"?  ^^^^^  only  become  as 


When  old  age  shaU  thisgSttewtion*  waste,      !^Pl«  ^^  ^  pure  as  they  ;  that  their 
Thou  Shalt  remain  in  midst  of  other  woe        *«<«s  ever  speak  of  the  genUcness  of 
Than  ours,  a  friend  to  man,  to  whom  thou     pleasant  plants.     So  country  school- 
say*st,  masters  are  touched  with  the  simpli- 

BcMity  is  truth,  Uruih  besutj.  city   of  childhood,  and  !)cc()me   un- 

C2 


t                                               Warunek  CaUk.  C^uly, 

fitted  to  compete  with  the  difficulties  Mr  judges  and  I  was  admonished 
and  crafts  or  the  world :  and  we  all  and  sentenced  accordingly.  The  gar- 
know  and  love  the  artlessness  and  dener  had  deserted  us^  for  his  domU 
kindlhiess  of  rood  old  master  Isaac  nion  was  over  leaf^  and  stem>  and 
Walton^  and  he  had  but  rivers  and  blossom^  and  twig^ — and  extended 
brooks^  and  silly  fish^  for  his  compa-  not  to  gate^  buttress^  or  window.  He 
nions.  had  set  us  in  the  right  path^  previous 

Descending  the  few  steps  of  the  to    his  departure^  —  and   had    duly 

green-house^   it  was  impossible  not  touched  his  shilling  and  his  hat  at 

to  be  struck  with  the  superior  odour^  our  separation :  but  this  same  "  right 

folia^^  and  shape  of  tne  nlants  a^  path "  forked  in  course  of  time^  and 

round  us.    The  nobility  or  the  fa-  my  unrortunate  sagacity  recommends 

mily  seemed  to  have  passed  into  leaf  ed  the  wrong  prong,    I  dared  not 

anci  blossom,— and  tne  myrtles  and  call  aloud,  for  1  knew  Echo,   widi 

geraniums  grew  as  of  stately  birth,  her  hundred  tongues,  would  reproach 

They  were  luxuriant,  without  a  sign  me  from  every  angle  and  nook  of  the 

of  decay ;  and  they  spake  to  my  mind  castle ;    and    indeed  the  locks  and 

of  the  ladies  under  whose  smiles  they  bolts  had  a  resolute  rust  of  age  and 

miffht  have  flourished.   I  fancied  that  disuse  about  them,  which  sacQy  dis« 

I  detected  the  hand  of  one  of  Uie  couraged  all  hope  of  their  relaxing 

youthful  countesses  of  the  house  a-  for  our  admission-    We  retraced  our 

mong  the  shining  leaves;  and  I  at  steps,  and  ultimately  succeeded  by 

ohce  imagined  her.  bending  over  a  another  path. 

JUght  of  myrtles  arrangea  on    the  But  as  I  returned,  I  should  not,  I 

marble  steps,  in    her  silken  attire,  cannot,  omit  to  mention,  —  that  a 

and  with  her  pearl-bound  hair ;  while  trifling  circumstance  sent  my  mind 

an  Italian  greyhound  was  looking  up  suddenly  back  on  a  boyhood  journey, 

at  her  eyes,  and  the  flowering  roses  By  what  slender  threads    are    the 

clustered  fondly  over  her  head.      I  thoughts  bound  each  to  other  ! — and 

have   seen    old    pictures  after  this  how  light  and  strange  are  the  airs 

fashion, — and  all  before  me  seemed  that  waft  the  mind  on  its  varying  and 

complete,  and  pausing  onlv  for  the  mystic  voyages !    A  cluster  of  trees, 

presence  of  such  a  lady  and  her  milk-  resembling  one  that   frowned   over 

white  hound.  my  school-playground,    carried  me 

We  were  now  conducted  towards  there  on  the  instant, — and   all  the 

the  castle ;  and  the  silence  deepened  idleness,  and  luxury,  and  pastime  of 

as  we  approached  the  grassed  ddl  (a  boyhood,  burst  in  full  cry  upon  my 

foss  of  old)  and  the  iron  gate  that  heart.     I  used  to  read  old  ballads  in 

led  into  the  courtyard.    We  trod  our  my  playground,  out  of  a  torn  and 

way  with  timid  feet,  loth  to  disturb  miserable  book,  and   I  have  never 

the  mid-day  serenity  that  held  reign  read  with  such  delight  since.    This 

there.     The  spacious  court  had  a  clump  of  trees  reminded  me  at  once 

cold  quiet  about  it  (warm  though  the  of  Gilderoy,  and  Childe  Waters,  and 

day  might  he\  resembling  that  which  Earl  Percy,  and  a  thousand  other 

surrounds  a  rorest  sprint,  or  a  dois-  names  of  glory  and  green  song ;  and 

tared  abbe^.    My  usual  sagacity  in  I  love  to  be  so  reminded.     My  reve- 

castle-hunting  conducted  me    to    a  rence  for  antiquity  was,  perhaps,  bora 

wrong  gate,  which  I  discovered  to  be  of  these  earlv,  ancient,  ana  sweet 

as  utterly  a  *'  ao  tlurcnghfare"  as  histories ;  and  therefore  am  I  pleased 

locks,  bolts,  and  bars  coiua  make  it.  when  I  am  reminded  of  them,  and 

This  second  conviction  under  the  P(»^  of  the  days  when   they  were  first 

verft^  Acif  found  no  mercy  in  my  taken  into  my  heart. 

OLD   BALLADS. 

I. 

I  loved  the  ballad  of  Gilderoy, 

Dear,  dear  was  it  to  me ; 
I  read  it  when  I  was  a  boy. 

Under  the  play-ground  tree : — 
I  read  it  in  those  happy  hours 
When  the  setting  sun  was  on  our  towers. 


1881.]]  Warwick  OMe. 

9. 

Oh^  many  And  many  an  evening  fled 

O'er  me  and  my  ballad-book ; 
And  the  antique  tale  I  deeply  read> 

To  the  voice  of  the  lofty  rook : — 
I  read  of  Gawaine^  that  name  of  pride. 
And  of  famous  Yarrow's  bonny  bride. 

3. 
How  Veil  do  I  remember  yet, 

Reading  and  reading  on, — 
Or  looking  up  at  the  sweet  sun-set 

Asleep  on  the  turret-stone  ;-* 
And  wishing  the  sun  should  be  ever  so— 
Though  why  I  wish'd  it,  I  could  not  know. 

4. 

Then  too,  in  darkness  or  in  moon-light. 
When  others  were  all  at  rest, — 

I  told  the  tale  of  gallant  or  knight. 
The  tale  I  loved  best : 

And  my  school-fellows— half  in  joy  and  fear. 

Lay  wide  awake  in  their  beds  to  hear. 

5. 

And  they  heard  how  Lord  Percy  a  hunting  went 

In  the  noble  Douglas'  wood  ; 
And  how  his  cloth-yard  bow  was  bent,^- 

And  how  arose  that  feud 
Which  laid  the  proud  Earl  Douglas  low. 
And  loosen'd  for  ever  the  Percy  bow ! 

6. 
I  told  at  night,  from  my  pUlow,  the  tale 

Of  the  young  Plantagenet ; 
And  how  he  was  led  by  a  man  in  mail. 

To  where  the  watch  was  set 
By  the  loftiest  tent,  while  the  moon  did  reign 
In  glory  pale  over  Bosworth  plain. 

7. 
And  when  I  came  to  speak  how  the  Childe— 

The  unknown  Childe— was  met 
And  caress'd  with  a  rapture  sad  and  wild. 

By  Richaid  Plantagenet  !^- 
My  hearers  thrOl'd  in  their  beds,  and  sigfa'd 
That  Rkhaid  in  Bosworth  battle  died ! 

8. 

Those  nights  are  over — ^those  nights  are  ^ne  I 
And  the  towers  I  ne'er  shall  see — 

While  the  sun-set  gilds  the  old  grey  stone. 
Nor  sit  by  the  play-ground  tree  f 

The  rooks  are  dead— long,  long  ago — 

And  I  have  been  in  the  world  also. 

9. 

But  I  love  the  old,  old  ballads  yet. 

Of  Percy  and  GKlderoy,— 
And  of  srallant  Richard  Plantagenet, 

The  obscure  and  kingly  boy. 
And  when  I  read  tham,  I  seem  to  be 
YouQg,  and  under  the  play-ground  tree. 


10                                              Wlarwhk  Quite,  C«^«ly> 

But  to  leave  this  idle  ycrse^  and  to  kept  their  stations  with  a  becoming 

proceed  in  that  sensible  and  direct  and   worthy  humility.     He  entered 

style  of  prose^   which  best  becomes  the  castle^  to  procure  us  the  ^ar- 

thefidthful  and  unaffected  historian —  dianship    of   tne    venerable    house- 

I  turn  my  Pegasus  loose,  dismount-  keeper,  and  we  patiently  awaited  his 

ing  at  tlie  proper  entrance  to  the  return. 

court-yard  of  Warwick  Castle.    We  Methouf  ht  the  voice  of  antiquity 

entered  at  a  jxinncl  of  the  iron  gate,  was  audible  in  tlie  space  around  me, 

if  I  may  so  express  myself,  for  the  — the  uaveiaent  had  a  stainless  and 

enormous  worked  leaves  of  the  gate  aged  look, — and  the  trees  stood  a- 

itself  seemed  "  not  easily  moved ; "  round,  beautiful,  and  full  of  years ; 

and,  indeed,  from  the  repose  of  the  teeming  to  muse  over  the  mystery  of 

bolts  and  hinges,  I  should  guess  that  time,  or  to  utter,  as  they  stirred  in 

when  moved,  they  would  '*  be  per-  the  wind,  the  awful  language  of  the 

Elexcd  in  the  extreme.**  A  jixteentk,  past.  It  has  been  said,  and  greatly 
owever,  made  gate  enough  for  such  said,  "  stones  have  been  known  to 
as  myself,  and  I  entered  with  a  stoop  move,  and  trees  to  speak."  1  heard 
of  the  head,  not  perhaps  fVom  any  their  voices  now  !  Every  thing  about 
great  necessity,  but  from  a  disincli-  me  awed  the  present  into  nothing — 
nation  to  appear  so  very  a  dwarf  as  and  the  days  of  old  came  trooping 
this  diminished  apeiture  would  en-  forth  in  all  tiieir  pomp,  circumstance, 
deavour  to  make  me.  -  We  all  Crossed  and  pride,  to  take  their  solemn  march 
thecourt-yard,with  great  diffidence —  through  the  mind.  While  we  waited 
gingerly,  as  Sterne  would  more  aptly  the  return  of  our  aged  messenger, 
express  it, — as  though  we  wvre  like-  our  imaginations  peopled  the  empty 
ly  to  meet  a  group  of  the  early  in-  court,  and  called  from  many  a  nook 
habitants  of  the  castle,  walking  forth  and  angle,  the  figures  of  Butler,  and 
in  doublet  and  hose,  in  ruff  and  hood :  Groom,  and  Squire,  in  all  the  antique 
for  my  own  part,  I  can  safely  say^  costume  of  the  best  days  of  the  cas- 
that  I  had  some  such  feeling  ;  I  was,  tie.  *'  Who  cannot  behold,"  said 
Indeed,  conscious  that  my  blue  coat  one  of  my  companions,  "  an  armed 
had  no  business  to  bring  its  abomi-  Earl  cross  that  white  and  regular 
nable  gilt  buttons  into  so  venerable  pavement,  and  even  now,  methinks  I 
and  ancient  a  place  My  Wellingtons  see  him  enter  that  left  wing,  and  hear 
were  on  a  trespass.  Had  Guy,  ac-  the  ring  of  his  iron  heel,  as  he  is  lost 
coutred  in  the  armour,  or  even  in  in  the  long,  dim,  ar.d  hitricate  pas- 
tlie  stately  undress  of  his  time,  met  sages."  "  Look,"  cried  I,  ^'  at  that 
me  in  the  court,  he  might  have  run  low  door,  in  the  comer  of  the  castle 
me  through  with  one  of  his  eye-  — and  you  will  see  two  antique  cooks, 
lashes ;  so  very  a  nothing  did  I  seem  with  larded  beef,  and  the  butler  with 
to  be  in  that  spacious,  awful,  and  his  full  flagons,  staggering  along  in 
noiseless  square.  We  spake  in  whis-  Stately  order,  to  the  servant's  hall." 
pers,  or  in  respectAil  undertones,  lest  I  could  have  schemed  a  life  away  in 
some  of  the  dead  Earls  might  over-  these  antique  speculations,  and  my 
hear  us,  or  the  Countess  of  two  cen-  companions  were  no  less  inclined  to 
turies  ago  overtake  our  steps  in  the  abandon  their  thoughts  to  such  aged 
glory  of  her  brocade,  and  have  our  whimsies,  and  delectable  illusions ; 
modem  bodies  unceremoniously  put  but  the  return  of  our  grey-haired 
out  A  domestic  of  the  castle,  as  Mercury  put  a  finish  to  these  our 
we  approached  the  entrance  door,  little  Essays  on  Population,  and  re- 
came  from  a  small  side  portal,  and  caHed  us  to  ''  the  business  in  hand." 
crossed  to  some  other  part  of  the  The  old  man  came  forth,  followed  to 
building.  This  was,  as  heretofore,  the  door  by  a  most  venerable  lady, 
an  old  man.  I  beckoned  him  to  me,  clad  as  beseemed  her  office,  and 
and  begged  him  to  procure  us  ad-  whom  he  quietly  motioned  us  to  ap- 
mission  to  the  interior,  which  he  proach.  We  advanced  accordingly 
very  readily  and  respectfully  under-  to  the  presence  of  Mrs.  Hume  (I 
took  to  do.  He  had  what  may  be  love  to  speak  her  name),  and  beheld 
called  ''  a  silver  look."  His  manners,  the  aged  and  comely  housekeeper  of 
however,  1  thought,  had  much  of  the  Warwick  Castle.  Well  worthy  was 
courtesy  of  the  earlier  ages,  when  she  to  hold  the  keys — but  not  at  the 
servants  were  indeed  servants,  and  fag  end  of  a  period  must  she  be  dc- 


imnJ2  Warwick  QuUe.  U 

icribed.  Her  merits  claim  a  mended  this  working-day  world?— she  knows 
pen,  and  a  new  paragraph.  it  not ! — She  travels  from  Rubeus  to 
We  saw  before  us  a  very  aged,  but  Titian^  from  Titian  to  Guido^  from 
a  very  hale  and  intelligent  looking  Guido  to  Vandyke— and  there  is  no 
lady^  somewhat  a-kin  to  the  healthy  change.  As  were  the  colours  when 
and  comely  antiquity  of  the  castle  she  was  youngs  such  are  they  stilly 
committed  to  her  charge.  The  keen  if  not  brighter :  and  it  may  be,  that 
sensible  expression  of  her  counte-  she  scarcely  finds  her  own  change  a 
nance,  the  easy,  yet  respectful  fa-  whit  different  from  them.  She  speaks 
miliarity  of  her  address,  and  the  of  the  ''  late  Earl "  as  of  some  spirit 
pointed  and  pretty  neatness  of  her  that  haunts  her, — and  of  the  present 
laced  cap  ana  silken  garments,  quite  Lord  as  of  some  crowning  power 
recommended  her  to  my  favour.  She  with  whom  she  communes,  but  whom 
made  no  formal  and  marked  curtsey;  you  cannot  look  to  meet.  Observe 
lier  whole  manner  was  subdu€^,  that  bust,  that  is  '^  the  Earl" — 
quiet,  and  extremely  polite,  being  You  ask  whether  the  family  is  at  the 
quite  of  the  old  schooL  Her  body  castle,  so  much  is  there  of  the  in- 
seemed  to  have  settled  into  a  per-  visible  in  true  greatness,  and  she 
petual     curtsey ;      and    tune    nad  answers  in  a  lower  tone, — awed,  it 

SfStaDized  her  politeness.   I  guessed  may  be,  by  the  sul^ect,  or  fearing 

rs.  Hume  to  be  of  Scotch  extrac-  lest  the  nobility  of  Uie  place  should 

tion,  if  not  a  native  of  Scotland,  for  over-hear  her,— that  ''  the  Earl  was 

several  reasons : — her  features  had  down  last  week ! "  And  you  seek  to 

a  lined   seriousness  and  acuteness,  know  no  more. — ^But    I    must   not 

which  you  in  vain  look  for  in  our  keep  Mrs.  Hume  at  the  entrance  of 

.foolish    southern    faces —then     her  the  castle;— she  has  lifted  the  key, 

speech  had  not  lost  all  its  orijrinal  and  is  pointing  it  to  the  armour — so 

music, — and  finally,  she  herself  was  V^^y  gooA,  reader,  let  mc  proceed. 
not  in  Scotland.    Hiese  are  reasons        The   hall   is  paved   with  stones, 

**  plenty  as  blackberries,"  and  I  give  white  and  black,  alternately : — it  is 

them  without  compulsion. — Oh  that  a  noble  place,  and  hath  a  baronial 

the  reader  could,    on   the  pleasant  look.     The  arranged  amis,    decked 

June  morning  in  which  I  am  writing  with  branching  autlers  of  the  deer, 

this,  rJuue  IS  my  favourite  month,)  give  that  mingled  tale  of  war  and 

turn  from  my  idle  and  imperfect  de-  chase  which  at  once  speaks  the  lives 

scription,  and  contemplate  the  plea-  of    the    castle's    early    inhabitants, 

sant  and  orderly  visage  of  kind  Mrs.  There  was  a  dreariness  about  the 

Hume,  nested  in  its  white  laces,  and  gloom  ajid  haughty  silence   of  this 

gleaming  placidly  along  from  picture  huge  place,  unbroken,  save  when  the 

to  picture,    as    though  she    herself  passing  of  a  distant  foot  disturbed 

were  a  happy  work  of  the  old  mas-  the  spirit  of  the  spot  for  an  instant: 

ters,  and  partook  of  the  kindness  of  a,  ^y^^^  ^^  ,  t^^^  .urnmer  nigh^ 

rime!      Would   that   I   could  cast  Thosegreen^bedsenatow  of  mighty  woods, 

aside  my  pen,  and  be  of  her  com-  Tall  oaks,  branch-charmed  by  the  earnest 
pany !    She  lores  the  place — ^it  be-  tttars, 

longs  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick  ;   or  Dream,  and  so  dream  all  nig^t  without  a 
rather,   "  to  the  Earl,"   for  to   her  stir, 

there  is  no  other  Eari  !  —She  is  proud  Save  from  one  gradual  solitary  gust, 

of  the  inlaid  and  ancient  cabinets —  ^VTiich  comes  upon  the  silence,  and  dies  off, 

things  of  India— ebon-black,    with  ^*  *^  **  ^*»^'"«  "^  ^^  ^"*  <>"«  '^»^«- 
brass  birds,  and  leaves,  and  clasps,        Ai^er  passing  an  ante-chamber,  in 

7-huge,  grand,   and  (thanks  to  the  which  is  a  whole-length  picture  of 

inventors!)  useless !— -She  prizes  the  my  Lady  Brooke,  wiUi  a  boy  on  her 

flowing  canvas,  more  on  accoimt  of  knee, — you  come  to  a  room  Imed  with 

Its  station  in  Warwick  castle  than  carved  cedar.    The  floor  is  of  polish- 

for  its  bearing  the  magic  hues  of  a  ed  oak,  and  your  image  is  reflected 

Rembrandt  or  a  Titian.    The  lofty  at  your  feet,    as  though  you  were 

rooms,    the  cedar-lined  walls,    the  walking  upon  water.  But  Mrs.  Hume 

glossy  wainscots,    all  speak  to  her  discourages  your  stepping  off  a  strip 

^patient  and  never-dyuag  grandeur,  of  carpet,  by  mtimating  that  it  is 

What  to  Mrs.  Hume  is  the  meanness,  sadly  dangerous,  though  I  have  some 

the  modem  noise,   the  foppery   of  reasou  to  conclude  that  she  doe^  ttfA 


i«                                                 Warwick  CatUt.  \Jv\jy 

diooie  to  h«re  the  pdlish  molested,  —it  was  the  journey  of  life  in  mfnia* 
This  room  is  very  rich  and  solemn^  ture !  In  this  tower^  it  is  beliered, 
and  the  furniture  is  costly  and  mas-  that  the  lady  £thelfleda>  the  daugh- 
sire,  to  suit  it  Among  the  pictures^  ter  of  King  Alfred^  sojourned^ — mak- 
the  only  one  I  recollect  is  a  Circe,  ing  it  a  melancholy  hut  secure  abode. 
by  Guido ;— but  I  do  recollect  this.  Tnere  are,  indeed,  many  interesting 
Other  rooms  follow,  with  the  same  stories  and  magnificent  recollections 
intensely  bright  floors, — filled  with  attached  to  Warwick  Castle.  In  the 
curious  cabinets  and  fine  pictures, —  reign  of  Henry  III.  we  are  told, 
and  confirming  the  magnificence  and  '^  that  the  extraordinary  strength  of 
space  of  the  castle.  The  picture  that  this  building  was  alleged  as  an  ex- 
made  the  deepest  impression  on  my  cuse  for  particularly  prohibiting  the 
mind,  was  one  of  Ignatius  Loyola,  a  widowed  Countess  of  Warwick  from 
whole  length,  by  Rubens; — ^butitwas  re-marrying  with  any  other  than  a 
not  the  Mauty  of  the  colouring,  or  person  attached  to  the  King."^ 
the  name  of  the  master,  that  worked  George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  was,  by 
this  impression — ^it  was  the  sweet  his  brother,  Edward  IV.  created 
and  sainted  expression  of  the  fea-  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  lived  here  in 
tures,— the  lustrous  resignation  of  great  splendour.  The  Dudleys  fol- 
the  lifted  eyes, — the  placid  virtue  of  lowed  tne  Plantagenets,  and  possess- 
the  bald  and  passionless  forehead ;  ed  the  earldom.  The  accomplished 
and,  perhaps,  I  should  not  have  felt  Sir  Fulke  Greville,  at  length,  sue- 
all  tiiese  so  deeply,  if  they  had  not  ceeded  to  the  title,  and  fi-om  him  the 
been  recognized  by  others  with  me,  present  Earl  descended, 
as  forming  the  perfect  resemblance  But  not  the  least  famous  of  the 
of  a  lost  friend  ot  ours.  names  which  Warwick  Castle  siig- 
From  a  small  room  or  cabinet  at  gests,  is  that  of  Guy — the  great  Su- 
the  end  of  the  building,  a  window  Guy— of  whom  Chaucer  speaks, — 

Sves  you  a  most  romantic  view  over  ,       /.           -  ^    - 

e  Avon,  and  the  country  beyond  it.  5?/!L*l***^®f 7^'f  "*  ^  P""' 

My  recollection  of  this  part  of  the  Of  Home  Ch^e  and  Ippous, 

1-1     .      t                       au       *.        I.  Gf  Bevis  and  Stt  Guy. 

castle  IS,  however,   rather  treacher-  '' 

ous.  A  gallery,  with  a  whole  length  The  celebrated  ballad  thus  men- 
of  Charles  I.  on  horseback,  at  the  tioned  was,  as  Dr.  Percy  informs  us, 
one  end,  leads  to  the  chapel.  I  was  usually  sung  to  the  harp  at  Christmas 
much  stnick  with  the  neatness  and  dhmers  and  bride-ales  ;  it  is,  as  may 
quiet  of  this  place  of  prayer : — ^and,  be  expected,  quaintly  written,  and 
indeed,  the  heart  seemed  to  repose  bears  marks  of  great  antiquity :  in 
in  such  an  oratory,  as  in  a  place  of  proof  of  which,  the  following  de- 
peace,  for  which  it  had  become  fitted  scription  of  the  dragon,  which  Sir 
by  the  previous  solemnity  and  mag-  Guy  demolished,  may  suffice, 
nitude  of  the  castle.    Many  a  prayer 

hath  been  felt  there,    though  per-  He  is  black  as  any  ode, 

chance  not  uttered,  by  those  who  5V«8^ "  J  ~"$  ^""^^K,,           , 

might  not  be  suspected  of  indulging  «"  ^^^  T  ^'  " -7^  "^liT^' 

I    5       *•         *  *u     *'^        xir^  ^IL  5  No  man  may  it  pierce  it  m  so  hard ; 

in  devotion  at  the  t»ne.-We  parted  ^^  „eck  is ^1  as  any  summere;  • 

with  Mrs.  Hume   at  the  door  with  ^^  ^„^  L  swift  as  kny  distrere ;  f 

great  reluctance,  for  her  mtelligent  -p^^^  he  hath  as  a  lyon: 

conversation,  and  engaging  manners,  aD  that  he  toucheth  he  sleath  dead  downe. 

had  quite  delighted  us  ;  but  she  had  Great  winges  he  hath  to  fli^t, 

other  visitors  to  gratify, — and  it  is  That  is  no  man  that  hare  him  might, 

not  very  likely  that  she  shared  in  all  There  may  no  man  fight  him  agayne, 

our  feelings  at  the  separation.  But  that  he  sleath  him  certayne: 

Before  quitting  the  park,  we  as-  For  a  fowler  beast  than  is  he, 

cended  the  mount  at  the  west  of  the  Ywis  of  none  never  heard  ye. 

castle,    accompanied    by  a  new  old  Guy,  after  all  this  bitter  exposition  of 

gardener,    and  reached '  the    tower,  the  dragon's  character,  settles  his  bu- 

which  is    a  Gradus  ad  Pamassum  siness.     He  also  conquered  and  slew 

for  the  number  of  its  steps.   Endless,  five  terrible  princes,  two  giants,  ano- 

indeed,  did  seem  our  upward  travel :  ther  dragon,  and   a  lion,   and   tri- 


*  A  thidrbeamcf  timber  which  fofmerly  tied  the  upper  walls  of  a  house  together. 


1991.^                             On  Qra$f$  Opimum  «f  CoUim.  IS 

umphed  oyer  the  magnanimous  Dun  the  gate  of  the  castle^  as  you  go  out> 

Cow.    These  areiacts^  or  I  would  checks  you  for  a  few  minutes  to  show 

not  record  them.    It  should  not  be  you  the  cauldron,  the  flesh-fork,  the 

forgotten  that  Sir  Guy  was  a  deter-  spear,  &c.  of  the  renowned  Sir  Guy ; 

mined  lover.  — and  you  eo  away  convinced  that 

-wr           1-  .  i-.i.    ij    ,      1  he  was  a  real  hero,  and  thus  give  him 

Wtscrer  knight  for  liidye  8  .ake,  ^„   advantage  over  many  other  he^ 

Soc  Xmt  in  love  as  I  Sir  Guy,  ^                        ^ 

For  Phillia  £kir,  that  ladye  bright,  ^^\          ,,        ,,       .,                  „     - 

As  ever  man  bchdd  idth  eye  ?  ^  ^  ^^^^^  ^^^"8  ''  ^"^^^  ^Y  jay.       I 

have  conducted  the  reader  safely  over 

This    ladye,  ladye-like,    put   her  the  castle  and  the  park ;  and  wishing 

lover  to  much  trouble,  and  compelled  him  goodly  rest  after  his   fatigues, 

him  to  many  difficulties  before  she  and  praying  that  he  wUl,  if  I  have 

would    look  Cavourably  upon    him.  proved  a  tedious  guide,  forgive  me 

For  her,  he  killed  "  a  bore  of  passing  for  the  true  wish  I  had    to  please 

might  and  strength,"  near  Windsor,  him  with  what  has  pleased  me — I 

and  his  bones  are  yet  somewhere  in  take    my    leave    in    fair    humility. 

Warwick  Castle.    Sir  Guy  says,  that  Should  my  description  fail  of  interest, 

he  returned  from  all  his  dangers,  and  I  pray  the  reader  not  to  be  discou- 

died  with  Phillis  at  Warwick  Castle,  raged,  but  to  go  the  first  fair  stun*- 

and  we  must  give  credence  to  the  mer,  and  banquet  his  imagination  in 

words  of  a  dead  man.    The  porter  at  the  baronial  haUs  of  Warwick  Castle. 


ON  GRAY'S  OPINION  OF  COLLINS, 

WITH  A  SONNET  FROM  COSTANZO. 

J  HAVE  oflen  felt  a  strong  desire  old  age,  his  imagination  is  more  ex- 
to  know  what  men  of  genius,  who  uberant  than  it  had  before  been, 
have  lived  in  the  same  age  and  In  the  letters  of  Gray,  certainly 
country,  have  thought  of  one  ano-  never  intended  to  see  the  light,  there 
ther.  It  is  a  curiosity,  that,  as  ill  are  many  passages,  in  which,  with- 
fortune  will  have  it,  does  Tiot  stand  out  the  slightest  reserve,  he  passes 
much  chance  of  being  gratified.  For  sentence  on  the  merits  of  his  con- 
whatever  opinions  they  have  re-  temporaries ;  and  as  he  was  entirely 
corded  on  this  subject  in  their  pub-  free  from  that  esprit  du  corps ^  to 
lished  writings,  we  may  generally  which  authors  are  to  the  full  as 
suspect  of  having  been  influenced  liable  as  any  other  description  of 
either  by  personal  partiality  on  the  mortals,  and  always  strictly  main- 
one  hand,  or  a  spirit  of  rivalry  on  tained  the  character  of  a  dilettante, 
the  other.  There  remain  only  Uieir  no  more  concerned  in  the  petty  jea- 
letters  to  friends,  in  which  they  may  lousies  and  factions  of  his  poetical 
happen  to  have  declared  their  undis-  brethren,  than  the  gods  of  Epicurus 
gmsed  sentiments,  or  such  casual  in  the  afiairs  of  this  lower  world ; 
hints  as  have  dropped  from  them  in  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose  that 
iamiliar  conversation,  and  been  pre-  his  mind  was  under  any  bias  on  these 
served  by  the  zeal  of  biographers  occasions.  In  the  earlier  part  of  his 
and  writers  of  memoirs.  It  is  from  life  he  met  with  Southern,  the  dra- 
the  latter  source  we  collect  that  matic  writer,  who  was  then  seventy- 
Milton  thought  of  Dryden  as  little  seven  years  old,  and  whose  memory 
more  than  a  man  of  rhyme,  and  that  he  had  nearly  deserted  him.  With  the 
highly  esteemed  the  poetical  abilities  enthusiasm,  natural  to  a  young  mind, 
of  Cowley.  Posterity  has  not  rati-  Gray  found  him  *'  as  agreeable  as  an 
fied  the  award;  for  it  is  probable  old  man  could  be,  or  at  least  per- 
that  where  Cowley  has  now  one  suaded  nimself  so,  when  he  looked 
reader,  Dryden  might  reckon  not  at  him,  and  thought  of  Oroonoko  and 
fewer  than  ten.  It  should  be  added,  Isabella."  Some .  years  afterwards 
however,  that  the  author  of  Paradise  we  find  him  speaking  his  mind  very 
Lost  did  not  live  to  witness  the  last  freely  on  Alenside's  Pleasures  of 
effort  of  Dryden,  his  Fables,  in  Imagination;  then  just  published 
which,  though  the  produce  of  his  according  to  Hs  first  modeL     '^  I 


.14                                 On  Gray't  OjMtm  of  dfUim.  C'^uly, 

will  tell  you,"    says  he  to  Doctor  lighted,  and  proDounced   it   to   be 

Wharton,  who  had  the  rare  felicity  '^  of  a  new  and  original  kind."    Of 

of  being  a  friend  to  both  the  banls^  Lyttleton, — Matthew  Green,  thie  au- 

^' thou^  I    have  rather  turned  i\  thor    of    the    Spleen, —  Shenstone's 

over  than  read  it,  that  it  seems  to  Schoolmistress,- Johnson's    London, 

me  above  the  middling ;   and  now  — Dyer, — and  several  of  the  '^  Poetae 

juad  then,  for  a  little  whde  rises  even  Minimi "   in    Dodsley's   Miscellany^ 

to  the  best,  particularly  in  descrip-  he  has  past  a  tolerably  fair  judge- 

tion.     It  is  often  obscure,  and  even  ment,  ^with  the  exception  perhaps  of 

•unintelligible,  and  too  much  infected  Lowdi,)  in   two  of  the    letters    to 

with  the  Hutchinson  jargon."     (It  Walpole. 

must  be  recollected  that  Gray  had  But  what  was  his  opinion,  what 

early  shown  his  aversion  for  meta^  his  feelings  with  respect  to  a  writer. 

Shy  ties.)    "  In  short,  its  great  fault  who  in  tne  eyes  of  the  next  ^nera- 
I,  that  it  was  published  at  least  tion,  was  to  be  regarded  as  his  rival, 
nine  years  too  early."  What  follows,  and  either  to  contest  or  share  with 
13  in  a  strain  of  modesty,   that  I  him  the  supremacv  of  the  lyre? — 
would  beg  leave  most  earnestly  to  Had    the  name  of  Collins  escaped 
.recommend    to    the   notice    of  our  him,  or  did  he  think  it  fit  to  be  past 
jNTofessional   critics.    "  And  so  me-  over  in  silence,  when  he  was  thus 
thinks  in  a  few  words  '  k  la.  mode  pointing  out  to  his  friends,  so  many 
du  Temple,'  I  have  very  pertly  dis-  writers — good,  bad,  and  indifferent- 
patched  what  perhaps  may  for  seve-  among  their  contemporaries  ?— Was 
ral  years  have  employed  a  very  in-  the  character  of  Collins  of  too  high 
genious  man  worth  fifty  of  mvself."  a  species  even  for  Gray  himself  to 
Of  Thomson's  Castle  of  Indolence,  estimate  on  its  first  appearance  ?  or 
when  that  poem,  so  worthy  of  the  was  he  too  much  disgusted  with  its 
author  of  the  Seasons,  first  made  its  faults  to  attend  to  the  beauties  ? 
appearance,"— he    contented    himself  These  were    questions,    which    I 
with  saying  very  coldly,  that  '^  it  had  could  never  satisfactorily  solve,  tiU, 
some  good  stanzas  in  it."    But  as  he  happily  for  my  peace  of  mind,  some 
grew  older,    his    reluctance    to    be  few  years  back  Mr.  Mitford  gave  the 
pleased  increased*    "  Dodsley's  two  world  those  parts  of  Gray's  corres- 
IB^  volumes  were  worse   than  his  pondence  with  Dr.  Wharton,  which 
four  first,  and  particularly  Dr.  Aken-  had  been  omitted  by  Mason.    Guess, 
flide  was  in  a  deplorable  way."  reader !     if  thou  art  not  thyself  a 
To  the  excellence  of  Sterne,  who,  perfect  non-conductor  to   this  kind 
perhaps  on  the  whole,  may  be  con-  of  fluid,  guess, — I  say,   how  plea- 
flidered  as  the  most  original  writer  singly  it  glided   through  me,  when 
of  his  day,   he  was,  however,  still  the  following  paragraph  presented  it- 
alive  ;  and  even  thought  his  sermons,  self  to  my  view : — ''  Have  you  seen 
''  in  the  style  most  proper  for  the  the  works  of  two  young  authors,  a 
pulpit,"   as  they  were    marked    by  Mr.  Warton  *    and    a  Mr.  Collins, 
'<  a  strong  imagination  and  a  sen-  both  writers  of   Odes?     It  is  odd 
flible  heart ;  but  you  see  him   often  enough  that  each  is  the  half  of  a  re- 
tottering  on  the  verge  of  laughter,  markable  man,  and  one  the  counter- 
aod  ready  to  throw  his  periwig  m  the  part  of  the  other.     The  first  has  but 
fibce  of  his  audience."     Cowper  has  little  invention,  very  poetical  choice 
ifaice  put  this  mode  of  pulpit  ora-  of  expression,  and  a  good  ear.    The 
tory, — which  indeed  was  somewhat  second  a  fine  fancy,  nK)delled  upon 
too  much  in  Friar  Gerund's    taste,  the  antique,  a  bad  ear,  ^reat  variety 
entirely    out  of  countenance  ;    and  of  words  and  images  with  no  ciioice 
will  ailow  no  preacher  to  be  merry,  at  all.     They  bou  deserve  to  last 
till    he    can   discover  a  jest  in  St.  some  years,  but  will  not."    So  then 
Paul's  Epistles  for  his  text.    With  one  of  the  few  copies  of  the  odes,  de- 
humour  of  the  Bath  Guide,  where,  scriptive  and  allegorical,  which  had 
to  say  the  tiuth,  humour  was  more  got  abroad  before  their  author,  in 
in  its  place.  Gray  was  not  less  de-  nis  indignation  at  the  cold  reception 


*  The  Warton  here  spoken  of  is  Joseph,  the  elder  brother,  whose  Odes  wen  pab- 
Bdied  about  December  1746,  the  time  when  this  letter  was  written.  Of  Thomas,  the 
yoongtr,  it  ii  probable  Gray  thought  much  more  highly. 


(ia^  On  Gray's  t)pinkn  of  CoUim.  15 

given  them  by  the  public,  comniittetl  home  with  him  no  relics  to  make  a 

the  reminder  to  the  flamefi^  feil  hito  display  of,   no  nails  drawn  out  of 

the  hands  of  Gray.  How  much  it  is  to  the  crosses  of  martyrs,  no  dry  bones 

be  regretted  that  poor  Collins  did  not  pilfered  from  tombs  of  AposUes  and 

know  the  favourable  sentence,   but  Saints. 

without  the  ill-boditig  and  falsified        The  opening  of  his  "  Ode  to  Li- 

predictibn  that  was  attached  to  it,  berty,"  to  which  we  have  scarcely 

passed  upon  them  by  so  competent  any  thing  that  is  equal  in  its  way, 

a  judge.     '^  A  fine  fancy  modelled  reminds  us,  it  is  true,  of  the  be- 

upon  the  antique  I  great  variety  of  ginning  of   a  noble   chorus  in  the 

words  and  images."    Such  praise  as  Iphigenia    at    Aulis    of  Euiipidai^ 

this,  and  from  one  who  was  himself  v.  1036 ;  but  it  is  merely  m  the  man^ 

to  bear  the  proud  title  of  Briuin's  ner,   with  which  the  music  strikes 

Hadak-,  anoong  the  sepulchres  of  her  up  in  each. 

poets !     It  might  have  been  enough,  Wbo  ahall  awake  the  Spartan  fife  ? 

if  he  could  have  known  all,  not  only        r         i  j       ^  i. 
to  encourage  the  writer,  then  in  the       }  /^?Y,    "^^u  .  T^^  f^  ^^  ^ 

"  mom  and  liquid  dew  "  of  his  youth,  ^^^^  foUows,  that  he  had  not  lately 

to  put  forth  new  and  yet  more  beau-  {j^^?  ^^f^"?fi^./^*^"»  i  *^0"?^  ^t  is 

tiful  blossoms,  but  to  have   saved  ^f^^^   "^?^  j\  ^f.  *^^>  J^^  images 

him    from  that  fatal   "  blastment,"  ^"'^  rcmamed  m  his  mmd,  unaccom- 

which  not  long  afterwards  blighted  P»»^t^  °y  any  consciousness  of  the 

and  withered  the  whole  plant  "l""^^'  ^'•^«  ^^e"<^«  ^^f  came. 

Seldom  has  there  been  an  instance  And  call  in  solenm  sounds  to  life 

of  more  just  and  appropriate  criti-  The  youths,  whose  locks  divinely  spreading, 

cism  coitvejysd  if:  so  few  words.     It  Like  vernal  hyacinths  in  sullen  hue, 

was  indeed  "  a  tme  fancy,  modelled  ^^  <>>^<^  fhe  breath  of  fear  and  virtue  shed- 

upon  the  antique,"  so  that  an  ]&ig-  .     _    ^?*»^    ,      ,      ,   ^  , ,       .     . 

lishman,  who  wOuW  form  some  coS-  Appkuding  Freedom  loved  of  old  to  view  1 

ception  of  the  lyrical  parts  of  the  The  "  hyacinthine  locks "  were  as 
Greek  tragedians,  and  particularly  old  as  Homer ;  and  Milton^  we  know, 
Euripides,  without  going  to  the  ori-  has  given  them  to  Adam ;  but  that 
ginaf  sources,  has  nothing  to  do  but  with  all  their  beauty  they  *'  shed 
lo  take  up  the  Odes  of  Collins,  and  the  bre^ith  of  fear, '  when  over- 
he  wfl!  meet  with  as  true  a  likeness  shadowing  the  brow  of  the  youn^ 
of  them  as  his  own  language  can  Spartans,  had  been  observed  by  StiS 
supply.    He  has  not,  like  Gray  or  tius. 

Cmabrera,  taken  entire  pieces  out  of  Simplexque  horrvre  decoro 

the  ancients,  and  stuck  them  among  Crinis  et  obsesss  nondum  primoque  aS* 

his  own  workmanship.    He  does  not  ,         cantes 

Flore  gence.     Talem  Led^eo  gurgUe  gm^ 

—Talk  in  a  high  sounding  strain  of  the  bem 

ttars,  Educat  Eurotat,    Sylvie,  L  2. 

Of  the  eagle  of  Jove*  and  the  chariot  of         r     a.\.      ee  r^t     ^     xw         »*  i 

j52»  .  ^"  "*^       ^^^  *o  Mercy,      again 

'  we  might  suspect    him    of  having 

but  he  fills  himself  with  the  divmhy,  borrowed  from  flie  same  writer,   ff 

which  breathes  from  their  labours,  the  ornament  were  not  carried  with 

and  then  goes  home  and  works  in  so  much  freedom  by  its  wearer,  as 

the  spirit  that  he  has  caught.     It  is  to  take  away  all  doubt  of  his  havmg 

for  this  reason,  I  suppose,  that  we  come  honestly  by  it. 

have  no  edi|ions  of  Collins,  ^^ourite  ^^^  ^   ^^^^  ^,^  ^,^ .        ^^^^ 

as  he   IS   amongst  us,    stuffed  with  The  fiend  of  Nature  join'd  his  yoke, 

parallel  passages  from  the  bottom  of  ^nd  nish'd  in  wrath  to  make  our  isk  hit 
the  page,   that  sometimes    nse    so  p^^ 

high  as  scarcely  to  leave  room  for  Xhy  form  from  out  thy  sweet  abode 

the  text  to  float  on  over  their  snr-  Overtook  him  on  his  blasted  road, 

fiice.  We  easily  discover  to  what  And  stoppM  his  wheels,  and  look*d  his  rage 
land  he  has  traveled,   as    the  pil-  away, 

grims  in   the   middle   ages  showed  I  8«c  recoil  his  sable  steeds,  &c 

they  had  visited  the  Holy  Sepulchre  adhuc  temone  calenti 

by  the  palm  that  was  wreathed  Fervidus,  in  lavum  torquet  grsdivus  ha- 
round-  their  stafiT;    but   he    brings  benas. 


16  Sumet.  E^Jtiljf 

Cmtt  VoMii  aatt  iptot  inilU  fbnnidiiit  From  many  a  doiid  thst  diopp'd  ethneal 

greMoin,  dew^ 

Fiidt  equo8 ;  oenere  retro,  jamjamque  xi-  Ni^  spherM  in  haaTOi,  Ut  natiTa  ttratnt 

pentes  could  hear, 

floppUaterpotaeie  jugo. — The1>.  L  iiL  265.  On  vMcA  that  ancient  trump  he  reached 

But  it  is  not  only  on  the  banks  of  ^'^  ***^* 

die  Diasua,  or  the  Tyber,  that  Col-  ^c  are  remmded  of  an  Italian  wri- 

Iina  has  left  us  todings  of  himself;  ter,    Anriolo   Costanzo,    in   one  of 

we  may  someUmes  hear  notes  from  those  sonnets  which  the  historian  <rf 

5*?.  ^^J^^  ^  ^"^^  ,*"    ^^^^  their  poetry  has  caUed  the  "  Ideal  of 

fields.      Thus,   m  his   Ode  on  the  good  sonneting."    It  la  a  UtUe  pre- 

PoeUcal  Character,  sumptuous  to  be  sure  ;  but,  for  the 

I  Tiew  that  oak  ibs  hmj^d  glad«  among.  Bake  of  our  sulject,  1  will  renture  on 

By  which  as  Milton  lay,  hia  erening  ear,  a  translation  of  the  one  in  question, 

QjtieUa  cetra  gemtil,  S^e. 

The  harp,  that  whilom  on  the  reedy  shore 

Of  Mindus,  to  the  listening  shepherds  sung 
Such  strains,  as  never  haply,  or  before 

Or  sithence,  mid  the  mountain  cliffs  have  rung 
Of  Menalus,  or  on  Lyceus  hoar; 

And  soimded  next,  to  bolder  music  strung. 
The  gifts  of  Pales,  and  what  perils  bore. 

What  toils  achiev'd,  that  Phrygian  goddess-spning, — 
Now  on  an  aged  oak,  making  the  gioom 

More  awiul,  hangs ;  where,  if  the  wind  hare  stirr'd. 

Seems  as  a  proud  and  angry  voice  were  heard : 
''  Let  none  with  unwise  hardiment  presume  ' 

To  touch  me ;  for,  once  vocal  at  command 

Of  Tityrus,  I  brook  no  meaner  hand." 

As  to  what  Gray  has  said  of  ''  the  slow  motion,  clogged  and  impeded 
/'  bad  ear"  of  Collins,  and  ''the  no  with  clusters  of  consonants ;  so  I 
choice  at  all  of  his  words  and  suppose  there  is  an  end  of  the  mat- 
images;"  the  latter,  as  far  as  the  ter;  though  I  would  fain  put  in  a 
imagery  is  concerned,  b  plainly  in-  word  on  his  behalf  even  on  this  point, 
consistent  with  the  priuse  ne  has  be-  Thomas  Warton  pronounced  the 
•towed  on  him.  For  his  want  of  ear,  same  judgment  on  Milton,  but  baa 
tiie  same  charge  has  been  brought  surely  merited  the  punishment  of 
against  liim  by  JohnspOic  ^ho  tells  Midas  for  his  pains. 
us  that  ''  his  Unes  commonly  are  of  Noemon.. 


A 


SONNET. 
(miltok  visits  oalilio  in  fbisok.) 

Oh !  master,  who  didst  lift  thy  watching  eye 
Unto  the  moon,  and  througn  thy  magic  glass 
Beheld'st  her  and  the  wheeling  planets  pass 

On  their  bright  ways, — making  the  midnight  sl^ 

A  common  road  throucrh  which  all  stars  might  fly : 
Thou  must  have  had  great  joy, — great  as  a  lover. 
Whene'er  some  lustrous  world  thou  £dst  discover. 

Not  known  before, — from  off  thy  mountains  high. 

Oh !  starry  sage,  return,  return ! — ^Again 
Come  thou  and  view  the  pale  moon  from  thy  hills; 
And  say,  if  when  she  wanes,  or  when  she  fills 

Monthly  her  round,^-or  while  the  stars  are  clear,*- 
Thou  ever  hadst  such  large  delight,  as  when 

Great  Miltok  dasp'd  thy  hiand  in  prison  drear. 

llikMajft  lasi.  B. 


lfBL3  .  f%€.  Htroet  of  Naptei.  )7 


THE  HEROES  OF  NAPLES. 

A  NEW  BALLAD. 

He  who  In  battle  rnni  airmy. 
May  lire  to  flght  another  day. 

At  Naples^  the  folks 

Who  are  fonder  of  jokes. 
Than  of  bayonet,  musquet,  or  powder; 

Leaving  tweedle-dum-tweej 

And  resolved  to  be  free, 
Wax'd,  day  by  day,  fiercer  uid  prouder. 

The  army  first  ran 

To  arms,  and  each  man 
Demanded  a  new  constitution; — 

There  were  none  to  oppose. 

So  they  conquer'd  then*  fbes. 
And  efi*ected  a  grand  revolution. 

In  Parliament  speeches. 

The  storming  or  breaches 
Was  talk'd  of,  as  pastime  inviting; 

The  brave  Lazzaroni 

Ate  no  macaroni, — 
No  stomach  had  they  but  for  fighting. 

They  hurl'd  hot  defiance 

Affainst  the  Alliance 
Term'd  Holy — (religion  to  slander); 

And  scom'd  all  advances. 

To  Frederick, — Francis, — 
Or  even  the  great  Alexander. 

Fierce  Filangieri 

Bade  Frimont  be  wary. 
Or  he  soon  should  have  bullets  for  grey  pills: 

Cried  bold  Carascosa — 

''  I'll  diff  for  our  foes— a 
Grave  on  the  urontiers  of  Naples." 

Pepe,  swearinff  an  oath, 

Out-Heroded  Doth,— 
For  he  vow'd — when  he  pull'd  on  his  boots— he 

Would  spit  man  and  horse. 

Of  the  Austrian  force. 
In  the  passes  they  call  the  Abruzzi. 

By  his  language  and  air, 
•      Every  officer  were 
Was  a  sort  of  a  Cromwell-Protector ; 

And  to  Judge  by  his  swagger. 

And  flourish  of  dagger. 
Each  man  was  Achilles  or  Hector. 


Those  ooal-heaving  Bruti, 

Carbonari,  men  sooty. 
Swore  deeply  {as  most  of  that  trade  do) 

To  cut  o'er  the  coals 

The  poor  Austrian  souls. 
And  their  Teutonic  hides  carbonado. 


It 


.  ne.  fftro»  tf  :Naplu. 

They  march'd  from  the  city^ 

All  shouting  a  ditty^ 
Comparing  themselrtes  to  our  iBkmd ; — 

"  The  English  by  sea 

Are  the  bravest^  but  we 
Are  the  doughtiest  heroes  on  dry  land/' 

But  in  marchmg  along^ 

To  this  valorous  song. 
They  somehow  received  an  impression^ — 

That  the  fat  English  kiught 

Said  undoubtedly  right, 
'^  The  best  part  of  valour'»— discretion." 

So  at  war's  first  alarms^ 
They  threw  down  their  arms^ 

And  manoeuvred  their  legs  with  such  cunning; 
When  th'  invaders  drew  nigh. 
They  fought — but  'twai  shy. 

And  vanquish'd  them  fairly — ^in  running. 

Not  a  battle  was  lost 

By  th'  invincible  host. 
Which,  as  nobody  fought,  was  no  wonder; 

Some  were  kuoccd  up  in  flight. 

But  none  knock'd  down  in  fight. 
So  eager  were  all  to  knock-under. 

Thus  they  made  pretty  dupes 

Of  the  Austrian  troops. 
By  their  fierce  ffasoonadioK  and  banter; 

All  the  glory  they  hoped 

To  achieve--4iad  eloped, — 
So  they  march'd  into  Naples  instanter. 

Neapolitans  spoke 

Of  tnese  troops  (what  a  joke!) 
As  doom'd  to  mince-meat  and  dissection; — 

Those  they  threaten'd  to  kill. 

Carbonado  and  grill. 
In  the  end,  they  devoured — ^with  affection. 

They  might  take  a  kick. 

But  why  they  should  lick 
The  foot  that  bestow'd  it— -I'm  puzzled; 

And  I  can't  understand, 

Wliy  they  fawn'd  on  the  hand 
By  which  they  were  chain'd  up  and  muzzled. 

Should  they  think  fit  to  rise 

Again— it  were  wise 
To  exhibit  leas  talk  and  more  fighting; 

Freedom's  perils  to  brave. 

Or  still  crouch  like  the  slave, 
And  not  show  their  teeth  without  biting. 

« 

So  God  save  the  King, 

(Him  of  Naples  I  sing,) 
Who  ran  from  one  oath  to  another; 

May  he  long  live  to  reign, — 

For  the  people,  'tis  plain. 
And  the  monairii,  arc  worthy  each  other. 


CWyi 


iail.3  TmdUknud  LUeratm.  Ir 

TRADITIONAL  LITERATURE. 
No.  VIL 

THE   D£ATB    OF    WALTER   8ELBY. 

I  rede  ye,  my  lady— -I  rede  ye,  my  lord, 

To  put  not  your  trust  in  the  trumpet  and  sword ; 

Elie  the  proud  name  of  Selby,  wluch  gladdened  us  long, 

Shall  pass  from  the  land  like  the  sough  of  a  song.     Old  Ballad, 

Before  datne  Eleanor  Selby  had  Rode  among  the  martial  Selbys^  ne- 

concluded  her  account  of  the  Spectre  ver    fisdled   to    darken   the    picture 

Horsemen  of  Soutra-fell^  the  sun  had  which  she  would  have  enjoyed  bad 

set — and  the  twilight^  warm^  silent,  this  rustic  alloy  mixed  wim  the  pre- 

and  dewy^  had  succeeded — that  plea-  cious  metal  of  any  other  house.    It 

sant  time  between  light  and  dark^  in  was  her  chief  delight,  since  all  the 

which  domestic  labour  finds  a  brief  males  of  her  name  had  perished,  to 

remission.     The  shepherd,  returned  chaunt  ballads  in  their  praise,  and 

from  hill  or  moor,   spread  out  his  relate  their  deeds  from  me  time  of 

hose — moistened  in  morass  or  rivulet  tbe  Norman  invasion  down  to  their 

— before  the  hearth  fire,  which  glim-  final  extinction  in  the  last  rebeUion. 

mered  far  and  wide,  and  taking  his  Many  snatches  of  these  chivalrous 

accustomed  seat,  sat  mute  and  mo-  ballads  are  still  current  on  the  Bor- 

tionless  as  a  figure  of  stone.    The  der — the  debateable  land  of  song  as 

cows  came  lowing  homewards  from  well  as  of  the  sword — where  min- 

the  pasture-hills ;  others  feeding  out  strels  sought  their  themes,  and  en- 

of  cribs  filled  with  rich  moist  clover,  tered,  harp  in  hand,  into  rivalry — a 

yielded  their  milk  into  a  score  of  kind  of  contest  which  the  sword,  the 

pails ;  while  the  ewes,  folded  on  the  critic's  weapon  of  those  davs,  was 

sheltered  side  oi  the  remote  ^len,  often  drawn  to  decide.    Much  of  this 

submitted  their  udders,  not  wiuiout  stirring  and  heroic  border-life  mingles 

the  frequent  butt  and  bleat,  to  the  with  tne  traditionary  ta^s  of  £leanor 

pressure  of  maidens'  hands.    Pastoral  Selby.    Her  narratives  contain,  occa- 

Terse  has  not  many  finer   pictures  sionally,  a  vivid  presentment  of  cha->. 

than  what  it  borrows  from  the  shep-  racter  and  action ;  and  I  shall  endea- 

herd    returning   from  the   hill,  and  vour  to  preserve  something  of  this, 

the  shepherdess  from  the  fold— the  and  retain,  at  the  same  time,  their 

former  with  his  nipe  and  dogs,  and  dramatic  cast,    while   I  prune  and 

die  latter  with  her  pail  of  reeking  condense  the  whole,  to  render  them 

milk,    each  singing   with  a  hearty  more  acceptable  to  the  impatience  of 

country  freedom  of  voice,    and  in  modem  readers.    She  thus  pursued 

their  own  peculiar  way,   the  loves  her  story. 

and  the  ioys  of  a  pastoral  life.    The        '^  I  am  now  to  tell  a  tale  I  have 

home  01   Randal  Rode  presented  a  related  a  thousand  times  to  die  noble 

scene  of  rough  plenty,  and  abounded  and  the  low — ^it  is  presented  to  me  in 

in  pastoral  wealth ;  the  head  of  the  my  dreams,  for  the  memory  of  spilt 

house  associated  with  his  domestics,  blood  clings  to  a  young  mind — and 

and  maintained  that  authority  over  the  life's-blood  of  Walter  Selby  was 

their  words  and  conduct  which  be-  no  common  blood  to  me.    The  vision 

longed  to  simpler  times ;  and  some-  of  the  spectre  horsemen,  in  which 

thing  of  the  rustic  dignity  of  the  human  fate  was    darkly  shadowed 

master  was  observable  in  his  men.  forth,    passed  away — and   departed 

His  daughter,  Maudeline,  busied  her-  too,  I  am  afraid,  from  the  thoughts 

self  among  the  maidens  with  a  meek-  of  those  to  whom  it  came  as  a  signal 

ness  and  a  diligence  which  had  more  and  a  warning— as  a  cloud  passes 

of  the  matron    than    is    commonly  from  the  face  of  the  summer-moon, 

found  in  so  young  a  dame.    All  this  Seated  on  horseback,   with  Walter 

escaped  not  the  notice  of  her  old  and  Selby  at  my  bridle-rein,  and  before 

capricious  kinswoman  £leanor  Selby;  and  behind  me  upwards  of  a  score  of 

but  scenes  of  homely  and  domestic  armed    cavaliers,    I  had  proceeded 

joy  seemed  idien  to  her  heart.    The  along  the    mountain   side  about   a 

intmnon  too  (ff  the  churlish  name  of  mUe,  when  a  horn  was  winded  at  a 

5 


^Pl                                      Tradkitmal  IJteraimre.  C^^ulj, 

small  distance   in  our   front.     We  truth  than  I    reckoned  a   minstrel 
quickened  our  pace;  but  the  way  was  might  infuse    into  verse.      All  the 
rough  and  difficult;  and  we   were  border    cavaliers    of    England    and 
obliged  to  go  a  sinuous  course,  like  Scotland  are  near  us^  or  with  us, — 
the  meanderings  of  a  brook,  round  and  now  for  the  game  of   coronets 
rock  and  cairn  and  heathy  hill,  while  and  crowns— a  coffin,    co^    or  an 
the  horn,  continuing  to  sound,  still  earl's  bauble — for  we  march  upon 
seemed  as  far  a-head  as  when  we  Preston.'      Prepared    as  I   was  for 
first  heard  it.     It  was  about  twelve  these  tidings,  1  could  not  hear  them 
o'clock ;    and  the  moon,  large  and  without  emotion,  and  I  looked  with 
bright  and    round,    gleamed    down  an  eye  on  Walter  Selby  that  was  not 
firom  the  summit  of  a  green  pasture  calculated  to  inspire  acts  of  heroism, 
mountain,  and  lightened  us  on  our  I  could  not  help  connecting  our  pre- 
way  through  a  narrow  wooded  vaUey,  sent    march    on    Preston   with    the 
where  a  small  stream  glimmered  and  shadowy    procession  I  had   so  re- 
sparkled  in  the  light,    and  ran  so  cently  witnessed;    and  the  resem- 
crooked  a  course,  as  compelled  us  to  blance  which  one  of  the  phantoms 
cross  it  every  hundred  yards.  Walter  bore  to  the  youth  beside  me,  pressed 
Selby  now  addressed  me  in  his  own  on  my  heart.      '  Now    do    not    be 
singular  way :  '  Fair  Eleanor,  mine  afraid  of  our  success,  my  fair  coz,' 
own  grave  and  staid  cousin,  knowest  said  he,    '  when  to  all    the    proud 
thou  whither  thou  goest?     Comest  names  of  the  border — names  thou 
thou  to  counsel  how  fifty  men  may  hast  Ion?  since  learned  by  heart,  and 
do  the  deeds  of  thousands,  and  how  rendered  musical  by  repeating  them — 
the  crown  of  this  land  may  be  shifted  we  add  the  names  of  two  most  wise 
like   a    prentice's    cap  ? '     *  Truly,'  and  prudent  persons,  who  shall  here- 
said  I,  '  most  safe  and  con^derate  after  be  called  the  setters-up    and, 
cousin,  I  go  with  thee  like  an  af-  pluckers-down  of  kings — even    thy 
fficted  damos^  of  yore,  in  the  belief  cool  and  chivalrous  cousin,    and  a 
that  thy  wisdom  and  valour  may  re-  certain  staid  and  sedate  errant  da- 
instate  me  in  my  ancient  domains —  mosel.'    This  conversation  obtained 
or  else  win  for  me  some  new  and  for  us  the  attention  of  several  stran- 
princelv  inheritance.'  '  Thou  speak-  ger  cavaliers  who  happened  to  join 
est,'  said  the  youth, '  like  one  humble  us    as,    emerging   from    the  woody 
in    hope,   and  puttest  thy  trust  in  glen,  we  entered  upon  a  green  and 
one  who  would  willingly  work  mi-  wide  moor  or  common.  One  of  them, 
racles  to  oblige  thee.    But  ponder,  with  a  short  cloak  and  slouched  hat 
fur  damsel — my  sword,  though  the  and  heron's  feather,  rode  up  to  my 
best  blade  in  Cumberland,    cannot  right  hand,  and  glancing  his  eye  on 
cut  up  into  relics  five  or  six  reffi-  our  faces,  thus  addressed  himself  to 
ments  of  dragoons — ^nor  is  this  body,  me  in   a  kind-hearted,  but  antique, 
though  devoted  to  thee,  made  of  that  style : — '  Fair  lady,  there  be  sights 
knight-errant  stuff  that  can    resist  less    to  a  warrior's  liking  than    so 
sword  and  bullet.    So  I  counsel  thee,  sweet  a  face  beside  a  wild  mountain, 
most  discreet  coz,  to  content  thyself  about  the  full  of  the  moon.     The 
with  hearing  the  sound  of  battle  afar  cause  that  soils  one  of  these  bright 
ofP— for  we  go  on  a  journey  of  no  tresses  in  dew,  must  be  a  cause  dear 
^nall  peril.'    To  these  sensible  and  to  man's  heart—  and,  fair  one,  if  thou 
considerate  words,  I  answered  no-  wilt  permit  me  to  ride  by  thy  bridle- 
thing,  but  rode  on,  looking,  all  the  rein,  my  presence  may  restrain  sun- 
while,  Walter  Selby  in  the  face,  and  dry  flouts  and  jests  which  young  ca- 
endeavouring  to  say  something  witty  vaJiers,  somewhat  scant  of  grace  and 
or  wise.     He  resumed  his  converse :  courtesy — and  there  be  such  in  our 
'  Nay,   nay,    mine  own  sweet  and  company — may  use,  on  seeing  a  lady 
gentle  cousin — ^my  sweet  Eleanor — I  so  fair  and  so  young,  bowne  on  such  a 
am  too  proud  of  that  troubled  glance  dangerous  and  unwonted  journey.'  I 
of  thine,  to  say  one  word  more  about  thanked  this  northern  cavalier  for  his 
separation,' — and  our  horses'  heads  charitable  civility,  and  observed,  with 
and  our  cheeks  came  closer  as  he  a  smile,  '  1  had  the  protection  of  a 
spoke.    *  That  ballad  of  the  pedlar,  young  person  who  would  feel  pleased 
for  pedlar  shall  the  knight  be  still,  to  in  sharing  the  responsi))ility  of  such 
oblige  thee,   his  ballad    told    more  a  task.'    '  And,  fair  lady,'  continued 


1981.3  TrtOkkmal  LUeratmn.  9fl 

he^  '  if  Walter  Belby  be  thj  pro-  summoning  soldiers  to  fight  for  the 
tector,  my  labour  will  be  the  less.'  good  cause ;  of  a  surety,  his  journey 
My  cousin,  who  during  this  conver-  would  be  brief.  In  the  disguise  of  a 
sation  had  rode  silent  at  my  side,  calling,  low,  it  is  true,  but  honourable 
seemed  to  awaken  from  a  reverie,  in  its  kind,  I  have  obtained  more 
and  glancing  his  eye  on  the  cavalier,  useful  intelligence,  and  enlisted  more 
and  extenduiff  his  hand,  said,  '  Sir,  good  soldiers,  than  some  who  ride 
in  a  strange  dress,  uttering  strange  aneath  an  earl's  pennon.' 
words,  and  busied  in  a  pursuit  sor-  *'  Our  party,  during  this  nocturnal 
did  and  vulgar,  I  knew  you  not,  and  march,  had  been  insensibly  aug* 
repelled  vour  frank  coiurtesy  with  mented;  and  when  the  gray  day 
rude  words.  I  hear  you  now  in  no  came,  I  could  count  about  three 
disguised  voice,  and  see  you  with  the  hundred  horsemen  —  young,  well- 
sword  of  honour  at  your  side  instead  mounted,  and  well-armed — some  jriv- 
of  the  pedlar's  staff:  accept,  there-  ing  vent  to  their  spirit  or  their  ^1- 
fore,  my  hand,  and  be  assured  that  ings  in  martial  songs ;  others  ez- 
a  Selby — as  hot  and  as  proud  as  the  amining  and  proving  the  merits  of 
lordliest  of  his  ancestors,  feels  ho-  their  swords  and  pistols,  and  many 
noured  in  thus  touching  in  friendship  marching  on  in  grave  silence,  fore- 
the  hand  of  a  gallant  ffentleman.'  I  casting  the  hazanis  of  war  and  the 
felt  much  pleased  with  this  adven-  glory  of  success.  Leaving  the  brown 
ture,  and  looked  on  the  person  of  the  pastures  of  the  moorlands,  we  de- 
stalwart  borderer,  as  he  received  and  scended  into  an  open  and  cultivated 
returned  the  friendly  grasp  of  Walter  country,  and  soon  found  ourselves 
Selby ;  he  had  a  brow  serene  and  upon  the  great  military  road  which 
high,  an  eye  of  sedate  resolution,  and  connects  aU  tiie  north  country  with 
something  of  an  ironic  wit  lurking  the  capital.  It  was  still  the  cold 
amid  the  wrinkles  which  a^e  and  and  misty  t¥rilight  of  the  momin£^, 
thought  had  engraven  on  his  face,  when  I  happen^  to  observe  an  old 
I  never  saw  so  complete  a  transfor-  man  close  beside  me,  mounted  on  a 
mation;  and  could  hardly  credit,  that  horse  seemingly  coeval  with  himself, 
the  bold,  martial-looking,  and  cour-  — wrapped,  or  rather  shrouded,  in  a 
teous  cavalier  at  my  side  had  but  cpray  mantle  or  plaid,  and  all  the  while 
an  hour  or  two  before  sung  rustic  looking  stedfastly  at  me  from  under 
flongs,  and  chaffered  with  Uie  pea-  the  remains  of  a  broad  slouched  hat. 
sants  of  Cumberiand,  about  the  price  I  had  something  like  a  dreamer's  re« 
of  ends  of  ribbon  and  two-penny  collection  of  his  looks ;  but  he  soon 
toys  and  trinkets.  He  seemed  to  un-  added  his  voice,  to  assist  my  recol- 
derstand  my  thoughts,  and  thus  re-  lection,— and  I  shall  never  forget  the 
solved  the  riddle  in  a  whisper ; —  verses  the  old  man  chaunted  with  a 
'  Fair  lady,  these  be  not  davs  when  broken  and  melancholy,  and,  I  think 
a  kniffht  oif  loyal  mind  may  nde  with  I  may  add,  prophetic  voice : 
souna  of  horn,  and  banner  displayed, 

OH  !  PRESTON,  PROUD  PRESTON. 

1. 

Oh !  Preston,  proud  Preston,  come  hearken  the  cry 

Of  spilt  blood  against  thee,  it  sounds  to  the  sky  ; 

Thy  richness,  a  prey  to  the  spoiler  is  doom'd. 

Thy  homes  to  the  flame,  to  be  smote  and  consumed ; 

Thy  saffe  with  gray  locks,  and  thy  dame  with  the  brown 

Descendinff  lonff  tresses,  and  grass-sweeping  gown. 

Shall  shriek,  when  there's  none  for  to  help  them :  the  hour 

Of  thy  fall  is  not  nigh,  but  it's  certain  and  sure. 

Proud  Preston,  come  humble  thv  haughtiness — weep— • 

Cry  aloud — ^for  the  sword  it  sh^  come  in  thy  sleep. 

2. 
What  deed  have  I  done — that  thou  lifl'st  thus  thy  cry. 
Thou  bard  of  ill  omen,  and  doom'st  me  to  die  ? 
What  deed  have  I  done,  thus  to  forfeit  the  trust 
in  high  hfsaven,  and  go  to  destruction  and  dust  ? 
Vol.  IV.  D 


My  matrons  are  chaate,  and  my  daugkteri  are  fair ; 

\^ere  the  battle  is  hottest  my  swvrd's  shminff  there ; 

And  my  sons  bow  their  heads^  and  are  on  thenr  knees  kneeling. 

When  the  prayer  is  pour'd  forth  and  the  organ  is  pealing : 

What  harm  have  I  wrought,  and  to  whom  offer'd  wrong. 

That  thou  comest  against  me  with  shout  and  with  song? 

8. 

Wliat  harm  hast  thou  wrought !  list  and  hearken — the  hour 

Of  revenge  may  be  late— but  it's  certiun  and  sure: 

As  the  flower  to  the  field,  and  the  leaf  to  the  tree. 

So  sure  is  the  time  of  destruction  to  thee. 

What  harm  hast  thou  wrought  1 — ^haughty  Preston,  now  hear— - 

Thou  hast  whetted  against  us  the  brand  and  the  spear; 

And  thy  steeds  through  our  ranks  rush,  all  foaming  and  hot. 

And  I  hear  thy  horns  sound,  and  the  knell  of  thy  shot : 

The  seal  of  stem  judgment  is  fix'd  on  thy  fate. 

When  the  life's  blood  of  Selby  is  spilt  at  thy  gate. 

4. 

Oh !  Selby,  brave  Selby,  no  more  thy  sword's  braving 
The  foes  of  thy  prince,  when  thv  pennon  is  waving  ; 
The  Gordon  shall  guide  and  shall  rule  in  the  land ; 
The  Boyd  yet  shafl  battle  with  buckler  and  brand ; 
The  Maxwells  shall  live,  though  diminish'd  their  ^ina, — 
And  the  Scotts  in  bard's  song  dludl  be  all  but  divine ; 
Sven  Forster  of  Derwent  shall  breathe  for  a  time. 
Ere  his  name  it  has  sunk  to  a  sound  and  a  rhyme ; 
But  the  horn  of  the  Selbys  has  blown  its  last  blast. 
And  the  star  of  their  name's  from  the  firmament  cast 

"  I  dropt  the  bridle  firom  my  hand,  of  merriment  and  mirth.      It's  long 

and  all  the  green  expanse  of  ^fale  and  now  since  1  rode,  and  fought,  by  my 

hill  grew  dim  before  me.    The  voice  gallant  master's  side,  when  the  battle 

of  uie  old  man  had  for  some  time  waxed  fierce  and  desperate ;  and  my 

oeaseclf  before  I  had  courage  to  look  foot  is  not  so  firm  in  the  stirrup  now, 

about ;  and  I  immediately  recognized  nor  my  hand  sae  steeve  at  the  steel, 

ia  the  person  of  the  minstrel  an  old  as  it  was  in- those  blessed  and  heroic 

and  fiuuful  soldier  of  my  father's,  days.    It's  altered  days  with  Uarpur 

whose  gift  at  song,  rude  and  untu-  Harberson,  since  he  harped  afore  the 

tored  as  it  was,  had  obtained  him  nobles  of  the  north,  in  the  home  of 

some    estimation   on    the    border —  the  gallant  Selbys,  and  won  the  cup 

where  the  strong,  lively  imagery,  and  of  gold.     I  heard  that  my  bonnie 

fiuniliar  diction,  of  the  old  ballads,  lady  and  her  gallant  cousin  were  on 

still  maintain  their  ground  against  horseback ;  so  I  e'en  put  my  old  frail 

the  classic  elegance  and  melody  of  body  on  a  frail  horse,  to  follow  where 

modem  verse.    I  drew  back  a  little ;  I  cannot  lead.  It's  pleasant  to  mount 

and  shaking  the    old   man  by  the  at  the  sound  of  the  trumpet  again ; 

band,  said,  '  Many  years  have  paa^-  and  it's  better  for  an  aiud  man  to 

ed,  Harpur  Harberson,  since  I  list-  fall  with  the  sound  of  battle  in  his 

ened  to  thy  minstrel  skill  at  Laner-  ear,  and  be  biuied  in  the  trench  with 

cost ;  and  I  thought  thou  hadst  gone,  the  brave,  and  the  young,  and  the 

and  I  should  never  see  thee  again,  noble,— than  beg  his  bread  from  door 

Thy  song  has  lost  some  of  its  an-  to  door,  enduring  the  scofiT  and  scom 

dent  grace  and  military  glee  since  of  the  vulgar   and  sordid,   and  be 

thou  leftest  my  father's  halL'  '  Deed,  found,  some  winter  morning,  streeked 

mv  bonnie  lady,'  said  the  borderer,  stiff  and  dead,  on  a  hassoc  of  straw 

with  a  voice  suppressed  and  melan-  in  some  churl's  bam.    So  I  shall  e'en 

choly,  while  something  of  his  an*  ride  on,  and  see  the  last  of  a  noble 

dent  smile  brightened  Jus  fiice  for  a  and  a  hopdess  cause.'    He  drew  his 

moment,  '  sangs  of  aorrow  and  dule  hat  over  his  brow ;  while  I  endea- 

hare  been  rifer  with  me  than  bdlada  Toured  to  cheer  him  by  deocribuig 


i«i.3 


TrtdMml  LUeraha^. 


83 


the  Bumbera^  resources,  and  8treiigtli>  such  it  pkftsant  thought    It  was  not 

of  the  party.    And  I  expressed  ta-  for  nought  that  horsemen    rode  in 

ther  mj  hope,  than  firm  beli^,  when  ranks  on  Soutra  side  last  night,  where 

I  assured  nun  '  there  was  little  doubt  living  horseman  could  never  urge  a 

that  the  house  of  Selby  would  lift  steecT, — and  that  the  forms  and  sem- 

its  head  again  and  flourish,  and  that  blances  of  living  men  were  visible  to 

the    grey  hairs  of  its  ancient  and  me  in  this  fearful  procession.    Nor 

faith&l  minstrel  would  go  down  in  was  it  for  nought  that  my  grand- 

fladness  and  glory  to  the  grave.'  father,  old  minstrel  Harberson,  caused 
[e  shook  his  head,  yet  seemed  al-  himself  to  be  carried  in  his  last  hour 
most  willing  to  believe,  for  a  mo-  to  the  summit  of  Lanercost-hill,  that 
ment,  against  his  own  presentiment,  he  might  die  looking  on  the  broad  do- 
in  the  picture  of  future  glory  I  had  mains  of  his  master.  His  harp— for 
drawn— it  was  but  for  a  moment,  his  harp  and  he  were  never  parted — 
'  Deed  no  — 'deed  no,  my  bonnie,  his  Jiaq)  yielded  involuntary  sounds, 
bonnie  lady,  it  canna — canna  be;  and  his  tongue  uttered  unwilling 
g^ad  would  I  be  could  I  credit  the  words— words  of  sad  import,  the  ful- 
tale,  that  our  house  would  hold  up  its  filment  of  which  is  at  hand.  1  shall 
head  again,  high  and  lordly.  But  I  repeat  you  the  words ;  they  are 
have  too  strong  faith  in  mhistrel  pre-  known  but  to  few,  and  have  been 
diction,  and  in  the  dreams  and  |d-  scorned  too  much  by  the  noble  race 
dons  of  the  night,  to  give  credenc^fa)  of  Selby. 

I  rede  ye,  my  lady— I  rede  ye,  my  lord. 

To  put  not  your  trust  in  the  trumpet  and  sword ; 

To  toHow  no  banner  that  comes  from  the  flood. 

To  march  no  more  southward  to  battle  and  blood. 

League  not  with  Dalzell — no,  nor  seek  to  be  fording 

The  clear  stream  of  Uerwent  with  Maxwell  and  Grordon, — 

To  a  Forester's  word  draw  nor  bridle  nor  glaive, — 

Shun  the  gates  of  proud  Preston,  like  death  and  the  grave — 

And  the  Selbys  shall  flourish  in  life  and  in  story, 

While  eagles  love  Skiddaw — and  soldiers  love  glory. 


'*  '  These  are  the  words  of  my  an- 
cestor—what must  be  must — I  shall 
meet  thee  agmn  at  the  gates  of  Pres- 
ton.' As  he  uttered  these  words  he 
mingled  with  the  ranks  of  horsemen 
under  the  banner  of  a  border  knight, 
and  I  rode  up  to  the  side  of  my  cousin 
and  his  companion. 

''  It  is  not  my  wish  to  relate  all  I 
heard,  and  describe  all  I  saw  on  our 
wav  southward ;  but  our  array  was  a 
sight  worth  seeing,  and  a  sight  we 
shall  never  see  again — for  war  is 
now  become  a  trade,  and  men  are 
trained  to  battle  like  hounds  to  the 
hunting.  In  those  days  the  noble 
and  the  gentle,  each  with  his  own 
banner, — with  kinsmen  and  retainers, 
came  forth  to  battle ;  and  war  seem- 
ed more  a  chivalrous  effort  than  it 
seems  now— ^friien  the  land  commits 
its  llune  and  its  existence  to  men  hired 
\rr  sound  of  trumpet  and  by  touch 
of  dram.  It  was  soon  broad  day- 
Bcht ;  an  the  adherents  of  the  house 
of  Stuart  had  moved  towards  Lan- 
eisldre,  frotd  the  soudi  of  Scotland 


and  the  north  of  England;  and 
forming  a  junction  where  the  Cum- 
berland mountains  slope  down  to  the 
vales,  now  covered  the  road  as  far 
as  my  eye  could  reach— not  in  regu« 
lar  companies,  but  in  clusters  and 
crowds,  with  colours  displayed.— 
There  might  be,  in  all,  one  thousand 
horsemen  and  fifteen  hundred  fbot, 
the  former  armed  with  sword  and 
pistol  and  carabine — ^the  latter  with 
gun  and  spear.  It  was  a  fair  sight 
to  see  so  many  gentlemen  dressed  in 
the  cavalier  garb  of  other  days — 
some  with  head  and  bosom  pieces  of 
burnished  mail;  others  with  slouched 
hats  and  feathers,  and  scarlet  vesta-^ 
and  all  with  short  cloaks  or  mantles, 
of  velvet  or  woollen,  clasped  at  th(^ 
bosom  with  gold,  and  embroidered 
each  according  to  their  own  or  their 
ndstress's  fancy.  A  body  of  three 
hundred  chosen  horsemen,  pertaining 
to  my  Lord  Kenmure,  marched  in 
front, — singing,  accordfaig  to  the  fh- 
shion  of  the  Scotch,  rude  and  homely 
ballads  in  honour  of  their  leader. 


94  Tradiiional  IMeroiwre.  V^J> 

Kenmure'g  on  and  awa,  Willie, 

Kenmure's  on  and  awa. 
And  Kenmure's  lord  is  the  galiantest  lord 

That  ever  Galloway  saw. 
Success  to  Kenmure's  band^  Willie, 

Success  to  Kenmure's  baud ; 
There  was  never  a  heart  that  fear'd  a  Whig, 

E'er  rode  by  Kenmure's  hand. 
There's  a  rose  in  Kenmure's  cap,  Willie, 

There's  a  rose  in  Kenmure's  cap, — 
He'll  steep  it  red  in  ruddie  life's  blood 

Afore  the  battle  drap. 

"  Such  were  some  of  the  verses  by  at  length,  after  a  fatiguing  journey, 
which  the  rustic  minstrels  of  those  we  came  within  sight  of  Preston;  and 
days  sought  to  stimulate  the  valour  there  the  enemy  made  his  appearance 
of  their  countrymen.      One  hundred  in  large  masses  of  cavalry  and  foot, 
horse,  conducted  by  Liord  Nithsdale,  occupying  the  distant  rising  grounds, 
succeeded ;  those  of  Lord  Derwent-  leaving  our  entry  into  the  town  free 
water  followed— a  band  numerous,  and  uninterrupted.    Something  in  my 
but  divided  in  opinion — unsteady  in  face  showed  tne  alarm  I  felt  on  see- 
resolution,  and  timid  in  the  time  of  vtf  the  numbers  and  array  of  our 
need  and  peril — ^like  their  unfortunate  enemies :  this  passed  not  unobserved 
lord.    The  foot  followed :  a  band  of  of  the  cavalier  at  my  side,  who  said, 
warriors — strange,  and  even  savage  with  a  smile,    '  Fair  lady,  you  are 
in  their  appearance — ^brave  and  sku-  loc^ng  on  the  mercenary  bands  which 
ful,  and  unblenching  in  battle — with  sordid  wealth  has  marched  against 
plaid  and  bonnet  and  broadsword—  us ;  these  are  men  bought  and  sold, 
bare  kneed,  and  marchuig  to  a  kind  and  who  hire  their  best  blood  for  a 
of  wild  music,  which,  by  recalling  scarlet  garb  and  a  groat.     I  wish 
the  airs  of  their  ancestors,  and  the  I  had  wealth  enough  to  tempt  the 
battles  in  which  they  fought  and  bled,  avarice  of  men  who  measure  all  that 
kindles  a  military  fury  and  resolution  is  good  on  earth  by  the  money  it 
which  destrovs  all  against  which  it  is  brings.     And  yet,  mr  one,  I   must 
directed.     These  were  men  from  the  needs  own,  that  our  own  little  band 
mountains    of    Scotland,    and    they  of  warriors  is  brought  strangely  to- 
were   led  by  chieftain  Mackintosh,  gether,  and  boimd  bv  ties  of  a  sii>- 
who  was  to  them  as  a  divinity— com-  gular  kind.    It  would  make  a  cui%- 
pared  to  whom,  the  prince,  m  whose  ous  little  book,  were  I  to  write  down 
cause  they  fought,  was   a  common  all  the  motives  and  feelings  which 
being-— a  mere  mortal.      I  admired  have   put  our  feet,  in   the  stirrup, 
the  rude,  natural  courtesy  of  these  There's  my  Lord  Kenmure — a  hot,  a 
people,   and   lamented   the    coward  brave,   and    a  self-willed,    and  the 
counsels  which  delivered  them  up  to  Scotch  maidens  say  a  bonnie Gordon; 
the  axe  and  the  cord,  without  striking  his  sword  had  stuck  half-drawn  from 
a  single  blow.     The  rear,  accounted,  the  scabbard,  but  for  the  white  hand  of 
in  this  march,  with  an  enemy  be-  his  wife :  but  he  that  lives  under  the 
hind  as  well  as  before,    a    post  of  influence  of  bright  eyes.  Lady  Eleanor, 
some  peril,  was  brought  up  by  about  lives  imder   a  spell  as  powerful  as 
two  hundred  border  cavaliers    and  loyalty.    And  what  would  the  little 
their  adherents ;  and  with  Jthem  rode  book    say    ef    my  Lord   Nithsdale, 
yffaltet  Selby    and    his    new    com-  with  whom  ride  so  many  of  the  noble 
l^anion.     The  command  seemed  di-  name  of  Maxwell?     Can  scorn  for 
I^Med    among    many ;    and  without  the  continual  cant  and  sordid  hearts 
obeying  any  one  chief  In  particular,  of  some  acres  of  psalm-sin^g  cove- 
all  seemed  zealous  in  the  cause,  and  nanters,  who  haimt  the  hdl-tops  of 
marched  on  with  a  rapidity  regulated  Terreagles  and   Dalswinton,    cause 
by  the  motions  of  the  foot«    No  se-  the  good  lord  to  put  the  fairest  do- 
rious  atte*r.pt  was  made  to  impede  mains  on  the  border  in  jeopardy  ?  or 
us :   some  raadum  shots  were  fired  does  he  hope  to  regain  all  the  sway 
from  the  hcilge  rows  and  groves ;  till  held  by  his  ancestors  of  yore  over 


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the  beattdflil  vale  of  Nith — ^humblhiff  charge  of  these  northern  warriors^ 

into  dust,    as   he   arises^  the  gifted  but  was  led  into  Preston^  and  carried 

weaver  who  preaches,   the  inspired  into  a  house  half  dead,  where  several 

cordwuner  who  expounds,  ana  the  of  the  ladles,  who  followed  the  for- 

upstart  grocer  who  holds  rule — the  tune  of  their  lords  in  this  imhappy 

two   former  over  men's  minds,  and  ezpedition,endeavouredto  soothe  and 

the  latter  over  men's  bodies  ?  There's  comfort  me.     But  I  soon  was  the 

my  Lord  Carawath .'    At  this  ffayest  of  them    all;    for   in  came 

moment    I   heard    the  sounding   of  Walter  Selby,  and   his  companion, 
trumpets,  and  the  rushing  of  horses  the  former  sprinkled  with  blood,  but 
behind  us ;   and   ere    I    could  turn  the  latter  soiled  with  blood  and  dust^ 
round,  my  cavalier  said,  in  the  same  from  helmet  to  spur.    I  leaped  into 
equal  and  pleasant    tone  in   which  my  cousin's  bosom,  and  sobbed  with 
he  was  making   his   curious   com*  Joy ;    he  kissed  my  forehead,    and 
munication   of   human  character,-—  said,    '  Thank   him,  mv  Eleanor— 
'  Fair  lady,  here  be  strange  auditors,  the  gallant  knight.  Sir  Tnomas  Scott, 
some  of  my  finend  General  Willis's  but   for    him,   I  should  have  been 
troopers  come  to  try  the  edges  of  where  many  brave  fellows  are.'    I 
their  new  swords.    Halbert,  lead  this  recovered  presence  of  mind  in  a  mo- 
fair  lady  to  a  place  where  she  may  ment,    ana     turning  to   him,   saidj^ 
see  what  passes — and  now  for  the  '  Accept,  Sir,  a  poor  maiden's  thanks 
onset,  Walter  Selby.'  The  latter,  ex-  for  the  safety  of  her  kinsman,  and 
chan^g  a  glance  with  me,  turned  allow  her  to  kiss  the  right  hand  that 
his  horse's  head ;  swords  were  bared  wrought  this  deliverance.'     '  Bless 
in  a  moment;  and  I  heard  the  dash  of  thee,  fair  lady,  said  the  knight,  I 
their  horses,  as  they  spurred  them  to  would  fight  a  dozen  such  fields  for 
the  contest,  while  a  Scottish  soldier  the  honour  thou  profferest ;  but  my 
hurried  me  towards  the  town.    1  had  hand  is  not  in  trim   for  such  lady 
not  the  courage  to  look  back — ^the  courtesy ;  so  let  me  kiss  thine  as  a 
clashing  of  swords,  the  knelling  of  warrior  ought.'    I  held  out  my  hand, 
carabines,  the  groans  of  the  wound*  which  he  pressed  to  his  lips ;  and 
cd,  and  the  batUe  shout  of  the  living,  washing  the  blood  from  his  hands, 
came    all    blended    in  one    terrible  removing  the  soils  of  battle  from  his 
sound — ^my  heart  died  within  me.    I  dress,  and  resuming  his  mantle,  he 
■Gon  came  up  to  the  Scottish  moun-  became  the  gayest  and  most  chearful 
taineers,    wno,    with    their    swords  of  the  company. 
drawn,  and  their  targets  shoiddered,  ''  It  was  evident,  from  the  frequent 
stood  looking  back  on  the  contest,  and  earnest  consultations  of  the  lead* 
uttering  shouts  of  gladness,  or  shrieks  ers  of  this  rash  enterprize,  that  in- 
of  sorrow,  as  their  friends  fell  or  pre-  formation  had  reached  them  of  no 
▼ailed.    I  looked  about,  and  saw  the  pleasing  kind.    Couriers  continually 
skirmish,  which  at  first  had  only  ex-  came  and  went,  and  some  of  the 
tended  to  a  few  blows  and  shots,  be-  chiefs  began  to  resume  their  weapons, 
coming  bloody  and  dubious ;  for  the  As  the  danger  pressed,  advice  and 
enemy,  reinforced  with  fresh  men,  contradiction,    which  at  first  were 
now  fairly  chars^ed  down  the  open  given  and  urged  with  courtesy  and 
road,  and  the  place  where  they  con-  respect,  now  l^ame  warm  and  loud; 
tended  was  soon  covered  with  dead  and   the  Earl  of   Der  went  water,   a 
and  dving.    I  shrieked  aloud  at  this  virtuous  and  amiable  man,  but  nei- 
liearful  sight  >  and  quitting  my  horse's  ther  warrior  nor  leader,   instead  of 
bridle,  held  up  my  han&,  and  cried  overawing  and  ruling  the  tumultuary 
out  to  the  mountidneers,  S  O  haste  elements  of  his  army,  strode  to  and 
and  rescue,  else  they'll  slay  him  —  fro,  a  perfect  picture  of  indecision 
they'll  slay  him !'  An  old  highlander,  and  dismav,  and  uttered  not  a  word, 
at  almost  the  same  instant,  exclaim-  All  this  while.  Sir  Thomas  Scott  sat 
ed,  in  very  corrupt  English,  '  €rod !  beside  Walter  Selby  and  me,  calm 
shell  no  stand  and  see  the  border  and  unconcerned ;  conversuig  about 
lads  a'  cut  in  pieces !'  and  uttering  a  the  ancient  house  of  the  Selbys ;  re- 
kind  of  military  yell,  flew  off  with  lating  anecdotes  of  the  lords  of  Sel- 
about  two  hundred  men  to  the  as-  by  in  the  court,  and  in  the  camp ; 
sistaoce  of  his  fiiends.    1   was  not  quotinff,  and,  ui  his  own  impressive 
allowed  to  remafai  and  witness  the  way  of  reciting  YeTBe>\eud«v^>^V^^ 


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mebdj  of  mu«ic  to  the  (Mmiiwtrel  before  their  cannon  anirei^we  arc 

baJlads  which  recorded  our  name  and  hoferior  in  number^  but  superior  in 

deeds,    in  a  moment  of  less  alarm,  courage ;    let    some  of  our  border 

I    could   have  worshipped  him  for  troopers    dismount,    and,  with    the 

this;   and  my  poor  Walter  seemed  clansmen,  open  a  passage  through 

the  child  of  his  companion's  will,  and  Colonel  Preston's  troops  which  line 

forgot  all  but  me  in  the  admiration  the  hedge  rows  and  enclosures ;  the 

with    which  he  contemplated   him.  horse  will  follow,  and  there  can  be 

The  conference    of   the   chiefs  had  no    doubt  of  a   complete  victory.' 

waxed  warm  and  tumultuous ;  when  Some  opposed  this  advice,  others  ap- 

Lord  Nithsdale,  a  little,  hi^h  spirited,  plauded  it ;  and  the  precious  hours  of 

and  intrepid  man,  shook  Sir  Thomas  ni^ht  were  consumed  in  unavailing 

by  the  shoulder,  and  said,  *  This  is  debate,  and  passionate  contradiction, 

no   time.   Sir  Knight,   for  nunstrel  This  was  only  interrupted  by  the 

lore,  and  lady's  love ;  betake  thee  to  sound  of  the  trumpet,  and  the  nish- 

thy  weapon,  and  bring  all  thy  wis-  iug  of  horse ;  for  W  iUis,  forcing  the 

dom   with   thee,    for  truly  we  are  barriers  at  two  places,  at  once  made 

about  to  need  both.'     Sir  Thomas  good  his    entry   into  the  principal 

rose,  and  having  consulted  a  moment  street  of  Preston.   I  had  the  courage 

with  Lord  Kenmure,  returned  to  us,  to  go  into  the  street;  and  had  not 

and  said,  '  Come,  my  young  friend,  proceeded  far,  till  I  saw  the  enemy's 

we  have  played  tiie  warrior,  now  let  dragoons  charging  at    the    gallop ; 

us  play  the  scout,  and  go  forth  and  but  their  saddles  were  emptied  fast, 

examine  the  numbers  and  array  of  with  shot,  and  with  sword ;  and  the 

our  enemies ;.  such  a  list  of  their  ge-  clansmen,  bearing  their  bucklers  over 

nerals  and  migor-fenerals  has  been  their  heads,  made  great  havoc  among 

laid  before  our  leaders  as  turns  them  the  horsemen  with  their  claymores, 

pale ;  a  mere  muster  roll  of  a  re-  and  at  length  succeeded  in  repulsing 

e'ment  would  make  some  of  them  them  to  the  fields.  As  soon  as  the 
y  down  their  arms,  and  stretch  out  enemy's  trumpets  sounded  a  retreat, 
their  necks  to  the  axe.  Lord  Ken-  our  leaders  again  assembled ;  assem- 
mure,  fair  Eleanor,  who  takes  a  bled  not  to  conquer  or  fall  like  cava- 
lady's  counsel  now  and  then,  will  Hers,  with  their  swords  in  their 
have*  the  honour  of  sitting  by  your  hands,  but  to  yield  themselves  up,  to 
side  till  our  return.'  §o  saying,  beg  the  grace  of  a  few  days,  till  th^ 
Walter  Selby  and  Sir  Thomas  left  prepared  their  necks  for  the  rope  aad 
us ;  and  I  listened  to  every  step  in  the  the  axe.  The  highland  soldiers  wept 
porch,  till  their  return,  which  hap-  with  anger  and  shame,  and  offered 
pened  withm  an  hour.  They  came  to  cut  tneir  way,  or  perish ;  but  the 
^dashed  with  soil,  their  dress  rent  leaders  of  the  army,  unfit  to  follow 
with  hedge  and  brake;  and  they  or  fi^ht,  resolved  on  nothing  but 
teemed  to  have  owed  their  safety  to  submission,  and  sent  Colond  Ox* 
their  swords,  which  were  hacked  burgh  with  a  message  to  General 
and  dyed  to  the  hilts.  The  leaders  Willis,  to  propose  a  capitulation, 
questioned  them :  '  Have  you  mark-  *'  Sir  Thomas  Scott  came  to  Wal* 
ed  the  enemy's  array,  and  learned  ter  Selh^r  and  me,  and  said,  with  a 
ought  of  their  numbers.'  *  We  have  smile  of  bitter  sconi,  '  Let  these  va- 
done  more,'  said  Sir  Thomas ;  '  we  liant  persons  deliver  themselves  up 
have  learned,  and  that  from  the  to  strain  the  cord,  and  prove  the  axe ; 
tongues  of  two  dying  men,  that  Wil-  we  will  seek.  Lady  Eleanor,  a  gen- 
lU,  with  nine  regiments  of  horse,  and  tier  dispensation ;  retreat  now  is  not 
Qolonel  Preston,  with  a  battalion  of  without  peril ;  yet  let  us  try  what 
ibot,  will  scarcely  await  for  dawn  to  the  good  green  wood  will  do  for  poor 
attack  you.'  This  announcement  outlaws ;  I  have  seen  ladies  and  men 
seemed  to  strike  a  damp  to  the  hearts  too  escape  from  greater  peril  than 
of  several  of  the  chiefs ;  and,  instead  this.'  We  were  in  the  saddle  in  a 
of  giving  that  consistency  to  their  moment;  and,  accompanied  by  about 
.  councils  which  mutual  fear  often  in-  twenty  of  the  border  cavaUers,  made 
spires,  it  oidy  served  to  bewilder  and  our  way  through  several  orchard  en- 
perplex  them.  '  I  would  counsel  closures,  and  finally  entered  upmi  an 
you,'  said  Sir  Thomas,  '  to  make  an  extensive  common  or  chac6»  abound* 
loftaut   attack    upon  their  position,  ing  in  clumps  of  dwarf  holi^  and 


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birchf    and   presefiting   green    aiid  cursetha  then;' and  he  made  a  stroke 
windiog  aTenues,  into  one  of  which  at  me  with  his  sword.    The  eyes  of 
we  gladly  entered^  leaving  Preston  Walter  Selby  seemed  to  lighten  as  a 
half  a  mile  behind.    That  pale  and  cloud  does  on  a  day  of  thunder,  and 
trembling  lifffat  which  precedes  day  at  one  blow  he  severed  the  dragoon's 
bcmn  to  fflunmer ;  it  felt  intensely  head,  bone  and  helmet,  down  to  his 
cold ;  for  ue  air  was  filled  with  dew,  steel  collar.    As  the  trooper  fell,  a 
and  the  boughs  and  bushes  sprinkled  pistol  and  carabine  flashed  together, 
us  with  moisture.    We  hastened  on  and  Walter  Selby  reeled  in  the  sad- 
at  a  sharp  trot ;  and  the  soft  sward  die,  dropt  his  head,  and  his  sword ; 
returning  no  sound,   allowed  us  to  and  saynig,  famtly,  '  Oh,  Eleanor  1' 
hear  the  trumpet  sunnnons,  and  mi-  fell  to  the  ground,  stretching  both 
litary  din,  which  extended  far  and  hands  towards  me.    I  sprung  to  the 
wide  around  Preston.    As  we  rode  ground,  clasped  him  to  my  bosom, 
along,  I  observed  Sir  Thomas  mo-  which  he  covered  with  his  blood,  and 
tion  with  his  head  to  his  companions,  entreated  Heaven  to  save  him  ;  and 
feel  his  sword  and  his  pistols,  gluice  oh,  I  doubt  I  upbraided  the  Etemid 
to   the   ffirths  of  his    horse,    and,  with  his  death;  but  Heaven  will  pity 
finally,    drop    his  mantle  from  his  the  ravings  of  despair.    He  pressed 
right  arm,  apparently  baring  it  for  my  hand  faintly,  and  lay  loosing  on 
a  contest.    In  all  these  preparations,  my  face  alone,  though  swords  were 
he  was  followed  by  his  uriends,  who,  clashing,  and  pistols  were  discharged, 
at  the  same  time,  closed  their  ranks,  over  us.  Ere  the  contest  had  ceased, 
and  proceeded  with  caution  and  si-  Sir  Thomas  sprang  from  his  horse, 
lence.  We  had  reached  a  kind  of  road,  took  Walter  Selbv  in  his  arms,  and 
half  the  work  of  nature  and  half  of  tears  sparkled  in  his  eyes,  as  he  saw 
man's  hand,  which  divided  the  chace  the  blood  flowing  from  his  bosom. 
or  waste  in  two;  it  was  bordered  by  '  Alas !  alas !'  said  he,  '  that  such  a 
a  natural  hedge  of  holly  and  thorn,  spirit,  so  lofty  and  heroic,  should  be 
All  at  once,  from  a  thicket  of  bushes,  quenched  so  soon,  and  in  a  skirmish 
a  captain,  with  about  twenty  of  Co-  such  as  this.    Haste,  Frank  Elliot, 
lonel   Preston's   dragoons,   made    a  haste,  and  frame  us  a  litter  of  green 
rush  upon  us,  calling  out,  *  Yield  I  boughs,  cover  it  thick  with  our  man- 
down  with    the    traitors  !'    Swords  ties,  place  this  noble  youth  upon  it, 
were  bare  in  a  moment,  pistols  and  and  we  will  bear  him  northward  on 
earthines  were   flashing,  and  both  our  horses'  necks;  ere   I  leave  hi» 
partiea  spurred,  alike  eager  for  blood,  body  here,  I  will   leave  mhie  own 
Of  thb  unexpected  and  fatal  contest,  aside  it ;  and  you,  minstrel  Harber-^ 
I  have   but  an    indistinct   remem-  son,  bring  some  water  from  the  brook 
brance ;   the  glittering  of  the  hel-  for  this  fair  and  fainting  lady.'    All 
mets«  the  shinuiff  of  drawn  swords,  these  orders,  so  promptly  given,  wer^' 
the  flashing  of  pistols  and  carabines,  as   quickly  executed ;    and   we  re^ 
the  knell   of  shot,   the  msMng  of  commenced  our  journey  to  the  norths ' 
honet,  and  the  outcry  of  wounded  with  sorrowful  hearts,  and  diminish* 
men,  come  all  in  confusion  before  me;  ed  numbers.    I  rode  by  the  side  of 
but  I  cannot  give  a  regular  account  the  litter ;    which,  alas,  became  a 
of  this  scene  of  terror  and  blood,  bier,  ere  we  reached  the  green  hiUs 
It  waf  6f  brief  duration.    I  laid  my  of  Cumberland.     We  halted  in    a 
bridle  <m  my  horm^s  neck,  and  wrung  lonely  glen ;  a  grave  was  prepared  ; 
my   hands,  and  followed  with  my  and  Uiere,  without  priest,  prayer,  or 
looks  every  motion  of  Walter  Selby.  requiems,   was  all  that  I  loved  of 
He  Was  in  the  pride  of  strength  and  man  consigned  to  a  sylvan  grair^i*^ 
youth,  and  spurred  arainst  the  bold-  *  The  dust  of  our  young  hero7  tM 
est;  and  putting  soul  and  might  into  Shr  Thomas,  '  must  lie  nere  till  the 
every  blow,    made  several  saddles  sun  shines  again  on  our  cause,  and 
empty;   I  hdd  np  my  hands,  and  it   shall  be  placed    in    consecrated 
priced  atidiblr  for  success.    A  dra-  earth.'    The  minstrel  of  the  ancienf 
goon^  who  had  that  moment  killed  a  name  of  Selby  stood  gazing  on  the 
eavaUer,  rode  to  my  side,  and  ex-  grave,  and  burst  out  into  the  follow- 
dnmcdy    '  Down  with  Uiy  hands,  mg  wail  or  burial  song,  which  if 
thorn  caried  mm,   down  with  thy  stOl  to  be  heard  from  the  lips  of  the 
~  ij  irdot  frttf  j^  wdDt  thou;  maids  8iidinatnm«ot  CutcmitViaQAL^ 


\  Mockery  Bnd,  in  Herifirdskire.  L^^J» 

LAMSKT  FOB  W4LTER   8XLBY. 
1. 

Mourn^  all  ye  noble  warriors— lo  1  here  is  lying  low 

As  brare  a  youth  as  ever  spurr'd  a  courser  on  the  foe : 

Hope,  is  a  sweet  thing  to  the  hearty  and  light  unto  the  ee^ 

But  no  sweeter  and  no  dearer  than  my  warrior  was  to  me : 

He  rode  a  good  steed  gallantly,  and  on  his  foes  came  down 

With  a  war-cry  like  the  eagle's,  from  Helvellyn's  haughty  crown ; 

His  hand  was  wight,  and  his  dark  eye  seem'd  bom  for  wide  command  ; 

Young  Selby  has  nae  left  his  like  in  all  the  northern  land. 

«. 
Weep  for  him^  all  ye  maidens — and  weep  for  him,  all  ye  dames ; 
He  was  the  sweetest  gentleman  from  silver  Tweed  to  Thames. 
Wail  all  for  Walter  Selby,  let  your  tears  come  dropping  down ; 
Wail  all  for  my  young  warrior,  in  cottage,  tower,  and  town. 
Cursed  be  the  hand  that  fired  the  shot ;  and  may  it  never  know 
What  beauty  it  has  blighted,  and  what  glory  it  laid  low  ; 
Shall  some  nide  peasant  sit  and  sing,  how  his  right  hand  could  tame 
Thy  pride,  my  Walter  Selby,  and  the  last  of  all  thy  name  ? 

3. 
And  mourn  too,  all  ye  minstrels  good,  and  make  your  harpstrings  wail. 
And  pour  his  worth  through  every  song,  his  deeds  through  every  tale. 
His  life  was  brief,  but  wond'rous  bright :  awake  your  mmstrel  story ! 
Lo !  there  the  noble  warrior  lies,  so  give  him  all  his  glory. 
When  Skiddaw  lays  its  head  as  low,  as  now  'tis  green  and  high — 
And  the  Seaway  sea  grows  to  a  brook,  now  sweeping  proudly  by — 
When  the  soldier  sconis  the  trumpet^sound,  nor  loves  the  teniper'd 

brand — 
Then  thy  name,  my  Walter  Selby,  shall  be  mute  in  Cumberland.'* 

Lammerleaf  Cumberland* 


MACK£RY  END,  IN  iLBRTFORDSHHlE. 

BainosT  Elia  has  been  my  house-  assiduously  fresh  supplies.     Narra- 

keeper  for  many  a  long  year.     I  have  tive  teazes  me.    I  have  little  concern 

obliffations  to  Bridget,  extending  be-  in  the  progress  of  events.    She  must 

yond  the  period  of  memory.     We  have  a  story — well,  ill,  or  indiffer- 

nouse   together,    old    bachelor    and  ently  told — so  there  be  life  stirring 

ipaid,  in  a  sort  of  double  singleness ;  in  it,  and  plenty  of  good  or  evil  ac- 

with  such  tolerable  comfort,  upon  the  cidents.    The  fluctuations  of  fortune 

whole,  that  I,  for  one,  find  in  myself  in  fiction — and  ahnost  in  real  life — 

i|0  sort  of  disposition  to  go  out  upon  have  ceased  to  interest,  or  operate 

the  mountains,  with  the  rash  king's  but  dully  upon  me.    Out-of-the-way 

offspring,  to  bewail  my  celibacy.  We  humours  and  opinions-— heads  witn 

agree  pretty  well  in   our  tastes  and  some  diverting  twist  in  them — the 

habits — ^yet  so,   as  ''with  a  difier-  oddities  ofauthorship  please  me  most, 

ence."  We  are  generally  in  harmony.  My  cousin  has  a  native  disrelish  of 

with    occasionaJ    bickerings  —  as  it  any  thing  that  sounds  odd  or  bizarre. 

ekould  be  among  near  relations.    Our  Nothing  goes  down  with  her,  that  is 

mnpathies    are    rather  imderstood,  quaint,  irregular,  or  out  of  the  road 

tnan  exoressed ;  and  once,  upon  my  of  common  sympathy.     She  "  holds 

dissembling  a  tone  in  my  voice  more  Nature  more  clever. '    I  can  pardon 

kind  than  ordinary,  my  cousin  burst  her  blindness  to  the  beautiful  obli- 

into  tears,    and  complained  that  I  quities  of  the  Religio  Medici;   but 

was  altered.      We  are   both    great  Ake  must  apologize  to  me  for  certain 

readers  in  diiSercnt  directions.  While  disrespectful  insinuations,  which  she 

I  am  hanging  over(for  the  thousandth  has  been  pleased  to  throw  out  lat- 

time)  some  passage  in  old  Burton,  terly,  touching  the  intellectuals  of  a 

or  one  of  his  strange  contemporaries,  dear  favourite  of  mine,  of  the  last 

she  is    abstracted  in  some  modem  century  but  one — the  thrice  noble, 

taJe,  or  adventure,  whereof  our  com-  chaste,    and   virtuous^ — but    again 

num  leading'table  is  daUy  fed  with  somewhat  fantastical^  and  origmal- 


1881.^  Madtefj  Bnd^  in  HerffirdMre.  89 

bfain'd>  .  generous   Margaret  New-    wedlock  might  not  be  dimiiiifihed  by 
caatle.  it ;  but  1  can  answer  for  it^  that  it 

It  has  been  the  lot  of  my  cousin,    makes  (if  the  worst  come    to  the 
oftener  perhaps  than  I  could   have    worst)  most  iucompara1)le  old  maids, 
wished^  to  have  had  for  her  associ-        In  a  season  of  distress^  she  is  the 
ates  and  mine^  free-thinkers— lead-    truest  comforter ;  but  in  the  teazing 
era,  and  disciples,  of  novel  philoso-    accidents,    and   minor    perplexities, 
phies  and  systems ;  but  she  neither    which  do  not  call  out  the  will  to 
wrangles   with,  nor    accepts,    their    meet  them,  she  sometimes  tnaketh 
opinions.    That  which  was  good  and    matters  worse  by  an  excess  of  parti- 
venerable  to  her,  when  she  was  a    cipation.      If  she  does  not  always 
child,  retains  its  authority  over  her    divide  your  trouble,  upon  the  plea^ 
mind  still.      She  never   juggles  or    santer  occasions  of  life  she  is  sure 
plays  tricks  with  her  understanding,      always  to   treble  your  satisfaction. 
.    We  are  both  of  us  inclined  to  be    She  is  excellent  to  be  at  a  play  with> 
a  little  too  positive ;  and  I  have  ob-    or  upon  a  visit ;  but  best,  when  she 
served  the  result  of  our  disputes  to    goes  a  journey  with  you. 
be  almost  uniformly  this  —  that  in        We  made  an  exciu-sion  together  a 
matters  of  fact,  dates,  and  drcum-    few  summers  since,  into  Hertford- 
stances,  it  turns  out,  that  I  was  in    shire,    to  beat  up  the'  quarters   of 
the  right,    and    my  cousin   in    the    some  of  our  less-known  relations  in 
wrong.    But  where  we  have  differed    that  fine  com  country. 
upon  moral  poults ;  upon  something        The  oldest  thin?  I  remember  Is 
proper  to    be  done,   or  let   alone ;    Mackery  End ;  or  Mackarel  End,  as 
whatever  heat  of  opposition,  or  stea-    it  is  spelt,  perhaps  more  properly,  in 
diness  of  conviction,  I  set  out  with,    some  old  maps  of  Hertfordshire ;  a 
I  am  sure  always,  in  the  long  run,  to    farm-house,  —  delightfiilly    situated 
be  brought  over  to  her  way  of  think-    within  a  gentle  walk  from  Wheat- 
ing.  hampstead.      I  can  just  remember 

I  must  touch  upon  the  foibles  of  having  been  there,  on  a  visit  to  a 
ny  kinswoman  with  a  gentle  hand,  great-aunt,  when  I  was  a  child, 
for  Bridget  does  not  lue  to  be  told  under  the  care  of  Bridget ;  who,  as 
of  her  ftkults.  She  hath  an  aukward  I  have  said,  is  older  than  myself  by 
trick  (to  say  no  worse  of  it)  of  read-  some  ten  years.  /  wish  that  I  could 
ing  fai  company :  at  which  times  she  throw  into  a  heap  the  remainder  ofonr 
wul  answer  y^i  or  no  to  a  question,  joint  existences,  that  we  might  share 
without  fully  understanding  its  pur-  them  in  equal  division.  But  that  is 
port — which  is  provoking,  and  dero-    impossible.    The  house  was  at  that 

Story  in  the  highest  degree  to  the  time  in  the  occupation  of  a  substan- 
[^ity  of  the  putter  of  the  said  tial  yeoman,  woo  had  married  my 
question.  Her  presence  of  mind  is  grandmother's  sister.  His  name  was 
equal  to  the  most  pressing  trials  of  Grladman.  M^  grandmother  was  a 
life,  but  will  sometimes  desert  her  Bruton,  mamed  to  a  Field.  The 
upon  trifling  occasions.  When  the  Gladmans  and  the  Brutons  are  still 
purpose  reauires  it,  and  is  a  thing  of  flourishing  in  that  part  of  the  county, 
moment,  she  can  speak  to  it  greatiy ;  but  the  Fields  are  almost  extmct 
but  in  matters,  which  are  not  stuff  tif  More  than  forty  years  had  elapsed 
the  consciaue,  she  hath  been  known  since  the  visit  I  speak  of;  and,  for 
sometimes  to  let  slip  a  word  less  the  greater  portion  of  that  period, 
seasonably.  we  had  lost  sight  of  the  other  two 

Her  education  in  youth  was  not  branches  also.  Who,  or  what  sort 
much  attended  to  ;  and  she  happily  of  persons,  inherited  Mackery  End — 
missed  all  that  train  of  female  gar-  kindred  or  strange  folk — we  were 
niture,  which  passeUi  by  the  name  of  afraid  almost  to  conjecture,  but  de- 
accomplishments.  She  was  tumbled  termined  some  day  to  explore. 
early,  by  accident  or  design,  into  a  By  somewhat  a  circuitous  route, 
spacious  closet  of  good  old  English  taking  the  noble  park  at  Luton  in 
reading,  without  much  selection  or  our  way  from  Saint  Alban's,  we  ar- 
prohibition,  and  browsed  at  will  upon  rived  at  the  spot  of  our  anxious  cu- 
that  fair  and  wholesome  pasturage,  riosity  about  noon.  The  sight  of  the 
Had  I  twenty  girls,  they  should  oe  old  farm-house,  though  every  trace 
brou^t  up  exactly  in  this  fashion.  I  of  it  was  eflaced  from  my  recolkc^ 
know  not  whether  their  chance  in    tion,  afiEccted  me  m^Ei  ^  \^^fta»xt^ 


which   I   had   not  experienced  for  kindred,    and   of    cousinabipy    waa 

many  a  year.     For  though  /  had  enough.     Those  slender  ties,  that 

forgotten  it,  toe  had  never  forgotten  p^ove  slight  as  gossamer  in  the  rend- 

being  there  together,  and  we  had  ing  atmosphere  of  a  metropolis,  bind 

been  talking  about  Mackery  End  all  foster,  as   we  found  it,  in   hearty, 

our  lives,  tiB  memory  on  my  part  be*-  homely,  loving'  Hertfordshire.  In  five 

came  mocked  with  a  phantom  of  it-  minutes  we  were  as  thoroughly  ao- 

aelf,  and  I  thought  I  knew  the  aspect  quainted,  as  if  we  had  been  bom  and 

of  a  place,  which,  when  present,  O  bred    up   together ;    were   familiar, 

how  unlike  it  waa  to  that,  which  I  even  to  the  calling  each  other  by  bur 

bad  coloured  up  so  many  times  in*  Christian  names.  So  Christians  should 

atead  of  it !  <^  o^  anoiher.    To  have  seen  Brid* 

Still  the  air  breathed  balmilv  about  get,  and  her— it  was  like  the  meeting 

it ;  the  season  was  hi  the  ''  heart  of  of  the  two  Scriptural  cousins  !  Thert 

June,"   and  I   could  aay  with  the  was  a  grace  and  dignity,  an  ampli- 

poet,  tude  of  form  and  stature,  answering 

But  thou,  that  did^tt  appesr  to  fair  to  her  mind,  in  this  former's  wUfe, 

To  fond  imagination,  which  would  have  shined  in  a  palace 

Dost  rival  in  the  light  of  day  — or  So  we  thought  it     We  were 

Her  delicate  areation !  ♦  made  welcome  by  husband  and  wife 

Bridget's  was  more  a  waking  bliss  equally — we,  and  our  friend  that  was 

than  mme,  for  she  easily  remembered  with    us. — I   had   almost   forgotten 

her   old    acquaintance  again — some  him  -  but  B.  F.  will  not  so  soon  for<k 

altered  featiu^s,  of  course,  a  little  get  that  meeting,  if  peradventure  he 

grudged  at.     At  first,  indeed,  she  shall    read    this   on  ^e  far  distant 

was  ready  to  disbelieve  for  joy ;  but  shores  where  the  Kangaroo  haunts* 

the  scene  soon  re-confirmed  itself  in  The  fatted  calf  was  made  ready,  or 

her    affections— and    she    traversed  rather  was  already  so,  as  if  in  antici* 

every  out-post  of  the  old  mansion,  pation  of  our  coming ;  and,  after  an 

to  the  WQod-house,  the  orchard,  the  appropriate  glass  of  native  wine,  ne- 

place  where  the  pigeon-house  had  ver  let  me  forget,  with  what  honest 

atood  (house  and  birds  were  alike  pride  this  hospitable  cousin  made  us 

flown )---with  a  breathless  impatience  proceed  to  Wheathampstead,  to  in- 

of  recognition,  which  was  more  par-  troduce  us  (as  some  new-found  ra* 

donable  perhaps  than   decorous,  at  rityy  to  her  mother  and  sister  Glad^ 

the  age  of  fifty  odd*    But  Bridget  in  mans,  who  did  indeed  know  some- 

aoroe  things  is  behind  her  years.  thing  more  of  us^  at  a  time  "when  she 

The  on^  thing  left  was  to  get  into  almost  knew  nothing.— With  what 

the  house — and  that  was  a  difficulty,  corresponding  kindness  we  were  re* 

which  to  me  singly  would  have  been  ceived  by  them  also— how  Bridget's 

insurmountable;    for  I  am  terribly  memory,   exalted  by  the  occaaion, 

^y  in  making  my  self  known  to  stran-  warmed  into  a  thousand  half  obli* 

gers,  and  out-of-date  kinsfolk.  Love,  terated  recollections  of  thinffs  and 

■tronger  than  scruple,  winved  my  persons,  to  my  utter  astonishment, 

couain  in  without  me ;  but  she  soon  and  her  own—  and  to  the  astound- 

returned  with  a  creature,  that  might  ment  of  B.  F.  who  sat  by,  almost  ike 

have  sat  to  a  sculptor  for  the  image  only  thing  thai  was  not  a  cousin  there, 

of  Welcome.  It  was  the  youngest  of  —old  effaced  images  of  more  than 

the  Gladmans.;  who,  by    marriage  half-forgotten    names    and    circum- 

with  a  Bruton,  had  become  mistress  stances  still  crowding  back  upon  her, 

of  the  old  mansion.    A  comely  brood  as  words  written  in  lemon  come  out 

are  the  Brutohs.    Six  of  them,  fe*  upon  exposure  to  %  friendly  warmth, 

■lales,  were  noted  as  the  handsomest  — when  I  forget  all  thla,  then  may 

young  women  in  the  county.     But  "  my  country  cousins  forget  me ;  and 

this  adopted  Bruton,  m  my  mind,  was  Bridget  no  more  remember,  that  in 

better  than  they  all — more  comely,  the  days  of  weakling  infancy  I  waa 

She  was  bom  too  late  to  have  re-  her  tender  charge — aa  1  have  been 

membered  me.  .  She  just  recollected  her  care  in  foolish  manhood  since— 

in  early  life  to.  have  had  her  couain  in  those  pretty  paatoral  walks,  long 

Bridget    once    pointed   out  to  her,  ago,  about  Mackery  End,  in  Hert« 

climbing  a  style.    But  the  name  of  fordahire.                               £lia. 

■      ■     ■  t       I 

*  Wsidtapoitii^  an  Yaitov  l^sitfldt 


1891.2                                 SkdMt  on  the  Road,  SI 

SKETCHES  ON  THE  ROAa 

No.  IL 

Napkiy  February  13,  18S1. 

Retuemino  firom  a  conTivial  party  ther^  and  another."    Tired  of  this 

the  other  evening,  about  ten  o'clock,  squabble,  and  seeing  that  my  com- 

by  Santa  Luda,  we  were  struck  by  panions    were    already   mounted,   I 

the  briUiant  appearance  of  Vesuvius:  drove  two  or  three  of  these  belk>w- 

we  had  for  some  days  past  been  in-  ing  rascals  off  my  arm,  and  choosing 

terested  by  a  singular  change  that  an  ass  of  a  "  comely  appearance, 

had  taken  place  in  the  source  and  and  stout  withal,"   caught  hold  of 

direction  of  its  lava,  and  had  indeed  the  rope,  and  put  my  foot  in  the 

resolved    oo    an    excursion    to    the  stirrup.     My  tormentors,  however, 

flaioky,  sulphureous  summit  of  our  were  too  tenacious  to  resign  me  so 

old  Mend.    The  night,  though  cold  quietly ;   one  of  the  most  forward 

and  windy,  was  rather  fine ;   there  again  caught  hold  of  me,  and  pulled 

was  moonlight  enough  to  light  us  up  me  in  his  arms  to  his  own  chvcka : 

the  rugged  ascent,  without  torches—  the  master  of  the  ass  I  had  mounted 

the  virtuous  bottles  of  Capri  rosso  was  no  chicken ;  he  followed  up  the 

we  had  drunk,  had  kindlea  a  light  enemy,  retiring  with  the  prey,  and 

•od  warmth  in  our  spirits  that  ren-  began  to  pull  me  back  again.    This 

diered  us  quite  en  etat  to 'dare  ha-  game  of  *' pull  devil,  pull  baker" 

sardous,    and    investigate   curious,  continued,  no  way  to  my  satisfac- 

thiogs ;  therefore,  we  determined  at  tion,  until  I  contrived  to  get  one  of 

once  to  go  up ;  and,  calling  a  hack,  in  my  arms  free,  and  bestow  on  the  m- 

about  an  hour  were  rolled  to  Resina,  truder  an  finrlishman's  fist  on  "  that 

the  little  town  which  joins  Portici,  at  feature  which  the  human  fiice  em- 

the   foot  of  the  mountain,   and  in  bosses."    This  testimonial  of  wrath, 

which  b  the  entrance  to  the  too  con-  arrested  his  bold  perseverance,  and 

fined  excavations  of  Herculaneum.  at  last  I  found  myself  in  saddle,  and 

At  Resina,  according  to  custom,  of  trotted  after  my  friends,  to  the  no 

^  lime  immemorial,"  we  hired  asses  small  triumph  and  heart's  content  of 

and  guides :   this   operation,   which  the  owner  of  the  ass,  which  so  noblr 

one  would  think  easy  enough,  was  bore  me.    You  remember  how  rbugn 

in  this  instance  (as  it  has  been  in  se-  and  laborious  the  ascent  of  the  moun* 

vend  others)  to  me  attended  with  tain  is,  being  nearly  all  steep,  and 

nuich  difiiculty ;  a  crowd  of  fellows,  ov^r  rough  old  lava ;    we  arrived, 

at  the  sound  of  our  approaching  car-  however,  safe  at  San  Salvatore,  sb 

riace,  rushed  out  with  their  asses  veiy  improperly  called  a  hermitage^ 

and  mules,  and  surrounded  us  in  a  as  it  is,  in  fact,  nothing  but  a  tavema 

DKWt  clamorous  manner.     Scarcely  (low  inn)  and  the  old  fellow  who 

had  we  set  foot  to  ground,  when  wears    the   hermit's    garb,    nothing 

about*  half  a  dozen  of   these  half  more  than  a  iavemaro ;  and  a  fleecing 

naked  rough  rogues  seized  upon  me  and  insolent  one  too,  he  is,  as  I  have 

as  an  object  of  contest ;  first,  I  was  several  times  experienced  to  my  cost, 

pulled  by  one,  who  declared  by  his  Here    we    found    a    company    of 

Etron  saint  that  his  ass  never  stum«  Englishmen  (composed  chiefly  of  of- 
fd;  then,  by  another,  who  with  ficers  from  the  fleet  now  lying  in 
great  warmth  of  asseveration,  gave  the  Bay  of  Naples)  who  had  just  re* 
me  to  understand  that  all  the  Mtiordi  turned  from  the  crater :  while  we 
Ingkn  took  his  mule,  which  was  the  were  discussing  some  boiled  eggs 
best  mule  ever  created ;  then,  ano-  and  Lacryma  Chrisii  ^for  so  the  old 
ther,  who  protested  that  if  his  ass  rogue  persists  in  calling  his  bad 
made  one  false  step  with  me^  he  wine)  another  company  arrived,  con- 
would  sutler  me  to  throw  him  Hd  sisting  of  three  English  gentlemen, 
est,  the  master,  not  the  ass)  into  tbe  and  two  ladies ;  the  dear  eyes  of  the 
mouth  of  the  volcano ;  then  came  latter  had  been  reddened  by  the  heat 
another,  who  swore  they  were  all  of  the  lava,  and  the  violence  of  the 
liariy— that  his  was  the  only  good  wind ;  their  white  faces  and  hands, 
animaK^then   "  another,  and  ano-  and  ^sncw  white  "dra\MrjVi»db«t!i^ 


38  Skeiehes  on  the  Road*  C«^uly, 

sadly  smoked  aiid  blackened  in  the  old  Cicerone,    This  was  an  enterprize 

regions  of  ^sulphur    they  had  just  of  considerable  difficulty:  the  lava 

quitted;  and  I  was  particulaiiv  touch-  had  cooled  in  very  roughs  irregular 

ed^  by  obseryin?  the  sad  derange-  masses^  and  many  loose  knobs^  anbrd- 

ment  of  Spanish  leather  boots ;  "  for  ing  an  insecure  footinK>  rolled  from 

surely^"  thought  I,  "  the  sharp  lava  under  our  feet^  as  we  oounded  from 

that  has  treated  them  so  roughly,  one  to  the  other ;  each  of  us  sus- 

can  hardly  hare  respected  the  tender  tained  several    falls,    and  even  the 

feet  they  inclose."  long  pole  and  longer  practice  of  our 

Well !  let  our  enemies  say  what  guide,  could  not  at  tmies  keep  him 

they  will  of  us^  the^  never  can  deny  on  his  feet.    Alter  walking  in  this 

that  we  are  a  curious  enthusiastic  fatiguing  way  for  a  little  while,  we 

people — always  the  first  to  run  in  turned  off  to  the  left,  and  continued 

crowds  where  information  is  to  be  along  a  sort   of  valley  or  ravine, 

had,  or  curiosity  to  be  satisfied,  what-  whicn  separates  the  cone  of  Vestt- 

ever  be  the  sacrifices  required,  or  the  vius  from  the  rugged  Monte  di  Som* 

price  to  be  paid.    What  feats  have  tneL.    This  direction  soon  brought  us 

Deen  done,  even  by  our  ladies !— -  to  the  present  mouth,  which  opened 

Within  these  few  years,  how  many  a  about  six  weeks  ago.     As  we  ap- 

white  gown  and  straw  hat,  made  in  proached,  we  were  struck  with  its 

Bond-street,  the    Arcade,    or  some  tremendous  and  horrid  grandeur — we 

other  of  the  purlieus  of  fashion,  has  could  wish  for  a  pencil  all  genius^ 

floated  on  the  summit  of  this  flaming  and  fire,  to  delineate  it,  for  we  feel 

mountain,  glanced  among  the  pillars  with  particular  force,  just  at  the  mo- 

of  Grecian  ruins,  or  elided  along  the  ment,    the    difficulty    of  describing 

bases  of  the  tremendous  pyramids !  with  words  grotesque   shapes,   tre- 

For  one  of   any  other  nation  that  mendous  figures,  awful  glaring  lights, 

comes  to  this  mountain,  I  suppose  murky  and  blue  sulphureous  shades 

there  are  at  least  three  Englishmen ;  —the  intricacies  of^  form,  and  the 

and  perhaps  only  the  Germans  and  nuances  of  chiaro  oscuro. 
Russians  come    so  near  as  one  to        A    cone  about  twenty  feet   high 

three.    I  never  ascended  the  moun-  rose  up  in  the  ravine ;  it  was  flatten- 

tain  but  twice,  without  meeting  some  ed  in  part,  on  the  side  towards  the 

of  my  countrymen.    Two  years  afo^  sea,  and  on  this  side  opened  a  chasm 

on  the  first  of  January,  I  passed  a  in  the  form  of  a  parallelogram,  round- 

oheerful  night  on  the  mountain,  with  ed  at  the  top ;  this  mouth  has  never 

twenty  Englishmen,  and  four  ladies ;  thrown  out  lava,  stones,  or  ashes,  so 

we  cooked  some  tolerable  good  beef  that  we  had   no   hesitation  in  ap- 

steaks  and  pork  chops  over  the  lava,  proachiug  to  its  very  sides.    In  look" 

whose  heat  and  light  sufficed  us :  mg  inward,  we  saw  at  about  twelve 

whilst  seated  in  groups,  we  drank  to  or  fifteen  feet  below  us,  a  broad  deep 

the  success  of  our  mstant  country,  stream  of  lava,  in  its  most  liquid 

and  distant  friends.    But  let  me  re-  state,  rolling  on  slow  and  silently, 

turn  to  the  subject.  emitting  a  heat  and  brilliancy  which 

We  left  the  hermitage  about  one  almost  blinded  us  as  we  gazed/   We 

o'dock^-the   wind,  which  had  tor-  saw^- 

mented  us  considerably  during  the  .  ,  «.  ..  i  «,  .«  . 
ascent,  now  blew  so  violent  ^d  so  ^  ^""8~"  ^T  **S  ""-S^*"  "~^ 
cold  as  to  be  ahnost  irresistible.  You  ^  "^  «~^  *^™^  ^"^^ 
remember  when  you  ascended  the  I  know  nothing  to  which  the  lava 
volcano,  there  was  a  path  by  which  might  be  compared,  excepting,  per- 
you  could  approach  within  a  few  haps,  a  large  stream  of  molten  gold, 
paces  of  the  cone  within  which,  for  It  is  common  to  compare  the  flowing 
some  centuries,  has  been  the  grand  lava  to  founded  iron,  but  in  this  early 
crater — this  path  continued  practica-  part  of  its  course  (no  doubt  near  to 
ble  until  lately>  but  we  now  found  it  the  primary  source)  it  is  too  glitter- 
destroyed,  and  covered  with  rough  ing,  and  has  too  much  of  a  yellow 
masses  of  hardened  lava,  at  a  short  hue  to  resemble  that  metal.  The 
distance  fi^m  the  hermitage ;  here,  cone  (on  which  we  now  stood)  was 
therefore,  we  were  obliged  to  dis-  hollow,  indeed  the  incrustation  which 
mount  We  began  immediately  to  held  us  from  fire  and  destruction, 
cross  the  lava^  accompanied  by  one  was  very  thin :  from  the  top  of  the 


1881.3  Skeickei  o«  ihe  BoatL  83 

• 

interior  of  the  cone  hung  strange    written  several  letters,  one  of  which, 
figures,  all  red>hot,  resembHng  in    to  the  police  at  Nrales,  to  prevent 
•hi^  the  incrustations  of  a  cave,  or    suspicions,  impartea  that  he  died  bj 
the  fonns  of  large  icicles ;  laterally    his  own  deed  —another  was  to  his 
were  other  figures  equaUy  glowing    mother— unhappy  woman ! 
and  capricious,  which  a  heated  ima^        It  is  said  in  Naples,  that  a  hope- 
ffination  might  easily  have  converted    less,  cureless  disease  urged  him  to 
mto  infernal  fiends,  and  damned  suf-    the  commission  of  the  dreadful  act. 
ferers.    While  we  stood,  the  wind  as        On  descending  from  the  perilous 
It  passed  the  dreadful  orifice,  roared    eminence,  we  proceeded  to  examine 
deep  and  awfully,  a  few  sparks  and    the  course  of  tne  lava.    It*  continued 
•mall  particles  of  fiery  matter  issued    to  flow  for  about  twenty  yards  from 
Ibrth ;  now  and  then  a  piece  of  mat-    the  mouth,  under  an  incrustation  in 
ter  breaking  away  from  the  sides  of    which  several  apertures  allowed  us 
the  hoUow,  fell  upon  the  flowing  lava    to  see  the  fiery  flood  beneath :  from 
with  a  stranffe  tinkling  noise,  that    this  covered  passage  it  emerged  in  a 
chilled  one's  olood,  and  at  times  a    bold  wide  torrent,  which,  running  for 
low  murmuring  was  heard,  as  if  pro>    some  time  alonff  an  inclined  plane, 
ceeding  from  far  within  the  moun-    came  to  a  steep  descent,  down  which 
tain.     We  had  stood  in  this  critical    it  precipitated  itself  with  headlong 
situation  some  time,  holding  by  the    fury.    The  effects  of  this  tremendous 
tide  of  the  mouth,  and  hangmg  over    cataract,  were  seen  for  some  distance 
the  deadlv  stream,  when  a  sudden    in  the  hurried  pace  of  the  lava- 
gust  of  wmd,  which  caught  my  pldd    *'  the  waves  of  torrent  fire  inflame 
doak,  and  almost  hurled  n^e  in,  warned    with  rage,"  the  stream  widens,  and 
IIS  to  depart.  rushes  rapidly  on. 

How  dreadful  would  be   such  a    ^    .  ^  „       ,         -        . 

a^ath !  or  rather,  how  horrible  is  its    g?*^  ^°™^**  allor,  che  aoafio,  c  iltero 

_^     r  u  -  4x^       ji  «u     ^  1      I^  acque  non  mit^  fuor  ddl*  andoi  spooda 

•spect-for  such  a  fire,  and  Uie  sid-    TorwL  agendo  impetnow  e  fieio  ^^ 
phur,  and  the  smoke,  no  doubt  would    ^e  dttadi  minacda  e  i  ounpi  mnonda. 
atupity  and  destroy  one  m  a  few  se- 
conds ;  but,  perhaps,  death  itself  is        We  continued  to  cotoyer  the  flood, 
nearly,  in  every  case,  eaually  mild ;    until  we  came  just  below  the  ele- 
it  is  the  preparation  which  is  tre-    vated  ridge,  on  one  point  of  which 
iiieiidous,---4t  is  the  path  which  leads    stands  San  Saivatore;  here  the  stream 
to  the  bourne,  and  not  the  bourne  it-    had  divided  itself  into  another  branch, 
•elf,  that  is  occupied  by  anguish  and    and  from  a  hillock  of  lava,  we  saw  H 
despair.  continue  its  course  in  two  large  cur- 

Be  this,  however,  as  it  may,  but  rents,  until  it  was  lost  in  some  of 
two  nights  before  our  excursion,  an  those  deep  hollows  which  fortunately 
unfortunate  Frenchman  threw  1dm-  former  eruptions  have  made,  ana 
•elf  into  thb  mouth.  He  ascended  left  between  the  often  destroyed 
with  only  one  guide,  a  lad  ;  when  at  town  of  the  Torre  del  Greco,  and  the 
the  terrific  spot  which  he  had  chosen  sides  of  the  mountain. 
for  his  destruction,  under  some  pre-  But  should  the  present  eruption 
text  he  sent  the  youth  away  to  some  continue  with  vigour  for  two  or  three 
little  distance ;  after  a  few  minutes  weeks,  or  should  another  considera* 
the  lad  rjctumed ;  he  found  a  coat  ble  one  in  the  same  direction  succeed 
and  hat — he  gazed  (we  may  suppose,  it,  these  hoUows  will  be  filled  up, 
stupified  with  horror)  into  Uie  mouth,  the  stream  will  roll  onward  to  the 
but  of  the  resolute  victim,  not  an  sea,  and  some  of  the  inhabitants  of 
atom  was  to  be  seen.  It  appears  he  the  lava-built  *  Torre  del  Greco,  will 
had  arranged    all   his   affairs,    and    once  more  be  obliged  to   abandon 


*  Nearly  all  the  materials  of  the  buildiiigs  of  the  Torre  del  Greco  are  lava.  This 
town  Kaa  been  destroyed  several  times,  and  built  up  as  often  with  the  very  lava  that 
had  destroyed  it.  The  grand  road  that  traverses  the  town,  is  in  one  place  simk  twenty 
feet  in  the  lava,  whose  dark  rough  sides  dose  the  passenger  in  on  either  hand.  Every 
ihing  in  this  neighbourhood  is  of  lava — Vesuvius  is  an  inexhaustible  mine — ^^  cut  and 
come  agaia,'*  is  the  word.  The  streets  of  Naples  are  paved  with  lava :  the  fine  road 
that  kads  ttom  Nicies,  as  far  as  the  Torre  del  Greco,  is  flagged  with  Uva.    AH  the 


84  SMches  <m  tke  Road.  ^Mff 

their  homei^  and  wet  tfaek  hovses  bell,  Ike  Ite  hM  Inset  befiyre  it,  tiie 

and  streets  Imried  beneath  then-  old  little  avenue  of  white  pillars^  tenirf^ 

enem J.  Rating  on  the  brow  of  the  steep  witii 

We  stood  awhile^  on  the  before-  a  large  wooden  cross ;  on  our  r^ht 

mentioned  hillock— Uie  scene  was  too  hand>  at  some  distance  up  an  ascent* 

novel  to  some  of  us^  and  too  interest-  we  saw  the  fiercely  burning  mouth 

iaff  to  all,  to  be  speedily  abandoned,  already  described,  and  the  streams  af 

I  have  seen  the  volcano  under  many  fiery  matter   rdling   down — further 

and  various  aspects^  for  we  are  old  on>  the  rugged  clins  of  the  Monte 

firlends;  and  on  this  night,  I  wrote  di    Somma,    mournful     and     som* 

my  name*  in  the  book  at  the  hermi-  bre :    on  our  other  hand,   we    saw 

tage  for  the  thirteenth  time :  I  have  the  lava  continuing  its  course,  and 

seen  it  belching   out  flames  to   the  getting  paler  and  paler,  and  slower 

clouds,    and    throwing  out  red-hot  and  slower,  until  it  reached  the  hol- 

stones  to  overtop  the  flames ;  I  have  lows — still  farther  down  was  the  Bay 

watched  those  innumerable  stones  as  of  Naples,  darkened  at  intervals  by 

they  fell,  and  observed  immense  fiery  dense  clouds,  which  were  scudding 

masses  chase  each  other  down  the  across  the  sky,  and  roughened  by  the 

declivities :  I  have  stood  by  the  brink  strong  night  wind :  behmd  us, — 
of  the  lava,   which  poured   rapidly 

down  the  steep  sides  of  the  cone — I  There  ttood  a  hill  not  fkr,  whose  giisly  top 

have  seen  the  mountain  nearly  in  all  BelcfaM  fire  and  rolling  smoke — 
its  humours,  but  I  never  saw  it  more 

iiapressive  than  on  this  night.    The  the  lower  part  of  the  cone  lay  in  a 

broad  burning  streams  came  down,  thick  shade;    for  the  small  flames 

slow,  silent,  and  majestic— at  times,  which  were  playing  above,  only  ilht- 

gieces  of  lava  were  broken  away  minated  the  head  of  the  mountain, 
om  the  baniu,  and  slid  into  the  cur-  As  we  were  already  sufficiently 
rent  with  a  slight  tinkling  sound;  fatigued,  and  there  was  nothing  oif 
not  unfrequentlv  large  pieces  of  lava  much  interest  to  invite  us  to  un« 
(carried  away  m  a  similar  manner)  dertake  the  difficult  climb  up  the 
came  floating,  Hke  horrid  black  is-  cone,  we  determined,  when  we  left 
lands,  down  the  stream,  and  at  inter-  our  hillock,  to  make  the  best  of  our 
valsghastly  vapours,  some  of  a  bright  way  to  the  hermitage.  To  shorten 
blue  colour — some  yellow — some  of  our  wav,  we  descended  a  little  to 
an  angry  red,  played  over  the  scorch-  where  the  stream  was  less  wide  and 
ing  waves.  There  is  a  tall  hardy  rapid,  and  with  hasty  steps  crossed 
soft  of  weed  grows  in  the  crevices  of  over  the  burning  lava ;  the  other 
the  lava;  at  the  foot  of  the  hillock  on  stream  which  lay  in  our  way,  we 
which  we  were,  there  was  a  large  crossed  in  the  same  manner,  and 
clump,  on  a  sudden  the  winding  after  a  most  laborious  walk  of  about 
stream  approached  it,  and  it  was  half  an  hour  we  reached  the  hermi- 
soon  in  a  blaze.  We  observed  many  tage.  Here  we  got  on  our  asses  and 
of  these  conflagrations  while  watch-  began  to  descend,  ''highly  gratified** 
ing  the  course  of  the  lava.  of  course,  but  somewhat  less;  gay 
We  at  lenffth  left  the  little  height,  than  when  we  mounted ;  for  the 
but  before  I  leave  it,  I  must  attempt  spirit  of  the  good  wine  was  evapo- 
a  description  of  the  scenes  that  spot  rated ;  we  felt  fatigue,  and  that  lassi- 
oommanded.  The  moon  was  shinmg  tude  which  always  follows  exhilara- 
pretty  clearly — just  above  us,  in  tion,  and  exertion.  Each  of  us  was 
nont,  was  a  bold  precipice,  on  whose  very  glad,  when,  a  little  after  sun- 
edge  lay  the  white  buildings  of  San  rise,  he  found  himself  in  Naples  at 
Salvatore,  its  chapel  and  its   large  the  door  of  his  own  lodgings. 


waDi  whidi  dose  in  the  road  and  separate  the  gardens,  are  of  lava — the  rocks  on  iht 
•ca  shore  are  lava — there  is  more  lava  than-  any  thing  else  in  the  houses  of  Portia  and 
Enina,  under  iifaidi,  ^'  full  £ahom  five,**  lies  Uerculaneum  buxied  in  lavm. 


|U)DOJfONTA]>£S  ESPAONOLEa 

In  the  novel    of  *'  The  Abbots"  then  be  on  the  lair  of  a  wild  boar, 

where  Queen  Mary  is  offended  by  and  I  might  be^  like  Poloniua^  at 

tltt  taunts  of  one  of  the  rebel  lords^  supper^  not  where  I  ate,  but  where 

the  a^  her  attendant  for  the  "  Ro-  I  was  eaten.    My  powers  were  now 

domontadet  Espa^oles."    A  rebuke  fairly  tasked,  and  after  a  consultation 

which  the  peer  roels  sufficiently  for  with  the  two  most  perplexing  advit 

hier  purpose.    The  passage  reminded  sers  in  the  world — anxiety  and  igno-^ 

sse  of  a  little  adyenture.  ranee,  I  fired  my  only  pistol,  with* 

It  may  be  now  six  years  since  I  out    knowing    whether    my    signal 

found  myself  one    evening    in  the  might  not  invite  a  banditti.     The 

heart  of  a  forest  in  Lorrame.    My  report  of  the  pistol  was  answered  by 

business  was  not  with  the  world,  or  hallooings  and  the  sound  of  home 

the  men  of  the  world,— so  I  avoided  on  every  side,  and  in  a  few  minutes 

the  high  road,  where  I  should  have  I  was  siurounded  by  half  a  dosseii 

found   nothing  else,   and    generally  robust,  dark-featured  men  with  eou^ 

took  up  my  rest  for  the  ni^t  in  tlie  teaux  de  chasse,  and  rifles  in  their 

houses  of  the  farmers.     Nature  is  hands.  They  were  the  gamekeepers, 

the  same  eyery  where,  but  in  Paris  ;  who  were  on  the  look-out  for  Intru* 

and  I  found  decent  hospitality  for  my  ders  on  the  king's  venison, — and  my 

dyiUty,  and  for  the  trifling  contribu-  pistol  had  put  the  forest  on  the  alert. 

tions  which  I  could  prevail  on  pride  I  soon   proved  myself  guiltless   of 

to  accept, — and  whicn  it  seldom  ao«  poaching,  and  after  a  good  deal  of 

edited  without  a  look  of  half-courte*  coarse  humour  on  all  sides,  was  led 

ousness  and  half  defiance, — that  to  to  the  house  of  the  chief  farmer  of 

a  painter,  or  even  to  a  mere  wander-  the    district,    the    Sieur  BowrdeWe^ 

lag  collector  of  the  curipus  shades  who  received  me  at  his  door,  and^ 

and  shapes  of  the  human  heart,  was  with  the  profosion  of  bows  and  com* 

worth  twice  die  money.  pliments,  which  a  Frenchman  in  his 

It  was  a  delicious  evening,  one  of  hour  of  civility  lavishes  on  ever^ff 
thoee  in  which  Autunm  puts  on  all  thing  human  from  his  mistress  down- 
its  beau^,  as  if  tQ  make  us  grieve  wards,  introduced  me  to  his  man-i 
for  its  departure.  But  1  leave  the  sion.  He  was  a  venerable  and 
setting  sun,  and  its  radiance  upon  handsome  old  roan,  with  long  white 
forest,  and  lake,  and  mountain,  to  locks.  Yet  age  bad  come  gently 
those  whose  pens  are  dipped  in  upon  him,  and  **  his  eye  was  not 
poetry.  My  business  is  to  talk  of  dim,  neither  was  his  natural  foree 
other  things.  The  path  which  had  abated."  He  had  jerveJ,— and  when 
been  pointed  out  to  me  by  a  red  we  fell  into  conversation,  our  talk 
cheeked  garfon,  with  hair  as  browii  was  of  "  hair-breadth  scapes  i'  the 
as  the  chesnuts  that  he  was  gather-  imminent.,  deadly  breach.  Above 
inj^,  seemed  leading  deeper  into  the  fire-place,—  a  huge  hearth  piled 
the  fosest.  I  was  rapidly  losing  sight  with  wood,  that  lighted  up  a  circle 
of  the  sun,  among  oaks  and  elms  of  bright  faces  of  sons  and  claugh- 
that  might  have  made  the  "  mast  of  ters, — hung  an  old  picture  of  a  ca* 
some  great  Ammiral."  Stories  of  valier,  somewhat  obscured  by  the 
baodita  came  lucklessly  over  my  re-  hospitable  smokes  -  of  this  hall  of 
eoUection.  I  listened  for  the  baying  breakfast,  dinner,  supper ;  but  evi* 
of  a  dog,— the  whole  canine  race  dently  painted  by  a  superior  hand, 
seemed  to  have  been  struck  with  The  figure  was  in  the  costume  of  the 
sudden  dumbness.  I  plunged  on,  age  of  Henri  Qjmtre.  He  was  lying 
but  what  had  been  a  path  was  now  on  a  sofa,  with  a  little  table  beside 
a  thicket.  A  glimpse  of  the  sky  him ;  a.  manuscript  was  on  the  table, 
throuirh  the  vault  of  branch  and  — and  from  the  pen  still  hoverinff 
\u£  aoove  showed  me  that  the  sun  over  it  in  his  hand,  and  his  look 
was  down;  it  was  twilight  without  down  the  leaf, — that  certain,  indes- 
the  woody  and  niffht,  witUoi.  I  sud-  cribaUe  look  of  authorship,  the  ffrave 
dcnly  remembered  what  I  had  heard  complacency — compounded  of  doubt 
kmt  wj  last  host»  that  I  was  in  a  and  delight — he  was  obviously  its 
HQ^  foreet    My  nestt  step  night    author :  yet  the  smile  was  on  a  pale 


so  BodxmumAadt%  Espagmlat*  V^i 

countenance,  and  the  handsome  and  ^'  When  Antonio  di  Leyva  waa 
manly  features  were  worn  thin  hy  made  goremor  of  Pavia,  in  expeo- 
pain  and  confinement.  A  few  pieces  tation  of  its  siege  by  Francis  I.  four 
of  armour  were  laid  against  the  hundred  Spaniards  were  appointed 
walls, — and  a  sword,  with  a  handle  to  compose  a  part  of  the  garrison, 
in  the  shape  of  a  cross,  hung  beside  The  officers  and  men  flatly  refused, 
his  pillow.  ^  The  sun  was  sinking,  *  The  Spanish  companies  (said  they) 
and  a  long,  rich  ray  feli  upon  the  have  nothing  to  do  with  watching 
yellow  hair  of  a  page  sleeping  beside  walls.  Their  business  b  to  be  m« 
the  couch,  with  his  head  on  his  vincihlc  in  the  field.  They  must  be 
knees.  Like  Brutus's  page,  he  had  reserved  for  emergencies ;  for  the 
fallen  asleep  to  his  own  minstrelsy, —  strokes  that  turn  the  fate  of  war.' 
for  a  guitar  was  sliding  from  Ids  A  fine  rodomontade,  and  yet  they 
hand  to  the  floor.  The  room  was  made  it  good  at  the  battle  of  Pavia, 
filled  with  that  sweet  and  tempered  where  they  entered  the  field  shout- 
golden  light,  which  comes  from  the  ing,  '  Here  comes  the  Marquis  (Pes- 
sky  of  a  continental  sun-set,  dyed  cara)  and  his  Spaniards." 
and  softened  through  casements  tfajck  '*  Another  nne  rodomontade.— I 
with  vines  and  roses.  As  I  expressed  met  in  Madrid  a  soldier  walking  a- 
my  admiration  of  the  picture — '*  You  bout  without  his  sword ;  he  was  a 
are  looking,"  said  the  old  man,  **  at  Frenchman,  but  had  served  a  long 
my  ancestor,  a  man  of  famous  name  time  in  the  Spanish  companies,  and 
in  his  day,  and  as  gallant  in  the  field  was  now  completely  Spanish.  I 
as  he  was  gay  in  the  bower.  That  pic-  asked  liim  why  he  walked  without 
ture  was  painted  by  an  Italian  artist  arms.  His  answer  was,  '  I  wish  to 
in  the  suite  of  our  good  Htnry ;  and  keep  on  good  terms  with  the  law^ 
has  been  handed  down  as  a  treasure  for  my  sword  is  so  fond  of  fighting, 
firom  father  to  son  ever  since.  You  that  I  should  have  the  trouble  of 
see  Bourdeille,  the  famous  Lord  of  drawing  it  at  every  step,  and  when 
Brantome ;  he  is  in  his  sick  chamber,  once  it  was  drawn  there  would  be  no 
writinsp  the  Rodomontades  Espag-  stop  to  its  slaughter.'  " 
Doles.'  ''One  soldier  said  to  another,  '  If  I 

'   I  remained  under  this  hospitable    lay  hold  of  you,  I  will  fling  you  up 
roof  for  some  days,  and  might  have    so  high,  that  you  will  be  dead  be- 
remained  there  during  pleasure  on    fore  you  come  to  the  ground.'  " 
condition  of  talking  of  the  accomp-        These  loitv   projections  seem  to 
fished  forefather  of  this  fine  old  man.    have  been  a  favourite  InuMt. 
My    extracts    from    liis    work    are        '' '  I  cut  off,'  said  a  Spanish  soldier, 
taken  at  random.    The  Spaniards  of    '  the  head  of  every  Moor  that  I  kill, 
the  sixteenth  century  were  the  fore-    and  toss  them  so  high,  that  before 
most  troops  of  Europe,    they  had    they  come  down  again,  they  are  half 
been  formed  by  a  succession  of  dis-    eaten  by  the  flies.' 
tinffuished  generals, — and  Charles  the        *'  At  the  revolt  of  Sienna,  which 
Fifth,    by  his  stem  regularity,  had    was  taken  by  Henry  the  Second  of 

£*ven  discipline  to  their  native  va-  France,  three  Spanish  soldiers  posted 
ur.  The  possession  of  the  new  themselves  in  a  tuncCy  from  which 
world  had  inflamed  the  national  nothing  could  dislodge  them.  They 
spirit  to  its  hi^est  exaltation, — and  defended  themselves  desperately, 
tne  Spanish  soldier  had  no  equal  for  The  French  general,  M.  de  Termes, 
boastinff  and  bravery.  moved  by  then*  bravery,  offered  them 

''  When  I  was  with  the  French  a  capitulation,  and  told  them,  that 
troops  at  Malta,  about  twelve  thou-  as  they  had  been  four  or  five  days 
sand  men  were  sent  by  the  king  of  without  food,  they  had  only  to  come 
Spain  under  Pescara  to  the  Grand  down  to  be  fed  and  set  at  liberty. 
Master's  assistance.  I  asked  one  of  One  of  them  answered  from  a  loop- 
the  Spaniards  how  many  troops  had  hole.  '  We  are  afraid  neither  of  &e 
arrived,  '  Why,  sir,'  said  he,  '  we  nor  sword,  and  as  for  hunger,  when 
have  three  thousand  Italians  and  our  provisions  are  gone,  we  have 
three  thousand  Germans,  but  we  plenty  of  tiles,  and  we  will  grind  and 
have  only  six  thousand  soldiers.'   He    eat  them.' " 

reckoned  the  Italians  and  Crermans        ''  At  the  battle  of  Sienna,  between 
for  nothuig."  lyEstrosse  and  Marignan,  the 


niards gavegreat  credit  to  Astolphe  pastors  and  preachers^  and  the  art 

)9fltion-    '  S&  made/  said  they  '  such  of  printing ;  Luther  and  Calvin  were 

slaughter^   that  it  was  enough  for  the  true  conquerors  of  the  Spanish 

liim  but  to  touch  a  man  with  his  empire.     The  Spanish  army  was  a 

awordy  and  the  fellow  tumbled  down  model  of  internal  regulation.     But 

a  corpse.' "  no  troops  were  more  apt    to  burst 

"  They  boasted  of  two  of  their  out  hi  to  sudden  mutiny.  Yet  in  this 
c^tains^  Leon  and  Espinasa^  that,  they  proceeded  by  system^  They 
during  the  battle^  they  never  touched  usually  began  'with  a  cry  to  their 
the  ground,  but  continually  walked  officers.  ''Off,  off  with  the  gentle- 
on  the  bodies  that  they  had  kijled."  men  !    Let  them  retire^  because  we 

**  A  Spanish  prisoner,  brought  be-  intend  to  revolt."  They  then  pro- 
fore  the  king,  after  the  loss  of  Cam-  ceeded  to  fix  on  a  commander,  whom 
bray,  was  asked,  what  did  the  Spa-  they  called  '*  the  chosen"  and  who 
nish  armv  say  of  him.  '  Nothing,'  must  not  refiise  the  appointment  on 
was  the  bold  answer,  *  but  that  by  pain  of  death*  They  paid  him  re- 
looking  for  thirty  thousand  ducats  in  gular  obedience,  and  marched  to 
Franche  Comte,  you  have  lost  Cam-  take  some  town,  which  they  pU- 
bray.'  And  the  answer  was  true,  laged.  But  those  mutinies  were,  in 
for  the  king  had  wasted  his  time  in  general,  rapidly  brought  to  order. 
IVancbe  Comte."  One  of  the  extravagancies  of  na- 

*'  When  the  Prince  of  Parma  was  tional  prejudice  is  the  mutual  con- 
marching  to  the  succour  of  Paris,  tempt  of  the  Spaniards  and  Portu- 
]ie  besieged  Lagny,  to  draw  off  the  guese.  The  Spaniard's  character  of 
ki^  from  the  siege  of  the  capitaL  a  nation,  separated  from  his  own  ap- 
^  What,'  said  the  king,  '  will  he  at-  plauded  country  only  by  a  rivulet, 
tack  a  town  at  my  veir  beard.'  *  Go  with  the  same  common  ancestry, 
tell  him,'  said  the  duke  to  a  French  teligion,  habits  of  life,  and  nearly 
prisoner,  *  that  I  will  take  it,  if  it  the  same  language,  is  *'  pocos  j 
were  on  the  point  of  his  moustache.'  locos ; "  ''  few,  and  the  few  are  out 
The  king  sent  to  let  him  know  that  of  their  reason." 
lie  would  throw  mountains  of  steel  Some  of  these  anecdotes  are  plea- 
in  his  way.  'I  wish  to  Heaven,'  sautly  illustrative  of  the  prejudice 
was  the  prince's  retort,  *  that  they  and  boasting  on  both  sides. 
were  mountains  of  gold,  we  should  .  ''  The  Portuguese  observe  the  an- 
l>e  only  the  richer.'  The  pruice  took  niversary  of  the  battle  of  Aliuvarata 
the  town  and  relieved  the  capital."  with  great  rejoicings.    The  king  said 

This  man  of  observation  attributes  to  a  Spanish  monk,  who  happened 

the  superior  bravery  of  the  Spanish  to  have  arrived  at  court  during  the 

troops  to  their  high  rate  of  pay,  and  ceremony,    '  What  do  you  t}iink  of 

to  its  cert^ty,  though  it  might  be  our  fete  ?     Have  they  such  in  Spain 

occasionally  delayed.  1 1  was  the  opi-  for  their  victories? '    <  By  no  means,' 

nion  of  the  ancient  military  men  of  was  the  answer,  ^  for  if  we  were  to 

the  ibiy,  that  no  king,  but  the  king  celebrate  every  victory  of  ours,  every 

of  Spiv^,  could  keep  an  army  long  day  would  be  a  holy-day,  and  the 

in  a  state  of  diMfoline,  and  that  his  working  people  would  die  of  hun- 


> »» 


secret  was  inlh^wealUi  arising  from  ger. 

his  vast  territory.    The  extent  of  his  The  Portuguese  were  not  inferior 

dominion  was  prodigious,   and  un-  to  this  pleasant  rodomontade,   and 

rivalled  in  Europe  since  the  Roman  sometimes  the  blow  was  directed  to 

empire.     Philip  the  Second  was  at  even  a  more  tender  part  than  military 

the  same  time  sovereign  of  Spain,  vanity. 

the  Two  Sicilies,  Portugal,  Sardinia,  '^  On  another  anniversary  of  this 

Corsica,  the  Canaries,  Austria,  Bur-  battle,  a  Portuguese  cordelier  preach- 

gundv,  the  Milanese,  Flanders,   the  ing  on  the  event,  thus  descrioed  the 

Tyrol,   and  the  New  World :  —  an  position   of  the  parties :    '  we,  the 

overgrown  dominion,    to    which   no  Christians,  were  on  this  side  the  river, 

human  wisdom  was  equal,  and  yet,  and  the  Castilians  on  the  other.' " 

which  was  shaken,  not  by  the  ten-  "  One  day  in  Lisbon  I  went  into 

dency  of  unwieldy  authority  to  break  a  silk-mercer's  shop ;  there  was  only 

into  fragments,  nor  by  war,  but  by  a  young  girl  in  tnc  shop,  and  as  I 

Vol.  IV.  E 


38                                     RodowumUda  Ssp0igmole».  L'^^if 

spoke  good  Spanish^  I  asked  '  where  tadi  Alviano  the  celebrated  Vene^ 

was  the  master  ? '    The  girl  on  this  tian.    Pescara  dismounted,  and  ad« 

called  out,  '  Here  is  a  Spaniard  who  vancing  to  the  frcmt  witi^  his  pike  hi 

wants  you/    He  came,  and  perceiy-  his  hand,  turned  to  his  troops  with 

ing  that  I  was  French,  turned  his  these  words :   *  Gentlemen,   if  it  is 

rli^toric  upon  the  girl.     '  Ignorant  my  chance  to  fall  in  this  battle,  let 

fool,  are  you  not  ashamed  to  call' a  me  not  be  trampled  on  by  any  feet 

gentleman  like  this  a  Spaniard  ?  * "  but  your  own'    The  soldiers  on  this 

"  But  the  Spanish  boasting  was  gave  a  general  shout,  charged,  and 

sometimes     elegant    and    satirical,  won  the  field." 

When  the  French  lost  Naples,  and  The  last  anecdote  I  shall  give  is 

D'Aubigny  their  general  was  taken  one  interesting  to  our  English  pride, 

prisoner,   the   Frenchman,   to  show  "  When  Philip  II.  equipped  his 

that  he  did  not  feel  his  defeat,  ap-  grand  fleet  against  England,  I  fre- 

plied  to  the  Spanish  general  for  a  set  quently  met  Spanish    soldiers    and 

of  stout  and  good  horses,  *  that  he  officers,  who,  alter  their  shipwreck, 

might  return.'  The  equivocal  phrase  i^ere  making  their  way  homewards, 

struck  the  -Spaniard,    who  replied.  They    were    full    of    lofty    stories. 

*  That  he  might  return  as  soon  as  Among  the  rest  they  told  me  that 

he  pleased,  and  that  he  should  be  there  were  in  the  fleet  ISO  ships,  the 

always  treated  with  the  iame  libe-  least  of  300  tons.    That  they  had 

I^ty.' "  forty  or  fifty  of  7  or  800  tons,  and 

Some  of  these  rodomontades  are  twenty  of  firom  1000  to  1200,  and  (rf* 

pleasant  from  their  boundless  extra-  those  four  or  five  of  the  most  incom- 

Vagance.      They  are  chefs  (fantvre  of  parable  kind.     Then  came  on  the 

boasting,  fine  msplays  of  the  genius  rodomontade.     '  The  king  had  or- 

of  bombast.  dered  the  ocean  to  be  ready  to  re- 

"  I  was,"  said  a  Spanish  captain,  ceive  throughout  his  realm,  his  ships^ 
*'  in  the  battle  of  Lepanto,  in  Don  or  rather  not  ships,  but  mountains  of 
John's  galley.  We  attacked  the  timber.  He  had,  in  the  same  way, 
Turkish  admiral's  galley.  I  gave  a  ordered  the  winds  to  be  quiet,  of  to 
thrust  with  my  sword,'  it  went  into  blow  fair,  without  any  storms,  for 
the  water.  I  did  not  give  it  with  his  fleet ;  whose  shade,  he  declared, 
my  whole  force,  but  down  it  went,  would  darken  and  overtop,  not  mere- 
deep  as  hell,  and  split  Pluto's  nos"  Iv  the  trees  and  masts,  but  the  wea- 
trih."  ther-cocks  on  the  steeples  in  Eng- 

"  Go,"    said  a  soldier,    "  if  you  land.'    This  was  certainly  a  grand 

know  that  fellow   just  past,   or  if  rodomontade.  But  the  Armada  came 

you  have  any  regard  for  him,   say  to  nothing  at  all ;  partly  by  the  vi- 

prayers  for  his  life.     He  has  dis-  giiance  and  courage  of  that  famous 

pleased  me"  commander    Drap,     (for    thus    the 

^'  D'Estrosse  and  I  once  asked  a  Frenchman  mutilates  Drake)  one  of 

Spanish  soldier  in  Italy,  whose  name  the  greatest  officers  that  ever  fought 

was  Don  Diego  Leonis,    what  was  on  the  seas,  or,  perhaps,  ever  will ; 

the  reason  of  this  ^and  appellation,  and  partly  by  the  storms  and  waves, 

'  It  was  given,'  said  he,  '  because  I  probably  too  much  ofiended  by  aU 

killed  three  lions  in  Barbary.'  *'  this  threatening,  as,  we  well  know, 

"  A  young   Spanbh   soldier  was  they  are  extremely  proud,  and  by  no 

asked,  how  he  had  contrived  to  have  means  pleased  at  being  insulted  in 

his  moustaches    so  large.     '  These  any  way." 

moustaches/  said  he,  *  were  made  of  Thus  simply  and  plainly  does  the 

cannon  smoke,  and  it  is  that  which  old  Cavalier  give  the  recollections  of 

has  fed  f^nd  cherished  them  so  fast  his  brilliant  period,  with  the  vivacity 

and  so  long.' "  of  a  Frenchman,  the  poignancy  of  a 

That  bnef  and  famous  speech  of  court  wit,  and  that  mixture  of  plea- 
Pescara,  the  favourite  officer  of  the  sant  garrulity  and  diligent  minute- 
Spanish  companies,  is  more  than  a  ness,  that  makes  the  chronicles  of 
boast,  it  was  the  noble  speech  of  a  his  age  the  most  delightful  of  all 
gallant  warrior.  reading  for  the  idle  of  the  earth. 

"  The  army  was  drawn  up  to  at- 


HmJ2  7%(mghis  amd  Imoge$i;  9f 

TffOUOHTS  AND  IMAGES. 


u 


Come  like  shadows,  to  depart.** — Macbeth, 

Tni  Diamond^  in  its  native  bed> 

Hid  like  a  buried  ctar  may  lie 
Wliere  foot  of  man  must  never  tread. 

Seen  only  by  its  Maker's  eye ; 
And  though  imbued  with  beams  to  grace 
His  fairest  work  in  woman's  face, 

Darlling,  its  fire  may  fill  the  void. 
Where  fix<i  at  first  In  solid  night,— 

Nor,  till  the  world  diall  be  destroy'd. 
Sparkle  one  moment  Into  light. 

The. Plant,  up  springing  from  the  seed. 

Expands  into  a  pemot  flower ; 
The  virgin-daughter  of  the  mead, 

Woo'd  by  the  sun,  the  wind,  the  shower ; 
In  loveliness  beyond  compare. 
It  toils  not,  spins  not,  jknows  no  care ; 

Train'd  by  the  secret  hand  that  brings 
All  beauty  out  of  waste  and  rude. 

It  blooms  a  season,— dies, — and  flings 
Its  germs  abroad  in  solitude. 

Almighty  skill,  in  ocean's  caves. 

Lends  the  liffht  Nautilua  a  form 
To  tilt  along  tne'  Atlantic  waves. 

Careless  knd  fearless  of  the  storm ; 
But  shpuld  a  breath  of  dan^r  sound. 
With  sails  quick-furl'd  it  dives  profound. 

And  far  beneath  the  tempest's  path. 
In  coral  grots,  defies  the  foe. 

That  never  brake,  in  all  his  wrath. 
The  sabbath  of  the  deep  below. 

Up  from  his  dream,  on  twinkHnff  wings. 

The  Sky4ark  soars  amid  the  dawn. 
Yet,  while  in  Paradise  he  sings. 

Looks  down  upon  the  quiet  lawn, 
Wliere  flutters  in  his  little  nest 
More  love  than  music  e'er  express'd : 

Then,  though  the  nightingale  may  thrill 
The  soul  with  keener  ecstasy. 

The  merry  bird  of  mom  can  fill 
All  Nature's  bosom  with  his  glee. 

The  Elephant,  embower'd  in  woods, 

Coeval  with  their  treca  might  seem. 
As  if  he  drank,  fcom  Indian  floods. 

Life  in  a  renovating  stream ; 
Ages  o'er  him  have  come  and  fled, 
]£dst  fenerations  bom  and  dead^ 

His  bulk  survives, — to  feed  and  range, 
Wliere  ranged  and  fed  of  old  his  sires. 

Nor  knows  advancement,  lapse,  or  change. 
Beyond  Uieir  walks,  till  he  expires. 

Gem,  flower,  and  fish,  the  bird,  the  brute. 
Of  every  kind;  occult  or  known,   . 

(Each  exquisitely  form'd  to  suit 
Its  humble  lot,  and  that  alone,) 


40  Thoughis  and  Imagtf.  ]^iMy[. 

Through  ocean^  earthy  and  air,  fulfil, 
UnconsctouFly,  their  Author's  wfl). 

Who  gave,  without  their  toil  or  thought. 
Strength,  beauty,  instinct,  courage,  speed ; 

Wmle  through  the  whole  his  pleasure  wrought 
Whate'er  his  wisdom  had  decreed. 

But  Man,  the  master-piece  of  God, 

Man  in  his  Maker's  image  framed, — 
Though  Icindred  to  the  valky's  clod. 

Lord  of  this  low  creation  named,^- 
In  naked  helplessness  appears. 
Child  of  a  thousand  griefs  and  fears : 

To  labour,  pain,  and  trouble,  bom. 
Weapon,  nor  wing,  nor  sleight,  hath  he ; — 

Yet,  like  the  sun,  he  brings  his  mom. 
And  is  a  king  from  in&ncy. 

For — him  no  destiny  hath  bound 

To  do  what  others  did  before. 
Pace  the  same  dull  perennial  round. 

And  be  a  man,  and  be  no  more ! 
A  man  ?— a  self-will'd  piece  of  earth. 
Just  as  the  lion  is,  by  birth ; 

To  hunt  his  prey,  to  wake,  to  sleep. 
His  father's  joys  and  sorrows  share, 

His  niche  in  nature's  temple  keep. 
And  leave  his  likeness  in  his  heir. 

No, — ^infinite  the  shades  between 

The  motley  millions  of  our  race ; 
No  two  the  changing  moon  hath  seen 

Alike  in  purpose,  or  in  face ; 
Yet  all  aspure  beyond  their  fate ; 
The  least,  the  meanest  would  be  great ; 

The  mighty  future  fills  the  mind. 
That  pants  for  more  than  earth  can  give  ; 

Man,  in  this  narrow  sphere  confin'd. 
Dies  when  he  but  begins  to  live. 

Oh  I  if  there  be  no  world  on  hifh 

To  yield  his  powers  unfetter'd  scope ; 
If  man  be  only  bom  to  die. 

Whence  this  inheritance  of  hope  ? 
"Wherefore  to  him  alone  were  lent 
Riches  that  never  can  be  spent  ? 

Enough— not  more — to  all  the  rest. 
For  life  and  happiness,  was  ffiven ; 

To  man,  mysterioudy  unblest. 
Too  much  iot  any  state  but  Heaven. 

It  is  not  thus ; — ^it  cannot  be. 

That  one  so  gloriously  endow'd 
With  views  that  reach  eternity. 

Should  shine  and  vanish  like  a  cloud : 
Is  there  a  God? — ^All  nature  shows 
There  m,— and  yet  no  mortal  knows : 

The  mind  that  could  this  truth  conceive. 
Which  brute  sensation  never  taught. 

No  longer  to  the  dust  would  cleave. 
But  grow  inunortal  at  the  thought. 
Sheffield^  1820.  J.  Montgomery. 


JMSK;]  Omih$  Songi  of  (ke  PeopU  of  Chthk  Baa.  41 

QiS  THE  80N0S  OF  THE  PEOPLE  OF  GOTHIC  OR  TEUTONIC  RACE. 

In  the  former  essay  on  this  sub-  My  fondest  brother,  let  the  horses  stop 

ject,*  after  some  general  observations  Before  this  house,  that  I  maj  to  these  or- 
on  the  intimate  relation  which  always  phans, 

subsists  between  the  character  of  a  The  chadren  of  my  bosom,  give  some  sip 

people  and  their  ballads  and  songs;  ^^  """"L™^*  ^""  "^^  ^""^^  *^* 

and  on  the  resemblance  in  charactiar  ^he  moumfid  house  of  Asa,  and  alighting 

of  naUons  of  the  sanae  race  to  each  j.^  ^^^  ^orse,  she^a^ents  ^  untl 

other,— we  proceeded   to    illustrate  The  children  of  her  bosoin,-beaiitiful 

those  observations,  by  an  examina-  Half  boots,  embroidered  round  with  gold, 
tion  of  the  ballads  and  popular  songs  she  gave 

of  the  people  of  Grothic  or  Germanic  To  her  two  boys,  and  to  her  daughters  dear 

oriffin.     We  briefly  noticed  the  early  Two  dresses  which  from  head  to  foot  did 
ballads  of  this  country,  gave  a  few  clothe  them ; 

specimens  from   those  of  Germany,  But  to  the  suckling  who  still  helpless  lay 

and  broke  off,  rather  abruptly,  in  the  Widiin  the  cradle,  she  sent  a  litde  coat, 

account,  on  which  we  had  entered,  of  The  father  at  a  distance  seeing  this, 

the  ballads  of  Denmark.  Ciill*d  to  his  children :  ^^  Turn,  dear  little 

Writers  of  considerable  acuteness  ones, 

in  other  respects,  conceiving  that  in  Turn  back  again  to  me ;  your  mother's 
poetry   the  effect    produced  should  breast 

correspond  with  the  degree  of  effort  ^«  ^"^  ■»  """^  ^'^  ^^  knoweih  not 

displayed,  have  often  been  at  a  loss  What  pity  is."    The  somw^dten  wife 

to  account  for  the  powerful  manner  ^«"  ^"  »  ''"^  ^  ^"^  ^*^  P*^ 

&  which  men  are  generally  affected  Convulsil^on  the  earth,  and  her  afBicted 

by  the   rude   and   artless  strains  of  Soul  from  her  distressed  bosom  flew, 

jmcient   ballads.       Thus    the  Abb6  Seeing  her  children  turn  and  flee  from  her. 
Forti,    an   intelligent    mmeralogical        ou  u  v  i.     ..i.       i_ 

traveUer,  who,  among  other   s^ci-  .   Shakspeare,  however,  who,  though 

mens  of  Morlackian  poetry,  coi^u-  ^^  ^lli'^'L?    '^^  «>d  rocks  than 

nicated  the  affecting  ditty  of  "  Asan  ^^,^^^>  ^""^  T""  ''^?l  "^'''^^ 

Aga's  Bride,"  the  subject  of  which  ^^  ^f^Tw  ^"^^  ^fJ^  hare  ao- 

isthe  divorce  of  an  affectionate  wife,  ^^""^^^  ^""^"^  ^^^  "  old  and  plam 

from   some  miaginary  neglect;  her  «^"fi^\    ^'"^'^ 

marriage  to  a  second  husband;  and  ^®  spinners  and  the  knitters  in  the  sun, 

journey  past  the  house  of  the  first  bus-  -^^  *«  ^^^  ^^^  '^''*  **"  ^^^'^^ 

band,  on  her  way  to  that  of  the  other,  j^^       T^  duT^ 
—wonders  at  the  impression  which  it        ^x^*  i,   ^ 

and  similar  ballads  produced  on  the  ^^^  which, 

hearers.    '^  I  have  often,"  says  the  — : dally  with  the  innocence  of  love, 

Abb^,  '^  seen  the  hearers  burst  into  ^^^  *^«  ^^^  •8«> 

tears  at  passages  which  produced  not  will  always,  so  long  as  human  nature 

the  smallest  effect  on  me."    It  ends  is  human  nature,  continue  to  agitate 

with  the  following  passage.  men  more  powerfully  than  more  la- 
boured and  ingenious  compositions.— 

Bat  when  they  near  to  Asan's  dwelling  Their  effect  depends  on   their  very 

M.   ^  ?™^      'L.  J  »^  ,.  ,  ,  artlessness,  and  the  absence  of  every 

jjjgujj  »•*«»-  ^  reasonably  wonder  why  the  inno- 

And  hurried' down:  "  O  dear,  dear  mo-  ^^"^  ^"^^  «/  childhood  gains  more 

tlicr   QOQie on  us  than  the  studied  airs  of  an  old 

O  cone  again  to  us,  come  to  thy  hall  dandy,  as  wonder  at  this  phenomenon. 
And  eat  with  us  thy  evening  meal!— O        We  have  already   observed  that 

oomel*'  the  ballads  of  the  Teutonic  nations 

With  sighs,  the  sorrowing  spouse  of  Asan  are  like  the  people  themselves,  more 

Aga,  cordial    and    homely,    than    fervid^ 

fti  hearing  once  again  her  chUdren's  voice,  graceful,  or  animated. 
Twn'd  to  the  first  of  the  Suati:  "  O  my        We  have  nothing  which  in  wild 

oM, 

*  London  Jili^uiiie,  February,  1821. 


sublimity  will  compare  with  the  CeU  eluding  the  French,  and  other  na- 

tic  remun9,-H(K>dimg  which  in  insi^  dons  who  were  only  conquered  hf 

nuating  sweetness  will  compare  with  Germans)  may  be  divided  into  two 

Uie     ^  great   cla8ses>   which    though    they 

Chi  buna  alia  mia  porta  ?  chi  buna  al  mio  "Oth  have  many  common  points  « 

portoh,  resemblance,  yet,  from  the  earliest 

^j.  ^^  times  of  which  we  have  any  recordf, 

r.»         *-^  •*  n^  -  *«»**  •^  ;i<  .^«.  8«c*n  to  have  difi^red  considembly 

.C'i«n»  tie  ntdle,  c  tuttc  tre  di  «nar  ^^  ^^^^  ^^^^  ^  j^^^^.^^  custom/, 

of  the  Italians.— Our  baUads  present  and  in  dialect ;  namely,  the  uppei', 
themselves  under  a  less  imposing  and  or  inland  Germans,  and  the  mari- 
less  alluring  aspect :  but  whatever  time,  or  low  Germans.  The  chief  of 
their  merit  or  aemerit^  they  are  our  the  former  are  the  Swiss,  Austrian^ 
own ;  and  as  parents,  however  plain-  Swabians,  Bavarians,  and  Alntt- 
looking  themiselved,  are  always  well  ans ;  and  of  the  latter,  the  Nedieiu 
pleased  to  see  thdr  features  reflected  landers,  Frisians,  and  lower  Jkixons, 
in  those  of  their  offkpring ;  children  the  Danes,  Swedes,  and  Ntirweffianty 
carrying  with  them  such  strong  and  the  English  and  lowland  Scott, 
proofs  of  their  filiation  as  our  old  bal-  It  may  be  remarked,  as  a  peculiarity 
lads  possess,  will  never  address  them-  of  the  latter,  that  they  can  all  pro- 
selves  in  vain  to  us.  Besides,  inde-  nounce  the  consonants  h  and  </,  wnich 
toendentlyofallconi^iderationsofmere  the  former  uniformly  pronounce  p 
fiterary  merit,  th^  ballads  of  the  Tent-  and  f . 

tonic  nations,  connected  as  they  are  If  we  did  not,  historically,  know 
with  the  essential  character  of  the  that  England  was  settled  by  emigra- 
people,  have  a  separate  claim  on  ge-  tions  n-om  Holland,  Fiieselandj 
neral  attention,  derived  from  the  im>-  Lower  Saxony,  and  Denmark,  tiie 
portance  of  these  nations.  The  Teu-  similarity  of  language,  popular  su- 
tonic,  Germanic,  or  Gothic  nations^  perstitions,  manners,  and  customs, 
have  lonff  been  the  leading  peO|^  of  and  other  unequivocal  tests,  would 
the  world.  Distinguished  above  every  place  the  matter  beyond  all  doubt. — 
other  European  race  by  their  size  and  J3ut  in  no  circumstance  is  the  rela- 
bodlly  strength,  by  their  cool  intrepid  tionship  more  strongly  marked  than 
dity,  their  steady  perseverance,  and  the  in  the  similaritv  of  the  old  ballads 
phlegm  and  moderation  of  their  cha-  and  old  music  of  these  countries, 
racter,  they  succeeded  in  conquering  We  have  already  noticed  the  very 
-and  subjugating  all  their  neighbouia,  great  resemblance  of  the  old  Danish 
and  they  are  now  masters  of  the  best  to  the  old  English  ballads,  not  mere- 
part  of  Europe  and  America,  and  of  ly  In  tone  and  cast  of  sentiment, 
some  of  the  finest  regions  of  Asia. —  but  even  in  subject  and  mechanical 
Soon  after  their  first  appearance  in  structure. — ^This  great  resemblance 
history,  we  find  their  arms  spread  is  not  confined  to  uie  Danish  ballads, 
terror  throughout  the  whole  of  the  but  extends  to  those  of  ^weden^ 
west. — ^A  Gothic  empire  formerly  ex-  Norway,  end  the  Scandinavian 
tended  from  the  WoLra  to  the  Baltic,  islands,  for  in  all  these  countries  the 
In  Thrace,  Mssia,  Pannonia,  Italy,  same  ballads  and  songs  are  current 
Gaul,  Spain,  and  even  in  Africa,  va-  among  the  people. — Nothing,  indeed, 
rious  Gothic,  or  Germanic  tribes,  at  is  more  curious,  than  the  wonderfid 
difiercnt  times^  formed  settlements  coincidence  between  the  Danish  bal- 
and  founded  kingdoms. — It  was  they  lads,  published  nearly  two  centuries 
who  mastered  tne  Romans,  Saracens,  and  a  half  ago,  and  the  ballads  in  a 
Gaels,  Cimbri,  Lapps,  Finns,  Estho-  recent  collection  in  three  volumes, 
nians,  Sclaves,  Kures,  and  Prussians,  derived,  with  few  exceptions,  from 
' — who  founded,  and  who  continue  to  the  recitations  of  the  peasantry  df 
rule  in,  aD  the  existing  kingdoms  of  the  different  provmces  of  Sweden. — 
Europe,  and  who  everywhere  hitro-  Tiiis  collection  from  tradition,  ex- 
ducea  their  government  by  estates,  hibiting  the  variations  of  the  difier- 
and  their  own  laws.  ent  provinces,  with  an  accompany- 
The  whole  of  the  people  in  whom  ing  volume  of  tunes,*  was  fimshed 
Germanic  blood  preponderates  (ex-  in  1817,  and  forms  a  very  valuable 

*Tobsbadof  Bohte,  Yoriustrset,  Covsat^arden. 


189^3                (M  ^  Smg9  (f  HU  PeopU  of  Chikic  Eacf.  il 

additimi  to  Um  ttores  of  our  ballad  Jamteson,   however,  haa  some  ob* 

Uterature.                                          -  seWations  on  the  apparent  want  of 

There  ii  one  peculiarity  in  almoat  connection  between   the  burden  of 

all  the  Danish  and  Swedish  ballads,  several  of  the  ballads  and  the  story, 

the  real  import  of  which  has  lately  and  concludes  this  has  arisen  from 

baen  the  subject  of  a  good  deal  of  the  transference  of  the  burden  of  one 

diicusfion,    both  in   Denmark    and  song  to  another  on  a  different  sub* 

Sweden,  and  in  Germany. — We  al«  Ject. 

lode  to  the  burden. — In  some  of  the  The  following  elaborate  observa- 

oldest  En^^h  and  Scottish  ballads,  tions  by  Gustayus  Gener,  one  of  the[ 

and  hi  the  parodies  of  them,  to  be  editors   of  the   Swedish  collection, 

ibund  in  Shakspeare,  the  second  line  though,  perhaps,  too  systematic,  and 

and  the  fturth  of  every  stanza  form  in  some  of  the  speneral  positions  not 

the  burden;  and  sometimes  it  has,  strictlybomeoutbyfacts,appeartou8 

but  often  it  does  not  seem  to  hare,  to  give,  upon  die  whole,  a  very  inge*- 

a  particular  connection  with  the  sub*  nious  account  of  the  origin  and  nature 

jects.  The  following  instances,  among  of  the  peculiarity  to  which  we  have 

othos,  will  explain  what  we  mean :  been  a&uding. — ''  Narrative  poetry," 

WhA  dsfibdat  begin  to  >«,  ^«  remarks,    *'  is  the  first  poetry  of 

WiA,  heig^ !  the  dozy  over  the  dale^  every  peoole,  the  first  preserver  of 

WhyAcnoomeshidiesveetof  thevear;  their    recdlections.— Its    subject   la 

For  the  red  blood  reigm  -in  the  wuiteis  deeds,  not  feelings. — But  as   there, 

pale*  can  be  no  poetry  without  a  lyrical 

Whoi  that  I  WM  a  Ktde  tiny  hoy,  element,  for  it  belOn^  to  its  essence^. 


liej,  ho,  die  wind  and  the  ram,  this  is  found  in  music,  which  is  in- 

A  bolSdk  thmg  was  bm  a  toy,  separable  from  the  infancy  of  poetry^ 


Foe  the  nin  it  nmeth  wtrj  day.  -*-4Sk>n^  is  the  expression  of  feeling^ 

»«n.      f_  .t.    ^  11     !      It       r  the  lyncal  element  in  the  narrative.— 

Thus  hi  the  foUowtog  lines  from  a  This  is  the  epic  age  of  poetry,  and 

^y^^^aOi  ballad :  the^rit  in  its  hlstory.-^ln  the  next, 

Eaily  in  the  moining  the  lazk  ihe  sung,  feeling  has  found  its  own  expression 

All  nnder  die  hill  aide  ao  green,  independent  of  the  narrative. — Poetry 


Cbarlea  from  his  bed  he  quickly  ^ming,  hag  itself  taken   possession   of   the 

Foe  the  king  of  Denmark  wiU  revenge  jy^^  ^^i^^  hitherto  merely  accom- 

"■"•  panied  it— The  soul   of   song   baa 

He  first  put  on  his  shirt  so  dieen,  broken  its  prison,  and,  for  the  first 

An  under  the  hill  side  so  green,  time,  understands  how  to  express  it* 

Tfaeo  his  jacket  broidered  with  silk  so  green,  ^\£^  ^^  the  lyrical  beauty  biu^ts  on 

For  Ae  king  of  Denmark  will  revenge  it  ^  yy^  ^^^^^  f^^,  the  opening  rose, 

•«— In  the  same  manner  as  poetry  it* 

or  in  the  following,  from  a  Swedish  self  becomes  musical,  a  distinction 

ballad :  fijst  takes  place  between  it  and  mu- 

To  the  1ake.wake  must  go  die  maiden  gedd,  «ff  .«>  the  proper  sense,  and  the  pos- 

The  Linden  tree  ahiJkes  hi  the  wind,  sibiUty  of  Uie   development   of  the 

So  she  took  die  way  to  thedarksome  wood,  latter  as  a  separate  art,  is  now  seen. 

For  IB  wild  wood  she  WM  to  die.  —Fancy    also,    which    before    waa 

AJ.1.U           ^^       ^j  merely  the    handmaid  of  memory, 

Tbearev  wolf  bcibre  her  did  appev^  ^  "^  proper  sense  of  the   word, 

Ftftf  wild  wood  she  was  io^'  comes  mto  life--Instead  of  an  ex. 

temal  truth,  or  a  poem,  m  whicn 

O  daai«  dear  weU;  O  Ute  not  me,  nothing  farther  is  attempted  than  the 

The  linden  tree  shakes  b  die  wmd,  relation  of  what  is  true,  an  internal 

"l."^li:^!J2*  "^  T^  ^  ^''^I!'  ***'  truth  is  sought  after,   tiiat  is,    Uie 

For  hi  wild  wood  she  was  to  die.  ^^  ^^  ^  expression  of  feeUnsf— 

This  peculiarity  only  appears  in  our  The  human  mind  has  begun  to  look 

oldest  English  and  Scotch,  and  the  back  on  itself.— An    inward    world 

oldest  Dutch  ballads :    there   is  no  has  arisen,  for  which  the  whole  ex- 

trace  of  it    m  the  German  ballads,  temal  world  is  merely  a  symbol ;  and 

properly  ao  called.— Few  of  our  col-  in  this  treatment  of  every  thing  ex- 

teetors  have  considered  the  subject  temal  merely  as  an  image  for  what 

worth  much  of  their  attention.— Mr.  is  mternal,  &dk$  fiiat  kxvoii«  VM»n^) 


44                     Onikt  Songs  of  the  PeopU  of  CMkie  lUet^.  [J^^ 

and  becomes  consdoas  of  her  crea«  '*  Let  us  now  apply  these  contP 

tlVe  powers. — Then  comes  dramatic  derations  to  our  suoject. — ^We  say 

poetiy^  which  may  be  considered  as  then,  that  the  old  Scimdinavian  bai- 

connectinc^  the  two  former,  by  repre-  lads  stand  precisely  on  the  transition 

senting  the  transition  from  the  one  between  the  epic  and  lyric  perio<3bi« 

to  the  other.  — To  the  former  they  still  belonsr 

*  "  If  we  consider  these  three  pe-  from  their  narrative  nature,  •    ana 

riods  of  the  natural  development  of  from  the  circumstance,  that  a  com- 

poetry,  it  is  obyfous,    that  it  is   in  mon  national  form  still  passes  for  aO. 

the  second  or  lyrical  period  that  art,  — But  on  the  other  hand,  they  at 

properly  speaking,  first  begins  to  ap-  ready  begin  to  separate  themselret 

pear;  for  fancy  now  first  becomes  through    their    subjects. — The  epic 

acquainted  with  her  own  powers.^  age  knows    only   two    subjects  for 

The  internal  feelings,  which  form  the  poetry :  sagtu  (says)  or  narratives  of 

nutriment  and  the  subject  of  lyrical  gods,  and  narratives  of  heroes ;  which 

poetry,  are  in  their  nature  common  again   are  both  connected  by  relft« 

to  all. — How  else  could  this  poetiy  tionship,  for  the  heroes  descend  from 

be  an  enjo3nuent  accessible  to  all,  gods. — But  the  poets   of  this  age, 

and  the  true  enjoyment  of  a  lyrical  present  themselves  to    the  eyes  of 

piece  be,   properly  speaking,    a  re-  posterity  in  the  same  relation  to  each 

composing  of  it  in  oiu*  own  soul?  other  as  their  subjects. — They 


But  these  feelings  have,  at  the  same  not  independent,  but  united  together 

time,  in  each  person,  their  individual  like  a  family ;  the  union  is  not  an 

expression.— The  great  national  forms  agreement,  but  a  natural  tie. — One 

for  poetry,  in  the  epic  period,  fall  works  into   the   hands  of  another, 

asunder,  Uierefore,  as  the  lyrical  in-  each  relating  what   is  newest  and 

ffredient  obtains  a  preponderancy.— -  most  wonderful ;  and  thus  have  ori- 

When  every  poet  follows  his  own  ginated,  as  it  were,  of  themselves, 

impulse,  he  takes  or  creates  for  him-  those  great  circles  of  8agas,t  which 

self  the  form  which  best  coincides  comprehend  the  destiny,  the  conflict^ 

with  his  own  peculiarity ;  and  now  and  the  final  destruction  of  a  wh<^ 

we    have    authorship,    properly    so  heroic  world. — But  in  the  old  bal« 

called. — We  do  not  mean  by  this  to  lads  the  epical  connection  is  already 

say,  that  in  the  epic  period,  nothing  dissolved. — They    do    not    connect 

like  this, — no  art  exists ;  but  merely,  themselves  in  larger  cycles  (smaller 

that  it  has  still  no  individual  cha-  cycles  sometimes  occur),  and  with 

racter. — As  poetry  itself,  in  this  pe-  their    subjects  they   have   a   lower 

riod,  is  merely  the  expression  of  the  and     more    common    range.— This 

living  national  recollections,  there  is,  range    is    not    the   heroic  life,   ele« 

in  like  manner,  for  this  common  sub-  vated  beyond  measure  above  com- 

ject,  only  a  common  and   national  mon  life;    but    human    life  in  ge« 

form. — Thus  we  have  authors,  but  neral,  with  its  destinies,  sufferings, 

no  separate  authorship, — an  art  with-  and    enjoyments.      The  wonderiul, 

out  artists ;  because  this  art  is  al-  which  in  Uie  remains  of  the  epic  age 

ways    identical.  —  Hence,  from   the  displays    itself  boldly,    and,    as    it 

epic  age  of  a  people,  we  have  ac-  were,  bodily,   withdraws  itself  now 

counts  of  many  singers  and  sayers,  more  into  a  deep  back-ground. — ^But 

but  either  of  no  authors,  or  of  one  still,    however,    the  whole    of   this 

who  passes  for  many,  or  if  several,  world  of  song  in  like  manner  rests,-— 

each  so  like  one  anodier,  that  they  as  does  real  life,  in  so  many  respects, 

might  almost  pass  for  one. — ^With  — on  a  dark  and  wonderfiil  ground, 

the  dwelling  on  the  internal  of  lyric  ^The  nature  on  which  the  northern 

poetry  first  arises  the  possibility  of  ballad  dweUs,  is  still  peopled  ^"ith 

a  true  orgsmic   diversity  and  dissi-  its  peculiar  wonderful  beings ;  powers 

milarity,  which  are  afterwards  fully  of  nature,  driven,  indeed,  from  their 

developed  through  dramatic  poetry.  former  throne  of  majesty,  but  still 


*  That  the  narrative  in  the  ballads  is  at  the  same  time  so  often  in  pnptenti^  is  a  re- 
markable peculiarity,  which  shows  that  in  connection  with  the  Ijrrical  element,  the  nar- 
ration beji^s  to  assume  a  more  dramatic  character. 

■f-  Originally  poetical,  not  merely  in  their  subject,  but  even  in  their  fbrm.  The  pro* 
laic  tagQ  is  later,  or  a  remodelling  of  the  older  poetical  sagas. 


1991.;]                 On  ^  Songt  €f  the  People  of  Gothk  Race.  ^ 

interfering  by  Bteelth,  as  it  were^  in  onlj  the  melody  or  musical  tone^ 

Tttioiis  ways^  with  the  concerns  of  -—which  was   orifl^ally  inseparable 

nenw — ^Through  all  thisj  the  poetry  from  all  poetry^—but  auo  the  lyrical 

in  question  has  a  general  connection  tone^  a  tone  of  feeling  which  runs 

with  an  older  poetry^  separate  parts  through  the  whole  ^whence  in  ano- 

of  which  it  even  presents  to  us. —  ther  place  I  observea^  that  the  music 

For  sinffle  forms  from  the  gigantic  of  these  ballads  merely  unfolds  the 

world  of  the  dd  sagiu  still  cast  their  song,  which  is  in-boru  in  them)  : — 

shadows    into  this  new  and    more  beyond  this,  I  say,  its  lyrical  nature 

cheerful  circle ;  separate  recollections  displays  itself  expressly  in  a  distinct 

hare  found  their  way  over — ^recollec-  peculiarity  of  most  of  the  older  Scan- 

tions  of  former  heroic  races^  and  of  dinavian  ballads ;  and  this  peculiarity 

the  mydiology  of  the  £dda. — ^AIl  this,  is  the  burden. 

liowerer,  appears  in  a  new  dress ;  it  '^  From  its  contents  it  may  be  divid- 
hME  lost  much  of  its  original  meaning,  ed  into  three  kinds. — It  recalls,  first, 
and  mores,  as  it  were,  in  a  new  and  either  the  principal  person,  the  prin- 
Ibreign  element. — What  is  then  this  cipal  action,  or  some  principal  cir- 
Bew  element  which  it  has  entered  ? —  cumstance  in  the  relation. — This 
It  is  the  lyrical  element,  which  has  kind  of  burden  occurs  too  often  to 
now  begun  to  display  itself  in  poetry;  render  it  necessary  to  adduce  any 
finr  all  these  ballads  rest  on  a  ly-  examples  of  it. — Or,  secondly,  it 
rical  ground. — They  almost  all  be-  merely  expresses,  in  general,  a  poeti- 
tniy  a  separate  poetical  intention,  cal  disposition  of  mind,  either  by  an 
which  we  m  vain  look  for  in  the  epic  excitement  to  song  and  poetry,  or 
nge. — They  display,  each  separately  still  more  often  in  a  significant  man- 
fer  itself,  a  peculiar  vein  of  mind,  ner  by  images. — The  flowering  sum- 
lor  which  the  narrative  merely  serves  mer  has  here  in  particular  been  an 
as  a  clothing  or  expression. — Tt  is  image  for  the  inward  summer,  which 
feeling,  which  has  not  yet  found  arises  in  the  soul  and  puts  the  fancy 
its  own  language,  which  has  not  yet  in  flower. — It  is  named  either  ex- 
learned  the  lyrical  flight,  but  which  pressiy,  as  in  the  foUowing  burdens : 
amid  all  the  recollections  selects  In  summer^  —  At  [miti-'eummrr  tide, 
those  which  most  coincide  with  it-  — In  summer,  when  the  small  birds 
self,  gives  life  to  them,  and  expresses  sing  so  well, — and  the  like ; — or  by 
itself  in  the  separate  narrative,  satis-  some  of  its  attributes,  as.  For  now 
fied  therewith,  without  art,  without  the  wood  it  stands  injlower, — While 
pretension,  and  without  name,  and  the  wood  comes  into  lec^, — In  tlte  rose" 
10  allows  its  story  to  wander  on,  till,  wood, — In  the  grove ;  and  a  thousand 
•eized  on  by  new  lips,  it  is  made  by  others  of  the  same  nature. — We  must 
them  an  interpreter  for  the  same  not  wonder  that  these  short,  con- 
purpose. — Thus  the  separate  songs,  stantly  recurring  propositions,  do  not 
no  one's  property,  and  every  one's  appear  to  have  any  visible  connec- 
property,  float  about  from  mouth  tion  with  the  subject  of  the  ballads: 
to  mouth,  from  heart  to  heart,  the  — they  are,  as  has  been  said,  merely 
expression  of  the  hopes,  sorrows,  and  the  expression  of  a  poetical  disposi- 
recoUections  of  the  people,  foreign  tion  of  mind  in  general,  as  /  also 
and  yet  near  to  every  man,  centuries  was  in  Arcadia,  simply  (and  we  may 
old,  but  still  never  obsolete ;  for  the  almost  sa^,  with  a  striking  unskUful- 
human  heart,  whose  history  they  ness)  indicated  in  a  constant  recita- 
lepresent  in  such  various  shifting  tion  of  the  most  general  and  most 
images,'  remains  like  to  itself  in  all  obvious  images.— But  these  indica- 
ages. — Many  are  merely  a  sigh,  a  tions  are  not  limited  to  images  of 
single  wailing, — an  infinitely-moving  spring  and  summer,  lilies  and  roses, 
flound,  but  still  they  never  quit  the  — We  find  also  single  objects,  which 
narrative  form,  and  seem  to  lay  in  the  fancy  of  the  people  had  once 
claim  alone  to  be  simply  related. —  a  poetical  signification,  and  are. 
Among  many  of  this  character,  I  therefore,  appned  in  the  same  sense. 
need  only  refer  to  No.  71*  (Little  — The  Linden,  or  lime-tree,  has  in 
KersUn's  wedding  and  burial).  It  particular  such  a  poetical  significa- 
does  not  show  the  lyrical  nature  of  tion. — It  occurs  ui  the  burden  of 
the  narrative  ballad,  merely  in  this,  many  ballads,  without  our  being  able 
that  it  has  the  tone, — I  mean  not  to  assign    any  other  cause  rar  ,the 


46  (M  ike  Simg$  9/ the  Feople  rf  Goikio  Ram.  V^lj, 

circuni8tiliioe^**For  emnple*'  Under  ed,  so  that  the  first  haif  of  the  pro^ 
the  Linden, — BtU  the  lAnden  grows  position  comes  in  the  middle,  and  the 
well, — The  Linden  tree  shakes  in  the  latter  in  the  end  of  each  stroplie.*— 
wind, — The  Linden  grows  in  the  island  Sometimes  the  two  burdens  are  in 
far,  &c  Mr.  Afzelius  has  remarked,  opposition  to  each  other ;  and  this 
that  the  Linden,  which  occurs   so  opposition  is  never  without  signifies* 
often,  not  merely  in  the  burdens,  but  tion  in  respect  to  the  contents  of  the 
also  in  the  subjects  of  the  ballads  re*  ballad.^ — ^Thus,  to  take  the  first  cz« 
lating  to  witduraft,  is  still  invested  ample,  which  now  occurs  to  me,  th# 
by  the  people  with  a  sort  of  sauc£ity,  two  burdens  in  No.  16,  O  conld  wt 
and  is  considered  a  tree  of  particular  well   bethink   ourselves/'^  and.     Sit* 
signification,  under  which  elves,  hob«  Bold  he  will  go  over  the  path,  oppo^ 
goblins,  and  lind-worms  (annulated  thoughtful  reflection,  and  the  ravinif 
snakes)  are  not  fond  of  beinsr  seen,  of  passion,  which  is  the  cause  of  the 
— Thirdly,  and  lastly,    the  burden  saa  catastrophe,  to  each  other.-*Op» 
expresses,  not  only  that  the  ^ger  is  positions  of   this   nature    between 
in  a  poetical  mood,  in  general,  but  the  two  burdens  often  occur ;  some* 
more  definitely  the  particular  feeling  times  they  are  merely  symbotically 
which  prevails  in  the  ballade— £z«  indicated;  and  sometimes  siicJ^  ma 
amples  of  this  are  too  general  to  re-  ojpposition     is     expressed    through 
quire  to  be  cited. — I  will  only  ob-  the   change    in    the   burden   itsd^ 
serve,    that  the   burden   is  in  this  especially  when  the  sul:ject  of  the 
respect  occasionally  ironical.^-This  ballad     fi-om    being    cheerful    be* 
irony  is  sometimes  of  the  nature  of  comes  melancholy,  or  the  reverse^— 
banter  or  raiUery,  but  more  often  However,  the  two  burdens  are  not 
it  is  serious. — There  is  frequently  an  always  exactly  in  the  relations  of 
aim  at  something  deep  in  it,  as,  for  connection   or   opposition    to    eadi 
example,  in  the  burden :  Ye  rejoice  other  here  specified.    They  may  evai 
yourselves  every  day,   in  the  melan-  be  each  separately  of  a  dissimilar 
choly    and  truly   admirable   ballad  kind,  according  to  the  arrangement 
(No.  6.),  where  the  earth's  joys  and  we  have  laid  down.    In  this  manner 
sorrows  are  represented  in  so  moving  the  connection  of  most  of  the  burdens 
a  manner  as  penetrating    into    the  with  ballads  is  intelligible. — Wlien 
dwellings  of  the  beloved  dead. — Thb  we  cannot  discern  it,  on  the  princi* 
same  ballad  has  also  a  burden:  Who  pies  here  stated,  we  may,   without 
breaks  the  leaf  from  the  lily  stalk  ? —  hesitation,  lay  the  blame  on  the  un* 
which  by  a  pleasant  and  fingular  certainty  and  confusion  of  tradition, 
image  seems  to  indicate  the  power  of  whence  a  number  of  burdens  have 
sorrow  over  all  that  in  innocence  and  been  assigned  to  ballads  to  which 
beauty  is  the  most  prepossessing,  in  they  originally  never  belonged, 
the  same  manner  as  the  former  trans-        "  We  say  now,  not  merely  that 
ports  us  in  idea  amidst  the  joys  and  the  burden  is  a  lyrical  peculiarity 
delights  of  the  mere  moment — And  prominently  displayed  in  the  ballads, 
this  leads  us  to  say  a  few  words  re-  but  that  in  the  three  kinds  of  bur- 
specting  the  double  burden  in  general,  dens  which  we  have  described,  this 
"  In  a  number  of  ballads  there  oc-  lyrical  nature  always  expresses  itself 
curs,  not  only  a  burden  towards  its  more  and  more,  and  in  regular  pro- 
end,  but  also  another  in  the  middle  gression. — It  is,  in  oeneral,  a  lyrical 
of  each  strophe. — ^We  will  call  the  peculiarity ;  for  in  ue  first  place,  it 
latter  the  middle  burden,  to  distin-  does  not  belong  to  the  narrative,  to  the 
guish  It  fix>m  the  concluding  one. —  epic  el«a»ent  in  the  ballads,  but  con* 
For  the  most  part  they  have  both  a  tains,  on  the  contrary,   a  reflection 
reference    to    each   other. — This  is  on  it;  and  this  constant  returning^ 
either  so  that  the  one  strengthens  this  repetition  in  the  form  and  con-  ^ 
the  other,  or  that  it  contains  some-  tents  of  the  burden,  can  only  have  a  ^ 
thing  in  the  same  sense. — Occasion-  lyrical  object ;  namely,  the  retention 
ally  the  concluding  burden  merely  of  a  certain  impression. — ^But  this  re- 
concludes  a  sense  which  was  begun  tention,  this  ftxiug  of  a  given  im- 
in  the  middle  one :  for  example,  in  pression,  or  feeling,  is  at  once  both 
the  ballad  (No*  17),  where  the  com-  the  condition  and  the  object  of  all 
plete  burden,  Voung  is  my  /tfe— and  lyric  poetry.— Further,  this  burden's 
hence  is  all  my  grief,  is  distribut-  lyrical  nature  always  disdoses  itself 


Ittl.^                  MfkMiei  SiMdki,  mid  Chinm  ImHaiiotu.  47 

BOffc  and  move  in  the  three  khids  finite  expression;  and  appears  in  « 

of  burden  R)ecified  by  us,  and  in  tlie  sort   of  individual  connection  with 

order  in  wnich  we  specified  them.—  the  subject  of  the  narrative  itself. 

A  poet's  reflection  on  himself  lies  at  "  The  burden  of  the  popular  bal- 

the  bottom  of  all  lyric  poetry*— This  lad  seems  to  be  peculiar  to  our  norUr 

Ketmys  itself  already  in  the  first  kind  (if  we  include  Scotland) ;  but  in  the 

of   burden  named  by    us,    but  its  north,  so  far  as  I  know,  the  burden  is 

unity  seems  to  be  more  external  than  never  sung  ui  chorus.     Neither  I, 

internal,  and  shows  itself  merely  in  nor  auy  of  my  friends   have  ever 

the  oomprising  of  the  subject  of  the  heard  any  thhig  of  the  kiud.    Iiw 

narrative  in  a  £ew  constantly  retium-  deed,  if  it  were  to  be  sung  in  chorusy 

ing  traits:   the  burden  is  still  epic  it  would,  in  most  cases,  produce  an 

in  its  contents,  though  lyrical  in  its  injurious  and  disagreeable  effect,  for 

ol^ect.— In  the  second  kind  of  bur-  it  often  consists  of  short  symbolical 

den  there  is  already  expressed  in  this  indications,  which  are  only  intelli-* 

reflection  something  internal,  a  dis-  gible  in  the  most  intimate  connexion 

poaition  of  mind,  but  with  a  univer-  with  the  ballad  and  the  singer." 

ssiity  and  indefiniteness.  In  the  thurd  Thus  far  Mr.  Ge^er.  We  shall  re« 

this  disposition  assumes  a  de*  sume  the  subject  m  a  future  number. 


ALPHABET  STUDIES,  AND  CHINESE  IBIITATIONS. 

Who  has  not  made  himself  merrv  learned,— rudiments  to  be  mastered^ 

at  the  expense  of  the  poor  Chinese?  which  raiiowdly  ought  to  be  held 

Their   babyish    arrogance,  —  their  subservient  to    higher  advances  in 

laughable  solemnity,  —  their  stately  study.    In  China,  however,  it  would 

aubmission  to  be  pummelled  and  bas*  be  quite  iieretical  and  unlawful  to 

flnadoed,  —  and   their  never-ending  advance  a  step  beyond  the  A,  B,  C  ; 

manoeuvres  of  absurd  and  ludicrous  and  in  this  it  is  that  our  philoso- 

ceremony ;  but,  above  all,  their  ^rave-  phers  are  their  humble  imitators ;  for 

Ij  employing  their  whole  lives  in  the  it  is  now  become  fashionable,  in  al* 

study  of  their  alphabet, — have  stamp-  most  every  branch  of  learning  and  of 

ed  upon  the  nation  Uie  same   cha-  philosophy,  to  esteem  the  acquisition 

racter  of  frivolity  and  presumption^  of  the  mere  rudiments,  or  horn-book 

wliich  seems  to  be  natural  to  our  alphabet,    as  the  consummation  of 

dancing,  fighting,  and  philosophising  perfection, 

neighbours— the  French.  Are    proofs   demanded?  —  They 

Was  it  this  nmilarity  of  character^  crowd  upon  us.  The  republic  of  let* 
that  drew  from  Voltaire  such  high  ters  is  peopled  to  an  overflow  with 
culogiums  on  Chinese  civilization,  alphabet-mongers,  \^ho  have  inge-* 
and  Chhieoe  philosophy,  by  which,  •nuity  enough  to  persuade  the  world 
in  spite  of  Mr.  Barrow  and  his  facts,  of  the  profundity  of  their  scholar- 
European  opinion  is  still  deeply  in-  ship.  For  example :  a  man  is  ao- 
fluenced  ?  Barrow  is  but  a  traveller,  counted  a  profound  Greek  scholar^ 
and  the  memory  of  Sir.  John  Maiide-r  not  because  he  possesses  skill  in  the 
ville  is  not  yet  forgotten ;  but  there  usage  and  force  of  words,  and  in  the 
is  no  end  to  the  ramifications  of  a  idioms  and  anomalies  of  the  Ian- 
philosopher's  sway :  Aristotle  has  guage ;  nor  because  he  can  enter 
now  held  the  scholastic  throne  for  deeply  into  the  spirit  and  character 
more  than  two  thousand  years.  Vol-  of  the  Grecian  classics ;  nor  by  hav- 
taiie^  then,  we  think,  it  must  have  ing  an  intimate  and  extensive  know- 
been,  who,  by  ignorantly  praising  the  ledge  of  the  manners  and  political 
Chinese,  and  leading  some  to  admire  constitution,  and  of  the  nature  and 
them,  paved  the  way  for  the  nume-  spirit  of  the  religion  and  the  poetry, 
roua  imitations  of  their  alphabet  stu-  of  Greece : — not  by  any,  or  all  of 
dies,  which  have  since  prevailed,  and  these ;  but  bv  being  able  to  measure 
arenow  rapidly  increasing, among  our  the  long  and  short  syllables  of  the 
philosophers.  language,  and  to  assign  long,  hard 

Nottunff  can  be  more  evident,  than  names  to  their  arrangement  in  verse* 

that  in  i^scienoe,  and  in  all  acquire-  But  though  this  u  certauily  mere  al- 

ments,  there  is  an  alphabet  to  be  phabet  learning,  yet  it  is  now,  by 


48  Alphabet  Studies,  and  Chime$e  IndtaHoag*  V^» 

almost  universal  consent^  made  the  than  would  fill  a  dictionary  bj  them* 

fummit  of  perfection.  selves. 

Would  it  not  be  equally  wise — and  In  justice^  however,  to  both  Htm 
equally  Chinese — to  denominate  a  Eastern  and  Western  Chinese,  it 
man  a  consummate  musician,  who  should  be  stated,  that  their  alphabet 
was  not  an  adept  in  either  composi-  has  a  meaning*,  and  indicates  facts, 
tion,  or  the  art  of  producing  enect ;  The  letters  of  the  one,  and  the  horn- 
but  who  had  a  reac^  knack  at  nam-  book  names  of  the  other,  always  stand 
ing  the  notes,  whether  long  or  short,  for  something ;  but  ^  it  is  always 
and  of  bestowing  learned  terms  something  of  little  importance,  or 
and  phrases  on  the  various  arrange-  small  value,  which  nobody  beddes 
ments  of  them  in  bars  ?  To  this  pitch  the  alphabet-monger  cares  to  know  : 
of  alphabet^leaming  musicians  have  similar  to  the  antique  lore  of  old 
not  yet  arrived ;  but  the  rising  credit  Heame, 

of  the  alphabet  or  gamut  exercise  of  who  leved  to  tMdi  what  no  nun  loved  to 
difficult  execution,  and,  above  all,  leam. 

that  of   the  chiroplast  and  mecha-        Mineralogists  were  long  uninfected 

oical  drilling  of  Logler,  show  a  ra-  with  this  Chinese  mania ;   but  now 

pid  advancement  towards  ks  modes  we  think  they  bid  fair  to  follow  in  the 

Chtnoises,  train  of  our  Botanists  and  Entomolo- 

These,  however,  are  not  the  most  gists,  notwithstanding  the  efTorts  of 

flagrant  examples.      The  contagion  some,  who  wish  to  get  out  of  this 

rages  with  the  most  marked  symp-  nursery  alphabet  of  names,  and  to 

toms  in  Natural  History,  in  w?xich  we  rise  to  something  of  important  de» 

have    manifestly  improved    on   our  duction  and  usenil  inquiry.     Profei* 

masters,  the  Chinese ;  as  they  have  sor    Jameson,     and    M.    Mobs,    of 

scarcely  yet  begun  the  study.     It  is  Freyberg,  —  are    the   chief  of    the 

among  our  soi-disant  naturafists,  in-  Chinese  mineralogists.    Dr.  Maccul* 

deed,    that   abecedarian   knowledge  loch,   and  Mr.  Greenough,   are  the 

flourishes  in  all  its  glory  and  magni-  most  distinguished  opponents  of  the 

ficence.     For  he  is  now  esteemed  the  innovation. 

most  profound  and  celebrated  natu-        Chemistry  also,  which  a  few  years 

list,  who  is  master  of  his  alphabet  of  ago  was,  mough  an  imperfect,  yet 

names  with  which  he  loads  his  re-  still  a  wonderful  science,  and  full  of 

membraiKc ;    and    there    he    stops,  interesting  information,  is  now  be- 

aud  would  look  upon  one  who  would  coming  every  day  more  lifeless  and 

go  farther, — who  would  study  facts  unintelligible,  by  the  multiplicatioD 

and  utility, — as  vulgarizing  his  sub-  of  names  and  petty  discoveries,  which 

lime  science  of  names,  by  descending  seem  to  have  nothing  but  their  name 

to  matters,  of  importance  only  to  the  and  their    insignificance  to   recosa* 

Ignorant  mob  of  mankind.         '  mend  them. 

That  such  is  the  case  in  Botany,        These  are  only  a  few  specimens  of 

and,  in  a  great  measure,  in  Zoology,  our  progress  in  imitating  tne  Chinese; 

any  person  may  satisfy  himself,  by  a  few  examples  from  many  in  which 

lookini^  into  any  of  the  works  lately  the  alphabet  and  the  names  are  all 

published,  such  as  Smith's  Grammar  and  every  thing ;  and  the  useful  facts 

of  Botany,  Hooker's  Flora  Scotica,  — the   sublime   speculations,    which 

Lamark's  Animaux  sans   Vertebres,  raise  the  thoughts  to  God,  and  cast 

or  the  long  articles.  Botany,  Ento-  down  the  pride  of  human  aspirings—* 

mology,    and    Mazology,  in    Brew-  all  these  are  vulgar; — and  tnose  who 

stcr's  Encyclopaedia.     In  all  of  these  pursue  utiUtv  in  their  researches  are 

there  is  absolutely  nothing  but  names,  looked  upon  by  your  man  of  names, 

— for  the  greater  part,  too,  of  recent  your  profound  alphabet   scholar,  as 

manufacture.     This  aJso  is  Chinese;  vulgar  and  low.     In  a  word,  every 

for   as   the    studies    of  that  nation  science  appears  to  a  thorough-bred 

are  confined  to  the  alphabet,  it  is  Chinese   to    be   quite    contemptible, 

one  of  the  highest  aims  of  Chinese  which  is  not  tricked  up  with  a  £np* 

literary  ambition  to  add  new  letters  pery  of  uncouth  and  unpronounceable 

to  the  former  catalogue.      In  this,  names.    M^'e  have  by  us  a  list  of  our 

however,   our    naturalists   have  far  Chinese  philosophers  and  artists,  of 

outdone  them.      Dr.  Leach, — if  we  which  our  readers  shall  by  and  bj 

mistake  not,— has  coined  more  names  have  the  perusal. 


1891.3                                  Fkgiitve  LHeraf'ure,  4t 

FUOmVE  LITERATURE. 

The  pursuit  of  pleasure  and  hap-  dandyship    so   very  prudently    d»- 
innessy  like  that  of  moor  game,  is  dined  hostilities.  On  wheeling  about 
often  replete  with  liyelier  delights,  to  befriend  the  old  man^  whose  safety 
than  baning  of  the  ^rey  can  afford  I  had  much  at  heart,    I  found  him 
118.    What  with  shy  birds,  and  luck-  on  his  legs,  bemired  and  agitated  ex- 
ien    shots,  the  cost  of  laboiu:  and  ceedingly.     I  laid  hold  of  his  arm, 
ammunition  is  very  seldom  defrayed  without  hesitation,  and  hurried  him 
by  flesh  and  feathers :  and,  even  in  out  of  harm's  way,  with  a  prompti- 
the  common  pursuits  of  life,  at  the  tude  and   celerity  that   excited  the 
cdose  of  a  long  and  arduous  chace,  admiration  of  a   gentleman  haber- 
when  sipping  the  sweet,  and  eating  dasher,  who  beheld  the  whole  affair 
the  tat  it  M,  nyourite  object ;  on  ba-  from  first  to  last.    This  pmdent  man 
lancing    accounts,   we    usually  find  stood  in  his  own  shop  door,  calmly 
that  the  fair  fruit  of  our  toil,  the  ban-  balancing  the  profit  and  loss  of  a 
quet  of  our  hopes,  has  already  been  speculation  that  just  then  flashed  on 
enjoyed  by  anticipation.    But  when  his  mind ;  to  wit,  whether  tlie  satia- 
ctuaaee  administers  to  our  necessities  faction  administered  to  his  feelings, 
«-when  a  windfall  of  goodly  tidinffs,  in  delivering  a  fellow  creature  from 
or  a  seaaonable  supply  of  what  uie  peril,  would,  or  would  not,  remune- 
aoul  loveth,  comes  upon  us  like  man-  rate  him  for  the  defilement  of  his  silk 
na  in  the  wilderness,  then  it  is  that  stockings,  and  the  spoliation  of  hla 
we  eigoy  indeed  and  indeed.  glossy  shoes ;  but  the  affair  was  set- 
It  was  my  good  fortune,  the  other  tied  before  he  had  time  to  sum  up. 
day,  to  be   overtaken   by  a  smart  We  approached  his  house,  and  he 
shower,  the  very  instant  an  elderly  welcomed  us  in.    Soap,  towels,  and 
gentleman  crossed  the  street.     On  water  in  abundance,    were   readily 
mending  his  pace,   to    seek  shelter  suppliedby  this  good  Samaritan;  and 
firom  the  pattering  rain  that  descend-  in  a  trice  our  patient  might  have 
«d  rather  more  copiously  than  the  made  his  appearance  at  either  church 
man  could  wish  who  leaves  his  um-  or  market.    During  the  process  of 
brella  at  home,  his  foot  slipt,  and  cleansing  his  garments,  and  bringing 
down  he  went,  full  length.    Up  came  the  old  gentieman  to  himself,  I  tuHlj 
m  modem  Bloody  on  his  gallant  grey,  recognized  a  face  that  had  been  fanu- 
spurring  at  a  furious  rate,  and  cer-  liar  tome,  when  a  glimpse  of  ^/urA^r, 
tamly  would  have  trampled  the  fallen  and  a  nod  from  Platoff,  fully  recom- 
pedestrian  under   foot,  had    I    not  pensed  the  virtuoso  for  his  afternoon's 
sprung  forward  with  a  kind  of  in-  excursion;  and  I  also  remembered 
stincwe  alacrity,  and  laid  hold  of  the  anxiety  he  manifested  for  pedes- 
liif  bridle  with  both  hands.  ''  Prance  trian  safety,  when  his  coachman  was 
at  leisure,  my  good  lad,"  auoth  I,  about  to  push  through  the  moUey 
*'  and  don't  ride  down  your  oetters."  multitude  that  encompassed  him  on 
The  whisker'd  dandy  looked  exceed-  every  side.    "  Now,  my  good  peo- 
ingly  fierce,  saluted  me  with  a  volley  pie,  have  a  care — keep  clear  of  the 
of    fSuhionable     imprecations,    and  wheels,    I    beseech  you— move  on, 
twirled  his  whip  into  s  position  that  Joe,  and  look  well  to  the  horse's  feet, 
betokened  no  good  to  my  shoulders ;  lest  a  stray  child  should  happen^  to 
but  on  perceiving  the  decisive  mea-  pop  in  the  way,"  was  the  warning 
aurei  I  was  about  to  adopt,  and  feel-  usually  given  by  this  food  old  man — 
h^  his  collar  in  a  firmer  grasp  than  a  warning  that  new-dubbed  knights 
peftonal  safety  was  accustomed  to,  would  never  have  troubled  their  heads 
the  caloric  of  his  eye  began  to  glim-  to  publish  —  but  our  philanthropist 
mer,  the  whip  descended  in  peace  to  was  a  knight  of  the  old  school.— 
the  pummel  of  his  saddle,  and  he  ^' What  a  congregation  of  foob!"  ex- 
knrered  his  pennon  with  becoming  claimed  a  bystander ; ''  I  really  had 
rei%nat!on,  turned  him  aside,  and  no  idea  that  London  could  furnish 
mcefully  cantered  away.   The  truth  such  a  squad ;  and  here  conies  old  Sir 
ity  I  had  hastily  put  on  my  best  mi-  GiV/eronJiou^r^/j^;  who  would  ever  have 
fituy  fimet  and  was  proceeding  to  dreamt  of  seeuig him  in  the  park?" — 
iiahorae  Wmswuctrtmonic,  when  his  But  to  return  to  our  narrative.   The 

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60  F^giiipe  LUeraimrw.  t'^^»h^ 

baronet  assured  us  both,  with  great  I  should  thinks  to  put  on  yours."  My 
good  humour^  that  he  had  sustained  reply  was  neither  brief  nor  other- 
no  personal  injury  whatever—  a  de-  wise.  I  politely  thanked  him  for  the 
^aration  that  afforded  nnich  satis*  great  kindness  he  had  manifested ; 
fiEu;tion  to  me;  and  then  proceeded  and  jocosely  declared  that  his  soul 
to  acknowledge  the  Samaritan's  ci-  might  safely  rest  in  peace,  for  I  cer*- 
tility,  in  a  strain  of  natire  polite-  tainly  would  not  fail  of  rummaging 
ness,  that  never  emanated  from  any  bis  literiBuy  pantry.  So  we  took  leave 
t>ther  than  a  gentle  'heart.  *'  As  for  of  our  gentle  haberdasher,  with  many 
Tou,  my  brave  fellow,"  continued  the  professions  of  respect ;  and  he,  in 
imi^ht,  *'  one  good  deed  will  cer-  return,  complimented  each  of  us  with 
tainly  be  noted  down  this  day  to  the  his  card ;  obligingly  observing,  Uiat 
credit  of  your  moral  account ;  name-  should  any  little  matter  be  wanted  in 
ly,  the  saving  of  a  fellow  creature's  his  way,  he  would  most  cheerfully 
ribs  from  being  crush'd;"  ''  and  the  send  it  to  our  respective  mansiona, 
•bins  of  another  from  pollution,"  added  on  better  terms  than  any  other  house 
I,  in  an  under  tone :  ''  but  diere  are    in  town. 

duties,  my  good  Sir,  alike  incumbent        I  had  once  some  thoughts  of  can* 
on  you  and  on  me ;  and  miserable  in-    tering  over  a  whole  sheet  of  foolscap, 
deed  must  be  the  state  of  that  man's    in  sketching  the  many  jostlings,  and 
feeling,  who  could  deny  himself  the    Ay  9<^r  leaves,  and  howjtye  £s,  that 
|;ratincation  of  fulfilling  them. ''These    we  exi>erienced  on  our  way  to  die 
topics,"   replied  the  baronet,  **  we    baronet's  residence ;  as  also  the  a- 
can  discuss  more  at  our  leisure,  if   greeable  politeness  of  his  lady,  and 
you   will  have  the  goodness  to  ac-    her  amiable    grand-daughter,    Mrs. 
company  me  home,  and  accept  of    Halliburton ;  together  with  a  full  and 
poufuck"     The  invitation   was,  in-    faithful  memoir  of  their  worthy  but> 
deed,  welcome  to  me ;  and  I  freely    ler,    Mr.  Dennis  (XShaugfanessy,   a 
confess  that  my  whole  catalogue  of    grey-haired  domestic,  who  fully  veti- 
excuses  could  not  even  furnish  the    ned   the  old  adage,    *'  like  matter, 
semblance  of  a  modest  denial ;  so  I    ^^  nian ;"  but  on  examining  the 
qualified  my  compliance,  as  well  as  I    complexion  of  the  matter  more  grave* 
could,  by  observing,  that  though  I    ly>    and  well  weighing  every  item 
had   intended    to   visit  the  British    thereof  in  my  own  mind, /iro  and  eoa, 
Museum  that   very    afternoon,    yet    ^  ▼cry  prudently  abandoned  the  idea 
Woidd  I  not  lose  the  opportunity  of    alto^ther;  and  left  the  vacuum  to  be 
enlarg^g  the  stock  of  my  acquaint-    furnished  in  such  manner,  aad  wHk 
ance ;  and  added,  by  way  of  rider,    *nch  materials,  as  the  reader's  owa 
that  pot-luck,  and  homdy  welcome,    <:reative  fancy   mig^t   deem   meet 
had  allurements  too  fasdniating  to  be    He  will,  therefore,  have  the  goodness 
withstood.   '*  The  British  Museum,"    to  fill  up  the  blank  at  his  leisure,  and 
observed  Sir  Gideon,  '^  certainly  pos-    attend  to  the  sequel  of  my  narEation. 
sesses  many  valuable  curiosities ;  but    ^    discharging  our  glaases  to  the 
still  we  meet  with  rarities,  here  and    niemory  of  **  Auld  kmr  eyne,"    I 
there,  whose  merits  have  evidentiy    arose   from    the    old    efiiow    chair, 
been  overlooked  by  the  foraging  par-    wherein  I  had  so  plentifully  partaken 
ties    of  that  celebrated  institution,    of  the  good  things  of  this  life,  and 
In  my  collection,  for  example,  there    fi)llowed  the  baronet  into  his 
are  many  curious  specimens  of  Bri- 
tish craft,  not  to  be^ound  in  tiie  na-  UTxaAav  museum  ; 

tional  store;    consisting  of  literary  An  apartment  of  verv  goodly  dimen- 

fragments  gathered  in    certain  dis-  sions,  elarantly  furmhed  with  car- 

tricts,  hitherto  deemed  barren  of  in-  peting   of    the    first   manufacture; 

Btruction  and  amusement.    Their  in-  chairs,  tables,  sofas,  &c, ;  and  the 

trinsic  value  has,  indeed,  been  dis-  walls  thereof  hung  roimd  with  hand- 

puted  by  the  over  fastidious ;    but  some  wooden  frames,  partially  gilt ; 

itill  the  portion  of  originality  they  and  all  of  them  accommodated  with 

possess,  mduces  a  stray  connoisseur,  rolls  of  brown  Holland,  tightening 

now  and  then,  to  put  on  his  specta-  pulleys,  cords,  and  tassels,  complete, 

des ;  and  you,  my  good  Sfr,'    con-  *'  Now,  my  good  fiiend,"  quoth  the 

dudedthe  baronet, ''being afrequent-  knight,   as  Ik  rolled  up  one  of  the 

er  of  museums,  wiD  have  no  objection,  screens,  "  thk  piece  of  literary  patch- 


1081.]]  Fugiiwe  UUraturt,  Al 

woik  n^  abide  inti>ectlfm  ;  better  than  those  of  his  brother  tradeBoien 

ncrcr  enreloped  the  goods  and  chat-  — you  shall  see  a  specimen  present- 

tels   of  a  confectioner."     On  exa-  ly."    So  sayings  he  opened  a  large 

mining  the   framefid   of  rarities^   I  drawer^  wherein    was  deposited  an 

oertainly  did  pronounce  it  one  of  the  immense  number  of  manuscript  writ- 

greateat  curiosities  I  had  erer  beheld,  ings^  and  invited  me^  in  his  own  free 

Fragments  of  letters  in  various  hands^  and  easy  way^  to  partake  of  the  in- 

and  on  various  subjects^  renmants  of  tellectual  treat.    1  complied^  without 

marriage  settlements^  wills,  memo-  hesitation ;  but  O^  reader !  what  were 

lialsy  verie^  and  blank  verse^  all  ar-  my  emotions  when   1  descried  the 

ranged  in  admirable  order^  aud  care-  first-born  of  my  youthiiil  muse^  look- 

fiiUy  pasted  on  canvas^  formed  at  ing  me    wistfully  in  the  face — the 

once  mt  strangest  medley  of  style  and  dear  little  song  that  she  brought  forth 

•ufcrfect  that  ever  excited  the  smile^  to    commemorate    the    first    of  my 

or  summoned  the  gravity,  of  a  be-  loves.    Martha  Crosby,  the  sweetest 

holder,  either  ancient  or  modem.  In-  of  all  our  Nithsdale  songsters,  took 

deed,  whatever    tended  to   awaken  the  smiling  innocent  to  Dumfries; 

merriment,  sympathy,  amazement*^  and  so  delighted  were  the  bards  of 

in  fine,  every  native  emotion  slum-  that  good  town,  with  the  comeliness 

bering  in  the  breast,  was  to  be  met  of  its  complexion,  and  the  simplicity 

with  amon^t  this  wonderfiil  assem-  of  its  dress,  that  all  of  them  fell  in 

Uage  of  originals.    "  In  the  name  of  love  with  my  little  Artless,   curled 

wonder,"  quoth  I,  **  how  came  you  its  hair,  flounced  its  frock,  and  Lon- 

by  all  thisr"  ''Why,  truly,  niy  dear  donized  the  fashion  of  its  pinafore. 

fidlow,"  replied  the  coUector,  with  a  In  like  manner,  the  pastoral  poets  of 

smile,  **  uat  question  has  been  so  Irongray,    Glencaim,    and  Penpont, 

very  firequently  propounded  for  these  got  a  glimpse  of  its  loveliness,  and 

last  fif^  years,  that  really  I  felt  the  aeclared  individually  that  my  sweet 

necessity  of  composing  a  kind  of  set  little  firstling  was  their  own  only  be- 

speech   for    the   occasion,  and  you  gotten.    In  short,  the  modest  fame 

will  therefore  have  the  goodness  to  of  my  lisping   wanderer  spread  far 

refrain  firom  smiling  at  the  formality  and  wide.     Seven  parishes  contended 

of  a  studied  reply.     Know,   then,  for  the  honour  of  its  birth ;  and  seven 

that  all  my  frames  on  the  left  were  pitched  battles  were  fought,  to  sup- 

ftimiahed  by  a  neighbouring  confec-  port  the  claims  of  their  respective 

tioner,  through  the  medium  of  my  bards ;   the    clanking    of  their   oak 

children,  grand-children,  and  great-  sticks  will  never  depart  from  my  me- 

grand-children.    Every  cake  brought  mory.     I  lilted  up  my  voice,  and 

me  a  morsel  of  wisdom  or  folly ;  and  calmly  expostulated  with  the  young 

every  ounce  of  candy  a  crumb  of  men  on  Uie  vanity  of  their  preten- 

aense,  or  a  scrap  of  nonsense.    To  sions ;  but  no  one  amongst  the  peo- 

the   poulterer  and  cheesemonger,  I  pie  arose,  and  bore  testimony  to  the 

atand  indebted  for  my  literary  trea-  justness  of   my  remarks ;    so   they 

aures  on  the  right ;  and  the  barber  wagged  their  heads,  and  laughed  me 

and  tobacconist  claim  my  ffrateful  ac-  to  scorn.    This  ungentle  treatment 

knowledgments  for  those  m  the  front  stung  me  to  the  soul :  I  put  a  shirt 

and  rear ;  but  you  will  please  to  ob-  in  one  pocket,  a  pair  of  grey  worsted 

serve,  that  from  the  crude  materials  stockmgs  in  the  other,  and,  with  staff 

supplied  by  these  gentlemen,  I  win-  in  hand,  forsook  my  native  glen,  to 

nowed  somewhere  about  ninety  and  spjoum  amongst  strangers,  where  I 

nine  parts  of  chaff,  a  task  that  little  have  long  followed  my  favourite  cdl- 

nmds  would  boggle  at ;  but  patience  ing,  but  with  a  success  that  makes  me 
and  perseverance  is  my  motto.     The  ,,.,»- 

resiAie  I  carefully  examined,  re-exa-     .    .  T^^^  *^*  ¥** }  ^  ^^^^ 

mmed,  and  ckssified  in  the  manner  ^^  ^^^^  «"^  ^  ^"«>^  '^^^ 
you    see  for  the  inspection  of  my 

mends.  But,"  continued  the  baro-  I  am  perfectly  satisfied  as  to  the 
net,  ''  I  have  lately  fallen  in  with  a  identitv  of  my  dear  song.  The  ^  fa- 
real  leather  trunk  maker,  whose  con-  mily  reaturcs  are  very  distinguish- 
tributions  appear  to  be*  of  a  superior  able,  and  much  of  the  dress  retains 
quality,   and   much   less    mutilated    its    primidve    simplicity— —besideSi 


iSi  FrngiUve  IMerahtre,  C[«^u47» 

Marthas  thumb  marks  are  still  ri-  of  that  pronderful  drawer;  giving 

sible  on  the  margins ;  so,  without  precedence,  as  a  matter  of  course,  ta 

fiurther  ceremony.  111  fall-to  |in  good  mine  own  offispring. 
eanwtfj  and  transcribe  the  contents 

THE   HILLS   O'   GALLOWA. 

Yestreen,  amonff  die  new  mawn  haj, 

I  met  my  Juka  hameward  gaun ; 
The  linnets  lilted  on  the  spray. 

The  lambs  were  lowping  o  er  the  lawn  ; 
On  every  howm  the  sward  was  mawn. 

The  braes  wi'  gowans  busked  braw. 
And  gloamin's  plaid  o'  grey  was  thrawn 

Out  o'er  the  Hills  o'  Gallowa. 

With  music  wild  the  woodlands  rang. 

And  fragrance  winz'd  alang  the  lea> 
As  down  we  sat  the  flowers  amang. 

Upon  the  banks  o'  stately  Dee. 
My  Julia's  arms  encircled  me. 

And  safUy  slade  the  hours  awa. 
Till  dawin  coost  a  glimmering  ee' 

Upon  the  Hills  o  Gallowa. 

It  isna  owsen,  sheep  and  kye. 

It  isna  gould,  it  isna  gear. 
This  lifted  ee'  wad  hae,  quoth  I, 

The  world's  drumlie  gloom  to  cheer  ; 
But  give  to  me  my  Julia  dear. 

Ye  Powers,  wha  row  this  earthen  ba'. 
And  O  sae  blithe  through  life  I'll  steer 

Amang  the  Hills  o'  Gallowa. 

When  gloamin  danners  up  the  hill, 

Wi'  our  gudeman,  to  bught  the  yowes, 
Wi'  her  I'll  trace  the  mossy  rill. 

That  o'er  the  moorland  murmuring  rowes  ; 
Or  tint  amang  the  scroggie  knowes 

My  birken  pipe  111  sweetly  blaw. 
And  sin^  the  streams,  the  heights,  and  howes> 

The  mils,  and  dales,  o'  Gallowa. 

And  when  auld  Scotland's  heathy  hills. 

Her  rural  nymphs,  and  jovinl  swains. 
Her  brawling  bums,  and  wimpling  rills. 

Awake  nae  mair  my  canty  strains ; 
Where  friendship  dweUs,  and  freedom  reigns. 

Where  heather  blooms,  and  moorcocks  craw, 
O  howk  my  grave,  and  hide  my  banes 

Among  the  Hills  o'  Gallowa. 

The  next  in  succession  is  an  epis-  certainly    affords    a   very    carious 

tie  from  a  feUow  travelling  the  coun-  glimpse  of  the  back  groimd,  jBs  the 

try  with  a  dancing  bear,  to  his  agent  following    verbatim    transcript    will 

in  London.    It  appears  to  have  been  fulljr  testify : 

written  from  Norfolk,  somewhere  a-  ''  *  *  •  •  • 
bout  the  year  1800;  a  season  when  and  tell  Tim  that  I  say  so.  The 
agricultural  hilarity  was  much  live-  Whitechapel  Barber  must  exercise 
lier  than  now-a-days.  The  manu-  his  patience  a  little  longer.  I  have 
script  is  perfectly  legible  throughout,  shaven  the  bear,  and  he  is  now,  thank 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  lines  at  Grod,  a  sea  lion.  The  fellow  offers 
the  beginning ;  and,  when  considered  five-and-thirty  shillings  for  him — ^li- 
as a  private  wicket  in  real  life,  it  beral,  indeed  f — ^^Yhy,  Sam,  it  would 


199U2                                  FugiHM  LUerahare.  Jt3 

not  defhiy  his  trareUing  charges  to  tempt  the  curicrity  of  that  mighty 

London.    Besides^  I  bear  this  yery  persecutor.      MoreoTer,  it  is  geii^ 

Karber   an  old  grudge  on  the  wig  rally  beheved  that  charity,  and  k>v« 

aoore— he  may  go  to  ue  devil  for  me,  ing  kindness,  and  compassion,  are  on 

and  aeelc  stun  there  to  promote  the  the  decline ;  and,  that  a  new-fangled 

growth  of  liair  and  whiskers.    The  system  of  education  will  very  soon 

truth  is  this.    My  poor  old  bear  has  render    mankind  too  sagacious  and 

been  many  years  in  the  £unily.    We  circumspect  for  the  best  of  us — ^but 

had    him    as    a    legacy    from   Jem  what  the  deuce  do  I  boggle  at  ?  His- 

Woodieson,  when  betrayed  by  the  un-  tory  assures  us,  and  daily  experience 

natural  appearance  of  his  disguise  corroborates  the  fact,  thiat  the  same 

wig,   and  exalted    at   Maidstone —  portions  of  sapience  and  stupidity, 

curse  the  fingers  that  made  it.    Jem  dulness  and  discernment,  have  been 

was  a  lad,  whose  skilful  address  in  annually  meted  out  to  human  na- 

the  witlidrawing  of  pigs  and  poultry  ture,  from  the  creation,  down  to  tlie 

will  be  long  rememMred,  and  re-  date  hereof;  and  that  mankind  will 

quires  no  emogy  of  mine.    In  grati-  continue  to  breed  in  the  usual  way — 

tude  to  our  benefactor,  we  treated  nine  tenths  geese,  and  the  rest  poul- 

his  favourite  with  much  kindness  and  terers,  ui  spite  of  Joseph  Lancaster's 

respect,  both  on  Jem's  account,  and  teeth ;  so  well  dismiss  all  apprehen- 

his  own ;  for,  truly,  he  was  a  noble  sion  of  the  evil  day,  for  the  present, 

animaL     But  trudging  about  from  and  proceed  to  business. 

iair  to  fair,  with  the  two  monkeys,  '*  A  recollection  is  just  now  flick* 

and  dancing  to  every  group  of  Johnny  ering  in  my  mind,  like  the  lights  and 

Raws  that  came  in  his  way,  gradually  shades    of  a  three-year-old  dream, 

impaired   a    constitution,    naturally  One  evening,  somewhere  about  four 

deucate,  until  he  became  a  down-  or  five  years  ago,   when  chattering 

right  cripple ;  so  I  took  compassion  over  a  couple  of  rummers,  with  ola 

on  the  poor  soul,  and,  with  the  as-  Ben,  at  the  Bear  and  Fiddle,  he  he^ 

nstance  of  my  nephew.  Bill  Felcher,  came,  all  of  a  sudden,  exceedingly 

had  him  clean  and  comfortably  shaven,  communicative;   and  as  there  could 

We  now  exhibit  him  in  a  large  water  be  little  harm  in  asking  a  civil  ques- 

tub  at  one  end  of  the  caravan ;  and  tion  or  two,  *  Now,  Benjamin  Skij^ 

really  the  grateful  brute  looks  un-  stocks,'  quoth  I,  very  gravely,  ^  solve 

commonly  fierce,  and  roars  well — I  me  a  problem.    How  comes  it  to  pass 

freely  use  the  expression,  as  nine-  that  Uie  parish  beadle  pursues  the  te- 

tenths  of  our  visitants  know  not  the  nor  of  his  way,  and  the  street-keeper 

difiTerence    between    a    roar    and   a  passeth  by,  without  reconnoitring  thy 

growl.    By  this  speculation,  we  net-  position,  or  even  saying — evil  thou 

ted  47^  5s.  6d.  last  week  at  Lynn  doest?'     '  Aye,  that  1  will,  my  boy, 

mart — all  clear  clink.  and  frankly  too;'   replied  the  face- 

*'  I  know  not  what  to  think  of  this  tious  old  buffer,  '  so  lend  an  ear, 
Holbom  afiair.  Property  of  that  and  listen  unto  me— at  the  corn- 
description  is  becoming  every  day  mencement  of  the  season,  a  crown 
more  and  more  precarious.  What  wet  and  a  crown  dry  cures  their  bark ; 
with  vagrant  acts,  and  societies  for  but  O,  Ned,  Ned,  that  Suppression 
the  suppression  of  mendicity,  and  Secretary  is  a  sad  dog.'  Now,  Sam, 
Uoms  in  the  path  of  every  denomina-  before  you  broach  the  subject,  sound 
tioo,  both  civil  and  religious,  I  ve-  this  secretary,  and  if  his  per  centage 
rily  do  believe  that  the  whole  breed  is  any  way  moderate,  oner  the  old 
of  street  aoHcitors  will,  sooner  or  fellow,  in  ni^  name,  to  the  tune  of 
later,  become  extinct  No  calling,  75/.,  say  guineas,  as  an  equivalent 
within  the  range  of  my  knowledge,  for  his  right  of  sweeperage.  The 
is  to  very  liable  to  be  overhauled,  as  truth  is,  1  have  it  hi  contemplation 
that  of  the  crosses  weeper.  He  be-  to  do  something  for  my  uncle  Robin. 
comes  a  local  character  in  a  few  days  Poor  man,  he  has  been  in  an  ailing 
—  the  very  nature  of  his  profession  way  ever  since  his  neck  had  that 
requires  ham  to  vibrate  from  side  to  confounded  twist  in  Lincoln  pillory ; 
side,  like  a  pendulum,  and  then  comes  and  the  sweeperage  of  Holbom 
Dmnean  Campbell,  in  all  his  terrors.  Bridge  would  just  suit  him  to  the 
demanding  a  scrutiny.  No  move-  nines.  Should  you  close  with  the 
nient  that  I  know  of  is  more  likely  to  old  man,  and  I  rcalVy  iVoxvV  \\\.t!t«  vil 

Vol..  IV.  F 


54  FugiUnt  LUeraMt.  H^ulj^ 

little  doubt  of  it,  ft8  I  believie  the  id-  oeasitj  will  compd  them  to  ride  at 

cumbent  is  seriously  disposed  to  sdl  leisure. 

off  and  retire  to  Cheltenham ;  get        *'  The  result  of  your  inquiries,  and 

the  deeds  of  conveyance  drawn  up  all  other  particulars,  relative  to  the 

by  Thursday  wedc ;  and  I  can  safely  Holbom  nusiness,  I  shall  look   for 

make  a  bolt  for  a  few  days,  to  do  the  every  post    Dear  Sam,  I  have  much 

iiee4fiil.  to  say, — but  a  pressure  of  business 

*'  Your  son  Bob  has  commenced  requiring  immediate  attention,  corn- 
operations  against  the  enemy.     By  pels  me  to  haul  my  wind,  and  sub- 
the   coach,    you  will  receive  three  scribe  myself, 
prime  Ringstead  turkeys,  all  with-  '^  Thine  tndy  and  faithfully, 
drawn  in  one    night,    by   his  own  "  Kdward  Gallowoate. 
hands — what  a  haul  for  such  a  gos- 

ling  1  Truly,  Sam,  he  is  a  sweet  UtUe  "  ^o  Mr.  Saml.  Cuddiecowper, 
fellow,  and  promises  fair  to  shine  a-       Kent-street,  Boro ,  London, 
mongst  us,  a  star  of  the  first  magni-        <*  p,  §.— All  our  endeavours  to  save 

tude.    You  exercised  a  sound  discre-  scotch  Andrew  were  unavailing.— 

toon  in  taking  hun  away  from  school.  Thuteen    indictments    preferred    a- 

Another    year,    in    aU    probability,  -ainst  him ;— nine  substantiated  by 

would  have  ruined  the  lad.    Educa.  p^i^^  l^jank  evidence ;  and  his  clergy 

toon,  my  dear  Sir,  notwithstanding  allowed  at  the  last  Derbv  Assizes, 

all  the  asserUons   of  old   prejudice  were  a  phalanx  too  firm  to  be  shaken. 

to  the  conto-ary,  is  absolutely  neces-  y^^t,  in  the  name  of  Folly,  could 

•ary    m  our  profession ;    only  care  h^ve  tempted  the  man  to  commence 

must  be  taken  to  remove  the  student  pick-pocket;  a  profession  so  very  far 

before  his  ideas  of  what  the  enemy  t^y^nj  ^he  range  of  his  abilities.- 

•alls  morality,  begin  to  consolidate,  tj^^  bag-piiie  was  Andrew's  forte. 

This  was  a  favourite  maxim  of  my  ^nd  tune-making  his  delight.     I  ne- 

worthy  father  s— aU  his  children  were  ^^^  ^^^  ^   young  bear  refuse  to 

removed  fi-om  boarding  school,  before  ^feey  the  voice  of  his  chaiinter.     Poor 

they  had  completed  their  fourteenth  Andrew  !^Five  of  us  visited  him 

year.     He  then  fell  to   work,  mo-  ^he  night  before  his  exaltation ;  and 

deUed  their  minds  to  his  likine,  and  gy^h  a  five    never    before    acknow- 

carefuUy  turned  the  portion  of  learn-  j^^g^  ^^  mastery  of  bolt  and  lock, 

ing  they  had  acquired  mto  the  pro-  oj^f   adventures,    new    schemes    of 

per  channels.    Hence  anses  the  wide  ^ays  and  means,  and  ludicrous  ancc- 

difference,  in  pomt  of  adroitness,  be-  dotes,— soon  screwed  our  conviviality 

tween  our  family,  and  many  others  ^o  the  highest  piteh.     Andrew  was 

I  could  name,  whose  children  s  edu-  ^^  fi„t  ^o  recollect  himself.     All  of 

catoon  was  stinted  to  the  rude  con-  a' sudden,  and  in  the  very  midst  of 

■toiicUon  of  a  St.  Andrew  s  cross.  ^^^  hilarity,   he  wrung  his  hands, 

"  A  fresh  supply  of  tambourines  is  and  exclaimed,  in  a  tone  of  sorrow 

absolutely  necessary,    our   druiAen  that  will  ever  haunt  ray  remembrance, 

farmers  having  demolished  my  whole  *  q  ^\n,  this  wearifu'  hanging  rings 

stock.     One  gumea  a  kick,   hit  or  j^  my  head  like  a  new  tune !  ^   Poor 

miss,  IS  qmte  the  go ;  all  yeUow  lads  ^an,  he  fell  a  martyr  to  his  own  hi- 

down  on  the  nail.     They  certainly  discretion.  Adieu.        E.  G." 

are  prime  fellows.     What    can  be 

more  delightfiil  than  walkmg  on  Uie        Then  follows  an  entire  letter  from 

dUapidated  ramparts,  of  an  evening,  a  young  man  on  the  eve  of  burying 

or  sitting  on  the  old  M^atch  Tower,  his  first  wife.*    This  epistle  abounds 

and  listening  to  the  overflowings  of  with  mucH  original  information ;   in- 

their  joy  as  they  gallop  home  from  a  asmuch  as  it  proves,  beyond  the  pos- 

lising    market ;    hallooing    with  all  sibility  of  doubt,  that  a  certain  class 

their  might,  and  lashing  Uie  Johnny  of  men,  hitherto  deemed  untanieable 

Raws  who  presume  to  dispute  their  as  the  wild  ass's  colt,  have  at  length 

fight  of  cantering  on  the  highway  been  reduced  by  the  manufacturing 

foot-paths.    I  humbly  hope  that  the  system,  and  fairiy  brought  under  the 

day  is  far  distant,  indeed,  when  ne-  yoke. 


A  cant  phrase  used  by  i^prentices  when  about  to  be  released  from  their  indenture^. 


1881.;]  FugUht  lAtMratute.  '  54 

''  Garland  Crescent,  2^  Dee.  td  fill  their  skins,  -  and  clothe  their 

1820.  emaciated  bodies.    Were  it  not  for 

''  Dear  and  honoured  Father,-*-Aa  the  exhilarathig   beverage   liberally 

my  apprenticeship  is  now  drawing  to  supplied  by  our  benevolent  manager, 

a  close,  I  beseecm  you  to  jog  Uncle  I  verily  do  believe,    that  all   their 

Bamabys  memory,  and  remind  him  fancies  would  have    perished   long 

of  his  promise.    Something  must  be  ago.    Since  I  last  wrote  you,  master 

done  to  put  me  in  business ;  for  I  do  has  taken   on  another  journeyman, 

declare  tnat  the  thoughts  of  journey-  through  sheer  compassion, — a  fine 

work  freeze  my  very  blood.     Master  Yowig  lad  of  promising  talent.    He 

employs  no  less  than  fifteen  hands, —  has  the  heels  of  all  his  shopmates, 

nine  of  them  ballad-makers — the  rest  in  sentimental  tenderness ;   and  the 

attached   to    the  dying-speech  and  pathos  of  his  elegy  is  much  admired — 

elegy  departments.    Poor  fellows,  it  but  he  positively  refuses  to  taste  the 

grieves  me  to  see  them.     Figure  to  toddy, — and  dissuades  me  fi*om  put- 

yourself  fifteen  men  of  sublime  ge-  ting  my  lips  to  the  ladle  with  which 

nius,  pacing  to  and  fro  on  the  factory  it  is  distributed.    To  him  I  stand  in- 

floor ;  holdmg  up  the  semblance  of  debted  for  much  valuable  informa- 

nether  garments  with  one  hand,  a  tion.    The  following  ballad,  founded 

aketch-book  in  the  other, — and  bM  of  on  the  story  of  poor  Helen  Grwme, 

them  '  rapt  in  meditation  high,'  or  that  grandmother  used  to  tell  with 

haply   standing    by    the  inspiration  so  much  feeling,   was  sketched   by' 

tub,  partaking  oftrA{H*^/(M2e/y,  brew-  him.    He  gave  me  the  skeleton,  and* 

ed  by  our  indulgent  foreman.    But  I  clothed  it  with  fiesh  and  skin. — 

their  best  endeavours,  owing  to  the  Master  says  it's  poor  stuff, — but  I. 

badness  of  the  times,  are  insufficient  think  otherwise;  judge  for  yourself. 

HELEN    GRiEME. 

A  spirit  glides  to  my  bed-side. 
Wringing  it's  hands  of  virgin  snow  ; 

Loosely  it's  robes  of  floating  light. 
Loosely  it's  golden  ringlets  flow ; 

All  in  a  shadowv  mantle  clad. 

It  climbs  my  bhssless  bridal  bed. 

"  Thou  airy  phantom  of  the  night. 

Unveil  thy  face,  and  gaze  on  me, 
Until  my  shivering  heart  is  cold,-^ 

And  m  arise,  and  foUow  thee. 
Oh  !  Helen  Grieme,  celestial  maid, 
1  commune  with  thine  angel  shade. 

*'  111  omen'd  was  this  mom  to  me. 

The  woeful  mom  of  my  wedding ; 
Matilda  heard  a  death-bell  toll — 

When  on  her  finger  elow'd  the  ring. 
My  cold  hand  clasp'd  ULe  blushing  dame's, — 
But  O  i  my  heart  was  Helen  Grsme's." 

*'  Arise,  Lord  Auchinlea,  arise. 

And  wrap  thee  in  this  shroud  of  mine  ; 

Turn  fi'om  thy  softly  slumbering  bride. 
And  press  my  shivering  cheek  to  thine. 

On  forest  glade,  and  naked  wold. 

The  wind  is  keen-— the  dew  is  cold. 

**  I  know  thee  well,  deserving  youth ; 

Fair  honour  clothes  thv  gentle  brow ; 
The  rage  of  feud  withheld  thv  hand, — 

But  hand  and  heart  are  Helen's  now. 
Another  lock'd  embrace,  and  we 
Will  hie  us  to  eternity. 

F« 


S6  jFu^rittpe  Liierahire.  C^ul]r> 

'^  An  angry  father's  scowling  brow, 

A  lady  mother's  wrathful  eye. 
Will  never  more  our  loves  divide — 

Will  never  more  our  peace  annoy. 
In  one  wide  bed,  beneath  the  yew. 
There  will  we  sleep — and  sweetly  too." 

His  young  bride  woke  in  sore  afTright — 

Pale  as  the  cold,  the  lifeless  clay ; 
She  saw  her  lord  in  Helen's  arms, — 

Hb  q^uivering  corse  beside  her  lay. 
Wxapt  m  a  mantling  blaze  of  light. 
They  vanish'd  from  that  lady's  sight. 

Green  grows  the  birk  on  Laggan  bum. 
And  fair  the  opening  blossom  blows ; 

But  greener  is  the  sacred  grass. 

And  ruddier  too,  the  wud-briar  rose. 

Where  dew-bath'd  flow  rets  gently  rest 

Their  bloomy  heads  on  Helen's  breast. 

''  On  comparing  this  sample  with  and  slo^  of  speech,  perhaps  it  would 

the  piece  1  sent  home  last  Chiistmas,  be  deemed  presumptuous,    were    I 

I  hope  my  dear  father  will  find  an  even  to  dream  of  a  Society  for  the 

alteration  in  my  versification  for  the  Preservation  of  Literary  Scraps;  but 

better.    My  application  to  study  has  a  word  to  the  wise  is  sufficient.  The 

Indeed  been  most  arduous;  and,  hap-  hint    may    possibly    fall   into   abler 

py  am  I  to  say,  attended  with  a  sue-  hands, — and  though  I  should  neither 

cess  seldom  experienced  by  lads  of  enjoy  the  honourable  and  lucrative 

my  years— at  least  I  think  so.   Many  situation  of  Secretary  to  the  Associ- 

thaidcs  to  aunt  for  the  fine  collection  ation,  nor  even  be  deemed  eligible  to 

of  old  psalm  tunes  she  sent  me.  They  fill  the  no  less  useful  one  of  Beadle, 

suit  my  style  of  composition  admi-  yet  will  1  not  complain.  The  internal 

rably  well, — and  in  due  time  will  satisfaction  ofhaving  been  the  humble 

make  their  appearance,  accompanied  means  of  providing  a  Refuge  for  the 

with  the  very  best  lyrics  that  I  can  Destitute,  will  amply  recompense  my 

produce.     My  dear  father,  let  me  a-  loving  kindness. 

gain  entreat  you  to  keep  uncle  in  your  Many  and  various  are  the  sources 

eye.  I  well  know  that  he  has  bowels,  whence    the    dealer    and    chapman 

though  somewhat  difficult  of  access ;  draws  a  supply  of  waste  paper,  at 

and  a  kind  warm  heart, — ^though,  like  per  Id.    The  early  and  una- 

the  best  of  coal  fires,  it  requires  po-  vailing  struggles  of  indigent  genius 

kering  now  and  then.     With  kind  to  behold  the  light,  baffled,  and  trod- 

lore  to  all  my  kindred,  acquaintance,  den  under  foot,  perhaps,  by  the  un- 

and    inquiring  friends,    I  ever  re-  derling  Mentor  of^some  fat  publisher, 

main,  my  dear  and  honoured  father,  whom  success  in  business  has  ren- 

'' Your  dutiful  and  afifectionate  son,  dered    too    indolent,    or  nature  too 

**  Barnaby  Dandelion."  stupid,    to  judge  for  himself — The 

These  gleanings  of  Fugitive  Lite-  Tilings  and  gratulation  of  despond- 

rature  fully  justify  an  opinion  I  have  *»?  and  s^iccessfiil  love,  m  prose  and 

long  entertained ;  viz.  that  much  cu-  "^f^  "  The  hi^h-seasoned  resolves 

nous  information,   amusement,  and  of  public    meetings,    Cathohc,    and 

even  knowledge,    b    aimuaUy   con-  anti-Catholic,   radical,  and   an ti-ra- 

turned    by  cheesemongers,  barbers,  ^,^^^1,  together  with  dl,  and  sundry 

tobacconists,  &c.— and  strange  as  it  ^f    miscellaneous   officpiing  of  the 

may  seem,   neither  literary  philan-  mmd — But  where  am  I  waiidenng  ? 

thropists,  nor  book-making  publish-  To  the  formation  of  an  esUblishmenr, 

crs,  sofar  as   I  know,  wiQi  the  ex-  ^^ose  component  parts  I  have  nei- 

ception  of  Sir  Gideon  Moubray,  have  ^^^  sagacity  to  select,  nor  influence 

hitherto  taken  compassion  on  the  for-  *?  consohdate.     I    shall,   therefore, 

lorn  fugitives,-or  ^en  availed  them-  close  the  subject,  and  leave  my  ob- 

selves  of  a  fund,  untouched  by  spe-  nervations  to  shift  for  themselves. 

culatii'e  fingers.    Being  a  little  man,  Lauciii.ik  Gai  i  oway. 


1831.]}                      Hamilion's  Garden  of  Florence,  S^c.  57 
THE  GARDEN  OF  FLORENCE,  AND  OTHER  POEMS; 

BY   JOHN    HAMILTON.* 

There  are  two  sorts  of  poetry  frequent,  that  the  richness  is  obscured 
which  hare  grown  up  and  flourished  by  the  profusion. 
in  this  our  excellent  age.  The  one  With  such  men  as  these  (Byron^ 
is  good^  solid  (even  when  airy),  un-  Wordsworth,  Shelley — we  say  no- 
assuming, — wholesome  diet  for  the  thing  of  the  subjects  on  which  they 
mind.  The  other  is  frothy,  noisy,  write)  high  phrase  is  well ;  but  we 
and  vain-glorious,  dealing  in  big  hate  to  hear  a  Pistol  of  a  man  let  off 
words  and  puffed  phrases,  in  fustian  his  matchlock  close  to  our  ear  with 
and  foUy ;  and  of  this  let  every  man  nothing  but  blank  cartridge  in  it,^- 
take  heed ;  for  though  it  maketh  like  an  empty  barrel,  the  more  noisy 
somewhat  of  a  show,  and  allureth  from  its  very  vacancy :  this  is  vile, 
the  eye  like  an  omelet  soufflee,  yet  and  not  to  be  endured :  it  affronts  us 
is  it  indigestible,  unsubstantial,  and  while  it  perplexes  our  taste. — It  was 
unwholesome.  well  said  by  a   friend  of  ours  (an 

It  has  been  thus  with  every  age.    eminent  critic)  that  Mr. had  no- 

The  spirit  of  poetry  has  always  had  thing  but  a  '  verbal  imagination,'-^ 

its  attendant  shadow,  larger  than  it-  that  all  his    feats    were  m  words  ; 

self,    but   empty,    monstrous,   mis-  though  this  mifht  have   been  well 

shapen —  enough,  but  unluckily  there  were  no 

^t    ,^, , J, .  -      , .             , ,  ideas  amongst  them.     Words  were 

JaoDstr  hotTpna  inform  msens  cut  lumen    ^^^  *u    -«.       j         ^r  *u:  » 

ademvtum  mere  drapery  of  this  person  s 

^  '  imagination  Hf  he  had  any),  but  they 
Lear  was  preceded  by  Tambur-  were  the  suostance,  the  body  and 
laine  (the  shade  is  thrown  forward  soul,  of  his  works:  if  they  had  not 
when  the  sun  is  behind^  ; — Pope  had  words,  they  had  nothing :— they 
his  imitators  and  enemies ;  and  Lord  were  the  chaff  anil  husks  of  litera- 
Byron  is  not  without  his  satellites,  ture,  in  short,  to  be  blown  away  by 
who  catch  a  transient  notoriety  from  a  breath  of  criticism, — a  mere  dic- 
his  brightness,  though  they  reflect  tionary  matter,  and  no  more.  Now 
neither  lustre  nor  credit  upon  him.—  such  a  man  as  this  would  have 
Wordsworth  has  but  few  foUowers ;  done  weU  to  let  the  muses  alone : 
although  he  has  contributed  more  they  never  could  have  returned  his 
than  any  man  of  his  time  to  free  affection;  nor  would  they,  indeed, 
poetry  from  its  shackles,  and  has  have  understood  him,  for  the  Ian- 
mixed  an  unpretending  beauty  of  guage  of  Cambyses  is  not  spoken  on 
diction  with  a  more  profound  insight  the  slopes  of  Parnassus : — but  the  au- 
into  the  philosophy  of  nature  than  thor  before  us  is  entirely  of  a  different 
any  other  cotemporary  poet.  Mr.  stamp.  He  is  as  free  from  bombast 
Shelley  has  excluded  himself  from  and  pretension  as  the  infirm  nature 
imitators,  by  his  exposition  of  a  very  of  poets  will  allow.  There  is,  be- 
questionable  system  of  morals  (pro-  sides,  a  great  deal  of  fancy  and  deep 
bably  '*  unquestionable "  were  bet-  pathos  in  his  vohime, — a  good  deal 
ter),  but  his  ear  is,  perhaps,  finer  of  original  (verging  occasionally  on 
than  that  of  any  poet  since  the  time  fantastic)  expression ;  and  much  of 
of  Milton,  and  his  command  of  Ian-  that  old  fashioned  love  of  what  is 
guage  is  unrivalled.  In  Wordsworth  good  and  beautiful  in  nature,  with 
there  is  a  studied  avoidance  of  sound-  all  that  is  gentle  in  expression,  and 
iDg  phraseology ;  so  much  so,  in  fact,  correct  iu  thought, — too  seldom  to 
that  be  at  times  betrays  an  absolute  be  met  with  in  tne  poetry  of  the  ore- 
baldness  of  diction ;  yet  he  too  can  sent  period.  Let  not  our  readers, 
rise,  when  occasion  suits,  and  clothe  young  or  fair,  be  alarmed :  there  is 
the  neck  of  his  Pegasus  with  thun-  nothing  didactic  or  repulsive  in  the 
der.  Mr.  Shelley's  elevation  of  style  book :  it  is  simply  a  collection  of 
is  more  sustained ;  but  his  mastery  of  tales,  lyrical  poems,  and  songs,  olea- 
words  is  so  complete,  and  his  magni-  santly  varied,  and  delicately  toucned  ; 
ficent   and   happy   combinations   so  among  which  are  many  passages  of 

*  Warren,  London,  1821. 


58                                ffamilions  Garden  of ' Florence y  S^e.  C*^^» 

great  beauty  (some  we  shall   have  to  tediousness^  indeed^  but  struck  out 

occasion   to  extract) ;  and  to  these  in  the  heat  of  genius,  bright,  and 

mav  be  added  three  or  four  sonnets  of  self-evident,  and  lasting.     It  teaches 

undoubtedly  first-rate  merit.  sometimes  by  precept,  but  chiefly  by 

Were  we  inclined  to  quarrel  with  example.     From  it  the  king  may  see 

any  thing  in  this  pleasant  book,  it  how  to  ffovem,  and  the  sul^ect  to 

would  be  an  expression  in  the  dedi-  obey.    The  soldier  may  learn  tem- 

cation.   The  author  says,  in  reference  perance,   the  pedant  modesty,    and 

to  his  writing  verse,  the    conqueror    moderation. — Folly 

-^,  .              ^     ^  may  be  advised,  and  vanity  reprovecl. 

Thmk  not  with   this  I  now  abuse  my  —Beauty  may  see  her  likeness,  and 

P***^*"*  her  defects.— It  is  the  glass  wherein 

Now    it  is  not  an     abuse    of  any  all  fashions,  all  forms,  may  be  seen ; 

man's  powers  to    employ    them   in  all  manners,  all  moods  of  the  mind : 

writinff  poetry.    To  write  fine  poetry  —the  birth,  the  progress,  and  the  last 

18  to  do  something    better    than  to  consequence  of  things,  both  good  and 

write  (or  speak^  fine  prose.    It  is  evil,  are  there,  fine  practicd  lessons 

doubtless  absura   enough,    when  a  of  wisdom  and  pure  morality.   There 

man  continues  to  scribble  bad  rhyme,  is  often  more  meaning  (and  there  has 

long  after  he  (or  Uie  world)  has  dis-  often  been  more  thougnt  exhausted) 

covered  that  he  has  no  talent  for  it,  in  one  single  epithet  of  poetry  than 

—when  he  himself  is   essentially  a  in    a    whole    page    of  dissertation, 

piece  of  prose,    without  fancy,    or  Shakspeare  alone  is  more  than  suffi- 

muid,  or  music,  or  spirit :   but  our  cieiit  to  prove  all  that  we  have  said, 

author  has  none  of  Uiese  disquali-  Be  it  remembered,    however,    that 

ficadons    to    plead    in    excuse    for  these  observations  apply  to  writers 

his  under-rating  the  "  peerless  "  art.  o^ poetry,  and  not  to  writers  of  rhyme 

It   is   a    common   error   with    per-  only.    There  is  as  much  difference 

ions    who    (unlike    Mr.   Hamilton)  among  the  people  so  called  (yet  this 

know  nothing  of  poetry,   save  that  is  by  no  means  generally  supposed) 

it    ffenerallv    ends    in     rhyme,    to  a«  between  the  house-painter  who 

think  slightly  of  it,  and  to  place  aU  scrawls  a  thing  like  a  wreath  on  your 

reputed  poets  on  a  level.    The  fa-  ceiling,  and  Titian  who  crowned  the 

cility  with  which  indifierent  verse  is  twelve  Ccsars  with  laurel, — or    as 

manufactured     naturally     generates  between  the  daub  of  a  red  lion  at 

Buch  a  mistake.     Hence  it  is,    that  a    country    public-house,     and    the 

•  poetry  is  called  ^'  light  reading,"  and  "  Transfiguration  *'  of  Rafiaelle,    or 

IS  spoken  of  as  '*  only  verses,"  and  the ''  First  Created  Man  "  of  Michael 

•o  forth,   in  terms  of  ignorant  and  Angelo. 

undue  disparagement.    An  instance  Having  said  thus  much,    we  do 

b  within  our  own  personal  knowledge  not  know  why  we  should  detain  our 

of  a  merchant  who  requested  a  friend  readers  longer  fixim  Mr.  Hamilton's 

to  select  some  books  for  his  library :  poems.     Thev  are  much  better  than 

among  others,  he  purchased  Shak-  &ny  thing  which  we  could  hope  to 

speare;   but  the   honest  trader  was  entertain  them  with  in  prose;  and 

dissatisfied    with    the    barg^n :   he  accordingly  we  shall,  without  more 

said,  turning  over  the  volumes,  that  <^o,    enter  on  our  consideration  of 

they  were   "  only  plays,"   and  de-  the  book.     There  is  a  short  preface 

sired  that  they  might  be  exchanged,  to  the  volume  from  which  the  folio w- 

choosing,    in   their  stead,    Hervey's  >ng  is  an  extract : — 

Meditations,  and  a  few  other  mat-  Thestoriesfttma  Boccacdo  (The  Garden 

tcrs  of  print  and  paper  resembling  of  Florence,  and  the  Ladye  of  Provence) 

that  serious  performance !  were  to  have  been  associated  with  tales 

But  poetry  has  been  the  employ-  f™"^  die  same  source,  intended  to  have 

ment  (and  the  delight)  of  the  first  in-  ^*^^  written  by  a  friend ;— but  iUness  on 

tellects  of  the    world.      It  contains  ^^  P*^'  ^^^  distracting  engagements  on 

the  germ  of  aU  that  is  good,    and  °^°^\  P"^^'^"^^^  .«»  ^"^^  accompUshing 

great,  and  wise.     "  Light  reading,"  T  ^i*"  *'        """^V  'Sf  ^^"T'/"* 

ts  it  is  caUed,  inculcates  more  ori-  ^4,  ^^P   ''""°'^'   ^^  ^'^^  ''  ^°' 

g^nal  and  profound  truths  than  were  He,   who  is  gone,  was  one  of  the  very 

ever    found  m  the  whole  region    of  kindest  friends  I  possessed,  and  yet  he  was 

prose ;^not    laboured  and  wrought  not  kinder  perhaps  to  me,  than  to  others. 


I921mj  Hamiiion's  Oardtn  of  Fhrtna,  ^  ^i 

Um  intaiM  noB  and  powerlbl  feding  they  are  acquainted  with  each  other's 

woald,    I  truly  believe,   have  done  the  afTection. 

world  lomt  terrice,   had   his   life   been  ^hey  met-and  kia'd  m  welcome.— OTie 
spared — ^but  he  was  of  too  sensitive  a  na-  ^    q^^  mom 

ture-and  thus  he  was  tetn^ed !    One  Qn  which  their  lips  scemM  for  each  other 
story  he  completed,  and  that  is  to  me  now  |^^  j        '^ 

the  most  pathttie  story  in  existence!  Shelean'd  withirihisatm,  onthatnewday. 

The   poet  here  alluded  to  is,  we  And  look*d  content  to  lean  her  life  away  ! 

conjecture,  the  late  Mr.  John  Keats.  Their  eyes  in  married  lustre  could  not  par^ 

We  feel  templed  to   say  something  But,  lighted  bv  the  radiance  of  the  heart, 

on  that  point;  but  it  will,  perhaps,  ^honc  on  cacfc  other :- thus, -they  idly 

affoid  us  inatter  for  a  future  paper;  Their  shadows  on  the  Uurels  as  they  passM  I 
and  It  18  altogether  of  too  melancholy  '  ' 

a  nature  to  be  mixed  up  with  the  And  sweet  the  laurel  grew— diat  hallow*d 
consideration  of  any  livme^  writer.  tree. 

We    pass^  therefore,     without  fur-  With  leaves  that  seem  the  leaves  of  song 
Iher  comment,  to  *'  The  Garden  of  to  be, — 

Florence.-— This  poem  is  founded  on  JHudi  never  loseth  its  appareMng, 

one  of  the  tales  of  Boccaccio,  and  is  ^*  ^^^  «««^*  <>^  *^«  undaunted 
rimply  the  stoiT  of  two  young  lovers,  fl^'^^'were  in  that  sflent  garden 

"  Fuquino  and  Smaonida,     who  are  ffrowina. 

poisoned  successively  by  tasting  some  Qf  pieSmtoSJurs  all  and  lustrous  blow- 
leaves  plucked  from  a  bed  of  sage,  jug^ 

at  the  root  of  which  lay  an  enormous  That  did  ranch  Ae  air  on  whidi  they  ftd, 

toad  that  infected  the  whole.     The  And  far  around  a  light  and   fragrance 
lovers  are  sporting,    on   a   summer  spread. 

Boming,  in  a  garden  near  Florence ;  The  lofty  foliage  lent  a  tender  gloom,  , 

and  PasGtiino  chews   a  leaf  which  I^c  that  whidi  doth  through  holy  bu3d- 
causes  his  instant  death:  Simonida      ^^      ingscome, — 

is  overwhehned  with  grief,   and  in  Where,  as  adown  the  shafted  aisles  you 

this  state  is  carried  before  a  raagis-  -- ^     *^7»  *  r  i     ^ 

l^t^    bv  some  nersons  who  saw  her  ^*  ''^  "^*°^  **^  ^  ^^  *°*^  P^^  »•-- 

irate,  Dy  some  persons  wno  saw  ner  guch— and    so   beautiful   was  that  h^h 

iDTer  fiul.    Being  accused^  she  de-  shade!  — 

niesthepuiltofnaurderingPasquino,  The   stretching  roses  o'er  the   pathway 
but  is  disbebeved  by  the  populace,  play*d, 

who  are  anxious  (as  usual)  for  sum-  And  shook  their  bright  dew  at  the  lovers* 
mary  justice.    The  magistrate,  how-  feet, 

ever,    has  some  pity  for  her,    and  Scattering  those  morning-pearls  their  steps 
•mne  faith  in  her  distress;  and  the  to  greet, — 
inquisition  is  adjourned  to  the  place  And  waving  as  they  pass'd  as  though,  in 
where  Pasquino's  body  lies.     Here  reverence  meet. 
the  poor  girl  tells  her  tale  again ;  and        The  second  poem  is  called  a  "  Ro- 
in  Miowing  the  manner  of  her  lover's  mancc  of  Youth,"  and  is  written  in 
death,   she  casually  chews  another  the  Spenserian  stanza.    It  is  a  de- 
leaf  of  the  sage.    The  people  send  sultory   performance ;   but    betrays 
up   **  their  most  sweet  yoices "   in  great  sweetness  of  diction  occasion- 
derision,  and  whUe  they  are  shouting  ally,  and  sometimes  yery  consider- 
0he  drops  down   dead  before  them,  able  power.  The  narrative  is  of  some 
The  lovers  are  buried,  and  the  poem  youth,    who   wanders   and  dreams, 
ends.— There  is  not  much  incident  like  the  Edwin  of  "  Beattie's  Min- 
here,  as  the  reader  will  see ;  but  the  strel,"  and  is  filled  with  fancies  and 
tale  is  told  gently  and  sorrowfidly,  extravagant  visions,  like  a  ffenuine 
and  is  not  decked  out  with  too  much  child  of  romance.      The  following 
ambition.    Mr.  Hamilton  has  wisely  stanzas  are  certainly  very  beautiful, 
left  Boccaccio's  simplicity  to  work  its        „  ,      .     ,    ,       *    ,, 
effect   on    his    reader's  heart.-We        Under  the  shadow  of  a  May  sweet  bios- 


som. 


will  quote    one    passage   from   this  ^^^    ^^  ^        ^^^  ^^^  ^ 

poem,  to  show  the  very  pleasant  and  chased 

delightful   style  in   which    it    runs.  The  moments  with  the  heaving  of  the 

The  extract  refers  to  the  period  of  bosom 

the  first  meeting  of  the  lovers,  (in  in  happy  sleep :  their  arms  were  inter- 

the    "  Garden  of  Florence,")   after  laced, 


iO                              HamUions  Garden  of  Florence,  Sfc.  Z'^^f* 

And  ihdr  bri^  dwda  cowimingliiig  8odi  tetn  perduunee  fte  hippy  angeU 

•eem*d  to  taste  weep 

Each  other's  rosy  beauty :  overhead  Radiant  with  joy. — ^Tbey  gave  the  quiet 

A  bee,  that  had  been  trammel*d  in  his  Ki^een 

haste  A  ridmeas,  as  though  wonders  fiom  the 

That  magic  ere,  a  lulling  murmur  bred ;  deep 

And  dewy  leaves  »  hymn  to  sylvan  quiet  Were  csdlM  and  cast  diere  in  «nMiiKH 

shed.  sheen, 

To  glitter  for  m  night,  and  never  more  be 

A  wand  was  waved  through  the  charmed  seen  ! 

air. 

And  up  there  rose  a  very  costly  throng  The  next  extract  which  we  shall 

Ofivory  tables,  stored  with  dainties  rare,  make  is  a  song    of  which  we  shall 

At  sight  of  which  e'en  dieted  men  might  say  nothing :  for  it  needs  no  recom- 

long:                         .        ,         3  mendation. 
They  rose  amid  strange  mmstrdsy  and 

Mmg, —  Go,  where  the  water  glideth  gently  ever. 

And  there  was  pheasant  from  enchanted  Glideth  by  meadows  that  the  greenest 

wood,  be;-» 

And  swan  from  fairy  stream, — and  these  Go,  listen  to  our  own  bebved  river, 

among.  And  think  of  me ! 

Were    chS^ces   of    Kastem    dew-wine  -nrj.-^,         ,          ^^ 

la^yf*^  Wander  m  forests,  where  the  small  flower 

By  pearly  hands  in  far  Arabian  solitude.  _^  ^  .  y*"     t.    .j    ..      . 

'  *^      '  Its  fairy  sem  beside  the  giant  tree ; 

And  edden  beiriM,  Meep'd  in  cteun,  Li»«»  ^  dim  b«x,k  pining  whfle  it  pUy. 

B«J.J:^fa»n««»inA»-.p.-  Andiinkofme! 

laces ;  Watch  when  the  sky  is  silver  pale  at  even. 

And  from  the  lonely  Mountains  of  the  And  the  wind  pieveth  in  the  lonely  tree; 

moon.  Go  out  beneath  the  solitary  heaven, 

.  From  which  swarth  Afric's  serpent-river  And  think  of  me ! 

frees 

Its  wily  head, — fi»h,  stranger  than  the  And  when  the  moon  riseth  as  she  were 

geas  dreaming, 

Hold  in  their  deep  green  wastes,  to  the  And  treadcth  with  white  feet  the  lulled 

bright  feast'  *** » 

Were  brought  in  coral  dishes  by  streakM  Go,  sflent  as  a  star  beneath  her  beaming, 

bees ;  And  think  of  me ! 

And  fruit,  the  very  loveliest  and  the  least.  The  three  sonnets  on  Robin  Hood 

Came  from  young  spangled  trees  in  gar-  ^^  admirable.     We  suspect  that  in 

dens  of  the  EasL  ^  our  secret  soul "  we  like  them  bet- 

There  was  good   store  of   sweet  and  ^^^  ^^    ^7  other   poems   in    the 

sheening  cherries,  volume.      But   as    they  have  been 

Oatheredfrom  trees  thatunderwatergrcw  printed  before  in  Hazlitt's  Lectures 

In  mystic  oidiards,—and  the  best  wood-  on   the  Poets — a   work  with  which 

berries  our  readers  are  well  acquahitedj — we 

That  blush  in  scarlet  ripeness  throu^  forbear  to  quote  them  here. 

the  dew, —  We  must  give  one  extract  more  :— 

And  tiny  plums,  round,  and  of  Uoom-  it  is  from  a  very  tender  and  charming 

mgMue,—       -    ^  .  poem,  which  is  called  an  Epistle  to  a 

And  golden  apples  of  a  fairy  size, —  Ladv 

And  glossy  nuts,  the  which  brown  squir-  ^^  .   "      ,  ,      „     .^    ^      .     , 

rels  iiew  ^^  *  could  I  walk  with  thee  m  days  like 

Eying  them  longingly  with  their  dark  ,,^       these,         .    ^  . 

eyes.  When  the  young  leaf  is  venturmg  on  the 


And  stealing  when  they  could  a  little  haael 

pijxe.  And  the  pale  blossom  on  the  cherry  boo^ 

Lives  in  its  beauty, — as  I  see  it  now ; — 

The  glowworms  waited  on  the  fairies*  I  should  be  happier  than  the  linnet's  wing 

mirth.  Spread  in  the  first  mild  sunlight  of  the 
And  when  the  stars  of  heaven  were  all  spring  ! 

BMkep  Oft  do  I  see  thee,  as  I  lonely  lean 

They  lamp*d  the  grassy  chambers  of  the  In  these  soft  evenings,  whidi  are  as  serene 

earth.  In  their  cerulean  skies,  and  setting  suns. 

And  in  an  emerald  light  the  air  did  And  ckmds  goId-featherM, — ss  the  summer 

steep  ^—  ones ; 


1891.]]*         Sketch  of  the  FrogresM  of  Vocal  Science  in  Sngftmd.  «!' 

Oft  do  I  tee  thee  in  my  tboa^ts, — that  And  tiylvan  pleasmes,  in  «  jo3roiis  nan, 

take  Revived  about  my  heart,  and  died  again — 

Westerly  wanderings,- Ay  enjoymait  make  Touching  the  next  few  nooments  with  dim 
F^om  the  cndiantments  of  an  evening  sea  pain. 

That  weaves  its  own  sweet  pastime  mer-  I  thought  of  those  I  loved — I  thought  of 

rily, —  thee — 

Or  deeps  beneath  some  sea-nymph*8  wav-  And  of  our  pastime  when  the  night  was 

mg  wands ; —  free — 

Or  as  it  fitwns  upon  the  golden  sands  The  bustle  of  the  books — ^the  lonely  notes 

With  never  ending  kisses,  and  soft  sighs, —  Of  a  melancholy  melody  that  floats 

I  see  thee  lingering  o*er  its  harmonies.  For  ever  and  for  ever  through  the  mind,— 

As  though  some  spirit  did  converse  with  thee  Leaving  a  sad  and  sweet  delight  behind ! 

Of  worlds  divine,  where  shattered  hearts  I  thought  of  Him, — the  deathless— the  in- 

shall  be  spired — 

Ever  at  rest,  amid  Elvsian  bowers,  Mliose  light   my  very  earliest  boyhood 
lAdl*d  with  themusicof  the  lute-fed  hours. —  fir^,-— 

The  silver  sea-foam  on  the  sands  thou  lovest.  And  of  his  rich  creations : — have  we  not 

That  at  thy  feet  is  dying,  as  thou  rovest,  SorrowM  at  high  Macbeth*s  distorted  lot— 

And  Ivi^tening  up  again — as  mourners*  SighM  over  Hamlet*s  sweet  and  'wilder^d 

eyes  heart — 

That  ftule  and  sparkle  while  the  spirits  rise :  And,  when  we  came  upon  that  piteous  part 

Bear  is  the  mystic  world  of  waters,  when  Of  love*s  romance,  where  long  before  'twas 

Day  hath  departed  from  the  eves  of  men,  day 

And  that  devoted  haunter  of  the  sky.  The  Ladye  of  the  moonlight  pined  away. 

The  lonely  moon,  is  lingering  thoughtfully  Over  the  sleeping  fhiitage — ^passion-pale,— 

Over  the  bosom  of  the  sleeping  sea, —  Have  we  not  loved  young  Juliet  ? 

That  trembles  in  its  dreams.    For  then  to         mu    i  ^  •    .l    .      i_ 

^Ijeg  The  last  poem  in  the  book  we  do 

Steals  that  long  line  of  pure  and  rilverU^t  i^ot  like    so   well  as   some  others: 

Across  the  waters,  which  all  starry  bright  but^  as  it  seems^  from  its  being  dis- 

Doth  horn  the  chasten'd  Deity  seem  to  tinguished  from   the  rest^    to  be   a 

oome,  favourite  with  the  author^  we  may 

To  bear  thy  white  thoughts  to  a  happy  reasonably  feel  some  doubt  as  to  our 

home ! —  judgment. 

Of  late  there  hath  been  many  a  sUent  eve,  ,    7  ?  "Tf  ^T""  ^''  •^°*'"  HamU  ton 

Rosy  as  wreaths  which  bidy-fingers  weave  ^  ^  ^^  cj jnce  among  the  lovers 

For  soft  brown  tresses  on  a  revel  night,—  ^  poetrv.      If  they  have  not  for- 

And  gentle  as  Ae  biid  that  takes  its  flight  gotten  thew  taste  for  what  is  good. 

From  Cytherea's  finger. — Londv  sitting  we  have  little  apprehension  as  to  his 

On  one  of  these  fair  eves, — and  imy  knitting  success. — There  are  some  of  his  lines 

My  thM^ugfats, — as  many  a  cottage  spinster  which  we  mieht  have   found  fault 

doth  with^  as  being  narsh  and  unmetrical ; 

Her  web,— in  mood,  half  industry,  half  |,ut  (the  errors  of  the  book  being  so 

doth:—  ,        ,,  few)  we  have  preferred  the  critic's 

nff!f*"       r5^  J!:.Tn  »^nl«f    ^ore   pleasant  province,    and  have 

S^t  .8^  W»  "^  *•  "^  ^  spoken^^of  this  volume  of  poetry  ^ 
And  manyideir  departed  scene  arose  ^^  ^^^  »'  ought  to  be  mentioned  by 

And  passed  away,— like  birds  from  their    every  one  who  is  not  more  ready  to 

i^KMo,  discover  blemishes  than  to  do  justice 

Startled  by  heedless  feetin  mominggrass ;—    to  good  and  unaffected  writing. 


SKETCH  OF  THE  PROGRESS  OF  VOCAL  SCIENCE  IN  ENGLAND ; 

WITH    NOTICES    OF    THE     PRINCIPAL    PERFORMERS    AND    COMPOSERS    FROM 
THE    CLOSE    OF    THE    LAST    CENTURY    TO    THE    PRESENT    TIME. 

No.  IIL 

We  closed  our  last  essay  *  with  a  twenty-five  years^  have  continued  to 

promise^  that  our  next  should  con-  confer  upon  their  possessor  the  most 

tain  some  description  of  the  extraor-  exalted  place^  perhaps^  amongst  Eng« 

dinary    p«rwers,    which,    for    about  lish  vocalists. 

•  Vol.  II.  Page  665. 


»  Skekh  tf  ike  Progrtss  of  Vocal  Sektict  m  Engfmd.  C July> 

During  that  long  period^  the  pro-  much  as  to  avoid  being  seen.    Even 
fessional  exertions  of  Mr.  Braham  when  seated  amongst  the  principals 
have  been  required  at  the  theatre^  of  an  oratorio^  you  coidd  not  take 
in    the    orchestra^     at    churchy    at  him  for  one  of  any  mark  or  likeli- 
the  table,   and  occasionally  at  the  hood.      When   he  advances  to  the 
Italian  opera;  and  it  would  not  be  front  of  an  orchestra  for  an  occasional 
easy  to  say  in  which  of  those  situa-  performance,  his  bearing  is  depressed 
tions,    each    demanding  a  different  oy  the  same  characteristic,  and,  as 
kind  of  talent,  he  has  most  excelled;  we  conceive,  deep>felt  humility ;  for 
though  in  all  of  them,  his  execution  he  is  never  to  be  allured  into  the 
has  not  been  free  from  great  imper-  assumption  of  superiority  by  any,  nor 
iections.  all,   ot  the  seductive  flatteries  that 
Mr.  Braham  was  initiated  into  the  attend  upon  so  successful  a  public 
•cience  of  music  at  a  very  early  age,*  career.    Vet  is  he  not  without  the 
and  his  education  was  completed  by  consciousness  of  his  desert,   and  iA 
Rauzzini  of  Bath.    He  had  sung  in  the  solidity  of  his  claims,   and  the 
concerts ;  but  it  was  his  appearance  understanding,  and  acknowledgment 
at  Drury-lane,  in  the  opera  of  Mah-  of  those  claims,  on  the  part  of  the 
moud,   that  first  made  his  accom-  public.   M.  Vallebreque,  the  husband 
plishments   generally  known  to  the  of  Catalan!,  in  a  letter  to  a  conduc- 
Engiish  public.    He  was  engaged  for  tor,  some  years  ago,  set  his  valuation 
twelve  nights;  at  the ' expiration  of  upon  the  whole    catalogue   of  vo- 
which  term  he  left  England,  and  re-  calists ;  and  estimating  the  services 
mained  abroad  for  some  time.  of  his  wife  at  five  hundred  pounds. 
Nature  seems  to  have  delighted  reduced  Braham  to  ten,  or  some  such 
herself  with    contrasting    opposite  low  degree  of  the  scale,  coupling  his 
qualities  in  the  construction  of  this  rate,  at  the  same  time,  with  the  re- 
extraordinary  and  gifted  individuaL  mark,   that  ''Braham  was  nothing 
In  Mr.  Braham  you  see  a  small,  but  but  one  Jew"    The  estimate  found 
not  inelegantly  formed  man,  with  a  its  way  into  print,   and  soon  after 
steadfast  countenance,  marked,  how-  Vallebreque  entered  a  room  where 
ever,  with  the  peculiarity  of  his  9mz-  Braham  was  carelesslv  sitting  upon 
turn.    The  physiognomy  is  that  of  a  table  waiting  for  the  rehearsal  of 
one  sobered  by  fixed,  and  somewhat  a  concert.  **  Well,  Christian !  "  was 
severe  thought.    The  demeanour  is  his  address  to  the  Frenchman ;  who, 
something  dejected  and   hesitating,  perceiving  the   drift  of  this  abnipt 
rather  than  informed  with  any  of  the  apostrophe,   began  to  stammer  out 
superiority  ofcoiifidcuce  or  command,  some    words  of   apoIofi;y.     ''Spare 
Yet  there  is  a  latent  fire  in  the  eye,  yourself  excuses,  friend,"  continued 
a  visible,  but  unemployed  spring  and  the  singer,  "  you  cannot  injure  me:" 
elasticity    in     the    well-compacted,  and  at  the  same  time  offered  the 
though  reduced  scale  of  the  whole  abashed  calumniator  his  hand.    The 
form,   that    indicates    power   when  judgment  and  the  temper  of  the  re- 
called into  action.    Upon  the  boards  proof  are  each  admirable, 
of  Old  Drury,  in  the  ordinary  dress        Never  was  there  a  singer  who  pos- 
of  his  country,   he   would  be  taken  sessed  such    faculties  and  acquire- 
for  nothing  beyond  one  of  those  walk*  ments  as  Mr.  Braham :    never  was 
ing    gentlemen   of  the    play-house,  there  one  so  provokingly  unequal  in 
who  merely   deliver  a  message,  or  his  manner. 

set  a  chair.  In  the  costume  of  the  Hear  him  in  his  best  and  most 
aigretted  and  turbaned  princes  of  finished  performances,  and  he  dis- 
the  East,  wherein  the  poets  of  the  gusts  you  the  very  instant  afler  he 
opera  sometimes  array  their  heroes,'  has  raised  the  sense  to  ecstasy. — Lis- 
he  bears  himself  like  one  whose  ten  to  his  very  worst,  and  most  taw- 
greatness  is  thnist  upon  him ;  like  dry,  and  mawkish  ballads,  "  The 
a  man  picked  up  on  a  sudden  behind  Bewildered  Maid/'  for  instance,  or 
the  scenes,  who,  though  furnished  any  other  stuff  with  which  it  pleases 
out,  and  sent  on  to  swell  a  pa-  his  fancy  to  infect  tlie  taste  of  the 
geant,  is  solicitous  about  nothing  so  tO¥m,   and  you  will    be  yet  more 

*  A  published  song  beginning  ^^  Fair  grove^  to  ifiC£  alone  I  do  impart^**  beaxing  his 
name,  must  have  been  composed  by  him  when  not  nM>re  than  seven  or  eight  years  (»d. 

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IdSl.J          8hiiek'ifihePri)gre§sofro(xaSciem:ektSngkmd.  6S 

fltroogly  impresfied  with  the  powers  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  is  the  onlj 

of  a  perfimner,  who  can  so  tickle  description  one  shall  erer  hear  of  a 

the  ears,  and  confound  the  under-  iirst-rate  singer's  acting.  Sedgewick, 

standings,  of  a  polished  people.  Incledon,  Dignum,  and  Kelly,  were 

It  is  not  want  of  judgment;  for  no  certainly  not  gifted  with  powerful 

man  has  a  better  unoerstandin^  of  intellect;     nor    was     the    sinking, 

his  art,  abstracted  from  its  practice :  even  of  the  best  of  them,    distin* 

nor  is  it  any  deficiency  in  the  means  guished  by  any  thing  beyond  its  na* 

of  execution ;  for  he  has  a  compass  tural  beauty  of  tone,  and  some  me* 

of  nineteen  notes,   and  could  once  chanical  excellences  of  execution.  But 

shig  any  thing  in  any  manner.  the  person  we  are  now  describing 

It  is  not  easy,  then,  to  account  for  is  a  very  different  being*    His  singw. 

varieties  which  savour  of  singidarity,  ing  is  fiiU  of  mind,  full  of  sensibility  ; 

alike  in  the  apprehension  and  ex-  and  his  very  defects  are  often  to  be 

pression  of  sentiment  and  musical  traced  to  curious  operations  of  the 

phrases, — for  violence  of  transition,  intellectual    faculties.      His    head, 

lor  sudden  stops  and  breaks,  for  an  therefore,   as  a   craniologist  would 

adniizture  of  disagreeable  noises,  for  say,  is  worth  examining, 

super-abundant  ornament,  and  other  Mr.  Braham's    temperament   ap- 

defects,— idl  which  are  yet  blended  pears  to  be  of  that  particular  kind 

with   the  most  splendid  and  capti-  which  is  at  once  sensitive  and  me- 

vating  transitions  of  style ;  with  nre,  lancholic.   (We  gather  it  only  from 

energy,  pathos,  elegance,  and  oma-  what  we  have  observed  in  the  public 

ment,  not  only  in  higher  perfection  exercise  of  his  art.)     His  concep- 

than  any  other  professor  can  singly  tions  are  rather  powerful  than  Sud- 

exhibit,  but  which  cannot  be  paral-  den ;  his  feelings  more  intense  than 

leled  by  the  aggregate   qualities  of  irritable.     The  often  and  long  dis- 

all  his  competitors.  puted  difference,  as  to  the  actu^  sen- 

The  fact  is,  that  these  eccentrici-  sations  with  which  actors  enter  into 
ties  are  referrible  to  no  single  cause,  their  parts,  we  look  upon  it,  is  to 
In  the  first  place,  there  is  nothing  be  settled  in  a  very  easy  way.  Act^- 
8o  difficult  to  restrain  as  that  luxu-  ors,  by  habit,  acquire  a  power  of 
riance  of  ability,  which  continually  instant  irritability  and  tranquilliza- 
tempts  the  possessor  to  its  excessive  tion,  and  of  taking  up  a  passion  and 
employment ;  for  there  is  a  natural  laying  it  down  in  a  moment — which 
desire  to  put  forth  every  power,  faculty  they  obtain  by  continued  pro- 
upon  all  occasions,  and  to  take  the  fessional  excitation,  and  by  studying 
worid  by  storm.  In  the  next  place,  to  develope,  with  the  rapidity  of  a 
a  professor,  in  the  course  of  the  la-  chemical  evolution,  the  passion  they 
borious  study  and  practice  which  wish  to  represent.  Thus  by  habitu- 
such  attainments  imply,  is  liable,  from  ally  assuming  the  tones,  gestures,  and 
the  very  fervour  to  which  his  sen-  physiognomical  agitation,  incident 
aibility  and  powers  are  brought  by  to  the  occasion,  they  gradually  and 
action,  to  be  captivated  and  led  insensibly,  as  it  were,  acquire  the 
astray  by  modes  of  expression,  which  power  of  instaTitaneousIy  calling  up 
better  suit  his  own  heated  imagina-  certain  appropriate  trains  of  feeling 
tion,  than  the  sober  sympathies  of  a  and  action,  and  of  as  instantly  sink- 
mixed  audience,  who  cannot  be  af-  ing  hito  repose.  The  intellectual 
fected  so  intensely.  Hence  extrava-  process,  to  which  a  singer  subjects 
gance  of  every  kind.  himself,  is  somewhat  dissimilar.    He 

Vocalists  have  been  but  too  long,  can  assume  few  of  the  exterior  marks 

and  too  generally,   looked  upon  as  of  passion ;  and  his  sensibility  is  only 

human   machines, — two-legged   up-  to  oe  exerted  on  the  sounds,  through 

right  instruments,  adapted  to  carry  which  alone  he  expresses  emotion, 

to  perfection   the   art  of  melodious  Hence  all  his  feelings  should  be  more 

intonation.      Mind    has    been    con-  intense,  in  proportion  as  their  exter- 

sidered  to  be  almost  out  of   their  nal  demonstration  is  less  vivid ;  and 

province ;  and  this  opinion  has  been  so  far  as  our  own  experience  goes, 

not  a  little  aided  by  the  total  in-  or  as  we  have  been  able  to  arrive  at 

difference  of  singers  to  the  duties  of  a  knowledge  of  what  passes  in  the 

the  stage.    '*  What  a  stick  he  is,"  m  breasts  of  vocalists  in  general,  unless 


64  Skeiek  rf  ike  Progreu  of  Vocal  Seienee  m  EngUmd.  [[July, 

a  singer  communes  with  himself  for  which  he  contrasts,  by  an  expression 

some  time  previous  to  commencing  a  perfectly  sublime^  with  the  remorse, 

song,  and  stimulates,  raises,  and  ma-  hesitation,  and  anguish,  of  the  pre- 

tures,  by  silent  reflection,   the  sen-  ceding  recitative, 
timents  to  which  he  is  about  to  give        In  these,  the  vocal  adaptations  of 

utterance,  his  imitation  will  be  cold  pause,   emphasis,  and  tone,  to  the 

and  lifeless,  although  the  technical  expression  of  the  access  and  recess 

perfection  of  time,  tune,  tone,  and  of  passion,  are  wonderful  and   un* 

execution,  be  complete.    Hence  it  is,  equalled  traits    of  imaffinatiou  and 

we  so  often  perceive  mechanical  ex-  execution ;  and  prove  mat  the  very 

cellence  uninformed  by  a  particle  of  depths  of  passion  are  the  true  tests 

spirit :  the  truth  is,  the  generality  of  of  the  natural  endowments,  and  ac- 

the  profession  do  not  seek  to  warm  quired  accomplishments,  of  this  ex- 

and  cherish  the    imagination — they  traordinary  individual.    They  are  the 

present  it  sparingly  with  poor  and  exertions  of  his  genius,  which  give 

meagre  food — they  are,  indeed,  but  him  place  and  precedence  above  all 

too  prone  to  starve  the  fancy  by  their  competitors. 

austere  adherence  to  studies  strictly        But  in  the  midst  of  these  roanifes- 

musical.    Out  of  this  arises  a  very  tations  of  power,  his  peculiar  defects 

curious  moral  illustration.    Many  of  obtrude  themselves  as  conspicuously, 

those  singers,  both  male  and  female,  if  not  more  so,  than  in  any  of  lus 

who  have   been  principally   distiii-  lighter  efforts. 

guished  for  expressiveness,  have  been        The  beautiful  recitative  of  Jephtha 

also  notorious  for  the  licentiousness  is  deformed  by  singiUar  and  vitiated 

of  their  lives.    We  infer  from  this  pronunciation  of  the  words,  and  by 

fact,  that  their  natural  warmth  of  nasality  in  the  tone — by  forced,  hard, 

temperament    has    been    the    cause  and  sudden  terminations  of  notes :  all 

both  of  their  excellence  in  art,  and  these,    however,    are    assignable  to 

of  their  obliquity  of  conduct  excess  of   elaboration,    and  to   the 

To  apply  these  observations  to  the  still  stronger  cause  we  have  before 

subject  of  our  notice :  pointed  out,    the  referring  to,  and 

From  the  forcible  expression  of  satisfying,  the  heated  imagination 
Mr.  Braham,  and  the  strong  lights  of  the  performer  himself,  instead  of 
and  shades  with  which  he  invests  his  appealing  to  the  natural  feelings  of 
passages,  it  is  obvious,  that  he  has  some  iudicious  and  sensitive  auditor. 
i>rooded  over  his  conceptions,  and.  It  is  thus  that  sensibility  is  liable  to 
by  long  consideration,  has  wrought  produce  a  dangerous  exaggeration. 
up  his  sensibility  to  those  powerful  His  great  defects  have  been  a  want 
exhibitions  of  feeling,  which  are  dis-  of  uniformity  of  tone,  and  the  vio- 
played  in  his  songs  of  passion.  Take,  lence  and  abruptness  of  his  transi- 
tOT  example,  his  recitative  and  air  from  tions.  His  notes  will  sometimes  flow 
Jephtha,  the  most  celebrated  of  his  per-  in  a  beautiful  succession  of  sweetness 
formances,  where  as  much  study  and  and  polish  for  a  bar  or  two,  when 
elaboration  will  be  perceived  as  m  the  suddenly  there  will  come  a  break, 
acting  of  Mr.  John  Kemble.— Call  a  stop,  a  note  unfinished;  an  over- 
to  mind  his  description  of  the  rising  strained  sound,  brought  out  like  the 
sun  in  '^  The  Creation."  With  what  blast  of  a  horn ;  or  some  unaccount- 
vigour  does  he  portray  the  bursts  able  noise,  originating  in  some  strange 
of  light  by  a  volata  most  judiciously  idea  of  peculiar  expression,  which  in- 
applied  to  the  word  '^  darts  ;"  and  terrupts  and  annihilates,  in  a  moment, 
by  what  gradations  of  tone  and  feel-  the  soft  train  of  satisfaction,  and  de- 
ing,  he  images  the  personal  senti-  stroys  the  illusion.  Every  passion 
ments  of  '*  An  am'rous  Joyful  happtf  in  singing  must  be  expressed  with  a 
spouse^** — and  "  A  giant  proud  and  certain  melodiousness ;  sorrow,  an- 
gUid  to  run  his  measured  course  !  "  ger,  and  revenge,  must  be  tempered 

In  the  air  which  follows  the  first  in  their  harshness,  or  the  charm  is 
named  recitative,  how  beautifully  dissolved.  Inaccurate  notions  re- 
does he  delineate  the  heartfelt,  sub-  specting  the  true  position  of  the  grand 
dued  mixture  of  parental  suffering  boundary,  continually  lead  Mr.  Bra- 
and  joy,  in  the  pathetic  melody,  ham  beyond  it ;  his  hearers  cannot 
"  Wiiji  hcry  Angefs,  through  the  skies!"  follow  him,  and  the  bond  of  sj-mpathy 


I 


18dl.3            SSceieh  rf  the  Pf^igrw  of  Focal  Seienee  in  Engh^  63 

is  broken.    It  is  the  same  warmth  of  voice  of  compass^  tone,  volume,  and 
feeling,  the  same  exuberance  of  fancy  accuracy  of  intonation,  superior  to 
and  of  power,  that  tempt  him  to  any  we  ever  heard* — an  execution 
wander  mto  an  inapplicable  super-  incapable  of  embarrassment ;  a  fancy 
abundance  of  ornament;  and  the  con-  that  delighted  to  apply  its  unbounded 
atant  abuse  of  these  coi^oined  powers  means  with  the  most  profuse  extra- 
of  imagination  and  execution  is  the  vagance ;  a  conception  which  mani- 
more  wonderful,  because  he  has  not  fested  itself  in  grandeur,   tenderness, 
only  a  scientific  and  critical  under-  and  pathos ;  and  an  elocution,  for- 
standing  of  the  art,  but  he  has  at  all  cible  and   impressive.      But,  unfor- 
times  had  ample  opportunity  of  dis-  tunately,  there  was  no   continuitv ; 
playing  all  his  talents— in  their  pro-  though  there  was  *'  every  thing  by 
per  places.     It  is,  therefore,  the  more  turns,"  there  was  ^'  nothing  long." 
surprising  that  he  should  have  yield-  He  took  his  cue,  indeed,  from  Uie 
ed  to  the  vulgar  hope  of  manifesting  place :  and  thus  his  singing  was  re- 
all  his  various  abilities  at  once,  and  fined  and  voluptuous  at  the  Opera; 
of  reconciling  incongruities  the  most  scientific,  full  of  energy  and  captiva- 
anomalous.    But  such  has  been  the  tion,  in  the  orchestra ;  loud,  gaudy, 
fact ;  and  while  it  has,  in  almost  every  and  declamatory,  at  the  theatre.  But 
instance,  deprived  him  of  that  highest  the  faults  we  have  recited  were  com- 
praise  which  belongs  to  fine  and  pure  mon  to  him  in  all  places ;  and  seldom, 
taste,  it  has  had  a  most  prejudicial  indeed,  could  he  be  said  to  l^ave  the 
effect  upon  the  judgment  of  the  pub-  train  of  pure  satisfaction  to  flow  free* 
Kc,  in  giving  birth  to  a  race  of  imi-  ly,  and  without  some  check,  for  a  few 
tators,   who  i^awl   out    their  tones,  seconds  of  time. 
squeeze  out  their  words,  and  trick  up  How  curious  is  the  compensatiofi 
their    second-hand  mannerism  with  to  be  observed  in  nature,  and  throngh 
every  piece  of  dirty  ragged  finery,  nature  extending  into  art.     Harrison 
their  great  model  has  worn  out  and  had  few  and  feeble  requisites ;  but 
cast  off,  and  then  expect  to  pass  for  he  ciUtivated  them  with  so  delicate 
admirable  singers  and  fertile  inven-  and  so  just  an  apprehension  of  his 
tors.    Thus,  the  whole  ear  of  £ng-  capacities,  that  he  lived  to  exhibit 
land  is  "  rankly  abused ;"  and  a  ge-  the  most  finished  model  of  particular 
neration  must  pass  away,  before  the  excellence  of  any  singer ;  and,  by  his 
art  can  be  purified  from  the  corrup-  example,  he  did  more  to  purify  and  im^ 
tions  with  which  Mr.  Braham's  ex-  prove  the  public  taste  than  any  of  his 
ample  has  infected  it.    Something,  predecessors.  Braham  has  ei^oyedna- 
however,  will  depend  upon  his  sue-  tural  gifts,  more  extensive,  andcora- 
cessors.    At  present,  there  is  no  legi-  manding,  than  any  competitor  in  art 
timate  heir  to  his  great  honours.    We  on  record.     He  has  left  nothing  un« 
earnestly  hope,  that  some  true  genius  sought,  that  practice  could  obtain, 
will  arise,  who  may  have  courage.  He  may,  indeed,  be  said  to  have 
firmness,  and  power  enough  to  re-  reached  the  summit  of  perfection  in 
store  ease,  grace,  and  polished  refine-  every  thing  but  combination.      Yet 
ment,  and  to  re-establish  dethroned  has  this  vocalist  so  corrupted    the 
nature ;  **  instinct  with  feeling,"  but  judgment  of  his  age,  that  half  a  cen- 
not  '*  drunk  with  passion."  tury  will  scarcely  suffice  to  restore 
Mr.  Braham,  in  his  zenith,  had  a  British  Vocal  Art  to  a  state  of  purity. 


*  Its  quality  approached  more  nearly  to  that  of  the  reed  than  the  string.  He  used 
the  fidaette ;  but  m>m  a  facility  of  taking  it  up  on  two  or  three  notes  of  his  compass  at  plea- 
sure, he  had  so  completely  assimilated  the  natural  and  falsette  at  their  junction,  that  it 
was  impossible  to  discover  where  he  took  it,  though  the  peculiar  tone  in  the  highest 
notes  was  clearly  perorotible.  Before  his  time,  the  junction  had  always  been  very 
clumsily  conducted  by  English  singers.  Johnstone,  who  had  a  fine  falsette,  managed  it 
■o  badly,  that  he  obtain^,  from  the  abruptness  of  his  transidonti,  the  cognomen  of 
^^  Bubble  and  Sqtuak.^\  Braham  could  proceed  with  the  utmost  rapidity  and  correctness 
through  the  whole  of  his  compass  by  semitones,  without  the  hearer  being  able  to  ascer- 
tain where  the  falsette  commenced. 


••  EMkUkm  of  tke  Bogftd  JetOmH^.  [Uuly, 


EXHIBITION  OF  THE  ROYAL  ACADEMY. 


HERB  BEtiYNNETU  A  TEDIOUS.  BRIEF  TRACTATE  ON 
XNAMBLLKD  WITB  SUNDSIK  STRAUNQE  CONCSITBS  VERY  PLBA8AUNT  TO  RKDE. 

If  my  prolMne  tedknu  leem. 
Or  ibe  mt  too  loug  they  deem, 
hH  tbem  know  my  love  they  vln, 
Thoajrh  they  go,  ere  I  be^D. 
Jntt  as  if  thry  should  attend  me 
Till  the  last,  and  then  commend  me. 
For  I  vrill,  for  no  man's  pleasure. 

Change  a  syllable ; 

Neither,  for  their  praises,  add 
Auffht  to  mrnd  what  they  thinlc  bad ; 
Pedants  shall  not  tie  my  phrase 
To  our  antique  author's  wavs. 
Since  it  never  was  ray  fiishion, 
Tb  make  work  of  reoreation. 

Tkii,  oTBOwtetkimg  UkeU,iMiM  Georgt  Withtr. 

I  UATi  a  great  notion  that  this  ar-  wherein  the  plot  thickens ;  a  third 
tide  should  have  been  written  last  completes  the  climax  of  obscurity, 
month.  '^  Aye !  marry^  should  it^  and  forms  commonly  at  once  a  para- 
Mr.  F.  A. !  that's  already  proved ;  graph  and  a  proem.  By  this  time, 
and  it  will  go  nigh  to  be  suspected  hand  and  pen  are  warmed,  ideas  and 
to,  shortly.  Was  not  the  late  wea-  ink  flow  freely,  and  hurry  skurry  on 
ther  bad  enough  for  the  quivering  we  go,  '^  over  park,  over  pale,  tho- 
nerves  of  your  patients  (prefix  a  rough  bush,  thorough  briar, '  stniggle 
^llable^  friend !  go  on !)  without  e-  toughly  up  the  huls,  swoop  trium- 
nacting  the  Cyclops,  hanging  over  phantly  down  the  dales,  and  dash 
them  with  hand  uncertain  where  to  through  the  hissing  torrent,  with  the 
choose,  whetting  your  teeth  with  heart  of  Achilles,  or  William  of  De- 
horrid  delight,  swallowuig  up  the  loraine,  and  with  the  eagle-conquer- 
fattest  with  the  eye  of  your  oesopha-  ing  speed  of  Burger's  ghostly  heavy 
gus  for  a  whole  month  together  ?  Go  dragoon  1  But  now  as  we  approach 
to !  thou  art  a  naughty  invisible,  an  the  goal  (the  ninth  folio  of  fools- 
uopunctual  mystery !'  "  Nay !  gra«  cap),  dark  fears  come  across  me, 
oious  Fractioso !  I  am  always  true  as  how  to  arrest  my  flaming  course, 
a  toledo,  to  the  appointed  day."  Now  I  do  envy  Lieut.  Hatchway's 
'^  Yea,  but  it  may  be,  that  with  the  anchorage  in  the  clover  field ;  nay ! 
worthy  Mr.  Runsden,  thou  dost  even  the  son  of  Kehama,  for  whose 
sometimes  err  a  litUe  in  the  month."  landing  Mr.  Southey  has  provided  as 
'^  Good !  you  burn,  as  the  children  say  effectually,  if  not  quite  so  pleasanUy. 
at  Hoodman  blind."  Now  to  proceed  i  r\^  ,»  r%  ^  v  ^  ^u  » 
I  detest  \wo  parts  out  of  tfie  three,  On-on  A^ioU^-impt  he«nong  they  ndl 

into  whicli  every  discourse  naturally        ••••••• 

divides  itself :  viz.  the  beginning  and  on-cn  Acv  roll,  and  now,  with  duTer- 

the  end — and  agam,  of  these  two  ingdiock, 

abominations,  the  latter  is  with  me  Are  dash*d  against  the  rode  that  giids  the 

in  the  worst  odour.    To  begin  is  a  pole, 

great  exertion.     I  have  made  many  Down  nom  his  shattered  midl  the  unhappy 

attempts  to  jump  over  this  seed  or  bouI 

root,  as  it  were,  of  an  article,  and  !■  dropt— ten  thousand  diousand  fathoms 

have  essayed   to  commence  in   the  ^^ .    down, 

middle,  as  tiie  Irish  say;  but  witii  Tin  m  an  ice-nft  "mid  the  eternal  snow, 

no  success—and  I  find  notiiing  so  ^^  ^"^""'^  "*  "^^ 

proper,  as  a  nice,  short,  paradoxical  There  was  a  stop,  my  countrymen ! 

sentence,  after  the  theory  of  my  old  But  the  Editor  s  trumpet   sounds 

Scotch  usher,  and  the  practice  of  our  Halt !  my  pen  is  bona  fide  pulled  up 

Mr.  Table  Talk.     This  sentence  in-  into  line ;  this  manceiivre,  however, 

duces    another    of    greater    length,  being  performed  on  the  fore  legs,  in- 


1881.^  EMkOUitm  tf  the  Rb^td  Aedden^.  ef 

stead  of  the  haunches,  the  master  is  books  Hke  these,  I  can  trifle  awaj 

in  damger  of  tasting  the  ^praas,  three  the  summer  hours,  not  without  op* 

ftet  beyond  the  nose  of  his  steed.  portunities  of  benefiting  others— the 

I  trusted,  by  this  time,  to  have  got  contemplative  life  preferring  to  the 

upon  my  subject,  as  the  composers  active ;  esteeming  it,  with  old  Chap- 

aay,  t>nt  my  will  backs  as  obstinately  man,  "  much  more  manly  and  sacred, 

as  a  cat,*  and  this  arises  from  my  in*  in  harmless  and  pious  study,  to  sit 

capability    of   fashionable    feelings,  till  I  sink  into  my  grave,  than  to 

For  shine   in  our  vain-glorious  bubbles 

When  die  flowen  are  appearing  and  impieties." 

In  the  hlythe  month  of  May ;  I  said  a  little  way  back,  that  my 

mid  the  smooth-shaven  elastic  lawns  tastes  and  likings  seemed  changed  at 

are  smothered  with  lilacs  and  labur-  this  time.    During  the  drizzlings  of 

nams;  when  November  and    February,  and  the 

^  ,  east  ¥rind8  of  March,   I  enter  with 

Hnmaboutgbbesof  doverands^pcas;  P*^  ^^^^  Y^^^  ^«  t^JV^^'^u  "^ 

'^  ^  town.  I  see  all  new  exhibitions ;  hear 

and    the    early  birds    shake   away  all  new  singers ;  freauent  the  sacred 
the  moisture  from  the  young  twigs,  Argyll,  the  Cyder  Cellar,  the  Opera, 
in  a  "  roarie  "  shower ;  then  must  I  Long's,  Colnaghi's,  and  the  Coal-hole, 
away  from  the  suffocating  streets,  I  pore  over  Finiguerra's  and  Marc 
and    the  dusty    trees  in  the  Park,  Antonio's;    rummage  carefully    the 
to    the    odorous    pheasant-haunted  catalogue  of  Messrs.    *    *    *   and 
groves  of    *    *    *,  with  its  birch*  •    ♦    ♦  &c  for  old  bokes,  read  one 
covered  steeps,  and  bashful  stream :  or  two  new  ones,  write  articles^  and 
and  let  the  "  monster  London  laugh  inspect  one  magazine  (the  London), 
at  me,"  as  Cowley  says,  it  shall  find  three  reviews,  one  Sunaay  paper,  and 
It  a  hard  task  to  draw  me  voluntarily  six  weekly  ditto.    The  Fme  Arts  noui 
back  again.  At  this  season,  I  change  more  especiaUy  sway  me  ;  and  if  the 
my  nature,  and  feel  most  intimatdy  fit  did  not  have  an  end,  I  should  be 
the  connexion  between  the  animal  in  a  fair  way  to  go  mad  with  enthu- 
and    vegetable   world— —nay,    more  siasm.    When  I  am  seated  on  a  com* 
than  half,  of  me  to  the  latter  doth  fortable  Ottoman,  under  the  light  of 
belong ;  water  is  as  necessary  as  air :  my  lamp,  with  a  friend  or  two  of 
—a   soaking   shower    re-invigorates  congenial  habits,  having  my  books 
me,  and  washes  away  the  black  va^  before  me  in  their  mahogany  sane* 
pours  of  the  brain— my  winter-likings  tuary  crowned  with  some  casts,  full- 
and  town  enjoyments  slide  out  of  sized,  from  antique  busts  and  vases, 
{dace,  and  seem  to  me  great  vanity  statues  round  me,  and  the  perfume 
and    dross— even    my    selection    of  of  greenhouse  plants  from  the  anti*> 
books  must  harmonize  with  the  time  room  ;  —  when  pictures   regale    my 
of  year.     Homer  loses  considerably  eyes ;  and  the  full  sound  of  the  harp 
with  me,  and  is  postponed  to  the  and  piano,  with  sweet  voices  from 
Georeics: — I   can    read  a    little  of  the  inner  room,  my  ears;  when  my 
Wordsworth's  Exoirsion,  most  of  his  tables  groan  with  me  weight  of  vo- 
White  Doe,  and  many  of  his  Mitcel-  lumes  of  Rafiaelle,  Michael  Angelo, 
hmeous  Poems,     Browne's  pastorals  Rubens,  Poussin,  Parmegiano,  Giu* 
find  favour,  and  the  song  or  the  Ni-  lio,  &c.  &c  and  the  massive  portfolio 
belungen  is  laid  aside.    I  have  an  cases    open    wide  their  doors,  dis- 
utter  distaste  for  Pope,  and  a  most  closing  yet  fresh  treasures  within; 
marvellous  clinging  to  Chaucer's  fra-  then  do  I  riot  in  immeasurable  de- 
grant  lusty  descriptions  of  May  see-  light — I  am  great  as  Sardanapalus — 
nery.t    I  wear  out  the  boards  of  an  I  hold  Sir  Epicure  Mammon  in  con* 
Isaac  Walton,  with  his /noujcAaiuonf,  tempt— I  am  a  concentration  of  all 
every  summer,  and  thumb  the  Fairy  the  Sidtans  in  the  Arabian  Nights.—* 
Queen  most  notablv.    (How  can  anv  Every  tMng,  and  every  body,  seem 
poetical  mind  find  it  tedious?)  With  coideur  de  rose!  the  coffee  is  exqui- 

*  I  assnre  the  ignorant  in  domestic  natural  history,  that  this  simile  is  as  eminendy 
pioper  for  its  truth,  as  any  thing  in  the  Chian,  and,  to  the  best  of  my  belief,  equally 
nord. 

t  See  his  Fhwcr  and  Leafy  Complaint  of  the  Black  Knight,  &c  &c. 


M                                 EMbition  tf  ike  Soj^  Academy.  V^Jf 

ntely  fragrant ;  the  salrer  and  spoons  been  watching  the  frolics  of  the  lamlis 
become  gilt;  the  Worcester  china^  the  all  day^  and  at  night  regret  not  the 
rarest  oriental.  My  interesting  young  slender  elegance  of  Milanie,  thero- 
friend  *  *  *  is  Menelaus  Helen  luptuous  agility  of  Noblet^  nor  the 
—and  the  Maraschino,  flaming  and  astonishing  ease  and  precision  of 
dancing  in  its  crystal  bounds^  be«  Fanny  Bias!  Pictures  and  print! 
comes  Nepenthes.  But  great  plea-  afiect  me  but  little,  excepting  those 
sure  is  as  troublesome  as  pain ;  and  of  Claude,  Rubens,  Poussin,  Ruys* 
unable  to  fix  calmly,  I  wander  rest-  dael,  Wilson,  Turner,  CoUins,  the 
lessly  from  the  Delphic  Sybil  of  M.  drawings  of  W.  Daniel  and  Dewint, 
Angelo,  to  the  Pietro  Martire  of  Ti-  or  the  etchings  of  Waterloo,  Vivares, 
ziano — ^from  the  15  of  Corregio,  to  Kolbe,*  G.  and  W.  Cooke,  not  for- 
the  admirable  £cce  Homo  of  Rem-  getting  the  faithful  aquatintas  of  W. 
brandt — from  the  weighty  stanzas  of  Westall.  Nested  serene  in  this  cool 
the  Vatican,  to  the  nery  gallery  of  greenery,  I  am  contented  to  sit  un- 
the  Luxembourg — and  from  the  vo-  Known  to  fame  and  its  concomitant 
luptuous  reveries,  and  terrific  dreams,  detraction ;  coveting  nothing  so  little 
of  Fuseli,  to  the  chaste  monastic  as  the  task  of  writmg  an  article  on 
scenes  of  La  Soeur,  or  the  simple  in-  the  Exhibition,  with  its  unsavoury 
nocence  of  Bonasoni,  not  having  ad-  associations  of  heat  and  smother, 
miration  enough  wherewithal  to  ad-  Nevertheless,  here  I  am  in  Lon« 
mire.  don;  have  been  twice  to  Somerset 
All  this  flies  before  the  swallow  House ;  and  now  I  must  flourish  my 
— »I  babble  of  green  fields,  and  run  to  goose  feather.  What  a  mlserabfe 
them,  while  town  eaietv  is  at  its  wretch  is  he  who  hath  the  practice 
height.  I  lose  all  reUsh  for  artificial  of  painting ;  and  how  doubly  miser- 
existence  ;  criticisms  loathing;  ab-  able  to  be  obliged  to  show  it  in  cri- 
juring  theatres,  French  dishes,  French  ticisms!  Instead  of  placidly  admire 
wines,  and  French  fashions ;  reject-  ing,  like  the  happy  ignorant  in  these 
ing  ornament;  scorning  all  gems,  matters,  the  pictures  which  please 
Satc  what  the  dewy  mom  ^°i>  be  worries  himself  and  others  te 
Congeals  upon  each  little  spire  of  grass,  death  about  some  error  in  perspeo- 
Which  careless  shepherds  beat  down  as  tiye,  some  weakness  in  drawing,  a 
they  pass.  Wotton,  or  Raleigh,  slight  deficiency  in  keeping,  or  some 
And  when  quietly  bosomed  in  my  unhappiness  in  the  touch  or  surfacs;^ 
cottage  with  the  lady  of  my  heart,  which  no  one  else  in  the  world  can 
I  view  the  bright  rim  of  the  moon  see  but  himself.  I  myself  am  as  bi- 
rising  above  the  dark  bosky  screens  on  goted  to  all  this  delightfiil  trumpery 
the  steeps  high  above  me,  I  would  as  any  body  ever  was ;  yet  I  loathe 
not  exchange  the  distant  bark  of  the  writing  on  it ;  still  it  must  be  doncb 
dog  for  the  fiill  tones  of  Charles  1  must  show  my  scvencey  or  iht  seavons 
Young  or  Macready ;  the  fresh  odours  will  deem  me  incapable,  and  my  re- 
wafted  through  my  casement  (guUt-  putation  as  a  judge  is  blasted— others, 
less  of  stained  glass),  for  the  Persian  again,  will  c^l  it  '*  aflectations,"  and 
perfumes  of  Lady  •  •  ♦  •  ♦ — ^nor  the  my  popularity  goes  out  like  the  snuff 
mint  roar  of  the  unseen  water-mUl,  of  a  rushlight.  This  is  Scylla  and 
for  the  dulcet  voices  of  sweet  Kate,  Charybdis.  I  shall  accommodate  my 
our  Salmon,  nor  evenCamporese;  and  style  to  both  parties,  and  the  respec- 
much  less  for  that  of  Madam  Ma-  tive  pictures. 

rinone  or  Signor  de  Begni. — Rossini  I  I  must  be  allowed  another  objec- 
care  not  much  for — ^Beethoven  moves  tion  or  two.  In  noticing  the  works 
me  not — Paer  hath  but  little  power,  of  contemporaries,  it  is  difficult,  if  not 
and  even  Mozart — but  no !  amid  this  impossible,  for  the  honestest  mind  to 
scenery  his  '^  magic  flute**  breathes  separate  prejudices  from  genuine 
more  wildly,  and  *'  Ah  jyerdona*'  opinions.  I  would  cut  off  my  fore- 
pierces  the  heart  with  a  still  deeper  finger  (of  the  left  hand)  to  be  impar 
pang  of  harmonious  love.      I  have  tial,  yet  I  never  can  satisfy  myself 

*  An  aduiimblc  Qerman  artist,  whose  style  of  touching  gnarled  oaks,  age-moascd, 
and  fore-grounds  in  general,  surpasses  tlic  English  even  in  a  greater  degree  than  they 
in  their  turn  excel  the  French.  Jf  the  reader  douht  this,  let  him  walk  to  Colnaghi**  or 
3JoIteno\,  ar.d  c^nryarc  Ki»lb?*.>»  etchings  with  the  Lith^Vj^rapl-y  ci'IVIr.  Hciiand. 


1 8S1 .3  Exhilntum  of  the  jRoyo/  Atademy.  ft 

that  I  am  ao.    Widi  several  of  our  where  hig  Ben  and  tuftj  Tambun* 

Eeatest  artists  I  have  the  honour  to  lane  are  sure  to  have  the  best  of  it. 

acquainted,  and  love  sees  no  faults.  A  Lord  Mayor  or  Alderman  in  his 

---If  I  remark  on  the  apparent  defi«  gown  will  knock  me  down  six  cabi- 

ciencies  of  •  •  •  or  *  *  •  *,  it  is  not  net  Stothard's.    A  bay  horse,  with  a 

tiiat  these  deficiencies  are  offensive  pea-green    back    ground,  slays  the 

to  me ;  but  I  have  a  morbid  sensi-  guilty  Eriphile  over  again.    William 

tiveness  for  their  fame,  which  leads  Daniel  is  suffocated  with  the  smell 

jpe  to  look  with  the  eyes  of  the  hard  of  a  monstrous  cabbage   '  from  no* 

and  inimical,    so    to    prevent  their  ture,'  and  a  whole  length  Knight  of 

unfeeling  and  brutal  sneers.  the  Bath,  or  military  hero,  in  vermi- 

Things  that  spring  up  under  my  lion,  shall  trample  uito  oblivion  twen- 
Bose  dazzle  me.  I  must  look  at  them  ty  heads  by  Phillips  and  Owen,  the 
through  Time's  Telescope.  £lia  noble  pair  of  friendly  rivals.  All  this 
complains  that  to  him  the  merit  of  a  battling  for  popularity  muddles  mr 
MS.  poem  is  imcertam;— <'  print,"  brains,  and  I  sit  down  to  my  work 
as  he  excellently  says,  ''  settles  it"  without  any  precise  ideas  of  what  I 
—Fifty  years'  toning  does  the  same  am  going  to  say.  1  can  hold  forth 
thing  to  a  picture.  It  is  very  possi-  for  an  hour  on  Titian,  or  Par- 
ble,  that  Sir  Thomas  Lawrence  add  me^ano,  or  Primaticcio ;  and  will 
Phillips,  and  Owen,  are  as  good  draw  out  off  hand,  very  correctly, 
in.  their  way  as  Vandyke  (and  they  the  Creation  of  Adam  by  M.  Angelo, 
]uive  .  certainly  less  affectation).—  the  Abraham  and  Isaac  of  Fecelfi,  the 
Wilkie  may  be  better  than  Teniers,  <S^/.  Gtro/amo  of  Mazzuolo,  or  Raffael- 
aiid  Westall  be  as  much  the  origins-  lo's  Judgment  of  Paris  ;  nay,  for 
tor  of  a  style  as  Correggio.  I  really  Mr.  Weathercock's  favourite  Rem- 
believe  our  posterity  will  think  so ;  brandt,  I  could  dash  it  out  in  chia- 
but  in  the  mean  time  I  am  dubious  roscuro  blindfold,  because  I  am  gloat- 
and  uncomfortable.  I  have  not  the  ing  on  the  engravings  from  these  mas- 
most  distant  notion  of  the  relative  ters  all  day  long.  I  think  I  can  do 
merits  of  Claude  and  Turner,  and  am  nearly  as  much  for  several  pictures 
truly  mystified  by  Stothard  and  in  the  last  year's  exhibition ;  but  the 
FuselL  The  tremendous  ^'  Vision  of  present  is  about  as  an  agreeable  con- 
ihe  JLazar  House/'  by  the  latter,  is  a  fusion  to  me  as  Ariosto  on  the 
perfect  staggerer,  whether  we  regard  first  perusal.  But  to  begin  ni  good 
the  vigorous  conception,  the  scienti-  earnest :  Lo !  here  is  that  useful 
fie  composition,  the  daring  locking  member  of  the  Academy,  Samuel 
together  of  the  principal  group,  the  Stronger,  with  his  gracious  nod  — 
harmonious  colour,  the  grandeur  of  there,  dark  under  the  stream  of  light, 
the  drawing,  the  propriety  of  the  rests  Alcides  (of  whom  some  New- 
tone,  the  breadth  of  chiaroscuro,  or  ton  in  anatomy  found  out  the  other 
the  successful  impetuosity  of  his  day  that  the  muscles,  were  more 
raging  pencil.  charged  and  exaggerated  than  his 

If  the  reader  anticipates  a  detailed  own  pitiful  models.^  ;  and  before  me 

account  of  the  pictures  in  general,  winds  the  stair,  with  ladies  ascend- 

or  even  of  those  which  he  may  deem  ing  and  descending,  like  the  Angels 

the  most  prominent,  he  will  be  dis-  in  Jacob's  dream.  "  With  your  leave, 

appointed.     Even  if  he  should  find  eood  Sir,  Madam,  or  Miss,   I  will 

me  rather  discussing  the  cha^acteris-  halt  on  the  first  floor,  and  enter  the 

tic  features  of  the  artist's  mind,  than  Library." 

the  immediate  emanation  of  it  before  Let  us  look  at  1080,  by  Gandy. 
US,  he  must  look  to  my  motto,  and  be  It  is  an  imitation  of  Piranesi's  Canric" 
content;  if  not,  let  him  turn  to  the  cios,  consisting  of  various ^  friezes 
Literary  Gazette,  or  tbe  Morning  and  pieces  of  plate,  and  is  veiy  fan- 
Herald,  or  any  thing  else  he  likes  ciful,  but  wants  keeping,  solidity,  and 
better.  The  great  reason  for  being  breadth,  in  the  chiaroscuro  ;  for  this 
general  instead  of  particular,  is,  that  class  of  subjects  demands  the  great- 
my  memory  b  not  retentive  enough  est  attention  to  mechanicals.  I  would 
tpicarry  away  the  pictures  from  So-  just  as  soon  have  this  artist's  Mount 
nitrset  House,  home  ;  there  are  too  of  Judgment,  which  he  exhibited  se- 
nanvofthem;  one  drives  out  the  other  veral  years  agone,  as  Martin's  BeU 
^all  balance  is  lost  It  is  a  scramble,  shazzar;  and  there  was'  an  inveiiUj(ML 

Vol.  IV.  G 


■dll  farther  Vack  (by  the  same  hand,  oompoaition   a  little  reaettiUes   tker 

I  beHeFe)^   which  etruck  me  very  rapturous  embrace  of  Adam  and  Eve 

■Quch*-/A4r  Interior  of  the  Temple  of  after  the  tranfffresskm'^  known  by  the 

Jwpiierf  at  Elis,  as  described  by  Pau-  large  print  of  Mr.  Haughton>    the 

tanias.    I'll  follow  you  into  the  An-  able  mmiature  painter.    The  ezpres« 

tique  Academy^  if  you  please^  where  rion,  however,  of  the  Seslian  if  aid 

we  have  a  gpneat  curiosity,  the  first  b  far  more  intense,  and  is  in  its  way 

yaper  sk^ch  ever  publicly  exhibited  second  to  no  picture  I  ever  saw.  The 

by  Fuseli  (530),    The  Deliverance  of  colouring  I  do  not  like;  but  the  cha* 

Prometheus,  a  grand  composition ;  as  racter  of  the  wild  sea  is  capitally 

which  of  the  professor's  is  not  ?     I  seized — ^you  may  fairly  hear  the  wind 

sever  saw  any  thing  finer  than  the  roaring  round  the  tower.     I  would 

startled  eagle,  ''  the  winged  hound  give  a  trifle  for  a  feeling  transcript 

ttf  Jove,"  heaving  his-  rumed  plumes  of    the    priestess'    head. — No.  559, 

•ver  the  enduring  Titan.    An  abyss  North  Country  Mails  at  the  Peacock, 

yawns  between  hmi  and  the  deliverer,  Islington,  is  a  singular  example  of 

who  rises  on  the  opposite  peak  bear-  what  may  be  done  without  the  com-' 

ing  his  deep-roaring  bow.  The  round  monest  notion  of  light  and  shade, 

moon  shines  out  broadly  without  a  No.  583  is  a  frame  containing  four 

cloud  on  the  ghastly  scenery,  whose  views,  by  Mr.  Daniel,  for  his  Coast-' 

blank   desolation  is  unbroken  by  a  tn^  Voyage:  a  beautifully  accun^e 

shrub,  a  stump,  a  weed,  or  even  a  ami  chaste  work. — The  enamels  of 

pebble.    There  is  not  an  unnecessary  Bone,  RA.  and  Muss,  are  too  well 

•r  extraneous  particle  about  this  con-  appreciated  to  require  notice  here  ; 

ception :  as  its  parts  are  simple,  so  but  I  cannot  pass  by  the  charming 

its  whole  is  tremendous.     This  b  the  female  portraits  (812  and  869),  by 

way  to  imitate  and  rival  M.  Angelo ;  the  king  of  miniature  painters,  A.  F. 

by  investigating  hb  principles,  and  Chalon,  RA.  without  expressing  my 

daringly  acting  on  them ;  not  pur-  admiration  of  their  freshness,  beauty^ 

suing  the  course  of  Pellegrino  Tibal-  ease,  animation,  harmony,  and  mas- 

di,*  by  copying  the  peculiarities  of  terly  execution.    This  p^entleman  i» 

his  design,   or  pilfering  an  attitude  not  merely  the  first  in  his  profession, 

beyond  the  strength  of  the  plagiarist  but  nobody  comes  near  him  by  full 

to  manage.    I   wish  the  room  had  six  degrees  of  merit.     Nevertheless, 

been  farmer  enriched  by  this  inex-  tiie  heads  ef  Robertson,  Haughton, 

laustibie  inventor's  Prometheus  Vinc^  Newton,  and  Hayter,  are  very  clever; 

ius,  GS  Achilles'  Vision  of  Heaven,  with  and  there  is  a  young  lady,  Mbs  L. 

the  corpse  of  the  dusky  Memnon  in  Sharp,     who    promises   to    become 

the  foreground;  or  his  large  drawing  shortly   (if   she  be  not  already)  a 

•f  Siegrfi^ed  and  the  Linden-worm —  most  formidable  rival  to  these  gen- 

as  it  is,  the  admirers  of  genius  must  tlemen.  Be  so  good,  my  kind  reader, 

be  contented.    I  hear  he  b  now  bu-  to  look  at  her  half  length  of  dear  Misr 

•By  pamting  hb  Lycidas  on  a  large  M.  Tree  (who  has  been  very  ill,  poor 

wale,    {^^  What  ^e  the    grey-ly  soul !)  in  Viola  (868).     Miss  Eliza 

winds  his  sultry  horn,")  by  commis-  Reynolds,  too,  seems  ffetting  on  ra* 

sion  :   abo  the  first  appearance  of  pi<Uy,  in  every  sense  of  the  word  : — 

Undine  in  the  Cottage  of  Ulrich*    Sir  and  there  are  two  pretty  oil  pictures 

T.  Lawrence,  who  already  b  the  pos-  by  H.  Corbould  (494),  and  A.  Peri* 

•essor  of  his  voluptuous  Expectation,  gal  (499). 

The  Brunhild  andGuntheTyBXiaChriem''        My  business  is  not  with  the  obvi- 

kUd  weeping  over  the  Body  of  Siegfried  ous  and  palpable,  but  with  the  neg- 

in  the  Cathedral  at  Worms,  has  pur-  kcted  or  misunderstood ;  for  whidk 

diased  the  Hero  and  Leander,  wnich  reason  I  shall  say  little  or  nothing  on 


^  I  harenotfivgotten  *•*•  that  wonder  of  foreshortening,  of  congbbation  and  eccentricity,**' 
|fae  Elpettor  on  Ste  Arthltrave^  (oSuVo-.  x.  552.  'EXr^nop  H  ng  •>»«  pivraroh  &c.)  ;  nor 
Polyphemui  groping  at  the  entrance  of  his  cave,  '*  who  is  truly  in  the  conception  of  the 
Whob,  and  in  thedetail  of  tlie  parts  a  self-invented  being ;  a  form  than  which  M. 
Angdo  himself  never  conceived  one  of  savage  energy,  provoked  by  sufferings  and  re- 
Mm^  wiih  expressbn,  attitude,  and  limbs,  more  in  unison.**  The  same  bein^,  waking 
omr  the  sflony  of  the  bozning  wimble,  b  eneigetic,  if  not  original ;  but  in  his  UUfsut 
emA  Orrr ,  r  fini  nodmig  but  posture* 


IML2                       EMhUitm  tf  tke  Mn^  Ae^demg.  tl 

portrait  CMMe,  fiumliar  laiidicape»  of  Fuseli;  only  a  ibw  huiidred  ▼fsiv 
or  what  we  term  common  life — ^whieh  hare  reconciled  ua  to  them.  This  'k 
subjects  I  find  every  body  compre^  sickening  stuff,  yet  it  is  as  common 
hends  belter  than  myself.  There  as  air.  Stothard,  whose  taste  of  d»- 
ahouldbetwoof  us— onefor  ^^J&rc/^/  sign  is  the  antipodes  of  the  fiery 
vein,"  and  the  other  for  the  gusto  of  Keeper,  meets  with  just  as  much  mi*- 
Holland.  I  never  read  above  eighteen  apprehension  and  contempt.  For  one 
pages  of  Mr.  Crabbe's  poems ;  and  person  who  talks  of  the  juicy  Hilton^ 
naving  no  touch  of  humour  or  simple  we  have  ten  who  rave  about  £dwm 
nature  about  me,  cannot  relish  above  Landseer  and  Captain  Jones.  The^ 
four  or  five  of  Mr.  Wilkie's  pictures,  elegant  Westall,  and  the  classical 
of  which  I  have  the  prints.  (The  Howard,  are  not  much  better  off:. 
Ment  Day,  I  esteem  chiefly.)  1  look  and  the  spirited  illustrator  of  HomeVj^ 
at  them  coldly ;  and  instead  of  setting  Hesiod,  ^schylus,  and  Dante,  is  for* 
myself,  as  every  critic  should  do,  to  gotten  before  the  bust  of  Turnerelli^^ 
discover  intellectual  beauties,  I  bog-  or  the  ineffable  fopperies  of  the  eflS>> 
^le  at  his  colour.  This  is  my  fault,  minate  Canova. 
not  his ;  and  I  love  to  hear  him  A  little  while  ago  some  of  the  peri- 
praised  by  a  competent  judge,  heartily  odicals  made  a  stir  about  Thorsvald^* 
— yes,  i'faith,  heartily. — Mulready  s  sen.  I  turned  over  a  large  volume 
Careless  Messenger  (134),  which  I  of  careful  prints  after  the  basso-re- 
have  heard  abused,  hits  my  fancy  lievos  or  alto-relievos  of  this  sculptor, 
stronger  than  either  131  or  37,  by  without  meeting  anything  like  an 
his  great  rival.  I  really ^e/  this  pio-  original  thought  or  striking  attitude, 
ture ;  which  shows  as  much  subtlety  The  whole  series  was  cold,  common* 
in  expression,  and  is  more  painterlike,  place,  and  plagiaristic— Our  conn- 
than  the  far-famed  blind  Jiddler  I  The  trymen  are  bitten,  as  they  were  in 
moiety  of  the  kneeling  boy's  eye  is  Queen  Bess's  time,  with  a  rage  for 
worth  a  whole  Jew's  eye — so  is  the  every  thing  foreign :  they  go  to  Paris 
culprit's  right  hand.  I  could  say  a  and  purchase  ephemeral  lithography, 
monstrous  deal  about  the  tall  gawky  indecent  miniatures,  wretched  eye* 
lad  leaning  primly  against  the  wall ;  cutting  Napoleon  medals,  laborious 
and  show  every  thing  the  painter  in-  brassy  unartist-like  prints  by  Pesnoy* 
tended  no/  to  show  in  his  face;  but  ers;— to  Antwerp,  and  gather  mock 
there  are  many  other  pictures  I  must  Rubenscs ;— and  at  Rome,  they  con* 
attend  to.  tract  by  the  gross  for  counterfeit  ca* 
We  are  now  in  the  great  room,  meos,  modem  antiques,  oil  pictures 
reader,  where,  if  you  have  no  ob^jec-  by  M.  Angelo  ^who  never  painted 
tion,  we  will  sit  down  behuid  this  but  one  in  his  bfe),  copies  from  M. 
gay  party,  who  seem  to  be  dealing  Antonio,  and  thirty  times  retouched 
about  their  remarks  as  freely  as  you  impressions  of  the  Last  Supper  and 
and  I  do.  "  Whose  is  that?  "  "  Fu-  Transfiguration  of  Morghen,  and  the 
seli's."  —  "  La !  What  a  frightful  Vatican  Stanzas  of  Volpato.  Thea* 
thing!  I  hate  his  fancies  of  fairies  people  come  home  and  fancy  them« 
and  spirits  and  nonsense.  One  can't  selves  patrons  of  the  Arts !  So  thej 
understand  them."  (Speak  for  your-  are,  but  not  of  the  Fine  Arts* 
self,  miss !)  ''  It's  foolish  to  paint  I  don't  know  that  there  is  any  thing 
things  which  nobody  ever  saw,  for  new  to  be  said  on  the  portraits  of 
how  is  one  to  know  whether  they're  Phillips  and  Owen ;  every  body  who 

right?  Isn't  it,  Mr.  D ?  "  «  Ha,  has  eyes  or  understanding  knows  that 

ha !  Very  good  indeed — 'pon  ray  life  they  are  excellent.     I  wish  Mr.  Jack^ 

you're  very  severe !  "—What  a  pity  son,  who  is  fond  of  imitation,  would 

that  Fuseii  should  not  have  known  for  once,  and  for  ever,  imitate  thesf 

all  this  earlier  in  life,  that  he  might  two  gentlemen,  by  getting  down  from 

have  abjured  Oberon,   and  painted  Sir  «Joshua's  horse,  and  mounting  one 

portraits  of  ladies  and- — jouit  stools,  of  his  own :  it  is  an  awkward  thing 

— M.  Angelo,  Raflaello,  GiuUo,  &c.  to  ride  on  the  tail,  and  not  a  littl^ 

were  equally  ignorant,  or  thev  never  dangerous.    At  present  he  is  fightinr 

would  have  deluged  us  with  such  under  false  colours,  as  it  were ;  ana 

absurdities  asangds,  cherubim,  gods,  we  are  quite  in  the  dark  as  to  hip 

nymphs,  sat3rrs,  and  tritons,  creations  natural  style,  unlets  (which  Titjan 

just  as  ideal  as  the  sylphs  and  sataus  and  Sir  Thomas  Lawi^^ce  forbid) 


Tt                             EMbHian  tf  ike  Rotfol  Academjf.  C^uljr, 

M'Cf^tidjf  Ml  MatbM  is  a  specimen  has  dragged  out  the  daughter  to  wit- 

of  it.    Mr.  J.  will  excuse  my  remarks  ness  the    horrid  death-struggles  of 

if  lie  sees  thern^  which  is  not  likely  ;  her  silver-haired  father.    But  while  I  - 

bbt  really  his  portrait  of  the  venera^  condemn  Mr.  Allan's  choice  of  a  sub- 

ble  Northcote  is  so  good  that  it  is  a  ject,  his  general  execution  of  it  ha* 

great  pity  it  is  not  better.  ray  warm  and  sincere  commendation. 

I  should  not  have  been  so  officious  Howard's  Sabrina  (62)  seems  to  want 

at  to  mention  the  beautiful  works  of  more  action  and  energy.     It  is  surely 

the  President,  if  (as  I  am  told)  se-  altogether  a  little  heavy ;  and  does 

iferal  of  the  Grub-street  critics  had  not,  in  my  opinion,  come  up  to  hia 

not  presumed  to  criticise  his  i>>r(f/x>n-  picture  from  another  moment  of  the 

dtmderry  in  a  most  ignorant  style.    I>  same  story,  exhibited  at  the  British 

will    venture  to  say,    that  drapery  Institution  a  year  or  two  ago.     It  is. 

never  was  more  scientifically  nor  more  a  pity  that  this  last  is  not  engraved  ; 

gracefully  arranged,  than  the  proud  it  would  be  extremely  popular,  both 

robes  of  the  Marquis ;  and  any  one  at  home  and  abroad.-    His  Titania, 

acquainted  with  the  practice  of  art,  cnrled  amidst  a  world  of  virgin  lilies, 

knows  this  to  be  the  test  of  taste :  while  her  nymph-like  elves  roll  round 

tiie  attitude  is  noble,  and  the  draw-  in  giddy  wheel  under  the  wide  moon's 

ing  correct. — What,  in  the  name  of  watery  beams,  was  a  lovely  picture, 

fbrtune,  would  these  pretenders  have?  and  deserved  greater  commemoration 

Can  any  one  of  them  tell  ?     I  trow  than  it  received  in  a  vignette  to  Bal- 

not.     His  Princes*  Charlotte  has  been  lant3me's  Shakspeare.    The  story  of 

long  known  by  the  delicate  and  mas-  his  Diomede  and  Cressida,  in  the  same 

terly  crayon  drawing  in   Colnaghi's  book,  is  oompletely  told,  and  the  ex- 

inner  room;  besides  which,  we  are  pressions  are  at  once  tasteful  and  true, 

duly  expecting  the  final  proof  from  Thomson's  i3^</-/tm^  (77)  is  elegant 

the  burin  of  Mr.  Golding.    The  ex-  and  domestic :  this  gentleman's  fe- 

eression  of  this  ill-fated  lady's  eyes  males  are  always  very  amiable  and 

I  exquisite — it  is  poetry — ^it  looks  womanly — soft,  and  dependent,  with- 

like  a  dissolving  air  of  Mozart — it  is  out  tameiiess ;  gentie,  without  insipi- 

Lord  Byron's  idea,  '<  the  mind,  the  ditv;  and  warm,  without  immodesty, 

music    breathing    from    her    ^ce,"  Inhitting  this  delicate  mark,  he  ex  eels 

pahited.     1  write  this  from  the  recol-  even  Stothard,  whose  girls  sometimes 

kctton  of  the  drawing,  which  is  my  '*  smell  most  grievously  of  bread  and 

first  love.  butter,"  and  degrade  simpDcity  into 

Lady  L.  Lamblon  is  a  perfect  vi-  inanity.— A  Scene  in  Borrotodaie,  by 

•ion — a  thing  for  a  Nympbolept  to  Collins,   (87)  is  very  soothing  and 

madden  on-— and  is  at  the  same  time  picturesque,  but  seems  a  little  more 

quite  as  like  as  necessary. — ^North-  like  Gainsborough's  than  the  artist's 

cote's  Burial  of  the  Princes  in  the  natural  style ;  perhaps  he  will  take 

Tower  (S2)    is  his  best  work,   uid  this  for  a  compliment — I  don't  mean 

that  in  which  he  seems  to  have  gone  it  for  one.    He  has  a  most  delicious 

most  beyond  his  ordinary  level.    The  Mominff  on  the  Keniith  Coast  (154), 

print  by  Skelton   renders  this  fine  which  I  verily  believe  keeps  the  £x<* 

thing  well  known.    He  has  another  hibition  sweet  and  fresh !    This  pio- 

historical  subject  (217),  The  Mar^  tureis  genuine  landscape,  not  accu«f 

riage  of  Richard  Duke  of  York  to  the  rate  topography.    It  is  the  ofifspring 

Lady  Anne  Mowbray,  1477.  of  taste,  feeling,  and  skill;   not  of 

The    littie   Watts    Russels  (1271),  mere  industry  and  servile  transcrip* 

Phillips,  is  a  composition  of  great  tioii. 

labour  in  the  making  up :  the  coat  of  Miss  Landseer's  Viewon  the  Grounds 

the  dwarf  poney  is  painted  with  sin-  of  Feiix  Hall,  Euex,  (IIS^  is  very 

gular  felicity  and  richness  of  colour ;  well  worth  any  one's  attention ;  and 

•o  is  the  peacock's  starry  train. — The  there  is  one  of  the  queerest  littie  pic* 

Murder  of  the  Primate  Sharp,  attend-  tures,  in  respect  to  colour,  by  Stothard, 

ed  with  such  circumstances  of  cold-  that  you  ever  saw  ( 109) :  Sancho  rr- 

blooded  cruelty,  is  hardly  a  subject  kites  to  Ikm  Quixote  the  famous  visions 

fbrrecital,  except  in  history.  The  no-  ary  Interview  with  Dulcinea.    It  was 

▼dist  has  avoided  it  hi  a  most  maa-  very  prettily  engraved  in  a  small  size 

teriy  manner  in  his  Old  Mortality;  but  by  Kaimbach,  for  Mr.  Sharp,  of  Pic- 

Mr,  Allan  was  not  so  squeomiab,  wid  cadilly;  who^  imfortunately  for  me. 


im.J                       ExkihUitm  of  the  Royal  Aeademp.   '                              7$^ 

doe^not  retain  a  single  impression,  veniion  is  certainly  rather  oiXntmND 

If  any  very  charitable  reaaer>  who  place ;  and  Mr.  H.  has  a  completa> 

may  possess  Mr.  S.'s  edition  of  the  disregard  for  harmony  of  lines,    Tber 

Sfinisk  Don,  would  have  the  kind-  folds  of  his  drapery,  and  the  loma 

ness  to  cut  out  the  four  frontispieces,^  of  his  wild  plants  and  flowers^  are 

and  send  them  directed  to^  Cornelius  awkward  and  stiff:  they  have  beeiit 

van  Vinkbooms,  care  of  Messrs.  Tay*  dashed  in  quite  at  random :  he  has 

lor    and  Hessey/   I  shall  be   diuy  never  thought  about  them :  and  tha 

thankful   (always  provided  they  be  effect  on  an  eye  accustomed  to  the 

not  retouched) ;  as  I  am,  and  have  grace  and  scientific  drawing  of  Giu-^ 

been  for  some  time,  making  a  coUec*  Bo,  Parmegiano,  Bonasone,  and  our 

tion  of  engravings  from  Stothard,  and  Lawrence,    Stothard,    and   Edward 

have  not  at  present  more  than  800  ;  Bumey,    is    very  disagreeable.      I£ 

amongwhich,however,  areMr.Wea-  Mr.  Hilton  will  take  the  trouble  to 

therc^'s  fiivourite  series  from  Ro-  look  candidly  at  G.  Ghisi's  large  print 

binson  Crusoe,   by  MedlandJ    The  oi  Cephahs  and  Procris,  Bonasone'a 

smooth,  spiritless,  modem  repetitions,  Fendangts  de   Venus,  (Bartsch,  vol. 

with  the  name  of  Charles  Heath,  in  xv.  No.  3,^  or  the   arrangement  of 

Cadell's  edition,   I  had ;   but  have  the  curls  in  M.  Antonio's  Dance  of 

since  turned  them  out.  Children,  or  his  large  Supper  froxa 

Now  look  up  to  the  top  of  the  room,  Raffaello,  he  will  instantly  compre«> 

and  tell  me  if  the  man  who  composed  hend  my  objection.    Whether  he  will 

LysoMder,   Hermia,  and  Puck,   (27,  condescend  to  pay  any  attention  ta 

Smgleton,)    ought  not   to   paint  a  this  hint,  I  doubt ;  at  all  events,  L 

thousand  times  better,  and  without  have  c^ered  it  with-  the  most  perfect 

such  superabundance  of  manner  and  good-will  towards  him,  which  I  hoM 

Jiimsimess  ?     One  year's    occasional  will  excuse  the  freedom  of  the  style* 

study  from  tiie  antique,  from  the  life.  Those  who,  like  myself,  have  closelr 

and  from  Ludovico  Caracci,  would  observed  this  artist's  progress,  wil^ 

restore  all.  no  doubt  join  me  in  esteeming  th^ 

That  is  a  very  splendid  picture  of  flesh  of  his  Nature  as  the  finest  he 
the  modest  Mr.  Hilton's  (Nature  has  yet  produced.  Her  swelling 
blowing  bubbles) ;  but  I  don't  see  breast  palpitates, 
why  a  fine  plump  young  woman,  I  like  J.  Chalon's  6rreeA-#/a/^  (144) 
Ivtng  under  tne  shade  of  ardent  sun^  very  much ;  it  looks  clean ;  there  is 
w>wers,  on  the  sandy  margin  of  a  such  a  pumpkin !  as  Grimaldi  says.-^- 
splashing  fountain,  and  idly  busied  No.  145,  Z>^t/?e/,  A.E.  Chalon,  RA. 
in  bubbung  water  through  a  reed,  is  of  course  a  most  fashionable  look<^ 
should  be  di^mified  with  the  ab-  ing  scene:  the  arch  expression. of  thfi^ 
stract  title  of  Nature.  However,  it  young  lady  in  the  black  satin  Spanish 
is  not  fair  to  try  the  ornamental  dress  is  very  t)ewitching,  to  my  no- 
style  by  the  severe  rules  of  the  epic  tions :  and  I  wish  that  I  had  been 
or  dramatic.  With  Mr.  H.,  the  sub-  the  lucky  man,  instead  of  Mr.  Cha« 
ject  is  merely  considered  sb  a  vehicle  Ion  (it  is  a  portrait)  ;  though  verj 
for  contrasted  postures,  and  effects  of  likely,  for  my  own  sake,  it  is  just  aa 
colour :  of  course  it  would  be  ridicu-  well  as  it  is.  Heigho !  but  I  tnusi 
lous  to  censure  the  artist  for  fulfilling  not  be  fickle,  and  forget  Susanne,*'^ 
his  own  intentions : — these  intentions  No.  136,  The  Interior  of  a  Stable,  with 
he  seemato  have  comipfotely  achieved.  Portraits,  Agasse,  is  most  natiuallj 
His  attitudes  are  well  chosen ;  his  touched ;  and  I  am  very  glad  that  it 
grouping  and  chiaroscuro  are  pleas-  has  a  place  in  this  room.  Howard 
mg,  if  not  strydng ;  his  drawing  is  has  a  poetical  design  from  Spenseri 
correct;  (I  must  except  the  face  of  The  House  of  Mor^^neus  (159)  ;  and 
the  fair-haired  child  with  the  coronal  Mr.  Cooper  a  spirited  Portrait  of  a 
of  eonvolvoluses,  which  smells  a  little  Hunter  (165);  the  sky  background 
of  Rubens ;)  the  colouring  at  once  of  which  outrages  nature,  without 
dean  and  rich,  gay  and  harmonious ;  gaining  effect 
his  lights  well  impasted ;  his  shadows  In  the  comer  stands  Sir  Humphry 
transparent ;  ana  his  execution  airy,  Davy  himself,  by  the  President.  The 
jet  fum— delicate,  yet  bold.  Tl^e  ta-  features  are  most  scientifically  and 

'  •         -      •    •  ■ 

^  A  picture  ia  the  Ust  BsihibitioB.     ■        • 


a  EMbUiim  •J  Of  thyul  Aeademf.  \J^J> 

Ifiiiefingly  draim  \  erery  shape  is  made    Full  of  the  trae,  tht  hlmhAil  Hippocrene, 
dut— nothing   is    blurred  ;    yet    the    With  beaded  bubUet  winking  mt  me  brinsy 
Whole  together  is  broad,  light,  dash-    And  purple  stained  mouth ! 


hsr,  and  apparently   even  careless.        These  beautiful  linos,  by  the  fll- 
Ward  has  s,  Hotse,  brilllanUy  paint-    fated  Keats,  are  as  beautifully  em- 


the  actions,  colouring,  and  chiaros-  the  room.  Danby's  Disappointed  Love 
euro.  The  composition  is  extremely  does  his  feeling  and  powers  of  judg- 
dmple  and  severe,  and  is  rather  mo-  xne„t  the  highest  credit.  The  whole 
Biimental  than  picturesque.  I  think  gcene  is  completely  filled  with  the 
the  attitude  of  the  traitorous  wife  primary  idea;  but,  at  present,  this 
has  been  hinted  at  in  the  antique ;  if  artist  may  be  compared  to  Mr. 
00,  Fuseli  has  made  a  noble  use  of  it.  Wordsworth's  poet,  wanting  the  gift 
In  the  murky  veil  which  onlv  half  of  verse ;  and  his  picture,  to  an  ugly 
discloses  the  Furies  pouring  hot  on  woman,  with  a  beautiful  mind.  Mr. 
the  chase,  the  acute  observer  will  Danby  has  not  apparently  sufficient 
detect  some  admirable  tones.  practice  in  oil  colours,  to  paint  his  own 
The  venerable  West,  by  Sir  Tho-  pathetic  conceptions ;  and  there  are 
mas,  is  of  sterlmg  merit— the  ease  but  few  observers  who  will  give  them- 
and  character  of  the  attitude;  the  selves  the  trouble  to  hunt  for  beauty  of 
breadth,  richnesfe,  depth,  and  grand  design,  or  invention,  when  the  eye  is 
sobriety ;  show  at  once  the  pre-emi-  discouraged  by  a  forbiddmg  execu- 
nence  of  the  style  of  Titian,  over  the  tion.  To  point  out  particular  faults, 
too  frequent  blusterings  and  attitudi-  would  be  at  present  useless ;  another 
nlzings  of  Vandyke.  The  whole  year  of  application  will  light  me  on 
length  of  Fiscountegs  PoUington  and  ^y  ^ay  more  clearly.  Leslie's  May 
her  Child  (208)  is  a  gentie  and  touch-  jy^y  (8)  is  a  very  cheerful,  pleasing 
fag  image  of  motherly  tenderness ;  picture ;  and,  I  believe,  has  enjoyed 
*nd,  by  possessing  the  power  of  ex-  fts  fuU  share  of  praise,  though  it  is 
citing  general  sympathy,  deserts  the  rather  an  object  for  one  of  Janus's 
class  of  portraiture  for  that  of  his-  sentimentalities,  than  for  serious  cri- 
tory.  It  is  worth  a  hundred  of  Carlo  ticism-at  least,  I  feel  it  uo  now, 
Maratti's  Madonnas.  Below  this,  is  when  I  am  tired  to  death  of  skipping 
a  very  pretty  Ladys  Head,  by  Pick-  from  one  thing  to  another—but,  if  1 
ersgill,  which  would  be  better  if  it  ever  meet  with  it  again,  either  in 
had  more  of  Lawrence's  spirit,  with-  public  or  in  private,  I  will  try  to  do 
6:it  so  much  of  his  worst  manner,  it  more  justice.  There  is  a  littie  too 
8tothard  has  a  large  repetition  of  much  of  Smirke  about  it  in  the  ex- 
part  of  a  smaller  picture,  exhibited  pressions  and  postures,  to  please  me. 
some  years  ago,  and  which,  I  fancy,  i  fancy  I  may  now  proceed  to  the 
Is  engraving  as  a  companion  to  the  anti-room,  where  I  find  a  very  clever 
Canterbury  Pilgrims.  It  represents  group,  by  Linnel— Zdrfv  Torrens, 
h  selection  of  Shakspeare's  charac-  and  Family.  It  is  unequal ;  but  parts 
tcrs,  from  As  You  Like  It,  Lear,  are  drawn  with  great  skill  and  pre- 
Macbeth,  and  The  Tempest,  together  cision;  witness  the  fore-shortened  leg 
with  Falstaff.  It  has,  of  course,  of  the  line  vigorous  littie  creature  on 
{freat  beauties ;  but  wants  fire,  both  its  mother's  knees.  The  giri  with 
m  the  conception  and  execution.  Mi-  the  pallet  is  a  most  interesting  figure ; 
randa  is  innocence  personified ;  and  and  the  cast  of  features,  hair,  &c 
the  group  of  Lear  and  Cordelia  is  reminds  one  not  a  little  of  Leonardo, 
worthy  of  the  artist's  ancient  name;  q,  Luino;  who,  I  shrewdlv  suspect, 
but  the  Macbeth  is  feeble,  mean,  and  are  as  great  favourites  with  MTr.  L. 
mannered;  which  latter  fault  per-  as  they  are  with  me.  Look  at  his 
Tades  the  whole  picture.  charming   portrait  of   Mrs.  Brooks 

O,  for  a  draught  ef  vintage !  that  hath  been  12?'')^  "'^  ^\.'^l  'V  *°l  """^  "^V* 

cidMalonXinthetep^v3«^  The  tone  of  his  flesh  is  too  low  to 

Taidng  of  Flora,  and  the  country  gieen,  appear   with  advantage  by  the  side 

Dance  and  pzovencal  song,  and  sun-buxnt  ^^  Phillips,  Jackson,  and  Owen ;  o« 

mirth  I  therwite,  I  think  his  principal  work 

O/brm  benkn  AtB  of  the  waim  south,  ^oold  havt  had  a  place  in  tne  School 


ISSl.]-                       ExkihiUoji  of  Ihf  Royal  Academy.  Ih 

iif  PahUing,  at  leeat :    Pickersgill't  ar^  vigorouB  and  true;  tbe  'vrhele  con* 

Morning  fSiO)    might  have    made  ception    harmonized    with  a  poet'i 

way ;  or  Mrs.  Arniesly's  Mistake^  en-  power ;  that  is^  every  thing  about  it 

titled  Satan,  &c.    Martin's  Revenge  tells  thie  same  story ;  it  is  pregnant 

(379)    would   furnish  matter  for  a  with  good  sense  (a  great  scarcity  ia 

very  poetical  article,  but  I  must  be  modem  art)  and  good  feeling — it  is  % 

brief;  therefore  briefly,  Mr.  M.  if  moral  picture;   it  holds  the  mirror 

yon  value  your  own  ume,  brush  out  up  to  the  world,  and  shows  it  the 

the  whole  of  your  frittered,  shingly,  horrid  deformity  of  its  cold-blooded 

^audy    foreground,    together    with  prejudices.    We  are  all  of  us  acting 

those  execrably  executed  ^gures —  the  part  of  this  OJd  Lord  Luxury  in 

put  it  in  again  in  a  broad  massy  se-  his  easy  chair,  every  day,  and  are  not 

vere  style,  so  as  to  set  off  the  sub-  aware  of  it,  in  spite  of  Tom  Jones 

lime   distance,    and  you  will  have  and  Mr.  St^hanoff.    I  shall  see  the 

achieved  a  work  to  live  in  the  recol-  better  for  this  coudiing  as  long  as  I 

lections  of  our  posterity,  when  not  a  live;  so,  I  trust,  will  many  more  of  us^ 

thread  of  your  canvas  remains.     Do  This  is  being  really  a  painter,  not  a 

not  despise  this  advice,  because  the  mere  ornamental  colourist  like  Mn 

aiver  is  unknown  to  you ;  it  comes  •  »  ♦  ♦.    \  liave  not  time  to  pou4 

nom  the  greatest  master  of  effect  out  all  the   variety  of  intelligence 

that  ever  lived,  Rembrandt  van  Ryn  !  which  is  combined  in  this  little  pic- 

and,  £>r  a  proof  of  my  assertion,  I  ture;  but  I  think  that  our  Elia  woul4 

refer  you  to  his  Jacob's  Dream,  in  manage  it  beautifully— *let  me  sugw 

the  Dulwich  CSallery ;  or  his  large  fest  it  to  him.    1  must,  however,  ber 

etching  of  the  Three  Crosses ;  from  fore  I  gOj,    compliment  Mr.    S.  oa 

which  you  will  practically  learn  how  the  extreme  modesty,  freshness,  inr 

materially  terror  is  increased  by  ob-i  nooence,   and  beauty,  of  the  giH'p 

tfcurity.    This  is  a  truism ;  never-  head ;    a  fair    young   rose  firoth  a 

tkeless  it  seems  quite  new  to  Mr.  drooping  stock.    1  never  saw  a  mor^ 

Martin.     S.  W.  Reynolds,  jun.  ^>-  interesting  countenance.      He    was 

pears  to  possess  talent ;  therefore,  J  am  quite  right  in  maldng  her  handsome 

sorry  he  does  not  strive  to  imitate  which  is  just  as  probable  as  that  sh^ 

nature,  rather  than  the  manner  of  8ir  should  be  the  reverse ;  besides,  hi^ 

Joshua's  faded  pictures.     This  is  not  object  was  to  strike  at  once  on  the 

the  way  to  rival  his  great  namesake,  sympathy  ;    and  beauty  in    distress 

but  it  is  the  way  to  draw  on  him  .a  will  always  excite  pity,  where  defor- 

repetition  of  the  contemptuous  tlas-  mity  will  create  disgust !— rThere  is 

sincation,  which  confounded  amonjg  still  great  room  for  improvement  in 

the  servile  crowd  the  names  of  SaU  the  mechanical  parts^  especially  me/- 

viati,    Leaudro  Bassano,    Baroccio,  lowness  of  touch,  and  surface;  but, 

Alessandro     Mazzuolo,      Jordaens,  these    dimculties    being    overcome, 

Bramer,  Flink,  and  Eeckhout    See  Mr.  S.  will  find  himiself  at  once  in  a 

Reynolds's  Works,  Sixth  I>]8Co^rse.  higher  rank  than  tlie  delineators  of 

Over  the  door,  we  have  a  Hehe  I  by  bitten  apples,  cut  fingers,  and  all  the 

a  gentleman  of  the  name  of  Stroeh*  long  list  of  the  results  of  mere  dill* 

ling ;  and,  I  think,  it  can  be  safely  set  gent  observation  and  patient  imita- 

down,  without  flattery,  as  about  the  tion  of  olj^ects  Intrinsically  worthless, 

worst  thing  in  the  Academy.    The  and  devoid  of  the  genuine  elements 

President's  West,  and  this,  are  the  al-  of  either  humour  or  pathos.     I  hope 

pha  and  omega  of  modem  portrait,  that  Poor  Refations  is  sold — if  not. 

Cat  Crrove,  with  the  Winter  Nights  allow  me  to  say,  that  150/.  could  not 

*  Pighi  between  the  Gamekeepers  and  be  better  laid  out  by  a  patron  of  art. 

Poachers  ^435,  H.  Corbould),  has  a  than  in  the  purchase  of  it    This  is 

great  desu  of  merit— so  have  Nos.  entirely  my  own  valuation.    I  never 

366  and  421,  by  the  Bones.    Lane's  saw  Mr.  S.  in  my  life,  and  have  no 

portrait  of  Dr,    •    •    •  (*22)  is  sort  of  communication  with  any  one 

not  only  well  painted,  as  becomes  a  belongmg  to  him ;  but  I  have  casu- 

late  pupil  of  Lawrence,  but  abso-  ally  heard  a  very  high  character  of 

lutely  more  like  than  the  original.  him  for  industry,  and  for  struggling 

Poor    Relations,    by    Stephanoff,  most  worthily  for  fame  and  a  liveli- 

evinces  very  great  and  deep  obser-  hood,  under  tndy  disheartening  cir- 

vation.^if  nature.  -The  expressions  cumstanccs.    To  this  moment,  I  be^ 


W                                      Ballad,  by  John  Clare.  C^ulfv 

Mcre^  he  hai  nerer  met  with   any  Sea  in  ike  Bay  of  Biscay  (an  admi-' 

tiling  like  adequate  reward.  '  If  this  rable  composition),  Stark's  View  near 

be  true,  I  need  say  no  more  to  an  Norwich,tmd71ieQitarreling  Scene  be^ 

Englishman.      Perhaps  an  effectual  tween  Sampson  and  BaHha'sar,  Romeo 

way  of  serving  the  artist,  would  be  and  Juliet ,  by  the  improving  Briggs. 

by  causing  a  good  engraving  to  be  Most  of  these  demand  a  much  longer 

Sublished  at  the  risk  of  such  indivi-  notice  than  my  limits  will  allow ;  but 

uals  as  may  choose  to  enter  into  a  I  regret  the  omission  the  less,  as  they 

vubscription    for  that  purpose,   the  are  all  able  to  stand  by  themselves 

frofits  to  be  handed  over  to  Mr.  S.  without  my  feeble  props.     I  promise 

am  too  much  occupied,  and  my  myself  the  pleasure  of  recurring  to 

nam«  is  too  obscure,  for  me  to  appear  those  of  Fuseli,  Stothard^  Daniel,  and 

as  a  leader  in  this  scheme ;  but  what  Etty,    at    some    future   period-— till 

I  can,  I  will ;  my  ten  guineas  (and  I  when,  I  bid  farewell ! 

wish  they  were  twenty)  are  ready  Cornelius  van  Vinkbooms. 

when  called  for;  and  one  une  to  Mr.  j^^  jg^ 

Fine  Arts,  care  of  Messrs.  Taylor  ,,  «  Vk              •  ».           ..     /• 

and  Hessey,  shall  produce  them  in  the  ^'^'  ^^^^  me !  I  ve  quite  forgot 

course  of  two  hours  from  receipt  of    "^®  Masonry.  

notice.  — 

Several  excellent  pictures  still  hang  P.  S.  Sdus.  Mr.  Elton  will  have 

on    my  hands;    amon?    which   are  the  goodness  to  accept  my  sincere 

^kothard's  Vintage,  Callcott's  Dover  thanks  for  his  unexpected  compliance 

Castle,   Etty's    gorgeous    Cleopatra,  with  my  wish.     I  take  his  compli- 

Clint's  Scene  from  Lock  and  Keyj  the  ment,  addressed  to  the  Editor,  all  to 

sketch  {Jealousy)  by  the  unwearied  myself,  I  assure  him.     Could  he  not 

Keeper,    the  Landscapes  of  Sir  G.  afford  the  public  some  more  selec- 

Beaumont,  Cooper's  Decisive  Charge  tions  from  Nonnus,  or  his  favourite 

of  Cromwell  at  Long  Marston  Moor,  Apollonius }  I  suppose  that  Mr.  E. 

Phillips's  Isody  Harriet  Drummond,  has  seen  the  note  prefixed  to  some 

Captain    Hastings's    Storm   off  the  selections  from  his  Muscus,  in  the 

Cape,  the  beautiful   works   of   Mr.  preface  to  Marlowe's  Hero  and  Lean«« 

Constable^  W.  Daniel's  tremendous  der,  edited  by  Mr.  Singer. 


BALLAD. 

I  DREAMT  not  what  it  was  to  woo. 

And  felt  my  heart  secure  ; 
Till  Robin  dropt  a  word  or  two. 

Last  evening,  on  the  moor. 
Though  with  no  flattering  words,  the  while^ 

His  suit  he  urged  to  move, 
Fond  ways  inform'd  me,  with  a  smUe, 

How  sweet  it  was  to  love. 

He  left  the  path  to  let  mejpass> 

The  dropping  dews  to  shun : 
And  walk'd,  hunsel^  among  the  grass, — 

I  deem'd  it  kindly  done. 
And  when  his  hand  was  held  to  me> 

As  o'er  each  stile  we  went, 
I  deem'd  it  rude  to  aay  him  nay. 

And  manners  to  consent. 

He  saw  me  to  the  town,  and  then 

He  sigh'd,  but  kito'd  me  not ; 
And  wmsper'd,  **  We  shall  nieet  again,'* 

But  did  not  say  for  what : 
Yet  on  my  breast  his  cheek  had  lain  ; 

And  though  it  gently  press'd. 
It  bruised  my  heart,  ioa  left  a  pain 

That  robs  it  of  ita rest.  John  Ci.AftB.  "  '<j 


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LETTERS  FROM  EDINBURGH. 

No.  III. 

7b  Dr.  jL.  M.  Allan,  Mortimer  Street,  Cavendish  Square,  Londm. 

Edinburgh^  June^  1831. 

My  Dear  Doctor, — ^You  will  The  striplings  call  me  Crockery,  (a 
think  it  strange,  but  it  is  neverthe-  personage  who  has  travelled  NorUi  as 
lets  true,  that  I  am  growing  tired  of  well  as  East,)  and  afifect  to  join  in  my 
this  place;  — the  charm  of  novelty  groans  over  the  a//era/t<m#  of  the  Re- 
has  faded,  and,  as  if  in  revenge  for  gent  Bridge,  County  Hall,  Jail,  Nel- 
the  preferable  hold  of  my  feelings  son's  Monument,  &c. ;  and,  if  the 
whica  I  allowed  it  to  take  at  first,  truth  were  told,  I  have  my  private 
my  old  associations  are  now  rising  lamentations  over  every  one  of  these 
thick  about  me,  in  all  the  bitterness  stupendous  works :  they  led  to  the 
of  retributive  infliction.  Your  last  demolition  of  many  places  which 
letter  helped  greatly  to  aggravate  events  endeared  to  me,  and  to  one 
their  severity;  and,  in  spite  of  all  which  is  interesting  to  almost  all 
our  laughing  at  the  sentimentalists,  Europe, — The  Heart  of  Mid  Lo- 
there  are  times  when  we  ourselves  thian, — which,  woe  is  me,  I  was  too 
would  be  justly  the  objects  of  our  late  to  get  a  last  look  of ;  I  have, 
own  ridicule.  You  pretend  to  scout  however,  possessed  myself  of  a  snufi- 
xny  lachrymose  account,  as  you  call  box  made  out  of  its  door.  Now  if 
it,  of  the  desolation  of  almost  every  these  railers  would  step  to  the  East 
epot  of  ground  where  the  happiest  Indies  for  a  dozen  years  or  so,  ^uid^ 
moments  of  our  lives  were  passed ;  upon  their  return,  find  their  Am« 
and  I  am  glad  vou  pretend  it,  for,  brose's.  Royal  Hotels,  and  other  places 
Ood  knows,  aluough  nobody  will  of  modem  resort,  demolished  for  the 
sccuse  me  of  an  undue  participation  sake  of  a  bridge  or  a  tolbooth,  of 
in  the  cant  of  sensibility,  particularly  which  thev  never  felt  the  want,  they 
of  that  arising  from  boyish  recollec-  would  understand  how  an  alteration 
lions ;  yet,  1  should  never  have  the  may  be  lamented,  although  it  is  a 
regard  for  you,  my  dear  Allan,  which  visible  improvement.  This  subject 
you  know  I  have,  if  I  thought  you  would  lead  me  into  an  endless  disqui« 
utterly  dead  to  what,  with  all  our  sition, — it  seems  to  me  (without 
sneers,  we  must  admit  to  be  our  na-  having  considered  it  deeply)  that  it 
tural  feelings.  is  the  same  principle  that  makes  the 

What  is  less  strange,  though  un-  old  man  the  laudator  iemporis  acti ; 

fortunately  equally  true,  is,  that  the  time,  in  his  case,  effecting  what  ab- 

Slace  is  gettmg  tired  of  me: — My  sence  and  change  of  circumstances 

lends  seem  to  have  done  with  me :  have  done  in  mine, 

now  thatwe  have  necessarily  ceased  to  When  one  reads  and  hears  of  the 

interest,  or  rather  to  excite  the  feel-  unparalleled  improvements  made  in 

fnffs  of  each  other,  by  remembrances  the  whole  construction  of  Edinburgh, 

or  the  past  time,  we  drop  into  the  during  the  last  twenty  years  of  the 

msipid  moi^otony  of  a  time,  which,  eighteenth  century,  one  would  think 

to  both  parties,  is,  indeed,  the  ifno^  it  impossible  that  there  couid  be  any 

rant  present :  I  have  no  pursuit  or  improvement  in  the  first  twenty  years 

interest  in    common  with   those   in  of  the  nineteenth;   just  as  in  the 

whose  friendship    I  have  had,  and  world  at  large,   we  cannot  imagine 

have,  a  high  place ;  and  we  drawl  what  there  is  at  this  time  to  be  im- 

along  together,   each  wondering  at  proved,  discovered,  or  invented ;  and 

the  ouir^  subjects  that  engross  the  yet  we  have  only  to  compare  two  pe- 

attention  of  the  other.     I  cannot  get  riods,  to  be  abundantly  satisfied,  that 

one  of  them  to  understand  why  I  neither  the  •  world,  nor  Edinburgh, 

have  a  feeling  of  regret  for  the  de-  has  stood,  or  will  stand  still.    What 

inise  of  Johnnie  Dowies,  and  why  I  changes  in  manners,  even  after  their 

would  niho  rather  have  had  a  bottle  total   new  cast  in  the    twenty  pre- 

of  the  real  Younger  in  his  coffin,  than  ceding  years ! — what  extension  of  in- 

wallow  in  the  l^st  Maraschino  and  tercourse !  Here,  for  example,  tweti- 

ChaCeaiiFliirgdi  of  the  Royal  HoteL  ty  years  ago,  it  was  omch  more  care 


M                                     LeUtn  from  Edinburgh.                                Z."^^^ 

to  meet  English  company,  than  it  is  three  newspapers  published  In  Edin- 
now  to  meet  French ;  in  common  burgh,  in  me  height  of  war.  They 
life,  you  hardly  erer  met  an  English-  were  read  only  by  the  upper  ranks  ; 
man  resident;  and  when  you  hap-  and  news  descended  to  the  rabble 
pened  to  discover  them  by  their  Ian-  through  the  old  medium  of  servants^ 
guage  in  the  street,  you  invariably  barbers,  and  journeymen.  There  are 
put  them  down  for  tumblers,  play  now  nine  newspapers,  in  a  time  of 
actors,  riders,  or  discharged  valets,  settled  peace;  they  are  read  by  all 
«a  their  dresses  (which  were  always  ranks  and  ages,  and  important  pub* 
tmgular  to  us)  might  indicate,  lie  information  often  ascends  from 
Now,  you  have  difficulty  in  distin-  the  servant  to  the  lord,  and  from  the 
guiolung  the  English  |»eople ;  and  for  apprentice  to  the  master, 
singularity  of  dress,  it  b  to  the  na^r  Twenty  years  ago,  there  was  only 
tires  you  must  look :  the  street  j&r-  one  eighteen-pei^qy  magazine,  of 
npasUei  here,  you  imist  know,  are  which  you  hardly  ever  heard,  and 
quizzed  in  the  most  admirable  man-  which  the  middle  ranks,  and  the 
ner  into  a  belief,  that  if  they  get  ladies  of  all  ranks,  never  saw,  ex<* 
their  clothes  from  London,  or  from  a  cept,  perhaps,  in  the  booksellen^ 
tailor  who« visits  London,  or  who  has  wmdows.  There  are,  now,  at  least 
the  word  "  London,"  on  his  sign-  a  dozen  monthly  and  quarterly  pub« 
board,  they  swagger  in  the  identical  lications,  with  the  contents  of  one  or 
cut  of  Weston,  or  Allen  and  Wil-  more  of  which  you  find  almost  the 
Mn;  and  hence  you  see  the  most  whole  population  acquainted;  and 
antediluvian  length  of  tails,  and  their  enect  on  the  tone  of  conver« 
shortness  of  waists,  to  say  nothing  satiou  is  sufficiently  visible, 
of  the  other  qualities,  exhibiting  in  Twenty  years  ago, the  High  Sdiool 
all  the  self-satisfaction>  and  noncha-  boys  went  to  school  in  the  summer 
lance,  whidh  the  w^earer  assumes,  months  at  seven  in  the  morning,  and 
Irom  a  knowledge  of  his  being  the  tip  at  nine  in  winter ;  they  were,  as  boyi 
€^  ton!  ought  to  be,  wild,  hardy,  and  mis- 
Twenty  years  ago,  when  you  met  chievous ;  but,  among  their  seniors^ 
strangers  at  the  houses  of  your  ac-  silent  and  modest;  attentive  to  refined 
quaintances,  you  were  introduced  to  conversation  when  they  were  per- 
each  other  by  name,  and  not  unfre-  mitted  to  be  present  at  it ;  and  amo^ff 
<[uently  with  some  i^surd  laudatory  their  fellows,  frank,  generous,  axia 
preface  or  other.  Now,  you  are  left  magnanimous.  Now,  they  go  to 
to  disclose  your  name  and  merits  school  all  the  year  round  at  nine  and 
yourself,  (as  who  can  know  them  ten  in  the  morning ;  look  trig  and  der 
better !)  and  you  have  oflen  the  plea-  licate ;  wear  cravats,  beaver  nats,  and 
«ure  of  fixing  them  in  your  co-visitor's  watches ;  sit  at  table  with  company, 
memory  for  ever,  by  some  blundering  and  chatter  upon  almost  all  subjects 
sneer  at  his  absent  cousin,  or  ill-na-  with  the  most  perfect  self-possession 
tured  remark  upon  his  deceased  bro-  and  consequence, 
ther-in-law ;  an  improvement  in  man-  It  would  be  amusing  to  carry  this 
ners,  of  which  I  have  felt  the  advan-  comparison  of  periods  skilfully  into 
tage  more  than  once  since  my  arrival  other  branches  of  life  and  manners  ; 
here.  but  I  have  neither  patience  nor  ability 
Twenty  years  ago,  cards  were  un-  for  it.  1  would,  with  much  pleasure^ 
known,  at  least  untouched,  among  describe  the  physical  changes  on  the 
the  middle  classes  of  Edinburgh,  ex-  face  of  Edinburgh,  which  seem  to 
cept  at  Christmas,  when  a  game  at  interest  you  so  much ;  but  it  is  really 
Catch-the-Ten  was  tolerated,  more  impobsible ; — for  the  last  five  or  six 
for  the  opportunity  which  it  afforded  years,  the  average  number  of  houses 
of  deprecating  the  ''  Deevil's  pic-  built  yearly  is  eight  hundred;  and 
tured  Dooks,"  than  for  any  amuse-  since  I  last  saw  Edinburgh,  there 
ment  derivable  from  it.  Now,  the  have  been  built  at  least  ten  new 
tradesmen's  wives  have  whist  and  churches,  some  of  them  perfect  ca- 
loo  tables  all  the  year  round ;  and  thedrals.  They  have  just  begun  a 
Catch-the-Ten  is  the  nightly  resource  monument  to  Lord  Melville.  It  is  to 
of  retired  coal  skippers,  and  inde-  stand  in  the  centre  of  St.  Andrew's 
pendent  fish  women.  square,  fronting  George-street,  of 
-   Twenty  yean  ago^  th^re  were  only  course*    I  cannot  s^  &w  tbey  are 


18dll;7  Leiter$  frtm  Edinhurgh.  T9 

getting  on  with  it  for  the  paling  with  moying   that    it    be   the   rule   for 

which    the    workmen  are   incloaed.  George  IV. — Would  you  believe  it. 

The  west  side  of  the  north  bridge,  in  less^  the  CroM  of  Edinburgh  was 

from    the    Blue-Gown's   Comer    to  converted    into    Mount    Parnassus^ 

Prince's-street,    has   been    built  up  stuck  over  with  trees^  rocks,  flowers^ 

iirith  elegant  houses  and  shops,  and  &c.  (the  barren  mount!)  and  between 

a  terrace   runs  at   the  south   end,  the  prongs  of  the  fork,  there  was  an 

overhanging  Canal-street;— it  is,    I  artincial  foimtain  representing  Heli- 

should   think,  from    sixty  to  eighty  con !   His  Majesty  was  received  at 

^t    high,  sufficiently  appalling  to  the  West  Bow,  by  a  female  repre- 

look  over :  if  such  a  place  were  in  senting  Caledonia,  who  made  him  a 

London,  the  inhabitants  of  the  houses  speech  in  the  style  of  the  giants  t# 

on  it  would  fill  it  with  plants  and  Queen   Elizabeth    at     Kenil worth; 

shrubs,  so  that  from  beneath,  it  would  and— 

Sg^^Ss'^S^bylon^-tu^^^  ^^  ^!^  »P^   ^«  ^^  9P^^» 

would  infer  a  taking  of  trouble  for  Her  eon,  and  vanish'd  in  a  Scottish  mist, 
the  sake  of  a  neatencct,  which  would 

he  scouted  by  the  homely  damsels  of        He  was  then  conducted  to  the  west 

Auld  Reekie,  as  useless  and  unpro-  end  of  the  tolbooth,  just  under  the 

fitable  vanity.  The  Blue-Gown  most  present  place  of  execution,  where  hfe 

be  dead ;    he  was  the  ultimus  Ro«  was  received  by  Mercury  !  (a  second- 

manormn  of  them  twenty  years  ago,  sight  kind  of  hint,  perhaps,  that  their 

»nd  had  been  the  Autolycus  of  his  next  meeting  would  be  at  a  similar 

day:  I  forget  his  rhymes;  but  they  place ;Wa  triumphal  arch  was  here 

were  quite  in  the  school  of  that  most  erected,    upon   which,    portraits  of 

arrant  of  cozeners :  some  hundreds  of  Scottish  kings  were 

Win  you  buy  any  tape,  painted ;  and  the  messenger  of  Jovfe 

Or  lace  for  your  cape,  introduced  Fergus,  the  father  of  this 

My  dainty  duck,  my  dear-a;  tine  of  kings,  to  give  his  successor 

Any  silk,  any  thread,  good  counsel,  and  a  welcome  to  his 

Any  toys  for  your  head  capital : — but  the  most  exquisite  de* 

Of  the  newest  and  finest  wear-a  I  ^^^  ^^s  the  Parnassus  and  HeHcon%- 

Of  his  ballads,  you  might  safely  say*  on  one  of  the  peaks,  there  were  two 

with  the   shepherd,  that  you  loved  bands  of  ancient   sylvan    musicians 

them  even  but  too  well,  for  it  was  (jatyrSf   I    presume,)   and  a    barrel 

**  doleful  matter  merrily  set  down,  or  organ  ;  and,  on  the  other  peak,  were 

a  very  pleasant  thing  indeed,  sung  Apollo  and  the  nine  Muses !  Apollo 

lamentably."  recited    a  Ion?  panegyric  in   broad 

Blue-Gowns  naturally  lead  to  the  Scotch  upon  his  Majesty,  and  gave 

king,  who,  they  say,  is  ^ing  to  Ire-  him  a  thick  folio  of  praises  composed 

land  after  the  coronation,  and  to  Scot-  expressly  for    the    occasion    by  thb 

land  next  year.    We  don't  half  like  University ;  the  Muses  then  sang  a 

this  preference  of  Ireland;  but  it  gives  carmen  trivmphale    to   the    tune  of 

the  rulers  of  this  city  time  to  prepare  '*  Todlin'  hame;"  and  the  kingpassed 

themselves  for  his  suitable  reception,  on  to  another  arch  at  the   Nether 

I  am  told  that  they  are  already  in  Bow,  where  he  was  addressed  in  a 

keen  debate  upon  the  subject,  at  their  similar  style  by  the  seven  planets  !  .'-* 

private  meetings ;    and  records   are  Horace  pretended  to  believe  August 

searching,  and  plans  digesting ;  and  tus  a  deity  upon  earth,  and  begged 

they  go  so  far  as  to  say,  that  pro-  him  to  postpone  his  return  to  heaven 

cedure  is  arranging:  —  a  deacon  of  as  long  as  possible,  {f*  Senis  in 
my  acquaintance  tells  us,  that  some  ccelum  redeas,  &c.);  but  I  do  not  re- 
wag  has  suggested  the  precedent  of  member  to  have  read  of  a  whole  peo-i 
Charles  the  first's  time,  who  was  the  pie  feigning  the  gods  themselves  to 
last  English  monarch  that  visited  come  trom  heaven  to  welcome  their 
Edinburgh  in  state;  and  as  his  recep-  king,  and  to  sing  his  praises  on  earth! 
tion,  according  to  my  information,  fs  This  was  reserved  for  our  classical 
minutely  recoiled  in  the  town  regis-  countrymen,  and  for  a  king  whom,  for 
ters,  it  would  be  one  of  the  most  ad-  a  dav's  pay  a-piece,  they  were  after- 
nurable  jokes  ever  known,  if  some  of  wards  the  means  of  sending  to  he»- 
the  dvic  bo^  amid  be  quizzed  into    ven  *'  before   Mb  titoel     %i  Un^ 


80                                              Th€  Drama.  Z^^p 

Byron  says  of  Don  Joan  to  th^  other  times  damaged  under   the   narrow 

place !  archway;  and  the  town  council^  upon 

I  have  been  taking  some  walks  due  consideration  of  this  griewance, 

about  the  old  town  lately.  It  becomes  ordered  the  port  to  be  demolidic^ 

daily  more  interesting,  as  haying  a  •••••• 

chance  of  being  speedily  regarded  I  sent  you  such  papers  as  I  could 

0U,  in  the  affectionate  sense  of  the  get  on  Dr.  Home's  election  to   Dr. 

tenn — they  absolutely  talk  of /cve/itn^  Gre^^ry's  chair.    I  paid  a  Yhdt  to 

the  High-street;  but  what  they  mean  the  mfirmary  the  other  day,  with  a 

by  it,  is  not  so  easy  to  discover.  The  view  to  see  a  poor  object,  of  the 

oniiy  interruption  now  between  the  name  of  Berry,  an  actor,  whom  I 

castle  and  the  palace,  is  the  Weigh  have  seen    (and,  I  think,  so  must 

Htnuej  which,  being  connected  with  you)  in  very  different  drcumstancea. 

no  antique  associations,  like  the  Heart  I   was  disappointed,   however;   for 

of  Mid  Lothian,  the  Cross,  and  the  there  are  many  new  regulations  since 

Kether  Bow  port,  and  being,  more-  we  knew  it.    Poor  Mrs.  Hume,  the 

over,  the  ugliest  shell  ever  reared  on  housekeeper,  is  no  more.    Berry  had 

ground,  an  eye^sore  and  a  nuisance,  &  benefit  on  Saturday  night,  which,  I 

IS  preserved  with  religious  veneration,  hear,  was  excellently  productive;  I 

as  the  last  remnant  ofexpiring  cheese*  was  engaged  at  your  cousin's ;  but  I 

mongery  !  sent  him  my  mite :  shall  I  double  it 

If  my  recollection  does  not  much  for  you  ?  The  poor  devil  will  need  it 

deceive  roe,  it  was  at  Portsburgh-  all ;  for  I  understand  he  It  maimed 

gate  that  Jock  Porteous's  mob  took  and  decrepid,  and  utterly  unfit  for 

the  keys,  as  in  the  tale ;  but  it  was  the  the  stage. 

Nether  Bow  port  that  excited  the  The  weather  here  is  excessivdy 

special  indignation  of  Parliament :—  cold ;  hailstones,  like  sugar  almonds^ 

Our.  friend  A.  remembers  this  port,  and  occasional  variations  of  snow! 

and  he  says  that  what  the   House  How  is  it  with  you?  Compliments 

of  Lords  failed  in  doing  (for  a  bill  to  Dick,  and  all  your  tribe;  and  be* 

passed  that  House  to  rase  it  to  the  lieve  me,   my  dear    Doctor,    yours 

f  round),  a  Canongate  baillie  effected,  always,  most  sincerely, 

[is  worship's  draS*  carts  were  some-  T.  Y. 


THE  DRAMA. 
No.  XVIIL 


It  is  a  difficult  thing  to  write  a  and  it  is  too  much  to  make  them  talk 
good  tragedy.  We  know  this  from  as  men.  do  not  Thus,  between  two 
having  ourselves  once  attempted  a  stools — but  the  proverb  is  some- 
drama  (it  was  a  farce^,  and  having,  what  musty,  so,  we  will  e'en  leave 
indeed,  actually  achieved  two  or  it,  to  discuss  our  monthly  task.  We 
three  melancholy  scenes  of  a  melo-  will  begin  with  Covent  Gard^^ 
drame,  which  the  coming  on  of  the  where,  at  least,  two  tragedies  have 
hot  weather  compelled  us  to  post-  been  performed—^'  Hamlet,"  and 
pone.  We  had  thought  beforehand,  ''  Damon  and  Pythias ;"  and  our 
that  we  had  wit  at  our  fingers'  ends,  first  shaft  shall  be  at  "  Hamlet  the 
and  were  entirely  masters  of  all  the  Dane." 
turns  of  pathos ;  and  yet — we  do  not  covent  gardbn. 
know  how  it  was,  but  we  did  not  Hamlet  was  performed  on  the  8th 
.absolutely  satisfy  ourselves :  perhaps,  of  June,  for  the  bepefit  of  Mr.  Mac- 
the  world  might  have  been  delighted  ready :  we  may  be  allowed  to  say, 
(we  were  sure  of  our  friends),  but  that  it  g^ve  us  pleasure  to  see  a  very 
we  were  fastidious,  severe ;  the  cri-  full  house. — ^Altnough  there  prevails 
tical  fit  came  over  us  in  short,  and  a  sort  of  etiquette,  we  believe,  to 
we  ceased,  for.  a  time,  our  labours,  abstain,  on  benefit  nights,  firom  the 
—•It -is  really  a  difficult  thing.  It  is  critic's  common  privilege  of  censure ; 
not  enough  to  make  your  dramatis  yet  we  shall  make  bold  to  pursue  our 
persoiis  t^lk  as  men  ordiaarily^do-;  usual  course  on  the  present  occasioii, 


18S1.7  Tk9j>rafMi-  81 


as  being  ftiii^st  tDWftrds  the  public^  it  is  well*  known,  is  one  of-  the  finesi 

and>  in  the  end,  periiaps  most  bene-,  of  plays,— even  of  the  plays  of  Shak<- 

fcial  to  the  performer.    It  is  not  a  speare.     It  is  full  of  a  melancholy  - 

worthless  compliment  that  we  pay  spirit:    not    a    *'  villainous    meJan- 

to  Mr.  Macready,   when  we  adcmt  cnolv," — no,  nor  the  courtier's  me- 

this  plan ;  nor  will  he,  we  think,  (if  lancholy,  nor  the  lawver's,  nor  the 

ke  should  read  our  article)  receive  lady's,  nor  the  soldier  s ;  but  it  has 

k  as -such.    In  truth,  had  he  £uled  a  melancholy  of  its  own :  it  has  madn 

in  his  performance  of  Hamlet,   we  ness  too,  but  with  nieHiod  in  it ;  and 

migfat',  probably,  have  .refrained  from  a  madness  without  any  method  at 

noticioffit,  notwithstanding  our  boast  all.    In  the  one  case  the  frenzy  ia 

of  candour ;  for  it  is  unpleasant  to  thrown  aside,  like  a  garment  over-. 

us  would^be-ffoodnatured  critics  to  worn    and  useless.     In    the  other, 

ii^ict  pain  publicly  on  those  who  are  it  is  dissipated  only  by  death :    it 

tor  ever  in  the  eye  of  the  public,  is  the  canker  which  grows  up  with 

The    sunmiary    punishment — ^be    it  and  spreads,    and    preys   upon  the 

noisy  or  negative— which  an  audi-  sweet  blossom  of  love ;  it  is  covered 

ence  bestows  on  an  actor's  errors  is,  by  silence,  and  fed  with  tears ;  and 

perhaps,  sufficient. — When  a  young  the  victim  herself,  '*  the  fair  Ophe- 

gentleman,  stage-smitten,  comes  for-  lia,"  is  accompanied  by  our  deepest 

mard    to  delist  himself  (and  the  sympathy,    through  every  scene  of 

town)  in  Hamlet,  or  Rover,  or  the  her  ill- requited  passion,  till  at  last 

too  bewitching  Romeo,  and  convinces  she  dies  (like  the  swan)  in  music^ 

IIS  of  nothing,  but  that  his  years  are  It  is  all  over  melancholy.    It  is  the 

tender,  and  that  his  enthusiasm  has  play  from  which  more  quotations  are 

outrun  his  discretion,   we  are  well  made,  more  maxims  gathered,  thap 

content  to  be  silent.    But  it  is  other-  any  other ;    and  it  is  celebrated  for 

wise  when  a  success^  candidate  for  Hamlet    and    the  'ghost.    At  firsts* 

fame  steps  forward.    It  is  right  that  these  two  **  divide  the  palm  "  of  our 

a  man,  who  has  the  power  of  con-  attention ;  the  last,  with  its  dusky* 

lerring  pleasure  or  instruction  on  the  figure  and  portentous  silence,  waving 

community,  should  be  known  to  all ;  us  onward  from  the  platform  to  the 

and  it  is  on  that  account  partly,  and  forest,   until  it  bursts  its  spell  and 

partly  in  justice  to  himself,  that  the  tweaks: — the  other,  a  sorrow-stricken 

merit  of  an  actor  is  blazoned  abroad  son,    hanging    upon    every  syllable 

through  the  cx>unties.    What  would  which  the  phantom  utters,  and  echo- 

our  good  friends  of  York,  or  Salis-  ing  its  hollow  tones  in  words  as  hol- 

bury,    or  Liverpool,  do,    when  the  low,  until  the  mailed  shadow  dis- 

summer  drought  is  on  them,  were  appears,  and  Hamlet  is  paramount 

there  not  an  influx  from  our  metro-  to  the  end. 

pc^ttan  theatres?    They  would  Ian-        We  are  notofthe  Partridge  faction » 

guish,    notwithstanding    the    races.  We  do  not  like  the  king  best ;  no,  nor 

the  cathedral,  the  exchange.    What  the  queen ;  nor  the  Lora  Cbamberlaiit 

would  become  of  Glasgow  (trade-  of  the  kingdom  of  Denmark,  whose 

thriving  city,  famous  for  suuff  and  accomplishments,  in  natural  history, 

literature,— and  to  be  mentioned,  in  are  so  equivocal.     We  think  even 

after  annals,  as  the  spot  where  Mn  tiiat  my  Lord  Osriek  (courtier  and 

Knowles's  tragedy  or  "  Virginius "  lord  of  the  bed-chamber)  is  but  ml 

was  engendered  and  brought  to  light)  differently  8ilhr>  &t  times,  although 

without  Mr.  M&cready's  annual  visit,  his  method  of  handling  a  foil,  and 

or  some  of  oiur  southern  smiles  to  the  equity  of  his   arbitrations    are 

help  it  through  the  year  ?     It  would  equally  undeniable.    No ;  Hamlet  is 

fare  but  ill,    we  suspect,    without  our  passion,    as  he  was  Ophelia's, 

something  of  this  sort  to  break  its  ''  Would    he  were  thinner*  indeed, 

monotony.     Its  argosies  had  better  but  let  that  pass ;  he  is  fat,  and  it 

be  wind-bound  like   Antonio's:    its  cannot  be  helped, — or  denied.     He 

wind-mills,  even,  had  better  undergo  is  a  fine  corporeal  piece  of  philo- 

a  change,^  although  it  ^ould  be  like  sophy.  He  becomes  well  the  horror  of 

that  so  £smous  one  which  took  place  the  scene, — the  midnight  watch,  and 

in  the  memorable  adventures  of  the  the  haunted  forest ;  and  his  melao- 

Seiior  Alonzo  Quixada.  dioly  pride  blends  well  with- the  pre- 

But  for  Hamlet  .'—Hamlet,  then^  tematural  darkness  of  his  for^inet^ 


9k  TKe  Drama.  CJid^V 

iTeliatBll  the  regality  of  grief  ab«mt  IftboudUitemliddiiwiatlixlMM^ 

him :  there  u  no  plebeian  wailing,  Abaent  thee  from  midtf  awhile,  > 

nor  vulgar    exposure,   nor   craring  •^'"1  *  ^^  h«nh  wodd  diaw  thy  bieadi  la 

of  sympathy   from   every   common  _,     ,,1'*'°' 

eye  of  the  court,  but  he  siu  throned  ^^  *^ ""'  »*"'?• 
in  the  shadow  of  undirulged  and       _Aiid  the   story   is    told,    as  he 

Inextricable  sorrow,  a  high  commis-  wished :    then  comes  in  Fortinbras 

doned  spirit,   ordained  to  deal  out  and  his  soldiers,  and  Hamlet  "  the 

Tengeance  on  the  murderer  and  adul-  Dane  "—dies. 

terer, — the  son  and  heir  of  kings  and        Mr.  Macready's  personification  at 

warriors,    himself  a  scholar  and  a  Hamlet  was,   we  thought,  unequaL 

prince,  until,  at  last,  he  tracks  out  -He  never  sinks  below  mediocri^,  and 

his  fate  through  its  several  windings,  he  is  generally  very  far  above  ft :  he 

and  arrives  at  the  usual  bound, — ^it  is  can    always  be  above    it  when  he 

the  same  in  England  as  elsewhere, —  pleases.      In    the    earlier    parts    of 

tile  grave.     He  was  the  brightest  Hamlet,    he    was  more  quiet  than 

■tar  that  ever  broke  tiie  gloom  of  suited  our  taste;  (it  was  a  marvel 

Denmark,  and  now —  to  us  how  he  tamed  his  fiery  spirit 

irvu    •  a«j  .1.     •  ■  .       ,  down)  but  in  the  first  sdiloquy,  be 

WhithoM  fled  the  Ti«on«yglMm?  broke  out,  and  showed  us  that  he  m- 

mere»he»ow,theglor,«.dth«die«n?  ^^,^^  jj  j„  something  afWwanla. 

Ah !  that  was  beyond  the  stretch  f *l".  *^*.  P*^  ''\'^'^  ^  the  air  of 

even  of  the  Dane's  philosophy.    For  "?*  havmg  been  thoroughly  coouder. 

ourselves,  we  do  not  profeSs  to  have  ^  'J"'  P**'?.'  '*'?•'  ^K'*  ^'  ¥?«- 

•ny :  we  think  even  that  Dr.  John-  ^t^'  economised  his  animal  spinta. 

•on's  terrors  were  by  no  means  ridi-  J''*'"*.  'T"'  certamly,  no  miscmicep. 

culous,  although,  w£en  we  lay  our  tion.but  there  wm  some  want  of  ener- 

heads  on  our  piUows,  we  hope  (like  f^'^^  •"  failed  mmakmg  some  rf 

Candide)  for  the  best                  ^  JiT     i  ^*  ^^"^^  ^^  conridewd) 

So  much  has  been  said  and  written  T  ''^"°"'  *^w '     ^f  lJ*"  *S* 

«f  Hamlet,  and  his  madness,  and  his  P'"S  "'^'^  f'','^'"^  *«  ^i'J* 

melancholy,    and  hU  morality,  and  «««»«  amend" /or  all.    Wecertataly 

bis  misanthropy  (we  are  absolutely  Tf'  ""m  *J**  **"«  acted  m  a  way 

beguiled  into  aUiteration),  that  wi  *!"* '*"!!^  m    if^'TJ*"  "T^ 

wiB  forbear  to  perplex  the  reader  ""•"  '^^  Mr.  Macready's  perform. 

with  any  ftirUier  inquiry  into  aU  or  '"""■    ^  *  '"",  »«ymofe-we  never 

any  of  these  delicate  poinU.      We  "''T  »«"«?•'»?«'»  ^'te'-  We  cm 

may  remark,   however,    «,  ;x«,<zn/,  f^r^t'^  ,**?Pi  Jj*  ^"""fSPn" 

that  he  was  a  most  paradoxic%d  mis'  *^*  ^^'J'lw  k*^ •^*^*^/''"  "JB^^'S 

anthrope,  for,  with  the  single  excep-  ~X^  ^^  *"*  be  insisted  on,  certamH 

tion  of  the  worthy  Claudius%eIovrf  n°th»"»  eJ'c-    The  closet  scene,  witk 

the  whole  world.     It  must  be  ad-  **•*  1"^*",',  '""  »'•»  ^f"  '"^  ^ 

mitted,  hideed,  that  he  called  Polo-  TT^"t^    ^a  X!"^ '    ■"^'   ^ 

nius  a  fool  (but  he  was  wrong),  and  ^^.  *"  *•»«  *"**  ^^f  jr.T7 

that  hU  conduct  to  Ophelia  was  not  'tj^k""?    'n^tances   of    high   talent, 

altogether  kmd;  and  yet,  take  him  ^^^  *"»'',!'*  would  give  the  dbarao 

for  111  m  all,  he  was  a  model  for  a  ?f  "  ™"^'"«f  °V*°  HIT'i.       ^^ 

prince,  and  we  would  that  the  sun  "  f«5""r'"  "*'"*'  ^*  .k*  ''ST 

which  gUded  the  roofe  of  Elsinore  had  P"*  ^'"*^,  T^\  P^^%  »  *''•'  *"''*» 

ahone  5pon  his  grey  locks  at  ninety :      Pf^'  f"^ /^  '»  "l"^?  «"""«  "^   '^ 
*^  o    J  /        instead    of  disappointing    us     (yc«> 

For  he  WM  likely,  had  he  been  put  on,  disappointing    us    a  little)    at    nnt. 

To  have  proved  moBt  royally. and  coming  upon  us  like  an  electric 

shock  afterwards.     He  may,    if  he 

But  we  are  not  writing  an  essay ;  pleases^  make  it  a  very  complete  piece 

•0  we  must  even  take  our  leave  of    of  acting. The    other    characters 

Hamlet.  Two  or  three  lines  we  may  were  respectably  filled  by  Mr.  Ab- 
be allowed,  from  our  old  love,  to  bott,  Mr.  Egerton,  and  Mrs.  Faudt ; 
3uote  at  parting:  thej  are  his  last  and  Ophelia s songs  were  delightfully 
ircctions  to  his  fhend  Horatio,  given  by  Miss  Stephens.  No  one 
There  is  nothing  more  touching  in  will  ever  think  of  stopping  her  sor- 
all  Shakspearc.    Hear  what  he  says:  row^  if  i^e  always  sings  thus  sweet- 


TkeDranuL 


Ij  whensbeiBgileTed;  but  we  hope 
tJbat  ahe  never  is  grieved. 

JPloifUMi  and  Pythias*  This  seems, 
to  us  to  be  but  a  bare  subject  for  a 
tragedy,  and  yet  there  have  been  two 
written  upon  it  The  first  is  by  an 
old  writer,  of  the  name  of  Edwards, 
and  is  one  of  the  earliest  and  rudest 
specimens  of  the  English  drama.  It 
18  full  of  anachronisms  and  inconsis- 
tencies of  all  sorts.  The  names  of 
the  persons  represented  are  partly 
ancient  Greek,  partly  English,  and 
the  rest  modem  Italian — Damon,  Py- 
thias, Will,  Jack,  Stephano,  &c., 
who,  besides  the  regular  dialogue, 
quote  good  Latin  verses,  (we  be- 
lieve, Virgil's)  and  jabber  French. 
Grimm,  the  collyer,  bom  at  Croy- 
don, (the  scene  is  at  Syracuse)  is 
guilty  of  the  last-mentioned  fact,  and 
he  speaks  of  *'  vortie  shillings,"  and 
pairs  of  spectacles,  and  clocks,  and 
other  matters,  which  we  had  held  to 
be  somewhat  later  inventions. 

The  style  of  this  play  is  uncouth 
and  harsh,  and  yet  there  is  something 
•f  character  in  one  or  two  of  the 
dnunatis  persons.  Carisophus,  the 
parasite,  is  a  fair  specimen  of  a  spy, 
and  seems  to  understand  surveillance, 
and  how  to  swear  awav  a  man's  life  ; 
and  Aristippus,  *'  a  pleasant  gentU- 
man,"  as  he  is  called,  argues  himself 
pleasantly  enough  into  Ms  own  good 
graces.    <'  To  some,"  he  says, 

Pofaaps  it  seems  strange 

That  I,  Aristippiis,  a  courder  am  become, 

who  was  late  no  mean  philosopher  j 
but,  he  adds : 

LfOvers  of  wiidom  are  teraied  philoecmherB. 
I  am  wvse  for  myself,  then  tell  me  of  troths 
la  not  that  great  irisdom,  as  the  world  goth* 

But  Stephano,  Damon's  serving 
man,  does  not  relish  philosophy.  In 
the  boldness  of  his  hunger,  he  says : 

Surely,  for  all  vour  talk  of  philosophie, 
I  never  heard  that  a  man  with  words  could 
fill  his  beUy: 

On  which  his  master  remonstrates, 
and  he  replies : 

Dimu  Ah!  Stephano,  small  diet  makedi 

a  finememone. 
Stcfh,  I  care  not  fbr  your  ctaftie  sophis* 
trie. 
You  two  are  fine,  let  mee  be  fed  like  a  grose 
knave  stilL 

Damon  consoles  himself  with  this 
flection : 

4 


Ah  f  traia  vp  a  (eafaiii  ncfsr  to  ad  goot 

a  behaviour,    ' 
Yet,  in  some  point  «f  senrilitie,  he  w^  la* 

TOur: 
As  this  Stephano,  tmstie  to  mee  his  master^ 

lov3mg  and  kinds, 
Yet,  tottdung  his  belly,  a  very  bondman  I 

him  nnde. 

It  would  be  tedious  to  the  reader^ 
were  we  to  favour  him  with  much  liiT 
this  dialogue;  but,  unpolished  and 
mgged  as  these  lines  are,  there  are 
one  or  two  lyrics  which  are  remark- 
ably soft  and  musical.  Here  is  a 
stanza  from  one  of  them. 

The  losse  of  worldly  wealth 

Man*s  wisdom  may  restore. 

And  physick  hath  provided,  too, 

A  salve  fbr  every  sore : 

But  my  true  friend  once  lost, 

No  art  can  well  supply. 

Then  what  a  death  is  this  to  hears  t  . 

Damon,  my  friend,  must  die. 

We  will  now  leave  the  old  dramas 
and  proceed  to  the  new  one.  *'  Dar 
mon  and  Pythias "  is  written  partljr 
bv  a  Mr.  fianim,  and  partly  by  Mr. 
Shiel,  the  amiable  author  of  Evadne* 
We  do  not  think  this  play  so  food  aa 
the  last  production  of  Mr. Shiel;  some 
of  the  situations  are  striking  and  dra^ 
matic,  but  the  dialogue  is  by  no 
means  eaual,  we  think,  to  many  pas« 
sages  wnich  might  be  quoted  front 
Evadne.  It  would  be,  perhaps, 
scarcely  fair  to  jud^e  either  of  the 
authors  by  this  their  joint  perform-^ 
ance,  notwithstanding  the  success 
with  which  Beaumont  and  Fletcher 
are  known  to  have  written  together. 
We  are  the  more  induced  to  think 
thus,  because  we  know  what  Mr. 
Shiel  has  done,  and  can  do  suiglv; 
and  Mr.  Banim,  is,  we  believe,  the 
author  of  an  interesting  poem,  calle4 
"  The  Celt's  Paradise.''  We  must 
not  be  understood,  however,  to  speak 
of  this  tragedy  as  one  at  all  void  oF 
merit;  on  the  contrary,  there  are 
many  pleasing  passages,  and  some 
good  ones.  There  is  something  hearty 
and  fine  in  the  wav  in  which  Damon 
hails  Calanthe  on  her  wedding  day : 

—  Calanthe, 
The  blessing  and  the  bounty  of  the  gods 
Be^with  you,  over  you,  and  all  about  you  ; 

and  the  following  is  a  sweet  piece  of 
description,  though  perhaps  too 
much  elaborated  for  a  play. 


w 


TheDrameu 


A  dfiO,  made  of  gnta  bettitjrt'widi  its 

ahrabs 
Of  argniBlic  sweetness,  growing  up 
The  nigged  mouDtam*8  sides,  as  cunninglj 
As  the  nice  structure  of  a  Kttle  nest. 
Built  by  two  loving  nightingales.  The  wind 
That  comes  hcare,  full  of  rudeness  firom  the 

sea. 
Is  lulled  into  a  balmy  breath  of  peace. 
The  moment  that  it  enters ;  and  *tis  said. 
By  the  Sicilian  shepherds,  that  their  songs 
Have  in  this  place  a  wilder  melody. 
The  mountains  all  about  it  are  the  haimts 
Of  many  a  fine  romantic  memory ! 
High  towers  old  Etna,  with  his  feet  deep 

dad  , 

In  the  green  sandals  of  the  freshful  spring ; 
His  sides  arrayed  in  winter,  and  his  front 
Shooting  aloft  the  everlasting  flame. 
On  the  right  hand,  Ac  &c 

There  is  also  a  really  pathetic 
scene  between  Damon  and  his  wife 
Hermion,  in  the  fourtli  act ;  though 
that  is  laboured  too  much,  in  our 
opinion :  yet  it  opens  well. 

Dam*  Have  I  in  all  my  life 
Given  thee  an  angry  look,  a  word,  or  been 
An  unkind  mate,  my  Hermion  ? 
•    Herm,  Never,  the  gods  know,  never. 

And  had  all  been  thus  simple,  we 
could  have  given  the  play  far  more 
praise  than  we  have  now  done.  On 
the  whole,  *^  Damon  and  Pythias " 
betrays  evident  marks  of  real  dra- 
matic skill,  in  the  situations,  in  the 
conduct  of  the  plot,  (excepting  only 
Nicias,  who  is  superfluous  altoge- 
ther), in  the  way  in  which  the  inte- 
rest is  suspended,  and  frequently  in 
the  dialogue:  indeed,  there  is  too 
much  of  abruptness  (or  transition)  in 
the  speeches ;  for  though  that  has  its 
effect  on  the  stage,  it  looks  but  ill  in 
print,  and  should  be  used  sparingly 
at  all  times.  Macready  and  Charles 
Kemble  played  excellently  well  in 
this  tragedy:  though  the  first  gen- 
tleman has,  beyond  doubt,  the  most 
difficult  and  important  part;  and 
Miss  Foote  looked  and  played  like 
an  angel.  We  did  not  like  Miss 
Dance.  Mr.  Abbot  topped  his  part 
pleasantly  in  Dionvsius.  There  was 
no  new  scenery.  Although  wc  heard 
talk  of  £tna,  we  did  not  see  it. 

DRURY    LANE. 

There  has  not  been  any  novelty 
here  worth  recording.  Mrs.  Glover, 
indeed,  has  played  Hamlet ! !  and 
Mr.  Elliston  has  given  a  masquerade. 


CJuly, 

but  we  did  not  see  either  of  tlio«r 
entertainments.  We  forbore  going 
to  see  Mrs.  Glover  entirely  out  of  a 
tender  consideration  for  her,  (yet  we 
hear  that  she  played  well,)  and  Mr. 
£lliston's  tickets  were  one  pound  five 
shillings  each: — we  drank  our  cofl[ee> 
at  a  cheaper  house.  His  brilliant 
illumination  we  saw  for  nothing,  and 
his  ^  Blue  Devils'  we  had  witnessed 
before. 

The  farces  which  are  acted  at  this 
theatre  are  generally  good  and  well 
f  got  up,' — Y>ettcr  perhaps,  than  at 
the  other  house.  Harley  is  good,  and 
Knight  is  good, — 

A  lass  is  good,  and  a  glass  is  good — 

Miss  Kelly  is  good  also,  and  Munden 
is  the  hero  of  Afterpiece.  As  we  have 
said  that  a  good  tragedy  is  difficult 
to  achieve,  so  will  we  say  that  a  good 
farce  is  not  easily  to  be  accom- 
plished. 

Last  month,  the  Queen  descend- 
ed upon  the  theatres,  '  veiled  in  a 
shower  of  shadowing  roses,'  (or  fea- 
thers) to  the  astonishment  of  the  ma- 
nagers, who  knew  not  how  to  receive 
her.  At  Drury  Lane,  she  was  ffieet- 
ed  by  the  audience,  we  are  told,  but 
received  with  moderate  ardour  by 
Mr.  Elliston.  At  Covent  Garden 
(where  we  saw  her)  the  audience 
certainly  felt  a  divided  duty,  some 
shouting  '  the  King,'  and  others  '  the 
Queen,'  while  Mr.  Harris  and  Mr. 
Fawcett,  profound  in  politics,  docH 
magUtri,  were  entirely  quiescent.— 
For  our  own  parts,  though  we  med- 
dle but  little  with  politics,  (hating 
the  heated  and  perilous  atmosphere 
that  surrounds  tbem),  we  felt  that 
the  queen  presented  a  melancholy 
spectacle.  She  went  to  Covent  Gar- 
den, without  having  given  previous 
notice  of  her  intention,  and  conse- 
quently no  preparation  had  been 
made  to  receive  her.  She  was  poorly 
attended,  and  sate  on  the  front  seat 
of  one  of  the  common  boxes: — she 
sate  alone,  without  any  of  the  marks 
or  distinction  of  a  queen,  like  a  per- 
son cut  off  from  society,  but  without 
the  advantages  of  illustrious  birth. 
Her's  was  Uie  solitude  of  royalty 
without  the  splendour  that  flatters 
and  deceives  it.  We  hate,  we  re- 
peat it,  politics  of  all  sorts ; — we  are 


1811.^  TbHope.  W 

not  radicals,   nor  tories^  nor  even  fdl  tp  witness  such, a  din  as  aroii 

whigs ;  but  we  are  men  with  some  witfim  the  courtly  walls  of  Covent 

pity  in  our  constitutions^  and  we  were  Garden,    where  eyen  the  magician 

absolutely  sickened  at  the  obstreye-  Prospero  was  fqrgotl^n ;  and  the  ex- 

roua  folly  of  some  of  our  neighbours,  quisite  beaaty  of  the  delicate  Ariel, 

who  were  shouting  ''  king, — ^king.''  (who  had  cunnmglji  stolen  the  shape 

The  expression  of  popular  feeling  is  a  of  Miss  Foote)   waJs    utterly  disre* 

fine  thing,  and  should  neyer  be  con-  garded. 
trolled — ^in  the  street ;  but  it  is  pain-^ 

TO  HOP£. 

O !  TAKE,  young  Seraph,  take  thy  harp. 
And  play  to  me  so  cheerily ; 
For  grief  is  dark,  and  care  is  sharp. 
And  life  wears  on  so  wearily. 
O  !  take  thy  harp  ! 

Oh !  sing  as  thou  wert  wont  to  do. 

When,  all  youth's  sunny  season  long,  . 

I  sat  and  listen'd  to  thy  song. 

And  yet  'twas  ever,  ever  new. —  * 

With  mag^c  in  each  lieav'n-tun'd  string. 

The  future  bliss  thy  constant  theme. 

Oh  then  each  little  woe  took  wing 

Away,  like  phantoms  of  a  dream ; 

As  if  each  sound. 

That  fluttet'd  rtfimd. 
Had  floated  over  Lethe's  stream ! 

By  all  those  bright  and  happy  hours 
We  spent  in  life's  sweet  eastern  bow'rs, 
■  Where  thou  would'st  sit  and  smile,  and  show,  « 

Ere  buds  were  comcf^where  llow'jrs  would  blow. 
And  oft  anticipate  the  rise   • 
Of  life's  warm  sun  that-scal'd  the  skies. 
By  many  a  story  of. love  and  glory. 
And  friendships  promis'd  oft  to  me, 
Bv  all  the  faith  1  ledt  to  thee, 
Ob !  take,  young  Seraph,  take  thy  harp. 
And  play  to  me  so  cheerily ;  .       i 

For  grief  is  dark,  and  care  is  sharp. 
And  ufe  wears  on  so  wearily. 
O  !  take  thy  harp  I 

Perchance  the  strings  will  sound  less  clear. 

That  long  have  lain  neglected  by 

In  sorrow's  misty  atmosphere — 

It  ne'er  may  speak  as  it  hath  spoken. 

Such  joyous  notes  so  brisk  and  high  ; 

But  are  its  golden  cords  all  broken  ? 

Are  there  not  some,  though  weak  and  low. 

To  play  a  lidlaby  to  woe? 

But  thou  can'st  sing  of  love  no  more. 
For  Celia  show'd  that  dream  was  vain-— 
And  many  a  fancied  bliss  is  o'er. 
That  comes  not  e'eu  in  dreams  again. 

Alas!  alas! 

How  pleasures  pass, 
And  leave  thee  now  no  subject,  save 
The  peace  and1>lis8bevond  the  grnvc  I— 
Vol.  iV.  ir 


m  Lamb's  Translation  of  CatuOur.  E^^^ 

Then  be  thy  flight  among  the  skies  ;  . 

Take  then>  Oh  1  take  the  skylark's  win^^ 
.    And  leave  dull  earth,  and  heav'nward  rise 
O'er  aU  its  teariul  clouds,  and  sing 
On  skylark's  wing ! 

Another  life-spring  there  adorns 
Anodier  youth — without  the  dread 
Of  cruel  care,  whose  crown  of  thorns' 
Is  here  for  manhood's  aching  head. — 
Oh,  there  are  realms  of  welcome  day, 
A  world  where  tears  are  wiped  away  f 
Then  be  thy  flight  among  the  skies ; 
Take  then.  Oh !  take  the  skylark's  wing. 
And  leave  dull  earth,  and  heav'nward  rise 
O'er  all  its  tearful  clouds,  and  sing 
On  skylark's  wing  I 


LAMB*S  TRANSLATION  OF  CATULLU&* 

^^ITell,  let  me  tell  you,"  said  Gold-  truth  in  the  Doctor's  version,  that 

smith,  ''  when  my  tailor  brought  my  makes  it  very  pleasant  to  the  English 

bloom-coloured  coat  he  said.  Sir,  I  reader ;  and  to  the  scholar,  the  notes 

have  a  favour  to  beg  of  you.    When  are    pregnant    with    great  classical 

any  body  asks  you  who  made  your  knowledge,  and  the  expression  of  a 

clothes,  be  pleased  to  mention  John  plain  and  vigorous  judgment.    The 

Filby,  at    tbe    Harrow,   in    Water  Doctor  does  not  catch  many  of  those 

Lane."    '*  Why,  Sir,"  said  Johnson,  sweet,  honied  expressions,  which  are 

'^that  was  because  he  knew  the  strange  the  charm  of  the  love  poems  of  Ca- 

colour  would  attract  crowds  to  gaze  tullus ;— nor  has  he  the  general  free- 

at  it ;  and  thus  they  might  hear  of  dom,  the  soft  grace,  the  curious  fell- 

him,  and  see  how  well  he  could  make  city  of  his  original ;  but  he  translates 

a  coat  even  of  so  absurd  a  colour."  as  nearly  to  the  life  as  is,  peiiiaps, 

Mr.  Lamb's  Translation  of  Catul-  possible,  and  often  points  out  in  the 
lus  appears  much  to  resemble  the  notes  a  beauty  of  thought  or  Ian- 
blossom  coloured  coat  of  Poor  Gold-  guage,  which  he  cannot  exactly  hit 
smith.  It  comes  forth  with  Mr.  Da-  in  his  translation, 
vison's  name  on  the  title  page,  and  It  seems  to  us  a  very  lamentable 
the  ingenious  printer  seems  only  de-  thing  that  a  dead  poet  cannot,  like  a 
sirous  of  showmg  how  goodly  a  book  live  oishop,  have  some  voice  in  his 
he  can  make  out  of  the  most  inap-  own  Translation : — we  are  quite  sure, 
propriate  materials.  The  paper  of  that  if  such  a  power  could  have  been 
the  pretty  book  before  us  is  as  yellow  attained,  Mr.  Lamb  would  n^  have 
and  sleek  as  heart  could  wish ;  the  been  permitted  to  traduce  into  £ng- 
type  and  ink  are  an  ode  of  them-  lish  some  of  the  sweetest  and  most 
selves;  the  title  page  buds  with  natural  poems  in  the  Roman  Ian- 
promises  ;  yet  with  all  these,  never,  guage.  He  would  have  been  enjoin- 
m  all  our  critical  experience,  has  it  ed  to  silence  by  the  poet  himself — 
fallen  to  us  to  meet  with  so  weak  and  and  would  certainly  never  have  heard 
valueless  a  publication, — so  miserable  those  flattering  words,  whlth,  by 
a  marriage  of  paper  and  ink.  dint  of  ingenious  prompting,  he  gets 

Catullus  has  been  nibbled  at  by  the  shade  of  Catullus  to  utter.     Mr. 

many  poets,  but  we  know  of  no  re-  Lamb,  indeed,  appears  to  be  a  straight- 

gular  translation,  except  one  publish-  forward,  pains-taking,  sensible  gen- 

ed  by  Johnson,  in  1795,  and  said  to  tleman,   with  a  very  fair  stock   of 

be  the  work  of  a  Dr.  Nott    There  is  prose  ideas  upon  poetry ;  and  it  is 

considerable  force,    aiMi    unaffected  not  at  all  improbable,  tliat  he  relishes 


♦  The  poems  of  Caius  \'deriu»  Catullus  translated,  with  a  Preface  and  Note*,  by  the 
lion.  George  Lamb,  2  Vols.  12mo.— Murray,  IWl. 


l9Sn.'2                          La$nb*i  Translatwn  of  CahtOus.  dt 

the  original  rersion  of  Catullus,  but  Catullus  in  severe  rerses :  '*  a  clean 

he  catches  none  of  its  spirit  and  na-  well  pointed  satire  was  his  forte/* 

ture, — none  of  its  terseness  and  en-  says  tne  doctor ;  *'  but  we  fear  that 

chaiiting  beauty  of  expression.  Take,  he  more  often  used  the  bludgeon  than 

for  instance,  that  exquisite  passage  in  the  sword."     In  the  poetrv  of  manly 

the  Address    to    the    Peninsula    of  friendship,  and  social  kindliness,  Ca* 

Sinnio.  tullus   was  eminently    happy;    and 

Cum  mens  onutreponit^acperegiino  ^®^>   ^   ^^'  ^™^   speaks   to  thd 

Imbm  fcni  vcnimus  laiem  ad  noatrum^  pun>ose,    we    will    select   what   we 

Doidemtoque  acquietdmus  lecto.  think  the  only  good  passage  m  the 

Mr.  Lamb  thus  hammers  out   the  „^    '        .                         .        , 

11^^ . There  remam  some  poems  to  be  spoken 

of,  not  usually  erected  mto  a  distinct  class. 

Then  when  the  mind  its  load  lajrs  down;  but  which  may  well  justify  such  an   ar« 

When  we  regain,  all  hazards  past,  rangement,  namely,  the  poetry  of  fdend- 

And  with  long  ceaseless  travel  tired,  ship  and  affection.     This  is  a  strain  in 

Oar  household  god  i^in  our  own ;  which  only  a  genius  originally  pure,  how* 

And  press  in  tranquu  sleep  at  last,  ever  polluted  by  the  immorality  of  its  era. 

The  well  known  bed,  so  oft  dcnred ;  could  descant  with  appropriate  sentiment ; 

rru    r  ».'        ^r  ^       1              u        a  which  speaks  with  all  the  kindly  warmth 

The  fatij^e  of  travel  seems  here  to  ^  iove,\^e  it  reftains  fiom  its  in^eason- 

have  passed  mto  the  very  verse ;  for  ing  rage ;  that  adopts  all  its  deUcacy,  with- 

ncver  did  poetry  so  tediously  and  om  any  tmge  of  its  gxtMsness.    In  this 

tamely  address  itself  "  unto  our  gen-  ^yle  Catullus  has  written  more  in  propo*- 

tle  senses."  tion,  and  move  beautifully,  than  any  an- 

Now,  really  we  do  think  that  a  thor.    The  lines  to  Hortalus,  the  Epistle 

translation    of   Catullus    should    be  to   Manlius,    to  Calvus  on  the  death  of 

somethiiig  beyond  a  spiritless  para-  Quintilia,  and  the  Invocation  at  his  bro« 

phrase,  or  a  schoolboy  version.     The  ^^'s  p^rave,  show  how  warmly  his  heart 

words  should  bum  into  English,—  ^«  V^  ^^  refined  fanpulse.    These  are 

should  flash  mto  a  new.  tongue,  with  ^r  ,^«  °»<«*  *^*^^«  compositions  of 

new  light,-Bhould  be  aU  full  of  life,  *^"  kmd;   on  the  otte  hand,  m  suA 

-   o  ^  -  ™"*"  »/c  ~-  lUAA  w»  ***!;,  pognjjg  „  Acme  and  Septimius,  and  the 

—of  graceful  joy,  and  happy  tender-  fcithakmium  on  the  marriage  of  Manlms 

ness !  Mr.  Lamb  is  a  kmd  of  resur-  j^id  Julia,  we  behold  with  what  pleasure 

rection  man    about  Paniassus ;    he  he  witnessed,  and  with  what  zeal  he  ode- 

goes  about  in  the  dark,  digging  up  a  brated  the  hawiness  of  his  friends.    Se- 

dead  language,  and  expoeung  the  re-  vend  are  of  a  Ught  and  ftdlicaome  charac- 

mains  to  sale  ;  but  he  does  not,  like  ter,  such  as  those  to  FabuUos,  to  Flavins, 

the  celebrated  sexton,  that  "  fortu-  and  to  Camerius:  still  all  of  this  class, 

tunate  youth**  of  churchyards,  find  a  however  uninteresting  the  subject,  breathe 

gem  on thefinger ;  hereminds  usrather  *»  engaging  kindness  of  heart ;  and,  how- 

of  Cobbetfs  bringing  into  England  «^«  tn viaT  the  occasion,  it  is  snll  oma- 

a  negro-8  bones  for  tEose  of  hisliero.  °»«^  ^^.  f^'  f*?"J  ^""2^  aI 

H>  I.®             s-«  Ai.          *    *u     •  u  u'*  pression  ;  which  is,  alas !  of  aU  merits  the 

he  were  m  the  east,  the  inhabit-  P„^  ^ukdy  to  Evaporate  hi  tnmstation. 

anU  would  look  upon  him  as  a  vam-  The  heart-somhing  aSdiess  to  Sirmio,  the 

pire,    from    his   fatal  propensity  to  dedication  to  Cornelius  Nepos,  and  that  of 

suck  the  life  out  of  the  fair,  the  ten-  the  Pinnace,  and  the  lines  to  Himself  on 

der,   the  beaudful !    the  muse  feels  the  approach  of  Spring,  speak  those  more 

the  sickness  of  his  eye,   and  pines  plada  feelings  of  content  that,  pohaps,  give 

away  under  his  sombre  fascination.  the  most  unalloyed  happiness,  and  evince  a 

Catullus  is  of  idl  poets  perhaps  the  "ocial  and  amiable  disposition  that  harmo- 

happiest,  in  expressing  home  feelings  «^2»  ^«U  with  warmer  aflections.  ^ 

naturally,  and  tender  feelings  ten-  The  preface  of  Mr.  Lamb's  work 

derlv.     A  word  with  him,  is  conti-  is  not  ill-written,  but  it  is  Hberally 

niiafly  like  a  sweet  note  in  music,  taken  from  the  Introduction  to  Dr. 

and  thrills  on  the  heart  strings.    His  Nott's  book,  and  not  as  liberally  ae* 

conciseness  is  matchless,— and  his  re-  knowledged.    The  life  of  the  poet  is 

petitions  of  melodious  words  are  ever  inwoven  into  this  preliminarv  essay, 

the  moat  pleasant  and  felicitous.    Dr.  and  also  relishes  strongly  of  the  Doc- 

Notty  whom  Mr.  Lamb  just  quietlv  tor.     Mr.  Lamb  quotes  some  obser- 

alludes  to  as  "  the  prior   English  vations  of  Walsh,  at  tlie  beginning 

Cranslator,"  speaks  of  the  snc.css  of  of  his  preface,  which  appear  to  us 


H 


Lamb' I  Trantbition  of  CatuBut. 


CJuly. 


Extremely '  questionable :  ''  I  am  sa- 
tisfied that  Catullus,  Tibullus,  Pro- 
pertius,  and  Ovid,  were  in  love  with 
their  mistresses,  while  they  upbraid 
them,  quarrel  with  them,  threaten 
them,  and  forswear  them  ;  but  I  con- 
fess I  cannot  believe  Petrarch  in  love 
with  his,  when  he  writes  conceits 
upon  her  name,  her  gloves,  and  the 

I  Mace  of  her  birth."  Mr.  Lamb  en- 
ar^es  upon  this  profound  assertion, 
and  never  stops  to  enquire  into  its 
correctness.  We  do  not  ever  ques- 
tion the  love  of  Catullus  for  Lesbia ; 
but  when  the  character  of  the  lady 
is  recollected,  there  will  remain  smaU 
cause  for  wonder  that  he  quarrelled 
with  her,  threatened  her,  upbraided 
her,  and  abjured  her;  the  sister  of 
the  infamous  Clodius,  while  she  fas- 
cinated the  poet,  gave  him  ample 
room  for  disgust  and  rebuke.  The 
love  of  Catullus  was  a  sensual,  sus- 
picious passion ;  it  was  not  the  same 
love  that  was  kindled  in  the  heart  of 
Petrarch,  and  that  never  expired  !— 
that  bunied  in  his  breast  perpetually, 
like  the  sacred  light  in  tiie  temple ! 
Petrarch  loved,  and  through  his  ima- 
gination. Love  came  to  him  in  all 
its  glory !  he  saw  Laura,  and  he  saw 
her  for  ever !  Time  brightened  her 
image,  and  charmed  all  objects  which 
had  the  remotest  connexion  with,  or 
reference  to  her.  Whatever  her  eyes 
shone  upon,  became,  on  the  instant, 
sacred  to  the  mind  of  Petrarch; 
whatever  her  hand  touched^  was  at 
once  changed  to  gold  in  his  eyes! 
Her  name  was  poetry  to  him — was  a 
world  of  sweet  thought— a  paradise 
for  his  ingenuity  to  revel  in.  Her 
glove  was  associated  with  herself; 
and  he  saw  the  fonn  which  her  hand 
had  left.  Her  birth  place  too ! — Is 
the  hirth  place  of  the  lady  of  the 
heart,  a  common — ^unmeaning— indif- 
ferent spot  of  earth  ?— Oh  no ! — Pe- 
trarch beheld  in  it  the  garden  where- 
in his  magic  flower  grew,  and  his 
soul  hallowed  it! — Is  Petrarch  then 
to  be  doubted,  because  he  felt  thus 
truly,— thus  hitensely  ?  Is  his  love  to 
be  denied,  because  he  did  not  revile 
the  object  of  his  deathless  passion? 
Surely  Walsh  could  never  have  loved. 
Or  he  would  never  have  erred  so 
coldly.  Mr.  Lamb  might,  indeed, 
have  quoted  a  happier  nastage. 

We  sliall  not  tarry  lon^r  at  the 
threshold  of  Mr.  Lamb's  book,  but 


proceed  to  the  interior,  and  taste  the 
miits  he  has  provided  for  us.  Hit 
prose  and  poetry  are,  however,  so 
very  much  alike,  that  if  you  were  to 
shake  the  whole  out  into  sentences, 
and  mingle  them  together,  it  would 
incapacitate  the  reader  from  knowing 
which  was  the  real  Simon  Pure  :— 
you  might  take  the  Introduction,  and 
"  cut  it  out  in  little  stars  "  for  private 
poetical  use ; — and  ladies  of  iashlon 
and  gentle  taste  would  find  them  Wck 
fiery  indeed  in  the  polite  firmaments 
of  dieir  drawing  rooms  and  arbours. 
The  first  poem  is  the  Dedication  to 
Cornelius  Nepos  (an  old  cane  oc- 
auainiance  of  ours  at  School),  and 
Mr,  Lamb  starts  dolefully  indeed — 

My  litde  volume  is  complete, 
Widi  all  the  care,  and  polish  neat, 
That  make  it  fair  to  tee  ; — 

Where  is  the  *'  pumice  expolitum," 
which  is  so  characteristic  of  the  man* 
ners  of  the  time  .^— The  *'  fair  to  see  " 
is  a  poor  recompence  for  this  unramam 
interpretation.  The  second  piece, 
whicn  is  the  celebrated  Address  of 
Catullus  to  Lesbia's  Sparrow,  and 
begins  so  prettily  in  the  original— 
*^  Passer  delicis  mefe  puellte  "—fares 
no  better  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Lamb. 


Dear  Sparrow,  long  my  fur*8  delight. 

Which  in  her  breast  to  lay. 
To  give  her  finger  to  whose  bite, 
^liose  puny  anger  to  excite, 

She  oft  is  wont  in  play. 

We  very  much  fear  that  the  trans- 
lator has  intrusted  the  rendering  of 
this  little  poem  to  the  head  butler,  or 
one  of  tne  upper  servants  in  his 
house ; — so  very  menially  is  it  *^  done 
into  English."  A  waterman,  in  the 
leisure  of  a  hard  winter,  would  make 
better  lines  on  the  bench  at  West- 
minster-bridee.  The  last  stanza  is 
as  lively  as  Uie  first : — 

Thou  wilt  be  welcome,  as  *tis  known 

Was  to  the  nimble  maid 
The  golden  fruit  that  loosed  the  ame. 
Her  vii^n  guard,  and  bade  her  own 

A  lover's  warmth  repaid. 

Poor  Atalantal— nm  down  a  second 
time  !  and  by  a  Lamb  too ! 

The  Dedication  of  a  Pinnace  to 
Castor  and  Pollux,  which  has  been 
often  translated,  is  made  cminl  to  the 
worst  of  Mr.  Lamb's  translations.  It 
has  not  even  the  merit  of  being 
^^  faith ful,"    like  Hamlet  when   his 


1891.;]  Lamb's  TramkHim  <f  CaiMu.  ^ 

wits  were  gone.  Ju  the  4)riginal,  the  The  conclusion  of  this  poeai>  which 
Pinnace  ^leaks;  but  Mr.  Lamb  ^^cuts  in  the  origuial  is  very  unpleasant  to 
short  all  intermission/'  and  speaics  in  our  feelings,  is  most  cleverly  and 
Us  stead :  and  the  boat,  good  sooth,  justly  managed. 
may  think  itself  well  off,  and  shake  The  Complaint  to  Comifieius,  an- 
ita  old  planks  with  joy  at  the  escape,  other  exquisite  little  poem.  Struck  oB 
The  stanzas  "  To  Himself"  are  so  at  a  heat,  as  it  shoidd  seem,  and  a& 
coldly  and  feebly  given  that  we  wish  natural  as  the  human  heart,  is  "  much 
Hr.  Lamb  had  kept  them  accorduig  abused "  by  the  Catullus  of  White- 
to  the  prescription.  hall.  All  the  fretful  haste  and  me- 
The  Address  to  the  Peninsula  of  lancholy  relapses  are  cut  away  with- 
Sirmio  has  none  of  the  natural  plea-  out  remorse ; — "  the  pruning  hook- 
sure  of  the  original ;  and  yet  we  the  pruning  hook  1 "  but  PtifTs  lop- 
know  not  where  the  fault  lies,  for  it  pings  were  nothing  to  those  of  the 
ia  not  strongly  marked  with  error :-~  unfortunate  Roman.  How  plaintively 

Too  W  for  .  Me«ing_too  good  for  .  ^^"^  "^^  P''*'=^  "  "^^  ""S*"*" ' 

curse —  Male  est,  Comifid,  tuo  Catullo ; 

I  would  to  the  Lord  you  'were  better  or  Male  est  mehercule,  ct  laboriose : 

worse.  Magisque  et  magis,  in  dies  et  horas. 

Now,  in  a  piece  so  famed  for  its  Here  the  repetitions  of  melancholy 
perfect  ease  and  tenderness  as  this  is,  words,    of   which  we   have    before 
we  should  have  expected  the  intelli-  spoken,     are    exquisitdy    beautiful, 
gent  and  masterly  translator  to  prove  Dr.  Nott  says  of  this  poem,  in  a  note, 
his  competency  for  the  task  he  has  *^  Our  poet,  in  this  charming  little 
undertaken. — But  in  the  most  cele-  carmen,  upbraids  Ids  friend  for  his 
brated  passages,  and  in  the  brightest  neglect  of  him  under  some  particular 
poems,  Mr.  Lamb  sinks  into  tame-  distress."    And,  in  his  translation,  he 
ness  and  indolence,  and  fairly  baulks  faintly  catches  the  melody  of  the  La- 
all  expectation.    When  the  rope  is  tin:— 
tightest  and  most  elastic,  and  the  po-  ^^^^  Comifidus,  I  dcdare, 
siUon  the  most  capable  and  attrac-  jj^rd  is  the  lot  Vm  doom'd  to  bear, 
tive,   instead  of  bounding  into   the  And  every  day,  and  every  hour,"  Ac. 
air,  and  making  himself  "  the  ob-        «,.        ,  u.„*«j  ^^^  ^r  a««,«  -,w1 
aeiVedof  aU  observers,"  Mr.  Lamb  aj^""  ^'^^''^'''^.JrZ^lJ^^^^ 
suddenly  drops  his  pole,  relaxes  his  ^P'^^^'^""^^^L'"'!!?^  1;^  l' 
muscles;  and  clroopsL  foot  to  have  Lambsdeficienciesongreatocc.asio..s. 

his  sole  chalked.-lWe  should,  how-  ^»  ^^^^  matchless  Imes 

ever,  give  one  poem  which  is  very  At  Acme  leriter  caput  leflectcns, 

pleasingly  and  melodiously  timied ;  ^\  ^^^ !"«"  «^"^  ?^°^ 

uid  we  wish  we  could  match  this  ^^T^  "^  '"^""^ 

with  another.  ^'^  "'^'"* 

Mr.   Lamb   takes   his    accustomed 

TO  ysBANNius.  slccp : 

Oh  hU  Return  from  Spain.  j^^^  ^^^       ^j^  y^^  i^„  ^cad. 

Of  all  the  many  loved  by  me,  KissM  with  mose  lips  of  cherry  itAy 

Of  all  my  fHends  most  dear.  The  eyes  of  the  delighted  bey, 

Verannius  is  thy  travd  o*er.  That  rwam  itUh  glittcminfi^Jloodt  of  jmj^ 

And  art  thou  home  returned  once  more  And  whisperM  as  she  closely  prcht 

To  light  thy  brother^s  smile  of  dee,  ,-„  ^i.     «    i   •  i      "  *u 

a?y  mother's  age  to  dieer  ?  Where  are  the  "  ebrios  oculos,     the 

--     L  rfcuuiAiui     ^         I  eyes  reehng  With  rapture?  1  hey  arc 

Thourtame.OhbhMful,blessednew.!-  busy   with    "  floods   of  joy."     The 

^^r^d  hi'^in  the  way  "  -P".t  -^ectcns,''  too,  cuts  a  sorry 

I  loved  in  former  time,  pourtray  fk^x^  m  English. 
The  splendid  towns,  the  mountain  views,  '^^^  last  poem  in  the  first  volume 

The  tribes,  and  deeds  of  Spaio.  w  a  mutilated  translation  of  the  hpi- 

I  warm  diaU  press  diee  to  my  breast,  Jhalamium,  written  by  Catullus,   oh 

Whew  fervVnt  welcomes  h^m.  ^^^  marnage  of  Manhus  and  Jiiha  ; 

\^Tiat  mortal,  tboughlie  dare  to  think  7^"4  ^^''®.  ^iV^"  """^^  ^'^  """^r  ^T 

Of  plotfure  he  may  Urgely  drink,  dull,  mdeed,  if  he  be  not  occasionally 

Is  half  so  joyful,  or  so  blest.  Inspired.     Mr.  Lamb  is  now  and  then 

As  I  in  hu  return  ?  endurable  in  this  piece ;  but  he  never 


9<f  Report  of  MiUic.  V^f 

accomplishes  the  conciseness  of  Ca- '  on  his  owh  i^ove. 

tullus,  by  any  chance.     He  spins  out  I  hate  and  love— aak  why— I  can^t  ezplafai  $ 

that  short  brilliant  passage  I  ^^  '**»  »0'  ^^  ^^  »*»  "<*™K  I*™- 

We  have  puq)0sely  delayed  spelkk- 

— : ""*■  ing  of  tlie  translation  of  that  wild, 

AuNM  quatiunt  comas,  frantic,  and  magnificent  poem,  Aty», 

after  this  fashion : —  until  the  last,  because  it  is  by  far  die 

r^.^        m^     , .  ,_  ^  .  .^  .«. '  best  piece  in  Mr.  Lamb's  book ;  and 

V^A  ^^  W  ^"^^^^  ~»  we  Wish,  as  CaHos  sang  to  the  Du^ 

^^A'^^'"^''^''  -"->  to  say  something  Sivilbefon.  we 

°  part.     The  mad  force,  and  solemn 

Why  could  he  not  say,  ''The  torches  gloom,  and  terrific  mystery  of  thi« 

shake  their  golden  hair,"  and  say  no  strange  poem  will  not  be  denied ;  and 

more.     He  cannot,  as  the  Irishman  Mr.  Lamb  writes  here  as  he  writes 

would  say,  add  to  Catullus  without  no  where  else  in  the  book.    What 

taking  from  him.  can  be  more  inspired,  or  terrible  than 

But  our  limits  warn  us  to  close  Mr.  the  poet's  final  ejaculation,  aftfer  the 

Lamb's  Catullus : — we  shall,   there-  dreary  and  fierce  fiight  of  Atys, — 

fore,  be  very  brief  in  our  concluding  ^j^  ,  ^^  ^^^^^  ^^^ ,  ^^  ^ybde 

observations.     The  second  volume  is  **    divine ! 

better,  because  it  is  smaller.  At  page  oh  goddess !  who  hast  placed  on  Dindy- 
84   we  meet  with  these  two  lines,  mus  thy  shrine ! 

which,  like  Adam  and  Eve,  inhabit  Far  be  from  my  abode  thy  sacred  ft«iisy*s 
their  wire- wove  Eden  alone.  In  these  tire ; 

lines,  Mr.  Lamb  (to  use  the  happy  Madden  more  willing  votaries,  mow  daring 
phrase  of  a  very  eminent  personage)  minds  inspire, 

certainly  flourishes  in  *'  the  fiill  vi-        There  are  several  pages  of  useful 

gour  of  his  incapacity."  notes  appended  to  eacn  volume. 


REPORT  OF  music- 
No.  XVIL 


This  month  has  yielded  no  novelty  sentation,  and  particularly  in  those 

at  the  Opera-house,  or  the  theatres,  which  frequenUy  imply  the  most  ur- 

if  we  except  an  attempt  to  introduce  gent  calls  for  action,  the  dramatis 

a  new  opera,    called   Dirce,    which  persons  can  be  permitted  to  stop,  not 

was  brought  out  at  Drury-lane,  for  only  to  sing,  but  to  pace  the  scene  - 

Miss  Wilson's  benefit,  and  the  dia-  during  long  symphonies :  if  the  ima« 

logue  of  which  was  conducted  in  re-  gination,  wc  say,  can  make  allowance 

citativc.    We  are  glad  to  perceive  for  such  absurdities,  surely  the  one 

any  attempt    niade    to  change  the  consistent  notion  of  an  entire  action, 

jumble  of  music  and  dialogue,  which  expressed  by  music  and  poetry,  with 

disgraces  the  English  stage,  to  a  bet-  their  conjoint  influences  and  powers^ 

ter  style.    AVTiether  music  be,  or  be  may  be  more  easily  embraced.    The 

not,  a  suitable  vehicle  for  dramatic  time  will  come,  we  are  persuaded, 

incident,  is  not  a  question  now  to  be  when  such  an  arrangement -will  be 

argued :  the  demand  for  operas  has  preferred ;  but,  at  present,  the  ears 

settied  that  point.     Jt  remains  for  us  of  an  English  audience  are  not  recon- 

of  this  age,  only  to  choose  between  a  ciled  to  recitative,  and  poor  Dirce 

mixed  jargon  oi  discoiu*se  and  song,  passed  firom  life  to  death  without  dia* 

and  a  complete  musical  drama.  Now  tinction,  and  almost  without  notice, 
there  arises  to  our  minds  no  possible        The  King's  Theatre  continues  its 

reason,  why  the  more  conversational  career  of  success,  though  its  musical 

parts  of  a  performance  should  not  be  management  does  not  exhibit  that 

supported  bv  music,  as  well  as  tiiose  vigor,  which  we  know  to  have  been 

wnich  are  held  to  be  more  strictiy  the  characteristic  of  Mr.  Ayrton's 

lyrical.    At  all  events,  it  seems  more  former  scheme  of  management.    We 

consonant  with  common  sense,  that  are  sure,  that  neither  is  the  engage- 

the  singing  should  be  continuous  ra*-  ment    of  such   singers  as  Signoraa 

ther  than  interrupted ;  for  if,  in  the  Marinoni  and  Albert,  though  tempo« 

most  Impassionatc  parts  of  the  repns  rary,  nor  the  exclusion  of  l?ignora 


IB91.J  JUj»ri  of  iftMiac*  01 

Conri^  to  be  attributed  to  a  judgment  eminence  and  attraction^  though  yet 
BO  mature  as  his :  an  interior  cabhiet,  in  her  infancy  as  a  singer, 
a  power  behind  the  throne^  is  there-  Mr.  Ashe,  the  veteran  conductor  of 
me  to  be  apprehended  ;  and,  if  such  the  Bath  Concerts,  has  introduced 
be  the  fact,  toe  season  of  success  will  two  daughters  to  the  musical  circles 
be  short.  The  choice  of  operas  has  of  the  metropolis.  They  are  singers 
not  been  felicitous ;  Iwt  there  is  rea-  of  brilliant  acquisitions. 
SCO  also  to  suspect,  that  judgment  is        The   novelty  of  the   season  has, 

cramped,  and  fettered,  by  the  want  of  however,  been  crowned  by  the  arrival 

greater  vocal  talent  //  Tancredi  was  of  M.  Moschelles,  from  Vienna.    M. 

destroyed  by  Marinoni ;  and  //  TurcQ  Moschelles  is  a  piano-forte   p^yer, 

tj»  Italia,  in  every  sense  a  paltry  pro-  and  his  reputation  had  preceded  him. 

dnction,  was  the  choice  of  the  De  He  played  at  the  last  Philharmonic 

Bei^is.    La  Oazxa  Ladra  was  not  Concert,  and  his  performance  greatly 

cBunently  successful.    No  other  no-  exceeded  even  the  most  sangume  ex- 

▼elty  has  yet  been  furnished.    We  pectations.    He  combines  expression 

hope  to  see  the  King's  Theatre  re-  and  execution  in  a  verv  extraordinary 

vive ;  but  we  warn  the  present  pro-  degree,  and  while  he  has  introduced 

prietor,  that  the  Public  is  the  only  much  novelty  in  the  latter  branch  of 

real  or  valuable  patron,  and  its  good  his  art,  his  style  has  perfectly  satis- 

opinion  can  alone  be  conciliated  and  fied  the  feeling  and  the  judgment  of 

Retained  by  the  exertion  of  vigor  and  the  soundest  critics.     The  concerto 

talent.  itself  was  ako  highly  esteemed ;  and 

The  Benefit  Concerts  have  been  professors  of  the  best  taste  declare, 
remarkably  numerous,  the  ArgyH  they  consider  M.  Moschelles'  playing 
fiooms  having  been  engaged  almost  ''a  prodigious  performance" in  every 
nightly  during  the  monuis  of  May  respect.  M.  Moschelles  is  about 
and  June.  LejeuneHyppolvteLar-  thirty,  and  is  an  exceedingly  modest 
sonneur,  the  French  boy,  whose  ar-  and  sensible  num. 
rival  we  alluded  to  in  our  fifteenth  Mr.  W.  F.  CoUaid,  a£  the  house  of 
Report,  has  played  at  some  of  these ;  Clemently  Collard,  and  Co.  of  Lon- 
ana  a  very  extraordinary  child  he  is.  don,  has  obtained  a  patent  (or  aa 
His  person  is  very  handsome ;  but,  improvement  of  the  piano-forte, 
fhrnii  the  manner  of  curling  his  hair,  which  promises  ffreat  advantages.  It 
and  his  general  dress  (which  closely  is  alike  applicable  to  grand  horizon- 
resembles  that  in  the  miniatures  of  tal,  upright,  cabinet,  and  square  in- 
the  young  Napoleon),  his  air  and  ap-  struments.  The  objects  are  general ; 
pearance  are  feminine.  This,  how-  and  a  large  addition  to  the  volume 
ever,  totally  disappears  when  he  and  richness  of  tone  is  the  first  desi- 
l>egins  to  play.  His  attitude  is  com-  deratum  obtained.  This  is  effected 
manding ;  and  the  motion  of  his  bow-  by  giving  a  lengthened  vibration, 
arm  superior  to  that  of  any  player  we  similar  to  that  produced  by  rmsing 
ever  saw.  His  execution  is  very  the  dampers ;  without,  however,  any 
perfect ;  and,  bating  that  it  yet  lacks  of  the  oonfusion  which  attends  the 
a  little  of  the  bolder  lights  and  sha-  latter.  Mr.  Collard  has  introduced 
dows  of  expression,  his  performance  what  he  terms  a  ^  bridge  of  rever- 
would  be  held  to  be  superior  even  at  beration ; "  being  a  third  moveable 
an  age  far  more  advanced ;  for  he  bridge  parallel  to  the  side  of  the  case; 
aeems  not  to  he  more  than  twelve  by  the  action  of  which,  a  consenta> 
years  old.  neous  vibration  of  other  parts  of  the 

Miss  Angelina  Corri,  a  third  daugh-  strings  than  those  struck  by  the  ham<v 

ter  of  Mr.  Natale  Corxi,  appeared  at  mers,  takes   place;   in  the  way  in 

the  concert  for  the  benefit  of  her  sis-  which  strings  in  unison  are  known  to 

ters.    Her  voice  is  of  the  same  fine  vibrate,  when  another  of  the  same 

quality,  and  wiU,  we  anticipate,  be  pitch  is  sounded.    By  this  invention, 

more  rich  and  powerful  than  even  the  player  is  now  empowered  to  use 

that  of  the  Signora.     Her  execution,  three  degrees  of  tone,  and  thus  greatly 

too.,  is  of  the  same  light  and  finished  to  modilv  and  vary  the  expression  of 

Had.     In  person,    she  is  also  very  his    performance.      The   instrument 

liaadsome;  and  if  sufiiciently  exer-  upon  the  new  construction  which  we 

iantd,  she  promises  to  jisc  to  great  heard^  appeared  perfcctiy  to  satisQr 


99  Meportof  Muiifk.  [[Jidji 

expectation  in  tlrase  several  points ;  rious  and  frequent  mbdulatkm  ren^ 
and^  indeed,  to  offer  an  improvement  ders  this  sonata  as'  difficult  as  does 
'>.r  beyond  what  could  have  been  nn-    the  expression. 

<  icipated^  after  the  long  attention  that  3/r.  Neaies  Mililary  Air,  wkh  Va» 
has  been  given  to  the  mechanism  of  riatians,  and  Fantasia  on  the  Savage 
piauo-fortes.  Dance  in  Robhison  Crusoe,  have  much 

A  German,  named  Buschmann,  has  merit :  but  they  have  also  the  great 
brought  to  this  country  an  instru-  defect  of  a  general  want  of  melody  ; 
ment,  called  a  tervodion,  which  pro-  and  the  ear  is  wearied  by  the  unceas* 
duces  some  beau  titul  and  novel  etfects.  ing  s  uccession  of  rapid  passages.  Thia 
Many  of  our  readers  will  probably  very  rapidity,  however,  confers  great 
have  seen  the  ctdejihone,  which  was  brilliancy.  The  Fantasia  suffers  prin- 
some  time  since  exhibited  in  Cathe-  cipally  from  the  poverty  of  the  sulv- 
line-street,  in  the  Strand.  To  the  ject:  the  Military  Air  is  a  better 
a^phonc  the  terpodion  bears  a  close  motion ;  although,  in  the  selection  of 
resemblance,  both  in  structure  and  his  themes,  Mr.  Neate  has  not  done 
tone :  indeed,  we  believe  the  mecha-  justice  to  his  own  powers ;  for  every 
nism  to  be  exactly  the  same,  but  thing  depends  on  the  choice  of  a  sub- 
applied  to  wood  instead  of  metal ;  for  ject  in  pieces  of  this  description, 
the  inventor  describes  the  sonorous  Mr.  Webbe  has  arranged  Rossini  9 
body  to  be  of  beech.  The  sound  Overture  to  Eiisahetta  for  the  harp 
is  produced  by  a  cylinder  set  hi  mo-  and  piano-forte,  with  accompaniments 
tion  by  the  foot ;  and  the  instrument  for  the  flute  and  violoncello, 
is  played  by  keys,  like  a  piano-forte,  '  Mr.  Burrowes  is  adapting  Handel's 
being,  however,  not  so  large.  chonises  on  the  same  plan. 

It  occupies  about  four  feet  by  two.  The  Eighth  Number  of  the  Operaiie 
The  tone  of  the  principal  portion  of  Airs  is  by  Bontempo.  The  air  from 
the  terpodion  resembles  a  French  horn  Alessandro  in  Efeso  is  by  no  means 
finely  played,  and  the  upper  notes  adapted  to  be  the  subject  of  varia* 
are  exactly  Uiose  of  a  flute.  Our  tions,  for  it  is  uninteresting:  and 
hmits  deny  us  the  power  of  describing  this  -want  of  attraction  per>'aide8  the 
more  minutely  the  mechanism  of  these  whole  piece.  The  variations  are  com- 
instniments;  but  they  who  are  in-  plicated,  and  sotnewjiat  difficult.  M. 
clined  to  the  search  will  find  an  accu-  Bontempo  has  avoided  the  beaten 
rate  description  in  the  second  number  track  in  their  construction ;  but  his 
of  the  Quarterly  Musical  Review,  anxiety  to  be  original  has  led  him  too 
The  terjMHiion  would  be  an  admirable  far;  and  the  ear  cannot  follow  him 
substitute  for  wind  instruments  in  with  sufBcient  facility,  to  derive  plea- 
concert  rooms ;  provided  it  can  be  sure  from  the  exertion, 
made  to  speak  with  sufficient  rapid-  The  Si^fh  Number  of  the  Quadrilh 
ity.  M.  Buschmann  came  to  England  Rondos,  hy  M.  Latour,  is  light,  lively, 
with  a  view  to  dispose  of  the  art,    and  elegant. 

and  the  right  of  makhig  the  terjx)dion ;  Mr,  NoveUos  Second  Number  of 
which,  for  that  reason,  has  not  been  Airs froiuHimme/sFanchon, arranged 
yet  opened  to  the  public.  as  ducts  for  the  jpiano-forte,  has  ap- 

Mr«  Kalkbrenncr  lias  published  a  peared.  This  adaptation  compre- 
very  elaborate  and  difficult,  but  beau-  neiids  some  exquisite  pieces  of  melo- 
tiful,  grand  sonata ;  which  he  dedi-  dy,  and  affords  a  delightful  series, 
cates  to  the  memory  of  his  great  Nor  are  Mr,  Bennett's  Duets  upon 
master,  Joseph  Haydn.  It  consists  Cta.se  your  Funning,  and  Hope  told  a 
of  three  movements  ;  and  opens  in  a  Flattering  Tale,  less  meritorious  : 
style  of  dignified  melancholy,  which  they  are  very  full  of  brilliant  effects, 
is  finely  sustained  by  various  passages  The  vocal  music  this  month  is  far 
dcscrintivc  of  the  at^itations  of  a  beyond  the  common  ranjs::?.  Some  of 
wounded  spirit.  The  siTond  is  upon  the  songs,  indeed,  are  truly  beautiful, 
llie  singular  subject  of  "  the  call  of  Mr.  Horsley's  iMura  is  classically  so ; 
the  Quail:"  simple  in  itself, — but  and,  though  a  ballad,  does  no  dis- 
wrought  with  all  tlie  powers  of  art  honour  even  to  the  author  of  Gentle 
through  a  nihior  movement,  and  a  Lyre,  and  The  Tempest,  Mr.  W.  F- 
return  to  the  major.  The  last  is  not  CoUard  has  written  words  to  the  song 
less  singular  and  original ^    The  vu-     which   Shakspearc   Is  said   to  have 


ljm.2  IMerary  and  Scientific  ImiMgtnee.  ^ 

loTed;  aad  Mr.  Clifton  has  put  very  a  duet.    This  also  is  very  prcttjr^ 

appfopriate  ssrmphonies  to  it.  Lorenzo  and  the  duet  seems  especially  fitted 

to  Jeuica  (the  title  it  bears)  is  a  pa^  to  be  sung  without  accompaDiment. 
imphraseotsome  passages  in  the  scene        Our  catalogue  closes  with  a  ballad 

of  the  Merchant  of  Venice^  to  the  by  Mr.  Bamett^   and  a  song  by  M. 

tune  oi  **  Light  o    Ijovt,*   "which  Cianchettini.  ^*  Lady !  the  silver  moon 

goes  without  a  burden."    It  is  an  shines  bright"  by  the  former,  is  not 

i>xoestivdy  simple  and  touching  me-  without  rays  of  the  author's  talent. 

lody.     The  same  hands  have  been  We  must,  however,  blame  him  for 

employed  in  the  restoration  of  the  faulty  accentuation,  in  making  the 

old  English  air.  The  Dusty  Milter,  to  bar  commence  with  the  beginnmg  of 

its  place  of  natural  beauty.    Thi&  the  line   "  Her  beams,"  instead  of 

metamorphosis  affords  a  strong  proof  concluding  it  with  the  first  syllable. 

that  nnich  of  pathos  piay  be  given  to  This  is  an   error  throughout     M. 

melody  by  a  mere  change  of  time.  Cianchettini's  is  the  Ode  to  Solitude, 

^gainwefindthese  gentlemen's  names  freelv  translated  by  Pope  from  Ho« 

m  connexion,  to  produce  an  original  race  s  ^'  Bsatus  ille"    U  is  a  curious 

eomposition — "  With     love  fraufrhi  subject  for   a  ballad,  and  contahis 

eyes  '—-which  is,  perhaps,  more  sin-  some  such  very  awkward  and  unmu- 

guUur,  and  not  less  elegantly  express-  sical  words  as  "unconcernedly; "  but 

ive,  than  either  of  the  others.  M.  Cianchettini  has  displayed  a  chaste 

The  Maid  of  VaJdarno,  the  words  fancy,  and  strong  feeling,  in  setting 

by  Mr.  CoUara,  and  the  music  by  Mr.  it.   The  song  is  quaint  and  curious — 

Fields  is  set  both  as  a  single  song  and  yet  elegant  and  melodious. 


LITERARY  AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE,  &c 

.  Canova. — ^This  artist  has  just  com-  silky  material.  The  specimen  which 
pleted  a  work  that  is  said  to  be  su-  M.  Laint^  has  sent  to  the  Editors  of 
perior  to  any  of  the  former  produc-  theAnnales  de  Physique  et  deChimie, 
tions  of  his  chisel.  It  is.  a  colossal  appears  to  bear  some  analogy  to  the 
groupe,  representing  Theseus  slaying  suky  filaments  which  are  occasionally 
tf  Centaur,  The  hero  has  seized  hold  to  be  seen  in  the  environs  of  Paris, 
of  the  neck  of  his  enemy,  whose  where  they  are  borne  through  the  air 
human  portion  of  his  figure  appears  in  every  direction. 
to  be  still  making  some  impotent  Monument  of  Copernicus, — The  co- 
efforts  against  his  vanquisher,  who  lossal  bronze  statue  of  Nicolaus  Co- 
is  wielding  in  his  other  hand  the  pemicus,  about  to  be  erected  at 
massy  dub  of  Periphatus.  This  Warsaw,  will  be  placed  in  front  of 
composition  is  intended  for  the  Im-  the  magnificent  edifice  (belonging  to 
perial  Court  at  Vienna.  the  Society  of  the  Friends  of  Science), 

Rogers's  Human  Life. — ^Among  the  in  the  Cracow  suburb,  not  far  from 

recent  translations  from  our  own  Ian-  the  site  of  the  church  of  the  Domini- 

guage  into  that  of  Italy,  is  a  version  cans,  which  has  been  taken  down, 

of  Mr.  Rogers's  last  poem,  by  Signor  This  illustrious  man  will  be  repre- 

Vittorio  Pacciotti,    who  has  added  sented   as   seated   upon  an   antique 

some  annotations.  chair,  finely  dressed  in  an  academi- 

Rain    of  Silk-  —  M.    Lain^,    the  cal  toga,  and  holding  in  one  hand  a 

French  Consul  at  Peniambuco,  says,  celestial  sphere,  marked  with  astro- 

in  a  letter,  dated  Nov.  1,  1820,  that  nomical  circles.    The  expense  of  this 

at  the  beginning  of  the  preceding  monument  will  be  defrayed  by  vo- 

month  there  was  a  shower  from  the  luntary  contributions. 

sky,    consisting  of  a   substance   re-  Scientific    Travels  in   Egyptj^^^A, 

sembling  silk,  of  which  many  persons  Frederic  Caillaud   has  set  out  from 

preserved  specimens.     This  pheno-  Syene  for  Donffolah.    Ismael  Pacha, 

menon  extended  to  the  distance  of  son  of  the  celebrated  Mohammed  Ail 

SO  leagues  inland,    and    nearly    as  Viceroy  of  Egypt,    has  obtained  a 

many  off  to  sea.     He  adds,  that  a  signal  victory  oyer  the  Mamelukes, 

French  vessel  was  cqvcrvd  with  the  wiiom  he  has  expelled  from  the  latter 

6 


9%  .    LUiwy  and  Sckniifk  InUBigenee.  [[Jolf, 

place,  where  Abdi  Kachef,  who  is'  Zoology. — M.  DIard,  a  joung^ 
a  great  fnend  to  the  Europeans,  has  French  naturalist,  found  at  Sunui* 
b^  placed  as  governor.  The  jour-  tra,  in  1819,  a  tapir,  an  animal 
ney  from  Syene  to  Dongolah,  along  which^  until  then,  had  never  been 
the  left  bank  of  the  Nue,  occupies  met  with,  except  in  the  New  WorkL 
about  a  month.  It  is  the  intention  It  does  not  differ  from  the  American 
of  M.  Caillaud  to  make  astronomical  tapir,  except  in  colour ;  the  extre« 
observations  during  his  route,  and  mity  of  the  ears,  the  rump,  the  back, 
to  collect  whatever  information  he  the  bell j,  and  the  sides,  being  white ; 
can  respecting  tiie  antiquities  of  the  while  every  other  part  is  of  a  deep 
country,  which  are  at  present  almost  black.  This  fact  is  the  more  worthy 
uuvisited  and  unknown.  of  notice,  as  it  overturns  the  reason- 

Mechanical  Inventions, — M.  Kuhai-    ings  of  Bufibn,  respecting  the  difier- 
ewsky  of  Warsaw,  a  very  excellent    ence  between  the  animals  of  Asia, 
mechanist,  has  produced  the  follow-    and  those  of  America, 
ins*  inventions,  viz.  1.  A  Threshing        Switzerland. — Literary  and'Scien>» 
Machine,  which  has  the  advantage  of    tifie  PursuiU. — The  want  of  an  aca- 
being  very  simple  in  its  construction,     demy  of  sciences,  an  institution  of 
duraole,  economic,  and  not  expen-    which  an  assemblage  of  small  repub- 
sive ;  and  is  likewise  superior  to  every    lican  states  does  not  admit,  it  ^di« 
contrivance  hitherto  formed  for  this    ciously  supplied  by  a  general  annual 
purpose,  beinff  the  only  one  that  in-    meeting  of  all  those  who  cultivate 
J  ures  neither  the  stalk  nor  the  grain    such  pursuits.  These  meetings,  whidb 
in  separating  the  former  from  the    commenced  in  1815,  are  hdd  alter- 
latter.    The  machine  consists  of  se-    nately  at  the  principal  towns,  and 
veral  wheels,  two  of  which  (one  at    are  numerously  attended,  there  being 
cither  end)    are  furnished  with  48    now  upwards  of  300  members.    This 
flails :    these  are  put  in  motion  by    ^ear,  Creneva  is  the  place  of  rendes- 
one  man  as  he  walks  to  and  fro  with-    vous,  as  Berne  will  oe  next.    Swit- 
m  the  machine,  and  thus  a  single  la-    zerland  possesses  many  Hterarr  so* 
bourerisenal>ledtoperfonn  the  work    cieties.    At  Zurich  is  one,  instituted 
of  a  great  number.    The  most  com-    for  the    purpose  of  promoting  the 
plete  success  has  attended  the  expc-    study    of^  natural  history :    it  poa* 
riments  that  have  i)een  made,  and     scsses  collections  in  zoology,  ento- 
there  can  be  no  doubt  of  the  effici-    mology,    ornithology,    botany,    and 
ency  of  the  invention.    2.  A  Sawing    mineralogy — and  has,  moreover,  an 
MiU,  which  is  also  worked  by  a  single    observatory.      Dr.   Homer,  of   this 
person,  without  any  assistance  from    city,  has  lately  published  his  obser- 
water.      S.  An  Astronomical   Watch,    vations,  made  during  the  expeditiea 
which  indicates  the  difference  of  time    of    Capt.     Krusenstem    round    the 
in  the  principal  places  in  £ff*erent    world.    M.  Schuitz  is  publishing  an 
parts  of  the  globe :  this  has  been  ac-    ornithological  work,  containing   de- 
cepted  as  a  present  by  the  Emperor    scriptions  of  the  birds  of  Switzer- 
Alexandcr,  who  has  sent  M.  Kuhai-    land  and  Germany,  and  a  series  of 
ewsky,  in  return,  a  magnificent  snuff-    coloured  plates  which  represent  the 
box,  and  has  assigned  him  a  sum  to    nests,  and  the  eggs  of  each  species, 
enable  him  to  continue  his  important        Berlin^ — Fine  Arts. — The  last  exhi- 
labours.  bition  of  paintings  contained  many 

Prophecies. Counsellor     Lillien-    by  the  students  and  pupils  of  the 

stem,  of  Frankfort  on  the  Mayne,  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  most  of 
has  published  a  very  singular  work,  whom,  after  passing  several  years, 
in  which  he  attempts  to  prove  areu-  either  in  France  or  Italy,  are  now 
mentatively  and  methodically,  that  returned  to  this  capital,  which  they 
the  predictions  respecting  Antichrist  will  embellish  by  their  productions, 
are  now  on  the  eve  of  being  accom-  Those  who  have  most  distinguished 
plished.  Antichrist,  he  asserts,  will  themselves  are,  M.  Schadow  (son  of 
appear  in  1823;  his  arrival  will  be  the  celebrated  sculptor  of  that  name), 
succeeded  by  ten  years  of  religious  and  M.  Wach,  who  exhibited  an  ex- 
wars  ;  after  which  the  millenium,  quisite  portrait  of  an  Italian  peasant 
as  he  assures  us,  is  to  commence  in  girl.  This  picture  was  universally 
1836.  admired  for  its  delightful  colouring. 


1891.3                       '  LiUrary  and  Scientific  Inielligtnce*  95 

and  its  delicate  finishing.  Tlie  ex-  7000  pieces  of  music,  by  upwards 
cellence  of  Zimmerman's  pictures  of  700  different  composers ;  and  tliese 
was  such>  that  it  adds  to  the  regret  also  are  catalogued  both  in  alpha- 
of  the  public  for  the  untimely  end  of  betical  order,  and  according  to  their 
this  young  artist  who  drowned  him-  Themes.  The  same  society  has 
self  last  summer.  M.  Rauch,  an  liltewise  a  museum  of  Turlcish  and 
eminent  sculptor  (the  same  that  is  other  singular  musical  instruments, 
now  employed  in  executing  marble  and  curiosities ;  with  a  collection  of 
statues  of  the  Generals  Bulow  and  more  than  600  portraits  of  composers, 
Schamborst),  exhibited  a  very  fine  singers,  &c.  ror  the  most  of  what 
bust  of  the  King,  and  another  of  the  has  been  done,  the  public  are  in- 
Grand  Duchess  of  Prussia.  His  mo-  debted  to  the  zeal  and  the  ability 
del  for  a  statue  of  the  hero  Blucher,  of  Baron  von  Knorr.  He  it  was 
has  been  greatly  admired ;  it  is  in*  who  accomplished,  in  so  admirable 
tended  as  a  decoration  for  one  of  the  a  manner,  the  extremely  difficult  task 
public  squares  at  Berlin.  of  systematizing  and  arranging  the 

Institute. — The  prize  proposed  this  various  compositions.  The  catalogues- 
year,  by  the  '  Academic  Royale  des  containing  very  valuable  critical  and 
Sciences,'  in  the  class  of  Physics,  is —  biographical  notices  of  each  compo- 
to  determine,  by  means  of  accurate  ser,  is  alone  sufficient  to  attest  the  in- 
experiments,  what  are  the  causes  of  dustry,  information,  and  endiusiasm^ 
bmmal  warmth, — whether  chemical  with  which  he  labours  to  promote 
or  physical  ?  The  academy  expressly  the  excellent  views  of  this  institution 
requires  that  the  quantity  of  caloric  — to  render  it  of  real  service,  to 
emitted  in  a  given  time,  by  a  healthy  advance  the  art,  and  to  animate  its 
animid,  and  the  quantity  of  caloric  professors. 

produced  by  its  respiration,  be  ascer-  Fine  Arts. — The    Cavalier  Tam- 

tained  with  the  utmost  exactitude ;  broni  is  editing  at  Rome,  a  work, 

also  that  this  caloric  be  compared  entitled,    Istrazioni   Pittoriche.      It 

with  that  produced  by  the  combus-  will  throw  considerable  light  on  the 

tion  of  carbon,  in  forming  the  same  practice  of  painting  in  Italy  at  the 

quantity  of  carbonic  acid.    The  prize  revival  of  the  art^  and  supply  much 

will  be  a  gold  medal,  of  the  value  of  information  relative  to  its  history, 

3,000  francs,  to  be  adjudged  at  the  being   an  authentic    production    of 

Bittinff  of  1823.  Cennino  Cennini,  a  pupil  of  Giotto. 

Behoni. — The  city  of  Padua,  of  Among  other  intelligence  to  be  gained 
which  this  celebrated  traveller  is  a  from  this  valuable  document,  we 
native,  has  struck  a  medal  in  com-  here  find  recorded,  that  oil  colours 
nicmoration  of  his  discoveries,  and  were  employed  in  that  country  be- 
in  testimony  of  their  gratitude  for  fore  the  period  usually  assigned  for 
the  valuable  gift  he  made  to  this  their  invention, 
place,  he  having  presented  to  it  two  J^isbon. — Aholiiionqfthe  Punishment 
curious  pieces  of  antiquity, — two  of'  Death. — The  Portuguese  Cortes 
lion-headed  statues  of  granite,  now  have,  by  the  application  of  a  long- 
deposited  in  the  hall  of  the  Palazzo  violated  principle  of  justice  and  hu- 
dclla  Ragione.  manity,  abolished  this  dreadful  pu- 

The   Austrian   Society  of  Musical  nishment,  so  opposite  in  its  effects 

Amateurs. — This   admirable  institu-  to  the  interests  of  society,   and  so 

tion  possesses  a  very  fine  library  of  degrading  to  civilization;— -one  which 

about  900  volumes ;  all  of  which  are  has  been  so  deservedly   reprobated 

on  subjects  belonging  to  the  litera-  by  Beccarta,  and  a  number  of  other 

ture  of  music.    Many  of  the  books  eminent  philosophers  and  writers  on 

are  exceedingly   rare    and    costly ;  the  criminal  and  penal  system.   Pub- 

among  the  more  valuable  articles  are  lie  morality  would  be  much  better 

many  inedited  MSS.  particularly  one  consulted  by  the  adoption  of  solitary 

<»>nta]ning  materials  for  a  continua-  confinement    as    a    punishment    for 

tion  of  Uerber's  Kunstler-Lexicon.  crimes,  than  it  is  at  present  by  the 

All  these  works  are  classed  and  de-  spectacle  of  death, 

scribed  in  a  catalogue  raisonne.     In  Aquatic Pedestrianism.^^Thsee  years 

addition  to  the  literary  publications  ago,  kaleidoscopes  were  the  univer- 

suid  MSS.  there  is  a  collection  of  about  sal  bobby —Imt  these  were  soon  laid 


M  Liieranf  umd  Scientific  Intelligtnee,  C^*4|> 

aside ;  next  succeeded  something  with  great  commeiidationj  Is  Sistemm 
more  hohhf'horsical  —  but  equally  dc  la  Ciencia  Social  IJcado  por  el  «/«-> 
short-lived,  viz.  velocipedes,  of  which  risconsuUo  IngUt  Jercmias  Beniham, 
such  great  expectations  were  at  one  jf  pueato  en  egecucion  con  forme  d  hi 
time  formed,  that  they  threatened  to  pi^ncipios  del  autor  original,  por  el 
supersede  the  services  of  the  equine  Dr,  JD.  Torribio  Nunnez,  &c. — Mar- 
race.  Another  hobby  has  now  ap-  shal  De  Haro's  Account  of  the  De- 
peared,  of  a  somewhat  portentous  fence  of  Gerona,  Relacion  Iliaiorica 
description.  It  is  said  that  a  person  de  la  Defensa  de  Gerona,  is  a  publica- 
at  Gla^ow,  of  the  name  of  Kent,  tion  that  may  be  consulted  with  ad- 
has  invented  a  machine,  by  means  vanta^  both  b^  the  historian  and 
of  which  he  can  walk  on  water  the  military  tactictioner,  and  is  par* 
with  perfect  safety.  On  the  twenty-  ticularly  rich  in  materiala  for  a  naiv 
third  of  April,  Mr.  Kent  exhibited  rative  of  the  important  events  of  the 
on  the  MonKhead  Canal,  in  the  pre-  late  war.  Several  works  have  been 
seoce  of  about  SOO  spectators,  who  translated  from  the  English  and 
appeared  satisfied  as  to  the  feasibility  French :  even  the  Memoirs  of  Ber- 
01  the  scheme.  Not  havuig  heard  Rami,  and  the  Queen's  Trial,  hare 
any  thing  respecting  the  nature  of  found  both  ^anslators  and  pub^- 
the  machine,  or  its  construction,  it  lishers.  But  books  of  more  perma^ 
is  impossible  to  judge  how  far  it  is  nent  interest  are  not  overlooked,  as  ii 
likely  to  prove  of  real  service ;  but  proved  by  an  anouncement  of  a  Spar 
it  must  be  owned,  that  the  term  nish  version  of  Robertson's  ChariesV. 
machine,  sounds  as  if  it  were  and  of  the  Frincipes  de  la  Legislatioii 
something  rather  complicated,  and  Universel. — The  Thirteenth  Volume 
therefore  does  not  promise  much  with  of  the  translation  of  Mrs.  Bennet'a 
regard  to  simplicity  and  practica-  Novels  has  appeared,  containing 
biuty :  neither  is  much  to  be  said  at  Jiosa  6  la  nina  Mendiga  Qthe  Beggar 
present  in  favour  of  its  expedition, —  Girl) ;  and  a  female  writer,  named 
the  rate  at  which  Mr.  Kent  proceeded  Donna  Juana  Barrera,  has  tran»- 
bcing  not  more  than  three  miles  an  lated  another  English  Novell  under 
hour  ;  this,  however,  might  be  owing  the  title  of  Cwcilia  6  el  Padre  «  at 
more  to  want  of  practice  than  to  any  Hija.—D,  Vincente  Fernandez  Vil- 
defect  in  the  method  employed.  Mr.  lares  has  produced  a  good  tranala^ 
Kent  has  since  exhibited  with  success  tion  from  a  French  novel  of  Ducray- 
in  Edinburgh.  Dumenil,  called  Dias  en  el  Campo  6 

Portable  Houses,  — The  Swedish  Pintura  Historic/a  de  una  piquena  iVn 
joumals  speak  very  highly  of  certain  ntilia. — Little  original  poetry  has  ap- 
portable  houses,  that  have  been  in-  peared ;  nothing  indeed  worthy  of 
vented  by  Major  Blom,  who  is  cele-  mention,  except  some  political  and 
brated  at  Stockholm  for  his  know-  patriotic  Odes,  and  a  performance 
ledge  of  mechanics.  TUese  edifices,  of  D.  Rafael  de  Csceres,  which  de- 
which  are  constructed  of  wood,  may  serves  notice  merely  from  the  ex- 
be  elevated  in  a  single  day,  and  con-  travagaiice  of  the  subject,  it  being 
tain,  if  not  every  comfort,  at  least  a  system  of  myology  in  verse.  The 
all  that  is  necessary  for  a  small  fa-  title  of  this  curious  poem  is,  Expoti' 
mily.  In  cold  weather  they  are  dan  Metrica  Succinfa  y  Exacta  di 
warmed  by  a  stove.  todos  los  Museulos  del  Cuerjx)  Humamo 

Spanish  Literature. — Don  Torribio  6  sea  la  Mutlofpa  puesta   en    verso 

Nunnez,  Professor  of  the  University  Castellano  ! 

of  Salamanca,  has  collected  the  va-  Public  Library  at  Lemberg, — Count 
rioiis  statistical  writings  of  Bentham,  Ossolinsky  has,  with  equal  patriotism 
and  formed  them  into  a  regular  sys-  and  munificence,  founded  a  Polish 
tern  of  politics ;  such  a  one  as  he  National  Library  at  Lcnil^erg ;  and 
conceives  to  be  particularly  adapted  Kopstynsky,  a  wealthy  landed  pron- 
to the  wants  of  his  countrymen  at  prietor,  has  presented  to  the  same 
the  present  jimcture.  The  title  of  the  sum  of  500  ducats, 
this  work,    which  has  already  met 


1MI.3           Abttraet  €f  JFhreign  tmd  Domttiic  Oecurrenees*  97 

MONTHLY  REGISTER. 

ABSTRACT  OF  FOREION  AND  DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 

Wx  have  of  course  very  little  in  to  fortify  their  hotels  against  the 
the  waj  of  foreign  intelfigence  to  infuriated  mobs;  and,  indeed,  the 
cxunmunicate  to  our  readers  since  our  whole  Christian  population  of  Con- 
liftst^  except  with  respect  to  the  af-  stantinople  may  be  said  literally  to 
fairs  of  Turkey^  where  the  insurrec^  stand  on  the  brink  of  the  grave, 
tion  of  the  Greeks^  imder  Ypsilanti^  These  outrages  have  not  been  con- 
begins  daUy  to  assume  a  more  for-  fined  to  the  capital ;  whole  streets 
midable  character.  It  is  now  said  have  been  set  nre  to  in  Pesa>  and 
tiiat  a  corps,  under  the  Greek  leader,  men,  women,  and  children,  either 
had  crossed  the  Danube  at  Sistow,  murdered,  or  devoured  by  Uie  con- 
cmnmanded  by  Colonel  Colcotsony,  suming  element.  The  Greeks  have 
and  were  immediately  joined  by  a  been  instigated,  by  the  murder  of 
body  of  Bulgarians  and  Servians,  to  their  patriarch,  and  the  cruelties  prac- 
tiie  amount  of  10,000.  The  Greek  tised  on  their  priesthood,  to  the  most 
army  of  Epines  has  advanced  to-  terrible  reprisals;  and,  in  short,  there 
wards  Thessaly;  and  30,000  men,  is  nothing,either  savage  or  sanguinary, 
who  had  been  sent  against  it  by  the  which  may  not  be  anticipated  from  a 
Saltan,  have  been  almost  annihilated,  conflict,  in  which  those  who  cannot 
The  Peloponnesus  also  is  almost  claim  the  laurel  of  victory,  are  sure 
whoUy  delivered  from  the  power  of  of  at  least  obtaining  the  crown  of 
the  Turks ;  and  all  the  fortresses  of  martyrdom. 

the  Morea,  with  the  exception  of  The  affairs  of  Spain  present  no- 
Mothone  and  Corone,  have  been  taken  thing  new;  every  thing  appears  to 
by  storm.  In  addition  to  aJl  this,  remain  unsettled  in  that  unfortunate 
me  feast  of  the  Rhamadan,  during  country ;  and,  in  order  to  render  its 
which  war  is  prohibited,  by  theu"  own  intestine  divisions  still  more 
Religion,  to  the  Mahometans,  is  fast  critical,  the  South  American  patriots 
approaching ;  and  the  month  of  Sep-  have  put  an  end  to  the  armistice  con- 
tember  terminates  the  period  of  ser-  eluded  with  the  revolted  colonies^ 
vice  of  the  present  Ottoman  army,  and  are  represented  as  proceeding  in 
If  this  news  wanted  any  confirma-  an  uninterrupted  career  of  success, 
tion,  it  would  be  found  in  the  conduct  A  commission  of  the  Spanish  Cortes 
of  the  Turks  themselves,  in  the  city  has  reported,  that  there  should  be 
of  Constantinople,  where  the  scenes  three  sections  of  that  body  in  South 
which  daily  occur  are  a  disgrace  to  America — one  for  the  northern  pro- 
human  nature,  and  baffle  all  credibi-  vinces,  and  two  for  the  south ;  and 
llty.  The  furious  infidels  have  that  a  member  of  the  royal  family 
turned  the  contest  into  a  war  of  ex-  should  be  eligible  to  the  ofiice  of 
Cfermination;  and,  that  nothing  might  Viceroy  in  each  of  these  secondary 
be  wanting  to  heighten  the  ferocity  monarchies :  this,  however,  is,  we 
of  its  nature,  they  have  given  it  a  fear,  an  expedient  not  very  likely  to 
religious  complexion.  Every  Greek  arrest  the  progress  of  successful  in- 
found  in  the  city  has  been,  without  surrection ;  particularly  where  tfie 
exception,  massacred ;  and  even  the  revolt  has  commenced  in  a  republican 
venerable  archbishop,  the  patriarch  principle. 

of  the  Greek  church,  has  been,  at  the  Intelligence  has  been  received  from 
age  of  eighty,  barbarously  murdered,  Mogador,  of  a  late  date,  which  states 
and  his  mauffied  body  dragged  with  the  termination  of  the  Moorish  re- 
every  indignity  through  the  crowded  hellion,  atid  the  complete  restoration 
streets  of  the  barbarians.  His  sue-  of  the  old  pjmperor,  Muley  Solinian, 
cessor,  appointed  by  the  Porte,  is  to  all  his  origuial  power  and  so- 
reported  to  have  died  of  fright  at  his  vereignty. 

promotion :  surely  never  did  Bishop  With  respect  to  our  domestic  news, 

say  ''  Nolo  Episcopari  "  with  more  every  thing  almost  18  absorbed  in  the 

sincerity  than   this  man.      All  the  expectation  of  the  grand  ceremony  of 

Christian  embassies  have  been  obliged  the  coronation,  which,  it  is  supposeil. 


98                    Ahsiract  of  Foreign  and  DomeHic  Occurrentes*  IL^y^f 

will  take  place  on  the  19lh  of  July,  ceedings^  we  should  not  be  much  in- 
Bets,  however,  to  a  considerable  a-  clined  to  credit  the  reports  of  his  not 
mount,  are  said  to  be  taken  up  daily,  being  able  to  undergo  the  fatigue  of 
by  persons  in  the  secret,  that  it  will  his  coronation.     His  Msjesty  has,  in- 
be  postponed  still  further,  and,  per-  deed,  it  is  said,  suffered  some  surgi- 
haps^  indefinitely :    the  grounds  for  cal  operation  for  an  excrescence,  of 
this  surmise  are  said  to  be  the  ad-  but  little  consequence,  on  his  head, 
▼anced  age  of  his  Majesty,  and  the  which,  happily,  however,  has  had  no 
great  fatigue  which  such  a  ceremony  ill,  or  even  mconvenient  effects.    He 
must  necessarily  impose.    Be  this  as  has  given  a  very  splendid  ball  to  the 
it  may,  every  '^  note  of  preparation"  children  of  the  nobility  during  the 
speaks  its  approaching  consumma-  month,  and  honoured  the  DiuLe  o^ 
tion.     The  iiall,   the  Abbey,    the  Devonshire  with  his  presence  at  a 
platform,  the  coronation  robes,  both  banquet  of  unrivalled  magnificence. 
of  King  and  Peerage,  the  re-esta-  A  discovery  of  the  original  booka 
blishment  of  the  Court  of  Claims,  of  registry  of  births  and  marriages 
and,  in  short,  ali  the  necessary  ar-  which  took  place  in  the  Fleet  prison, 
rangements,  are  in  active  progress,  and  also  at  the  Mint,  and  at  Mayfair 
It  £>es  not  appear  that  the  Queen  is  chapel,  between  the  years  1686  to 
to  have  any  share  in  this  august  I75i,   has  been  made,  which  is  of 
ceremonial;  and  this  is  now  confirm-  great  importance,  as  they  will  tend 
ed  by  better  authority  than  mere  to  clear  up  many  doubts  with  respect 
rumoiu* ;    as   Lord  Londonderry,  in  to  titles,  previous  to  the  date  of  the 
answer  to  a  ouestion  from  Mr.  Monck  marriage  act.   These  valuable  docu- 
upon  that  subject,  in  the  House  of  ments  have  been  deposited  with  the 
Commons,  declared  that  neither  him-  Registrar  of  the  diocese  of  London, 
self,  nor  any  other  of  the  King's  Mi-  The  intervention  of  ^Vliitsun  week 
nisters,  were  prepared  to  advise  any  has  created  some  cessation  of  par- 
act    of  the    Crown    by  which   the  liamentary  business ;  but  still  a  few 
Queen  should  be  included.     In  the  discussions  have  arisen  of  much  in- 
mean  time  her  Majesty  has  been  so-  terest,  and  measures  of  considerable 
lacing  herself  amongst  her  firiends  at  importance  have  had  their  fates  va- 
Cambridge  House,   where    she  has  riously  decided.    Amongst  these,  we 
given  two  dinners :  she  has  also  dined  are  sorry  to  have  to  record  the  failure 
at  the  Mansion  House  with  the  Lord  of  Sir  James  Macintosh's    forgery 
Mayor,  and  visited  the  theatres. —  mitigation  biU,  which  was  r^ected 
The  proclamation  of  the  ceremony  in  its  last  stage  in  the  House  of  Com- 
has  actually  taken  place.    The  form  mons,  by  a  majority  of  only  six ! 
was  first  read  at  Palace  Yard,  and  This  bill  was  intended  to  effect  a 
then  the  procession  moved  to  Charing  change  in  the  punishment  attached 
Cross,  wnere  it  went  round  the  statue  to  the  crime  of  forgery,  and  had  its 
of  King  Charles— but  there  was  no  origin  in  the  utter  fruitlessness  of  the 
proclamation  there ;  it  then  moved  on  more  severe  laws  at  present  in  exist- 
to  Temple  Bar,  where  the  usual  ce-  ence,  which  have  produced  a  melan- 
remony  of  demanding,  and  receiving  choly  effusion  of  human  blood,  with- 
permission  to  enter  the  city  was  gone  out  operating    any    change   in   the 
through;  and  after  grand  proclama-  progress  of  the  crime.    The  bill  was 
tion  there,  they  proceeded,  accom-  an    experiment,    but  when    present 
pataied  by  the  Lord  Mayor  in  city  and  long  existing  measures  fail,  ex- 
state,  to  the  Exchange,  and  all  the  perimcnts  are  worth  resorting  to,  at 
other  customary  places.     We  must  least  for  the  sake  of  humanity:    It 
not  omit  to  mention  that  at  every  is  a  very  curious  fact,  and  is  proved 
place  where  the  announcement  took  beyond  doubt,  by  an  official    return 
place,  it  was  received  by  the  people  now  on  the  table  of  the  House  of  Com- 
with    reiterated     and     enthusiastic  mons,  that  during  the  years  1818 — 
shouts  of  "  Long  live  King  George  19—20,  only  seventeen  persons  were- 
the  Fourth."    The  progress  of  this  convicted  in  Ireland  of  uttering  forged 
splendid  cavalcade   was  varied    by  notes  of  the  National  Bank  of  that 
alternate  performances  on  the  drums  country,  and  of  these  not  one  was 
and  trumpets.  executed.     We  do  not  believe  that 
From  the  accounts  with  which  the  this  clemency  has  had  the  effect  of 
papers  are  filled  of  the  King's  pro-  uicrcosing  the  number  of  criminais. 


1881.]]  Abitract  of  Foreign  and  Domesik  Occurreneei.  dd 

Mr.  Bennet  has  been  following  up  cultural  Committee,    and   informed 
the  fruitless  attempts  of  the  Marquis  them  that  Ministers,  in  conseauence 
of  Tavistock  and    Lord  Nugent  in  ofthe  expressed  opinion  of  the  House 
the  cause  of  reform,  by  a  motion  to  of  Commons,  had  come  to  the  reso- 
exclude  certain  placemen  from  Par-  lution  of  relinquishing  the  tax ;   a 
liament,  and   with  similar  success,  communication  which  was  received 
The  exertions  of  Mr.  Hume  also  do  by  the  Committee  with  loud  cheers. 
not  deserve  to  be  passed'  over  in  si-  The  important  exposition  of  the  fi« 
lence  ;  this  ffentleman  has  been  in-  nances  of  the  country  has  taken  place; 
detatigable  m   hb   scrutiny  of  the  and  the  budget  of  the  present  year, 
difierent  estimates  as  they  were  pre-  presents  the  most  flattering  appear- 
aented  to  the  House,  and  produced  ance :  it  seems,  from  the  statement  of 
more  divisions  than,  we  believe,  were  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  that 
ever  before  known  in  a  similar  period  the  national  income  of  this  year  has 
in  the  House  of  Commons.    His  last  exceeded  the  expenditure,  by  a  sum 
motion  was  for  an  inquiry  into  the  of  two  millions,  which,  upon  every 
conduct    of   Sir  Thomas  Mditland  human  calculation,  will  next  year  be 
during  his  government  of  the  Ionian  encreased  to  four.   May  this  calcula* 
Isles,  which  was  negatived  by  a  ma-  tion  prove  correct ! 
jority  of  seventy.      Whether  a  go-        Sentence  has  been  passed,  in  the 
yemment  be  correct  or   otherwise.  Court  of  King's  Bench,  upon  various 
the  utility  of  such  a  man  as  Mr.  public  characters  for  libels  and  other 
Hume  cannot  be  denied.    Lord  Nu-  political  offences.    Mr.  Flyndell,  the 
gent's  motion  for  a  select  committee,  editor  of  the  Western  Luminary,  has 
to  inquire  into  the  abuses  of  justice  been  adjudged  eight  months'  impri- 
in  the  island  of  Tobago,  was   also  sonment  in  Exeter  gaol,  for  a  libel 
negatived  by  a  considerable  majority;  on  the  Queen,  which  appeared  in  his 
and  the  usury  laws  repeal  bill  has  paper  during  the   late  trial.      Mr. 
been  postponed  to  next  Session.  Our  Jonn  Hunt,  of  the  Examiner  news- 
readers may  remember,  that  in  the  paper,   has  been  sentenced  to  one 
year  1818,  a  provision  of  6000/.  a  year's  imprisonment  in  Cold  Bath- 
year  was  made  for  his  Royal  High-  fields,  for  a  libel  on  the  House  of 
ness  the  Duke  of  Clarence,  in  addi-  Commons.      Maddox,  Wooller,  and 
tion  to  his  previous  income,  which  he,  Edmonds,    for    the  election  of  Sir 
at  the  time,  for  some    unexplained  Charles    Wolseley    as    legislatorial 
reasons,  thought  proper  to  reject ;  attorney  for  the  town  of  Manchester, 
during  the  last  month,  however.  Lord  have  been  respectively  aciyudged,  the 
Londonderry  proposed  a  revival  of  first,  eighteen — the  second,  fifteen — 
the  grant,  in  which  he  declared  the  and  the  third,  nine  months'  confine- 
Royal  Duke  was  now  ready  to  ac-  ment  in  Warwick  gaol,  and  to  find 
quiesce ;  and,  in  addition,  moved  for  security  for  their  good  behaviour  for 
an  allowance  of  the  arrears  which  a  certain  term,  themselves  in  iOOL 
had  arisen  during  the  interval :  both  and  two   securities    in    200/.  each, 
of  these  motions  were   agl9^   to.  Major  Cartwright,  who  was  convict- 
though  not    without  a  warm    and  ed  along  with  them  of  a  similar  of- 
continued  discussion.    A  motion  was  fence,  was  fined  100/.  and  discharged. 
made  by  Mr.  Curwen,  in  consequence  This  mitigated  punishment,  with  re- 
of   the  unanimous    opinion    of  the  spect  to  him,  has  arisen  out  of  com- 
Agricultural  Committee  with  respect  passion,  it  is  supposed,  for  his  years. 
to  the  distress  of  the  cc^ntrv,  for  the  Sentence  has  also  been  passed,  at  the 
repeal  of  the  agricultural  horse-tax  lastSessionsof  the  Old  Bailey,  doom- 
biu,  which,  after  a  long  debate,  was  ing  no  less  than  26  unfortunate  crea- 
agreed  toby  a  division  of  141  against  tures,  men    and  women,  to  death. 
113,  leaving  ministers  in  a  minority  We  remarked  that  there  was  not  one 
of  88.     Government,  however,  de-  case    of  murder    in    the    calendar, 
clared  their  determhiation  to  combat.  Surely  it  is  high  time  that  our  crimi- 
in  all  its  stages,  thb  repeal  bill,  by  nal  code  should  undergo    revision, 
which  a  considerable  diminution  of  It  appears  that  no  less  than  107,000 
its  revenue  woidd  occur.   Upon  more  persons  have  passed  through  the  pri- 
mature  consideration,  this  determi-  sons  of  the  united  kingdom  in  the 
nation  was   surrendered  ;   and  Lord  year  1818. 
Londonderry    attended     t!tc    Aj^rl- 


100  Agrieultmral  R^^.  C^uly, 


AGRICULTURAL  REPORT. 

The  practical  agriculturist  is  now  em.  one  species  only,  a  black  insect  w:*h  ydlow 

ployed  in  the   preparation  for  nusing  his  feet  {Chri/somela  ncmorum  of  Linncu$>, 

crop  of  turnips,  and  harvesting  his  grasses  will  attack  the  young  turnips.     He  now  de* 

— the  beginning  and  the  ending  of  two  most  stroys  them  by  what  he  terms  a  decoy.    He 

important  branches  of  his  industry.    At  sows  one  headland  ridge  of  his  intended 

this  time  it  may,  therefore,  be  particularly  turnip  field,  on  the  south  side,  in  May,  widi 

useftil  to  commeneeour  Rqiort  with  a  bridf  white  turnips.    He  rolls  it  down  to  a  toy 

and  condensed  abstract  of  the  various  me-  kvel  surface.     The  flies,  with  dieir  lanrBy 

thods  for  preserving  the  turnip  from  the  assemble  here  in  large  quantities,  and  toaj 

ravages  of  the  all^estroying  fly,   which  be  readily  caught,  by  passing  the  fly^catoh 

have  been  lately  put  forth   by  those  who  rapidly  iJong  the  surface,  stopping  ooca- 

direct  the  philosopjiical  and  technical  pur-  sionally  to  shake  the  insects  to  the  b^tom  of 

suits  of  experimental  as  well  as  experienced  the  catch.    Six  or  seven  9*clock,  in  the 

farmers.     The  old    prejudice  against  re-  evenings  of  warm  days,  is  the  best  time  to 

search,  as  beyond  the  farmer's  reach,  or  as  take  them.     Thus  Mr.  Paul  conceives,  in 

dang^erous  to   his  profits,   is  ftaX,  wearing  a  few  years,  the  fly  might  be  exterminated, 

away,  as  those  engaged  in  this  employment  The  present  season  has  been  so  cold  and 

beomne  better  educated ;  and,  thanks  to  the  backward,  that  perhaps  it  is  not,  eren  now, 

enlightened  founders  of  aggregate  meetings  too  late  to  employ  this  plan  to  advantage  | 

of  die  agricultural  body,  for  the  double  appropriating  a  single  ridge,  earliest  sown, 

purpose  of  inspection  of  facts,  and  partici-  But  the  confidence  Mr.  Ctikz  expiussed  ia 

pation  of  knowledge.  Farming  is  rapidly  the  Northumberland  ridge  system,  at  the 

collecting  the  materials,  and  adopting  die  Isst  Uolkham  Aleeting,  will  probably  in- 

arrangement,  as  well  as  assuming  the  name  dine  the  farmer  to  treat  Mr.  Paul*s  plan 

of  a  Science.  rather  as  an  auxiliary  than  as  a  pringpaL 

The  laborious  author  of  the  Code  of  It  has  been  stated,  by  many  practical  men. 
Agriculture  has  condensed  many  of  the  that  horse-hoeing  has  succeeded  where  Mr. 
methods  employed  to  extirpate  die  fly —  Paulas  fly  catch  has  failed :  and  3Ir.  He- 
a*.uongst  which,  are  rolling  the  fields  at  rod,  of  Creake,  Norfolk,  a  very  intelligent 
raidnight,  when  the  dew  is  on  the  ground ;  agriculturist,  has  witnessed  this  year  the 
drawing  tarred  boards  along  the  lands,  to  destruction  of  a  crop,  bdon^ng  to  a  neigh- 
winch  die  flies  skip  and  adhere,  (Mr.  Paul's  hour,  who  sowed  die  same  seed,  and  the 
trap  ;>-^rain-oil  and  sulphur  used  with  the  8am6  quantity,  with  the  same  drill  as  htm« 
seed ;  and  preparations  of  lime :  all  which  self :  the  plants  looked  equally  well  on  bodi 
have  been  tried;  but  with  partial  and  in-  lands ;  Mr.  Herod  horse-hoed  hu,  and  hit 
adequate  success.  Radish  seed  has  been  neighbour  employed  Mr.  Paul's  fly-catch, 
sown  with  the  turnip,  as  offering  food  more  Mr.  Herod's  crop  is  safe — his  neighbour's 
attractive : — die  growth  of  the  plant  has  perished  under  the  devouring  insects,  oA 
been  accelerated  by  extra  quantities  of  ma-  though  a  great  many  vere  caught*  Indeed 
nure,  with  a  view  to  forward  it  rapidly,  Mr.  Coke  declared  himself  certoiw  as  to  the 
beyond  the  power  of  destruction :  the  quan-  effects  of  the  ridge  system,  and  horse-hoe^ 
tity  of  seed  has  been  increased  to  three  ing,  and  that  he  no  longer  entertained  the 
pounds  per  acre,  the  crop  carefully  weeded,  simdlest  fear  of  being  able,  in  all  seasons, 
and  the  soil  f^equendy  stirred.  AU  these  to  secure  a  crop  of  turnips.  An  authority 
are  attended  with  various  degrees  of  benefit,  so  established,  will,  no  doubt,  meet  the  at- 
^r  John  Sinclair  himself  has  reccndy  pro-  tention  and  respect  which  Mr.  Coke  has  so 
posed  to  destroy  the  fiy  by  fiame  and  smoke  meritoriously  earned  of  the  agriculturist. 
— that  is,  by  burning  die  stubbles  and  other  The  prevalence  of  northerly  winds  during 
combustibles,  on  the  land,  previous  to  sow-  the  month,  and  the  consequent  cold  show- 
ing ;  but  Mr.  Paul,  of  Starston,  in  Nor-  ers,  have  kept  vegetation  very  backward ; 
folk  (the  inventor  of  the  fly-trap),  a  gende-  and  the  crops  scaroily  seem  to  have  made 
man  who  has  employed  a  diligent  attention  any  advancement  The  hajrmaking,  which, 
and  great  acutcness  in  his  experiments  to  ere  this  time  in  previous  seasons,  has  been 
destroy  the  insect,  asserts,  that  this  plan  approaching  to  a  dose,  is  scarcdy  begun  ; 
must  be  abortive,  because  the  flies  are  then  particularly  in  the  eastern  parts  of  the 
not  to  be  found  in  such  fields.  There  are  kingdom :  and,  from  the  want  of  warm 
several  spcdes  which,  he  sa3rK,  during  the  weather,  the  crop  is  generally  far  more 
winter  inbnlnt  any  thing  affording  shdter  bcanty  than  the  spring  promised.  Neither 
from  wind  and  woather.  Tlicy  are  very  are  die  meadows  so  abundandy  dothed  as 
tsnadous  of  life,  will  remain  for  some  mi-  usuaL  The  wheats  are  short  in  the  stalk, 
nutes  immersed  in  water,  or  bear  severe  and  only  just  coming  into  car :  in  some  dis- 
pressure  of  the  thumb  and  linger,  without  tricts,  the  wire-worm  has  injuretl  die  spring 
injury.     J\lr.  Paul,  howes'er,  considert>  that  wheats,  particularly  where  sown  after  tur- 


ISSlv]                                    Conmircial  Report.  101 

■f{|M  t  but,  ufMXi  the  whole,  the  appearaiioe  to  consider  the  agricultural  petitUms,  are 
is  good.    The  barley  also  is  backward,  and  at  length  doaed ;  but,  at  the  moment  of 
majr  have  received  more  injury  from  the  writing  this  article,  wc  know  only,  and  that 
nipaing  air  than  the  wheats ;  the  late  sown  from  a  member,  that  the  Report  was  agreed 
looKSUe  best    The  lij^t  lands,  however,  to  by  a  majority  of  eleven  to  nine.    Two 
httve  DO  reason  to  complain.  Beans  promise  a  of  the  Committee  did  not  approve  of  the 
foH  crop,  and  the  season  has  been  favorable  terms  of  the  Report,  yet  considered  diat 
Ibr  hoeing  them.  The  turnip  lands  were  well  the  production  even  of  one  they  did  not 
prepared,  and  the  Swedes  are  up ;  but,  in  entirely  accede  to,  would  be  better  than 
■gme  instances,  the  fly  has  made  consider-  none  at  all.    The  repeal  of  the  Agricul- 
ahle  ravages.   But  this  crop  is  in  too  recent  tural  Horse  Tax  has  been  carried  in  the 
a  state  to  afibrd  any  means  of  fair  judg-  House  of  Commons.    The  country  owes  its 
ment.  The  markets  are  crowded  with  stodc.  thanks  to  the  talents  and  perseverance  of 
Fat  mutton  is  greatly  depressed ;  and  the  Mr.  Curwen,  by  whMe  powerful  represent- 
holders,  who  had  anticipated  a  rise,  are  ations  in  the  Committee,  and  in  Parlia- 
ffrievously  disappointed.  Store  pigs,  which,  ment,  this  boon  (as  it  is  called)  has  been 
in  the  eastern  parts  of  the  kingdom,  are  extorted.     It  will  give  about  three  percent. 
thcKpctt  in  Oxfordshire,  and  the  adjoining  upon  the  value  of  his  rent,  to  the  £Effmer. 
counties,  are  dear,  in  consequence  of  the  Such  a  remission  can  render  no  very  im- 
beavy  losses  which  some  time  since  fell  upon  portant  service  to  the  tenantry ;  but,  never- 
thaC'  district ;  occasioned  by  a  distemper,  theless,  the  victory  obtained  is  momentous 
which  carried  off  a  great  number  of  pigs,  to  the  country,  since  it  manifests  the  deter- 
In  wool  there  has  been  little  doing,  and  that  mination  of  an  independent  body,  to  lessen 
Itttk  at  very  low  prices.  the  burdens  of  taxation. 
The  labours  of  the  Committee,  appointed 


COMMERCUL  REPORT. 
{Londany  June  23.) 


Thottor  no  enactment  has  been  made  probable  that  any  ^reat  ckang^  Will  be 

hj  Parliament  since  our  last  report,  re-  made  in  it. 

specting  the  foreign  trade  of  the  country.  Cotton. — ^An  extensive  purdifise  of  3,000 
except  the  passing  of  the  Bill,  regulating  bags  of  Bengal  cotton  in  one  contract,  in 
the  timber  trade,  it  is  satisfactOTy  to  know  the  last  Week  of  Mby,  excited  ^ome  inter- 
dat  the  Conunittees  of  the  two  Hoiises  est  iA  the  market  The  quahty  was  fiiir 
are  sHidnouakr  prosecuting  their  researdies  ooulmon ;  the  average  price  5}  J.  per  lb. 
OD  the  most  important  subjects  of  finrdgn  The  transaction,  however,  took  place  under 
tvade,  agriculture,  &c.  A  statement  which  peculiar  circumstances,  and,  as  reported, 
has  been  laid  before  the  House  of  Lords  for  an  exchange  of  manu&ctured  goods. 
rejecting  the  silk  manufactures  of  this  The  other  purchases  amounted  to  about 
eoontry,  wiU  probably  cause  considerable  1,900  bales.  From  the  end  of  May,  to 
surprise  to  the  generalitv  of  the  public,  the  middle  of  the  third  week  of  June,  the 
who  were  hardly  aware  of  the  great  extent  market  was  heavy  and  without  interest,  the 
to  which  that  manufocture  is  carried.  From  prices  rather  declined,  but  without  much 
this  statement,  it  appears  that  the  quantity  nicilitating  sales,  whidi  amounted  in  three 
of  raw  silk  used  in  England,  in  1^0,  was  weeks  to  only  3^250  bags,  all  in  bond.  At 
no  less  than  2,500,000  lb.,  while  that  used  Liverpool,  dunng  the  same  period,  the 
in  France,  in  the  same  year,  was  only  market  has  not  presented  any  improvement 
8,000,000  lb.  The  value  of  the  manufoc-  of  prices ;  but  the  demand,  during  the  first 
tared  artide  in  England  was  12,000,000/.  fortnight  of  this  month,  was  pretty  steady^ 
stcsUng.  The  great  increase  of  our  silk  though  not  brisk.  The  quantity  of  cotton 
manufactures  is  ascribed  to  the  extension  imported  into  Liverpool,  up  to  June  16, 
of  die  private  trade  to  India,  by  which  the  shows  an  extraordmary  decrease,  when 
manufacturers  are  enabled  to  receive  more  compared  with  that  of  last  year,  vis.  of 
frequent  supplies  than  before  that  system  49,500  bags  from  America,  of  37,300  Arom 
was  adopted.  So  important  a  branch  of  Brazil,  and  of  5,100  from  the  East  Indies, 
manufacture,  which  has  confessedly  been  with  an  increase  of  only  1,700  bags  from 
nurtured  into  maturity,  by  the  aid  of  the  the  West  Indies,  the  total  dccreatie  ex- 
prohibitory  system,  can  hardly  be  sup-  ceeding  90,000  bags,  or  from  288,000  last 
ported,  without  the  continuance,  at  least  year,  to  197,800  this  year.  The  diminu- 
m  part,  of  that  protection  which  it  has  tion  of  the  supply  for  the  last  three  weeks 
hitherto  enjoyed ;  and  it  is,  therefore,  not  may  be  attributed  to  contrary  winds.  The 
Vol.  IV.  I 


]j03                                       Conunercial  Rejpirt-  C^Julyf 

oottoa  dfiliveied  from  the  Bast  IndU  ware-  By  iml4le  lale,  831  cliciCi  HavanBah 

lioiiies,  in  the  month  of  May,  was  1 J79  augars  met  with  no  bayeia,  the  greater  pro- 

bags  for  exportation,  and  5,77d  for  home  portion  was  taken  in  about  2#.  lower  tnao 

Qonsumption.     By  the  accounts  up  to  this  the  previous  prices  by  private  contract ; 

4ay,  we  are  happy  to  find  that  an  unprovc  fine  white  at  66«.  6i.  and  66t.  mtAAMr^m 

if^t  has  taken  place.     The  market  re-  49j.  fid,  a  52s. :  Barbadoea,  BouibooTittd 

niained  heavytillThuraday(21st.),  when  the  Brazil  sugars  went  off  at  oeaily  the  pm- 

fiivourabie  reports  from  Liverpool  had  an  vious  prices. 

jpffirni^lifttn  effect  here.  The  purchases  in  the 

last  week,  consist  of  670  Bengal,  ^d,  a  Eatt  India  tale  <m  Tuesday  the  I9ih 

ikd. ;  200  Surat,  (».  a  7<^  ;  30  Madras,  wt. 

Tdii  137  Sea  Island,  I5d.  a  \6d.i  200  Sugar^  19,523  bags. 

temambuco,  l'2d,  a  Ujd,;   90  Smyrna,  Bourbon,  brown... 23#.  a  25#. 

Bd.  a  8id.  aU  in  bond;  41  St.  Domingo,  yeUow...2a#.  a  21i*.  6d, 

9W.  (I  Ogd.  duty  paid.  ^hite  ...34#.  a  .38..  a  few  kHs  40f. 

.    The  letters  from  Liverpool  stote  an  un-  Bengal,  brown  ...18#.  (W.  a  2U.  Gd. 

oommon  briskness  in  cottons ;  in  the  first  yellow  ,„dO*  a  3U 

Uiree  days  of  Uiis  week  the  sales  cxcwded  ^hite  !!*.S5#*  6d.  adGt.  Gd. 

8,000  bfli^s,  and  more  busmeas  would  have     Bigaa,  yellow 27f.  a  29t,  6d. 

been  done,  had  not  the  sellers  asked  an  ad-  gr^y 31,  ^  32^* 

jvauce  of  id.  per  lb.  white  *.*.'.'.*!.'34*.*  (W.  a  40f. 

.    Sngar, — The  market  has  remained  for  fine...43#.  a  45«. 

tbi*  month  put,  n«arfy  m  the  «jme  state  ^he  shipping  .ugm  »MU.a  2,.  I..wer : 

•8  for  some  ome  preceding.     The  qu«n-  __„_,  jL'L:*^   *.             "J^.i      ,    * 

tity  of  new  sug.rbrou^ht  forwarif  has  ^^  ^.TT,  t^^"^   **  p'""' 

bein  inconsiderable!   and  they  have  in  ge-  f^*;,  ^i^?  °°'  "  ^T^  "  ^"^ 

D^  met  with  a  ready  sale  at  the  fuU  ™°'°"'  propMuig  •  new  Juty,  40j^  on 

market  pria^,  but  the  transaction,  have  ^"'^  "d/f '"''  *^'   ^  T'  T 

been  chiS.ycon.incd.to  purchase  made  by  '^^  „?l3'ket.'"^  "^  •""  "° 

the  eroccrs   for   their  immediate  wants;  a-—-.  -^        ^  d       e          u    ^ 

there  being  no  inducement  to  Uy  in  a  stock,  J^\^  ^"^  "^  ^"^  ^"«"  ^^  ^^' 
while  the  supply  Ls  so  inadequate ;  (jx  which 

reason  the  rehners  have  shown  no  indina-  May  26 33«.  9^J. 

tion  to  purchase.     Foreign  sugars  have  June  2 S5#.  3d. 

Wen  in  general  low.    At  a  pubUc  sale  on  9 36#.  Id, 

^e  5th  inst.  577  chests  of  Havannah,  ^d  16  ! S5«.  2^. 

^  barrels  25  chests  of  Brazil  were  sold.  23 Wh.  Od. 

The  former,  white  fine  56«.  good  56«.  to 

]57<.  Od.  middling  52«.  to  55«.  yellow  30«.  Cqffee. — The  reports  of  the  market,  up 

to  32<. ;  the  Pemambuoo,  white,  good  55i.  to  the  middle  of  this  month,  were  unfavour- 

tniddling  38«.  6d.  to  39«.  Gd.    The  prices  able.     The    large   public  sales  went  off 

Ibave  not  since  improved.  heavily ;  and  a  considerable  prc^rtion  of 

'    The  refined  market,  after  a  reducticm  of  the  quantity  brought  forward  was  supposed 

If.  to  '2s.  seemed  likely  to  revive,  but  un-  to  have  been  taken  in  on  account  of  the 

&vourable   reports    fVom    the     Continent  languid  demand. 

'checked  the  improving  demand.    The  re-  The  public  sales,  last  week,  consisted  of 

'quest  was,  however,  still  sufficient  to  pre-  914  casks  and  1457  bags;  notwithstanding 

vent  any  accumulation  of  stock ;  and  in  the  this  extensive  quantity,  the  greater  propor- 

aecond  week  of  this  month  there  was  a  con-  tion  sold,  and  on  Friday  an  improvement  of 

kiderable  demand  for  goods  suitable  for  the  It.  a  2t.  took  place  in  all  descriptions  of 

!Mediterrancaii    markets;  after  which  the  Jamaica   cofl«e :    fine    middling    realised 

'trade  became  depressed.     The  following  is  146/.  Gd»  and  147'.    By  pnTate  oontract, 

the  latest  statement  of  tlie  markets.  a  cargo  of  St.  Domingo  coffee  sold  at  112f. 

'    The   show  of   new    sugars    this  week  for  money ;  the  request  afterwards  consi- 

has    greatly   improved,    both  in  quality  derably  improved,  and  for  St-  Domingo 

knd  quantity  :  several  of  the  holders  have  114i.  6d.  was  offered, 

fcvinecd  a  determination  to  effect  immediate  This  week  the  market  appears  fluctua- 

jales,  and  in  consequence  a  reduction  of  ting :  on  Wednesds^  two  extensive  parcels 

Gd.  a  It.  per  cwt.  has  been  submitted  to  in  of  St.  Domingo  cofree  w^ent  off  with  much 

grocery  sugars;   the  other   qualities    are  briskness,  caalu  at  ll5t.  Gd,  and  bags  at 

Without  variation.  116«.  6d. :  on  Thursday  the  demand  for 

The  refined  market  has  continued  steady  fbreign  coffee  again  became  languid,  and  a 

aU  the  week ;  there  are  no  alterations  to  large  parcel  of  8u  Domingo  met  with  no 

notice  in  the  prices,  and  there  appears  to  buyers  at  115«.  Gd  and  llGt,;  the  quality 

be  little  life  in  the  trade. — Molasses  are  ra-  of  the  latter  was,  however,  of  inferior  de« 

ther  lower.  scription  to  the   paiods  of  Wedncidajr. 


l8Sri.])  Omimerciai  lUpori.  toi 

Jtfndca  eofUbe  sold  with  loine  bfiikness  at  co4(ee  58  a  59  r.,  white  Havamiah  iiugaT^ 

m  tdrance  of  8#.  a   S#.  per  ewt.     The  at  90^  r.  with   10  r.  earnest,  and  at  31  r. 

pablk  tale  on  Fridaj  consisted  of  Havan-  with  5  r.  earnest ;  the  remainder  pa^rable  nt 

pth  ooflte,  which  was  all  withdrawn,  fine  firar  months.     Manilla  sugars  at  20  r.  pa^r- 

ordinarj  at  119«.  good  ordinary  117«*  6/2.  ;  able  in  six   months. — Tafhw,  From  209 

there  were  olfos  at  117'*  <M1  for  the  fbr-  to  250,000  poods  have  been  sold.     Ydlow, 

tner,  which  is  nearly  the  present  price  by  on  the  spot,  155  r.  for  delivery,  150  r.  aff 

private  contract :  gencraOy,  foreign  coffii  down  ;  soap  tallow  130  r.  to  197  t.  for  thai 

ifaay  be  stated  heavy ;  British  Plantation  on  the  spot,  139  r.  for  defivery.    In  whiter 

lb  good  demand,  at  the  advance  of  2s,  to  hardly  any  diing  doing ;  it  may  be  had  at 

Sf.  per  cwt.  140  r. — Hemp,  500,000  poods  have  beeilP 

At  the  East  India  sale,  on  Tuesday,  1 521  sold ;  mostly  sudi  as  is  on  the  spot ;  because 

bags  of  coffee  all  sold  at  a  considerable  ad-  Ae  diief  purchasers,  the  Americans,   cr^ 

vance.    There  is  scarcely  any  Mocha  left  not  willing  or  able  to  wait  fbr  the  arrivalif 

Unsold.  of  the  new  article. — Hemp  Oil  300,000 

Ifuttga, — The  prices  of  indigo  are  Httle  poods  have  been  purchased ;  of  which,  at 

varied,  and  the  market  will  probably  con--  least,  100,000  poods  on  speculation  to  seif 

tinue  without  interest  until  the  result  of  the  again.     This  article  is  now  dull,  and  might 

tale  at  the  India  House  transpires :  the  probablv  be  had  at  9^  r. — Fhue.    On  die 

general  premium  on  the  purchases  of  last  whole,  100,000  poods  have  been  sold.  No* 

sale  is  2d.  a  3d.  per  lb.  In  the  warehouses,  thing  has  been   done  this  fbitnigbt:  18 

sold  and  unsold,  it  is  estimated  there  are  head  is  not  to  be  bought  tmder  150  r.  all 

13,000  chests.  paid  down,  or  155  r.   widi  ennest;  and 

Splcciy  jv — The  India  Company  have  9  head  not  under  125  r.  with  earnest,  or 

dedared  for  sale  13th  August,  120  r.  all  down. — Bristles.    Our  stock  is 

Company *s  Cinnamon. .  130,000  lb.  small,  and  the  demand  great;  so  that  80  r. 

Nutmegs 100,000  to  85  r.  are  willingly  given  for  the  first  sort. 

Mace 20,000  82  r.  to  33  r.  for  the  second,  27  r.  to  37  r. 

Pepper,  Black 2,855  bags  for  Souchay,  and  120  r.   for  Akalkas. — 

Sali^etie 1,000  tons  Hor^-iaiU.    The  first  sort,  last  sold  at 

Tm.— At  die  East  India  sale,  which  55  r.,  is  not  to  be  had ;  for  die  second  sort^ 

finishad  last  wedt,  Bohea  sold  at  2s.  3  Jd.  which  is  still  more  in  demand,  22  r.  to  23  r. 

to  2«.  4^  (^J.  to  \d.  higher  dian  hwtsale.)  according  to  quality,  have  been  given — 

CommonCongooSf.  Gii.a24i.7H  (l<2.to  Yellow  Wax.    Not  hi  much  demand,  and 

\id,  higher) ;  and  finer  sorts  2s,  l^d.  a  3f.  tberefote  to  be  had  at  the  very  reasonable 

iXi.  lower  dian  Int  sale.)    Since  die  sale,  price  of  72  r.^IAnseed.    Some  purcbasea 

Boheas  have  TMlftsed  prices  a  shade  higher,  for  EngUsh  account,  have  been  made  at 

3fc  id.  being  now  the  lowest  nutrket  price.  38  t.  to  52  r.,  according  to  quality. 

Rum^Brand^^  and  Hollands. — ^The  rum         Rifra^   35lA  May^^Htmp*    It  seemr 

market  is  exeeedingly  heavy,  on  account  of  diere  is  very  litde  dam  at  market,  and  thia 

die  eonsidarable  arrivals,  and  several  parcela  tort  being  the  most  in  request,  our  good 

hav«  beeo  forced  on  sale;  parcels  of  low  fTkraine  has  been  boa([^  at   113  r.    A» 

Leewards,  300  puncheons,  have  been  sold  die  quantity  of  ontshot  at  maricet  is,  of 

tX\s.Ad.i  the  general  price,  however,  can-  eourse,  large  in  proportion  as  that  of  dean 

not  be  stated  so  low ;  very  inferior  Jamaica  is  small,  it  is  probable  the  price  will  falL 

\s.  9d, :  with  the  exeeption  of  these  paroda  — Flax  is  not  lower,  but  there  seems  to  bv 

Ibreed  upon  the  market,  the  purchases  are  litde   demand. — Talbns.    Yellow  crown, 

inoomiderablc. — Brandy  is  still  held  with  155  r. 

much  firmness,  but  few  sales  are  reported;         June  1.  —  The  prices  are  unchanged. 

Cognac;  best  marks  St.  4i.  a  3#.  (M.,  other  There  has  been  a  bruk  demand  for  hemp 

marks  3#.  a  V  3i2.  this  week  :  but    nothing   doing  on  flax. 

Hemp,,  Fkx^  and  Tallow, — The  prices  Hm$p-oil  is  held  at  97r.     Pot^ashes  have 

^  tallow  are  a  shade  lower  since  Tuesday  been  sold  at  07  r.  at  which  price  there  are 

last,    and   notwithstanding  the    prindpid  purchasers,  but  lOOr.  are  now  asked.    Re^ 

holders  win  not  sdl  at  the  present  rates,  jined  Sugars  have  been  little  enquired  for 

y«t  the  market  continues  languid  and  de-  this  week.    Hamburgh  middling  hdd  at 

dining, — ^In  hemp  or  flax  there  is  little  30  cop.  but  only  20^  cop.  offimd.    Ha- 

lAlen^Ofi.  yaunah  sugars  white  middling  have  been 

sold  at  19i  cop.  yellow  at  13  cop.  for  four 

Foazioy  Commerci:.  months*  credit  16  oop.  ready  money  are 

thtaiy  nnv^ ;  but  only  a  imaU  nirt  of  ^^    *^  ^  Liverpool, 

their  cugoet  u  yet  *t  market,  ai  tlie  un-     ^      zH^T^a^  na  i^i»m»il  rarlTulI 
lo-luTiS  on  other  dowly.    EnglM.     ^^r^^.^^jjf"'^'"^  **^'' 
i3tarf..S«CRare«.ldat60r.,  ffln.     *"  P"  "^  "^ '"^^^   ~       , 
at  51  r.  (payment  weekly) ;  Hne  Havannali         Himburgky  Jn»e  9.— C(^ .  Ttoit  Va* 


104  Wbrki  Preparing  Jbr  FiMieaiuni,  Z'^^J* 

Imo  a  good  demand,  and  the  piioet  oon-  Odetta^  Ma^  30.  —  The  Tu^iah  go- 
tmne  steady. — Sugar.  This  week  there  Temment  have  stopped  all  ships  that  have 
has  been  a  tolerable   demand  for  Ham-    sailed  from  this  port  sinoe  the  middle  of 


standard  for  the  other  sorts.    lAimps  of  wheat)  into  the  com  maga«^nff  _.  ,  , ,.. 

flood  middle  quality  remain  steady  at  lid.  tinople,  on  reoopt  of  their  value  at  die 
Voy  little  has  been  doing  in  raw  sugars,  manet  price.  This  is  probably  to  appease 
tttoept  a  largeparoel  of  Brttdl  brown  at  7i.  the  populace,  who  were  enraged  at  the  cap- 
Yellow  and  brown  Uavannah  are  in  no  re-  ture  of  6  com  diipe  firam  Egypt.  This 
^nest,  and  several  pnods  of  mixed  ^ ualitjjr  proceeding,  however,  injures  our  trade, 
might  be  had  at  8^;  but  white,  of  which  the  and  leads  to  unpleasant  differences  with 
Mfldc  is  small,  eroedally  c£  dxr  middle  the  Spanish,  Danish  and  Italian  houses, 
qwdity,  is  in  demand  at  12^  to  13d.  who  have  oidered  this  com.  191  ships  of 
Jufte  16. — Cqffte.  Owing  to  a  pretty  various  nations,  one  with  the  flag  of  Jeru- 
brisk  demand  the  prices  are  still  mmer.  salem,  have  arrived  here  from  January  to 
Sugar.  There  has  been  a  good  deal  doing  April.  Sailed  102. 
in  our  refined  this  week,  and  the  prices  <^  Spain^  June  11. -..Complaints  are  re- 
die  finer  descriptions  are  a  little  hi^er.  oeived  from  all  parts  of  the  kingdom,  of 
Baw  goods  as  before :  fine  white,  being  the  increase  of  smuggling,  which  is  carried 
■earoe,  is  in  demand,  and  steadv  in  price,  on  by  main  force,  and  in  open  day,  in  spite 
and  the  inferior  sorts  dull|  we  having  an  of  all  the  vigilance  and  activity  of  the 
abundant  supply.  officers. 


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NEW  PATENTS. 


Alnaoda   Lb«i   of   tha   Ownmetdal  marinert  fo  eetttln imptOTcmaiti  In  pro- 
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Bode  of  ibnniDg  bolli  Bad  ml*  m  atup  Aanm  Manbjr,  of  Herseley  ni 
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Samud  Hnt,  of  Redenhall-wilb-Hirlceton, 
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31h  Itar.  OnHte  TbatDH  Fluninier  leidtiiUil  to 
bt  Rierarf  or  Wort " 


_..._.  ^ ._,      lli-in;  C.  llirch,  of  Cittherinr.hBH  ;  T. 

MAMofer.Sarrer,  lasetliciiriailluu  of  Nevdl.  Pinter.   EmTnindFl   CDll»e;    S.  Charltu,  ud 

tftt,  la  UM   taiK  eMBlT.— Tbe  Krr.  Edvanl  G.  [..  Hurvcy,  nf  Sldnci  .Sinxi  Ccllcie. 

Hcnnod,  UA.  lo  be  Matter  sf  tbe  Unminai  TlieChnncellnr^doM'MKiiilfiH'IliebnlEulUi 

SCMOl  at  DaMicil^The  Harnalt  aC  Bachin*-  Pnein.  \s  iuljiiil;i><l  tu  Thai.  JIaMiuRon  .Muwlar. 

ham  iu  anolated  the  R».  U.  S.  Be aitn,  HA.  ScbDiui>(rrl>iri?r.,llcfe-''uMei:i,"ET«lai.->^ 

Bictar  ot  Arlnffea.  la  be  Ma  I.onUhtVi  UomesllD  sit  U'ui.  llniwiieS  Tlirre  (inlil  Medali  fH  the  pn- 

<,'kulBli.-~Tbe  Her.  Tbosuu  (irouB,  la  the  acDtjear  Uan  been  siljudjed  u  bllowi :-^reek 

LlrniearCadmtOB.  aear  Neath.  ^u-^ *^  '£lMaarae  a  Trio^tnac-*^  m  M^nnrN-iinn 

OxrOH1>.-Cliaiieel1eiH  W«a.    That  for  the  JSiriJ»vviin»c,f  KfErt  rniiJe 

B^lUab  &aHr-»Tb«  Slatj  af  Moden  Hlamn,-  ■  KK^vt,^"  Miu^Rmiomm  Rerint-    to 

SiJfflii^a'SZTtal^^Ss'  Cbi:"ft,,SI.rof  l.^.l^"Sce    llSJfam^ 

brd,  aaeaf  tbe  Blahoraof  til  Scuta 'Erbeopd  "  Er^r-.  ■/«  "^^'."  "  Ed™ii  Balnfof 

Btairah,  Edinburgh.                               t       i~  chrtu  tolleiM.                              .  ^    ^„     , 

•  Tin  L«ln  Ekb.— -  De  Anrarila  et  Aa>Mclia  TbeVlrMlnnnllarbaa  lelKleil  ibe  tollewlug 

UDd  Antl^Boa.'^-Cliat.  J.  Pluiner,  BA.  iMe  of  eaereite  Houoriii  a,\ut- 

MM,  now  or  Oriel  (Allege,  ton  of  the  Klirtit  OreetOJf^JloHo,  "  Eipwleieadeia.-lic 

boo.  sit  TbopiM  PlBioeOliiier  of  the  KoTl..      UUo  Ole    ■■  ll.r'biloi[|Hule.b.beWl,"ic. 

pRderiek  H<>nR<,  of  f'hri"!  rhorch,  »n  of  Vii.     Biiigtama     |'  •■"J™"'  "^™  pai^lia." 

™t     ■nS^idrnt  nSdenwn'oblaThrd  allio  sir  "  trtiMinb  e.,- ke 

Ksnt  Nrmli^.iU'a  Wm  for  tbe  ia/[M  IVeib,  the  "To  /"«xii  >u»ko,-. 

•uSlecl,"l'ie«uui." 


IflU.^  BatArnpti.  JM 

BANXaUPTS  IN  ENGLAND. 

inmll'lTtmtratfiilwIaekllinBamJrT^TttUblUnollxpnatil,  ItBiU  t(  (llHn  lit  Zondsi  (r  Ito 

.  ^niUoMhnd.    5tis(»  itriihiJtsiJtiKa«r'to^lHriK|[>,  iHui  ■uHi«n^J^ad^^a[. 

G<actte~May  19  (o  J^hm  19. 

BlsnniDi,  W.  B,  Sumford,  fncer.    [Jryi,  CIud-> 

DcicrEBi,  W.  H.  Gmrn-Hmt.  Muuimi.baaH- 
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HuDlDgIM,S.  PatiiiT.  IrouaoBKU.  [Cabb.Cli- 

Kdl^V,  il^*!  NualoD,   n'uwick.  Innku^. 

C<:M>MbIc,Synwihri-[Dii,Ch(ui«n-liDe.    C. 
Kiag.  W.  WomMir,  iln>i«.    [VUud,  M,  Lin- 

«>1ii1-liiii.adilt.    C. 
Hncn,  M.  YunDOnCb,  ucrIudC.    [Jona,  IUIf 

r  u.  u-.  ^^^  TlBen-ilimpar. 


EdiD^on,  Junm,  LcwcrTbiiuci-nr»l,iMliiHr. 

[Piaru.St.  Soltblii-i.tiuie,  LumlHrd^t.  T. 
E<rw>Tili.B.L,CudI|{u,1Iiicn-dn|wr.  {J«nkl>^ 

Ji^kw_n.j'.H«llhi,rtMiin*tr.    [WIglawoittu 


irltloL,  mtluiui. 
clkr.     [SUi>ticn. 


driMti,    (Wsuan,  r,  t'Billr-rt.  (Wcon-^.   T,  Frptariok J.pliwt  OW  Jtwrr. 

RitluirtMn..ll.Hi™M.lle,U«Mln,gnicer,p*Ofr  ^'?^'^  ^'Sn-  «^I"I.  &' 

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Saly.ti'W.Slunfonl.iiiduiliItRr.   !Vtmt,\7,  Tnthm,  Clui.  MHklenbDiyli.iqgiirr,  men 

aialrtinn-MBire.   T.                       I       -.     '  rT.jIor,  FBnilTiU'i-lim,l/i.lboni.    T. 

EnBaer,  W.llitual,  can-licliir.    [Hkki.But-  While,  H.  GracKhnnHi-unal,  metchimt.  [< 

Imn-Mlitliin,  Kxlbani.    C.  BMldghBlUirett.    T. 


Imn-tnUdliin,  Kxlbani.    C. 
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jClftBulnglulUlrrr-     '■ 
TSeapioii,  Hear],  Seul 

(8«niw,  0,  (iBloa 
Will.  a.  Eanui4lnM 

Mlllbuk-Unrt.  W_..,. 

WiniuH,  h.   W.    Fl«el.itrHt,  wlDt-merchmnl. 

CLnta,  Cnnchid-Min.   T. 
Wo1ltnt».J.Cb1chHUr,ln>DB»iicrr.    [Coma- 

!»<.  CgTUull-anin,  ThrogmurtDiifdnEI.   T. 
Mi^  C^AtklDMn,  J.  Hslia*.  ^atnionlud, 

mualketiiRf.    [Qmrlci ,  Trniile.    U.     , 
Onwg, A. J.FDrumoaUi.iTaeer,  [(Jol1cn,Ctiu- 

Dn.T.  Black mn-itRtl.  Smlhwirk.  ■toek-hrv. 

Kcr.    [SkiHr,  Mlllbuik-U.  WcUBilBUec.    T. 
rtitiroiil.  John,  LiTufool,  habodubir.    [John, 

Mi«n«->laM.  TtnrlF-biir.    C. 
MrcblM.  J.  C  ThsrltiT,  Uncoln,  bmtr,    [VII. 

Ua,  J,  Wanfl>ri-ciMrt,Ttin>rniDrtan-Rrc«:    C. 
Font,  U.  S.  Gnu  Biuk-laDe.  CaiiiiDB-4tRB,  wIbb- 

FMlwrHoll,  WonBtc "bnuer^'cPlail,  New 


[St«ker.3,NtwBo»>cll4LUucalB->lDB.  Cl 
Hut,  W.  A.  KiBE-atntt,  Cbapaldi.  mcrcbaM. 


HanoB-fvdeB. 


:  hoi  la,  T.  E 


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ahlp^ont-nad.    T. 
HrBln.  J.  Sol'a-nnr.  HiBintoad.n 

[DnKcBDtllcr-eqDBTe.   f. 
MB<ktt,  J.  CheHrnliUD.  wlne-nicrc 

llaaU-LlBMlDVlDD.     C. 

IrrlBg,  J.)on.  Cwllalt,  gnKcr.    [Addbop,  Sti|ilc- 

JcBk^  F.'  Branyird,  Herefcid,  tuunr.     [Wil- 

lluu,LiDn>ln->-iBB,(NdJqg*re.    C. 
SuinvilVSI.  Marr-UIU wloc  ntRkant.  [Rew- 

SBnlf,  J.  Copcnhaven-wlurr.  IJnthtKBe,  tlmlMr. 

Berchanl.    (I>iirh<e,ai), Jobn-U. Ailetphl.    T. 

SuM.i.StatSBtijiriitliattm.    [OappafcOld 

SaiiUi,  J«.  Fnme.  SomerMt,  elDlhler.    [Hicki, 

fiwiJctrf  baUdlflm,  Hotbom.    C. 
Surr.J.  Cbgnrell.York,  Rloihler.    [WUaon,  10, 

tImUle.>tcrtl,  Hutoii^nidcB.    C. 
TMt,  Mary,  ScnlbfiWc,  JllddleKi,  cora-dcalet. 

[Fhher,  Hslboru^aiurt,  (iniyvlua.    T. 
WBTDcbnl.  JshB,  VMk,  grocer.    [Wlgletwonb, 


rrillor,  Ifc 

Slmnon,  Kobi.  Nrwcanlc-BpoB-Tym,  |iiilk»a 

WutI,  J.  B«cb.  StUIbii!,  fanner.  [RIcki,  Gi^^ 

YmdcD,  S.  Uarer,  carpnier,    [SBocker,  3;  Nnr 
Boawcll^coim,  UamlDi-lan.    C. 

3.  MEbc! 

[Ta'buB,41, 

i,iiimer.   [Hall, 

IS.Wsr-     CheHham,T.SUK:kjiorl,iBiieon."    [iVler,  Pniap. 

rectlBv.     Elcha,  J.  BarrSI.  EilBiaiidi.SDflolk, 

Ir.     [Bnliqinr,  GnT-t.lnn.tqiure.    I 

,    rwil.     HtncocVW.BorySt.  EdBiBii^i.Sirfral 

maker.    rillii|nnTe,4.SrinotHl1.ino. 

Hardwkk,  J.  Clarfrorect,  Cljire-niarki 

[Kichiinlioii,  Walbrwk.    T, 
Muiik,  W.  Hlrt-ttrett.  St.  Sailonr% 
lunndy-merchaiiL    [IVebb,  Deaa-it 

NieoLL,T.  Wu».  HerttonJ,  Mck-ouker.    [Bm^ 

ParL.  iLjun.'partia,  Soalbanptga.  csal-ina. 

cbanL    [Urim,IJncotii*-luB-ii:U..    T. 
Pllllni!.  J.lfad&rffleld.Vgrli,  cnrrler.    [Bal^e, 

Eail.,  N.  CnicMhurelnlreel,  Un-plate-doiker. 

rl>airc»,Ani;elnjaiI,'niro)[inortDn-«.   T. 
It<ht>in^  S.  HuddrnOeU,  b«[er.    [Wglennita, 

WWlt^.  H.  CoieBOy,  illk-djer.  [Lrng,  Oi^V 


ler,  J.  \ 


Billlci'.    [Kond,  Ware.Heni.    T. 
aktr,  G.'A.  ll1ac)iiiHii.iinet,  Bui 


'tall],  H 


I.lrtrpoDl,  ■oaji.bollEr.    [BM> 


•r.  Ml,  HlnhHotboTD.   T. 


ftuahln.  T.  H.  «.  I'UMMrcwrcrl,  LIlDftDii,  nmll- 
Btt.  JT^iMj.41(.Uii^olu'^ii.ii-fl.lJ..    T. 

an  W-lkMi-MnuIi!.    C.  ■ 

L  J.  UierpMl,  BcnlMM.    [IH«,  Las- 

»>    C. 

nuH,  T.Elka«.tui.m«RbuL    [CUrti,LlE- 
^Ultn.'TbMia* ATOMIC.    T. 
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WlaU,&ni|u-    [PswhIi,  S(m1»^u>.    c. 
Jue  f.-B<u*.  B.  KIckllH,  Nsrhik,  itinkHp- 
■    n.    rnrborr,  rileoB-M.  AMeno'^"-    I'- 
^BbuiI.W.  Uriiwl,  pMUnuiM.    [^^»le,  Crw* 

Chl!proX'l?*(;rMfli'(rh,  llBtiMlrj|»f.    [Brtok- 

(!»nt  R  "  f  rc.-.iiMl",  Brffcnl-nunn,  doilw  Id 
'   nade.     [PIkt,  Nrw  DoorcU-conrV  Cvcr-*!. 

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CnB.J.KIilp>i»VaB-HiiU,<lnp«.    [Arfltbr, 

Son.  J.  .t«ilB(l«.  oar  Muklnnl,  LUKMtM. 
'  attoB.ipliiiKr.     [Hudficld,  Si.  Aul,  Uts- 

~B«in».  tV111biii,ChF«iUe,Cti«ui,u]le»-pclal«. 


BWii.'h.  Ad.iiS™^B^ 

^■mt,  BuLuUU-«Ht.    1. 
Bragnlitiil.TrshfacU,  (neer.    (Rotfin,  Hol- 

bMm-«wt  Orn^^inii.    C. 
Bart,  Edv.URrpiiDl,  ucrcbul.     [BlnkMock, 

Kfnri-bf DCh-nlk,  Tn»le.    C. 
Dvnofi,  T.  trpMo.  NorMk,  DIrcbnI.    (Poale, 

GnfUaB'ilave.    C. 
Guff,  W.  Kriiihihrliiiiuat,  Sana,  lluD-dnMr. 

[M'llklH,  Slonc.lniildiiin,  Un«In1-lDii.   T. 
Haraddl,  J.  Hrlitol,  bilwrdubu.     IGuc*,  29. 

Kiy,  T.  PrlDCtw-nnrr,  lUlcllff  HMn*.  hhI- 
■HRhut.    [Sudd.  PniD|i-cn<iR.  TFiBpte.    T. 


[Cbnl' 


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ON.     IP'»n>  we"  BMi«(l-ciHirt,  LiDcolin- 

fllwr,  a.  Unr  Ehi  SmilhOtld.  MiiU)an,  aU 

lull,  H.  unl  J.  Hill,  5Dn-*1iur,Unn''niui«- 
tuttl,  Ini-Dircliuti.  [Unkc,  Old  F]|h«. 
UocUfVoiiiiiiODi.   T. 

HtTPB,  S.   I.lierpool,  OggrjInlEr.     [Ctitiur, 


[Wmon,  FtkchortluMntt.    T. 
nrktr.  Win.  Nfvuk.BVon.Ti — * 

■rin-worka'.    rUllK.Trmp: 
FVlloek.  J.  AduDP-coBR.  ■■ 

Wellborn.  S,  SrDtcwiM,  Votk.  imnr.  [CUI;, 
Awtl.cMrt,  Thnwmoneii-MrsM.    T. 

WlAtiS.  wMoK.anl  J.  Wkhl.  UmdtBballHiHl, 
hBl.muDfKtBRn.    [Galiiiu.  (Jru  KDlghl  Rl. 

Woei.  p.  iilnnlBB.  Surrj.  jEideBcr.    [Crejocj, 


p ,  Unni.ir»p«r.  [W]L- 


IMlnd.  St(pheB.BcihI1l,  BuMi.  bobI-bkkIiuiI. 

Klu-URri,  Ctnnunnlfu.   T. 

nltb.     [Gnj,   US,  TyKB-piB«rKtD8il*ad. 


TD.r.    [T»r1or,*, 

ilp.owD»r.    [Fm, 


HI).  B. 

nmiiiu- 

>a,C.ui „-- -       . 

niiSSSnfh.  cSUt^e,  ullor.    [Cuac,  Mil. 

rS^>^J.Sl^[*"K"- "^i. ... 


iltf.    tOrtel, 
VBnM.K.E.> 

VHlblll,    1^ 

■  MwuiBii'-bwaE 


WPUimi, 


iMliiii.FrCr  Uu,  Itt- 

io'rtel,  n«h-lBiir,  CirBhlh.    T, 

i.K.  E.  ud  MbiUb  Biookn  Brtdit-rwd, 

'   ""      "„„;„„    If™*-  ^''"'^^''■"•'- 

jiateol^nll,'  UicrMnblo-kMper. 

ulBl^DR-OckU.    t. 

■  "■  -"-fft-  New  Kenl-rpad, 

CtuuDtwni  Tbud- 


FOt,  Ju.  DUUWBIh,  l>CTD1 

ABjUn.friif*.     C. 
L»wtt,J.  ABnl-non.  ThroeiDorton-tirwl,  hill. 

broker.    [WilkFr,  Old.lrury.    T. 
Bf luoi,  Bdw.  BlrnlDfhBi.i.  ■  hip- mike r.     [Jcd. 

Sbwt^T.'  K»i^f,  cb't^bt.'    IVeoBg,  Si.  Mll- 
dnd'i.cowt,  Psoltr;.    T. 

SCOTCH  SEQUESTRATIONS. 
OuKtU—Mas  19  to  JiMt  IS. 


I.  Spark ,  Niwcw 

HoDniuu,  T.  01 II I 


Birlh*—lUhfrUgt»—DiMt.  lU 


m.  At  ttmwwm  tmot*ti.  mi  uij  o>     «.  ,„  virJIrv,   M.tW.  thp  llev.  Jimt.  Cumcr 

.   ?fl?'!i' T!r;  ■  J    I e.  .h .         »rtat>l,MA.H«»ir.(Wlilli*ni.loHi.IBHiiH 

4.  M  larici-hill,  UJi  Lnei  Sterheuon.  ■         „  j}^,_  oBli  d«tlit«  of  Wm.  odt  W»il!i 


It.  l^tii-  of  BcJIunan.^MlTDnl.i 


It  dufhtrr  of  Wn.  iMt  W*tlii 
Cuuf-HrV,  Konbmiberiiad. 


-..-.-;r   P,-'^*'"'  £«>™*  ''"'  1»>1T«'J""«     »,  J.mnHforiU-AreTHomiii.BM.OfAMbwili. 
Eldllllt  Kuuincl,  Eta.  ■>  duuliUr.  '  bill    in   thp  V<mar<i  c!  Vork    Hi  Mia  HHAd 

""  -—■■■—   ''-nhur.   ,    ^,.,___  _,      -   I  ..  .v..f™b«k  -iid  of 


be  ladlofJllllDPoIIldtr.  Ewg.  aHD.  .,     AI  hl.il..-  nn.m  T'..il      h'jimniul    Jiihn    Rlprh 

Fn4«ir'l-tell,  liUffordthln,  la  Marr, 
viHghiaatJa^MH  Srndi,  Eu|.  ofiho 

ln.*C»kaTrtd(i>  1^ 


f   (COTLIMS. 


lit,  ofSofonh,  ■»D.  _  AlDorVlni,  JlUDO.IU^a^ll.  E^q.of  Lrnwlnt 

A.B.Ilrbrlck.11,  ™iiily«fUort,lll.l.dro/M..  „"' ^^'HJ^"^;- 'T\-^,..  „..t,^^,    ■„ 

Al  Klllu-niiy,  tbtlidj  orUMiM:ol.Wilc.IMi  %  "'  ," ,       , ,   "^       "1.    ,      V  \i   ..  iv 

B*j«l  HlgUnodm,  ■  Km.  cnini'i'rki      '  i  "Jj 


Th'lBfcntiDoiionriirluliii,  CooHil  oThliRoiml  k"  AriKB«r.|ioMf  bT  bti  rr»ct  Iht  Archblrto* 
l'hll''of  tU''Kio»  of's'iK"i;^Kib™'''JliSS  •'  *«■"■  '^'"1"  '^'■^""-  •**)■  "' """"  "•It 
li^n.  *         '^  ■      ™"""'  ™°'*         Lfimrmhln,  u  I-Jt  Gwrflno.   Bliubiis, 

■  HHiii.  AHirthilufhttriifllMeulorLiKU. 

la.  Al  Gruurkh,  W.  Hvkhow,  Em),  of  Owl 
pluc  lo  FnicM.  wMoir  gf  tfao  lUc  Otorge 
Morrhrlt,  Eiq.  BfBlukbuah. 

u»w   lira    !.__>.  .hn—h   h.  ih.  >...  R..         ChtflolK.    ElilMt  duabut  of  Heberl  Art** 

"K.'U'.^S",;;  h:K.vs,;  si.„,,  £.,..f»..«s,,..*.. 

Mu^uMAnii.alilntduKtiitrtifAki.Tiilloch,  IH  JKELAWt). 

o..  .,....—. >-.    I . g  ,^,  llttnce.  u   OloMtr.  In  Ihe  Klin 

Kant.,  ih-  uu  of  John  LliiT^,  G«|.   Heur 
Hovd,  Tsod^al  dinftiter 


IfOfllKl* 


Kill,  Eh.  to  MIh  L 

of  Job  B  iMyfi.  Ev|. 

AKlloainiR,  BfU<'«k, 


Ic.'dHgkterorilieHo.Di.  Mcb«liil,of        dmWlM  bTl'iBKy,  IhlrJ  SngWoT 


IU«litHai.LonlKliwl(. 


SS^ 


X.  At  Miry-lc-bMa  cbmh.  Cipi.  GFone 
Ham.  of  Dir  HMb  rtp.  or  Kla<^  l.lfht  (hAi 
In  Aon.  Ihconltilutfhlitof  Julm  Pcoir 
Eoq.  orstoffonJ-mrrrl. 

—  Al  St.  (ieorgn,  HMHm-iqiuirF.  TIuiiiu  ,  .  .._, .. . 

dock,  Eu.  to  I  hulMtc.  yoiinnH  dunhlcr  of  Mosdv.  Bu.  t>  Auu.  eldrN  dHirliur  of  WtL. 

HwlUiLlnlCiil.HiMi.  oflht^ilMarinei.  ni  ^ranKll,  Eu.  of  WoodfinT-luw,  OitwZ- 

39.  AtSt.GionreX  Hiiiave»iiuur.  In  Ike  Lord  ibtri. 

])bboaofL4iidiKJohiiTrllton.R»<|,  eldnlHMi  Al  Voik,  Upvrr  ruuda.  bi  eprritl  IleeBOt  b* 

of  JoCn  Henlon  TrittDB,  Eu.  »r  IMInnoB.  W  the  Re..  yTd  Hn.i.  I)r.  filncTiu,   Opl,  Wm. 

Eltubttb  Miry,  oniT  duihin  of  the  lite  Ed-  Ikiiulitir.  HN.  to  EBinii.  McoaJ  duBiktar  <■/ 

nnod  HuiDWBd  Ubne,  Eiq.  i>f  LympiaaU,  Jobn  MIlliJukoHi.Eaa.of  Itawlon,  Allu. 

Surnj.  AltbtCbBHl  oftiieBrilUh  Rmbuiy.  ■!  PbiIi, 

—  Al  rsmBtoB  Blihop,  Chirlti  Sinllh.  lonDieit  Simuel  Fioul  Fuie,  Eiu.  of  Henrlutii-iilRaL 
ten  of  Hesry  Coiwefi,  Eiq.  of  MLIIGefil-liaiur.  BruDtwIck.tqiiue.  to  Angiiita,  •ouoiinl  duifb- 
ll>ldl(«i,toFnncaEIiubetb,tldMtdui«hur  lerofiliE  lute  Al».  Shaw.  Ei<).fonBerly  Llnt.- 
of  Ihc  lui  Jobs  PoiK.Eu|.  Gonrooiofibe  lileofMu. 

bj,  LinfolnihlfT    Is  Anne,  ooly  dwfhiM  of  DEATHS. 

John  AlkUugo,  Eta.  >[  AnUhorpe-ball,  Vork- 

tUire.  ^^S.^-  AtWlniler,  Sit.  ttm.  Coddle,  Sartnt. 

lol'.CIitplilDDr'tliF  Forco.  tDLouinr.eoiTliia,  iloned  by  ■  voond  rtcelvoil  Ihe  precedlnidBy 

e  dm  dnuchIK  of  Majoc  Veorral  M  Idrininoii-  In  i  duel,  which,  <1  (pHnn,  be  vu  ioitiieed 

—  AH-Bddinpon  Church,  by  Ibe  lllHiop -'■  —  - -— --^  "-  <"  ■fJ...-i— ..    -.  .l 

inn,  Ihe  K^.  I>r.  (iooitcaoiij^.  Head-iii 


I.nrd  BitW  of  Cnrtlilf,  to  fnucei,  yoong«l 
dBBihltr  o/Samael  Pepyt  Cockrirll.  E«|.  of 

Dart.  ofUndetbon,  Hent.  lo  P'lhn.  duf h- 
trrof  the  late  Mr.  J^ibn  Slow,  oTTcntmealivf 

Jaat'l.  Ill  Ihe  Eari  of  CnetitryV.  In  Piuadillr. 

three  of  whom  are  bow  coullBed  In  lirrbr  gMl  t 
hot   Mr.  BdUlebuk,  tb<   prioclpal.   bLTib: 

X^Afedz'l.  the  lady  of  Capt  Deaoli  Duller,  of 

'bS«"r.r-'i'""~-:'7-"' 

raw- 

lis                                             ntalii.  CJuIy, 

KTVItcT.JMhmiBUaek,  MA.  VtouofHIu  >.  liONEIiMI,  Doihu.italU  AeRlrtiKcr. 

cbli,  ud  laa  FcUew  oiTlbllir  CoUagB,  Cub.  W.  GUmw,1)IX    Hobu  Cubollc  Ulkbop  of 

brkti^  Acutbot,  ud  Vlar  ApatMlk  (k  Ok  Nsilhcni 

».  Al  ^raoHwUi,  Lam  Fnucli  TliyniiF,  }Ut  Dlitritt  gf Bwluil. 

BkUhlKDU  ar  hli  MiOatT-i  iblp  RochFlon,  —  Cipt,  Wm.HwUoq,  ofihe  ftk,  or  Iiniikllirii, 

M.lli.SI«bu4,i«orT.B»Mliuil,EKl.  BA.anl  GcHralHajan,  ofltie  Ronl  ARUInr. 

Jndw  or  llr.  U.  SMIbtfd.  TOIi  Miilidnna,  —  At  ManMcr-bowc.  FHhu,  Supktn  SDlinn, 

irdrkDWriiHMUtlMof  eonUuiOilt  taltni.  Bu.  iibUndiytar. 

wit  Ullsil  to  &  Ul  tram  iIkIiIk,  hdoo  vblcb  —  AiCURsil.  Plulopt.r 

li*  *■■  NualB(  wUlc  mnlDg  nwlDdam  Id  ihc  Bihnrri  Snltb,  ud  dt 

okuck  of  BMfciTli,  In  DcTW  i  ilihaiuh  aot  Bowru,  But.  or  Da 

BBca  Ihu  ten  (iM  nvm  Ihc  mvood,  yci  tieliiir  1^  At  HoDun,  or  u  i 

■ndpbtad  M  hkbnd,  be  ftictiind  hii  tcnll        (llcr  Aor  dm  llloa- , ..  ,„.,. 

_«.isrj5Sas.>»...i«i*...  s?iS?,ffi."ss.SiS?"- ""'"•' 

lMd,llUl37lbT«r-  —At  SovUgUO,  HUdlon,   In  hh  40Ui  nu, 

K  AIM  kawh  P«t1and4lie&  In  bit  Sm  jnt,  Cbiria*  PMlcy,  Eh.  lite  H*lar  En  th«  Hob. 

*(  Bul^SlHAdd.    kit l«dtU»  «u  lb*  BMlodbCampan^KTrlcclndCbund'Ar- 

«eidorfilUoa,uda*BdllBrortab  MlKiU  MntUUuCoiKterPtnli. 

iMWi  Waiki,  tudwu  ibe  aUlur  oT  dm;  —  Is  Baker-anM,  Mra.  B«i>n«gb,  nlM  ofihs 

— '-iblo  paMlcmliMii  oa  eamiatrce,  igikBltBRt  iMt  Ald^npu  Btngoofb,  orBiblol,  la  berlOd 


foid,  VlttMitl'ettiioii,  uenedi  la  hit  il>Jei  ll  AiDsnf,  Jobn  UloM  nctor,  Bu.  uid  (7. 

(DdnUM.  LUcli,  »Miiw>t-rov,Luibcili,H».  Aiht.rFllct 

■I.  U()i«tthlhMl.alKct,  Bulb.  IbiHiiihl  Hod.         orAclUE  Rct.SuiiikI  Ashe,  nctor  or  Uugln 
Jobs  Cunpbcll,  Loid  Coinlor,  Buoe  CiiRlar,        BuicU,  Wllti.  ^^ 

Itf  CMloBUIln,  Pembnikeibln.  Hltloidihip  14.  Al  lib  huiiH.  la  SamrncUi licet,  Panmui- 
liiDecHdtdliibitlltlvuidciutnliftbeHon.         uusn.  ilie  ladva(\Fi-llF  Kcld,  E>g. 

Pndukk  CuiriKll,  HP.  for  Cunnutbti,  *bo  —  >i  TlEhborne^oiue,  Hun,  [a  bli  eub  i«r, 
BUiHrd  thccidoldiiighuroriheUlaMirqDJi        Sir  Hinn  HcbboTDC,  But. 

BfBilb.  ]t.  In UmHlTHt.  ^f■nhJ^  Die  Hlh  of  Jocobi 

—  Al  bli  taooK,  in  Spriag-^rdFDt.  Ihe  Ewl  at        Hui  Bwk,  Eui.  ori'sDibanit-park,  Hrrli. 

Sink.     Hli  LdrdkliLp  wm  Ihe  ilitb  Eu-l,  ud  :|(i.  At  ths  Pmonigc,  Linidoa-hill^  Ban,  in 


ncplifw,  Ju]i"  W.  H.  lialijiTipld,  now  Kail  oT  17,  At hcrnaidum, laUpIwr Hutn-RrHt. N 

"-'-  "lof,  of  i[(lirr.pu-k,  BKkcDbun,  Kelt,  re.ici 

....                               .       .  .HiclattRiXrarclKlnii,  Eu.  FMS.  noitPAS. 

afl,ijlautaii(chip(l,Euu.  uid  lite  11:1.  Al  <!<iipgR  Mgjur  Ufiinet,  si  tbr  RaynlEn. 

"  Bbk  Indln  C«Dpuy^  UhnplftLu  it  f^moi. 


..».  ..»«..»  -»^ ..,  .«  -.  ...A  ntwre  Puiili,  Apd  ofSt.  Micfakci  ■»»* 

ViKODDlDiarTiDple,  BuonofNiwIlilon,  Qlrn-  ililiBir,  Undgn.  ok  Uu  prion  of  bli  WiJwl,-i 

km  ud  StnnnernkdibuvottiiUSntob  Cbuet  H«yiil,  St.  Jua«x  andfoiMnuiMi- 

UUa.   iMrioK  no  [mk.  bt  ii  HicKedod  bi  lili  nsrTuon  of  St.  Pull  Cubednl. 

ncplifW,  Juli"  IV.  H.llalijiTipl'    - ■■'-■'  -•      '-    -■■ "— -  ■-" ..--.-—.-  .... 

I«My,'u  Bslli,  Ibc  Rcr.  C.  tl. 

Sa  Pnridanoti^i-. 
—  tl  Ui  <Slb  Ten,  Ibe  Her.  Sir  Henry  Psole,  But. 

•tlht  Roake,  ntv  Lewn. 
JbmI.  KKT.d.nrhlcTDftlieUIP Mlllt.EM, 

at  Hiplev,    t"r,.i,,r  ,  ■,:!..  ,  .     M:!"  ur  Mr  J.  At  IngltMnldit,  KInilrdlMibIre,  Ibi 

Mousi-ni.iii  ■    '■■--       ■             ■  .Imt,.  i„,r.  wiSr  Kelih.  in  bli  ta  JOT. 

rirtilic|-                                                 I  !'[■  At  Dii«ifermliBO,Dr.S<™bome,ofCMMbT-p«rk. 

"["V  I'l  -                                      -■-.  i,r  irirh  ^  Mwlnipoii,  Idinbuib,  the  lidj  oT  iht  Hct. 

BHd*  (Dd  Bridegrodoi  irt  ofl  («ltb  i  pihy  of 

ftindi  to  Vork.    Cn  ifaeir  uHnI  Iba  onfor-  ,u  nvi  i«n 

tnatit  lidi  wu  Ht«ckBi  IH  ipopleij,  wblcb  .   „    ^    .          '"  i"i.i."i". 

(aninMnliiiTUrcM  BonUtanrardt.  At  CueKUekiD.  In  tba  cnulj of  Hay*.  In  hla 

>.  Ai  Uheuar,  Hcdd^  Wm.  Culir,  Ewi.  raiiiT  7«b  ynr,  IhaKlgbt  Hod.  Jantt  Lord  Baron 

fcui  a  CapcdB  In  dir  Ronl  Cbahtra  int.  and  l^oll. 

htaoflbtSdrnt.orfool  At  Nwr^k,  lo  Uil  amnry  of  Miro,  agtd  M, 


d.:.iii_.._ 

,  sirCeo.^rjioiIai,  Bart.  ofSpriog- 

^         eTtV 


I,   twiDurihihlrF.  which  cooiitr  £a         riilp^  ald«l  •do,  tfai 


Hi  daughter  o 

_  jt^         da^™Bf  l!tt  late  Wi 

belnsdelkerei  ofaalll-        ^^°^^a^*^'J^ 

"  "*°"    K».JalinFaui 


Owgc  Haokinj,  EMq. 


maoribtSdregt.orfooi.  At  Newbniok,  in  Uii  a 

4  Af(araft<>diTi1!lDeu.iaEdirBnt.>tree<,Port-  dia  HIght  Hon.  Ind 

"'  Ceo,  Doojlai,  Bart.  ■  "■    '  — <-— . — ._..,_  — 

onie,  OifonlililiT,  h 
obh,  Eiq.    DepnlT.Ll 
eroribeVeace.ftiTtbi 
0,  InBpiton-timBra.aflrf  ^ 
honi  child,  Ibe  wth  ol 

—  At'  Bererlei-lodrr,  near  Colchefler,  Laehlu  of  Ibe  itnion  of  Carlow  and  Kl'll'prtilB  opirarde 
HoM.  Macklnloab,  Eh.  of  DaliDuniie,  Pertb-  of  40  yean,  and  Ch■^'taIn  to  hli  Unca  ibe  lala 
•bin.  In  bii  SMb  laar.  ^J*"*'  •*  Irflnsier. 

—  At  bii  reridanca,  al  PottarH  Bar.  In  hit  7?d  Ilia  Ka>.  W.  Alain,  Kcctor  er  Kllddlen,  In  Uie 
nr,  Uaalel  I'upantcr.  Eiq.  ana  of  hli  Ma-  aHu^nfCana. 

mtft  JuUcta  of  the  I>eaca.  and  l>apnn-Uan- 

huii  oftha  conntlei  arMUdleta)  and  Arm.  ..■».» 

•.ThtHn.K.D.SqDlRr.onForthaPnbendarlr*  ABlOiD. 

•r  Hrn<<>rd  Cubadnl.  and  manj  yian  Head-  AtLuMuina.  Jane  Allott,  jonngat  danniiur  or 

mmta  oribe  Colliica  Scbml.  ttaa  Dean  of  Kaphoa. 

Ulalj.  hi  SI.  MlabHlH-Blue,  Bromplon,  Mn.  On  board  the  Uuka  ofKcnl  F«ekat,on  Uli  pii-ai^r 

Stonce,  miar lotba  lit^Ur.  John  l^utlat.atid  fmm  Lisbon  to  Falmonth,  tba  Blglit  Hon.  I«nl 

BMbaroribalittSlepbcnStDTace.  well  known  Clifford. 

h*  hb  mutcai  taleoti,  alio  of  the  celcbratal  At  CoHcrnni,   in   Ibe  Pratldaney  of  lionbay, 

flbwmStonM.  Anna,  tU«l  danzbiar  of  tha  lata  \V.  Hodues, 

T.iOthamidanceoftheEarlafMelbDmagli,  In  EH|.llA. 

noCHHIIi.  aDrr  a  (c*  honri  lUneu,  Ibe  Uoon-  At  Cnnpora,  Cant.  Jolin  Craikihanli.  2Jlh  regl. 

lataorMribonnuib.  N.I.  by  tha  aetWfutal  dlwhnrieorj  pi-inl. 

—  rrancli  MarkrU,  Exi.  of  McdiiIiuu  Coart-  At  Parii,  aflar  an  itlnruof  two  years,  IbaliJyuf 
taii««,  lBllK»uuI)orKcnl.  Ucut.- General  HnlK-on. 


1831-3         Mtttorohgieal  Table—Conrtii  t^  Fortigit  Ba^mtge. 

UET£OaOLOaiCAL  TABLE  AND  OBSERVATIONS, 


^\ 


ML4S  »K 


NE     Clntf 


Cloudy 


HjJ. 

WInJ. 

Lm 

ffi 

Vv. 

71 

NW 

81 

NW 

«7 

NE 

- 

NE 

- 

SB 

- 

NB 

- 

N 

- 

SW 

- 

NW 

~ 

NW 

ClDoly 
ihowny 


COURSES  OF  FORBION  EXCHANGE  AT 


o« 

». 

IKST- 

»JllK     lUuH 

GtngL 

BecUn. 

N.fl... 

Y?^. 

•RZ 

Lend™ 

2a -TO 

2S1 

480 

575 
666 
16-88 
443'- 

less 

1G'17 
656 

37-6 
20* 

107 
146^ 

147 
146 
81 

i* 

931 

42-1 

Si 

361 
91* 

103 
100 
41J 

10-8 
U8t 
1434 
1454 

i* 

Mi 

H 

7-3 
88 
151 
141 
104 
lOSi 
lOSi 

104 

~ 

610 

is' 

I»7 

lOOJ 

SSI 

i 

lis 
lis 

Vieuia 

rnncklbM. 

C«da 

K:::::: 

H-diU 

Op™ 

covuBi  or  rOKiiov  excbavob  at 

OH 

'W.'? 

Nar»mt«r([lchrita»n». 

PtttnterK-   ^HijL 

S; 

MadrM. 

i'5j- 

London 

P»rU 

Hunburg.... 

OcDM 

140 
1371 

fl.1012  7sp.4a 

ft.  119             84) 
144i          163 
137            ISOi 

11-44 

lia 
ii« 

374 
16-3 

51 

M8 

1 

COURSE  OF  BXCBAITOE. 

From  JViy  25  to  June  33. 

AilutcT(Uin,C.  F )3.14..13>la 

BittDitdriit 12-11..12^1S 

ItMttidtai,  SU la.I&.. 12-19 

ADtKip 12-10.. 12-12 

Hunb(uri^  24  U 3S-7..38-» 

Alton*,  24  U 38.S.  .38.11 

Puu,  3  dajn'  lij^l 96.«0. .  ib-S5 

IKlta..8U   aO-IS.. 26-20 

Bouidnux    ae-la.. 26-20 

FnckfonontheMun )  ,,_,     ... 

Ex.M /    ....iftJt..lW 

Petcnbu^,  rble,  3  U 9 

Vientu^ef.    flo.  2  M ta.S0..1D-2B 

Tiunc  ditta 10-90.  .10-98 

Madrid,  cfikclira M 

Cidiz,  effecdic SM 

Klbm 36) 

Seville  . . . .'.',",'.'.'.' ,7.7. .". .  .364 

Oibnltn 304 

L«B»««n *H-*1 

OcDOk 43J..44 

Venice,  ltd.  liT. 97-60 

Hklla 46 

Nulea aOi..40 

FiSamo,  ptrot.    116 

Lubon 494 

OjMNo 494-ae 

Bio  JanoM 484.-49 

Bdiia 68.69 

Dublin 9-94 

Carii  84^ 

PRICES  OF  BULLION. 
At  ptr  Ounce. 

£.  I.    d.     £.   I.  d. 

Partag»I gold,meaiiiO    0    0  ..0    0  0 

rDnigiigald,iabHi3  17  M)4..0    0  0 

Nradi>uUoaai....3  16    0  ..3  14  0 

KeadcUui 0    4I0..O    4  9 

aaTn,inbuB,>luid-0     4  10  ..0     4  10 

The  above  Tables 
■id  the  iDweM  plica. 


a  the  highea 


H^htit  ptice  of  iIk  beat  wbeuen  bmd 
iM  LnidoD  tfjd.  tbe  quartern  loaf. 


PBiatoti  per  Cwt.  in  SpUti 
Wm  £0    8    0  to  0 

Middlinga        0    4    0  to  0 
Cbata  0     h    8  10  0 

Commoii  Red  0    0    0  to  0 


AVERAGE  FniCE  OF  CORN 


Bt  the  Quaitei  of  8  Windieala  Biubela, 
Rom  the  Bttunii  in  the  Wnki  eodii^t 

I  Mb7  I  May  I  June 

I  1»  28  I  S 
Wheatftl  G[S1  i>  62  7 
Rye-  31  2,32  0  32  3 
Bailer'SS  6  23  3  23  9 
Data  17  i  17  3  17  e 
Beans  29  7  29  &  28  0 
Feu    l30  10.30    4.31  I1I30    J 


■Wbest 
Barley 
OaU 


JVifc  of  Hopi  per  ewL  is  the 
Kent,  New  b^  . .  .40>.  I 

Souei,  ditto 40i.  I 

fetKi,  ditto OOi.  1 

Yeailini;  Bagi OOi.  1 

Kent,  New  Pocketi   40i.  1 
BuHei,  ditto 40i.  t 


..361.  U 


ATenge  Price  per  Load  of 
Hay.  dm-er.  Straw. 

£.    I.     £.  I.    £.  I.   £.    I.    £.  I.    £. 
SmH/iJicld. 

a     0to4     4. .4     OtoS     0..1     Btal 

3  10to4     4.. 3  10to5     0..I     4  to  I 


3  10  to  4   12..: 


St.  Jan 

1     OtoS     0..I     6tol   14 


Mutto 


.2..     ad.  t 


■it.   ad. 


Veal....3i. 
Pork.... 3.. 

Lainb...3j.  4J. 

LtndnAaiL-Boel 3t.  Od.  to  4(.     Od. 

Mutton. .2(.  Sif.  10  St.     Zd. 

Veal . . .  .4j.  Od.  to  &t. 

pDrk....3i.  Bd.  to  61. 


Cattle  Kid  of  StnithJrU  from  Jtfay  -M, 

to  Jane  22,  Mb  laelvrive. 
BewMa.         Calves         Sheep.  Pigs. 

12,031         2,638        146,203       1,490 
HIGHEST  AND  LOWEST  PRICES  OF  COAI^  (IN  THE  POOL), 
In  each  Week,  from  May  28  to  June  18. 
May  28.  June  4.  June  II.  June  1& 


.31  3  10 


a  42  G  I  32  0 


I  32  0  to  4: 
I  34  3lo  4 


By  Metirt.  WOLFE  and  EDMONDS,  No.  9,  'Ouuge-AtUy,  Cor^iO. 
(JuncSlBt,  1891.) 


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18l80     60I  1590  - 

'             ' 

AMERICAN  FUNDS. 

IsUy  June 

Apr.  Sl»jr 

30       1         5       8        12     16     19       23 

28      9        19 

BuikSb-rM 

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By  J.  M.  liktiariisvji.  Sloct-broier,  23,  Vvr.nhiU. 

i 


THE 


LONDON   MAGAZINE. 


No.  XX.  AUGUST,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


CONTSNT& 

V^  l4on'm  beaiU  119    Tabls  Talk,  No.  XL  On  »  Lud- 

•apeofNieahsPdiiaiii !}■ 

"•^  On  Sadoled'i  Pidogut  on  Kdttcitrion^ 

Coi.TnrirATioKOFlhuJoRir.0,'.  An^t^SHf'u?  S^         '^ 

Somet,  To  a  Twim  Sister,  mho  died  g^p,^  ^  jj„^  j^j^  XVIII.  Mo. 

inli^fimcjf,    ByJotmCkate 188    ^Cmo  CatalS^ 

CmS^  ^^1»       "lligmce 906 

Epittle  toEUm  ..,, \ 197  .. 

Sketdiei  on  tlio  Bood,  No.  III.    De- 

M^a^  i-go  Maggion,  Como,  ^^  flBoiit^  Bq;ijiter. 

The  LawytTya Pktmre^intmo Cmtot  148  Abitiiet of Fofdgnand  Domeitic Oc- 

Jewi,  Qaakon,  Soocduncn,  and  odMr  cuzmcei 909 

ImMvfectSjmpoAiflt.    BrElia...  159     Agricultural  Report . ; 919 

Travdsof  CoaaDoin,OnmdDiikoof  Commerdal  Report 917 

Tuscany,  tlizon^  England 156  Works     preparing    for    PuUicttdon 

TheBoocanear,  o  Tale •  161  and  lateljjpuUi^ed,  rrefeimonia, 

Songfo  TmWgkt 167  Bankroptaca,   Btrtla,   Mairiagea, 

To  the  Stm.    By  Birmrd  Bttiom . .  168  Dea^    Meteorological   Rigistar, 

The  Tyrol  Waatar  179  Makksts,  Stocks,  ftc..  ••  .919— 999 

With  an  Etching,  by  Mr.  Gaoige  Cook,  ftom  Mr.  Hilton's  Picton  of 

XATUBX  BLOWIVO  BVBBLES  FOK  BXK  CHZLOBXIT. 


LONDON : 
PRINTED  FOR  TAYLOR  AND  HESSBr. 


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^  ^  THS  UOM*S  HBAD. 


I 
1 


Wi  are  enabled  to  fulfil  our  promif e  (a  great  grace  in  a  periodical  editor)j 
by  giving  in  our  present  Number  a  very  spirited  Etching  from  Mr.  Hfltob'i 
picture  of  Nature  Blowing  Bubbles  for  her  Children.  This  Sketch  wUl  con- 
vey to  the  reader  a  tolerably  good  idea  of  the  free  outline,  the  rich  groiq;Ki 
ing,  the  laughing  spirit  of  the  picture  itself;  but  the  bright  and  wann 
colouring,  which  to  us  seems  the  great  charm  of  the  original^  csmiot  bt 
conveyed.  We  had  intended  to  have  written  a  description  of  this  aUago- 
rical  work  of  art,  but  the  essence  pf  what  we  coidd  say  would  be  fimnd  in 
the  old  line—''  Men  are  but  children  of  a  larger  growth;"  and  we^  thei«- 
fore,  leave  this  line  to  teU  the  tale.  Nothing  can  be  worse  than  BIr.  HmoBTi 
choice  of  a  motto  from  Crabbe's  works.  Crabbe's  poetry  and  HBton's 
pauiting  are  certainly  not  sister  muses.  We  have  been  favoured  whh  tone 
verses  on  the  subject,  from  one  of  our  contributors,  which  strike  vm  as 
being  very  apposite,  but  we  must  abstain  from  giving  more  than  the  firti 
stanzas  :— 

L 

*'  BcMitjT  is  Troth,  Troth  Bc«ity,*'-HUid  the  blend 
Of  both  comes  on  us  like  a  prophet's  dieam,<*— 
"When  mighty  troths,  embodied,  oondescend 
To  visit  man,  and  whisper  to  his  eyes.— 
There's  not  a  page  of  landscape  but  doth  soem 
A  painted  lesson,  fuD  of  troths  sublime:-* 
And  moral  rules  and  precepts  of  the  wise 
Spake  in  the  n^ythic  Gods  of  olden  time. 

II. 

ik>  eyes  are  chaimM,  and  hearts  are  gently  schoord, 
Reading  the  busy  talc  in  this  bright  page— 
And  men  who  Lnigh  at  little  ones  befool*d 
By  empty  gaudiness,  and  frequent  foil, 
May  blush  iot  fbilies  of  a  riper  age, 
Discero  the  brittleness  of  worldly  joys,-* 
And  shun  the  misery  of  fruitless  toil. 
By  leaving  bubbles  to  the  lesser  boys. 


The  space  which  the  account  of  the  Coronation  occupies  in  this  Numbei 
obliges  us  to  postpone  the  insertion  of  several  papers.  At  the  same  time  W( 
must  announce,  Uiat  some  former  contributions  are  deferred  sine  die. 


Napoleon  Buonaparte's  death  wiU  surely  be  the  cause  of  ours.    Wil 
the  reader  believe  that  we  arc  up  to  our  middles  in  mourning  verses  i 


190  The  Lion's  Mead. 

What  can  be  said  to  an  ode  beginning,  **  High  General,  Mightj  Emperor, 
Eagle  vast !  "—Or  to  lines  containing  the  following : 

^  France's  thunder  now  is  dim  !  '* 
We  have  elegies  enough  t5  paper  all  the  tenements  in  S^t  Helena,  and 
.  should  be  very  glad  to  contract  for  furnishing  linings  to  any  respectable 
builder  of  bonnet  bozea. 

The  lines  by  ''  A  Student  of  the  Inner  Temple"  are  received  :>— Curta  ad* 
visare  vult. 


We  are  pleased  with  R.  W.'s  translation  from  Ronsard,  and  request  hira 
to  give  us  a  selection  from  that  delightful  poet. 

A.  A*'8  f*  Walk  from  Higfagate/'  may  ''  go  to  the  place  from  whence 
it  came." 


A  note  has  been  sent  to  £.  at  the  post  oflSce  as  requested.  She  shall  hear 
from  us  respecting  the  sulject  mentioned  in  her  postscript  in  the  course  of 
a  week. 


T.  T.  (ngiT.  T.  T.  but  a  more  unlettered  personage)  will  never  aiUt  us. 
His  poetical  portrait  of  Mr.  Kean  is  the  veriest  daitb  we  ever  looked  upon. 
We  were  ntting  at  one  of  his  own  initials  when  his  packet  arrived,  and  it 
totally  mined  our  Boheo. 


Our  (Correspondent  from  Doughty-street  will  find  an  answer  at  our  pub« 
lisher*s— addressed  to  him  by  the  initials  subscribed  to  his  letter. 


Arthur's  paper  is  pleasant,  and,  if  he  will  allow  us  to  prune,  we  will  cer« 
tainly  print. 


D.  not  in  our  next 


S.  is  angry  at  our  rejecting  his  ''  Character  of  the  People,  after  the  Man- 
ner of  Swift"  He  asks  us  if  we  have  ever  read  Gulliver. — Has  he  ?  We 
recommend  him  to  have  his  paper  printed  at  the  Lilliput  press,  which  would 
be  more  suitable  to  the  magnitude  of  his  thoughts. 


ServanOs.'— B.  Y.— Percival.— A.— Henry,  and  Truth,  must  bear  a  refusal. 


Lion's  Head  feels  its  temples  throb  at  having  to  reject  the  offering  of  such 
kind  Correspondents;  but  die  public  is  remorseless,  and  is  more  dainty  than 
even  Lion's  Head  at  feeding-time. 


THE 


Sonbmt  0ULS^}im. 


N**  XX.  AUGUST,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 

CONTINUATION  OF  DR.  JOHNSON'S 

WdOt^  of  t^  IMijBl. 

[[We  hare  the  pleasure  to  introduce^  to  the  readers  of  the  Lonpox 
Magazine,  the  first  of  a  series  of  valuable  papers  in  continuation  of  Dr. 
Johnson's  Lives  of  the  English  Poets.  It  is  now  exactly  a  century  since 
the  hirth  of  Akeiiside,  the  latest  of  those  who  hare  a  place  in  that  col- 
lection, and  the  space  which  the  whole  occupies  is  not  much  more  than  a 
century :  an  attempt,  therefore,  to  continue  the  work  to  our  own  times,  is 
not  only  a  desirable  undertaking,  but  almost  a  necessary  duty  of  the  age 
in  which  we  live.  That  the  intervening  period  abounds  with  most  inte- 
resting materials  for  biography  and  criticism,  is  evident  from  the  names  of 
(voldsmith,  Johnson,  Churchill,  Chatterton,  Thomas  and  Joseph  Warton, 
Mason,  Falconer,  Glover,  Mickle,  Hammond,  Langhome,  Sir  William  Jones, 
Hurdis,  Beattie,  Burns,  ('owper,  and  many  of  later  date,  not  inferior  to 
these  in  excellence.  We  must  premise,  that  it  is  not  intended  to  limit  the 
insertion  of  the  Lives  strictly  to  the  order  of  succession,  as  circumstances 
will  probably  occur  to  render  a  deviation  from  that  rule  more  convenient 
to  the  writer .3 

No.L 

THOMAS  WARTON. 

The  life  of  Thomas  Warton,  by  was  also  a  clergyman,  gave  birth  to 
Dr.  Mant,  now  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  three  children :  — Joseph,  of  whom 
prefixed  to  the  edition  of  his  poems  some  account  will  hereafter  be  given, 
published  at  Oxford,  is  drawn  from  Thomas,  and  Jane.  Thomas  was 
sources  so  authentic,  and  detailed  bom  at  Basingstoke,  in  1 7S8 ;  and 
with  so  much  exactness,  that  little  very  early  in  lite  afforded  promise  of 
remains  to  be  added  to  the  circum-  his  future  excellence.  A  letter,  ad- 
stances  which  it  relates.  dressed  to  his  sister  from  school  when 

Thomas  Warton  was  descended  he  was  about  nine  years  of  age,  con- 

from   a  very  respectable  family    in  taining  an  epigram  on  Leander,  was 

Yorkshire.      His    grandfather.    An-  preserved  with  affectionate  regard  by 

thoriy  Warton,  was  rector  of  a  vil-  their  brother.   Dr.  Warton.      What 

lage  in  Hampshire;   and  his  father  school  it  was,  that  may  claim  the 

was  a  fellow  of  Magdalen  College,  honour  of   contributing  to   the    in- 

and  PoetiT  Professor    in    the    Uni-  struction  of  one  who  was  afterwards 

versity    of    Oxford.       His    mother,  so  distinguished  as   a  scholar,   has 

daughter  of  Joseph  Richardson,  who  not  been  recorded. 

V^)L.  IV.  L 


12!^                             Lives  of  the  Poeis-^Thomas  Warton,  C!<^ug. 

On  the  46th  of  March,  1745^  he  He  now  became  a  contributor  to  a 

was  admitted  a  commoner  of  Trinity  monthly  miscellany  called  The  Stu- 

College^    Oxford  ;    and    about    two  dent ;  m  which,  besides  his  Progress 

years  after  lost  his  father, — a  volume  of  Discontent,  were  inserted  A  rane- 

of  whose  poems  was,  soon  after  his  gyric  on  Oxford  Ale,  a  professed  imi- 

death,   printed  by  subscription,    by  tation  of  the  Splendid  shilling ;   The 

his  eldest  son  Joseph,  with  two  cle*  Author  confined  to  College ;    and  A 

giac  poems  to  his  tnemdry,  one  by  Version  of  the  tWentj-ninth  Chapter 

the  editor,  the  othfer  by  his  daughteh  t)f  Job. 

above-mentioned.  The  latter  of  these  His  two  degrees  having  been  taken 

tributes  is  tenned  by  Mr.  Crowe,  in  a  at  about  the  usual  intervals,  in  1751 

note  to  one  of  his  eloquent  Crewian  he  succeeded  to  a  fellowship  of  his 

Orations, — "  Ode  tenera,  simplex,  ve-  college,  where  he  found  a  peaceful  ' 

nusta/'— -^'  tender,  simple,  and  beau-  and  unenvied  retreat  for  the  remain- 

tiful."  der  of  his  days,  without  betraying 

In  the  course  of  tliis  year  he  pub-  any    ambition  of  those  dignities, — 

lished,  without  his  name,  the  rlea-  which,  to  the  indignation  of  Bishop 

sures  of  Melancholy  ;  having,  per-  Warburton,  were  not  conferred  upon 

haps,  been  iniluenced  in  the  choice  him. 

of  a  subject  thus  sombre,  by  the  loss  At  this  time  appeared  his  New- 

of  his  parent    In  this  poem,  his  imi-  market,  a  Satire  ;    An  Ode  written 

tations  of  Milton  are  so  frequent  and  for  Music,  performed  in  the  Univer- 

palpable,    as  to  discover  tne  timid  sity   Theatre;    and    two    copies   of 

tlight  of  a  young  writer  not  daring  verses,  one  in  Latin,  the  otner    in 

to  quit  the  track  of  his  guide.    Yet  English,  on  the  Death  of  Frederic, 

by  some  (as  appears  from  the  letters  Prince  of  Wales. 
between  Mrs.  Carter  and  Miss  Tal-  ^      In  1753,  his  Ode  on  the  Approach 
bot)    it  was  ascribed  to  Akenside. '  of  Summer, — The  Pastoral,   m  the 

In  1746  was  produced  his  Progress  Maiuier  of  Snenser— (which  has  not 

of  Discontent, — a  paraphrase  on  one  much   resemblance  to  that  writer )j 

of  his  own  exercises,  made  at  the  and  Verses  inscribed  on  a  beautiful 

desire  of  Dr.  Huddesford,  the  head  Grotto, — were  printed  in  the  Union^ 

of  his  college.  a  poetical   miscellany,    selected  by 

His    next  effort  attracted  more  him,  and  edited  at  K^burgh. 

general  notice.      In  consequence  of  The  next  year  we  find  him  em* 

some    disgrace   which    the  Univer-  ployed  in  drawing  up  a  body  of  sta- 

sity  had  incurred  with  Government,  tutes  for  the  RadcUfie  Library,  by 

by  its  supposed  attachment  to  the  the  desire  of  Dr.  Huddesford,  then 

Stuart  family.  Mason  had  written  his  Vice-Chancellor ;  in  assisting  Colman 

Isis,  an  Elegy;  and  in  1749,  Warton  and  Thornton   in  the  Connoisseur; 

was  encouraged  by  Dr.  Huddesford  and  in  publishing  hb  Observations  on 

to  publish  an  answer  to  it,  with  the  the  Faerie  Queene  of  Spenser,  which 

titic  of  the  Triumph  of  Isis.  It  he  afterwards  enlarged  from  one  to 
may  naturally  be  supposed,  that  so  ytwo  volumes.  Johnson  complimented 
spirited  a  defence  of  Oxford  agains^him  "  for  having  shown  to  all,  who 

tne    aspersions    of    her    antagonist  should  hereafter  attempt  the  study  of 

would  be  welcomed  with    ai^our ;  our  ancient  authors,  the  way  to  suc- 

and  among  other  testimonies  of  ap-  cess,  by  directing  tiiem  to  the  perti- 

Srobation    which   it    received.     Dr.  tal  of  the  books  which  their  author 

^  ang,  whose  character  is  eidogized  had  read;"  a  method  of  illustration 

in  the  poem,  coming  into  the  book-  which  since,  certainly,  has  not  want- 

•eller  s  shop>  and  inquiring  whether  ed  imitators.  Much  of  his  time  must 
five  guineas  would  be  acceptable  to  -^ave  been  now  diverted  from  his  fa- 

the  author,  left  for  him  an  order  for  vourite  pursuits,  by  his  engagement 

that  sum.  After  an  interval  of  twenty-  in  the  Instruction  of  college  pupils, 

eight  years,   his  rival.   Mason,  was  During  his  excursions  in  the  summer 

probably  sfaicerc  in  the  opuiion  he  vacations,  to  different  parts  of  Eng- 

gave, — that  Warton  had  much  ex-  land,   he  appears  to  have  occupied 

celled  him  both  "  in  poetical  imagery,  himself  in  making  remarks  on  such 

and  in  the  correct  flow  of  his  versifi-  specimens  of  Gothic  and  Saxon  archi- 

cation."  tecture  as  came  iu  his  way.    His 


I8S1.;]  Litres  of  the  Po€t»^Th6mat  WarUm.  1S3 

mAnuscript   on   this  subject  was  in  £ndle«  labour  all  alongf 
the  possession  of  his  brother,  since  Endless  labour  to  be  wrong ; 
whose  decease,  unfortunately,  it  has  TrickM  in  antique  ruff  and  bonnet, 
not  been    discovered.       Some    inci-           Ode,  and  elegy,  and  sonnet ; 
dental  observations    on   our  ancient  had  been  officiously  repeated  to  War- 
buildings,  introduced  into  his   book  ton,  we  cannot  much  wonder  at  what 
on  the  Faerie  Queene,  are  enough  to  is  told,  of  his  passing  Johnson  in  a 
make  us  regret  the  loss.  The  poetical  bookseller's  shop  witnout  speaking, 
reader  would  have  been  better  pleased  or  at  the  tears  which  Johnson  is  re- 
if  he  had  fulfilled  an  intention  he  had  lated  to  have  shed  at  that  mark  of    y 
of  translating  the  Argonautics  ofApol*  alienation  in  his  former  friend, 
lonius  Rhodius.                                           A  Description  of  Winchester,  ancl 

Though  it  was  not  the  lot  of  War-  a  Burlesque  on  the  Oxford  Guides, 

ton  to  attain  distinction  in  his  cle-  or  books  professing  to  give  an  ao- 

rical  profession,  yet  literary  honours,  count  of  the  University,  both  anony- 

more  congenial  to  his  taste  and  ha*  mous,  are  among  the  next  publican 

bits,  awaited  him.     In  1756,  he  was  tions  attributed  to  his  pen. 
elected  Profiessor  of  Poetry  at  Ox-        In  1758,  he  made  a  selection  of 

ford,    and  Mthfully    performed  the  Latin    inscriptions   in    verse;    and 

duUes  of  his  office,  by  recommend-  printed  it,  together  with  notes,  under 

ing  the  purest  models  of  antiquity  in  the  title  of  Inscriptionum  Romana^ 

lectures  which  are  said  to  have  been  rum  Metricarum  Delectus;  and  then 

'^  remarkable  for  elegance  of  diction,  first   undertook,  at   the   suggestion 

and  justness  of  observation,"  and  in-  it  is  said  of  Judge  Blackstoue,  the 

terspersed  with  translations  from  the  splendid  edition  of  Theocritus,  which 

'vreek  epigrammatists.  made  its  appearance  twelve    years 

To  Jomison  he  had  already  ren-  afler.     The  papers  left  by  Mr.  St. 

dered  a  material  service,  by  his  exer-  Amand,*    formed  the  basis  of  this 

tions  to  procure  him  the  degree  of  work :    to    them  were  added  some 

Master  of  Arts,  by  diploma ;  and  he  valuable  criticisms    by  Toup ;   and 

encreased  the  obligation,  by  contri-  though  the  arrangement  of  the  whole 

buting  some  notes  to  his  edition  of  may  be  justly  charged  with  a  want 

Shakspeare,     and    three    papers    to  of  clearness  and  order,  and  Mr.  Crais- 

The  Idler.    The  imputation  cast  on  ford  has  since  employed  much  greater 

one,  from  whom  such  kindness  had  exactness  and  diligence  in  his  edition 

been  received,  of  his  '*  being  the  only  of  the  same  author,  yet  the  praise  of  a 

man    of  genius  without    a    heart, '  most  entertaining  and  delightful  va- 

must  have  been  rather  the  effect  of  riety  cannot  be  denied  to  the  notes  of 

spleen  in  Johnson,  than  the  result  of  Warton.      In  a  dissertation  on  the 

just  observation ;  and  if  either  these  Bucolic    poetry  of   the  Greeks,  he 

words,  or  the  verses  in  ridicule  of  bis  shows  that  species  of  composition  to 

poems —  have  been  derived  from  the  ancient 


*  There  is  a  little  mgmcAx  of  James  St  Amand  in  the  preface,  that  will  interest  some 
readen.  He  was  of  Lincoln  Gdll^,  Oxford,  about  1705,  where  he  had  scarcely  re- 
mained a  year,  before  his  ardour  for  Greek  literature  induced  him  to  visit  Italy,  duefly 
with  a  view  of  searching  MSS.  that  mig^t  serve  for  an  edition  of  Theocritus.  In  Italy, 
befbre  he  had  reached  his  twendedi  year,  he  was  well  known  to  the  learned  world,  and 
had  engaged  the  esteem  of  many  eminent  men ;  amons  others,  of  Vincenao  Gravina, 
Niooolo  Valletto,  Fontanini,  Quirino,  Anton  Maria  Salrini,  and  Henry  Newton,  the 
English  Ambsssador  to  the  Duke  oi  Tuscany.  Their  letters  to  him  are  preserved  in 
the  Bodleian.  By  Ins  researches  into  die  MSS.  of  Italian  libraries,  he  assisted  his  leaned 
friends,  Kuster,  Le  Qerc,  Potter,  Hudson,  and  Kennet,  and  other  literary  characters  of 
that  time,  in  their  several  pursuits.  He  then  retuned  to  England  by  way  of  Genevaand 
Paris,  well  laden  with  treasures  derived  from  the  foreign  Ubrariea,  all  which,  with  a 
large  oollecdon  of  valuable  books,  he  bequeathed  to  the  Bodleian.  He  died  about  1750. 
He  desisted  from  his  intention  of  publislung  Theocritus,  either  from  ill  health,  or  weari- 
Bcas  of  his  work,  or  some  fear  about  its  suooesi.  His  oreparations  for  this  edition,  toge- 
ther with  some  notes  on  Pindar  (an  edition  of  whidi  he  also  meditated),  Aristophanes, 
the  Argonautics  of  ApoUonius  Rhodius,  Demosthenes,  and  others,  remain  in  the  Bod- 
leian. Dr.  Shaw,  in  his  edition  of  Apolkmius  Rhodius,  has  since  made  use  of  his  notes 
on  that  poet,  and  pays  a  tribute  to  Ins  critieal  abilities  in  the  piefitce. 

L8 


194                            Liffe*  of  the  Poets — Thomas  Warton,  QAug. 

comedy ;  and  exposes  the  dream  of  a  Lichfield^  Chancellor  of  the  Uniyer- 

golden  age.  8ity>  was  collated  to  the  Rectory  of 

Kiddington,  Oxfordshire^  a  benefice 

La  bella  eU  deU'  or  unqua  non  vcnnc,  ^f  ^^  ^,3!^^.     Ten  years  after,  he 

if'^".*!          *"  ™«*^  drew  up  a  History  of  his  Parish,  and 

i°nd  nosTd^SLo  divenne.  P->1-^?V'  ""'  f^^TTw  "''J^"" 

Guidi.  <^o\3\  History  of  Oxfordshire.  Mean- 
while, he  was  engaged  in  an  under* 

The  characters  in  Theocritus,  are  taking,  of  higher  interest  to  the  na- 
shown  to  be  distinguished  into  three  tional  antiquities  and  literature.  In. 
classes, — ^herdsmen,  shepherds,  and  illustrating  the  origin,  and  tracing 
goatherds  ;  the  first  of  which  was  su-  the  progress  of  our  vernacular  poetry, 
perior  to  the  next,  as  that  in  its  turn  we  nad  not  kept  pace  with  the  Indus- 
was  to  the  third ;  and  this  distinction  try  of  our  contuiental  neighbours, 
is  proved  to  have  been  accurately  ob-  To  supply  this  deficiency,  a  work  had 
served,  as  to  allusions  and  images,  been  projected  by  Pope,  and  was 
The  discrimination  seems  tohave  been  now  contemplated,  and  indeed  en- 
overlooked  by  Virgil ;  in  which  in-  tered  on,  by  Gray  and  Mason,  in  con- 
stance,  no  less  than  in  all  the  genuine  junction.  We  cannot  but  regret, 
graces  of  pastoral  poetry,  he  is  infe-  that  Gray  relinquished  the  under- 
rior  to  the  Sicilian.*  The  contempt  taking,  as^  he  did,  on  hearing  into 
with  which  Warton  speaks  of  those  whose  hands  it  had  fallen,  since  he 
eminent  and  unfortunate  Greek  scho-  would  (as  the  late  publication  of  his 
lars,  who  diffused  the  learning  of  papers  by  Mr.  Mathias  has  shown) 
their  country  over  Europe,  after  the  nave  brought  to  the  task  a  more  ac- 
capture  of  Constantinople,  and  whom  curate  and  extensive  acquaintance 
he  has  here  termed  ^<  Grsculi  fame-  with  those  foreign  sources  from 
Hci,"  is  surely  reprehensible.  But  whence  our  early  writers  derived 
for  their  labours,  Britain  might  never  much  of  their  learning,  and  woidd, 
have  required  an  editor  of  Theo-  probably,  have  adopted  a  better  me- 
critus.  thod,  and  more  precision  in  the  gene- 

In   1760,    he  contributed    to   the  ral  disposition  of  his  materials.    Yet 

Biographia  Britannica  a  Life  of  Sir  there  is  no  reason  to  complain  of  the 

Thomas    Pope,   twice  subscqucntlv  way  in  which  Warton  has  acquitted 

published,  in  a  separate  form,  with  himself,  as  far  as  he  has  gone.     His 

considerable    enlargements :    in   the  History  of  English  Poetry  is  a  rich 

two  following  years  he  wrote  a  Life  mine,  in  which,  if  we  have  some  trou- 

of  Dr.  Bathurst,  and   hi  his  capa-  ble  in  separating  the  ore  from  the 

city  of  Poetry  Professor,  composed  dross,  there  is  much  precious  metal 

Verses  on  the  Death  of  George  XL,  to  reward  our  pains.     The  first  vo- 

the  Marriage  of  his  Successor,  and  lume  of  this  laborious  work  was  pub- 

the    Birth    of   the    Heir   Apparent,  lished  in  1774;  two  others  followed,  in 

which,  together  with  his  Complaint  1778,  and  in  1781;  and  some  progress 

of  Cher  well,  made  a  part  of  the  Ox-  had  been  made  at   his  decease  in 

ford  Collections.    Several  of  his  hu-  printing  thefoiu-th.     In  1777,  he  en- 

mourous  pieces  were  soon  after  (in  creasea  the  poetical  treasure  of  his 

1764)     published    in     the    Oxford  country  by  a  volume  of   his  own 

Sausage,  the  preface  to  which  he  also  poems,  of  which  there  was  a  demand 

wrote;  and  in   1766,  he  edited  the  for  three  other  editions  before  his 

Greek  Antholo^  of  Cephalas.      In  death.     In  1782,  we  find  him  pre- 

1767,  he  took  the  degree  of  Bachelor  sented  by  his  college  to  the  donative 

in  Divinity;  and  in  1771,  was  chosen  of  Hill  Farrance,  in  Somersetshire, 

a  Fellow  of  the  Antiquarian  Society ;  and  employed  in  publishing  An  In- 

ond  on  the  nomination  of  the  Earl  of  quiry  into    the  Authenticity  of  the 


•  Wmrton's  distinction  between  than  it  well  imaged.  ^^  Similit  est  Theocritus 
amplo  cuidani  pascuo  per  se  satis  fcccundo,  herbis  plunbus  fhififem  flcnibusque  pulchris 
abundant],  dulcibus  ctiam  fluviia  urido:  similis  Viigilius  horto  distincto  nitentibua 
areolift ;  ubi  larga  florum  oopia,  8ed  qui  studiose  dispositi,  cur&que  meliore  nutriti,  atque 
cxculti  diligenter,  olim  hue  a  pascuo  dlo  majorc  tiuisfercbantur.** 


182U;]                        Lives  of  the  Poett-^Thonu  Warton.  12i 

Poems  attributed  to  Thomas  Rowley,  with  a  very  plain  inscription  to  his 

and  Verses  on  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds's  memory. 

painted  window  at  New  College:  His  person  was  short  and  thick, 
about  the  same  time^  probably,  he  though  in  the  earlier  part  of  his  life 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  Lite-  he  had  been  thought  handsome.  His 
rary  Club.  fiEu;e,  latterly,  became  somewhat  ru- 
in 1785,  he  edited  Milton's  minor  bicund,  and  his  utterance  so  oon- 
poems,  with  very  copious  illustra-  fused,  that  Johnson  compared  it  to 
tions;  and  in  the  year  following,  was  the  gobbling  of  a  turkey.  The  por- 
elected  to  the  Camden  Professorship  trait  of  him  by  Reynolds,  besides  the 
of  History,  and  was  appointed  to  resemblance  of  the  features,  is  per- 
succeed  Whitehead,  as  Poet  Lau-  ticularly  characterized  by  the  man- 
reate.  In  his  inaugural  speech  as  ner  in  which  the  hand  is  drawn,-  00 
Camden  Professor,  subjoined  to  the  as  to  give  it  a  great  air  of  truth, 
edition  of  his  poetical  works  by  Dr.  He  was  negligent  in  his  dress ;  and 
Mant,  he  has  shown  that  the  public  so  little  studious  of  appearances,  that 
duties  required  at  the  first  founda^  having  despatched  his  labours,  while 
tion  of  the  Professorship,  owing  to  the  others  were  yet  in  bed,  he  might 
improvement  in  the  course  of  acade-  have  been  found,  at  the  usual  hours 
nucal  studies^are  rendered  no  longer  of  study,  loitering  on  the  banks  of 
necessary,  from  one  who  had  al-  his  beloved  Cherwell,  or  in  the  streets, 
ready  voluntarily  done  so  much,  it  following  the  drum  and  fife,  a  sound 
would  have  been  ungracious  to  exact  which  was  known  to  have  irresisti- 
the  performance  of  public  labours  not  ble  attraction  for  his  ears, — a  specta^ 
indispensably  requisite.  In  the  dis-  tor  at  a  military  parade,  or  even  one 
charge  of  his  function  as  Laureate,  he  amongst  a  crowd  at  a  public  exeou- 
still  continued,  as  he  had  long  ago  tion.  He  retuned  to  old  age  the 
professed  himself  to  be, —  amiable  simplicity  and  unsuspecting 
^  ^  .  .  frankness  of  boyhood:  his  affection 
Too  fpM  in  servile  courtly  phrue  to  for  his  brother,  to  whose  society  at 

"^»  Winchester  he  latterly  retired  from 
and  had  the  wish  been  gratified,— -ex-  college,  during  the  vacations  in  sum- 
pressed  by  himself  before  his  appoint-  mer,  does  not  seem  ever  to  have 
ment,  or  by  Gibbon  after  it, — ^that  sufTered  any  abatement ;  and  his  man- 
the  annual  tribute  might  be  dispensed  ners  were  tranquil  and  unassuming, 
with,  we  should  have  lost  some  of  The  same  amenity  and  candour  of 
his  best  lyric  efiusions.  disposition,  which  marked  him  in 
Till  his  sixty-second  year,  he  had  private  life,  pervade  his  writings, 
experienced  no  interruption  to  a  except  on  some  few  occasions,  when 
vigorous  state  of  healtli.  Then  a  his  mind  is  too  much  under  the  in- 
seizure  of  the  gout  compelled  him  fluence  of  party  feelings.  This  bias 
to  seek  relief  from  the  use  of  Uie  inclmcd  him,  not  only  to  treat  the 
Bath  waters ;  and  he  returned  from  character  of  Milton  with  a  most  un- 
that  place  to  college  with  the  hope  due  asperity,  but  even  to  extenuate 
of  a  recovery  from  his  complaint,  the  atrocities  committed  under  the  go- 
But  on  the  20th  of  Mav,  1790,  vemment  of  Mary,  and  somewhat  to 
between  ten  and  eleven  o  clock  at  depreciate  the  worth  of  those  divines, 
night,  as  he  was  sittincr  in  the  com-  whose  attachment  to  the  reformed 
mon  room  with  two  of  the  college  religion  led  them  to  suffer  death  iii 
fellows,  and  in  higher  spirits  than  her  reign. 

usual,  a  paralytic  afiection  deprived  The  writer  of  this  paner  has  been 

him  of  his  speech.     Some  indistinct  told  by  an  Italian,    who  was   ac- 

sounds  only,  in  which  it  was  thought  quainted  with  Warton,  that  his  fa- 

the  name  of  his  friend,  Mr.  Price,  the  vourite  book  in  the  Italian  language 

Librarian  of  the  Bodleian,  was  heard,  (of  which  his  knowledge  was  far  from 

escaped  him,  and  he  expired  on  the  exact)  was  the  Gerusalemnie  Libe- 

day  but  one  after.     His  funeral  was  rata.    Both  the  stately  phrase,  and 

honoured  by  the  attendance  of  the  the  theme  of  that  poem,  were  well 

Vice-Chancellor,    and    a   numerous  suited  to  him. 

train  of  followers,  to  the  antc-chapel  Among  the  poets  of  tlu»  second 

of  his  college,  where  he  is  uiterrcd,  class,    he  deserves   a  distinguished 


196  Lives  of  HU  PdeU^Thomas  WarUm.  CAag. 

place.     He  is  almost  equally  pleasing  (Where  the  tall  shaft  and  fretted  arch  be- 
m  Ills  gaycr^   and  in  his  more  ex-  tween 

alted  moods.     His  mirth  is  without  TWck  ivy  twinei)  the  taper'd  rites  betray, 

malice  or  indecency^  and  his  serious*  Prodidit  arcanag  arcU  fenettrajheet, 
ness  without  gloom.  His  sonneto  have  been  highly  and 

In  his  lyrical  pieces^  if  we  seek  in  deservedly  commended   by  no  less 

vain  for  the  variety  and  music  of  competent  a  judge  than  Mr.  Colc- 

l>ydeii,  the  tender  and  moral  sub-  ridge.    They  are  alone  sufficient  to 

lime  of  Gray,  or  the  enthusiasm  of  prove  (if  any  proof  were  wanting) 

Collins,  yet  we  recopiize  an  atten-  that  this  form  of  composition  is  not 

tioii  ever  awake  to  the  appearances  unsuited  to  our  language.     One  of 

of  nature^  and  a  mind  stored  with  our  longest^  as  it  is  one  of  our  most 

the  images  of  classical  and  Gothic  beautifoi  poems,  the  Faerie  Queene, 

antiquity.     Though    his    diction   is  is  written  in  a  stanza  which  demands 

ru^cd,  it  is  like  the  cup  in  Pindar,  the  continual  recurrence  of  an  equal 

which  Telamon  stretches  out  to  Al-  number  of  rhymes ;  and  the  chief 

cides,    yfvffv  xipptxJm,    rough    with  objection  to  our  adopting  the  sonnet 

gold,  and  embost  with  curious  ima*  ig  the  paucity  of  our  rhymes. 
g8ry.    A  lover  of  the  ancients  would.        The  Lines  to  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds 

pertiaps,  be  offended,  if  the  birth-  are  marked  by  the  happy  turn  of  the 

day  ode,  beginning  compliment,  and  by  the  strength  and 

,„.  ^.      ,      ^        .  ,  „  harmony  of  the  versification,  at  least 

S;^  T^'*^^"*^'  *?^  f^rt^  a.  far  as  the  formal  couplet  measure 

Debghu  the  goddess  Health  to  dwell  ?  ^^  ^^^  ^  ^^^  qi  Jities.     They 

were  compared,    as  to  Its  subject,  "««*  not  fear  a  comparison  wiUi  the 

wijh  that  of  the  Theban  bard,  on  the  "[^^  addressed  by  Dryden  to  Knel- 

illness  of  Iliero,  which  opens  with  a  *«^' ?%**y  F^^  ^^  JcrYss. 
wish  that  Chiron  were  yet  living,  in        ^'^  ^^'  compositbns  are  n«jrly 

order  that  the  poet  might  consult  ^  excellent  as  Ins  Enghsh.      The 

him  on  the  case  of  the  Syracusan  few  hendecasyllables  he  has  left,  have 

monarch;  and  in  its  form,  with  that  ™^^«  ""^  the  vigour  of  CatuUus  than 

in  which  he  asks  of  his  native  city,  ^*»^  ^J  Flaminio;    but    Flamimo 

in  whom  of  all  her  heroes  she  most  f^^^  .'^'™  "*  delicacy.    The  Mons 

deliirhted  CathannsD  contains  nearly  the  same 

Among  the  odes,   some  of  which  ^?g^  «»  ^^^y'*  9^«^on  » ^VT^^ 

might  more  properly  be  termed  idyl-  ^^J^^J}  College.     In  the  word  "ce- 

liums.  The  Hamlet  is  of  uncommon  i*?«'    which  occurs  m  the  verses  on 

beauty ;  the  landscape  is  truly  Eng-  Tnnity  CoUegeChapel,  he  has,  we  be- 

Ush,  and  has  the  truth  and  tender-  *!«^^'  erroneously  made  the  pemd- 

hess  of  Gainsborough's  pencil.  Those  ^mate  long.    Dr.  Mant  has  observed 

To  a  Friend  on  his  leaving  a  Village  "mother  mistake  m  his  use  of  the 

in  Hampshire,  and  the  First  of  April,  7^^  "  ^^™P«  , "  ?  feminine  noun, 

are  enUUed  to  similar  praise.     The  in^^e  Imw  translated  from  Akenside. 

Crusade,  The  Grave  of  King  Arthur,  ^^^^  "*  ^  'CSf**  J^' *  his  brother  s 

and    most    of    the    odes  composed  ■?¥«'»    «*!   Winchester    he    made 

for  the  court,  are  in  a  higher  strain,  their  exercises  for  them,  he  used  to 

In  Uie  Ode  written  at  Vale  Royal  "'^  *^!  ^^  ^^^    "'^"y  ^»V^,^  ***^ 

Abbey    is    a    striking   image,    bor-  j^uld  have  :-one  such  would  have 

rowed  from  some  lent  verses,  writ-  ^"  Bufficient  for  a  lad  near  the 

ten    by  Archbishop   Markham,    and  nead  of  the  school, 

printed  in  the  second  volume  of  that  ^  Hi«  style  m  prose,  though  marked 

collection.  b^  a  character  of  magnificence,  is  at 

times  stiff  and  encumbered.    He  is 

High  o'er  the  tniddcss  hcadi,  at  midnight  too  foml  of  alliteration  in  prose  as  well 

seen,  as  in  verse ;  and  the  cadence  of  his 

No  more  the  windows  ranged  in  long  array  sentences  is  too  evidently  labouretl. 


1 H^  O                                    Zariadre4  and  Odatks.                                        Vil 

ZARIADBES  AND  0DATI8. 

A  O&BCIAN  STOBT. 

Hystaspes  and  Zariadrcs^  wereso  ture,  or  from  the  agreement  of  the 
remarkably  distinguished  from  other  vision  with  the  reports  that  had  reacfa- 
mcn,  by  their  loTeliness  of  form  and  ed  him  of  lier  beauty,  or  else  by  % 
features,  as  to  make  it  be  believed  that  special  communication  made  to  him 
they  were  the  offspring  of  Venus  and  by  one  of  his  supposed  parents  (for 
Adonis.     It  was  for  this  reason,  that  Adonis,  his  father,  though  apparent- 
they  were,  bv  common  agreement,  ly  killed  by  the  boar,  was  oiuy  slum* 
elevated  to  the  ro^al  power;    and  bering,  and  being  gifted  with  immor* 
thus  became  a  Hvmg  proof  of  the  tality,  might  be  supposed  capable  of 
assertion,  that  *'  if  part  of  the  human  influencing  the  spints  of  those  whom 
race  were  to  be  arrayed  in  that  splen-  he  loved^ ;  yet,  so  it  was,  that  he  well 
dour  of  beauty,  which  beams  from  knew  wnom  he  had  seen  in  his  sleep, 
the  statues  of  the  gods,  universal  con-  Accordingly,  the  sun  was  scarce^ 
sent  would  acknowledge  the  rest  of  risen,    before    he    had    dispatched 
mankind  naturally  formed  to  be  their  faithful  messengers  to  bear  hia  pledge 
slaves."*    Hystaspes  was  lord  over  to  the  daughter  of  Omartes,  and  to 
Media,  and  a  wicfe  space  of  country  ask  her  in  marriage  of  her  father, 
extending  beneath  it.    To  the  lot  of  The  king,  however,  who  had  no  male 
Zariadres,  whose  appearance  indicat-  offspring,  was  bent  on  uniting  her  to 
ed  him  to  be  the  younger  of  the  two,  some  one  of  the  noblest  among  him 
(and  it  is  with  him  only  we  are  now  own  people,  and  therefore  did  not  he- 
concerned)  fell  all  that  tract,  which  titate  to  send  back  a  refusal  to  the 
reaches  from  the  gates  of  the  Cas-  offer  of  Zariadres.    Nay,  so  confirm- 
pian  as  far  as  the  nver  Tanfiis.    The  ed  was  he  in  this  resolution,  by  hie 
monarch  whose  dominions  neighbour-  apprehensions    lest  the  proposal  of 
ed  his  on  the  other  side  of  that  stream,  that  prince  should  be  more  strongly 
and  who  was  called  Omartes,  had  re-  urged,  that  he  hastened  to  take  the 
ccived  from  the  gods  an  only  daugh-  necessary  measure  for  carrying  hie 
ter,  to  whom  her  parents  gave  the  purpose  into  execution.     A  festival 
name  of  Odatis.     If  she  had  not  been  was  forthwith   proclaimed,  and  the 
the  heiress  to  a  diadem,  it  is  proba-  mightiest  men  of  his  khigdom  were 
ble  that  the  Marathians  (so  were  the  invited  to  attend  it.  When  the  guests 
subjects  of  her  father  called)  would  were  assembled,  and  the  cheer  was 
spontaneously  have  raised  her  to  the  now  beginning  to  run  high,  the  khig, 
throne^  for  slic  was,  beyond  any  com-  who  was  seated  in  state  at  the  head 
petition,    the    fairest    amongst    the  of  the  board,  called  his  daughter  to 
daughters  of  the  east.     It  is  record-  him ;  and  holding  to  her  a  golden 
ed  in  the  annals  of  these  nations,  that  phial,  hi  the  hearing  of  all,  spake  to 
one  ni^ht,  the  shape  of  Zariadres  ap-  her   in    these    words :    '^  Daughter 
pcarecl  before  her  in  a  dream  ;  and  Odatis,  we  are  now  making  thy  mar- 
that,  with  that  hei^tened  feeling,  of  riage  feast:  look  round  on  all,  who 
which  the  soul  is  most  capable  when  are    here    present,    and    whosoever 
it  least  uses  the  organs  or  the  body,  shall  find  most  grace  in  thine  eyes, 
she  conceived  a  more  passionate  a€.  take  this  cup,  and  having  filled  it 
fectioii  for  the  prince  than  his  real  with  wine,  present  it  to  him;  and  the 
presence,    lovely  as  it   was,   could  same  shall  nenceforth  be  my  son-in- 
nave    inspired.      At    the   same   in-  law,  and  the  sharer  of  my  kingdom.^t 
stant,  as  if  by  a  divine  sympathy.  The  princess  heard  her  fathet's  com- 
Zariadres  beheld,  and   was  no  less  mand  with  a  heavy  heart;   for  she 
deeply  enamoiured  of  Odatis.    Whe-  neither  dared  to  disobey  nor  rcmon- 
ther  it  were  from  having  seen  her  pic-  strate.     Her  cheek  fumed  pale,  as 


*  See  Aristode*8  Politics,  translated  by  Gillies,  b.  1.  c  5. 

\  This  appears  to  have  been  a  usual  method  of  betrothing  a  daughter  in  marriage, 
(lasaubon,  in  a  note  on  this  passage,  observes  that  Pindar  alludes  to  it  at  the  bcginnii^ 
of  his  Seventh  Olympic 


198  Som^,  by  John  Clare.  [[Aug. 

8li«  took  from  him  the  outstretched  preparing;  and  diyininff  the  cause 
cup  into  her  loth  and  trembling  of  it>  he  had  escaped  the  notice  of 
hands ;  and  ill-concealing  her  tears^  his  army,  which  lay  encamped  on 
ahe  turned  away>  as  if  to  fill  it  from  a  the  shores  of  the  Tan&is.  Cloth- 
fliggon  that  was  standing  near  on  ing  himself  in  the  garb  of  a  Scythian, 
the  sideboard.  But  before  she  could  he  had  taken  with  him  a  single  cha- 
perform  that  office,  her  eyes  wander-  rioteer,  and  thus,  without  slacking 
ed  vacantly  over  the  hall,  and  rested  speed  day  or  night,  he  reached  the 
more  on  the  columns  that  extended  palace  of  Marathia ;  and  he  was  now 
themselves  down  either  side  of  it,  standing  at  the  side  of  Odatis.  She 
than  on  the  warriors  who  sat  between  perceived  who  it  was ;  and  nothing 
them ;  every  one  anxiously  watching  doubting,  with  a  glad  heart,  handed 
on  whom  her  choice  would  fall,  yet  him* the  phial;  and  he,  snatching 
none  bold  enough  to  trust  that  it  her  away  to  his  chariot,  fled  with  her 
would  light  upon  himself.  Odatis  to  his  own  land :  nor  was  there  any 
was  scarcely  able  longer  to  support  interruption  offered  to  their  course ; 
her  anguish,  and,  in  the  indistinctness  for  her  maidens  and  her  servants 
of  remoter  objects,  sought  to  escape  knew  of  the  dream,  and  of  the  em- 
from  a  sense  of  the  painml  reality  oe^  bassage,  and  believed  that  it  was  Za- 
fore  her,  when,  suddenly,  there  appear-  riadres  who  was  come;  and  when 
ed  pressing  forward,  betwixt  two  of  she  was  called  for  by  her  father,  they 
the  most  distant  pillars,  a  head,  that  resolutely  denied  having  any  know- 
reminded  her  of  the  figure  in  her  ledge  of  her  flight 
dream.  She  thought  it  the  mockery  £et  none  pronounce  the  love  of  Za- 
of  frmcy,  and  was  ready  to  dismiss  riadres  and  Odatis  to  be  a  fable ;  for 
the  illusion  as  sent  only  the  more  to  Chares,  the  Mitylensan,  in  the  tenth 
embitter  her  despair.  Again  she  book  of  whose  history  it  was  recorded, 
turned,  and  busied  herself  among  the  adds,  that  it  is  commonly  remember- 
cups ;  and  at  length,  with  fast-  ed  by  the  people  of  the  east,  and  re- 
ilreaming  tears,  had  begun  slowly  to  presented  by  paintings,  not  only  in 
mingle  the  phial,  when  a  voice,  that  their  temples  and  palaces,  but  even 
sounded  not  strange  to  her  ear,  ad-  in  private  dwellings ;  and  that,  in 
dressed  her :  "  Odatis,  I  am  here —  memory  of  the  princess,  the  great 
I,  thy  Zariadres."  It  was,  indeed,  men  arc  accustomed  to  give  their 
2^adres.  Tidings  had  been  brought  daughters  the  name  of  Odatis. 
to  him  of  the  great  banquet  that  was 


SONNET. 

TO  A  TWIK-8I8TER  WHO  DIED  IN  INFANCY. 

Bessy  ! — I  call  thee  by  that  earthly  name 

Which  but  a  little  while  belong'd  to  thee  ;— 
Thou  left'st  me  growing  up  to  sin  and  shame, 

And  kept'st  thy  innocence,  untamed  and  iiree. 
To  meet  the  refrige  of  a  heaven  above, 

WTiere  life's  bud  opens  in  eternity. 
Bessy !  when  memory  turns  thy  lot  to  see, 

A  brother's  bosom  yearns  thy  bliss  to  prove. 
And  siffhs  o'er  wishes  that  were  not  to  be. 

Ah,  had  we  gone  together !  had  I  been 
Strange  with  the  world  as  thou,  thy  mother's  love, — 

What  years  of  sorrows  I  had  never  seen ! 
Fulness  of  joy,  that  leaves  no  hearts  to  bleed. 
Had  then,  with  thine,  been  piu*chased  cheap  indeed. 

June  9,  1821.  John  Clare. 


1821.^  Traditumal  Literatwe.  180 

TRADITIONAL  LITERATURE. 
No.  VIII. 

THE  GHOST  WITH  THE  GOLDEN  CASKET. 

Is  my  loul  Umed 
And  baby-rid  with  the.  thought  that{flood  or  field 
Can  render  back,  to  scare  men  and  the  moon. 
The  airy  shapes  of  the  corses  they  cnwomb  ? 
And  what  if  'tis  so — shall  I  lose  the  crown 
Of  my  most  golden  hope,  cause  its  fair  drde 
Is  haunted  by  a  shadow?  Old  Play, 

On  the  Scottish  side  of  the  sea  of  princely  feasts  aiid  feudal  atrodtiM 

Solway^  70U  may  see  from  AUanbay  of  its  neighbour, 
and    Skinvemess  the  beautiful  old        It  is  now  some  fifty  years  since  I 

castle  of  Caerlaverock,   standing  on  visited  the  parish  of  Caerlaverock ; 

ft  small  woody  promontory,  bound-  but  the  memory  of  its  people,  ita 

ed  by  the  river  Nith  on  one  side,  by  scenery,  and  the  story  of  the  Ghoat 

the  deep  sea  on  another,  by  the  al-  with  the  Golden  Casket,  are  as  freah 

most  impassable  morass  of  Sol  way  on  with  me  as  matters  of  yesterday.    I 

a  third ;  while  far  beyond,  you  ob-  had  walked  out  to  the  river-bank  one 

serve  the  three  spires  of  Dumfries,  sweet  afternoon  of  July,  when  the 

and  the  hiffh  green  hills  of  Dalswin-  fishermen  were  hastening  to  dip  their 

ton  and  Keir.     It  w^s  formerly  the  nets  in  the  coming  tide,    and    tile 

residence    of    the    almost   princely  broad  waters  of  the  Solway  sea  were 

names  of  Douglas,    Seaton,    Kirk-  swelling  and  leaping  against  bank 

patrick,  and    Maxwell:    it   is  now  and  cuff,    as  far  as  the  eye  could 

the  dwelling-place  of  the  hawk  and  reach.      It  was  studded  over  with 

the  owl;    its  courts   are  a  lair  for  boats,    and  its    more    unfrequented 

cattle,    and  its  walls  afford  a  mid-  bays  were  white  with  waterfowl.     I 

night  shelter  to  the  passing  smug-  sat  down  on  a  small  grassy  mound 

gler ;     or,   like    those    of   the    city  between  the  cottage  ruins  and  the  old 

doomed  in  Scripture,  are  places  for  garden  plat,  and  gazed,  with  all  the 

the  fishermen  to  dry  their  nets.    Be-  hitherto  untasted  pleasure  of  a  stran- 

tween  this    fine   old    ruin   and  the  ger,    on   the  beautiful  scene  before 

banks  of  the  Nith,  at  the  foot  of  a  me.    On  the  right,  and  beyond  the 

grove  of  pines,  and  within  a  stone-  river,  the   mouldering   relics  of  the 

cast  of  Ude-mark,  the  remains  of  a  ancient  religion  of  Scotland  ascended, 

rude  cottage  are  yet  visible  to  the  in  unassimuating  beauty,  above  the 

curious  eye— the  bramble  and  the  humble  kirk  of  New-Abbey  and  ita 

wild-plum  have  in  vain  tried  to  tri-  squalid  village ;   farther  to  the  soulJi 

umph  over  the  huge,  gray,  granite  rose  the  white  sharp  cliffs  of  Bam- 

blocks  which  composed  the  founda-  hourie, — while  on  the  left  stood  the 

lions  of  its  walls.    The  vestiges  of  a  ancient    keeps  of   Cumlongan,    and 

small   garden   mav  still   be  traced,  Torthorald,  and  the  Castle  of  Caer- 

more  particularly  m  summer,  when  laverock.    Over  the  whole  looked  the 

roses  and  lilies,   and  other  relics  of  stately  green    mountain  of  Criffel, 

its    former    beauty    begin    to   open  confrontmg  its  more  stately,  but  less 

their  bloom,  clinging  amid  the  ne-  beautiful  neighbour,  Skiddaw ;  while 

gleet  and  desolation   of   the  place,  between  them  flowed  the  deep,  wide, 

with  something  like  human  affection  sea  of  Solway,   hemmed  with  d^ 

to  the  soil.    This  rustic  ruin  presents  and    castie,    and  town.     As   I   sat 

no  attractions  to  the  eye  of  the  pro-  looking  on  the  increasing  multitude 

found  antiquary,  compared  to  those  of  waters,  and  watching  the  success 

of  its  more  stately  companion,  Caer-  of  the  fishermen,  I  became  aware  of 

laverock  Castie ;  but  with  this  rude  the  approach  of  an  old  man,  leading, 

cottage  and  its  garden,  tradition  con-  as  one  will  conduct  a  dog  in  a  string, 

nccts  a  tale  so  wild,  and  so  moving,  a  fine  young  milch  cow,  in  a  had- 

as  to  elevate  it,  in  tlie  contemplation  ter  of  twisted   hair,  which  passing 

of    the    peasantry,    above    all    the  through  the  ends  of  two  pieces  ot 


ISO                                    Tnummal  l4lt€rmhirt.  [[Aug. 

flat    vfood,    fitted    to    the  animal's  a  broad  bonnet,  from  beneath  the 
cheek-bones,  pressed  her  nose,  and  circynsference  of  which  straggled  a 
gave  her  great  pain  whenever  she  few  thin  locks,   as  white  as  driven 
became  disobedient.    The  cow  seem-  soow,  shinuig  like  amber,  and  softer 
ed  willing  to  ergoy  the  luxury  of  a  than  the  finest  flax, — while  his  legs 
browze  on   the  rich  pasture  which  were  warmly  cased  in  blue-ribbed 
surrounded  the  little  ruuied  cottage ;  boot-hose.     Having  laid  his  charge 
but  in  this    humble  wish  she  was  to  the  ffrass,  he  looked  leisurely  a- 
uot   to  be  indulged,    for  the  aged  round    him,    and    espying   me  —  a 
owner,    colling  up  the  tether,   and  stranger,  and  dressed  above  the  man- 
seizing  her  closely  by  the  head,  con-  ner  of  the  peasantry,    he  acknow- 
ducted  her  past  the  tempting  her-  ledged  my  presence  by  touchuig  his 
baffe,  towards  a  small  and  close-cropt  boimet ;   and,  as  if  willing  to  com- 
hiliock,  a  good  stone-cast  distant.  In  municate  something  of  importance, 
this  piece  of  self-denial  the  animal  be   stuck   the   tether   stake  in  tlie 
seemed  reluctant  to  sympathize— she  ffrouncl,  and  came  to  the  old  garden 
snuffed  the  fresh  green  pasture,  and  fence.      Wishing  to  know  the  pea- 
pluuged,   and    startled,   and  neariv  sant's  reasons  for  avoiding  the  ruiits, 
broke  away.    What  the  old  mant  I  thus  addressed  him: — "  This  is  a 
•irength   seemed  nearly  unequal  to,  pretty  spot,  my  aged  friend,  and  the 
was     accomplished    by  speech: —  herbage  looks   so    firesh  and  abun- 
^  Bonnie  lady,   bonnie  lady,"    said  dant,   that  I  would  advise  thee  to 
he,   in  a  soothing   tone,  "  it  canna  bring  thy  charge  hither ;  and  while 
be,    it  mauna  be — himiie!   hinniel  she  continued  to  browze,  I  would 
what  would    become  of  my  three  gladly  listen  to  the  history  of  thy 
bonnie  grand-bairns,  made  fatherless  white  locks,  for  they  seem  to  have 
and  mitherless  by  that  false  flood  been  bleached  in  many  tempests." 
afore  us,  if  they  supped  milk,  and  ^^Aye,  aye,"  said  the  peasant,  shaking 
tasted  butter,   that  came  fit>m   the  his  white  head  with  a  grave  smile, 
ffreensward  of  this  doomed  and  un*-  ''  they  have  braved  sundij  tempests 
blessed  spot?"  The  animal  appeared  between    sixteen    and    sixty;    but 
to  comprehend  something  in  her  own  touching  this  pasture,    sir,  I  know 
wayfrom  the  speech  of  her  owner:  she  nobody  who  would  like  their  cows 
abated  her  resistance;   and  indulg-  to  crop  it— the  aged  cattle  shun  the 
lug  only  in  a  passing  glance  at  the  place— the  bushes  bloom,  but  bear 
ridi  deep  herbage,  passed  on  to  her  no  fruit — the  birds  never  build  in 
destined  pasture.    I  had  oAen  hoard  the    branches  —  the   children    never 
of  the  singular  superstitions  of  the  come  near  to  play-— end  the   aged 
Scottish  peasantry,    and  that  every  never  chuse  it  for  a  resthig-place ; 
hillock  had   its  song,   every  hill  its  but  pointing  it  out,  as  they  pass,  to 
ballad,  and  every  valley  its  tale.    I  the  young,  tell  them  the  story  of  itx 
filUowed  with  my  eye  the  old  man  desolation.    Sae  yc  see,  sir,  havuig 
imd  his  cow;   he  went  but  a  little  nae   good  will    to   such  a   spot  of 
way,  till,    seating   himself   on    the  earth  myself,  I  like   little  to  see  a 
around,  retaining  still  the  tether  in  stranger  sitting  ui  such  an  unblessed 
his  hand,    he  said,   *'  Now,  bonnie  place ;  and  I  woidd  as  good  as  ad- 
lady,  feast  thy  fill  on  this  good  green-  viae  ye  to  come  o  wre  with  me  to  the 
•ward— it  is  halesome  and  holy,  com-  eowslip    knoll  —  there    are  reasons 
pared  to  the  sward  at  the  doomed  mony   that  an  honest   man    should 
cottage    of  auld  Gibbie   Gyrape — *  nae  sit  there."    I  arose  at  once,  and 
leave  that  to  smugglers'  nags:  Willie  seating  myself  beside  the  peasant  on 
o'Brandybum    and    Roaruig    Jock  the  cowslip  knoll,  desired  to  know 
o*Kempstane   will    ca'  the  haunted  something  of  the  history  of  the  spot 
ha'  a  hained  bit — they  are  godless  from  which  he  had  just  warned  me. 
fieamoughts."    I  looked  at  the  person  The  Caledonian  looked  on  me  with 
of  the  peasant :  he  was  a  stout  hale  an  air  of  embarrassment :— ''  I  am 
dd  man,  wiUi  a  weather-beaten  face,  just  thinking,"  said  he,  "  that  as  ye 
furrowed  something  by  time,    and,  are  an  Englishman,  I  should  nae  ac- 
perhsps,  by  sorrow.    Though  sumr  quaint  ye  with  such  a  story.    Ye'll 
mer  was  at  its  wannest,  be  wore  a  make  it,  Tm  doubting,  a  matter  of 
broad  chequered  mantle,  fastened  at  reproach  and  vaunt,    when  ye  gac 
the  bosom  wiih  a  skewer  of  •tal,'—  hame,  how  Willie  Uortop  o'  Caerla- 


18^1.;]  TnMkmai  Ui^rqiure.  131 

verock  told  ye  a  talc  of  Scottish  ini-  arises  now,  as  tliey  did  then — but 
quity,  that  cowed  all  the  stories  in  this  moralizing  mutters  little.  It 
southron  book  or  history."  This  un«  was  about  the  middle  of  harvest— I 
expected  obstacle  was  soon  remoYed.  remember  the  day  weU— it  had  been 
*'  My  sage  and  considerate  friend/'  sultry  and  suffocating^  accompanied 
I  said^  "I  have  the  blood  in  my  by  rushingsofwind^ — sudden  couvul- 
bosom  will  keep  me  from  revealing  simis  of  the  watcr^  and  cloudings  of 
such  a  tale  to  the  scoffer  and  scomer.  the  sun : — I  heard  my  father  sigh^  and 
1  am  something  of  a  Caerlaverock  say,  '  dool-— dool  to  them  found  on 
man— the  grandson  of  Marion  Stobie  the  deep  sea  to-night — there  will 
of  Dookdub."  The  ])ea8ant  seized  happen  strong  storm  and  feaiiul 
my  hand— ''Marion  Stobie!  bonnie  tempest.'  The  day  closed,  and  the 
Marion  Stobie  o'  Dookdub-^whom  moon  came  over  &iddaw:  all  wa« 
I  wooed  sae  sair,  and  loved  sae  perfectly  clear  and  still— frequent 
lang ! — Man,  1  love  ye  for  her  sake,  dashhigs  and  whirling  agitations  of 
and  well  was  it  for  her  bra w  English  the  sea  were  soon  heard  noingling 
bridegroom,  that  William  Borlan —  with  the  hasty  clang  of  the  water- 
frail  and  faded  now — but  strong,  and  fowls'  wings,  as  they  forsook  the 
in  manhood  then,  was  a  thousand  waves,  and  sought  shelter  among  the 
miles  from  Caerlaverock,  rolling  on  hollows  of  the  rocks.  The  storm  WM 
the  salt  sea,  when  she  was  bridc3  :-^  nigh.  The  sky  darkened  down  at 
ye  have  the  glance  of  her  ee, — I  once-— clap  after  clap  of  thunder  fbU 
could  ken't  yet  aniang  ten  thousand,  lowed,  and  lightning  flashed  so  vU 
gray  as  my  head  is.  I  shall  tell  the  vidly,  and  so  frequent,  that  the  wide 
grandson  of  bonnie  Marion  Stobie  and  agitated  expanse  of  Solway 
oiiy  tale  he  likes  to  ask  for;  and  the  was  visible  firom  side  to  side— from 
Story  of  the  Ghost  and  the  Gowd  St  Bees  to  Bamhourie.  A  very 
Casket  shall  be  foremost."  heavy  rain,  mingled  with  hail,  su&> 

"  You  may  imagine,  then,"  said  the  ceeded ;  and  a  wind  accompanied  it» 
old  Caerlaverock  peasant,  rising  at  so  fierce,  and  so  high,  that  the  white 
once  with  the  commencement  of  his  foam  of  the  sea  was  showered  as 
story  from  his  native  dialect  into  very  thick  as  snow  on  the  summit  of  Caer- 
passable  English — "  you  may  imagine  laverock  Castle.  Through  this  peril- 
these  ruined  walls  raised  agaiu  in  ous  sea,  and  amid  this  darkness  and 
their  lieauty — whitened,  and  covered  tempest,  a  bark  was  observed  com^ 
with  a  coating  of  green  broom ;  that  uig  swiftly  down  the  middle  of  the 
garden,  now  desolate,  filled  with  herbs  sea — her  sails  rent — and  her  decks 
m  their  season,  and  with  flowers,  crowded  with  people.  The  carry, 
hemmed  round  with  a  fence  of  cherry  as  it  is  called,  of  the  tempest  was 
and  plum-trees ;  and  the  whole  pos*  direct  from  St.  Bees  to  Caerlaverock  ; 
sessed  by  a  young  fisherman,  who  and  experienced  swains  could  see 
won  a  fair  subsistence  for  his  wife  that  the  bark  would  be  driven  fiill  on 
and  children,  from  the  waters  of  the  the  fatal  shoals  of  the  Scottish  side— 
Solway  sea :  you  may  imaguie  it,  too,  but  the  lightning  was  so  fierce  thai 
as  far  from  the  present  time  as  fifty  few  dared  venture  to  look  on  the 
years.  —  There  are  only  two  per-  approaching  vessel,  or  take  measures 
sons  living  now,  who  remember  when  for  endeavouring  to  preserve  the  lives 
the  Bonne-Ilomme-Richard,  the  first  of  the  unfortunate  mariners.  M^ 
ship  ever  Richard  Faulder  command-  father  stood  on  the  threshold  of  his 
ed,  was  wrecked  on  the  Pellock-sand  door,  and  beheld  all  that  passed  in  the 
—one  of  these  persons  now  addresses  bosom  of  the  sea*  The  bark  ap- 
you — the  other  is  the  fisherman  who  proached  fast — her  canvas  rent  to 
once  owned  that  cottage — whose  threads,her  masts  nearly  levelled  with 
name  ought  never  to  be  named,  and  the  deck,  and  the  sea  foaming  over  her 
whose  life  seems  lengthened  as  a  so  deep,  and  so  strong,  as  to  threaten 
warning  to  the  earth,  how  fierce  to  sweep  the  remains  of  her  crew 
Crod's  judgments  are. — Life  changes  from  the  little  refuge  the  broken  masts 
— all  brcatniiig  thuigs  have  their  time  and  spHntered  beams  still  afforded 
and  tlieir  season  ;^-but  the  Solway  them.  She  now  seemed  within  half 
flows  in  the  same  buauty— Criiiei  a  mile  of  tlie  shore,  when  a  strong 
rises  in  the  same  m^esty — the  light  flasli  of  lightning,  that  api^eared  to 
of  morning  comes,  and  the  full  moon    haog  over  the  bark  for  a  moment, 

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182  Tradiiwnal  LiteraiMre.  IIAug« 

showed  the  figure  of  a  lady,  richly  concussion — but  he  would  far  less 
dressed,  clinging  to  a  youth  who  was  forget  the  agony  of  a  lady — ^the  lore- 
pressing  her  to  his  bosom.  My  father  llest  that  could  be  looked  upon,  and 
exclaimed,  *  Saddle  me  my  black  the  calm  and  affectionate  courage  of 
horse,  and  saddle  me  my  gray,  and  the  young  man  who  supported  her, 
bring  them  down  to  the  Dead  man's  and  endeavoured  to  save  her  from 
bank'— and  swift  in  action  as  he  was  destruction.  Richard  Faulder,  the 
in  resolve,  he  hastened  to  the  shore,  only  man  who  survived,  has  often 
his  servants  following  with  his  horses,  sat  at  my  fire  side,  and  sung  me  a 
The  shore  of  Solway  presented  then,  very  rude,  but  a  very  moving  bal- 
es it  does  now,  the  same  varying  line  lad,  which  he  made  on  this  acx:om- 
of  coast — and  the  house  of  my  lather  plishcd  and  unhappy  pair ;  and  the 
■tood  in  the  bosom  of  a  little  bay,  old  mariner  assured  me  he  had  only 
nearly  a  mile  from  where  we  sit.  added  rhymes,  and  a  descriptive  line 
The  remains  of  an  old  forest  inter-  or  two,  to  the  language  in  which  Sir 
posed  between  the  bay  at  Deadman's  William  Musgrave  endeavoured  to 
Dank,  and  the  bay  at  our  feet ;  and  soothe  and  support  his  wife." 
mariners  had  learnt  to  wish  that  if  it  It  seemed  a  thing  truly  singular, 
were  their  doom  to  be  wrecked,  it  that  at  this  very  moment  two  young 
might  be  in  the  bay  of  douce  William  fishermen,  who  sat  on  the  margin  of 
Borlan,  rather  than  that  of  Gilbert  the  sea  below  us,  watching  their 
Oyrape,  the  proprietor  of  that  ruined  halve-nets,  should  sing,  and  with 
cottage.  But  human  wishes  are  va-  much  sweetness,  the  verv  song  the 
nities,  wished  either  by  sea  or  land,  old  man  had  described,  fhey  war- 
— I  have  heard  my  father  say  he  bled  verse  and  verse  alternately — 
could  never  forget  the  cries  of  the  and  rock  and  bay  seemed  to  retain, 
mariners,  as  the  bark  smote  on  the  and  then  release  the  sound. — ^No- 
Fdlock-bank,  and  the  flood  rushed  thmg  is  so  sweet  as  a  song  by  the 
through  the  chasms   made   by   the  sea^side  on  a  tranquil  evening. 

SIR   WILLIAM    MUSGRAVE. 

First  Fisherman. 

"  O  lady,  lady,  why  do  you  weep  ? 

Though  Uie  wind  be  loosed  on  the  raging  deep, 

Though  the  heaven  be  mirkcr,  than  mirk  may  be, 

And  our  frail  bark  ships  a  fearful  sea, — 

Yet  thou  art  safe — as  on  that  sweet  night 

When  our  bridal  candles  ij^eamed  far  and  bright." — 

There  came  a  shriek,  and  there  came  a  sound, 

And  the  Solway  roared,  and  the  ship  spun  round. 

Second  Fisherman. 

"  O  lady^  lady,  why  do  you  cry  ? 
Though  the  waves  be  flashing  top-mast  high. 
Though  our  frail  bark  yields  to  the  dashing  brine. 
And  heaven  and  earth  show  no  saving  sign. 
There  is  one  who  comes  in  the  time  of  need. 
And  curbs  the  waves  as  we  curb  a  steed  " — 
The  lightning  came  with  the  whirlwind  blast. 
And  cleaved  the  prow,  and  smote  down  the  mast. 

First  Fisherman. 

"  O  lady,  lady,  weep  not,  nor  w^. 

Though  the  sea  runs  howe  as  Dalswlnton  vale. 

Then  flashes  high  as  Bamhourie  brave. 

And  yawns  for  thee,  like  the  yearning  grave — 

Though  'twixt  thee  and  the  ravening  floml 

There  is  but  my  arm,  and  this  splintering  wood* 

The  fell  quicksand,  or  the  famish'd  brine. 

Can  ne'er  harm  a  face  so  fair  as  thine. 


18910  TradUkmai  lAUrature.  133 

Both, 

"  O  lady,  lady,  be  bold  and  brave. 
Spread  thy  wliite  breast  to  the  fearfid  wave 
And  cling  to  me,  with  that  white  right  hand. 
And  I'll  set  thee  safe  on  the  good  dry  land." — 
A  lightning  flash  on  the  shallop  strook. 
The  Sol  way  roar'd,  and  Cacrlaverock  shook. 
From  the  sinking  ship  there  were  shriekuigs  cast. 
That  were  heard  above  the  tempest's  blast — 

The  young  fishermen  having  con-  with  a  lady  and  a  casket  of  gold— 
eluded  dieir  song,  my  companion  pro-  but  she  was  swallowed  up  with  the 
ceeded — "  The  lightning  still  flashed  surge.'     My  father  confessed  after* 
vivid  and  fast,  and  the  storm  raged  wards,  that  he  was  touched  with  the 
with  unabated  Airy;  for  between  the  tone  in  which  these  words  were  de- 
ship  and  the  shore,  the  sea  broke  in  livered,     and    made    answer,    '  If 
frightful  undulation,  and  leaped  on  the  thou  hast  done  thy  best  to  save  soulf 
green-sward  seversd  fathoms  deep  a-  to-night,    a  bright  reward  will  be 
breast     My  father  mounted  on  one  thine — ^if  thou  hast  been  fonder  for 
horse,  and  holding  another  in  his  hand,  gain  than  for  working  the  mariner^ 
stood  prepared  to  give  all  the  aid  that  redemption,  thou  hast  much  to  answer 
a  brave  man  could,  to  the  unhappy  for.' — As  he  uttered  these  words,  an 
mariners ;  but  neither  horse  nor  man  immense  wave  rolled  landward  at 
could  endure  the  onset  of  that  tre-  far  as  the  place  where  they  stood — 
mendous  surge.    The  bark  bore  for  it  almost  left  its  foam  on  their  hem, 
a  time  the  fury  of  the  element — but  and  suddenly  receding,  deposited  at 
a  stroag  eastern  wind  came  suddenly  their  feet  the  dead  b(Kly  of  the  lady, 
upon  her,  and,  crushing  her  between  As  my  father  lifted  her  in  his  aimB, 
the  wave  and  the  freestone  bank,  he  observed  that    the  jewels  which 
drove  her  from  the  entrance  of  my  had  adorned  her  hair,  at  that  time 
father's  little  bay  towards  the  dwell-  worn   long— had  been  forcibly  rent 
ing  of  Gibbie  Gyrape,  and  the  thick  away— the  diamonds  and  gold  that 
forest  intervening,  she  was  out  of  enclosed  her  neck,  and  ornamented 
sight  in  a  moment    My  father  saw,  the  bosom  of  her  rich  satin  dress,  had 
for  the  last  time,   the  lady  and  her  been   torn   off— the    rings    removed 
husband  looking  shoreward  from  the  from  her  fingers— and  on  her  neck, 
sideofthe  vessel,  as  she  drifted  along;  lately  so  lily-white  and  pure,  there 
and  as  he  galloped  roimd  the  hea^  appeared  the  marks  of  hands — not 
of  the  forest,  he  heard  for  the  last  laid  there  in  love  and  gentleness,  but 
time  the  outcry  of  some,   and  the  with  a  fierce  and  deacUy  grasp.    The 
wail    and  intercession   of  others. —  lady  was  buried  with  the  body  of  her 
When  he  came  before  the  fisherman's  husband,  side  by  side,  in  Caerlave- 
house,  a  fearfid  sight  presented  itself  rock  burial-ground.   My  father  never 
— the  ship,  dashed  to  atoms,  covered  openly  accused  Gilbert  the  fisherman 
the  shore  with  its  wreck,  and  with  of  having  murdered  the  lady  for  her 
the  bodies  of  the  mariners — not  a  riches  as  she  reached  the  shore,  pre- 
living    soul    escaped,  save    Richard  served,  as  was  supposed,  from  sinkmg, 
Faulder,  whom  the  fiend  who  guides  by  her  long,  wide,  and  stiff  satin  roboi 
the  spectre-shallop  of  Sol  way  had  ren-  — but  from  that  hour  till  the  hour  of 
dered  proof  to  perils  on  the  deep,  his  death,    my   father  never  brd^e 
The  fisherman  himself  came  sudden-  bread  with  him — ^never  shook  him  or 
Iv  from  his  cottage,  all  dripping  and  his    by  the  hand— nor  spoke    with 
drenched,  and  my  father  addressed  them  in  wrath  or  in  love.   The  fisher- 
him.— 'O,    Gilbert,     Gilbert,    what  man,  from  that  time  too,  waxed  rich 
a  fearful  sight  is  this — has  heaven  and  prosperous—  and  from  being  the 
blessed  thee  with  making  thee  the  needy  proprietor  of  a  halve-net,  and 
means  of  saving  a  human  soul  ?  '— -  the  tenant  at  will  of  a  rude  cottage, 
'  Nor  soul  nor  body  have  I  saved,'  he  became,  by  purchase,  lord  of  a 
said  the  fisherman,    doggedly :    ^  I  handsome  inheritance— proceeded  to 
have  done  my  best — ^the  storm  proved  build  a  bonny  mansion,  and  called  it 
too  stark,  and  the  lightning  too  fierce  Gyrape-ha' ;  and  became  a  leading 
for  mC"  their  boat  alone  came  near  roan  in  a  flock  of  a  purer  kind  of 


134                                     Trtidawtud  LUefxOure.  [[Aug. 

Presbyteriane— and  a  precept   and  give  thee— treasure  it  in  thy  hearty 

example  to  the  community.  and  pracdse  it  in  thy  life — the  daugh- 

*'  Though  the  portioner  of  Gyra-  terg  of  Aim  of  Gyrape-ha'  are  fair,  and 

pe-ha'   prospered    woudrously  —  his  have  an  eye  that  would  wile  away 

claims  to  parochial  distinction,  and  the  wits  of  the  wisest — their  father 

the  continuance  of  his  fortune,  were  has  wealth — I    say   nought   of  the 

treated  with  scorn    by  many,  and  way  he  came  by  it — ^they  will  have 

with  doubt  by  all:  though  nothing  golden  portions  doubtless.      But   I 

open  or  direct  was  said — ^looks,  more  would  rather  lay  thy  head  aneath 

cutting  at  times   than  the  keenest  the   gowans  in  Caerlaverock   kirk- 

spcech,   and  actions,  still  more  ex-  yard,   and  son  have   I  none  beside 

Cssive,  showed  that  the  hearts  of  thee,  than  see  thee  lay  it  on  the  bridal 
est  men  were  alienated — ^thc  cause  pillow  with  the  begotten  of  that  many 
was  left  to  his  own  interpretation,  though  she  had  Nithsdale  for  her 
The  peasant  scrupled  to  become  his  dowry.  Let  not  my  words  be  as 
servant — sailors  hesitated  to  receive  seed  sown  on  the  ocean — ^I  may  not 
his  grain  on  lioard,  lest  perils  should  now  tell  thee  why  this  warning  is 
find  them  on  the  deep---the  beggar  given. — Before  that  fatal  shipwreck, 
eeased  to  solicit  an  atermaii#-— the  I  would  have  said  Pnidence  Gy- 
drover,  and  horse  couper,  an  un-  rape,  in  her  kirtie,  was  a  better 
scrupling  generation,  found  out  a  bndc  than  some  who  have  golden 
more  distant  mode  of  concluding  bar-  dowers.  I  have  long  thought  some 
nins  than  by  shaking  his  hand — his  one  would  see  a  sight — and  often, 
daughters,  handsome  and  blue-eyed,  while  holding  my  halve-net  in  the 
were  neither  wooed  nor  married — ^no  midnight  tide,  have  I  looked  for 
maiden  would  hold  try ste  with  his  sons  something  to  appear— for  where  blood 
.--though  maidens  were  then  as  little  is  shed  there  doth  the  spirit  haunt 
loth  as  they  are  now ;  and  the  aged  for  a  time,  and  give  warning  to  man. 
peasant,  as  he  passed  his  new  man-  May  I  be  strengthened  to  endure  the 
aion,  would  shake  his  head  and  say  sight!'  I  answered  not — being  ao- 
-^'  The  voice  of  spilt  blood  will  be  customed  to  regard  my  father's  coim- 
Ufted  up  against  thee — and  a  spirit  sel  as  a  matter  not  to  be  debated— as 
shall  come  up  from  the  waters  will  a  solemn  command :  we  heard  some- 
make  the  comer-stone  of  thy  habita-  thing  like  the  rustling  of  wings  on  the 
tion  tremble  and  quake.'  It  hap-  water— accompanied  by  a  slight  curU 
pened,  during  the  summer  which  ing  motion  of  the  tide.  '  God  baud 
succeeded  this  unfortunate  ship-  his  right-hand  about  us!'  said  my 
wreck,  that  I  accompanied  my  fa-  father,  breathing  thick  with  emotion 
ther  to  the  Solway,  to  examine  his  and  awe,  and  looking  on  the  sea 
nets.  It  was  near  midnight — the  with  a  gaze  so  intense  that  his  eyes 
tide  was  making,  and  I  sat  down  by  seemed  to  dilate,  and  the  hair  of  his 
his  side  and  watched  the  coming  of  forehead  to  project  forward,  and 
the  waters.  The  shore  was  glit-  bristle  into  lite. — I  looked,  but  ob- 
tering  in  star-light  as  far  as  the  eye  served  nothing,  save  a  long  line  of 
oouid  reach.  Gilbert,  the  fisherman,  thm  and  quivering  light,  dancing 
had  that  morning  removed  from  his  along  the  surface  of  the  sea :  it  as- 
eottage  to  his  new  mansion — the  oended  the  bank,  on  which  it  seemed 
former  was,  therefore,  untenanted ;  to  linger  for  a  moment,  and  then  en- 
and  the  latter,  from  its  vantage  tering  the  fisherman's  cottage,  made 
ground  on  the  crest  of  the  hill,  threw  roof  and  rafter  gleam  with  a  sudden 
down  to  us  the  sound  of  mirth,  and  illumination.  '  I'll  tell  thee  what, 
music,  and  dancings— «  revelry  com-  Gibbie  Gvrape,'  said  my  father,  '  I 
mon  in  Scotland,  on  taking  possession  wouldna  be  the  owner  of  thy  heart, 
of  a  new  house.  As  we  lay  quietly  and  the  proprietor  of  thy  right-hand, 
looking  on  the  swelling  sea,  and  ob-  for  all  the  treasures  in  earth  and 
serving  the  water-fowl  swimming  ocean.' — A  loud  and  piercing  scream 
and  ducking  in  the  encreasing  wa-  fitmi  the  cottage  made  us  thrill  with 
ters,  the  sound  of  the  merriment  be-  fear,  and  in  a  moment  the  figures  of 
came  more  audible.  My  father  lis-  three  human  beings  rushed  into  the 
tened  to  the  mirth— looked  to  the  open  air,  and  ran  towards  us  with 
iea — looked  to  the  deserted  cottage,  a  swiftness  which  supernatural  dread 
and  then  to  the  new  mararion,  aid  alone  could  hnspire.  We  instantly 
said :   '  My  Mn,  I  Iwve  m  oomud  to  Imew  tliem  to  be  three  noted  amug- 


1891.;]  Tradiiumtd  LUeraiwre.  135 

glers,  who  infested  the  country ;  and    with  terror,  for  it  seemed  no  common 
rallying   when    they   found   my  fa-    light.    '  Ou,  God!  then/ said  hopeful 
ther  maintain  his  ground,  they  thus    Robin,  '  since  it  was  one  o'  our  ain 
mingled  their  fears  and  the  secrets  of    cannie    sea-apparitions  I  care    less 
their  trade — ^for  terror  fairly  over-    about  it — I  took  it  for  some  landward 
powered  tlieir  habitual  caution.    '  I    sprite  !  and  now  I  thuik  on't,  where 
vow  by  the  night-tide,  and  the  crook-    were  my  een  ?  did  it  no  stand  amang 
ed  timber,'  said  Willie  Weethause,    its  ain  light,  with  its  long  hanks  of 
<  I  never  beheld  sic  a  light  as  yon    hair  dripping,  and  drenched ;  with  a 
since  our  distillation  pipe  took  fire,    casket  of  gold  in  ae  hand,  and  the 
and  made  a  burnt,  instead  of  a  drink-    other  guarding  its  throat.      I'll  be 
offering  of  our  spirits— I'll  uphold  it    bound  it's  the  ghost  o'  some  sonsie 
comes  for  nae  good — a  warning  may    lass  that  has  had  her  neck  nipped  for 
be — sae  ye  may  gang  on,    Wattie    her  gold — and  had  she  stayed  tiU  I 
Ikiuseaway,  wi'  yere  wickedness — as    emptied  the  bicker  o'  brandy,  I  would 
for  me,  1  se  gae  hame  and  repent.'    have    ask'd   a    cannie    question    or 
— *  Saulless  bodie  ! '    said   his  com-    twae.'    WiUic  Wcethause  had  now 
panion,  whose  natural  hardihood  was    fairly  overcome    his    consternation^ 
considerably  supported  by  his  com-    and  began  to  feel  all  his  love  for  the 
munion  with  the  brandy  cup—'  Said-    gallant  trade,  as  his  comrade  called 
less  boilie,  for  a  flaff  o'  nre  and  a    it,  return.    '  The  tide  serves,  lads  I 
maiden's  shadow  would  ye  forswear    the  tide  serves— let  us  slip  our  drap 
the  gallant  trade.  Saul  to  gude !  but    o'  brandy  into  the  bit  boraiie  boat> 
auld  Miller  Morison  shall  turn  yere    and  totUe  away  amang  the  sweet 
thraffle  into  a  drain-pipe  to  wyse  the    starlight  as  far  as  the  Kingholm  or 
waste  water  from  his  mill,  if  ye  turn    the  town  quarry — ye  ken  we  have  to 
back  now,  and  help  us  nae  through    meet   Bailie   Uardevine,    and  laird 
with  as  strong  an  importation  aa^ever    Soukaway  o'  Ladlemouth.' — They  re- 
cheered  the  throat  and  cheeped  on    turned,   not  without  hesitation  and 
the  crapin. — Confound  the  fizzenless    fear,  to  the  old  cottage;  carried  their 
bodic !  he  glowers  as  if  this  fine  star-    brandy  to  the  boat ;  and  as  my  father 
light  were  something  frae  the  warst    and   I  went  home,    we    heard  the 
side  of  the  world,  and  thae  staring    dipping  of   their  oars  in  the  Nitfa> 
e'en  o'  his  are  busy  shaping  heaven's    along  the  banks  of  which  they  sold 
sweetest  and  balmiest  air  into  the    their  liquor,  and  told  their  tale  of 
figures    of   wraiths  and  goblins.' —    fear,  magnifying  its  horror  at  every 
'  llobin  Telfer,'  said  my  father,  ad-    step,  and  introducing  abundance  of 
dressing  the  Uiird  smuggler,    '  tell    variations. 

me  nought  of  the  secrets  of  your  **  The  story  of  the  Ghost  with  the 
perilous  crofl — ^but  tell  me  what  you  Golden  Casket,  flew  over  the  countir 
have  seen,  and  why  ye  uttered  that  side  with  all  its  variations,  and  with 
fearfid  scream,  >that  made  the  wood-  many  comments :  some  said  they  saw 
doves  start  from  Caerlaverock  pines.'  her,  and  some  thought  they  saw  her 
'  I'll  tell  ye  whatj  goodman,  said  appear  again— -and  tliose  who  had  the 
the  mariner,  '  I  have  seen  the  fires  o'  hardihood  to  keep  watch  on  the 
heaven  running  as  thick  along  the  beach  at  midnight,  had  their  tales  to 
sky,  and  on  the  surface  of  Uie  ocean,  tell  of  terrible  Ughts  and  stranape 
as  ye  ever  saw  the  blaze  on  a  bowl  visions.  With  one  who  delighted  in 
o'  punch  at  a  merrymaking,  and  nei-  the  marvellous,  the  speqtre  waa 
ther  quaked  nor  screamed ;  but  yell  decked  in  attributes  that  made  the 
mind  the  light  that  came  to  that  cot-  circle  of  auditors  tighten  round  the 
tage  to-nignt  was  one  for  some  fear-  hearth;  while  others,  who  allowed  to 
fill  purport^  which  let  the  wise  ex-  a  ghost  only  a  certain  quantity  of 
pound ;  sae  it  lessened  nae  one's  cou-  thin  air  to  clothe  itself  in,  reduced  H 
race  to  quail  for  sic  an  apparition,  in  their  description  to  a  very  unpoe- 
(M !  if  I  thought  living  soul  would  tic  shadow,  or  a  kind  of  better  sort 
ever  make  the  start  I  gied  an  up-  of  will-o'-the-wisp,  that  could  for  ita 
cast  to  me,  I'd  drill  his  breast-bane  own  amusement  counterfeit  the  hu« 
wi'  my  dirk  like  a  turnip  ianthom.'  man  shape.  There  were  many  who. 
My  father  mollified  the  wrath  of  this  like  my  father,  beheld  the  singular 
maritime  desperado,  by  assuring  illumination  appear  at  midnigfat  on 
him,  lie  beheld  the  light  go  from  the  the  coast;  saw  also  sometiifaig  sidHng 
sea  to  the«ottage>  and  that  he  shook    idong  with  it  in  the  form  «C  «l  VmSc)  ^K^ 


136  TnuUtional  LUeraiure.  C'^^K' 

bright  garments^  her  hair  loiig  and    his  feet  — a  kind  of  fisherman's  cap 
wet,  and  shhiing  in  diamonds— and    surmounted    some  remaining  white 
heard  a  struggle^  and  the  shriek  as    hairs,  wliilc  a  long  peeled  stick  sup- 
of  a  creature  drowning.    The  belief    ported  him  as  he  went.    My  compa- 
of  the  peasantry  did  not  long  confine    nion  gave   an    involuntary  shudder 
the  apparition  to  the  sea  coasi — ^it    when  ne  saw  him — '^  Lo,  and  behold, 
was  seen  sometimes  late  at  night  far    now,  here  comes  Gilbert  the  Fisher- 
inland,    and  following    Gilbert    the    man— once  every  twenty-four  hours 
fisherman, — ^likc  a  human  shadow —    doth  he  come,  let  the  wind  and  the 
like  a  pure  li^ht — like  a  white  gar-    rain  be  as  they  will,  to  the  nightly 
ment — and  often  in  the  shape,  and    tide,  to  work  o'er  agaui,  in  imagina- 
with  the  attributes,  in  which  it  dis-    tion,  his  auld  tragedy  of  unrii^hteous- 
turbed  the  carousal  of  the  smugglers,    ness.     Sec  how  he  waves  his  hand, 
I  heard  douce  Thomas  Haining, — a    as  if  he  welcomed  some  one  from  sea 
€rod-fearing  man,    and  an  elder  of    — he  raises  his  voice  too,  as  if  some- 
the  Burgher    congregation,   and  on    thing  in  the  water  reouired  his  coun- 
whose  word  I  could    well    lippeu,    sel — and  see  how  he  dashes  up  to  the 
when  drink  was  kept  from  his  head,    middle,  and  grapples  with  the  water 
— I  heard  him  say  that  as  he  rode    as  if  he  clutched  a  human  behig." — 
home  late  from  the  Roodfair  of  Dum-    I  looked  on  the  old  man,  and  heard 
firies — ^the  night  was  dark,  there  lay    him    call    in  a  hollow  and  broken 
a  dusting  of  snow  on  the  ground,  and    voice  ;  ''  O  hoy  !  the  ship,  O  hoy, — 
no  one  appeared  on  the  road  but  him-    turn  your  boat's  head  ashore — ^and 
self, — he  was  lilting  and  singing  the    my  bonnie  lady,  keep  baud  o'  yere 
cannie  end  of  the  auld  sang,  "  There's    casket — Hech  bet !  that  wave  would 
a  cuttic  stool  in  our  Kirk," — which    have  sunk  a  three  decker,  let  be  a 
was  made  on  some  foolish  quean's    slender  boat — see — see  an'  she  binna 
misfortune,  when  he  heard  the  sound    sailing  aboon  the  water  like  a  wild 
of  horses'  feet  behind  him   at  full    swan;" — and,  wading  deeper  in  the 
gallop,  and  ere  he  could  look  round,    tide  as  he  spoke,  he  seemed  to  clutch 
who  should  flee  past,  urging  his  horse    at  something  with  both  hands,  and 
with  whip  and  spur,  but  Gilbert  the    struggle  with  it  in  the  water — "  Na! 
Fisherman !  '  LitUe  wonder  that  he    na !  dinna  baud  your  white  hands  to 
galloped,'  said  the  elder,  *  for  a  fear-    me — ye  wear  owre  mickle  gowd  hi 
ml  form  hovered  around  him,  making    your  hair,-  and  o'er  many  diamonds 
many  a   clutch  at  him,    and    with    on  your  bosom,  to  'scape  drowning, 
every  clutch  uttering  a  shriek  most    There's  as  mickle  gowd  in  this  casket 
piercing  to  hear.'    But  why  should  I    as  would   have   sunk    thee  seventy 
make  a  long  story  of  a  common  tale?     fathom  deep."    And  he  continued  to 
The  curse  of  spilt  blood  fell  on  him,    hold  his  hands  under   the   water — 
and  on  his  children,  and  on  all  he    muttering    all    the    while. — ''  She's 
possessed — his  sons  and  daughters    hatf  gane  now — and  I'll  be  a  braw 
died — ^his  flocks  perished — his  grain    laird,  and  build  a  bonnie  house,  and 
ffiew,  but  never  nlled  the  ear ;  and    gang  crousely  to  kirk  and  market — 
Sre  came  from  heaven,  or  rose  from    now  I  may  let  tlie  waves  work  their 
hell,  and  consumed  his  house,  and  all    will — my    work   wUl    be    ta'en  for 
that  was  therein.     He  is  now  a  man    theirs." — He  turned  to  wade  to  the 
of  ninety  years — a  fugitive  and  a  va-    shore,  but  a  large  and  heavy  wave 
gabond    on    the    earth — without  a    came  full  dash  on  him,  and  bore  him 
house  to  put  his  white  head  in— with    off  his  feet,  and  ere  any  assistance 
the  unexpiated  curse  still  clinging  to    reached  him,  all  human  aid  was  too 
him."  late — for  nature  was  so   exhausted 

While  my  companion  was  making  with  the  fulness  of  years,  and  with 
this  summary  of  human  wretched-  his  exertions,  that  a  spoonfiil  of  water 
ness,  1  observed  the  figure  of  a  man,  would  have  drowned  him.  The  body 
stooping  to  the  earth  with  extreme  of  this  miserable  old  man  was  inter- 
agCj  gliding  through  among  the  red,  afler  some  opposition  from  the 
bushes  of  the  ruined  cottage,  and  ap-  peasantry,  beneath  tne  wall  of  the  kirk- 
proaching  the  advancing  tide.  He  yard ;  and  from  that  time,  the  Ghost 
wore  a  loose  great  coat,  patched  to  with  the  Grolden  Casket  was  seen  no 
the  ground,  and  fastened  round  his  more,  and  only  continued  to  haunt  the 
waist  by  a  belt  and  buckle, — the  re-  evening  taleofthe  hind  and  the  farmer, 
mains  of  stockings  and  shoes  were  on        Lammerlea,  Cumberland. 


18f  1.;]  Epiitle  to  Elia.  137 

EPISTLE  TO  ELIA^ 
Suggested  by  his  £uaj/^  *'  moik  atque  ficeium^''*  <m  New  year*t  Eve. 

I  WOULD,  that  eye  to  eye  it  were  my  lot 
To  sit  with  thee^  the  chafing  world  forgot ; 
While  the  '*  grape's  unchecked  virtue  "  *  in  the  cup 
"  Moved  itself  right,"  and  as  the  hearth  blazed  up. 
Ruddying  our  cheeks,  thy  witty  eloquence 
Threw  brighter  sparkles  forth  than  sparkled  thence. 
Such  midnights  in  our  beings  are  inwrought ; 
Less  meant  for  present  bliss  than  after-thought. 
True,  they  are  past — while  we  laugh  on,  they  fly : 
The  moniing  moon  has  faded  from  the  sky. 
While  at  our  supper-board,  f no  Circe's  sty. 
But  where  old  Horace  might  nave  sate  and  told 
His  panic  at  Philtppiy)  we  unfold 
The  heart's  recesses:  to  our  pillows  then. 
And  the  sun  finds  us  mix'd  with  common  men. 
But  this  brief  night  remains ;  a  thing  to  tell 
And  re-enjoy ;  a  mirth-provoking  spell 
To  call  up  sympathies  in  other  hours. 
And  waken  joyous  laughs  in  distant  bowers. 

*'  But  then  the  grave  ! — ^the  green  lanes,  quiet  streets^ 
Grape-juice,  the  savour  of  delicious  meats. 
The  eye-beam's  gladdening  interchange,  the  smile. 
Books,  folios  yet  uncut  (fuas,  the  while  !^ 
There  is  an  end  of  these — of  these  and  all: 
The  man  survives  not  his  own  funeral ; 
But  a  strange  phoenix,  nay,  a  goblin-self 
Peeps  from  the  shell ;  a  hollow-whistling  elf. 
Cola  as  a  moon-beam  ;  *8itting  on  a  cloud. 
Of  which  it  seems  a  part ;  a  ghost ;  a  shroud ; 
Raw  thought ;  mind  nakedlv  intuitive : 
Is  this  to  be  ? — to  be  a  man  r — to  live  ?  " — 

No— but  we  like  not  this  same  cyprus  stole 
"Wherewith  thou  dizenest  out  the  future  soul : 
That  soul  is  human — Elia,  nor  disjoin'd 
From  an  organic  mould :  not  formless  mind. 
But  spiritual  form  :  'tis  not  our  thought. 
But  our  whole  self  in  finer  substance  wrought : 
Not  a  mere  shadow ;  a  poor  conscious  name ; 
But  the  identical  and  feeling  same. 
As  well  remain  a  day-comnungling  clod, 
As  mix  with  Egypt's  old  esoteric  god. 
Soul  of  the  universe,  and  fleeting  wide 
Be  all  divine,  yet  unidentified ; 
Or,  like  the  spectral  lemures  of  Rome, 
Err  from  the  confines  of  our  loathed  home. 

Was  it  for  this  the  Man  of  Calvary  stood, 
Touch'd,  handled,  seen  again  bv  flesh  and  blood  ? 
Or  that  the  grave  shall  heave,  the  marble  rive. 
The  dry  bones  shake,  the  dead  stand  forth  alive?— 
The  change  that  takes  them  shall  but  re-create. 
Shall  superadd,  but  not  annihilate ; 
Raise  us  to  height  above  this  mortal  span. 
The  perfect  stature  of  a  heavenly  man. 

•  John  WoodviL  m  tragedy :  Act  III. 
Vol.  IV.  M 


J3S  EpUtif  to  EUia.  [[Au^. 

The  hand  that  made  us^ — has  it  lost  its  skill  ? 
The  Power  that  bless'd  ufl,~ha8  he  lost  the  will  ? 
The  same  that  call'd  the  Patriarch  to  his  feast 
Of  air,  sea,  earth, — his  bounty  hath  not  ceas'd  ' 
With  this  breath's  easp : — the  friends  that  call'd  us  dear 
Have  join'd  in  frew  carousals ;  dried  the  tear  . 
Superfluous,  or  imperUnent :— Forgot 
We  moulder ;  tomD-stoned,  and  remember'd  not : 
Yet  is  there  Ons  to  whom  we  are  not  lost— 
Though  in  flames  wasted,  or  by  billows  tost ; 
Who  spreads  the  *  mausoleum  of  his  sky 
O'er  those — to  whom  their  kind  a  tomb  deny; 
Holds  them  more  precious  than  his  brightest  star, 
Marks  their  strown  dust,  and  gathers  it  from  far. 
Yea,  there  is  Okk,  whose  never-sleeping  eye 
Pierces  the  swathing-clay  wherein  we  lie. 
The  chrysalis  of  man :  and  forth  we  spring. 
On  no  ethereal  metaphysic  wing ; 
A  body  glorified,  but  not  disguised ; 
Angelic^,  but  not  unhumanized. 
The  creature,  that  had  the  Creator's  seal 
Imprest  upon  him  ;  that  with  plastic  zeal 
Souen'd  the  marble  into  flesh;  could  ^ve 
To  canvas  tinted  ^lory,  and  bid  live 
The  £Eu:es  of  the  dead ;  or  skilfully 
In  dwellings  match  the  geometric  bee. 
And  beautify  the  space  of  earth  with  piles 
Cloud-piercmg,  and  eternal  aa  the  isles ; 
Is  such  a  creature  goblin-changed  ?  a  sprite 
Like  th'  antick  ghostly  crew,  that  cross'd  the  sight 
Of  Rip  van  Wimceli'  m  the  mountain  glen. 
Playing  at  thundering  bowls  in  guise  of  men, 
'  Close  jerkin  and  protuberant  hose^  with  mirth 
Starch'd,  dumpish,  queer,  that  smack'd  not  of  this  earth  ; 
Staring  and  speechless,  with  lack-lustre  eye. 
An  uncouth  pageant  of  dull  gramarye  ? 
Or  prim  as  key-stone  angels,  perch'd  aloof. 
With  Atlas  palms  up-propping  th'  old  church-roof. 
Rouged,  hatted,  peruquecC  sleeved,  with  cravat  laced. 
Girt  naUiless  with  a  pdr  of  wings,  (such  taste 
And  orthodoxy  th'  elder  carvers  graced,^ 
Each  smirking  at  his  like  ?    No,  never  oream  it : 
If  thou  but  tmnk  this  error,  O  redeem  it. 
The  same,  that  shadow'd  the  green  leafy  dells, 
And  gave  them  music  .sweeter  than  thy  bells, 
Has  mmish'd  out  thy  heaven,  by  the  sweet  name 
Of  Paradise,   And  thou,  too,  art  the  same : 
The  soul  that  revelfd  in  thy  Burton's  page 
Shall  be  alive  with  thee ;  the  bard  and  sage 
Thou  lovedst  here,  they  wait  but  thy  amval ; 
Thy  death  shall  be  a  sleep,  a  self-survival. 
Yea— thou  shaH  stand  in  pause,  when  thou  hast  set 
Thy  foot  upon  heaven's  threshold,  and  beget 
Effaced  remembrances  of  forms  and  times. 
Greetings  and  partings,  in  these  earthly  climes : 
And  there  shall  come  a  rush  i^n  thy  brain 
Of  recollected  voices,  a  sweet  pain 


*  CtAo  tegttur,  qui  non  habct  umam. — Lucan.  Phani.  7*  ^1^* 

t  Sec  "  a  posthumous  writing"  of  Knkkrrbocker,  in  the  "  Skiiih^hook. 


Of  sudden  recognition ;  genUe  stealinge 
Of  waken'd  memory — deep,  voluptuous  feelings, 
Pressures,  and  kisses,  that  shall  make  thee  start 
At  thy  own  consciousness,  and  own,  thou  art! — 

Shalt  thou,  inffcnuous  JElia  !  do  this  wrong 
To  one  who  merits  frankincense  and  song  ? 
Art  thou  of  those  whom  the  quaint  bard,  yet  sage. 
Much  slander'd  Quarles,  pourtrays  in  mystic  page, 
Batnvian  souls,  wiiig'd  infant Jrowi,  weU  hoop'd. 
With  frill'd  skull-cap,  well  boddicc^,  and  weU  loop'd  ; 
One  in  a  skeleton's  ribb'd  hollow  coop'd ; 
One  to  the  low  earth  leg-lock'd,  fain  to  fly ; 
One  striking  at  its  void  rotundity 
With  bended  finger,  and  astonied  listening 
The  tinkling  echo,  with  eves  vacant-glistening  ? 
Thou  art  not  of  them — I  forgiveness  crave; 
For  him,  the  friendly  angel  of  the  grave. 
His  robe  is  white  as  fleeces  of  the  flocks; 
The  evergreen  entwines  his  raven  locks: 
There  is  a  quiet  in  that  brow  serene 
That  mocks  the  sleeping  infant's  calmest  mien ; 
The  mystery  of  stillness  ! — all  is  there 
Soft,  pure,  seraphic^  tender,  touching,  fair. 
A  crystal  light  melts  from  his  fringed  eyes 
Like  gleams,  o*er  mountain  tops,  of  morning  skies : 
He  hath  a  voice  that  makes  the  hearer  mute, 
LfOw,  liquid,  lulling,  like  a  midnight  flute : 
The  phial  in  his  hand  is  not  of  wrath; 
But  dropping  balm'd  elixirs  in  thy  path : 
The  tears  he  draws  are  medicinal  tears. 
That  from  the  pillow  steal  remorseful  fears ; 
That  wash  the  stains  of  custom  and  foul  sin 
Away.    Through  cfamks  of  thought  light  enters  in. 
Light  from  the  east;  and  we  look  up,  and  earth 
Shows  like  a  den :  we  strive  for  second  birth. 
And  fain  would  spring  to  those  that  died  before ; 
Wading,  with  Chkistian,  the  deep  river  o'er. 
That  seems  to  deepen,  to  the  enlarging  shore. 
Where  stand  two  shining  ones :  whue  troops  of  light, 
A»  arm-link'd  friends,  are  seen  on  Zion's  neight. 
Threading  the  pearly  gates  and  streets  of  chrysolite. 
The  viper,  which  thou  fanciest,  is  the  bold 
And  beauteous  serpent,  streak'd  ^ith  emerald,  jet,  and  gold; 
His  slough  is  in  the  brake,  bis  colours  in  the  sun : 
Nay — these  are  diamond  sandsr  that  in  thy  hour-glass  run ; 
They  glisten  with  the  jewel's  lasting  dew ; 
Joys  &it  to  time,  not  lost;  and  others  new. 
That,  like  that  serpent  orb'd,  shall  still  themselves  pursue. 
The  feasts,  at  which  thou  sitt'st,  shall  still  be  shared 
By  such  as  thou  dost  value ;  and  unscared 
By  hooded  grie&,  that  '^  push  us  from  our  stools," 
Unsoured  by  knaves  and  unprofaned  by  fools. 
Thou  shalt  be  human  still ;  and  thou  shalt  be 
(Thine  eyes  then  clear'd  with  Eden's  euphrasy) 
W  ithin  the  sight  and  touch  of  him  who  told 
The  tale  our  babes  now  read ;  Ulysses  old 
Ploughing  with  homeward  keel  romantic  seas ; 
Whether,  indeed,  blind  Mdesimtes 
Greet  thee,  or  bards  to  whom  uike  belongs 
That  hoar  abstraction  of  Troy's  scatter'd  songs : 

MS 


140  Sketches  on  the  Road.  \!A^' 

And  thou  shall  hail  that  prophet 'of  hii  kind, 
Shaktpeare,  the  iliau  of  multitudinous  mind : 
And  she^  to  thee  first  Lovely  and  first  fair. 
Thy  Alice— she,  thy  Alice,  shall  be  there  ; 
A  woman  still,  ihouc^h  pure  from  mortal  learen. 
And  warm  as  love,  though  blushing  all  of  heaven. 

Olek. 


SKETCHES  ON  THE  ROAD. 
No.  III. 


[[Our  last  Number  contained  the  description  of  a  visit  to  Mount  Vesuvius, 
firom  the  pen  of  our  entertaining  travellers,  which  forms  a  little  episode  in 
the  history  of  their  adventures.  In  the  following  pages,  the  narrative  is 
continued  from  the  close  of  their  first  communication,  j 

We  left  youj  in  a  former  letter,*  on  steps,  and  presently  took  refuge  in  a 
the  shores  of  the  Logo  Maggiore;  and  miserable  hovel,  serving  as  an  inn. 
we  now  pursue  our  journey.  The  We  here  refreshed  ourselves  in  the 
boats  on  the  lake  are  flat  bottomed,  midst  of  a  stranee  picturesque  group 
and  curiously  covered,  to  defend  pas-  of  fishermen,  whose  dialect,  even  to 
sengers  from  sun  and  rain,  by  a  can-  our  /utoti-exercised  ears,  was  al- 
vass  awning  supported  on  a  sort  of  most  incomprehensible ;  we  then  re- 
hurdle  :  the  one  we  hired  for  our  lit-  paired  to  the  Palazzo  of  the  Count  of 
tie  expedition  we  found  particularlv  Borromeo,  which,  with  its  gardens 
convenient,  being  furnished  with  and  terraces,  covers  all  the  island, 
chairs  and  a  table. '  except  a  little  comer,  where  about 

When  we  put  ofi*  from  shore,  thick,  six    nundred    people,    composed  of 

mbty,rain-clouds  lay  upon  the  moun-  fishermen,  gardeners,  and  labourers, 

tains,   and  on  all  the  scenery  skirt-  on  the  establishment,  with  their  fa- 

ing  the  lake :  but  ere  we  had  pro-  milies,  contrive  to  live, 
ceeded  far,  some  fine  glances  of  sun-        In  the  palace  we  found  the  usual 

shine  began  partially  to  dissipate  the  lofty  and  spacious  salle  and  gallerie; 

obscurity,  and  we  saw,  at  intervals,  the  usual  long  succession  of  great 

the  snow  shining  on  the  rugged  Alps;  rooms,  and  want  of  passaeres^   and 

and    the    pretty    white     towns     of  privacy  T which  must  naturally  ensue 

Fariolo,  Intra,  and  Palanza,  beam-  urom  such  a  distribution  of  apart- 

ing  across  the  tranquil  waters,  and  ments,   where  almost  every  room  is 

seeming  as  though  they  were  built  on  an    indispensable    passage  to  some 

a  narrow  ridge  between  the  lake  and  others);  the  usual  painted  ceilings  and 

Uie  mountains.  marble  floors,  the  large  windows,  and 

The  first  of  the  Isole  Borromei  that  gilt  folding  doors,  and  the   general 

we  reached,  was  the  Isola  dei  Pesca»  want  of  funiiture  and  convenience. 
tori  :  it  is  low,  and  very  small,  and        The  little  fiimiture  we  saw  seemed 

covered  with  a  little  town  of  fisher-  more  than  coeval  with  the  edifice : 

men.    We  did  not  descend  here,  but  its  gilding  was  all  tarnished,  and  the 

were  struck  by  the  beautiful  effect  of  sillu  and  satins  stained  and  dirty ; 

some  pensile  willows,  which,  at  one  even  the  bed  rooms  of  the    famUy 

end  ot  the  island,  dip  elegantly  into  were  in  the  same  state.    As  we  re- 

the  water.  turned  through  these  great  deserted 

The  Isola  Bella,  the  most  impor-  apartments,  and  felt  the  coolness  and 

tant  of  the  islands,  lies  at  a  short  dis-  dampness  of  the  air,  we  could  not 

tance  farther  up  the  lake :  just  as  we  help  thinking  that  it  was  not  a  com- 

reached  it,   a  heavy  shower  of  rain  fortable  place  —  had  we,  however, 

began  to  ikll.    We  entered  the  bland  visited  it  during  the  heats  of  August, 

by  a  magnificent  flight  of  marble  we  should,  without  doubt,  have  round 


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it  an  agreeable  residence  ;  and  it  was  to  admire.  We  are  particularly  fas« 
built  for  a  summer  abode.  The  pic-  tidious  about  seeing  fine  trees  de* 
tures,  which  seemed  to  be  numerous^  prived  of  the  beautuul  forms  which 
and  had  been  hung  throughout  the  nature  gave  them^  and  cropped  into 
roomS;  were  unfortunately  huddled  lions  and  eagles;  and  we  have  no 
together  on  the  floor  of  a  hall^  as  a  taste  for  marble  balustrades^  long 
picture  gallery  was  preparing  to  re-  straight  walks,  and  terrace  raised 
ceive  them.  We  saw  a  few  pieces  of  above  terrace,  lined  with  hideous  sta- 
merit,  particularly  some  cabinet  tuary,  each  monster  contending  with 
pictures.  The  old  cusiode  took  us  with  his  fellow  for  pre-eminence  in  defor- 
great  reverence  to  observe  the  por-    mity. 

traits  of  the  noble  line  of  the  Bor-  In  the  ^^den  we  saw  two  laurel 
romeo  family :  among  them  were  se-  trees  of  immense  size,  and  great 
veral  cardinals,  glaring  in  their  red  beauty :  we  eagerly  asked  upon 
drapery ;  and  some  generals  and  which  of  them  Bonaparte  had  writ- 
courtiers,  looking  grim  in  armour  and  ten,  (as  we  had  been  told  that  ex- 
rufTs.  He  was  very  sorry  that  he  traoroinary  man  had  cut  out  the 
could  not  show  us  the  picture  of  a  word  Baitaglia  on  one  of  them,  a  few 
relation  of  the  family,  wno  had  abso-  days  before  the  battle  of  Marengo.) 
lately  been  pope!  Our  guide,  who  was  the  head  gar- 

We  were  informed  that  the  family    dener,  answered,  that  many  foreign- 
generally  spend  some  of  the  summer    ers  hcid  asked  him  the  same  question ; 
months  on  the  lake.     The  present    but  that  although  he  had  been  many 
Count  resides  principally  at  Milan ;    years  in  his  situation,  he  had  never 
and  though  comparatively  rich,  pos-    seen  any  other  sign  of  such  an  inscrip- 
aesses  but  a  small  portion  of  the    tion  than  a  straight  cut  in  the  bark 
wealth,  and  immense  power  and  im«    of  the  laurel  to  the  right  of  the  path 
portance  of  his  ancestors.    He  has    on  descending,  which  he  showed  us, 
not,  like  them,  twelve  strong  castles    and  we  found  it  to  bear  very  unsa- 
in  his  hands,  and  the  whole  of  the    dsfactory  evidence  indeed.    We  saw 
Xagt>  Jffl^giore,  and  great  part  of  the    in  the  palace,  not  without  interest^ 
surrounding  country  under  his  sig-    the  room  where  Bonaparte  had  slept* 
niory ;  he  cannot,  like  them,  make        From  the  most  elevated  of  the  ter« 
wars  and  treaties  on  his  own  account,    races  we  had  a  sublime  view.  It  was 
but,  like  the  rest  of  the  Italian  nobi-    three  parts  closed  in  by  the  Alps.  We 
lity,  is  obliged  to  crouch  to  a  foreign    saw  the  ten  thousand  years  snow  of 
occupant,  and  make  a  pageant  figure    the  distant  Monte  Rosa ;  the  fine> 
in  a  foreign  court,  in  order  to  pre-    clear  lake,  stretching  in  one  direction 
serve  the  skeleton  of  the  possessions    far  out  of  sight,  towards  Milan,  and 
of  his  forefathers.  in  the  other,  penetrating  in  a  deep 

When  we  had  seen  the  appaHamenio  nook  towards  Lugano,  and  the 
noinle,  we  were  conducted  to  a  suite '  mountidns  of  the  Swiss  Canton  of 
of  small  rooms  beneath,  which  are  Tesino:  we  observed  its  fine  sweep- 
curiously  fitted  up  for  enjoying  cool  ing  shores,  and  the  romantic  towns 
air  in  summer:  one  room  was  inge-  with  which  at  freouent intervals  they 
niouslv  formed  into  a  marine  grotto,  were  covered,  ana  a  thousand  beau- 
entirely  covered  with  small  shells ;  tifiU  objects  and  combinations  which 
another  was  lined  (floor,  walls,  and  remain  glowing  pictures  in  our  me- 
roof,^  with  a  pretty  mosiuc,  composed  mories  and  in  our  hearts,  but  which 
of  simple,  dark  coloured  stones  of  we  can  never  hope  to  see  described, 
about  the  size  of  a  nut :  the  latter  either  by  pen  or  pencil, 
was  new  to  us,  and  had  a  neat  effect.  While  standing  there,  our  guide 
The  statues  contained  in  them  are  of  made  us  observe  the  strange  noise 
no  great  value.  produced  by  stamping  on  the  marble 

I*  rom  the  house  we  passed  into  the  pavement:  we  were  near  a  grated 
gardens,  and  as  the  weather  had  hole,  and  the  report  of  his  foot-beat, 
cleared  up,  we  leisurely  examined  rolling  like  peals  of  thunder  in  the 
those  curious  places :  we  found  them  vaults  below,  came  through  it  to  our 
almost  entirely  laid  out  on  hollow    ears. 

terraces,  raised  at  an  immense  labour  Our  guide  next  took  us  to  see  the 
and  expence,  but  except  their  Baby-  foundations  of  the  gardens  and  ter- 
lonish  oddness,  we  saw  little  in  them    racea— the  supporters  of  the  air-hung 


l¥t                                        Sketches  on  the  Road.                                    C^ug. 

fabric    A  lab3^th  of  faults^  divid-  a  few  months'  retirement :  it  is  ezact-> 

ed  by  tremendously  thick  walls^  and  ly    the    place  we    have    frequent^ 

cut  by  huge  pillars  and  beams,  pre-  dreamed  about  in  our  romantic  days 

sented  a  cuxioua  i<mi'enseTnble.  When  —a  little  span  of  an  island^  in  a  clear 

we  entered  into  one  of  these  vaults^  blue  lake^  with  a  neat  house,  through 

to  observe  the  secrets  of  the  con-  whose  casements,  putting  aside  with 

stniction^  a  great  number  of  bats  and  careful  hand  the  "  gadding  vine/'  we 

other  night-loving  fowls  flitting  out  might  look  over  a  beautiful  sheet  of 

suddenly,  quite  startled  us.     We  did  water,  and  a  fine  country,  and  see  the 

not  disturb  them  long,  but  when  we  eternal  Alps  closuig  in  the    scene, 

quitted  the  vault,  we  stood  a  minute  How  pleasant  a  nook  to  "  loiter  life 

by  a  grate  to  watch  them  repairing  to  away  in." 

their  nooks^  with  ghostly  silence  and  While  we  were  examining  the  two 

celerity.  last  islands,  the  wind  had  increased, 

.  On  quitting  the  gardens,  a  good-  and  the  lake  was  so  rough,  that  oiu* 

looking  woman  presented  us  with  some  boatmen  for  awhile  werc^un  willing  to 

flowers :  this  classical  way  of  beg-  cross  it.  We  ventured,  notwithstand- 

glng  reminded  us  of  being  in  Italy.  ing.    After  a  time  the  wind  abated. 

When  we  got  into  the  l>oat,  we  and  about  an  hour  before  sunset  we 

found  the  lake  rough,  and  the  wind  landed  safely  on  the  opposite  side,  at 

icery  high;    but  the  weather    had  the    pretty  little  town  of   Laveno. 

cleared  up,  the  sun  shone  brightly.  Close  on  the  water's  edge,  we  found 

and  brought  out  many  beautifid  ob-  excellent  quarters  in  a  small,  neat  inn, 

jects  we  had  not  seen  before.    As  we  which  we  recommend  to  all  future 

rowed  away^  we  looked  back  on  the  perambulators,  as  there  we  were  ex- 

Itoh  Bella,  which,  as  its  name  im-  ceedingly  well  entertained,  and  passed 

ports,  assumes  the  superiority  of  the  a  few  hours,  which  we  shall  always 

Inlands :  it  seemed,  however,  to  us,  esteem  among  the  most  happy  of  our 

rather  a  ciuious,  than  a  beautifid  ob-  lives. 

ject;  displaying  much  more  cost  than  The  close  of  evening  was    deli- 

tittte.    A  fine  building  in  that  posi-  cious :  the  sun  went  down  hi  all  his 

tion  might  produce  a  good  effect ;  majesty ;  the  white  snow  of  the  Alps 

but  the  palace  is  in  a  bad,  or  rather  assumed  its  piure  "  rose  hues  ;"  the 

in  no  style  of  architecture.     In  the  lake  spread  out  into  a  sheet  of  clear 

two  ends  of  Italy  there  is  no  food  purple,  varied  here  and  there  with 

^rchitectiu'c :  in  Piedmont,  it  is  in  as  broad  stripes  of  gilded  radiance ;  the 

low  a  state  as  in  Lomhardy ;  and  in  windows  of  the  houses,  in  the  towns 

Naples^  at  the  southern  end>  it  is  stifl  round  the  shores,  glittered  brightly, 

irorse.  and     the    walls    of    the    buildings 

The  Isola  Madre,  which  is  a  consi-  changed    their    w^hiteness    for    the 

derable  distance  from  the  Isola  Bella,  warm  harmonizing  tints  of  evening, 

and  situated  not  far  from  the  shore.  All  the  islands  lay  before  us,  look- 

oiff  the  town  of  Palanza,  struck  us  as  ing  more  beautiful  from  the  effects  of 

we  approached  it,  by  its  picturesque  distance, and  of  the  season  of  the  day: 

ajr :  a  small  white  p/da:ao  appeared  close  to  our  left,  the  lake  formed  a 

through  a  little  forest,  still  green  and  small  tranquil  bay;  and  a  fairy-like 

bi  fufi  leaf — a  summer  house  just  promontory  stretched    out,    fringed 

peeped  through  festooned  vines  and  with  pleasant  trees,  and  spread  from 

dwarf  cypresses: — the  whole  was  so  its  brow  to  the  water  edge,  with  a 

fresb>  so  verdant,  so  secluded,  as  to  carpet  of  grass  and  flowers,  all  fresh 

present  a  realization  of   the   beau"  and  bright  in  consequence  of  the  re- 

i^leo/ of  a  summer  retreat.  cent  rants,  and   looking  as  though 

The  Isola  di  San  Giovanni,  which  they  had  been  visited  by  a  second 

Ues  very  near,  we  found  pretty,  but  spring.     We   were  standing  at  the 

nothing  equal  to  the  Isola  Almlre :  it  window  at  the  touching  moment  of 

haa  too  much  building,  and  too  little  "  Ave  Maria/'  and  the  deep  toll  of 

of  green  trees  and  shady  bowers.  several  convent  bells  rolled  with  a 

AU  these    islands  were  spots    of  penetrating    melancholy  across    the 

pleasure  and  amusement  {luoghi  di  water:    a  party   of  labourers,   who 

delizia)    of   the    Borromco     family,  had  been  unloading  a  boat  close  by 

They  are  all   hijoux,  but  the   Lsola  our  inn,  ceased  from  their  work  and 

Ahdrc  it  the  one  we  should  choose  for  muttered  the  <'  I)c  profundis  ;"  and 


1821,3                                     Sketches  on  the  Hood.  146 

a  few  moments  after,  two  barks  went  from  their  accustomed  course.  Fmh 
by,  whose  crews  were  singing  the  Fariolo  to  Milan,  by  the  regular  pM 
vesjper  hymn  to  the  Virgin.  road,  is  a  dull  journey,  presenting 
The  convent  bells  continued  their  little  fine  scenery  ;  but  if  they  crOM 
mild  and  sad  toll ;  and  we  felt  then,  the  lake  as  we  did,  they  may  see  the 
(as  we  have  often  felt  during  our  Borromean  islands,  and  the  lake  to 
voyages  along  the  coasts  of  the  Me-  great  advantage,  and  from  Laveno 
diterranean)  the  full  force  of  the  ex-  enjoy  a  beautiful  country  all  the  way 
quisite  and  often  quoted  passage  of  to  Milan,  having  one  pretty  lake 
l^ante.  (Lago  Varese)  close  t)n  tieir  road, 
Era  gii  I'dra  cbe  volge'  1  disio  with  an  opportunity  of  seeing  the 
A*  Navigand,  e^ntenerisce  il  core  lake  and  town  of  Como,  by  going 
Lo  dl  ch*haii  detto  a*dolci  amid  Addio;  only  about  three  quarters  of  a  mile 
E  che  lo  nuoTO  peregrin  d'  amore  out  of  their  way.  As  for  their  con* 
Punge,  se  ode  squiUa  di  lontano  veyances,  (for  it  strikes  us,  very  op- 
Che  paja  T  giomo  piangercfae  simuore.*  portunely,  that  few  travel  in  so  p5- 
As  m  landing  at  Laveno,  we  had  mitive  a  manner  as  we  did,)  mef 
entered  into  the  dominions  of  ano-  may  have  their  carriage  taken  acrosi 
ther  government,  we  were  very  soon  the  lake  for  a  trifle ;  and  they  will 
called  upon  for  our  passports ;  these  find  the  roads  from  Laveno  to  the 
were  examined  with  the  scrupulous  capital  as  good  as  any  in  Italy. — ^But 
attention  deemed  necessary  by  the  let  us  continue  our  pilgrimage, 
caution  of  Austria,  which  was  at  the  We  had  proceeded  about  two  mUefl, 
moment  considerably  augmented  by  and  were  walking  at  a  gOod  pace, 
the  events  in  the  south  of  Italy,  and  when  a  tall  thin  man  of  Uie  country 
the  consequent  fears  of  that  power  for  overtook  us.  In  France  and  Italy, 
its  own  possessions.  travellers  (particularly  pedestrians) 
The  next  morning,  after  breakfast,  never  meet  or  pass  one  another  with« 
we  prepared  to  put  ourselves  again  out  a  little  chat :  our  man  immediate* 
en  route.  Our  landlord's  charge,  con-  ly  began  a  conversation,  and  as  tre 
sidering  the  excellent  dinner  and  beds  were  going  the  same  way,  hepro- 
he  had  given  us,  was  pretty  mode-  posed  walking  on  together.  There 
rate :  it  would  no  doubt  have  been  was  nothing  in  his  appearance  or  be* 
s<jmewhat  less,  had  he  not  discovered  haviour,  so  droll  and  amusing  as  in 
we  were  Englishmen ;  indeed,  we  our  former  friend  the  Pitiore ;  he 
might  have  diminished  it  more  than  was,  however,  of  some  use  to  us— he 
We  did,  (some  deduction  from  an  took  us  to  the  Osteria,  where  tii< 
Italian  inn-keeper's  bill  is  always  best  wine  was  sold,  and  told  us  the 
expected^  but  we  were  in  much  too  names  of  the  towns,  and  villages,  we 
good  a  numour  *'  (mereller  pour  le  saw,  or  passed  through  on  the  road. 
sous"  and  were  besides  in  a  hurry  to  On  our  expressing  our  admiration  of 
get  on  our  journey,  having  loitered  the  beautiful  mountains  about  Lave- 
until  a  late  hour  in  tliat  charming  no,  he  assured  us  they  were  vile^' 
spot.  At  the  door,  we  had  the  usufQ  worthless  things,  **  tnonii  maJadettU^ 
"  account  to  settle  with  the  sons  and  simi,"  producing  almost  nothing, 
daughters  of  misery ; "  and  found,  "  When  you  arrive  at  Milan,"  si£l 
moreover,  a  tall,  complimentary  he,  '*  there  you  will  see  a  beautiful 
ren^tT-armes,  waiting  for  nis  fee  for  coimtry,  all  as  flat  as  my  hand."  He 
having  brought  back  our  passport.  wished  that  the  waters  of  the  lake 
On  leaving  Laveno,  we  immediate-  could  be  drained  off*,  because  he 
ly  lost  sight  of  the  lake :  the  country,  thought  a  fine  sheltered  valley  would 
however,  continued  very  fine,  and  be  left. 

the  roads  excellent;  and  here  we  can-  We  soon  came  in  sight  of  a  laige 

not  help  advisuig  travellers  to  deviate  sheet  of  water,  the  lake  of  Varefe, 

*  Now  was  the  hour  that  wakens  fond  desire 
In  men  at  sea,  and  melts  their  thoughtful  heart 
Who  in  the  mom  have  bid  sweet  friends  farewel. 
And  pilgrim  newly  on  his  road  with  love 
ThriUs,  if  he  hear  the  vesper  bell  from  far, 
That  seems  to  moom  fbr  the  expiring  day. 

.  Cartf^i  Translation* 


IH                                        Sketches  on  the  Road.  QAu^. 

which  lies  a  littl«  below  the  road  to  We  howerer  walked  about  five 
the  right :  there  is  a  pretty  secluded  miles  onward^  and  at  dusk  got  into  a 
jpaesetto  close  to  its  shore,  near  which  village,  whose  inn  was  excessivel  j 
we  staid  some  time  sketching.  Hence  dirty  and  miserable ;  and  what  was 
the  walk  of  about  an  hour  and  a  half  worse,  the  hostess  and  her  people* 
brought  us  to  the  beginning  of  a  sue-  spoke  such  thorough  Milanese,  and 
cession  of  little  chapels,  (or  rather  understood  so  little  of  any  other  dia* 
altars^  and  crosses,  which  lined  the  lect,  that  it  was  with  great  difficulty 
road  for  a  considerable  distance :  our  we  settled  the  preliminaries  of  a 
companion  had  enough  to  do  to  touch  room,  beds,  and  supper. 
his  hat  at  each.  Shortly  after,  we  ob-  The  following  morning  we  set  out 
aerved  a  tall  hill  to  the  left,  whose  very  early,  and  had  walked  eight  or 
ascent  in  all  directions  was  covered  nine  miles  by  a  little  after  day  light ; 
with  similar  little  chapels>  and  whose  we  were  then  at  the  road  winch  de- 
summit  was  crowned  by  a  gaudy-  scends  to  Como,  and  less  than  ano- 
looking  church  and  a  mass  of  holy  ther  half  hour  brought  us  to  the 
edifices.  Thb  our  companion  let  us  fauxbourgs  of  that  ancient  city.  On 
know,  with  infinite  reverence,  was  entering  the  gates,  we  found  Como 
the  "  Monte  Sacro  di  Varallo"  a  crowded  with  Austrian  troojus.  Our 
place  for  many  ages  highly  celebrated  first  care  was  to  get  breaklast :  the 
DY  Catholic  superstition,  and  enrich-  coffee  house  we  went  into  for  that 
ed  bv  popular  credulity.  We  did  purpose  was  full  of  Austrian  officers, 
not  toiuk  there  was  motive  sufficient  all  smoaking  at  ^hat  early  hour ;  we 
to  induce  us  to  ascend:  from  the  were  struck  then,  as  we  had  been 
road  just  below,  it  had  a  strange  in-  many  times  before,  by^e  gauche  and 
congruous  appearance ;  but  when  we  low  appearance  of  that  class.  After 
had  gained  some  distance  and  looked  breakfast,  we  went  to  the  police  with 
back,  its  whitewash,  and  colouring,  our  passports,  where  we  were  detain- 
and  gilding,  glittering  in  the  sun,  had  ed  some  time ;  and  we  afterwards 
rather  a  pleasing  effect.  hurried  to  the  Porto,  to  have  a  view 

All  along  this  road  we  saw  good  and  a  row  on  the  lake.    We  hired 

finger  posts,  with  a  device  that  we  one  of  the  boats,  which  are  much  su- 

thought  pretty ;  on  the  arm,  pointing  perior  in   appearance   and  conveni- 

along  a  post  road,  was  painted  a  cou-  ence  to  those  of  the  JLago  Alaggiore. 

rier,  gaUopping  on  horseback ;  and  We  first  visited  the  Villa  D'£ste, 

on  the  arm  pointing  to  cross-coun-  the  residence  of   her  Majesty,  our 

try  roads,  a  pedestrian  with  a  stick  Queen,  situated  on  the  opposite  shore 

in  his  hand,  and  a  knapsack  on  his  of  the  lake  ^  we  there  saw  several 

hack — somewhat  such   a  figure    as  signsof  her  good  taste  and  liberality. 

ooe  of  us.    The  roads  are  kept  in  ad-  She  repaired  the  road,  leading  from 

mirable  order.  Como  to  the  Villa,  which  had  been 

We  did  not  reach  Varese  until  four  for  a  long  time  almost  impassable  for 
o'clock :  it  seemed  a  large  busy  town,  carriages,  though  leading  to  a  number 
and  our  companion,  who  was  going  of  FiV/e,  and  to  several  villages.  The 
to  stay  there,  used  many  persuasions  people  whom  we  saw  spoke  highly  of 
to  induce  us  to  stay  also  for  that  ner  generosity  and  kindne£:s,  and  her 
night;  but  we  had  made  other  deter-  attention  to  the  poor  and  distressed; 
mmations,  from  which  we  were  not  one  of  the  men  we  had  with  us  had 
to  be  moved.  On  leaving  it,  an  ob-  served  her  Majesty  as  boatman,  and 
iect  presented  itself,  which  was  near  spoke  of  her  with  apparent  gratitude 
havuig  more  effect  than  the  eloquence  and  respect.  The  proceedings  rela- 
of  our  friend ;  this  was  a  play-bill,  tive  to  her  Majesty  were  generally 
addressed  to  the  rispcttabilUsimo  et  known ;  and  we  heard  a  deal  of  in- 
coUissimo  public  of  Varese,  informing  dignation  expressed  against  such  of 
them  that  the  same  evening  would  be  her  people  as  had  appeared  wit- 
performed,  with  "  music  and  com-  nesses  against  her,  and  were  natives 
plete  machinery,"  the  sacred  drama  of  that  part  of  the  country,  or  known 
of  '^  Adam  and  Eve  : "  we  thought  to  our  interlocutors. 
of  the  Italian  farce,  and  of  the  story  Oiu-  row  up  the  lake  was  delight- 
about  Milton,  and  were  almost  in-  ful,  but  we  should  have  enjoyed  it 
clined  to  stop  and  see  this  specimen  more  had  we  not  been  so  lately  on 
of  heroic  poetry,  and  tlieatrical  art.  the  La^o  Moggiorc,     The   lake   of 


1821.3  Sketches  on  the  EoatL  liS 

Como,  shut  in  narrowly  by  the  bases  and  walking  through  a  pleasant  and 

of  lofty  mountains,  has,  perhaps,  too  well-ctiltivated  country^  arrived  that 

much  the  appearance  of  a  river ;  Uiese  evening  at  a  village  about  nine  miles 

mountains,  however,    are  in  them«  from  Milan.    We  passed  on  the  road 

selves  fine    objects,    breaking    into  a  company  of  young  German  artists, 

every  variety  of  bold  romantic  shape,  who    were    walking    into   Italy    to 

plentifully  patched  with  fine  woods,  study :  their  appearance  was  rather 

and  speciLled  with  picturesque  church-  more  picturesque  than  our  own;  for 

steeples,  convents,  white  villages,  and  they  wore  the  cap  and  short  frock, 

little  towns.     Monte  Bisbino,  which  which  is  become  at  Rome  the  cos« 

rises  immediately  behmd  the  Villa  tumeof  the  students  of  their  country; 

D'Este,  is  a  grand  object;  it  is  wood-  their  little  bundles  were  hung  at  their 

ed  and  spotted  with  buildings,  almost  backs  in  the  same  manner  as  ours, 

up  to  its  lofly  peak,  which  is  capped  but  each,  instead  of  a  common  waU[- 

by  a  sanctuary  of  great  reputation,  ing  stick,  had  a  long  white  staff  in 

where  an  annual  fete  is  held.    We  his  hand. 

were  told  that  the  Queen  had  once  as-  We  departed  very  early  the  nelt 
cended  to  the  very  summit.  A  great  mominff :  we  saw  the  small  slender 
number  of  villas  stand  close  on  the  spire  of  Milan  at  a  distance,  and  the 
lake ;  and  gardens  and  vineyards  ad-  number  of  vehicles,  and  the  stream 
vaiice,  almost  every  where,  to  the  of  carts  and  animals  loaded  with  hay, 
water's  brink.  In  proceeding  up-  vegetables,  &c. — reminded  us  that 
wards,  many  delightful  turns  offer  we  were  approaching  a  great  city, 
unexpectedly  some  agreeable  variety  On  our  arrival  at  the  gate,  as  our 
of  scenery,  and  a  number  of  roman-  dusty  shoes  and  dress,  and  our  bun- 
tic  spots  present  themselves  on  either  dies  announced  us  as  wayfaring  men, 
hand.  we  were  stopped  by  the  Austrians  on 

At  a  village  where  we  stopped,  we  guard,  and  conducted  Ho  a  dirty  little 

heard  a  story  that  excited  our  indig-  lodge  just  within  the  g^te :  there  our 

nation  in  no  small  degree.      Some  passports  were  taken  from  us,  and  a 

months  since,  two  fishermen  brought  paper  given  to  reclaim  them  at  the 

out  of  the  lake  an  ancient  statue;  police. 

they  carried  it  home,  and  some  per-  We  entered  Milan  amidst  the  ring- 
sons  who  could  understand  its  me-  ing  of  bells :  this  circumstance,  and 
rit,  assured  them  it  was  valuable,  and  the  number  of  shops  we  saw  closed, 
advised  them  to  send  it  to  Milan,  and  people  in  their  holiday  garb  hur- 
While  they  waited  an  opportunity  to  rying  through  the  streets,  gave  us  to 
follow  this  advice,  some  priests  hav-  understand  that  something  particular 
ing  heard  the  rumour  of  the  affair,  was  to  take  place.  On  arriving  at 
repaired,  with  the  parrochiano  at  their  our  inn,  we  learned  that  the  fete  of 
head,  to  the  poor  men's  habitation,  San  Carlo  di  Borromeo  was  to  be  ce-^ 
and  desired  to  see  the  statue ;  on  its  lebrated  in  the  domo  or  cathedraL 
being  shown  them,  they  assured  the  We  had  just  time  to  breakfast  and 
owners  that  it  was  some  heathen  god  put  ourselves  in  order :  when  we  ar- 
or  magician,  and  that  to  keep  it,  or  rived  at  the  church,  we  foimd  it 
give  it  to  any  Christian,  would  be  a  crowded;  a  fine  choir  was  singing 
great  crime.  The  statue  was  conse-  some  divine  music,  which  interesteu 
quently  again  thrown  into  the  lake,  us  deeply.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
This  trait  may  be  classed  with  that  music,  an  old  bishop,  adorned  in  all 
of  the  Turks  pounding  the  Grecian  the  trappings  of  his  office^  mounted 
works  of  art  to  make  mortar ;  and  a  rostrum :  his  discourse  was  preced- 
with  the  monks  of  the  middle  ages  ed  by  somewhat  more  than  the  usual 
melting  down  the  superb  ancient  ^t/an/um  of  taking  off  and  putting  on 
bronzes  to  make  bells  for  their  con-  the  little  black  skull-cap,  Dowinff  to 
vents.  We  credit  it,  from  the  autho-  the  crucifix  by  the  side  of  the  pulpit, 
rity  by  which  we  have  heard  it  con-  then  to  the  altar,  to  the  saint,  and 
firmed,  and,  because,  from  no  short  then  to  the  people;  blowing  the  nose, 
experience,  we  are  acquainted  with  waving  the  handkerchief,  and  hem- 
the  ignorance  of  the  priests  in  the  se-  ming.  At  length,  however,  he  began, 
eluded  parts  of  Italy.  and  in  so  strong  a  nasal  tone,  and 

About  two  o'clock  we  left  Como,  with  such  a  caricature  of  gcsticida- 


146  Sketcha  <m  the  Road,  ZA^^ 

lion  and  manner,  ag  almost  disturbed  Catliolic  caimdar)  lying  before  us^  a 
our  gravity;  indeed^  we  think  we  hollow  dried  case^  was  not  to  be 
shall  never  forget  the  strange  manner  seen  without  emotion — there  was  also 
In  which  he  nronounced  nis  indue-  wherewith  to  promote  feelings  of  awe 
tory  words,  Qftando  o  Jigliuoli  miei,"  and  devotion  in  the  circumstance  of 
&c.  The  subject  of  the  discourse  place,  and  in  the  deep  peals  of  the 
was  an  eulogium  on  S.  Carlo,  and  organ  in  the  church  above,  which 
very  inadequate  was  it  for  that  ado-  reverberated  through  the  vault.  It 
fable  character;  it  was  a  mere  was  impossible,  however,  to  main-* 
'^  thing  of  shreds  and  patches,"  taken  tain  these  long;  a  dapper  priest 
from  Uie  life  of  the  saint,  and  pil«  caught  hold  of  us  famiharly  by  the 
iaged  from  musty  chronicles,  and  arm,  and  told  us,  in  a  business-like 
Stale  euloffies,  with  which  the  Catho-  manner,  that  we  must  pass  on  and  let 
He  clerffy  nave  thought  it  expedient  others  see  the  sight  We  according- 
annual^  to  address  some  of  their  in-  ly  descended  the  steps,  and  stood 
calculable  host  of  saints.  We  ob-  aside  a  minute  or  two  to  observe  the 
served,  that  a  very  small  portion  of  the  crowd  as  it  passed  in  succession  be- 
audience  had  the  patience  to  stay  and  fore  the  body ;  the  groups  were  mot^ 
hear  the  oration;  the  far  greater  ley  in  the  extreme,  and  in  general 
part  dispersed  when  the  music  was  their  behaviour  was  as  careless  and 
finished.  The  discourse,  though  stu-  irreverend  as  possible — ^here,  for  ex- 
pid,  had  at  least  the  merit  of  being  ample,  a  tittering  Miss,  attended  by 
short :  when  it  was  finished,  the  mul-  a  smirking  beau,  hastened  up  the 
titude  began  to  re-enter  in  crowds ;  steps,  had  a  glance,  and  ran  down 
we  put  ourselves  in  the  living  stream,  again — there  a  dirty,  grinning  me- 
and  were  carried  by  it  to  a  grated  chanic,  just  escaped  from  his  shop  to 
bronze  door  in  the  left  aisle  of  the  have  a  peep,  hurried  by,  and  was 
church,  which,  we  were  informed,  led  followed,  perhaps,  by  a  scented, 
down  to  a  vault  where  lay  the  body  priggish,  talkative  advocate,  conduct- 
of  &  Carlo.  After  waiting  there  a  ing  some  '^  country  cousins "  to  see 
few  minutes  the  bolts  were  drawn  the  show, — there  a  group  of  indifTe- 
from  within  ;  tlie  door  opened,  a  rent  priests  was  succeeded  by  a  group 
murmur  was  uttered  by  the  multi-  of  just  as  indififerent  opera  dancers — 
tude,  and  they  rushed  in.  We  were  in  short,  we  were  struck  by  a  deal  of 
soon  carried  onward ;  we  descended  a  coiiiiisive  noise,  and  idle  curiosity ; 
flight  of  steps,  and  found  ourselves  in  by  a  great  deal  that  reminded  us  of  a 
an  illuminated  chapel,  to  the  right  of  show  at  a  fair,  but  by  hardly  any 
which,  and  just  under  the  Aitare  thing  partaking  of  religious  solemni- 
3€aggiore  of  the  cathedral,  was  a  ty.  We  only  saw  the  streaming  eye 
large  glass  case,  with  rich  carved  and  and  clasped  hands  of  devotion  in  two 
gilt  frame  work ;  this  case  enclosed  or  three  miserable  wretehes,  and  a 
tne  body  of  the  saint,  lying  on  his  few  decayed  devotees. 
back,  dressed  in  his  fine  robes,  with  We  soon  abandoned  our  observa- 
his  mitre  on  his  head,  and  his  crosier  tions,  and  ascending  a  flight  of  steps 
by  his  side.  We  were  soon  admitted  opposite  those  by  which  we  had  de- 
to  a  closer  inspection ;  some  three  or  scended  to  the  chapel,  we  found  our- 
fimr  steps  led  up  to  the  case,  which  selves  again  in  the  cathedral.  It  was 
the  crowd  were  permitted  to  ap-  fiill  of  people,  some  repairhig  to  the 
proach,  a  few  at  a  time ;  we  ascend-  subterranean  chapel,  some  returning 
ed  in  our  turn,  and  by  the  strong  thence,  and  others  gazing  round  the 
glare  of  the  light  saw  the  dried  face  church  at  a  number  of  ill-painted 
and  hands  of  the  holy  man.  The  pictures,  representing  the  life  of  the 
head  seemed  pretty  well  preserved,  saint. 

but  still  we  fancied    it    was  of   a        The  vulgar  assert  that  the  preser- 

browner  hue  than  the  many  bodies  vation  of  S.  Carlo's  body  is  the  con- 

we  have  seen  kept  in  a  similar  way —  sequence  of  a  particular  miracle :  the 

some  of  them  even  for  a  longer  penod.  fact  is,  that  the  intervention  of  very 

The    siffht    of  the   benevolent,  the  little  of  the  miraculous  is  required: 

fious,  tne  devoted  Carlo  of  Borromeo  we  have  seen,  in  the  catacombs  of  a 

who  deserves  much  higher  and  bet-  monastery  near  Palermo,  the  bodies 

ter  distinction  than  a  place  in   the  of  a  number  of  monks,  standing  up 
5 


1 891.^  Sketckei  m  the  RotuL  147 

in  niches,  in  quite  88  rood  preserra-  parement^  which,  in  itt  ptesent  states 
tion  as  S.  Carlo's ;  and  many  of  them  is  a  considerable  deformity.  On  the 
have  been  dead  as  long.  In  the  vaults  whole,  however,  the  interior  is  grand; 
of  the  church  of  •  *  *  at  Naples,  (in  the  lofty  dome,  the  painted  windows, 
which  the  dead  of  many  of  the  noble  the  massy  columns,  and  the  loftg 
families  of  that  city  are  deposited)  twilight  aisles,  produce  a  fine  effect, 
we  have  seen  bodies,  some  dead  up-  We  next  ascended  the  dome  and  the 
wards  of  a  hundred  years,  in  excel-  slender  spire,  and  wefe  eveir  mo- 
lent  preservation.  ment  struck  with  the  absurdity  of 

These  awftil  receptacles,  with  o-  detail,  and  the  immensity  of  labour 

thers  in  the  same  capital,  are  opened  and  materials  completely  thrown  a- 

once  a  year,   the  —  of  September,  way ;  thousands  of  statues  are  placed 

"  //  giomo  dei  morti,"  to  the  public,  where  no^  eye  from  below  can  see 

who  flock  to  them  as  to  every  other  them;  finished  figures,  three  or  four' 

sight :  inscriptions,  much  in  the  style  feet  high,   are   ranged   where  even 

of  our  tomb-stones,  are  placed  by  bold  figures  could  produce  no  efiTect : 

each  niche ;   the  sombre  vaults  are  a  forest  of  small^  spires,  all  laboured 

lighted   with    torches   and  hanging  with  true  Grothic  minuteness,  rises 

lamps ;  the  little  chapels  are  opened;  from  the  roof;  the  building  is  fretted 

and  masses  are  said,  and  fresh  flowers  ^nd  carved,  and  loaded  widi  om&- 

are  placed  by  the  altar,  and  by  the  jnents  up  to  the  very  top ;  even  the 

tombs.     We    once    accompanied   a  inside  and  comers  of  the  stair-caset 

lady   there,  who  discovered  several  are  sculptured — indeed  there  seema 

old  acquaintances  and  relatives  by  a  quarry  of  marble,  and  a  century  of 

their  faces :  she  made  us  observe  one  work,  very  unprofitably  employed. —  . 

of  her  uncles   who  had  been   dead  As  we  ascended  the  spire  with  two 

many  years,  and  she  said  she  saw  in-  ox    three    other   curious   visitors,  it 

stantly  the  resemblance  he  bore  to  shook  much;  and  we  were  almost 

her  father.     It  must  be  curious  for  a  alarmed  when,  standing  on  the  top, 

living  being  to  walk  through  these  we  saw  its  narrow  base,  the  immense 

dark  galleries,  and  see  a  long  line  of  height  at  which  we  were  held  up  in 

his  ancestors  and  friends,  and  mark  the  air,   and  felt  it  vibrate  as  we 

the  niche  which  he  shall  one  day  oo-  moved ;  it  fairly  seemed  to  nod  with 

cupy,  as  mute  and  hollow  a  thing  as  ns. — The  view  which  it  commands 

the  rest!  is  very  extensive.    The  whole  city 

But  to  return — the  want  of  so-  of  Milan  lav  at  our  feet ;  we  saw  the 

lemnity,  and  even  of  decency,  which  wide  and  fertile  plain  of  Lombardy, 

we  remarked,  is  not  at  all  peculiar  so  often  the  object  of  contest,  and 

to  this  fete,  or  to  Milan.    In  every  the  scene  of  battle,   irrigated  by  a 

city  of  Italy  that  we  have  visited,  '  hundred  streams,  and  speckled  by 

religious  festivals  are  frequented  (ex-  hundreds  of  towns  and  villages :  on 

cept  by  a  small  number)  merely  as  one  side  we  perceived,  afar  oflT,  the 

amusive  shows:  we  have  witnessed  commencement    of  the    Apenninesi, 

scenes,  in  the  cathedral  at  Naples,  and  on  the  other,  the  snowy  heads  of 

as  burlesque  as  we  ever  saw  in  the  the  distant  Alps, 
booth  of  a  wandering  conjuror :  even        After  oiir  descent,  we  observed  for 

the  famed  festival  of  St.  Peter's  at  awhile  the  exterior  of  the  edifice. 

Rome,  has  little  solemn  or  imposing  The  front  is  the  finest  part :   it  ia 

in  it,  except  what  is  produced  oy  the  bold  and  striking,  and  at  a  little  dis- 

music,  the  grandeur  of  the  edifice,  tance,   in  the  square  facing  it,  the 

and  the  sun-like  brilliancy  of  the  illu-  minutiae  and  details  mass  well  toge- 

mination.  ther ;  the  grand  door  is  spacious  and 

"When  the  crowd  had  dispersed,  noble;  and  the  fine  wide  flight  of  steps 

we  devoted  half  an  hour  to  the  ex-  forms  a  good  base.    Neither  of  the 

amination  of  the  interior  of  the  ca-  other  sides  is  finished ;    scafiblding 

thedral.      It  is   a  pity  this  is  not  is  han^ng  in  many  parts,  and  the 

finished ;  for,  in  architecture,  every  deformity  of  detail,  and  lost  labour 

deficiency,  however  small,  rivets  the  which  we  have  complained  of,  are 

eye  and  diverts  the  attention ;  it  is  very  visible.    The  spire,  seen  from 

also  curious  that  so  very  little   is  below,  has  a  very  arotesquc  appear- 

wanting   to    complete   at    least  the  ance.    What  could  nave  tempted  the 


I4S                                   The  Lmvyer  :'^a  Picture*  C-^ug. 

architect   to   crown  a  vast  massy  diers  were  ttatioiied  in  the  pit  during 

edifice>  like  this,  with   a   tall  thiu  the  performance, 

piece  of  absurdity^  which  seems^  to  We  shall  not  recapitulate  the  jour* 

shake  in  the  wind^  and  looks  like  nal  of  our  stay  in  Milan  (perhaps  we 

a  rod  rused  up  for  a  lightning-con-  have  already  iniiiaged  too  much  the 

ductor?  plan  we  had  prescribed):  we  shall 

The  works  are^  at  present,  going  on  only  state,  that  we  sweHed  with  in- 
very  slowly ;  an  immense  deal  of  la-  dignation  before  the  ruins  of  the  di- 
bour  and  some  millions  of  francs  would  vine  "  Last  Supper"  of  Leonardo  da 
still  be  required  to  complete  the  edi-  Vinci — ^turned  over  some  books  and 
fice,  of  which  not  a  few  parts  al-  manuscripts  in  the  Ambrosian  library 
ready  exhibit  marks  of  decay.  —felt  some  tender  emotions  in  going 

In    the  evening   we  went  to  the  through  the  apartments  inhabited  a 

theatre  delta  Scah.,  reputed  th^  se-  few  years  affo  by  that  veteran  of  li- 

cond,  and  by  some,  the  first  theatre  terature,  and  most  amiable  of  men, 

on  the   continent :  we   think  it  in-  Giuseppe  Parini,  author  of  the  beau- 

ferior  to  its  rival  S.  Carlo  of  Naples ;  tiful  and  well-known  poem  '*  II  Gi- 

though,  to  tell  the  truth,  we  could  omo" — sympathized  with  some  wor- 

■carcely  see  what  it  was,  being  so  thy  and  intellectual  people,  on  the 

exceedingly  ill  lighted.     The  audi-  oppressive  government  of  Austria, 

ence  we  found  digustingly  noisy  and  and  the  want  of  energy  and  virtue  in 

disorderly ;  and  the  singers  and  corps  the  modem  Italians — end  visited  the 

de  ballet  far  inferior  to  Uie  compames  theatres,  and  public  places  and  sights 

we  had  left  in  Naples  a  few  months  —as  all  travellers  are  in  duty  bound 

before.    A  number  of  Austrian  sol-  to  do. 


THE  LAWYER:— A  PICTURE. 

^  Ancient  hi  phrase,  mere  modem  in  the  sense.** — Popt. 

JFtetft  Canto* 

Oh !  mortal  man,  whose  inconsistent  mind 
Is  ever  varying,  ever  discontent, 
If  thou  wouldst  learn  true  happiness  to  find, 
Bnjoy  the  blessings  bounteous  Heaven  hath  lent ! 
Yet  certes  'twas  by  Nature  wisely  meant. 
Albeit  possessing,  man  should  not  enjoy 
Continued  bliss  ;  were  the  bow  always  bent. 
The  cord  would  break ;  a  constant  feast  would  cloy. 
And  man  would  loathe  his  life  if  lacking  its  alloy. 

In  London  town,  fast  by  the  Thamb'  side. 
On  pleasaunt  bank  of  variegated  lands. 
Smiling  betwix  Sainct  Clement  and  Sainct  Bride, 
Lyk  moder  twix  her  sonnes,  a  Tempill  stands: 
Here  lig  the  sable  and  sagacious  bands. 
Whose  wicked  lore  on  ample  folios  shines, 
Ingrost  I  ween  by  many  clerkly  hands. 
From  age  to  age,  in  long  and  laboured  lines  ;— 
Of  man's  imperfect  nature,  sad,  but  certain  signs  ! 

In  sooth,  sagacious  bands : — while  silly  strife 
To  other  men  brings  sorrow,  sin,  and  shame, 
Pois'ning  the  purest  elements  of  lil'e,— 
To  them  it  yieldeth  afiSuence  and  fame  ! 
Natheless  to  solder  broken  faith  they  aim. 
To  prop  the  weak,  and  moderate  the  strong ; 
But  eager  in  ambition's  glorious  game. 
They  reck  not  of  the  right  side  or  the  wrong, 
But  careless  pass  their  hours  their  bokes  and  biicfs  among. 


1891.;]  Th€  Lawyer:''-^  Pkhan.  141 

Within  thig  TempiU  standa  a  cpodly  pile 
Of  buildings  strong,  albeit  of  Faper  night. 
Where,  at  the  head  of  many  a  windinff  file 
Of  crazy  steps,  there  lired  a  merrie  wight. 
A  cheertiil  wonne  it  was,  of  aspect  light. 
By  massive  door  and  double  b<Mt8  sectu^d. 
With  inner  valve  and  knocker  rubb'd  so  bright. 
To  try  its  power  the  passin^^  hand  it  lured ; 
And  here  the  live-long  day  this  wight  was  close  immured. 

The  outward  room  was  desolate  and  bare. 
Save  seat  for  roguish  Gierke  who  entraunce  gave ; 
But  far  within,  on  pompous  easy-chair. 
Knee  deep  in  papers,  sate  the  master  grave : 
He  was,  to  weet,  a  fascinating  knave 
As  e'er  charm'd  men  with  magic  of  the  tongue. 
For,  or  in  open  court  or  close  conclave. 
All  on  his  honied  words  with  transport  hung  ; 
So  that  through  England's  land  his  £une  was  kmdiy  rung. 

On  every  side  were  thick-bound  quartos  fiwig. 
And  lesser  tomes  in  sheet  or  board  of  blue. 
And  tape-tied  trash,  (as  erst  my  master  sung. 
When  yon  sad  Castle  of  Delights  he  drew  ;J 
Lackt  not  the  saffron-back'd  and  dun  review. 
The  modem  tale,  the  old  romantic  lore, 
Ne  flippaimt  magazine,  ne  pamphlet  new  ; 
'Mid  such  varietie  of  letter  d  store. 
Save  reading,  you  mote  thinke  he  had  to  do  nought  more. 

And  all  around  were  nicely  suited  shelves. 
For  every  size  and  character  of  boke. 
From  giant  folios  down  to  pigmy  twelves. 
Old,  middle  aged,  and  new,— a  motley  stock ! — 
"  Treason  "  upheld  by  "  Hale,"  and  "  Crime"  by  "  Coke," 
'^ Frauds"  by  "The  Common  Law,"  "Crpwn  I^as"  by  "Powers," 
The  "  Life  of  Faith  "  by  "  Hume  "  and  «'  Bolingbroke ; " 
Twix  "  Rules"  and  "  Precedente"  plain  «'  Practice  "  towers. 
And  Socrates  o'er  all  in  bronzed  stucco  lours  1 

In  inner  chamber,  hid  from  vulgar  sight. 
Maps,  globes,  and  instruments,  confusedly  lay. 
Prints,  drawings,  music,  all  in  .tatter*d  plight. 
The  still-loved  studies  of  his  youthful  day ; 
Full  oil,  he  lengthen'd  visits  nere  would  pay 
To  sweet  remembrances  of  pleasures  gone ; 
Here  legal  caution  lost  its  icy  sway. 
Here  dropt  the  studied  look,  the  solemn  tone. 
And  here  his  full  heart  spoke  in  language  all  its  own. 

And  here  each  ni^t,  retired  from  drafts  and  pleas. 
He  ay  withdrew ;  and  rid  of  all  controul. 
Scribbled  in  leetle  boke  his  notes  and  fees; 
Then  with  some  mental  feast  refwsh^  his  soul : 
Then  pampering  scraps  of  wit  he  would  unroll. 
Or  on  the  gifted  page  of  genius  pore. 
Strike  to  Mozart  the  angel-stram'd  viole. 
Or  weep  abandon'd  Dido's  sorrows  o'er. 
Or  Shakespeare's  mafic  world  contemplate  and  adore. 


Ah  me,  the  cares  of  man !  Dm  Pmrtus  Grfes>-«> 
Dissatisfied,  anibition-blliided  man  ;-* 
From  happy  still  to  happier  he  flles^ 
Sad  cause  of  his  first  fail  and  Heaven's  first  ban ! — 
When  Fame  to  trump  my  hero's  name  began. 
He  sigh'd  the  Senate  as  the  bar  to  shake^ 
Forsook  the  course  he  long  victorious  ran. 
And  lost  the  hi^  while  playing  higher  stake  ;-^ 
Which  of  another  song  shtul  subject  matter  make. 

ftfrotfO  Canto* 

Oh  Poesie,  thou  sweetest,  loveliest  maid 
Of  all  who  minister  man's  bliss  below. 
Purest  of  mental  beings,  by  whose  aid 
Oelestial  transports  we  on  earth  foreknow  I 
How  often  at  thy  £eet  my  grie&  I  throw ; 
How  well  I  love,  but  ah  !  how  worthlessly, 
These  trickling  witnesses  too  soothly  show. 
When  from  a  world  I  little  love,  I  flee. 
To  one  all  flowers  and  sun-shine,  form'd,  sweet  maid,  by  thee. 

I  woo  thee  not  for  fame  or  filthy  gain, 
I  seek  thee  not  in  schooli  of  modem  date, 
I  disavow  thee  'mong  the  critic  train. 
Who,  as  their  factions  dictate,  love  or  hate ; 
In  solitude  I  sue  thee,  ear'  and  late. 
On  native  mountain  or  in  kindred  glade ; 
No  richer  gifts  of  Heaven  I  supplicate. 
Than  healtli,  content,  and  thee,  thou  heaven^bom  maid: 
Ah,  gracious  God,  with  these  my  joys  would  never  fade  ? 

But  to  mv  tale ;— Near  this  our  wight's  abode, 
A  little  higher  up  the  Thamis'  stream. 
Where  by  Westminster's  arches  'tis  ystrode, 
Sainct  Stephen's  antiquated  turrets  gleam ; 
From  Lambeth's  shores  a  little  town  they  seem. 
By  architects  of  every  nation  plann'd  ; 
And  certes  every  nation's  plans  make  theme 
For  mickle  work,  to  the  debating  band 
That  nightly  fashion  laws  for  England's  thinking  land  ! 

A  mottled  dump  of  roofs  and  waDs  it  was, 
Ne  portal  visible  to  unskill'd  e'e. 
As  though  by  open  access  none  mote  pass. 
And  nought  but  dark  and  hidden  ways  were  free ; 
And  hidden  ways  enow  I  wot  there  be. 
For  entraunce  to  that  house  of  high  renown : — 
How  our  wight  entered,  boots  not, — there  was  he, — 
Of  all  his  tow'ring  wishes  at  the  crown. 
When  in  Sainct  Stephen's  hall  at  last  he  sate  him  down. 

Who  but  Sir  Member  now  was  nightly  seen. 
With  swelling  strut  and  consequential  air. 
But  ill  conced'd  by  the  aflected  mien 
Of  self-unworthiness  that  simper'd  there ; 
But  the  peer'd  eyebrow  and  tne  listless  stare. 
That,  while  it  favor'd,  seem'd  to  pity  too. 
Disclosed  the  aspect  that  the  ^Eice  wmtid  wear. 
Were  its  reflection  to  the  bosom  true  :— 
Good  Lord,  with  what  nice  arts  deeeit  doth  man  endue ! 


1891.;]  Tke  Lmfi^er  :^Hk  Fklmn.  -  151 

On  bed  of  roses  now  the  Templar  view> 
By  senatorial  influence  upborne ; 
But  ah  !  what  bed  of  roses  eyer  grew> 
Where  lurk'd  not  the  unwelcome  staJDc  of  thorn  ! 
£ftsoons  his  heart  with  secret  stings  was  tom^ 
When  that  sooth  tongue  that  ay  attention  won^ 
And  oil  success^  to  causes  most  forlorn. 
Unheeded  e'en  in  Freedom's  cause  begun. 
While  ill-bred  cough  and  yawn  round  sleepy  hearers  run. 

Ay,  sicker,  'twere  a  subtle  tongue  indeed 
In  predetermined  cause  that  could  prevail. 
Albeit  £or  truth  and  liberty  it  plead, — 
As  too  soon  found  the  hero  of  my  tale. 
He  founder'd  in  the  ministerial  gale. 
The  sea  of  public  principle  that  sweeps, 
'Whelming  th'  advent'rous  barks  that  dare  to  sail 
Beyond  Expediency*  uufatkom'd  deeps,-* 
Which  in  continued  strife  the  state's  own  vessel  keeps. 

Yet  to  those  gallant  barks  that  brave  the  storm. 
Be  one  triumphant  shout  of  glory  given. 
Loud  as  the  billow  in  its  fiercest  form. 
On  ocean  rock  by  western  whirlwind  driven. 
See  proud  Oppression's  chains  asunder  riven ; 
While  e'en  gaunt  Power  shrinks  scowling  'neath  his  helm. 
And  swoln  Corruption  hears  the  voice  of  heaven 
In  patriot  tongues,  her  minions  that  o'erwhelm. 
And  hurl  in  awnjil  peals  the  Vengeance  of  a  realm. 

Alack  for  our  poor  wight !  at  this  he  aim'd ; 
And  as  right  noble  was  the  prize  he  sought. 
So  be.  the  failure  less  severely  blamed. 
In  pity  to  the  sufferings  on  him  brought : 
For  ruin  to  his  peace  of  mind  It  wrought, — 
In  his  whole  chain  of  happiness  no  link 
It  left  entire ;  his  future  Ofe  was  nought. 
For  his  first  fame  had  died. — ^Ah  me !  to  think 
That  e'er  absurd  ambition  man  so  low  should  sink. 

The  shrub  the  fury  of  the  blast  oil  braves. 
When  the  proud  oak  in  summer  vigour  falls ; 
The  cockboat  ofl  rides  safely  through  the  waves 
That  ruthless  swallow  mighty  ammirals ; 
The  lifphtning  strikes  the  turret^crested  halls 
That  daring  g^sten  on  the  mountain  height. 
But  spares  the  low-roof 'd  cabins'  humble  walls 
That  m  the  valley  scarce  impede  the  light: — 
And  so  in  moral  nature  feured  it  with  our  wight. 

Thus  ends  my  tale :  albeit  this  seely  youdi 
Repcnteth  sore  the  errour  of  his  way. 
Yet  sufiering  for  folly  is  most  sooth ; 
And  now  his  heart  feels  Hope's  reviving  ray ; 
She  with  her  madic  finger  marks  a  day. 
Nor  distant  far,  his  life  that  will  renew. 
No  more  in  vile  ambhion's  paths  to  stray  :— 
And,  these  consoling  prospects  in  his  view. 
To  self  reproach  and  shame  ne  Uien  will  bid  adieu. 


IM       Jtwi,  Qftakert,  SMchmgn,  a^  other  Imperftct  Sympaihiet.      [[Aug. 

•  ■ 

JEWS,  QUAKERS,  SCOTCHMEN, 

AND    OTU£E    IMPE&FfCT     SYMPATHIES. 

I  am  of  s  constitution  so  general,  thst  it  consorts  and  sympathizeth  with  all  things, 
I  have  no  antipathy,  or  rather  idiosyncracy  in  any  thing.  Those  national  repugnancies 
do  not  touch  me,  nor  do  I  behold  with  prejudice  the  French,  Italian,  Spaniard,  and 
Butch. — ReKgio  Medici, 

That  the  author  of  the  Reli^o  can  feel  for  all  indifferently^  but  I 

Medici,  mounted  upon  the  airy  stilts  cannot  feel  towards  them  all  equally. 

of  abstraction,  conversant  about  no-  The  more  purely-English  word  that 

tional  and  conjectural   essences,   in  expresses  sympathy  will  better  ex- 

whose  categories  of  Being  the  po8«  plain  my  meanmg.    I  can  be  a  friend 

rible    took  the  upper  hand  of  the  to  a  worthy  man,  who  upon  another 

actual,  should  have  overlooked  the  account  cannot  be  my  mate  or  fellow, 

impertinent  individualities   of  such  I  cannot  like  all  people  alike.* 
poor  concretions  as  mankind,  is  not        I  have  been  trying  all  my  life  to 

much  to  be  admired.     It  is  rather  to  like  Scotchmen,  and  am  obliged  to 

be  wondered  at,  that  in  the  genus  of  desist  from  the  experiment  in  despair, 

animals  he  should  have  condescended  They  cannot  like  me — and  in  truth, 

to  distinguish  that  species  at  all.  For  I  never  knew  one  of  that  nation  who 

myself— earth-bound  and  fettered  to  attempted  to  do  it    There  is  some- 

the  scene  of  my  activities, —  thing  more  plain  and  ingenuous  hi 

Bunding  on  e«th,  not  npt  Aove  the  sky,     ^^J!^^  "if^V^H:    ^ll  ''""^ 
*  '  r  j^    Qng  another  At  first  sight.     There  is 

I  confess  that  I  do  feel  the  diffe-  an  order  of  Imperfect  intellects  (un- 
rences  of  mankind,  national  or  indi-  der  which  mine  must  be  content  to 
vidual,  to  an  unhealthy  excess.  I  rank)  which  in  its  constitution  is  es- 
can  look  with  no  indifferent  eye  upon  sentiallv  anti-Caledonian.  The  own- 
things  or  persons.  Whatever  is,  is  ers  of  the  sort  of  faculties  I  allude  to 
to  me  a  matter  of  taste  or  distaste ;  have  minds  rather  suggestive  than 
or  when  once  it  becomes  indifferent,  comprehensive.  They  have  no  pie- 
it  begins  to  be  disrelisking.  I  am,  in  tences  to  much  clearness  or  precision 
plainer  words,  a  bundle  of  prejudices  in  their  ideas,  or  in  their  manner  of 
— made  up  of  likings  and  dislikings —  expressing  them.  Their  intcUectual 
the  veriest  thrall  to  sympathies,  dis-  wardrobe  (to  confess  fairly)  has  few 
pathies,  antipathies.  In  a  certain  whole  pieces  in  it.  They  are  con- 
sense,  I  hope  it  may  be  said  of  me,  tent  with  fragments  and  scattered 
that  I  am  a  lover  of  my  species.    I  pieces  of  Truth.  She  presents  no  full 

*  I  would  be  understood  as  confining  myself  to  the  subject  of  imperfect  iympathict. 
To  nations  or  classes  of  men  there  can  be  no  direct  antipathy.  There  may  be  indi\iduals 
bom  and  constellated  so  opposite  to  another  individual  nature,  that  the  same  sphere  can- 
not  hold  them.  I  have  met  with  my  moral  antipodes,  and  can  believe  the  story  of  two 
persons  meeting  (who  never  saw  one  another  before  in  their  lives)  and  instantly  fighting. 

We  by  proof  find  there  should  be 
*Twixt  man  and  man  sudi  an  antipathy, 
That  thon^  he  can  show  no  just  reason  why 
For  any  former  wrong  or  injuir. 
Can  neither  find  a  Uemtih  in  his  fame, 
Nor  aught  in  fitce  or  featme  jusdy  blame. 
Can  challenge  or  accuse  him  of  no  evil, 
Yet  notwithstanding  hates  him  as  a  deviL 

The  lines  are  fmrn  old  Heywood*s  '*  Hierarchie  of  Angels,**  and  he  subjoins  a  curious 
story  in  confirmation,  of  a  Spaniard  who  attempted  to  assassinate  a  King  Ferdinand  of 
Spun,  and  being  put  to  the  rack  could  give  no  other  reason  for  the  deed  but  an  invcte- 
nte  antipathy  whidi  he  had  taken  to  the  first  si^^t  of  the  King. 

The  cause  which  to  that  act  oompell*d  him 

M^as,  he  ne*er  loved  him  since  he  first  beheld  him. 


i88i0    J^wi,  Quikers,  Secitkmen,  mid  otktr  Impeifid  SljfW^iMH.        IM 

front  to  them— a  fixture  or  ride-fkoe  him.  Is  he  orthodox—he  has  no 
at  the  most.  Hiqis  and  glimpses,  doubts.  Is  he  an  infidel— he  has  none 
pferms  and  crude  essajs  at  a  system,  efther.  Between  the  affirmative  and 
IB  the  utmost  they  pretend  to.  They  the  negatiye  there  is  no  border-iand 
beat  up  a  little  game  peradventure—  with  mm.  You  cannot  hover  with 
and  leave  it  to  knottier  heads^  more  hun  upon  the  confines  of  truth,  or 
robust  constitutions^  to  run  it  down,  wander  in  the  maze  of  a  probable 
The  light  that  lights  them,  is  not  argument.  He  always  keeps  the 
steady  and  polar,  but  mutable  and  path.  You  cannot  msfie  excursions 
flhifUng ;  waxing,  and  agun  waning,  with  lum— rfor  he  sets  you  ri^t.  His 
Their  conversation  is  accordingly,  taste  never  fluctuates.  His  morality 
They  will  throw  out  a  random  word  he^er  abates.  He  cannot  compro- 
In  or  out  of  season,  and  be  content  to  mise,  or  understand  middle  actions, 
let  it  pass  for  what  it  is  worUi.  They  There  can  be  but  a  right  and  a 
caimot  speak  always  as  if  they  were  wrong.  His  conversation  is  as  a 
upon  their  oath — ^but  must  be  under*  book.  His  affirmations  have  the 
stood,  speaking  or  writing,  with  sanctity  of  aa  oath.  You  must 
some  abatement.  They  seldom  wait  speak  upon  the  square  with  him. 
to  matiu-e  a  proposition,  but  e'en  He  stops  a  metaphor  like  a  suspect- 
bring  it  to  market  in  the  green  ear.  ed  person  in  an  enemy's  country. 
They  delight  to  impart  their  defec-  ''  A  healthy  book !"— «aid  one  of  his 
five  discoveries  as  tney  arise,  without  countrymen  to  me,  who  had  ven- 
waiting  for  their  full  developement.  Cured  to  give  that  iq>pellation  to 
They  are  no  systematizers,  and  Ji^n  Bun^, — '^  did  I  catch  ric^tly 
would  but  err  more  by  attempting  it.  what  you  said?  I  have  heard  of  a 
Their  minds,  as  I  said  before,  are  man  in  health,  and  of  a  healthy  state 
Miggestivc  merely.  The  brain  of  a  of  body,  but  I  do  not  see  how  that 
true  Caledonian  (if  I  am  not  mis-  epithet  can  be  properly  applied  to  a 
taken)  is  constituted  upon  quite  a  MKik."  Above  all,  you  must  bewars 
difierent  plan.  Its  Minerva  is  bom  of  indirect  expressions  before  a  Ca» 
in  panoply.  You  are  never  admitted  ledonian.  Clap  an  extinguisher  up* 
to  see  nis  ideas  in  their  growth— if  on  your  irony,  if  you  are  unhappily 
indeed,  they  do  grow,  and  are  not  ra*  blest  with  a  vdn  of  it.  Remember 
ther  put  together  upon  principles  of  you  are  upon  0our  oath.— I  have  a 
clock-work.  You  never  catdi  his  print  of  a  grQseful  female  after  Leo» 
mind  in  an  undress.  He  never  hints  nardo  da  Vinci^  which  I  was  show- 
or  suggests  any  thing,  but  unlades  log  off  to  Mr.  **^.  After  he  had 
hb  stodL  of  ideas  in  perfect  order  and  eauunined  it  minutely,  I  ventured  to 
completeness.  He  has  no  falterings  aik  him  how  he  liked  mt  Iseauty  (a 
of  sc^f-suspidon.  Surmiwra,  guesses,  foolish  name  it  goes  by  among  my 
suppositions,  half-intuitions,  demi-  friends)— >when  he  verv  <gravely  aa« 
consciousnesses,  misgivings,  partial  sured  me,  that  "  he  had  consider- 
illuminations,  '^  dim  instincts,  em*  able  respect  for  my  character  and 
bryo  conceptions,  and  every  stage  talents"  (ao  he  was  pleased  to  say), 
that  stops  snort  of  absolute  certainty  ^  but  had  not  given  himself  much 
and  conviction— his  inteUectual  fa-  thought  about  the  degree  of  my  per- 
cuhy  seems  a  stranger  to.  He  brings  aonal  pretensions."  The  misconcep- 
his  total  wealth  into  company,  and  tion  stoggered  me,  but  did  not  seeni 
gravely  unpadn  it.  His  riclies  are  much  to  disconcert  him.^ — Persons  of 
always  about  him.  He  never  stoops  this  nation  are  particularly  fond  of 
to  catch  a  glittering  sometiung  in  afikming  a  truth — ^which  nobody 
joar  presence,  to  ware  it  with  you  doubts*  They  do  not  so  properly 
before  he  quite  knows  whether  it  be  affirm,  f»  anmmdate  it  They  do 
true  touch  or  not.  You  cannot  cry  indeed  iq>pear  to  have  such  a  love 
hahfcs  to  any  thing  that  he  finds.  He  of  truth— as  if,  like  virtue,  it  were 
does  not  find,  but  bring.  You  never  valuable  for  itself— that  all  truth  be- 
wkness  his  first  apprehension  of  a  comes  equally  valuable,  whether  the 
thing.  His  understanding  is  alwavs  proposition  that  contains  it  be  new 
at  its  meridian— you  never  see  the  or  old,  disputed,  or  such  as  is  im* 
first  dawn,  the  early  streaks.  The  possible  to  become  a  subject  of  dis- 
twilight  of  dubiety  never  falls  upon  potation.  I  was  present  not  long 
Vol.  IV.                                  t—  i~    j^ 


15i        Jews,  Stoiehmtn,  Qaaktrg,  and  other  Imperfeei  Syn^pMie*.    •  QAug. 

tSaace  at  a  party  of  North  Britons  But  I  should  not  care  to  be  in  habits 
where  a  son  of  Bums  was  expected ;  of  familiar  intercourse  with  any  of 
and  happened  to  drop  a  silly  expres-  that  nation.  I  confess  that  I  have 
•ion  (in  my  south  British  way^,  that  not  the  nerves  to  enter  their  syna- 
I  wished  it  were  the  father  mstead  gogues.  Old  prejudices  cling  about 
of  the  son — when  four  of  them  me.  I  cannot  shake  off  the  story  of 
started  up  at  once  to  inform  me,  Hugh  of  Lincoln.  Centuries  of  in* 
that  "  that  was  iippossible>  because  jury,  contempt,  and  hate,  on  the  one 
he  was  dead."  An  impracticable  side,— of  cloaked  revenge,  dissimula- 
wish,  it  seems,  was  more  than  they  tion,  and  hate,  on  the  other,  between 
could  conceive.  Swift  has  hit  off  our  and  their  fathers,  must,  and  ought, 
tlus  part  of  their  character,  namely  to  affect  the  blood  of  the  children, 
their  love  of  truth,  in  his  biting  way,  I  cannot  believe  it  can  run  dear  and 
liut  with  an  iUiberality  that  neces-  kindly  yet ;  or  that  a  few  fine  words, 
aarily  confines  the  passage  to  the  such  as  candour,  liberality,  the  light 
margin.*  The  tediousness  of  the  of  a  nuieteenth  century,  can  close 
Scotch  is  certainly  proverbiaL  I  up  the  breaches  of  sach  a  mighty 
wonder  if  they  ever  tire  one  another !  antipathy.  A  Hebrew  is  no  where 
"—In  my  early  life  I  had  a  passionate  congenial  to  me.  He  is  least  dis- 
fimdness  for  the  poetrv  of  Bums,  tasteful  on  'Chanffe— for  the  mer- 
I  have  sometimes  foolishly  hoped  to  cantile  spirit  leveb  all  distinctions. 
Ingratiate  myself  with  his  country*  as  all  are  beauties  in  the  dark.  I 
men  by  expressing  it  But  I  have  boldly  confess  that  I  do  not  relish 
always  found  that  a  true  Scot  re-  the  approximation  of  Jew  and  Chris- 
ients  your  admiration  of  his  com*  tian,  which  has  become  so  fashion- 
patriot,  even  more  than  he  would  able.  The  reciprocal  endearments 
Jour  contempt  of  him.  The  latter  have,  to  me,  something  hypocritical 
e  imputes  to  your  "  imperfect  ac-  and  unnatural  in  them.  I  do  not 
quatntance  with  many  of  the  words  like  to  see  the  Church  and  S3nia- 
which  he  uses ;"  and  the  same  objec-  gogue  kbsing  and  congeeing  in  awk- 
tion  makes  it  a  presumption  in  you  ward  postures  of  an  affected  civility. 
to  suppose  that  you  can  admire  him.  If  they  are  converted,  why  do  they 
I  have  a  great  mind  to  give  up  not  come  over  to  us  altogether? 
Bums.  There  is  certainly  a  brag-  MHiy  keep  up  a  form  of  separation, 
cing  spirit  of  generosity,  a  swagger-  when  the  lite  of  it  is  fled  ?  If  they 
mg  assertion  of  independence,  and  can  sit  with  us  at  table,  why  do  they 
«tt  thai,  in  his  writings.  Thomson  keck  at  our  cookery  ?  I  do  not  un- 
they  seem  to  have  forgotten.  Smol-  derstand  these  half-convertites.  Jews 
lett  they  have  neither  forgotten  nor  christianizing — Christians  judaizing 
foTffiven  for  his  delineation  of  Rory  — ^puzzle  me.  I  like  fish  or  flesh. 
maa  his  companion,  upon  their  first  A  moderate  Jew  is  a  more  con- 
introduction  to  our  metropolis. —  founding  piece  of  anomaly  than  a 
Speak  of  Smollett  as  a  great  genius,  wet  Quaker.    The  spirit  of  the  syna- 

and    they     will    retort    upon    you    gogue  is  essentially  #epara<iW.  B- 

Hume's  Histoiy  compared  with  his  wmild  have  been  more  in  keeping  if 

Continuation  of  it.    What  if  the  his-  he  had  abided  by  the  faith  of  nis 

torian    had    continued    Humphrey  forefathers.    There  is  a  fine  scom  in 

Clinker?  his  face,  which  nature  meant  to  be 

I   have,  in  the  abstract,  no  dis-    of  Christians.  The  Hebrew  spirit 

respect  for  Jews.  They  are  a  piece  is  strong  in  him  in  spite  of  his  pro- 
of stubborn  antiquity,  compared  with  selytism.  He  cannot  conquer  the 
which,  Stonehenge  is  in  its  nonage.  Shibboleth.  How  it  breaks  out. 
They    date    beyond   the   pyramids,  when  he  sings,    *'  The  Children  of 


*  There  are  stime  people  who  think  thev  soffidendy  acquit  themselves,  and  enter- 
tafai  their  company  with  relating  of  facts  of  no  consequence,  not  at  all  out  of  the  load 
of  such  common  incidents  as  happen  every  day ;  and  this  I  have  observed  more  fre- 
qnendy  among  the  Scots  than  any  other  nation,  who  are  very  careful  not  to  omit  the 
minutest  drcumstancet  of  time  or  place ;  whicfa  land  of  diieoune,  if  it  were  not  a  little 
vdieved  by  the  uncouth  terms  and  phrases,  as  weO  as  accent  and  gesture  peculiar  to  that 
sountty,  would  be  hardly  tolerable.— //m^/  towards  tm  £s*ay  on  Conversation, 


192U'2    Jtw$,  SeoUhmen,  QMkertf  omd  other  Imperfeei  SymfMki.  15S 

Israel  passed  through  the  Red  Sea !"  The  faidirect  antwert  which  Qua* 

The  auditors^  for  the  moment^  are  as  kers  are  often  found  to  return  to  a 

£gypdah8  to  him^  and  he  rides  oyer  question  put  to  them^  may  be  ex«- 

our  necks  in  triiunph.    There  is  no  plained,  I  think,  without  the  yulgar 

mistaking  him. — B-- has  a  strong  assumption,  that  they  are  more  gfyen 

expression  of  sense  in  his  counte-  to  eyasion  and  equiyocating  than  o» 

nance,   and^  it  is  confirmed  by  his  ther  people.    They  naturally  look  to 

singing.    The  foundation  of  his  yocal  their  words  more  carefully,  and  are 

excellence  is  sense.    He  sings  with  more  cautious  of  commitong  them* 

understanding,  as  Kemble  deliyered  selyes.    They  haye  a  pecuhar  cha- 

dialogue.     He  would  sing  the  Com-  racter  to  keep  up  on  this  head.   They 

mandments,  and  giye  an  appropriate  stand  in  a  manner  upon  their  yera* 

character  to  each  prohibition.     His  city.    A  Quaker  is  by  law  exempted 

nation,  in  general,  haye  not  oyer-  firom  taking  an  oath.    The  custom  of 

sensible  countenances.    How  should  resorting  to  an  oath  in  extreme  cases^ 

they?— but  you  seldom  see  a  silly  sanctified  as  it  is  by  all  religious  an* 

expression  amon^  them.    Gain,  and  tiquity,  is  apt  (it  must  be  confessed) 

the  pursuit  of  gam,  sharpen  a  man's  to  introduce  into  the  laxer  sort  of 

yisage.     I  neyer  heard  of  an  idiot  minds  the  notion  of  two  kinds  of 

being  bom  among  them. — Some  ad-  truth— the  one  applicable  to  the  so* 

mire  the  Jewish  female  physiognomy,  lemn  affairs  of  justice,  and  the  other 

I  admire   it—but    witn    trembling,  to  the  common  proceedings  of  daily 

Jael  had  those  full  dark  inscrutable  intercourse.    As  truth  bound  upon 

eyes.  the  conscience  by  an  oath  can  be  nut 

In  the  negro  countenance,  you  will  truth,  so  in  the  common  affirmations 

often  meet  with  strong  traits  of  be-  of  the  shop  and  the  market-place,  a 

nignity.      I  haye  felt  yearnings  of  latitude  ik  expected,  and  conceded 

tenderness    towards   some  of  these  upon  questions  wanting  this  solemn 

faces— or  rather  masks — that   haye  coyenant.    Somethmg  less  than  truth 

looked  out  kindly  upon  one  in  casual  satisfies.     It  is  common  to  hear  a 

encounters  in  the  streets  and  high-  person  say,  **  You  do  not  expect  me 

ways.  I  loye  what  Fuller  beautifully  to  speak  as  if  I  were  upon  my  oath." 

calls — these  **  images  of  God  cut  in  Hence  a  great  deal  ot  incorrectness 

ebony."    But  I  should  not  like  to  as-  and  inadyertency,  short  of  falsehood, 

sociate  with  them,  to  share  my  meals  creeps    into   ordinary  conyersation  ; 

and  my  good-nights  with  them— be-  and  a  kind  of  secondary  or  laic-truth 

cause  they  are  black.  is    tolerated,   where   clergy-trutb— 

I  loye  Quaker  ways,  and  Quaker  oath-truth,  by  the  nature  of  the  cir* 
worship.  I  yenerate  the  Quaker  cumstances,  is  not  required.  A  Qua* 
principles.  It  does  me  good  for  the  ker  knows  none  of  this  distinction, 
rest  or  Uie  day,  when  I  meet  any  of  His  simple  affirmation  bein^receiyed, 
their  people  in  my  path.  MHien  I  upon  the  most  sacred  occasions,  with* 
am  ruffled  or  disturbed  by  any  oc-  out  any  further  test,  stamps  a  yalue 
currence,  the  sight,  or  quiet  yoice  of  upon  the  words  which  he  is  to  use 
a  Quaker,  acts  upon  me  as  a  yentila-  upon  the  most  indifiTerent  topics  of 
tor,  lightening  the  air,  and  taking  off  me.  He  looks  to  them,  naturally,  with 
a  load  from  the  bosom.  But  I  can-  more  seyerity.  You  can  haye  of  him 
not  like  the  Quakers  (as  Desdemona  no  more  than  his  word.  He  knows, 
would  say)  ''  to  liye  with  them."  I  if  he  is  caught  tripping  in  a  casual 
am  all  oyer  sophisticated — with  hu-  expression,  he  forfeits,  for  himself  at 
mours,  fancies,  craving  hourly  s]^m-  least,  his  claim  to  the  inyidious  ex* 
'  pathy.  I  must  have  books,  pictures,  emption.  He  knows,  that  his  sylla* 
theatres,  chit-chat,  scandal,  jokes,  bles  are  weighed — and  how  far  a 
ambiguities,  and  a  thousand  whim-  consciousness  of  this  particular  watch- 
whams,  which  their  simpler  taste  can  fulness,  exerted  against  a  person,  has 
do  without.  1  should  stanre  at  their  a  tendency  to  produce  indirect  an* 
primitiye  banquet.  My  appetites  are  swers,  and  a  diverting  of  the  oues* 
too  high  for  tne  sallads  which  (ac-  tion  by  honest  means,  might  be  ulus- 
cording  to  Eyelyn)  Eve  dressed  for  trated,  and  the  practice  justified,  by 
the  angel,  my  gusto  too  excited  a  more  sacred  example  than  is  proper 

To^.^^r>^.^^^  perh.^.^ t,  b.  »««  th«  hinted  .. 


IM  Trmtk  of  Cotmd III.  ihrotigk  Et^lamd^  m  ItMf.  CM%' 

upon  this  occasion.    The  adisiirable  whidi  the  heated  mind  of  the  g»od 

rieiice  of  mind,  which  is  notorious  ladj  seemed  by  no  means  a  fit  red- 
Quakers  upon  all  contingencies,  pient.  The  guard  came  in  with  Ids 
might  be  traced  to  this  imposed  self-  usual  peremptory  notice.  The  Qua- 
watchfulness— if  it  did  not  seem  ra-  kers  puUed  out  their  money,  and  for- 
ther  an  humble  and  secular  scion  of  mally  tendered  it— so  much  for  tea— 
tliat  old  stoek  of  religious  constancy,  I,  in  humble  imitation,  tendering  mine 
which  never  bent  or  faltered,  in  the  ^for  the  supper  which  I  had  taken. 
Primitiye  Friends,  or  gave  way  to  the  She  would  not  relax  in  her  demand, 
winds  of  persecution,  to  the  violence  So  they  all  three  quietly  put  up  their 
of  judge  or  accuser,  under  trials  and  silver,  as  did  myself,  and  marched 
racking  examinations.  "  You  will  out  of  the  room,  the  eldest  and 
never  be  the  wiser,  if  I  sit  here  an-  ^[ravest  going  first,  with  myself  clos- 
kwering  your  questions  till  mid-  mg  up  the  rear,  who  thought  I  could 
night,"  said  one  of  those  upright  Jus-  not  do  better  than  follow  the  example 
men  to  Penn,  who  had  been  putting  of  such  grave  and  warrantable  per- 
law-cases  wiUi  a  puzzling  subtlety,  aonages.  We  got  in.  The  steps 
"  Thereafter  as  the  answers  may  went  up.  The  coach  drove  ofi*.  The 
be,"  retorted  the  Quaker.  The  as-  murmurs  of  mine  hostess,  not  very 
tonishing  composure  of  this  people  indistinctly  or  ambiguously  pro- 
b  sometimes  ludicrously  displayed  in  nounced,  became  after  a  time  inau- 
K^ter  instances.  I  was  traveUing  in  dible — and  now  my  conscience,  which 
a  stage  coach  with  three  male  Qua-  the  whimsical  scene  had  for  a  while 
kers,  buttoned  up  in  the  straitest  suspended,  beginning  to  give  some 
non-conformity  of  their  sect.  We  twitches,  I  waited,  in  the  hope  that 
stopped  to  bait  at  Andover,  where  a  some  justification  would  be  offered 
■ieal,  partly  tea  apparatus,  partly  by  these  serious  persons  for  the  seem- 
iupper,  was  set  before  us.  My  ing  injustice  of  their  conduct.  To 
friends  confined  themselves  to  the  my  great  surprise,  not  a  syllable  was 
tea  table.  I  in  my  way  took  supper,  dropped  on  the  subject.  They  sate 
When  the  landlady  brought  in  the  as  mute  as  at  a  meeting.  At  length 
bill,  the  eldest  of  my  oonkpanions  tiie  eldest  of  them  broke  silence,  by 
discovered  that  she  had  chaiged  for  enquirinff  of  his  next  neighbour, 
both  meals.  This  was  resisted.  Mine  '*  Hast  tnee  heard  how  indigos  go  at 
hostess  was  very  clamorous  and  po-  the  India  House  ?  "  and  the  question 
ritive.  Some  mild  arguments  were  operated  as  a  soporific  on  my  moral 
used  on  the  part  of  the  Quakers,  for  feeling  as  far  as  Exeter.         Ei.ia. 


TRAVELS  OF  COSMO  THE  THIRD,  GRAND  DUKE  OF  TUSCANY, 

THROUGH  ENGLAND,  IN  1669.* 

If  any  of  our  readers,  instead  of  a  galotti,  the  scribe  of  the  party),   a 

trip  to  the  Continent  this  summer,  pabiter,t  and  an  architect,  prepare 

riiould  prefer  visiting  a  part  of  our  themselves  to  partake  of  the  good 

own  country,  in  the  company  of  the  fare  that  every  where  awaits  diem. 
great  and  learned,  they  have  nothing        We  trust,  however,  that  none  of 

to  do  but  &11  into  the  suite  of  the  them  will  have  the  same  motive  for 

hereditary  prince  of  Tuscany  (after-  quitting  home  as  occasioned  Cosmo 

wards  Grand  Duke,  with  the  title  of  to  set  out  on^his  journey.    It  was  to 

Cosmo  III),  and  joinmg  six  other  get  rid  of  an  ill-conditioned  wife,  of 

Italians  of  distincdon  (among  whom  whom  he  is  said  to  have  been  fonder 

the  most  remarkable  is  Lorenzo  Ma-  than  she  deserved ;    but   who   had 


*  Tnvds  of  Cotmo  the  Third,  Grand  Duke  of  Tuscany,  throuf^  England,  during 
the  Reijp  of  King  Charles  II.  (1609)  ;  translated  ftom  ^e  Italian  Manuscript  in  the 
LaoxeDtian  libraiv  at  Florence  ;.widi  a  Memoir  of  h&i  life,  &c.  4to.  Mawman,  1821. 

f  Sigismondo  Coccapani  was  die  name  of  the  Mdntcir  who  accompanied  die  expedition. 
This  ocmld  not  have  been  the  Fkventhie  artist  <n  that  name,  mentioned  with  much  com* 
meadalnn  in  the  Abseedario  PIttorioo  of  Orhndi,  as  he  died  in  1642. 


ined  hhn  lo  ill,  that  hif  Mbiet^  Wm»  the  jounml  blitemU^tranBliied  ftom 
dinand.  II.  hi  order  to  estrange  Us  "  the  Italian  manuscript  hi  the  Lau- 
affections  from  her^  had  more  than  rentian  library  at  Florence,"  and  the 
once  sent  him  roving  about  the  drawings  engraved.  An  abridgment' 
world.  In  dutiful  oomplianoe  with  might  have  been  rendered  more  »- 
this  design,  the  prince,  in  September  musing,  but  would  have  lost  mudh 
1668,  set  sail  from  Leghorn,  landed  at  of  its  information,  and  many  of  tiie 
Barcelona,  '^  and  passing  from  thence  drawings  must  have  been  omitted* 
to  Madrid,  in  the  usual  incognito  of  A  fairer  report  of  the  book  could  aot 
princes,  traversed  the  whole  western  well  have  been  made,  than  has  baea 
part  of  Spain,  and  proceeded  into  given  by  its  editor. 
Portugal.  '*  A  most  elaborate  ao-  Having  lost  their  course  at  tea^ 
count/'  we  are  tdd,  in  a  life  of  the  the  nrince  with  Ids  retinue  touched 
prince,  that  is  prefixed,  ''  was  kept  at  lUnsale,  where  the  oppression  ef 
of  all  that  occurred  in  these  travels,  their  catholic  brethren  did  not  &il  to 
accompanied  by  designs  made  upon  excite  their  commiseration.  On  re- 
the  spot,  wherever  the  royal  straiMper  connoitring  the  hills  in  the  ndgli- 
was  received,  rested,  or  was  detain-  bourhood  of  that  port,  they  discover- 
ed." These  designs,  indeed,  now  form  ed  that  the  Irish  natives  ''  rested  en 
the  principal  ONbject  of  curiosity  in  the  bare  earth;"  ''and  lived  Bke 
what  remains  of  this  journal ;  they  wild  beasts."  Sailing  firom  henee 
are,  however,  feebly  executed,  the  thev  land  at  St  Mary's,  one  of  tiie 
perspective  of  them  is  very  deficient,  Scillv  islands ;  and  thence  proceed 
and  they  strongly  mark  the  dedine  to  Plymouth,  which,  says  Magalottl, 
of  art  which  had  then  commenced  ''  in  the  last  centurr  was  a  poor^il* 
in  Florence.  The  state  of  manners  lage  inhabited  bv  fishermen.  It  ii 
of  Spain,  at  that  period,  appears  to  now  so  increased  in  buildings  and 
have  been  nearly  what  it  now  is ;  population,  that  it  may  be  reckoned 
but  some  future  traveller,  desirous  of  among  the  best  cities  in  England, 
affording  information  respecting  a  having  between  twelve  and  ween 
country,  which  has  latelv  engaged  so  thousand  inhabitants."  ''The  dtt 
much  attention  in  Ensland,  might,  cannot  be  se^  firom  the  sea,  and  h 
in  all  probability,  denve  some  ad-  almost  shut  up  by  a  gorge  of  the 
vantage,  by  comparinff  his  own  de-  mountains,  on  the  lowest  skirt  of 
signs  with  those  of  1^  artist  who  which  it  is  situated.  Its  extent  k 
accompanied  Cosmo  in  the  seven-  not  very  considerable.  The  builcU 
teenth  century.  ings  are  antique,  adcordinff  to  the 

From  Lisbon  the  prince  proceeded  English  fashion ;  lofty  and  narrow, 

to  Corunna,  and  fi-om  thence  embark-  wiUi  pointed  roofs,   and  the   fhmts 

ed  for  England.    At  this  period  com-  may  be  seen  through,  owiiiff  to  the 

mences  the  description  of  his  tour,  of  magnitude  of  the  ^ass  windows  in 

which  a  futhful  translation  is  given  each  of  the  different  stories."    The 

in  this  volume.  dress  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen  ai 

This  account  of  the  actions  of  a  Plymouth,  as  at  every  other  corpo* 

{)rince,  in  the  common  occurrencei  of  rate  town,  does  not  escape  the  nd- 

ife,  may,  perhaps,  be  found  minute  nute  notice  of  the  ceremonious  Ita- 

even  to  tediousness,  but  this  minute-  lian.     Due  respect  is  every  where 

ness  is  not  destitute  of  interest.    It  paid  to.  the  illustrious  foreigners  b;^ 

opens  a  transient  view  of  the  state  of  the  gentlemen  of  die  country;  and  tbi 

society  in  England  at  that  time,  as  far  following  incident  affbrds  a  trait  of 

as  a  prince  could  be  admitted  into  it :  the  manners  and  courtesy  of  the  times, 

it  affords  an  opporttmity  to  record  "  When  they  had  proceeded  about  a 

the   names,   and  even  the,  drcum-  mile,  there  came  gidloping  ud  to  the 

stances  of  many  families,  who  hast-  coach  Sir  Copleston  Bampfylcie,  with 

ened  to  show  him  honour,  or  to  offer  his  wife  and  sister.    They  happened 

him  hospitality ;  and  the  drawings  to  be  hunting  in  that  neinibourhool, 

made  of  the  difiTerent   towns   and  and  wished  not  to  lose  Uie  opportu- 

houses  are  higiily  interesting,  parti-  nity  of  performinffan  act  of  respect 

cularly  those  of  London  ai^  West-  to  his  hiahness.    The  serene'  prince 

mhnster.     At  the  risk,  therefore,  <^  stopped  nis  carriage,   and  received 

fatiguing  the  patience  of  ibe  reader,  their  cnmpliments,  but  did  notalight 


158              '  TrtMtels  of  Co$mo  III.  through  England,  in  1689;  C^^S' 

to  salute  them,  not  knowing  till  way  the^  see  Stonehenge^  "  a  cele- 
afterwards  who  the  ladies  were."  brated  piece  of  antiquity^  supposed 
Passing  ''  through  the  small  village  to  be  a  sepulchre  or  a  trophy^"  where 
of  Halbombridge/'  they  sleep  at  his  highness  alighted  from  the  car- 
Okehampton,  and  next  day  reach  riage  m  which  he  was  witli  Lord 
Exeter.  We  cannot  stop  to  describe  Pembroke  and  his  sou^  and  con« 
the  surrounding  country^  nor  the  de-  versed  with  them  for  nearly  an  hour. 
Yoirs  of  the  worthy  aldermen,  nor  If  the  late  Bishop  of  Worcester 
the  curiosity  with  which  they  visited  had  been  living,  he  might,  perhaps^ 
the  cathedral,  attended  the  whole  of  have  made  an  entertaining  dialogue 
the  morning  service,  and  saw  at  it  the  out  of  this  conference,  which,  as 
Biflhop  with  his  wife  and  children,  matters  arc,  we  must  leave  in  the 
"  no  less  than  nine  in  number,"  and  same  obscurity  as  our  worthy  guide 
heard  the  choir  shig  the  psalms  *'  in  a  has  left  it,  and  having  partalten  of 
chant  similar  to  the  Gregorian,"  and  the  sumptuous  entertainment  pro- 
'^  an  orc^an  of  most  exqmsite  tone,"  >nded  for  us  at  Wilton,  amuse  our- 
and  "  the  preacher  in  his  surplice  selves  with  looking  at  the  grotto,  the 
begin  his  sermon,  leaning  on  a  cushion  playing  fountauis,  the  maze  park, 
placed  in  the  middle  of  a  pulpit ;"  but  and  \  andyke's  pictures.  At  ISalis- 
must  hasten  on  as  well  as  we  can  to  bury,  the  cathedral  again  attracted 
Axminster,  "  travelling  through  a  the  attention  of  the  travellers.  ''  Al- 
road  full  of  water,  and  muddy,  thouffh  though  the  architecture  is  Gothic  in 
not  deep."  On  the  ninth  of  April,  the  all  its  parts,"  no  trifling  objection 
party  arrives  at  Hinton  St.  George,  with  the  Florentines ;  ''  yet  it  is  mag- 
a  vflla  of  my  Lord  John  Paulet,  nificent  and  sumptuous.  They  say, 
where  in  the  evening  Mr.  John  Sid-  that  the  windows  which  light  it  cor- 
ney,  cousui  of  my  Lord,  comes  from'  respond  with  the  days  of  the  year, 
his  villa,  six  miles  distant,  bringuig  the  small  marble  pillars  with  the 
his  Lady  with  him  to  pay  his  re-  hours  of  a  whole  year,  and  the  doors 
spects.  '^  His  highness'  knew  bet-  with  the  twelve  months."  Pursuing 
ter  how  to  act  to  this  lady,  than  the  route  to  London  through  Sutton, 
when  he  met  the  two  huntresses,  for  Basingstoke,  Okestcd,  £gham,  and 
'*  he  took  her  by  the  hand,  and  con-  Brentford  (of  all  which  places  views 
ducted  her  to  a  gallery  hard  by,  and  are  given,  besides  more  than  thirty 
departing  after  a  short  conversa-  others)  they  make  their  entry  into 
tion,  conthuied  in  discourse  with  the  the  capital,  <'  finding  the  whole  tract 
above  gentleman  till  the  close  of  the  of  seven  miles,  after  leaving  Brent- 
day."  yVe  again  regret  that  we  can-  ford,  truly  delicious,  from  the  abun- 
not  stay  to  speak  more  particularly  dance  of  well-built  villas  and  coun- 
of  my  Lord's  garden,  park,  deer,  try-houses,  which  are  seen  in  every 
pheasantry,  and  the  village,  and  direction."  "  Without  the  city  a 
church,  with  its  curious  monuments,  nimierous  crowd  of  people  were  as- 
The  same  must  be  said  of  the  Roman  sembled  on  foot,  hi  carriages,  and 
camp  near  Dorchester,  and  of  the  on  horseback,  to  see  the  prince  pass; " 
manner  of  angling  for  trout  (so  dif-  and  the  names  of  many  noblemen 
£erent  from  the  Italian)  in  the  small  and  foreign  ambassadors  are  enume- 
river  Frome.  On  the  11th  they  de-  rated,  who  waited  on  him  at  his  ar- 
part  from  Dorchester  with  a  mi&tiury  rival.  The  account  of  his  introduction 
escort  to  secure  them  from  the  rob-  to  Charles  IL>  of  the  service  which 
bers,  who  molested  this  district;  and  he  attended  at  the  chapel  of  the 
passing  through  Blandford,  a  little  Queen,  of  the  different  noblemen 
town  of  four  thousand  souls  (is  this  who  paid  their  respects  to  him,  of 
right?  it  is  more  than  it  contained  the  etiquette  observed  at  court,  of 
in  1801),  arrived  safe  at  Salisbury,  the  ruins  of  St.  Paul's  after  the  recent 
haymg  declined  the  uivitation  given  fire,  of  the  meeting  of  the  Royal  So- 
them  by  the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  ciety,  of  the  theatre,— all  this  is  very 
his  son  Lord  Herbert,  to  pass  the  curious.  The  same  may  be  said  of 
night  at  Wilton-house ;  who,  how-  Cosmo's  visit  to  Newmarket,  Cam- 
ever^  were  allowed  to  come  with  bridge  (where,  owing  to  the  pro- 
their  equipage  to  fetch  his  highness  nunciation,  he  did  not  understand 
lo  breakfast  next  morning.    On  their  the    Latiu    oration    recited    ui    his 


1821.;]            Traveliof  Cosmo  III.  tkrovgh  Sngkmd,  im  1660.'  U9 

Eraise^  nor  the  Latin  comedy  acted  in  drawing  to  the  life  with  softnem,' 
J  the  scholars),  Althorp,  Oxford,  expression^  and  distinction.  The 
(where  the  Latin  was  equally  unin-  same  is  one  of  the  most  celebrated 
telligibleV  Billlngsbere,  the  seat  of  and  esteemed  painters  in  London^ 
Colonel  Nevil  (where  he  learns  that  and  no  person  of  quality  visits  that 
"  the  rooks  are  considered  in  England  city  without  endeavouring  to  obtahi 
as  preserved  birds,  the  nobility  prid-  some  of  his  performances  to  take  out 
ing  themselves  on  seeing  them  in  of  the  kingdom." 
the  neighbourhood  of  their  villas,  and  There  are  some  observations  on  the' 
looking  on  them  as  fowls  of  good  government,  mode  of  administering 
omen,  so  that  no  one  is  permitted  to  justice,  and  manners  of  the  people; 
kill  them  under  severe  penalties;")  and  an  attempt  is  made  to  discnmit 
and,  lastly,  Windsor  Castle.  Much  nate  the  different  sects  then  prevail- 
j^raise,  and  very  deservedly,  is  be-  ing  in  the  country,  for  which  the 
stowed  on  Mr.  Robert  Boyle,  at  writer  was  probably  indebted  to  some 
whose  house  the  prince  was  hiehly  zealous  EngUsh  Catholic.  The  de« 
gratified  by  the  experiments  and  in-  scription  of  the  ''sect  of  the  Athe^ 
stniments  exhibited  to  him  bv  that  ists,"  is  short  and  pithv^  and  wiO 
philosopher.  Both  during  this  and  serve  as  a  sample  or  the  rest. 
his  former  residence  in  London,  he  "  Atheism  has  many  followers  in 
appears  to  have  been  almost  as  ac-  England.  It  may  be  called  the  verj 
tive  as  the  Emperor  Alexander  him-  abyss-of  blindness,  and  the  uttermoft 
self,  in  viewing-  every  thing  worthy  liniit  of  the  pestilent  heresy  of 
of  notice,  and  some  which  the  Em-  Calvin.  The  professors  of  it  say, 
peror,  perhaps,  had  not  an  opportu-  that  there  is  no  God ;  they  do  not 
nitv  of  witnessing,  such  as  acock-  beHeve  in  a  resurrection  to  come; 
fight,  a  dancing-school,  frequented  they  deny  the  immortality  of  the 
by  ladies  married  and  unmarried,  a  soul ;  and  teach  that  every  thing 
fencing-school  on  a  smgular  plan,  and  happens  by  chance ;.  and,  as  a  natu- 
a  children's  ball  at  Highgate.  An  in-  ral  consequence,they  follow  their  own 
stance  of  Charles's  politeness  should  perverse  inclinations,  without  hav- 
not  be  passed  over.  When  Cosmo  ing  any  regard  to  futurity,  but  think- 
had  returned  from  Hampton-court,  ing  oidy  of  the  present  time."  At 
where  he  had  been  entertained  with  page  446,  the  sect  of  the  Fotinitms 
a  deer-hunt,  the  king  inquired  how  should  have  been  PAo^taiuy /b/mif#9 
he  had  liked  that  palace ;  and  on  re-  Photinus;  and  Samosatano,  Samosatai 
ceiving  an  answer  expressive  of  the  but  these  are  venial  errors  in  a  trans- 
prince  s  opinion  of  its  magnificence,  lator.  Charles's  disposition  to  the 
ne  replied, ''  that  his  hiffhness's  affec-  Roman  Catholic  form  of  worship  did 
tion  for  the  things  of  this  country  not  escape  the  shrewd  Italiaiis* 
made  him  regard  it  with  partiality,  ''  There  is  no  doubt  that  the  king  ex« 
but  that  it  could  not  be  compared,  temally  appears  to  be  a  Protestant, 
or  put  in  competition,  with  those  of  observing,  with  the  most  exact  atten- 
ItaJy."  tion,  the  rites  of  the  Anglican  church; 

After  having  made  an  excursion  to  but  it  is  also  true  that,  from  his  me- 

Chatham  and  Sheemess,  Cosmo  and  thod  of  proceeding,  there  is  reason 

his  company  finally  quitted  London ;  for  thinking,  that  he  does  not  entire- 

and  taking  Monk,  then  made  Duke  ly  acquiesce  in  that  mode  of  belief 

of  Albemarle,  on  their  way,  embaric-  and  that  he  may,  perhaps,  in  his  own 

ed  at  Harwich  for  Holland.  mind,  cherish  other  indmations." 

It  might  have  been  expected  that  Had  Cosmo  III.  turned  out  a  bet- 
something  more  would  nave  been  ter  ruler  of  his  people,  we  should 
said  on  the  state  of  the  arts  in  tiiis  have  more  pleasure  m  adding  that,, 
country.  But  Cooper,  the  portrait  some  time  after  his  return  to  Flo- 
painter,  to  whom  Cosmo  sat  for  Ids  reiice,  his  troublesome  helpmate  left 
picture,  is  the  only  English  artist  him,  and  put  herself  under  the  pro- 
whom  we  recollect  to  have  seen  men-  tection  of  Louis  XIV.  at  whose  court 
tioned  in  the  journal ;  of  him  it  is  her  behaviour  was  either  too  licen- 
said,  that  ''  he  had  been  strongly  tious,  or  too  flippant,  to  be  long  tole- 
recommended  to  his  highness  for  his  rated.  It  is  lamentable  to  see  the 
skill  in  painting,  and  his  excellence  race  of  "tiie  Medici  thus  degenerate^ 


liQ  Travels  of  Catmo  IIL  ttroHgh  England,  m  166f  .  CA^'^ 

^Fom  tlie  character  it  had  maintained       V.  500 :— - 

in  ^  the  palmy  state"  of  Florence*  Tine  imuk'ssmipMaiig  worth,  thatcttlicii 

What  had  become  of  all  those  quk-  gires 

lities  which  her  historian^  Macchia-  Suw  hooes  of  ney  wine,  and  in  its  youth, 

▼elli,  has  in  a  few  words  so  well  de-  ^*»  *«"»^   nonage,   loads  the    spreading 

Qcribed:  "  la  bont4  di  Giovanni,  la  „ .    boughs  .  . 

wpienza   di   Cosimo,   Tumaniti   di  ^^J!!?f '^^  ^"^  ^^P'S*'-^^^ 

Pfero,  e  la  ma^iificenza  e  pnidenza  ^*  ^  "??"«»  ""^  «^  «d  "^  ^^^' 

di  Lorenzo :"  &e  goodness  of  John,  ^TT"     T^lf^       n  * 

the  wisdom  of  CosSio,  the  humanity  5S!t«*';,':^  ^^  fanauDetta  ancora 

•f  Peter,  and  the  mi^nificence  and  ^^^^^^ -^  P*°^  P^LT?^ 

va.  « i^wn,  -MM  M«;  tuapiMAM.«^»%^  ««•  g  jj^^  ^^^  minoTe  eta  scort^se 

prudence  of  Lorenzo  ?  A' tuoi  tencri  rami,  oltie  lor  fo»e 

Count    Lorenzo    Magalotti,     by  Di  si  folu  gU  aggmvi,  e  si  Tinosa 

whom  this  journal  was  written,  de-  Pwle,  che  il  vemo  giiL  nepave  e  auda. 
aerved    a    more    particular  account        Not  having  undeistood  the  origi- 

than  is  here  given  of  hun.    He  was  nal,  Magalotti  has  here  scarcdy  made 

well  known  as  a  linguist,  natural  jAi-  himself  intelligible. 
iMopher  and  poet.  Sir  Isaac  Newton        At  v.  573,     Druids   is   rendered 

ia  said  to  have  called  him,  not  very  J}nade, 

cfeganUy  perhaps,  "  the  Magazine  of  The  last  two  hundred  lines  of  this 
good  taste."  Of  his  acquamtance  book  are  omitted ;  and  about  thirty 
with  the  English  language,  and  con-  ©n  a  different  subject  are  substitut- 
aequently  of  his  fitness  for  the  task  of  ed,  m  which  he  takes  an  opportunity 
journalist  imposed  upon  him  by  his  ©f  praising  some  cider  sent  by  Lord 
aorereign,  some  estmiate  may  be  Somers  to  Henry  Newton,  British 
famed  from  his  translation  of  "  Phi-  Envoy  to  the  Duke  of  Tuscany.  It 
ftps's  Cider."  It  was,  probably,  one  ig  feasant  to  reflect  that  the  notice 
af  the  first  instances,  m  which  our  of  JLoid  Somers  was  not  confined  to 
own  poets  began  to  react  on  theut  the  men  eminent  for  literature  in  his 
eootinental  neighbours;  and,  in  this  own  country;  and  that  the  pretty 
point  of  view  at  least,  a  few  remarks,  compliment  paid  him  in  a  poem,  call- 
that  we  shall  add,  will  not  be  thrown  ed,  as  wdl  as  we  remember,  ''  the 
away  upon  it.  Shade  of  Pope,"  may  be  so  much 
B.  1.  V.  63.  Nor  fiom  the  sable  grounds.  ^^^"^  extended. 
.The  sense  is  mistaken;  sabk  is  Themnseher  Addison  to  Somers joinM, 
translated  as  if  it  meant  sandy,  ^ho  noblest  statesman  to  the  purest  mind- 

Ne  fimpacdar  d'arenc.  At  the  beginning   of    the  second 

This  leads  to  another  error.  book    there  are   again  some  verses 

The  must  of  pallid  hue,  substituted,  not  at  all  in  Philips's 

^  bdng  rendered  manner. 

n  lor  pallido  ?olto,  B.  iL  v.  St76.  As  when,  &c 

Aa  if  it  meant  the  colour  of  the  soil.  This  simUe  is  mal-treated  by  Ma^ 

V.  1^9,  Such  heats,  &c.  to  167,  is  g^lotti,   who  makes  a  conceit  and 

omitted.  antithesis  of  it ;  and  again,  we  have 

V.  215,  Thor  and  Woden,  he  trans-  »  F«**  *"«tus  from  v.  486  to  the  end. 

lates  Giove  and  di  Maja  U  Figlio.  With  some  few  exceptions,  however, 

V.  31 1 : the  sense  is  caught  pretty  well  in  this 

Aad  men  have  gathered  from  the  haw-  translation,  and  the  diction  is  suffi- 

thorn*s  branch  ciently  poetical  (but  when  is  this  not 

Large  medlars,  imitating  regal  crowns,  the  case  in  Italian  verse?)  but  wc 

By  endeavouring  to  raise  this,  he  meet  with  here  and  there  a  conceit  in 

has  utterly  marred  it.  it,  and  no  'writer  is  less  responsible 

Che  piu  ?  ootanto  ardisoe  arte  insolente,  for  such  blemidies  than  Philips :  on 

Che  infino  il  pruno,  il  pruno,  il  riUanzone  the  whole,  it  proves  that  Magalotti 

Tiavestito,  da  ncspolo  pafiuto  had  profited  well  by  his  connexion 

Sahito  re  e  si  £^  ditt  corona.  with  this  country. 


^'    188L3  Tks  MnectmeiT.  Ut 

THS  BUCCANEER. 

A  TALI^  P<^  •BVTLX  AKD  tlMPLC. 

Within  the  circle  of  a  small  bay^  tongue  was  persuasive;  and  whtiv 
made  by  the  waters  of  the  sea  c^  words  failed  him,  his  arm  was  tlti^ 
Azof^  and  not  many  miles  distant  gether  comrindog;  and  thus  he  ruled». 
from  Jenitschin,  was,  many  years  and  had  for  twenty  years  ruled,  as  ab^ 
ago  (and  may  still  be),  an  island  id  solute  as  a  German  prince  whoMr 
the  name  of  Kemlin,  Thid  isUmd  dominion  stretches  orer  a  thoutaad 
was  once  inhabited  by  an  independ-  acres  of  land, 
ent  company  of  merchants,  who  pur-  The  peat  Foedor  had  been  inttalU 
chased  turs  and  salt  beef  from  Russia,  ed  chief  widi  all  due  solemnities.  Bm 
and  sUks,  and  rice,  and  coffee,  from  had  washed  his  hands  in  the  oil  idifak 
Turkey.  They  were  not,  howerer,  had  been  kept  in  darkness  for  sefMi 
very  particular  in  oonfiidng  theai«  wbiters,  a|ia  had  drank  the  oodm» 
selves  to  these  two  nations,  for  thay  crated  quass  to  the  health  of  the  IM 
would  occasionally  buy  commoditiet  Perouin.  His  more  immediate  patnM 
from  the  Genoa  shipsy  which  traded  was  Silnoy-Bog,  (Hercides,— the 
as  fiur  as  Krim.  The  returns  whidi  strong  ffod,)  but  he  also  put  up  oflfa^- 
they  made  were  various,  and  in  truth  ings  to  Lada,  the  goddess  of  beait^,- 
somewhat  uncertain ;  but,  though  and  sacrificed  at  ms  Idsure  to  Lew 
thev  were  not  always  punctual  in  and  Dido,  who  answered  to  die  Sra« 
then:  payments,  their  promises,  which  and  Anteros  of  the  Greeks.  In  shorty 
were  ample,  made  amends  for  alL         he    was  a   very  pious  and  stroK 

The  island  of  Kemlin  was  rocky,  prince,  and  attacked  all  vessMt 
and  somewhat  unproductive;  and  had  which  he  met  upon  the  seas,  in  east 
the  inhabitants  possessed  no  resource  they  refused  to  trade  with  1dm  iipon 
beyond  their  s(nl,  there  would  have  his  own  terms.  He  was  a  man  oitiht 
been  emigrants  there  as  well  as  in  hidbtest  honoHr. 
other  places.  Fortunately,  however.  The  princes  and  chiefii  of  moil 
they  mid  a  strong  fortress,  some  shq>-  countries  lay  claim  to  a  tolerable 
inng,  a  number  m  hardy  sailors,  and  stock  of  ancestors. — Of  all  aacealffy, 
an  equal  number  of  valuable  privi*  however,  making  only  one  single  ok 
leges  which  they  took  care  not  to  ception  in  favour  of  the  Emperor  «f 
neglect.  Among  other  matters,  they  China,  who,  it  is  well  known,  is  da* 
laid  claim  (as  uie  lord  of  a  manor  .scended  from  the  Moon,  none  was 
does  to  wain  and  estravs)  to  most  of  ever  so  illustrious  as  that  of  Ae  chief 
the  solitary  vessels  which  they  met  of  Kemlin.  He  came  in  a  direct  Baa 
tossing  about  in  the  sea  of  Asof.  The-  from  the  invincible  Thauwk,  wIm^ 
siulors  were  useful  in  these  cases,  was  a  sort  of  freebooter  duringhia 
and  the  fortress  brought  the  refrao-  life,  and  a  demi-god  ever  after.  Thia 
tory  prisoners  to>  reason.  Thauwr  lived  in  the  year  97  after  tiie 

No  men  could  be  braver  than  these  general  flood,  and  transmitted  aa* 
islanders,  and  none  so  brave  as  their  bility  and  virtues  of  every  shade  to. 
chief,  the  terriUe  and  renowned  his  renowned  posterity.  Foedor  was, 
Fwdor.  He  was,  indeed,  a  great  therefore,  by  right,  noble  and  vfav 
man.  Filling  the  posts  of  chief,  ge-  tuous,' and  mamed  his  fourteentll 
neral,  hig^i-adminu,  judge,  sc^  le-  cousin  of  the  half  blood  (who  waa 
gislator,  and  inspector  and  collector  also  second  cousin  and  nieoe  by  mar* 
of  taxes,  there  was  nothing  to  which  riage,  and  afterwards  wife  and  wU 
he  did  not  turn  his  mind,  which  might  dow  of  his  maternal  uncle),  accoid« 
tend  to  increase  his  power  or  ing  to  the  custom  of  his  native  oouii« 
weahh,  and  all  this  entirely  for  the  try.  They  lived  very  lumpily  tew 
ffood  of  the  island  and  people  of  gether ;  he  passing  part  of  ms  tima 
Kemlin.  Foedor  was  about  for^-five  at  the  country  house  of  his  prima 
years  of  a^e,  robust  and  tall,  and  of  minister,  whose  wife  was  reckoned 
a  saUow-durk  complexion :  his  eyes  the  finest  woman  in  the  island,  and. 
were  large  and  grey,  but  without  she  confessing  her  peccadilloes  in  te 
much  lustre/ and  his  lips  were  thick  private  ear  m  the  very  reverend  tiie 
aa  thoee  of  the  Theban  sphinx.    HU    chief  Iman  (or  bishop)  of  Kmiin.    . 


IC9  7%e  Buccaneer.  C^ug.' 

Madame  Foedor  was  very  devout^    in  aahes ;  and  the  Cyprua  wine  tliat 
end  her  husband  was  fond  of  hunt-    he    freely    distributed   would    have 
ing;   so  they  met  but  seldom^   and    been  sufficient  to  have  quenched  the 
accordingly  agreed  very  well.    One    conflagration.      And  yet  this  great 
day^   however,    he  took  it  into  his    man  had  one  or  two  prejudices.     He 
head^    that  the  Iman  and  his  lady    had  a  mortal  aversion  to  Jews :  so  he 
passed  more  tune  together  than  was    ordered  his  minister  to  make  a  law, 
absolutely  necessary  for  the  purposes    by  which  every   Jew  found  in  his 
of  penance.      The   lady   protested,    realm  was  to  be  roasted  before  the 
and  the  prelate  called  a  hundred  and    image  of  Silnoy-Bog;   and  this  in- 
twenty-three  wooden  gods  to   wit-    cense,  it  was  said,  was  very  grateful 
neasy  Hiat  he  was  the  most  innocent    to  the  nostrils  of  that  muscular  and 
end  ]i\jured  man  alive. '  Upon  these    easily  offended  deity.  Nothing  could 
aolemnities  Foedor  rested  nis  entire    be    more    equitable  than   the  laws 
b^ef,    and    acquitted    the    parties,    and  customs  observed  in  the  island 
Unfortunately,   strong  suspicions  a-    of  this  prince  of  buccaneers.     He 
ro0e  again.     The   lady  sighed,   and    was  head  of  the  church  and  of  tlie 
ahed  an  urn  full  of  tears,   and  the    state ;  and  lest  any  improper  person 
prelate   was    more    strenuous    than    should  arrive  at  the  higher  offices  in 
e?er.     Fcedor,    however,    was    this    either,  he  never  parted  with  an  im- 
time  obstinate,  and  af^er  having  heard    portant  place  for    less    than    three 
them  fully  exculpate  themselves  (by    thousand    zechins.      This   sum  was 
tlieir  own  words),  he  struck  off  the    taken  as  a  security  for  the  good  be- 
kead  of  the  worthy  father,  and  took    haviour  of  the  parties,  and  was  oc- 
vpon  himself  the  duties  of  primate    casionally   forfeited,    and  never  re- 
and  head  of  the  temple.    From  that    turned.  No  animadversion,  however, 
time,  Angelica  (which  was  Madam     was  ever  made ;  because  Fcedor  or- 
Foedor's    name)    grew    melancholy,    dained,    that  whatever  he  did  was 
and  found  herself  utterly  without  sins    right, — ^and  the  detention  of  a  small 
to  confess :  all  which  was  agreeable    sum  of  money  for  the  service  of  the 
enough  to  Foedor,  though  marvelled    state,  could  hardly  be  brought  for- 
at  a  little  by  the  malicious  people    ward  as  evidence  of  his  having  done 
about  his  court.  wrong. 

For  Foedor,  it  should  be  known.        How  glorious  was  the    reign  of 

keld  a  sort  of  court.    He  had  priests,     Foedor!— His  grandfather  had  been 

and  musicians,  and  poets,  ministers,     glorious,  and  his  father  very  glorious  ; 

and  dancers,    and  smgers,  and  fair    but  he  was  more  glorious  than  all. 

women,    and    parasites    of  various    It  was  as  though   honour  (like    a 

kinds.    These  latter  excellent  per-    snow-ball)  had  accumulated  in   its 

sons  compared  him  to  Perouin,  the    course  down  the  hill  of  time,  until 

god  of  thunder ;  and  the  women  ex-    it  had  reached  him,  and  then  that  it 

tolled  him  beyond  Swetovid,  the  Pa-    *'  could  no  farther  go."    His  reign 

gan  Apollo.    For  himself,  he  laughed     was  like  a  return  of  the  age  of  gold. 

at  them  all,    by  turns,    and  never    The  rivers,  indeed,  ran  with  water 

failed  duly  collecting  the  taxes  of  the    only,  and  not  with  milk  and  honey — 

island  of  Kemlin.  as  it  is  well  known  they  did  in  those 

The  mere  compliments  which  were    good  days ;  but,  nevertheless,  all  was 

ptad  to  this  man  would  have  turned    excellent,  and  entirely  to  the  satis- 

the  head   of  a   Greek  philosopher,    faction  of  Foedor  himself, — which  is. 

One  compared  him  to  the  sun,  and    of  course,  saying  all  that  is  necessary 

another    to    the   moon,    as  is  usual    upon  such  an  occasion. 

in    such    cases;    and    the  dancers        It  sometimes  happens,   however, 

danced,  and  the  flatterers  lied,  and    even  in  the  most  glorious  reigns,  that 

the  women    languished,    as  is   also     war  and  bloodshed  may  be  heard  of; 

usual.     He  was  '^  the  day — the  light    and  accordingly  the  sword  of  ourBuc- 

— the  life — the  strength — the  per-     caneer  was  pretty  frequently  unsheath- 

fame — of  the  world,"  according  as    ed,  but  all  for  the  good  of  the  people, 

circumstances    required.       He   was    —or  their  honour,  which  is  the  same 

two  things  at  once,  and  sometimes    thing.    War  is  a  magnificent  affair  : 

his  own  antipodes.    The  verses  that    and  nothing  could  be  finer  than  the 

were  written  upon  him  were  cnouprli,    eauipment  of  Foedor, — his  housings 

with  a  match,  to  have  laid  Pci*8cpolis    of  purple,  his  golden  stirrups,  and 


1821.;]  Th€  Buccaneer.  10S 

his  snow-white  charger;  except^  per-  ceded^  simply  on  the  conditioD,  that 

haps,  the  adroitness  with  which  he  Caloritz  shoiUd  part  with  his  head  in 

managed  the  last,  and  the  dexterity  case  of  failure.    To  this  the  veteran 

that  heshowed  in  cutting  off  the  head  consented,  and  renewed  the  attack 

of  any  vassal  who  presumed  to  mur-  with  success.     The  Buccaneer  ex- 

mur.     In  battle  he  was  the  bravest  pressed  himself  delighted,    compli- 

of  the  brave;   but  as  he  considered  mented  the  soldier,    and  dismissed 

that  others  might  be  less  courageous,  him  the  first  opportunity, 

he  himself  always  (very  wisely)  cona-  ^^^^  .,^^  ^^  ^^  ^  ^  ^^^ 

manded  the  rear-guard,  m  order  to  q„,                                       ^ 

save  the  van  from  the  shame  of  a  Becomes  hi«  captain*8  captain ;  and  am- 

precipitate  retreat.     His  officers  were  bition, 

well    chosen ;    some    for    prudence.  The  soldier's  virtue,  rather  makes  choice 
some  for  valour,  and  a  few  for  both.  of  loss 
They  fouffht  bravely  ;  for  while  Uie  Than  gain  which  darkens  him. 
honour  oi    conquest  very    properly  1  could  do  more  to  do  Antonius  good, 
belonged  to  Foedor,  the  disgrace  of  ®^^  'twould  offend  him ;  and  hi  his  offhioe 
defeat  was  entirely  their  own,  and  ^^^  ^J  performance  perish, 
this  they  did  their  best  at  all  times  This  is  very  cleverly  said,  we  dare 
to  avoid.  say ;  but  Foedor  was  a  perfect  gen- 
Fcedor  was  known  in  one  instance  tleman,  and  had  his  private  reason^ 
to  have  executed  summary  justice  for  actuig  as  he  did,  and,  (no  doubt) 
upon  a  captain  called  Kaunitz,  who  they  were  full  of  honour, 
fled  from  the  enemy,  in  pursuance.  It  would  be  tedious  to  enumerate 
as  he  said,  of  the  example  of  Foedor  one  twentieth  part  of  the  excellencies 
himself.  Twenty-two  courtiers  start-  of  the  great  Foedor, — his  valour,  his 
ed  forward  instantly  to  deny  this  false-  prudence,  his  wit,  his  generosity,  his 
hood,  and  each  swore  distinctly,  that  magnificence,   his    humanity ;    they 
Foedor  had  never   moved  from  his  were  the  themes  of  many  a  speech, 
place.      For  himself,  he  was  so  in-  the  burthen  of  many  a  song.     He 
censed,  that  he  separated  the  gold  lived  alternately  in  peace  and  war, 
chain  which  hung  round  the  neck  of  till  he  arrived  at  the  age  of  fifty 
Kaunitz,  with  his  sabre,  and  in  the  years.    At  that  period,    a  district, 
hurry  of  the  act  the  head  of  Kau-  which  had  long  become  independent, 
nitz  was  also  detached.  —  Caloritz,  '  but  which  had,  about  twelve  hundred 
another  officer,  determined  to  avoid  years  before,  belonged  to  Killwitz, 
so  sudden  a  destiny,  fought  till  he  an  ancestor  of  Foedor,  made  some 
acquired  a  hundred  and  twenty-two  demand  which  was  considered  very 
scars,    some   of  which  were  of  no  offensive  at  the  court  of  Kemlin.  The 
trifling  nature.    In  one  instance,  he  Grand-Chamberlain  grew  serious,  and 
intercepted  a  spear  which  had  been  said,  that  if  such  insolence  were  to- 
pointed  at  the  Buccaneer,  and  which  lerated,  good  breeding  would  be  at 
might  have  considerably  disordered  an  end:    the  Arch-Treasurer    pro- 
his  personal  appearance.      Caloritz  tested  that  he  could  never  afterwards 
received  it  in  his  face,  was  carried  rely  upon  any  negociations  with  such 
home,  and  languished  for  two  months  people ;    and  Foedor  swore  audibly 
in  a  dangerous  state ;  and  Foedor  re-  by  Silnoy-Bog,  that  he  would  feast 
warded  him  with  a  gold  chain  and  a  that  deity  wim  not  less  than  a  score 
profusion  of  thanks.    He  even  pro-  of  the  best  heads  of  the  free  town  of 
mised  him  certain   more  solid    re-  NajAitz,    As,  however,  menace  and 
wards ;   but  the  imprudence  of  the  execution  are  two  different  things,  the 
officer  defeated  the  generous  inten-  one  being  easy  and  the  other  some- 
tions  of  his  chief.   In  a  skirmish  with  what  difficult  in  attainment,  Foedor 
a  party  from  a  neighbouring  district  was  advised  to  content  himself  for 
(with  whom  he  was  at  war),  Foedor  the  present  with  the  humble  apologies 
attempted  to  storm  the  trenches  of  of  tne  refractory.     These  were  de- 
the  enemy's  camp,  but  was  driven  manded,  and,  to  the  astonishment  of 
back  with  ^reat  loss.  Caloritz,  think-  all  persons,  refused.    Upon  this.  Fee- 
ing that  the  repulse  arose  from  an  dor  ordered  the  priest  of  his  house- 
imperfect  manoeuvre,   proposed   re-  hold,  (the  bishop  died  suddenly,  as 
newing   the  experiment,    to    which  we  remember,)  to  send  them  to  the 
Fccdor  (curling  his  mustachio?)  ac-  d-— 1  without  delay.     This  was  veiy 


164                                          7^  Bueeaneef,  C^ugr 

speedily  accomplished^   by  reading  'MKRABtTAitTt  ofNapiitz! 

four  pages  *  of  Latin,  and  biirning  a  **  EFil-mlnded  persons  are  amongst 

cat's  paw  under  the  nostrils  of  re-  you,  who  design  to  subvert  your 

rouin,  the  god  of  thunder.  liberty.    The  happiness  which  you 

It  was  supposed  at  court,  that  no-  have  enjoyed  so  many  months  is 

tiling  could  withstand  these  severe  about  to  be  torn  from  you.     I  am 

measures.      One   courtier    laughed,  penetrated  with  affliction  at  this 

another  sighed,  and  a  third  began  to  prospect,  and  am  resolved  to  save 

make   a  calculation   of  the  profits  you.    A  close  alliance  during  four- 

which  he  should  derive    from    the  teen  months  has  increased  my  af- 

sab-government  of  the  free  town  of  fection  for  you— it  has  made  me 

Naplitz.   Notwithstanding  these  cal-  your  friend.  Accordingly,  1  march 

eulations  and  conjectures,  however,  towards  you,  animated  by  the  best 

the  Naplitzians  remained  refractorjr-  intentions.     My  soldiers  will  ob- 

They  even  issued  a  public  paper,  m  serve  the  strictest  discipline.     Re- 

which  they  said,  that  they  had  a  ceive  them  as  brothers,  and  resi>ect 

right  to  choose  a  steward,  and  ap-  the  paternal  care  which  I  display 

point  a    gardener    over    their   own  towards  you.    Every  person  found 

nnds.      This,    it  must   be    owned,  in  arms  will  be  shot, 

looked  very  bold,  and  could  hardly  «  r^^  ^^^  ^^ 

be    passed   over    by  Foedor,    who  ^ 

claimed  a  prescriptive  right  to  inter-  ts  ^(EBon. 

fere  in  his  neighbours'  concerns,  and  a  Countersigned,  Cajolem." 
to  give  advice  upon  all  occasions. 

They  said,  that  his  right  was  ground-  Immediately  after  this  proclama- 

less,  and  that  his  advice  was  bad,  tion,  Foedor  marched  on  the  town  of 

and  not  wanted.    The  former,  he  re-  Naplitz.    The  right  division  of  his 

plied,  had  been  established  by  wri-  army,  composed  of  one  hundred  and 

tings,  sealed  with  the  private  seals  twenty  picked  men,  destined  to  storm 

of  himself  and  his  predecessors,  and  the  trenches,  was  led  on  by  the  in- 

was  not,  therefore,   to    be   contro-  vincible  Orsonoff ;  the  left  was  com- 

yerted :    the  latter,  he  proposed  to  manded  by  the  sage  Ulisky ;  and  the 

argue  with  them  at  the  head  of  one  great  main  body,    consisting  of   at 

himdred  horse  and  three  hundred  and  least  two  hundred   and  fifty  men, 

fifty  foot  soldiers.    They  answered,  horse  and  foot,  was  under  the  im- 

that  they  did  not  think  that  method  mediate  order  of  Foedor  himself.  The 

of  reasoning   quite  satisfactory,  but  appearance  of  the  right  wing  was 

that  they  nevertheless  woidd  discuss  truly  formidable.     The  men  drank 

the  matter  with  him  as  strenuously  brandy  and  gunpowder,  and  swore, 

as  they  were  able.    Whereupon  Foe-  in  the  most  explicit  way,  as  to  the 

dor  ordered  a  tax  of  twenty-five  per  actions  that    they   wbuld    severally 

Cent,  to  be  laid  on  his  people,  and  perform.  Each  man  at  parting  curled 

set  out  again  on  the  road  to  glory.  nis  whisker  with  his  left  hand,  and 

War  was  thus  declared  between  invoked  Perouin  to  witness  that  he 

the  great  Foedor  and  the  disobedient  was  entitied  to  a  hundred  zechins, 

people  of  the  free  towp  of  Naplitz.  for  protecting   the  liberties  of   the 

Many  were  the  orders  and  proclama-  people  of  Naplitz. 

tions  which  were  issued  by  both  sides  Unfortunately    for    Foedor,    and 

on  this  occasion.  One  only,  however,  sixty  soldiers  of  the  right  division, 

has  reached  us  entire,  and  this  we  the  army  of  the  invincible  OrsonofT 

shall  take  leave  to  transcribe.     It  is  was  met  by  an  army  equally  invin- 

the  proclamation  issued  by  Foedor  cible.     A  battie  speedily  took  place, 

previously  to  his  march,  and  deve-  and  precisely  half  of  M.  OrsonofTs 

lopes  his  fatherly  intentions  in  a  way  warriors  slept  that  night  with  their 

that  cannot  be  liable  to  mistake  or  faces  towards  the  moon.      Orsonolf 

misinterpretation,  we  should  think :  himself  retired  in  an  oblique  direc- 

— to  be  sure,  there  are  few  things  safe  tion,  and  Foedor  (when  he  learned 

firom  the  malice  of  an  enemy.  the  news)  published  another  procla- 


*  If  our  memory  serves  us  well,  this,  and  one  or  two  other  matters,  arc  recorded  in 
one  of  the  pleasant  histories  written  by  the  celebrated  M.  de  VoUairc, — but  we  are  not 
•are  for  it  is  long  since  we  read  them. 


mation,  showing  devly  that  the  It  is  astonidiiii^  iHnt  an  cffeot  kgio 
enemy  had  been  put  to  flight,  and  has  on  minds  willing  to  he  coaiinced« 
ordcnng  a  hymn,  (analogous  to  our  Fcedor  entered  the  town,  theiefiMre, 
T«Z>fttift,)to  be  sung  with  all  possible  ptrtlj  as  irirad  and  partly  as  oon« 
expedition.  Nothing  could  exceed  queror;  and,  in  furtherance  of  his 
the  noise  made  upon  this  occasion,  proclamation,  he  issued  another,  re« 
except  the  cannon  which  had  bel-  peating  the  pardon  wlueh  he  had  fol- 
lowed out  its  fierce  welcome  on  the  ion  published,  and  leyjing  a  tax.  of 
adyanced  guard  of  the  conqueror  seyentj  per  cent,  on  his  friends  the 
OrsonofT.  The  soldiers  were  mtox-  Naplitzians,  and  at  the  same  time, 
icated  with  brandy  and  joy ;  their  offering  a  reward  of  a  thousand  se« 
wiyes  (of  course)  with  joy  only ;  and  ehins  for  the  head  of  Pepael,  their 
Fcedor  swore  repeatedly,  that  he  generaL  Pepael,  who  was  an  infidel 
would  be  reyenged  upon  &e  Naplitz-  (in  his  notions  of  human  nature,  at 
ians,  for  allowinff  him  to  gam  so  least),  had  fled,  but  being  oyertaken 
easy  a  yictory.  He  directed  double  amonast  the  mountains  hj  a  mist,  he 
rations  to  be  distributed  among  his  nnludoly  perished.  This  mist  was 
soldiers,  and  ordered  out  a  treble  accuratdy  traced  to  the  priest  of 
guard  at  night,  lest  the  enemy  should  Fflsdor's  household,  who  had  aot  up 
come  unawares  upon  him,  for  the  a  number  of  "  MakdicaU"  m  the 
rash  purpose  ofbeing  sacrificed  again,  occasion,  and  had  dispatched  one 
They  did  not  come,  howeyer,  though  after  the  unfortunate  PepaeL — ^We 
the  Buccaneer  watched  as  unrenut-  might  draw  a  moral  fitnn  tins,  but 
tingly  as  a  Chaldean.  we  really  haye  not  time. 

But  why  should  we  pursue  the  de«        Foedor  had  now  got  lid  of  war,  and 

tails  of  war  ?    It  is  with  the  general  his  chief-priest  (two  evils),  but  he 

diaracter  of  this  perfect  chief  that  had  also  lost  his  wife,  who  ihut  heiw 

we  wish  to  become  acquainted,  and  self  up  in  a  penitentiary,  because  her 

not  merely  with  his  petty  triumphs,  husband  haa  been  wicked  enough  to 

The  war  ended,  then,   (let  us  say  smite  off  the  head  of  the  boshop  of 

this  riiortly,)  as  wars  generaUy  dc^  Kemlin.    He  must  undoubtedly  haye 

with  negociations,  and  hollow  truces,  gone  distracted  at  this,  (he  did  tear 

to  be  kept  as  long  as  conyenient;  or  Eis  hair— in  public,)  or  haye  peiish* 

else  witn  conquest  and  rayage,  or  ed  by  a  sudden  or  lingerina  death, 

sunreillance  and  captiyity,  or  reite-  had  it  not  been  for  the  exceuent  dia- 

rated  protestations  ol  inyiolable  faith,  courses  of  the  pret^  Stephanie.  This 

One  circumstance,  however,  may  airl  had  been  a  kmd  of  lady  of  the 

be  mentioned    here;   it   is  tlus:— -  pedchamher  to  Madame  Fcedor,  who 

Foedor,  who  understood  the  policy  thought  well  of  her  beauty  at  first,  bat 

of  war  at  least  as  well  as  he  liked  its  oeased  to  praise  it  as  soon  as  it  at* 

fiitigues,  or  even  relished  the  sweets  tracted  theBuccaneer^s  notice*  About 

of  conquest,— when  he  found  that  he  that  time,    her  anxiety  discovered 

was  pressed  by  the  enemy,  opened  a  that  the  girl's  appearance  was  on  the 

grivate  neaociatioa  with  some  of  the  decline,  and  attributing  this  to  court 
eroes  in  ms  adversarjr's  citadel,  who  hours,  she  dispatched  Uie  pretty  Ste- 
were  willing  to  hear  the  arguments  pbaoie  into  the  country  without  de« 
on  both  sides  of  the  question.  What  lay.  Foedor  heard  of  this,  and  on 
our  Buccaneer's  reasons  were  we  his  lady's  retirement,  made  some  en* 
have  not  yet  learned,— -but  they  quiries  afier  her  finthfid  servant* — 
were  so  convincing,  that  he  had  He  found  her,  as  pretty  as  ever,  and 
speedily  a  strong  party  in  the  ene*  (although  he  thneby  annoyed  one  or 
m/s  camp.  He  then  issued  a  pro-  two  private  fiiends)  he  determined  to 
damation,  pardoning  all  who  nad  do  justice  to  StefMianie,'  and  rein- 
taken  up  arms  against  him,  provided  stated  her  in  her  former  honoursr:— -it 
they  should  lay  them  down  witiiout  was  even  remarked  that  he  had  a 
deliiy.  The  soldiers,  feeling  the  pri«  partiality  for  her  personal  attendance, 
vations  of  ^ar,  were  easily  persuaoed  Some  months  after  this;,  Stephanie 
by  ihexr  own  officers  to  accede  to  became  iD,  and  the  court  physi- 
this ;  and  the  officers  had  been  per-  ^sn  ordered  retirement  and  ekaage 
suaded  beforehand  by  the  private  ar<»  of  air.  Foedor  coincided,  and  to  ro- 
of Foedor  and  his  friends,  ward  her  fidsJi^  (to  her  mistress) 

o 


166                                          T%€  Buccaneer.  C'^^CT* 

he  gave  her  in  marriage  to  one  of  herself^   and  went  t6  the  temple  re* 

his  officers^    with  a  dowry  of   ten  gularly  every  momiog,    to  offer  up 

thousand  zechins.     The  officer  was  vows  for  the  long  life  of  Fcedor  and 

enraptured.     He  protested  that  he  the  prosperity  of  the  island  of  Kern- 

was  profoundly  attached  to  Madame  lin.    She  buut  a  penitentiary  also — 

Stephanie^  and  would  make  her  the  and  endowed   it,    reserving  certain 

best  of  all  possible  husbands.     But  rights  to  the  foundress  and  her  de« 

the  bounty  of  Foedor  was  not  con-  scendants. 

fined  to  the  dowrv.    He  continued  This  system  prevailed  for  a  consi- 

to  patronize  Stephanie,    and  when  derable  time.     At  last  Foedor  met 

ahe  was  brought    to    bed,   he   be-  with  a  serious  accident,  which  drove 

stowed  his  name  on  the  child,  and  M.  Ishmael  and  his  wife  out  of  his 

promised  that  it  should  have  a  ge-  head,  and  made  him  think  of  himself 

neral's  commission    at    three  years  alone.     He  suddenly  grew  pious,  and 

old.    The  next  year,  Stephanie  had  wrote — (t.  e,  signed)  fifteen  pages  of 

another  child,  and  Feeder  made  that,  advice,  which  he  caused  to  be  com- 

at  the  age  of  two  years.  Bishop  of  posed  for  the  benefit  df  all  his  cour- 

Kemlin.    The  third  was  a  girl,  who  tiers  who  wanted  it.      Some  copies 

became  chief-forester,  which,  as  there  were  sent  to  Madame  Stephanie  and 

were  then  no  forests  in  the  island,  her  family.      He    then    grew  more 

might  be  accounted  almost  a  sine-  pious  than  ever,   and  had  frequent 

cure.      The   husband  of.  Stephanie  conferences  with  his  priest  (the  Bi- 

was    a    worthy   man,    and    called  shop  of  Kemlin  was  then  rising  five 

Ishmael.      He  was   a  sleek,  good-  years  old  only,)  upon  the  subject  of 

humoured,     quiet,     clerical-looking  the  past,  and  the  future,  and  other 

man ;  but  in  the  army :  we  believe,  matters  of   a  very  serious  nature. 

however,  that  he  had  been  only  in  He  slept  in  armour,  and  had  incense 

the  commissariat  department,  though  burned  in  his  room  till  he  was  nearly 

he  bore  the  rank  of  an  officer.     He  stifled.    The  physician  remonstrated 

dressed  well,  wore  a  fine  sword,  long  at  this,  but  the  priest  said  that  it 

ipurs,  dark  mustachios,  loved  eating  would  do  good  to  his  soul.     How- 

aind  drinking,    and  play, — and  let  ever,  it  came  at  last  to  the  ears  of 

Madame  Stephanie    do  whatsoever  Stephanie,  who  very  speedily  settled 

ahe  pleased.     He  was,  in  short,  a  the  afiair,    and   he  made  her  next 

paragon  of  husbands,  and  rather  fat.  child — which  she  had  in  the  course 

As  to  his  wife,  she  was  very  proud  of  the  year — Chief  Justice  of   the 

of  her  children ;    more  so,   in  truth.  High  Court  of  Kemlin,  the  very  mo- 

than  of  the  good  Ishmael  her  hus-  ment  he  was  bom. — (The  new  judge 

band ;  for  when  any  of  the  gossips  performed  his  office,  for  some  time, 

discovered  a  likeness  between  the  in-  oy  deputy.^ 

femts  and  their  father,  she  would  re-  The  gooa  efiects  arising  from  this 

sent  the  assertion,  and  aver,  that  she  illness,  did  not  vanish  on  the  return 

thought  them  even  more  like  Foedor  of  health.     Foedor  remained  staunch 

than  her  husband.  to  his  good  resolutions.     To  his  or- 

If  Madame  Stephanie  had  a  fault,  dinary  benevolences  to  M.  Ishmael 

(which  we  do  not  insist  upon,)  it  and  ms  family,  he  superadded  the  be- 

was  that  she  had  a  small — the  small-  nefits  of  his  good  advice.     He  wrote 

est  possible  particle  of  pride.    This  essays  and  homilies — by  the  dozen, 

arose  from  the  distinguished  manner  showing  how  a  varietyof  things  which 

hi  which  she  was  treated  by  the  Buc-  seemed  to  be  wrong  were  right. — 

caneer.      He  gave   her  precedence  He  turned  moralist  and  theologian, 

before  all  the  ladies  of  his  court :  he  and  became  so  profound  a  metaphy- 

made  epigrams  upon  her  beauty  (or  sician,    that    no   one  in   the  island 

caused  trom  to  be  made — it  is  nearly  could  comprehend  the  subtlety  of  his 

die  same  thing) ;    and    placed    his  speculations.     He  wrote  treatises  on 

hand  upon  her  shoulder  wnenever  he  tne  art  of  war,  and  distributed  them 

swore  by  Lelio  to  do  any  thing  that  gratis  among  the  soldiers.     One  or 

was  royal.    She  distributed  pensions,  two  of  his  theories  failed  in  practice, 

and  patronized  authors  at  the  ex-  but  this  he  properly  enough  attri- 

pense  of  Foedor  (and  the  state) ;  had  buted  to  the  fault  of  the  officers  who 

a  guard  of   honour    to    attend    on  made  the  experiments.    He  disputed 

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with   a   fkmous  phUosopher,   In   a  but  it  must  be  obseired  that  there 

neighbouring  island^  and  undertook  was  some  murmuring  at  the  bestowal 

to  convince  him^  that  all  persons  en-  of  this  reward.     Cajolem,  who  ne« 

joyed  the  earth  in  fair  proportions ;  gotiated  (in  disguise)  widi  some  of 

that  the  fact  of  his  havmg  once  led  the  principal  people  at  Naplitz>  re- 

his  soldiers  into  ambush^  was  neces-  ceived  a  brazen  lock>  and  was  pub- 

sary,  and  not  to  be  avoided ;  that  Ms  licly  complimented  by  Fcedor  forhb 

black  charger   merely  pursued    his  conduct.      He   returned  an  answer 

own  choice^  when  he  spurred  him  on  three  Ifloun   kHig>   which  was    ap« 

to  battle ;  and  other  matters  equally  |ilanded  by  erery  one  who  remained 

sublime  and  difficult  to  be  compie*  awake  at  the  conclusion, 

bended.    He  also  instituted  rni  oraer.  And  thus  lived  on  the  great  and 

(the  order  of  ''  The  Brazen  Lock^" )  gallant  Foedor^  admired  by  the  hdr, 

by  which  a  lock  of  brass  was  fixea  and  worshipped  by  the  great ;  the 

to  the  noses  of  such  of  his  courtiers  envy  of  princes  whom  he  excelled, 

as  had  done  him  (or  the  island)  emi-  and  abused  by  those  who  were  more 

nent  service.     Tattlisky  invented  a  powerful.    One  man  wished  for  hia 

method  of  discovering  secrets^  and  nffure^   another  for  his  strength,    a 

had  a  brass  lock  for  his  pains.---Jab-  tmrd  under-rated  his  abilities,  and  a 

brousky  once  talked  sixteen  hours,  fourth  his  honours.    No  one  could 

without  ceasing,  upon  the  subject  of  eivjoy  higher  distinctions.     For  the 

the  nation's  prosperity,  so  that  none  space  oTfour  years  he  reigned  with-t 

of  his  auditors  understood  a  word,  out  an  interval  of  war,  receiving  his 

and  yet  each  person  gave  him  a  piece  taxes,  and  collecting  his  tribute  on 

of  gold  com  at  the  conclusion  of  his  the  seas,— -drinking  &eek  and  Cyprus 

oration.    Thb  made  a  ffood  deal  of  wines,    sraddng   dffars,     shooting, 

noise  at  court,  and  Jabbrousky  was  riding,  sailing,  feasting,  and  making 

decreed  to  have  merited  two  brass  cfompnments  and  love ; — a  model  M 

locks,  which  were  fixed  to  his  nose  any  prince,   from  the  source  to  the 

without  delay. — (He  grew  superd-  mouth  of  the  Danube, — ^provided  he 

lious,    unhappily,    on   the  instant.)  professes  the  Catholic  religion,  and 

Ferretz  had  a  lock  for  destn^ing  aU  is  not  too  wise  to  gain  improvement 

the  rats  in  the  bland  of  ALemlin;  from  example. 


SONG  TO  TWILIGHT. 


1. 


Come,  gende  Twi£ght,  come ! 
And  gpiiead  thy  purple  wii^ 
Along  the  shore,  with  fioxy  hum 
And  mystic  murmuiiiigt ; 
Come  while  the  lake  is  still. 
And  mute  the  breezes  play— 
And  birds  with  many  an  artless  thrill 
Shall  sing  thy  rounaelay. 


The  lily*s  ivory  bowers 

Have  lost  their  elfin-Queen, 

The  fayn  have  left  dieir  dear-loved  flowers 

To  trip  it  on  the  green ; 

And  now  the  meny  crew. 

In  quaintest  revelry, 

Are  scattering  odouis  o*er  the  dew. 

And  wdoome  danoe  to  thee. 


Yon  little  golden  star 

Hath  fillM  his  urn  anew, 

To  aid  thy  stealthy  flight  from  &r 

Amid  the  depths  of  blue : 

Abroad  the  glow-worm  hies, 

With  livins lamp  to  greet 

Thy  li^t  fidl  from  the  balmy  skies, 

And  hither  guide  thy  feet. 


A  little  looffer,  then, 
Sweet  Twi]!(^  linger  here, 
Till  one  sole  songster  *mid  the  glen 
Enthralls  the  rartured  ear ; 
Then  in  its  tanked  grove, 
Beneath  the  ffreen-irood  tree. 
Oh!  I  win  ttink  of  my  lady  knre, 
And  she  win  think  of  ms  I 

P.P. 


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TO  THE  SUN. 

BY   BERNARD^  BARTOK. 

Monarch  of  day  !  once  piously  adored 

By  virtuous  Pagans ;     if  no  longer  thou 
With  orisons  art  worship'd — as  the  lord 

Of  the  delightful  lyre^  or  dreadful  bow ; 
If  thy  embodied  essence  be  toot  now^ 

As  it  once  was«  regarded  as  divine ; 
Nor  blood  of  victims  at  thine  altar  fiow. 

Nor  clouds  of  incense  hover  round  thy  shrine  ^ — 
Yet  fitly  raay'st  thou  claim  the  homage  of  the  Nine. 

Nor  can  I  deem  it  stran^e^  that  in  past  ages 

Men  should  have  knelt  and  worsnip'd  Uiee ; — that  kings, 
And  laurel'd  bards^  robed  priests^  and  hoary  sages^ 

Should^  far  above  all  sublunary  things^ 
Have  tum'd  to  thee^  whose  visible  glory  flings 

Its  splendour  over  all. — ^Ere  gospel-light 
Had  dawn'd,  and  given  to  thought  sublimer  wings, 

I  cannot  marvel,  in  that  mental  night. 
That  nations  should  obey,  and  nature  own  thy  right. 

For  man  was  then,  as  now  he  is,  compell'd^ 

By  conscious  frailties  manifold,  to  seek 
Something  to  worship.— In  the  heart,  unquell'd 

By  innate  evil,  thoughts  there  are  whicn  speak 
One  language  in  Barbarian  Goth,  or  Greek ; 

A  language  by  itsdf  well  understood. 
Proclaiming  man  is  helpless^  frail,  and  weak. 

And  urging  him  to  bow  to  stone,  or  wood ; — 
Till  what  h&  faAnds  had  form'd,  his  heart  revered  as  good. 

Do  I  commend  idolatry  ? — O  no  ! 

I  merely  would  assert — the  human  hearty 
Must  worship :— that  its  hopes  and  fears  will  go 

Out  of  itself,  and  restlessly  depart 
In  search  of  somewhat,  which  its  own  fond  art. 

Tradition,  custom,  or  sublimer  law 
Of  Revelation,  brings, — to  assuage  the  smart  . 

Sorrows  and  sufferings  from  its  essence  draw. 
When  it  can  look  not  up  with  hope,  and  lore,  and  awe. 

Can  it  be  wondrouB,  then,  before  the  name 

Of  the  Eternal  Goo  was  known,  as  now. 
That  orisons  were  pour'd,  and  votaries  came 

To  offer  at  thine  altars,  and  to  bow 
Before  an  object  beautiful  as  thou  ? — 

No,  it  was  natural,  in  those  darker  days, ' 
For  such  to  wreathe  round  thine  ideal  brow 

A  fitting  chaplet  of  thine  arrowy  rays. 
Shaping  thee  fortn  a  form  to  accept  tiieir  prayer  or  praise. 

Even  I,  mi^esdc  orb !  who  worship  not 

The  s^endour  of  thy  presence, — who  controul 
My  present  feelings,  as  toy  future  lot 

Is  punted  to  the  viMon  of  my  soul. 
When  final  darkness,  like  an  awful  scroll. 

Shall  quench  thy  fires :— even  I,  if  I  could  kneel 
To  aught  but  Him  who  framed  this  wondrous  whole. 

Could  worship  thee ;— so  deeply  do  I  feel 
Emotions— words  alone  can  hope  not  to  reveal. 


1881.;]  To  ihe  Juii.  l#t 

For  thou  art  glorious  [-«-wheiij  from  iky  paTilkm, 

Thou  lookest  forth  at  momiiur,  flinging  wide 
Its  curtaln-cloiids  of  pui^plc  And  ▼ermilion. 

Dispensing  light  and  lire  on  erery  side ; 
Bnght'ning  the  mountain  cataract^  dimlv  spied 

Throuffh  glittering  mist;- opening  each  dew-gemm'd  flower; 
Or  touching^  in  some  hamlet  far  descried^ 

Its  spiral  wreaths  of  smoke,  that  upwards  towers- 
While  birds  their  matins  sing  in  many  a  leafy  bower* 

And  more  magnificent  art  thou,  bright  sun ! 

Uprising  from  the  ocean's  billowy  bed  ;— 
Who  that  has  seen  thee  thus,. as  I  hare  done. 

Can  e'er  forget  the  efililgent  splendours  spread 
From  thy  emerging  radiance  } — Upwards  sped. 

E'en  to  the  centre  of  the  vaulted  sky. 
Thy  beams  pervade  the  heavens,  and  o'er  them  shed 

Hues  indescribable — of  gorgeous  dye. 
Making  among  the  clouds  mute,  glorious  pageantry. 

Then,  then  how  beautiful,  across  the  deep. 

The  lustre  of  thy  orient  path  of  light ! 
Onward,  still  onward,— -o'er  the  waves  that  leap 

So  lovelily,  and  show  their  crests  of  white. 
The  eye  unsated,  in  its  own  despite. 

Still  up  that  vista  gases*;  till  thy  way 
Over  the  waters,  seems  a  path-wav  bright 

For  holiest  thoughts  to  travel,  toere  to  pay 
Their  homage  unto  Hue  who  bade  thee  *^  rulb  thk  day. 

And  thou  thysdf,  forgetting  what  thou  art, 

Appear'st  thy  Maker's  temple,  in  whose  dome 
The  silent  worship  of  the  expanding  heart 

May  rise,  and  seeLits  own  eternal  home  :** 
The  intervening  billows'  snowy  foam. 

Rising  sucoessitely,  seem  dept  of  light. 
O'er  which  a  disembodied  soul  mSf^hft  roam  ; 

E'en  as  the  heavenly  host^  in  vision  bright. 
Once  did  on  Bethel's  pkun,  before  the  Patriarch's  sight. 


Nor  are  thy  evemng  splendours,  mighty  orb  I 

Leas  beautiful :— and,  O !  more  toucninfi^  &r. 
And  of  more  power—thought,  feeling  to  absorb 

In  voiceless  ecstasy, — to  me  they  are. 
When,  watchful  of  thy  exit,  the  pale  star 

Of  evening,  in  a  lovely  summer  eve. 
Comes  forth ;  and,  softer  than  the  soft  guitar. 

Is  said  to  tell  howgentle  lovers  grieve. 
The  whispering  breezes  ligfa,  and  take  of  thee  their  leave. 

O !  then  it  is  deUghtfrd  to  behold 
Thy  cahn  departure ;  soothing  to  survey 

Through  opening  clouds,  l^  thee  all  edgea  with  gold. 
The  miloer  Domp  of  thy  decHning  sway: 


How  beautiful,  on  church-tower  ola  and  grev. 
Is  shed  thy  parting  smflej  how  briffhtfy  glow 

Thylast  heamt  on  some  tM  tree's  lomest  spray, 
Willie  silvery  mists  half  hide  its  stem  below. 
Ascending  from  the  stream  whldf  at  its  ^ont  dolh  flow. 

This  may  be  mere  detcriptim:  and  there  are 
Who  of  such  poesy  but  lUtly  dean  ;— 

And  hold  it  nobler  in  a  baraoy  £ur 
To  set k  In  sarsatiTe  a  Uvdief  thane.:^— 
Vol.  IV.  •     O' 


170  Tb  the  Swi.  [[Aug- 

Thefle  think,  perchance,  the  poet  doei  but  dreun, 
Wh&pamts  the  scenes  most  lovely  in  his  cyes^^ 

And,  all  unconsdoiis  of  the  bliss  supreme 
Their  quiet  unobtrunveiiess  supplies. 
Insipid  judge  hu  taste,  his  simple  strain  despise. 

I  auarr^l  not  with  such.    If  battle-fields. 

Where  crowns  are  lost  and  won ;  or  potent  speU, 
Which  portraiture  of  stormier  passion  yields ; — 

If  such  alone  can  bid  their  bosoms  swell 
With  those  emotions  words  can  feebly  tell, — 

Enough  there  are  who  lore  such  themes  as  these. 
Whose  Joflier  powers  I  hope  not  to  excel : 

I  neither  wish  to  fire  the  heart,  nor  freeze ; 
But  seek  their  praise  alone,  whom  gentler  thoughts  can  please. 

Yet  if  the  xiuiet  study  of  the  heart. 

And  humole  love  of  nature's  every  grace 
Have  not  deceived  me ;— these  have  power  to  impart 

Feelings,  and  thoughts,  well  worthy  of  a  place 
In  every  Dosom : — he  who  learns  to  trace. 

Through  all  he  sees,  that  Hand  which  form'd  the  whole. 
And,  contemplatmg  fdr  Creation's  face. 

Feels  her  calm  beauty  in  his  inmost  soul,— 
Can  read  those  mystic  lines  thought  only  can  unrol. 

Nature  is  lavish  of  her  loveliness, 

Until  that  loveliness,  if  not  denied. 
Becomes  a  theme,  which,  whoso  would  express. 

And  dwell  with  fondness  on,  men  half  deride : 
And  even  thou,  bright  Sun !  who  in  thy  pride. 

And  gorgeous  beauty,  dost  so  often  set — 
Art  scarcely  noticed : — many  turn  aside 

With  coid  indifi^rence  fran  the  scene,  and  yet 
Tis  one  which  he  who  feels — ^for  hours  may  not  forget ! 

Have  I  not  found  it  such,  when,  at  the  close 

Of  a  long  dav  in  dose  confinement  spent, 
I've  wander'd  forth— and  seen  thy  disk  repose 

On  the  horizon  of  the  firmamafit  ? — 
O !  I  have  gazed  upon  thee^with  intent. 

And  silent  ardour,  till  I  could  have  deem'd 
The  clouds  which  compass'd  thee,  by  thee  besprent 

With  glory,  as  thy  brightness  through  them  gleam'd, — 
Beautiful  in  themselveff— ^th  beautifid  visions  teem'd. 

And  I  have  look'd  at  them— until  the  story 

Of  Bu  NY  Air's  Pilgrims  seem'd  a  tale  most  true : — 
How  he  beheld  their  entrance  into  glory — 

And  saw  them  pass  the  pearly  pmtal  through  ;— 
Catching,  meanwnile,  a  beatific  view 

Of  that  bright  city — shining  like  the  sun. 
Whose  glittenng  streets  appeared  of  ffolden  hue. 

And  in  them  many  men — their  conflicts  done. 
Were  walUng,  robed— with  pahns—and  crowned  every  one ! 

Not  that  the  sodl's  divine  imaginings 

Can  rest  in  glories  palpable  to  sense ; 
Not  robes,  palms,  crowns^  tior  harps  of  golden  strings^ 

Awaken  thrills  of  rapture  ao  intense. 
Yet  check'd  Inr  awe,  and  humble  diffidence. 

As  hopes  of^meeting,  never  more  to  part — 
Those  we  have  dearly  loved; — the  influence 

Of  w^hose  afiection,  oV  tl^  subject  heart. 
Was  by  mild  virtue  gabi'd^  and  sway'd  with  gentle  art. 


1891.;]  ToiheSun^  lU 

The  very  ihoughi  of  meeting  ttlch— if  bliss ; 

But  O !  to  meet  in  heaven^  naj,  e'en  to  f^i 
At  times  a  hope  Which  whispers  aug^t  lilce  this> 

Is  joy — that  language  never  can  reveal ! 
In  hours  of  Solitude,  its  mute  appeal 

Seems  with  the  spirit's  better  thoughts  to  blend  ; 
Its  heavenly  balm  possesses  power  to  heal 

Wounds--that  the  world  can  fdntly  comprehend^ 
But  which,  without  its  aid,  would  bleea  till  life  should  end. 

Once  more  unto  my  theme.    I  turn  again> 

To  thee,  resplendent  ruler  of  the  day ! 
For  time  it  is  to  close  this  lingering  strain^ 

And  I,  though  half  reluctantly,  obey. 
Still — not  thy  me,  and  set,  alane--though  they 

Are  most  superb,  demand  thy  votary's  song ; 
The  bard  who  makes  thee  subject  of  his  lay. 

Unless  he  would  a  theme  so  glorious  wronf. 
Will  find  it  one  that  wakes  of  thoughts  a  countless  throng. 

For  can  imagmation  upward  soar 

To  thee,  and  to  thy  daily  path  on  high. 
Nor  feel,  if  it  have  never  felt  before. 

Fresh  admiration  of  thy  mi^esty? 
Thy  home  is  in  the  beautiful  blue  sky ! 

From  whence  thou  lookest  on  this  world  of  Ours, 
As  but  one  satellite  thy  beams  supply 

With  light  and  gladness->thy  euaustless  powers 
Call  forth  in  other  worlds  sweet  Spring's  returning  flowers* 

Yes — as  in  this,  in  other  worlds  the  same. 

The  Seasons  do  thee  hon^ge— each  in  turn ; 
Spring,  with  a  smile,  exults  to  hear  thy  naine  ; 

Then  Summer  woos  thy  bright  but  brief  scjounl 
To  bless  her  bowers  ;  while  deeper  ardours  bum 

On  Autumn's  glowinff  cheek  when  thOu  art  nigh  j 
And  even  Wintei  half  foregoes  her  stelii 

And  frigid  aspect,  as  thy  bright'ning  eye 
Falls  on  her  features  pale,  nor  can  thy  power  deny« 

Yet — spite  of  all : — though  thou  appear'st  to  be 

The  type  of  thy  Creator  ;  seeming  source 
Of  light  and  life,  on  earth,  in  air,  in  sea — 

To  countless  millions  in  thy  mighty  course  :*^ 
Now  listening  to  the  dash  of  ooean,  hoarse 

Upon  its  rocky  marge  ;  or  to  the  sound 
Of  stormy  winds,  r^oicing  in  their  force  ;— « 

Or  softer  harmonies  which  float  around. 
From  deep  and  verdant  vales,  or  mountains  forest-croWii'd  :•— 

And  though  on  earth  thou  hast  beheld  the  sway 

Of  Time,  which  alters  all  things ;  and  may'st  look 
Onpyramids  as  piles  of  yesterday. 

Which  were  not  in  thy  youth  :--aIthough  no  nook 
Of  earth,  perchance,  retain  the  form  it  took 

When  first  thou  didst  behold  it : — even  thou 
Must  know,  in  tum|(  thy  strength  and  glorv  strook  ; 

Must  lose  the  radiant  aown  that  decks  thy  brow^ 
Day's  regal  sceptre  yield,«--«nd  to  a  Mightier  bow ! 

For  thou  thyself  art  but  a  gaude  of  Time, 

Wliose  birth  with  thy  original  did  blend  ; 
Together  ye  began  your  coilrse  sublime. 

And  as  sublime  wiU  be  vour  destined  end. 


17t  T/u  Tjfrol  Wanderer.  Z^^^S' 

For,  soon^  or  late^  ag  Oradei  portendy 

One  final  contuinmatioD  shall  ye  meet : 
Thou  Into  nothingness  agun  must  wend. 
When  this  yaat  workT ^ssolves  with  fervent  heat ; — 
Hii  revolutions  end,  his  cycle  be  complete. 

And  then  shall  follow  an  eternal  day^ 

Illumed  by  splendour  far  surpassing  thine ; 
For  Hb,  who  made  thee>  shall  Himself  display. 

And  in  the  brightness  of  his  glory  shine, — 
Absorbing  all,  and  making  all  divine : — 

Before  His  throne  the  hosts  of  heaven  shall  fall ; 
And  space  itself  shall  be  but  as  a  shrine^ 

Where  everlasting  pndses  cannot  paU, 
Pour'd  forth  before  Tbe  Lamb^  and  God,  the  Lord  op  At  l! 


THE  TYROL  WANDERER. 

Mb.  Editob — I  have  been  in  the  Laudun,  and  marched  to  Belgrade, 

habit  of  travelling  a  great  deal  over  after  which  he  sustmned  his  share  in 

the  world,  and  though  not  an  author  the  sie^e  of  Mantua.    After  the  ca- 

by  profesnon,  and  never  intending  pitulation  of  that  city  he  deserteil 

to  become  one,  I  have  yet  made  u  from  the  Austrian  army,   to  avoid 

my  practice  to  note  down  in  an  al«  the  consequences  of  a  duel  in  which 

bum,  whatever  I  have  seen  or  heard^  he  had  been  involved.    The  punish- 

which  struck  me  as  extraordinary,  ment  for  such  a  crime,  according  to 

Happening  the   other   day  to  turn  the   rules  of  the  Austrian   militarv 

over  some^  of  its  pages,  I  fell  upon  code,  is  death.  He  joined  the  French 

the  following  history,  related  to  me  at    Milan,   and   went  by  the  name 

Ivy  the  man  lumself,  a  few  veart  of  Carlo   Hassanda,    but   growuig 

pnce,  in  Washington,  in  North  A-  weaty  of  the  suspicion  which  at- 

merica,  in   which  city  he  then  re-  tached  to  him  as  a  spy,  he  poisoned 

nded,  and  I  believe,  still  lives.    He  the  guards  b^  administering  to  them 

had  received  a  grant  from  the  na-  opium  in  theur  drink,  and  escaped  to 

tional  legislature  of  that  country,  in  a  village  in  the  south  of  Switzerland. 

consequence  of  services  rendered  by  Here,  to  avoid  detection,  he  assumed 

him  to  the  American  general,  Eaton,  the  name  of  Joan  Eugena  Leitens- 

during  his  incursion  upon   Tripoli  dorier,  and  having  sent  word  to  his 

His  story  is  a  sin^^ular  example  of  fiuqilj  how  he  was  situated,   thev 

what  human  ingenmty  can  do,  when  sent  him  a  remittance,  with  which 

operated  on  by  the  stimulus  of  ne-  he  purchased  watches  and  jewellery, 

cessity.  and  travelled  as  a  pedlar  through 

Gervauo   Probario   Santuari  was  France  and  Spain.    In  this  capacity 

bom  at  a  idllage  near  Trent,  fai  the  he  arrived  at  Toulon,  where  hi8  ter- 

T^rol,  on  the  21st  of  October,  1778.  ror  and  his  necessities  induced  him 

He  was  brought  up  hi  one  of  the  to  embark  on  board  a  vessel,  which 

schools  of  that    country,  in  which  wa«  bound  for  E^ypt.    Ai]^r  his  ar- 

part  of  the  learner's  time  is  devot^  rival  he  wandered  on  to  Cairo,  where 

to  literature,  and  part  to  the  exercise  the  French  forces  were  then  quar- 

of  the  agricultural  and  mechanic  arts,  tered,  under  the  command  of  Menou, 

He  was  then  sent  to  college  for  the  and  to  the  agricultural  and  econo- 

purpose  of  being  educated  for  the  mical  projects  of  the  Institute  he 

Komish  church,   but  not  liking  his  rendered  considerable  aid.     In  the 

occuoation  or  prospects,  he  renounced  mean  time,  our  forces  landed,  and 

his  theological  studies,  and,  young  after  the  victory,  which  the  life  of 

as  he  was,  became  a  Benedict,  in-  Abercrombie  dearly  purchased,    he 

Btead  of  a  monk.    Hfs  first  employ-  conceived  that  things  were  likely  to 

ment,  after  his  marriage,  was  as  a  take  a  change,  and  deserted  witliout 

jurveffor  of  land,    Short^  afterwards,  acnmle  to  the  ^tish  army.     The 

however,  when  Joseph  the  Second  English  officers  encouraged  him  to 

ordered  an  expedition   against  the  open  a  eoffee-house  for  their  enter- 

Tuits,  he  tntmd  the  anny  mder  tvitmant,  and  he  Mon  collected  a 


IM1.3                                 7%e  jy^olWantUrer.  l7J 

sum  of  money  which  his  enterpriz-  had  doM  hfaiij  profefied  the  Maho- 
ing  spirit  induced  him  to  expend  in  metan  laith  in  due  form,  and  to  show 
the  erection  of  a  theatre,  where  the  that  he  was  in  earnest,  dreumdsed 
military  amateurs  used  to  perform,  himself.  This  being  accomplished,  he 
Here  he  married  a  Coptic  woman.  On  then  joined,  under  the  new  name  of 
the  departure  of  tne  English  he  Mural  Aga,  a  caravan  for  Trebisond, 
foimd  it  necessary  to  retire  from  A-  on  the  southern  shore  of  the  Black  sea. 
lexandria,  and  abandoning  his  wife.  On  the  way  he  practised  his  profes- 
child,  and  property,  he  arrived,  after  sion  by  giving  directions  to  the  sick, 
an  ordinary  voyage,  at  Messina,  in  and  selling,  for  considerable  sums  of 
Sicilv.  At  that  mace,  beine  out  of  money,  small  pieces  of  paper  on 
employment,  ana  utterly  destitute  which  were  written  sentences  from 
of  resources,  he  entered  as  a  novice  the  Koran  in  Turkish,  which  he  pre- 
in  a  monastery  of  Capuchin  friars,  tended  to  sanctify  by  applying  to  the 
and  practised  their  discipline,  and  naked  shaven  crown  of  ms  head.  At 
enjoyed  their  bounty,  until  an  oppor-  Trebisond  he  was  informed  that  the 
tunity  offered  of  running  away,  of  Bashaw  was  dangerously  ill,  and 
which,  with  his  usual  alacrity,  he  threatened  with  bhndness;  and  he 
availed  himself  and  sailed  for  Smyr-  was  called  upon  instantly  to  pre- 
na.  He  soon  reached  Constantino-  scribe  for  this  grand  patient,  which, 
pie,  where  he  was  reduced  to  the  however,  he  refused  to  do,  unless  he 
last  extremity  of  want,  having  wan-  was  admitted  into  his  presence.  To 
dered  about  the  city  for  three  days  this  sovereign  presence  he  was  ac- 
and  three  nights  without  food  or  cordingly  conducted  throuffh  files  of 
shelter.  At  length,  meeting  a  Ca-  armed  soldiers  and  ranks  of  kneelinr 
puchin  firiar,  he  In^gged  of  him  a  pack  officers.  Having  arrived  in  the  sicK 
of  cards  and  a  pistol,  and  with  the  chamber,  the  derfise  dindayed  all 
aid  of  these  he  exnibited  tricks  which  the  pomp  and  mndeur  of  his  calfins) 
in  some  measure  retrieved  his  des-  by  solemnly  invoking  God  and  tne 
Derate  fortune.  About  this  time  Irophet.  He  next  proceeded  to  en« 
Brune,  who  commanded  the  French  quire  under  what  disease  the  Bashaw 
Mrmy  at  Milan,  when  he  made  his  laboured,  and  found  that  he  was  af- 
escape,  arrived  at  Constanthiople  as  flicted  with  a  fever,  accompanied 
the  French  ambassador ;  and  fearing  with  a  violent  inflammation  of  the 
that  he  micht  be  recognised  by  some  eyes.  Judging  from  the  svmptomi 
df  the  di^oinatic  suite,  he  enlisted  that  it  was  luely  he  would  recover 
into  the  Turkish  service.  Two  ex-  both  health  and  right,  he  boldly  de- 
peditions  were  then  on  foot ;  one  dared  it  to  be  God's  will  that  both 
against  Passwan  Oglou,  in  Bulgaria,  these  events  should  happen  after  the 
the  other  against  Eifi  Bey,  in'^ypt.  next  new  moon,  proviaed  certain  in- 
He  joined  the  latter,  and  on  the  oe-  termediate  remedies  should  be  used, 
feat  of  the  Turkish  detachment  to  Then  searching  the  pouch  containing 
which  he  belonged,  saved  his  head  his  medicines  and  apparatus,  he  pro- 
by  betaking  himself  to  the  desert,  duced  a  white  powder,  which  he 
and  courting  protection  from  the  ordered  to  be  blown  into  the  B»- 
Bedouin  Arabs.  After  this  unfor-  shaw's  eyes,  and  a  wash  of  milk  and 
timate  expedition  he  contmued  to  water  to  be  frequently  applied  after- 
make  his  way  back  to  Constantino-  wards.  Sweating,  by  the  asslsi- 
pie,  and  endeavoured  in  vain  to  pro-  ence  of  warm  drinks  and  blankets, 
cure  from  the  Russian  minister  a  was  likewise  recommended.  He  was 
passport  into  Muscovy.  His  next  well  rewarded  both  by  money  and 
attempt  was  to  obtain  re-admittance  presents ;  and  the  next  day  departed 
into  tne  Turkish  service,   in  which  with  ^e  caravan  towards  Perria,  in- 

Eoying  unsuccessful,  he  assumed  the  tending  to  be  nine  or  ten  days  jour- 
bit  and  character  of  a  <i<rri;»f.  These  ney  fVom  Trebisond,  before  the  new 
are  the  functionaries  of  religion,  and  moon  should  appear,  that  he  might 
always  combine  with  their  sacerdotal  be  quite  out  or  reach,  in  case  the 
duties  the  offices  of  physician  and  event  should  prove  unfortunate.  The 
conjurer.  To  be  initiated  into  this  caravan,  being  numerous  and  heavily 
onler  he  made  a  formal  renunciation  laden,  was  overtaken  bv  an  orga* 
of  Christianity,  denounced  its  follow-  nised  and  arm^  banditti,  who  tmr- 
ers,  for  the  wrongs  and  injiuries  they  sued  them  for  the  purposes  of  i»un<t 


174                                      The  T^ro/  Wanderer.  C^og- 

d^,  and  finding  they  must  either  a  connexion  with  a  Copt,  a  man  of 
fight  or  purchase  terms,  they  pre-  her  own  sect  Returning  once  more 
lerred  the  latter.  This  afikir  being  to  Cairo,  he  wholly  relinquished  the 
thus  settled,  he  heard  two  of  the  occupations  of  a  denrise,  and  as- 
marauders  talking  to  each  other  con-  sumed  the  office  and  uniform  of  an 
kerning  the  grand  derrlse  who  had  engineer!  Here  he  was  engaged  in 
cured  the  Bashaw  of  Trebisond.  He  planning  military  works,  and  m  su- 
heard  them  say,  that  the  recovery  perintending  theu-  execution.  While 
was  confidently  expected,  as  the  thus  employed  news  was  brought 
more  violent  symptoms  had  abated,  him  that  the  American  captain,  £a- 
and  the  prospect  became  daily  more  ton,  had  arrived,  and  was  in  search 
encouraging.  ^  The  event  justified  of  a  confidential  and  intrepid  agent, 
tiieir  observations,  and  on  the  return  to  convey  a  message  to  Hamet  Cav&- 
9f  the  caravan  the  dervise  was  re-  melU,  the  ex-bashaw  of  Tripoli,  in 
ceived  with  open  arms  at  Trebisond,  Barbary.  At  an  interview  whicli 
pronoimced  by  the  lips  of  the  so-  took  place  between  them,  the  captain 
▼ereign  tp  be  a  great  and  good  first  swore  Murat  to  secresy  on  the 
man,  and  otice  more  loaded  with  Koran,  and  then  communicated  his 
donations.  Here  he  remained  until  project.  Having  agreed  upon  the 
another  caravan  set  out  for  Mecca,  conditions,  Murat  took  the  earliest 
and  he  joined  the  body  of  pil^ims  opportunity  of  deserting  the  Turks, 
and  traders  in  his  hitherto  auspicious  and  penetrated  through  the  desert 
character  of  a  dervise.  The^  arrived  to  the  Mameluke  camp,  where  Ca- 
in due  time  in  the  reeipn  of  Yemen ;  vamelli  was,  poor  and  dependent^ 
but  the  Wechabites  had  commenced  but  respected.  It  must  be  remem- 
dieir  fanatical  encroachments.  They  bered  that  Egypt  is  divided  into 
had,  in  part,  demolisl^ed  the  old  re-  English  and  French  parties ;  the 
ligion  ot  Mahomet,  set  up  their  new  Turks  l)eing  attached  to  the  French^ 
revelation  in  its  stead,  burned  the  and  the  Mamelukes  to  the  English, 
body  of  the  prophet,  and  sequester-  With  a  single  attendant  and  two 
edmuchof  the  revenues  of  his  shrine,  dromedaries,  he  proceeded  with  the 
The  caravan  did  not  choose  to  en-  swiftness  of  the  wind,  feeding  die 
counter  the  zeal  and  determination  animals  on  small  bulls  composed  of 
qf  the9e  daring  innovators,  and  ac-  meal  and  e^gs,  and  taking  no  other 
cordingly  it  halted  at  a  distance,  sleep  than  he  could  catch  upon  the 
But  >furat  availufig  himself,  partly  back  of  the  hard-trottinr  animal,  to 
pf  his  sanctity  as  a  priest,  and  partiy  which  he  had  himself  tied.  He 
of  his  personal  adroitness,  went  over  reached  the  Mameluke  camp  in  safe- 
tp  their  camp,  and  was  we]!  received,  ty.  The  Sheik,  in  token  of  a  wel- 
H^ving  tarned  as  long  as  he  pleased  come  reception,  gave  him  a  few  se- 
in  Mecca,  he  went  to  a  port  near  quins,  and  refreshed  him  with  coffee. 
Jidda,  a  city  on  the  Red  sea,  and  In  a  short  time  he  so  arranged  matters 
thence  crossing  to  the  west  side,  he  with  the  ex-Bashaw,  that  one  night 
cjpasted  along  to  Suez.  In  that  place  Cavamelli  went  forth,  as  if  on  an 
he  entered  as  interpreter  into  the  ordinary  expedition,  with  about  one 
service  of  Lord  Gonlon,  a  Scottish  hundred  and  fifty  followers,  and  in- 
traveller,  and  with  him  he  travelled  stead  of  returning  to  his  Mameluke 
to  Cairo,  and  thence  to  Nubia  and  encampment,  sped  his  way  over  the 
Abyssinia.  His  last  employment,  trackless  sands,  and  with  that  force 
previous  to  hb  leaving  the  service  of  reached  the  rendezvous  of  the  en- 
that  gentieman,  was  to  decorate  with  terprizing  American.  ^Vith  all  the 
flowers,  fruit,  leaves,  branches,  and  forces  they  could  jointiy  assemble, 
chandeliers,  the  hall  in  which  his  they  traversed,  with  extreme  toil  and 
employer,  on  his  return,  gave  a  suffering,  the  deserts  of  Barca,  for 
splendid  fete  to  the  foreign  residents  the  purpose  of  making  a  diversion 
and  consuls  then  at  Cairo.  Tlience,  in  favour  of  the  squaoron  of  armed 
after  an  absence  of  six  years,  he  re-  ships  which  the  United  States  of 
turned  to  Alexandria,  and  on  en-  America  had  ordered  against  the  city 
qiuring  after  his  Coptic  wife,  was  of  Tripoli.  After  surmounting  hi- 
tpld  that  she  was  in  concealment  A  credible  hardships,  ^hey  arrived  at 
separation  was  readily  agreed  upon,  Dema,  and  gained  an  advantage 
af^d  by  rautnal  consent,  she  formed  over  the  troops  of  ^he  reigning  Ba^* 


1S31.;]                                  Ths  Ttfrol  Wismdertr.  US 

chaw  in  a  tkinnUh.  Immediately  could  expect  mercy  from  the  French* 
after  thii,  a  peace  was  concluded  men«  He  then  determined  to  embark 
with  the  American  consul^  Mr.  Lear;  as  a  pasienger  for  the  United  Stately 
hi  consequence  of  whidb^  orders  were  but  no  master  of  a  vessel  could  be- 
sent  to  the  squadron  of  the  United  found  to  receive  him  in  that  capacity';- 
States^  then  on  the  coast,  and  to  the  and  being  obliged  to  offer  himself  as 
co-operating  land  forces  under  Ea^  a  sailor^  he  was  entered  as  such  on 
ton,  to  discontinue  liostilities.  The  board  a  ship  bound  for  Salem,  in  the 
Egyptian  host  were  reouested  to  em-  State  of  Massachusetts.  Here  lie 
bark  in  the  ships  or  their  allies.  learned  to  hand,  reef,  and  steer,  and 
Fart  of  them,  thus  stopped  in  their  in  a  short  time  became  an  active- 
mid-career,  did  so;  and  the  rest  re-  and  perfect  seaman.  Arriving  at 
mained  on  shore,  subject,  now  they  Salem,  in  December  1809,  he  soon 
were  inferior  in  martial  strength,  to  went  on  a  visit  to  his  old  friend  and 
the  cruelty  and  caprice  of  the  bi^ed '  fellow  warrior  at  Brimfield^  by  whom 
and  exasperated  despot.  Leitens-  he  was  hospitably  entertained  and 
dorfer  was  one  of  the  persons  who  sent  to  Washington,  funiished  with 
went  on  board,  and  witnessed  the  ample  testimonials  of  his  bravery  and 
mortificatiou  of  the  ex-bashaw,  and  services,  for  the  inspection  of  the 
the  ravings  of  his  lieutenant-general.  President  and  Secretary  of  State.  By 
at  this  unexpected  order,  so  subvert  these  officers  he  was  referred  to  the 
sive  of  their  plans,  and  so  ruinous  to  Secretary  at  War,  and  ei:\)oyed,  for  a 
their  hopes.  In  this  vessel  he  acted  time,  the  paradise  of  suspense  into* 
as  a  colonel,  and  proceeded  with  her  which  every  state  expectant  is  sure 
by  way  of  Malta  to  Syracuse.  to  be  initiated.    By  continued  refer- 

From  Syracuse  he  went  to  Albania,  ences,  however,  from  one  person  to 

taking  the  route  of  Corfu  to  Salona,  another,  his  skill  in  surveying,  draw- 

with  the  design  of  enquiring  by  letter  ing,  and  engineering,  happened   to 

what  had  become  of  a  son  by  his  ^rst  become  known  to  the  surveyor  of  the 

marriage,  whom  he  had  lefl  beUnd  public  buiJdinn,  and  he  thereby  ac- 

in  the  TyroL     Immediately,  how-  quired  some  of  the  patronage  of  Mr. 

ever,  upon  his  landing  among  the  Latrobe.    There  he  now  lives,  occu« 

Turks,  he  was  seized  as  an  apostate  pying  one  of  the  vacant  chambers  in 

Mahometan  and  reduced  to  slavery,  the  northern  pile  of  the  capitol,  as  a 

The  miseries  of  his  situation  were  m  watch  or  office   keeper ;  providing 

some  degree  relieved,  from  the  cir-  and  cooking  for  himself,  ana  employ- 

cumstanoc  of  his  haWng  fortunately  ing  his  hands  in  almost  every  kind  of 

recovered  several  sick  sailors  during  occupation^  from  the  makinc^  of  shoes 

the  voyage.    In  addition  to  this,  he  to  the  ensnaring  of  birds  and  the  deli- 

pleaded  the  necessity  which  he  felt,  neation  of  maps, 

when  in  the  American  army  of  Africa,  This  extraordinary  man  is  about 

of  conforming  to  the  dress  and  man*  five  feet  ten  inches  in  height,  with 

ners  of  that  strange  and  peculiar  peo-  dark  eyes,  black  hair,  and  a  brown 

pie  of  the  west,  under  a  belief  that  complexion.     His  looks  are  lively, 

necessity  justified    his  deceit,   and  his  gestures  animated,  and  his  limbs 

that  to  act  as  an  American  was  not  remarkably    flexible    and    vigorous, 

to  feel  as  a  Christian.    By  degrees.  His  forehead  is  ample,  his  features 

the  rigours  of  his  servitude  were  alle-  expressive,    and    his    figure   rather 

viated,  and  he  was  at  leneth  restor-  spare  and  lean.    With  such  natural 

eii  to  the  entire  freedom  of  a  faithfiil  marks  and  powers,  he  has  been  ena- 

Mussulman.     He  next  visited  Paler-  bled  to  assume  the  respective  cliarac- 

mo,  and  there  formed  a  temporary  ters  of  Jew,  (/hristlun,  and  Mahome- 

marriage  with  a  fair  Sicilian,    who  tan ;  and  of  soldier,  linguist,  ei}g!neer, 

**  laughed  at  all  tics  but  those  which  fanner,  juggler,  tradesman,  and  der- 

love  had  made."  vise,  with  apparent  facility.  In  short. 

About  this  time,  the  new  king  of  he  has  shown  himself  to  lie  one  of  the 

Naples  threatened  to  conquer  Sicily,  most  versatile  of  human  beings,  hav- 

ii)  spite  of  all  the  resistance  that  Per-  hig  acted,  during  his  multifarious  life, 

dinaiid   IV.   and  the  English   could  in   about  Ihirtt/  different  characters  f 

make.   On  this,  Lietens<lorfer  became  In  the  coiuve  of  his  adventures  he  has 

alanned  for  his  personal  safety,  know-  received  several  wounds,  and  his  ed^ 

ing  well  that  he  neither  deserved  nor  centric  life  has  afTuidcd  mcidcuts  for 


I7«                                              TkUi^Talk.  tAug. 

a  flMftrlnl  exhibition  on  the  ftappt  of  liita«lialf  loetianif  kii4g(390iwreB) 

Yienna.    He  can  utter  the  Hehrew  and  the  pay  of  «  captain,  from  the 

voids  of  worship  almost  exactly  like  15th  of  ]>eoember»  iSOfi  to  tfa«  same 

a  Rabbi  in  the  Synagonie ;  he  can  re-  period  in  1805^  being  Uie  time  that 

dte    the  Christian  Catholic  ritual,  oe  lerred  as  adjutant  and  inq>ector 

after  the  manner  of  the  Capuchins ;  of  the  army  of  the  United  States  in 

and  he  pronounces  the  relijg^ous  sen-  Egypt,  and  on  the  coast  of  Afnca. 

tences  of  the  Mussulmen  in  Arabic,  Leitensdorier  is  at  present  but  forty- 

with  the  earnestness  and  emphasis  d  eight  years  of  age,  strong,  and  heal- 

a  Mufti.    To  complete  this  ''strange,  thy,  and  if  his  rambling  disposition 

eventful  history,'    the   Congress  of  should  continue,  likely  to  add  many 

America  have,  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  more  pages  to  a  biography,  which, 

Bradley,  who  detailed  the  leading  in-  periiaps»lias  few  paidlels,  except  in 

ddentsof  his  life  on  the  floor  of  the  the  adventures   and  Tidssitudei  of 

senate,  passed  a  bill,  bestowing  on  Trenck*                              Nxros. 


TABLE  TALK. 

NckXL 

on  a  lansscape  of  nicolas  pou88ik. 

OaiON,  the  sul]ject  of  this  land-  alone  has  aright  to  be  considered  as 
scape,  was  the  classical  Nimrod,  and  the  painter  of  classical  antiquity. 
it  called  by  Homer,  "  a  hunter  of  Sir  Joshua  has  done  him  justice  m 
shadows,  himself  a  shade."  He  was  this  respect  He  could  give  to  the 
the  son  of  Neptune,  and  having  lost  scenery  of  his  heroic  febles  that  un- 
an  eye  in  some  affiray  between  the  unpaired  look  of  original  nature,  fidl, 
Gods  and  men,  was  told  that  if  he  solid,  large,  luxuriant,  teeming  with 
would  go  to  meet  the  rising  sun,  he  life  and  power ;  or  deck  it  with  all  the 
would  recover  his  right.  He  is  re-  pomp  ot  art,  with  temples  and  tow- 
presented  setting  out  on  his  journey,  ers,  and  mythologic  groves.  His 
with  men  on  his  shoulders  to  guide  pictures  *^  denote  a  foregone  conclu- 
him ;  a  bow  in  lus  hand,  and  Diana  in  sion."  He  moulds  nature  to  hb  pur- 
the  clouds  greeting  him.  He  stalks  poses,  works  out  her  images  accord- 
along,  a  giant  upon  earth,  and  reels  mg  to  the  standard  of  his  thoughts, 
and  felters  in  his  gait,  as  if  just  a-  embodies  high  fictions  ;  and,  the  first 
Waked  out  of  sleep,  or  uncertain  of  conception  being  given,  the  rest  seem 
his  way,  so  that  you  see  his  blind-  to  grow  out  of,  anid  be  assimilated  to 
ness,  though  his  back  is  turned,  it,  by  the  invariable  process  of  a  stu- 
Mists  rise  around  him,  and  veil  tiie  dious  imagination.  Like  his  own 
sides  of  the  green  forests ;  earth  is  Orion,  he  overlooks  the  surrounding 
dank  and  fresh  with  dews,  '*  the  grey  scene,  appears  to  *'  take  up  the  isles 
dawn  and  the  Pleiades  before  him  as  a  very  littie  thina,  and  to  lav  the 
dance,"  and  in  the  distance  are  seen  earth  in  a  balance.  With  a  labo- 
the  blue  hills  and  sullen  ocean.  No-  rious  and  mighty  ffrasp,  be  put  na- 
thinv  was  ever  more  finely  conceived  ture  into  the  mould  of  the  ideal  and 
or  done.  It  breathes  the  spirit  of  antique;  and  was  among  painters 
the  morning ;  its  moisture,  its  re-  (more  than  any  body  else)  what  Mil- 
pose,  its  obMsurity,  waiting  the  mira-  ton  was  among  poets.  There  is  in 
de  of  light  to  kindle  it  into  smiles :  both  something  of  the  same  pedan- 
the  whole  is,  like  the  principal  figure  try,  the  same  stifihess,  the  same  elc- 
in  it,  "  a  forerunner  of  the  dawn."  vation,  the  same  arandeur,  the  same 
The  same  atmosphere  tinges  and  im-  mixture  of  art  and  nature,  the  same 
bues  every  object,  the  same  duU  richness  of  borrowed  materials,  the 
light ''  shadowy  sets  off"  the  face  of  same  uuitv  of  character.  Neither  the 
nature :  one  feeling  of  vastness,  of  poet  nor  the  painter  lowered  the  sub- 
straug^iess,  and  of  primeval  forms  jects  they  treated,  but  filled  up  Uie 
pervade  the  painters  canvas,  and  outiiiie  in  the  fancy,  and  added 
we  are  thrown  back  upon  the  first  in-  strength  and  reality  to  it ;  and  thus, 
tegrity  of  things.  This  great  and  not  only  satisfied,  but  surpassed  tlie 
IAuhkmI  man  might  be  said  to  sfce  na-  expectations  of  the  spectator  and  the 
ture  through  the  glass  of  time :  he  rgadcr.    This  is  hchl  for  the  triumph 


1891.3  iWe^Tlalk.  177 

an4  th«  perfedioii  of  worki  of  art  they  oannoC  paint'  the  c^eeb  wUch 

±0  give  U8  nature,  tach  aa  we  see  thej  have  seen^  they  fiuncj  them* 

k,  is  well  and  desendng  of  praise ;  selFes  qualified  to  paint  the  idea* 

to  give  U8  nature^  such  as  we  have  which  thej  liave  not  seen.    But  h  ia 

never  seen^  but  have  often  wished  to  possible  to  fail  in  this  latter  and  more 

tee  it^  is  better,  and  deserving  of  cUfiicult  style  of  imitation,  as  weU  aa 

higher  praise.    He  who  can  show  the  in  the  former  humbler  one.    The  de-* 

world  in  its  first  naked  glory,  with  tection,  indeed,  is  not  so  easy,  be- 

tlie  hues  of  fancy  spread  over  it,  or  cause  Uie  objects  are  not  so  nigh  at 

in  its  high  and  pahny  state,  with  the  inind  to  compare,  and  therefore  there 

gravity  of  history  stamped  on  the  is  more  room,  both  for  false  preten* 

proud  monuments  of  vanbhed  em*  sion,  and  for  self-deceit    They  take 

pire^— who,  by  his  **  so  potent  art,"  an  epic  motto,  or  subiect,  and  think 

can  recal  time  past,  transport  ub  to  that  the  spirit  is  imiuied  as  a  thing 

distant  places,  and  join  toe  regions  of  course.    They  nmnt  inferior  por« 

of  imagination  (a  new  conquest)  to  traits,  maudlin  lifeless  faces,  without 

those  m  reality, — who  shows  us  not  ordinary  expression,  or  one  look,  i^ 

only  what  nature  is,  but  what  she  ture,  or  particle  of  nature  in  item, 

has  been,  and  is  capable  of, — he  who  and  think  that  thu  is  to  rise  to  the 

does  this,  and  does  it  with  simplicity,  truth    of  history.      They  vulgarise 

with  truth,  nnd  grandeur,  is  lord  of  and  degrade  whatever  is  interesting 

nature  and    her   powers;   and    his  or  sacred  to  the  mind,  and  think  that 

mind  is  universal,  and  his  art  the  they  thus  add  to  the  dignity  of  their 

master-art!  profession.     They  represent  a  ilace 

There  is  nothing  in  this  *'  more  that  looks  as  if  no  thought  or  fisding 

than  natural,"  if  criticism  could  be  of  any  kind  had  ever  passed  thraugn 

persuaded  to  think  so.    The  historic  it ;  and  would  have  you  believe  that 

piunter  does  not  neglect  or  contra-  this  is  the  very  sublime  of  exprea* 

vene  nature,  but  follows  her  more  sion,  such  as  it  would  appear  in  he* 

closely  up  into  her  fantastic  heights,  roes,  or  demi-gods  of  ola,  when  rap* 

or  hidden  recesses.   He  demonstrates  ture    or    agony    was   raised  to  its 

what  she  woidd  be  in  conceivable  height.    They  show  you  a  landscape 

circumstances,    and    under   implied  that  looks  as  if  the  sun  never  shone 

conditions.     He  "  gives  to  airy  no-  upon  it,  and  tell  you  that  it  is  not 

tiling  a  local  habitation,"  not  ''  a  modem — that  so  earth  looked  when 

name."    At  his  touch,  wch^s  start  up  Titan  first  kissed  it  with  his  rsya. 

into  images,  thoughts  become  things.  This  is  not  the  true  ideal.    It  is  not 

He  clothes  a  dream,  a  phantom  with  to  fill  the  moulds  of  the  imagination, 

form  and  colour,  and  the  wholesome  but  to  deface  and  injure  them :  it  ia 

attributes  of  reality,    ffis  art  is  a  not  to  come  up  to,  but  to  foil  short  of 

second  nature,  not  a  difTerent  one.  the  poorest  conception  in  the  pub* 

There  are  those,  indeed,  who  think  lie  mind.    Such  picttu^s  shoulanot 

that  not  to  copy  nature,  is  the  rule  be  hung  in  the  same  room  with  that  of 

for    attaining  perfection.      Because  Blind  Orion  hungry  for  the  mom.* 

*  Erery  thing  tends  to  diow  the  moaner  in  which  a  great  artitt  is  formed.  If  any  one 
could  daim  an  exemption  from  the  careful  imitation  of  individual  objects,  it  was  Nioolaa 
Pousiin.  He  studiea  the  Antique,  but  he  also  studied  nature.  ''  I  hate  of^  admiiad,** 
says  Vignud  dc  Marville,  who  knew  him  at  a  late  period  of  his  life,  *'  the  love  he  had 
for  his  art.  Old  as  he  was,  I  fVequendy  saw  him  among  the  ruins  of  ancient  Roihe^  ont 
in  tlie  Campagna,  or  along  the  banks  of  the  Tyber,  sketching  a  scene  that  had  plened 
him ;  and  1  often  met  him  with  his  handkerchief  full  of  stonea,  moss,  or  flowen,  whidi 
hit  carried  home,  that  he  might  eopy  them  exacdy  fnm  nature.  One  day  I  asked  him 
how  he  had  attained  to  such  a  degree  of  perfection,  as  to  YuLVt  gained  so  Idffk  a  lank 
among  the  great  painters  of  Italy  ?  lie  answered,  I  have  keolected  NOTHiMe.**-— 
Sec  hit  L\fc  UiUly  publithed.  It  appears  trom  this  account  that  he  had  not  fallen  imo  a 
recent  error,  that  Nature  puts  the  nuui  of  genius  out  As  a  contrast  to  the  foregoii^  de- 
scription, I  might  mention,  that  I  remember  an  old  gentleman  once  asking  Mr.  West  in 
the  Britiith  Gallery,  if  he  had  ever  been  at  Athens  ?  To  which  the  President  mads 
answer,  No ;  nor  did  he  feel  any  great  desire  to  go ;  for  that  he  thou^t  he  had  as  good 
an  idea  of  the  place  from  the  Catalogue,  as  he  could  get  by  living  there  for  any  number 
of  years.  What  would  he  have  said,  if  any  one  had  told  him,  they  could  get  as^ood 
nn  idea  of  the  snhject  of  one  of  his  great  work5  tnm  reading  the  Catalogue  of  it,  as  from 
saciag  the  picture  itsctf !  Vet  the  answer  was  characteristic  of  the  genius  of  the  peimcr. 


If  8  Tablc-TaBe.  fAug. 

F^nufln  wu^  of:  all  p«inten»  the  It  waf  agiifiuaion  of  golden  Hght. 

nMMt  poetical.    He  was  the  paiuter  The  Goddess  wore   her   saffron-oo- 

of  ideas.    No  one  ever  told  a  story  loured  robeSj  and  appeared  just  risen 

half  so  well,  nor  so  well  knew  what  from  the  gloomy  bed  of  old  Tithonus. 

was  capable  of  being  told  by  the  Her  very  steeds,  milk-white,  were 

pencil.    He  seised  on,  and  struck  off  tinged    with  the  yellow  dawn.    Jt 

with  grace  and  precision,  just  that  was  a  personification  of  the  morning. 

pofant  of  view  which  would  be  likely  — Poussin  succeeded  better  in  classic 

to  catch  the  reader's  £uicy.    There  than  in  sacred  subjects.    The  latter 

is  a  significance,  a  consciousness  in  are  comparatively  heavy,  forced,  fiiU 

whatever  he  does  (sometimes  a  vice,  of  violent  contrasts  of  colour,  of  red, 

but  oftener  a  virtue^   beyond  any  blue,  and  black,  and  without  the  true 

other  painter.    His  Giants  sitting  on  prophetic  inspiration  of  the  charac- 

the  tops  of  craggy  mountains,  as  huge  ters.     But  in  his  Pagan  allegoriea 

themselves,  aim  playing  idly  on  their  and  fables  he  was  quite  at  home.  The 

Pan's-pipes,  seem  to  have  been  seat-  native  gravity  and  native  levity  of 

cd  there  these  three  thousand  years,  the  Frenchman  were  combined  with 

and  to  know  the  beginning  and  the  Italian  scenery  and  an  antique  gusto, 

end  of  their  own  story.    An  infant  and  gave  even  to  his  colounng  an  air 

Bacchus,  or  Jupiter^  is  big  with  his  of  learned  indifference.    He  wants, 

future  destiny.    Even  inanimate  and  in  one  respect,  grace,  form,  expres- 

dumb  things   speak  a  language  of  sion ;  but  he  has  every  where  sense 

their  own.    His  snakes,  the  mcssen-  and  meaning,  perfect  costume   and 

gers  of  fate,    are  inspired  with  hu-  propriety.      His  personages  always 

man  intellect.    His  trees  srow  and  belong  to  the  class  and  time  repre- 

ezpand  their  leaves  in  the  air,  glad  of  sented,  and  are  strictly  versed  in  the 

the  rain,  proud  of  the  sun,  awake  to  business  in  hand.  His  grotesone  com- 

the  winds  of  Heaven.    In  his  Plague  positions  in  particular,  his  Nymphs 

of  Athens,  the  verv  buildings  seem  and  Fauns,  are  superior  (at  least,  as 

sttfif  with  horror.    His  picture  of  the  far  as  style  is  conccnied)  even  to 

Deluge  is,  perhaps,  the  fuiest  histo-  Rubens's.     Tliey  are  taken  more  im- 

rical  landscape  m  the  world.     Vou  mediately  out  of   fabulons    history. 

see  a  waste  of  waters,  wide,  inter-  Rubens's  Satyrs  and  BHcchantes  have 

ipinable :  the  sun  is  labouring,  wan  a  nioie  jovial  and  voluptuous  aspect, 

and  wearv,  up  the  sky ;  the  clouds,  are  more  drunk  with  pleasure,  more 

dull  and  leaden,  lie  like  a  load  upon  full  of  animal  spirits  and  riotous  im- 

the  eye,  and  heaven  and  earth  seem  pulses,  they  laugh  and  bound  along— 

comminGrliuff  into  one  confused  mass !     ^ , ... .««i,»j  i«   i        »      . 

H»    human  fiffUfM  are  sometimes  I*»I*'gU«'~>«onk«l.taple««t«pnng; 

''  o'er-iuformed "   with  this  kind  of  but  those  of  Poussin  have  more  of 

feeluig.      Their    actions    have    too  the  intellectual  part  of  the  character, 

much  gesticulation,  and  the  set  ex-  and  seem  vicious  on  reflection,  and 

pression  of  the  features  borders  too  of  set  purpose.    Rubens's  arc  noble 

much  on  the  mechanical  and  carica-  specimens  of  a  class ;  Poussui's  are 

tured  style.     In  tliis  respect,   they  allegorioul  abstractions  of  the  same 

ibrm  a  contrast  to  Raphael's,  whose  class,  with  bodies  less  pampered,  but 

figures  never  appear  to  be  sitting  for  with  minds  more  secretly  depraved, 

their  pictures,  or  to  be  conscious  of  a  The  Bacchanalian  groups  of  the  Fie- 

spectator,  or  to  have  come  from  the  mish    painter    were,    however,    his 

painter's  hand.     In  Nicolas  Poussin,  master-pieces  in  composition.    '\^'it* 

on  the  contrary,  every  tiling  seems  ncss  those  prodigies  of  colour,  cha- 

to  have  a  nmtuid  understanding  with  racter,  and  expression,  at  Blenheim, 

the  artist :  **  the  very  stones  prate  of  In  the  more  chaste  and  refined  deli-* 

their  whereabout:"  each  object  has  neation  of  classic  fable,  Poussin  was 

its  part  and  place  assigned,  and  is  in  without  a  rival.     Rubens,  who  was  a 

a  sort  of  compact  w^ith  the  rest  of  match  for  him  in  the  wild  and  pic- 

the    picture.     It   is    this    conscious  tiiresque,  could  not  pretend  to  vie 

keeping,  and,  as  it  were,  iufn-mil  de-  with    the    elegance    and    purity    of 

sign,  that  gives  their  peculiar  cha-  thought,  in  his  picture  of  Apollo  giv- 

racter  to  the  works  of  this  artist,  ing  a  poet  a  cup  of  water  to  drink ; 

There  was  a  picture  of  Aurora  in  the  nor  with  the  gracefulness  of  design  in 

British  Gallery  a  year  or  two  ago.  the  figure  of  a  nymph  squeezing  the 


1^1.;]                                         TaNe-TaOc.  ITft 

juice  of  e  hunch  of  grapes  from  her  are  yarious^  but  the  names  the  same 
fingers  (a   rosy  wine-press)   which  — heaps   of    Rembrandts    frowning 
falls  into  the  mouth  of  a  chubby  in-  from  the  dai^ened  walls^   Rubens^ 
fant  below.     But,  above  all,   who  glad  gorgeous  groups,  Titians  more 
shall  celebrate,  in  terms  of  fit  praise,  rich  and  rare,  Claudes  always   ex- 
his  picture  of  the  shepherds  m  the  qulsite,  sometimes  bejond  compare. 
Vale  of  Tempe  going  out  in  a  fine  Guido's  endless  cloyuig    sweetnesa, 
morning  of  the  spring,  and  coming  to  the  learning  of  Ponssin  and  the  Ca- 
a  tomb  with  this  mscripdon: — ^Et  ncei,  and  Raphael's  princely  mag« 
EGO  IS  Arcadia  vixi!   The  eager  nificence,    crowning  ail.     We  read 
curiosity  of  some,  the  expression  of  certain   letters  and  syllables  in  the 
others   who    start    back  wiUi  fear  catalogue,  and    at    the  well-known 
and  surprise,  the  clear  breeze  play-  magic  sound,  a  miracle  of  skill  and 
Ing  with  the  branches  of  the  shadow-  beauty  starts  to  yiew.    One  would 
ing  trees,  "  the  yalleys  low,  where  think  that  one  year's  prodigal  di»- 
the  mild  zephyrs  use,"  the  distant,  play  of  such  perfection  wotild  exhaust 
uninterrupted,  sunny  prospect  speak  the  labours  of  one  man's  life ;  but  the 
{and  for  ever  will  speak  on)  of  ages  next  year,  and  the  next  to  that,  we 
past  to  ages  yet  to  come !  *  find  another  harvest  reaped  and  ga- 
Pictures  are  a  set  of  chosen  images,  thered  in  to  the  great  gamer  of  ar^ 
a  stream  of  pleasant  thoughts  pass-  by  the  same  immortal  hands — 
ing  through  the  raind.    It  is  a  luxury  Old  Osyius  the  porter  of  &cm  -jtwb  i 
to  have  the  walls  of  our  rooms  hung  He  letteth  in,  he  letteth  out  to  wend.— . 
round  with  them,  and  no  less  so  to  Their  works  seem  endless  as  their  re- 
haye  such  a  gallery  in  the  mmd,  to  putation — to  be  many  as  they  are 
con  oyer  the  ;t>lics   of  ancient  art  complete— to  multiply  with  the  desire 
bound  up    ''  within  the  book  and  of  tne  mind  to  see  more  and  more  of 
yolume  of  the  brain,  unmixed  (if  it  them ;    as  if    there  were   a    living 
were  possible)  with  baser  matter!"  power  in  the  breath  of  Fame,  and  in 
A  life  passed  amo>ig  pictures,  in  the  the  yery  names  of  the  great  heirs  of 
study  and  the  love  of  art,  is  a  happy,  glory  "  there  were  propagation  tool" 
noiseless  dream :  or  rather,  it  is  to  It  is  something  to  have  a  collection 
dream  and  to  be  awake  at  the  same  of  this  sort  to  look  forward  to  once  a 
time ;  for  it  has  all  ''  the  sober  cer-  year ;  to  have  one  last,  lingering  look 
tainty  of  waking  bliss/'  with  the  ro-  yet  to  come.    Pictures  are  scattered 
mantic  voluptuousness  of  a  visionary  like  stray  gifts  through  the  world,  and 
and    abstracted    being.      They  are  while  they  remain,  earth  has  yet  a 
the  bright  consunnnate  essences  of  little  gildhig  left,  not  quite  rubbed 
things,    and    ''  he    who    knows   of  out,  dishonoured  and  defaced.  There 
these  delights  to  taste  and  interpose  are  plenty  of  standard  works  still  to 
them    oft,    is  not  unwise!"  —  The  be  found  in  this  country,  in  the  col- 
Orion,  which  I  have  here  taken  oc-  lections  at  Blenheim,   at    Burleigh, 
casion  to  descant  upon,  is  one  of  a  and  in  those  belonging  to  Mr.  An- 
collection  of  excellent  pictures,    as  gerstein.  Lord  Grosvenor,  the  Mar- 
this  collection  is  itself  one  of  a  series  quis  of  Stafibrd  and  others,  to  keep 
from  the  old  masters,  which  have  for  up  this  treat  to  the  lovers  of  art  for 
some   years    back    embrowned    the  many  years :  and  it  is  the  more  de- 
walls  of  the  British  Gallery,  and  en-  sirable  to  reserve  a  privileged  sano- 
riched  the  public  eye.    What  hues,  tuary  of  this  sort,  where  the  eye  may 
(those  of  nature  mellowed  by  time)  doat,  and  the  heart  take  its  fill   of 
breathe  around,  as  we  enter  f  What  such    pictures    as   Poussin's  Orion, 
forms  are  there,  woven  into  the  me-  since  the  Louvre  is  stripped  of  its 
roory !  What  looks,  which  only  the  triumphant  spoils,  and  since  he,  who 
answering  looks  of  the  spectator  can  collected  it,  and  wore  it  as  a  rich 
express !    What   intellectual    stores  jewel  in  his  Iron  Crown,  the  hunter 
have  been  yearly  poured  forth  from  of  greatness  and  of  glory,  is  himself 
the  shrine  of  ancient  art  I  The  works  a  shade ! —                                  T. 

*  Pousftin  has  repeated  this  subject  more  than  once,  and  appears  to  have  revelled  in 
its  witcheries.  I  have  before  alluded  to  it,  and  may  a}^in.  It  in  hard  that  wc  should  not 
be  allowed  to  dwell  as  often  as  wc  please  on  what  delights  us,  when  tilings  that  arc  dit- 
sgrceablc  recur  so  often  agaiott  our  vilL 


m  On  Sodoku"'^  JXakgrne  on  Bdwaiitm.  [! Aug. 


ON  SABOLETTS  DIALOGUE  ON  EDUCATION, 

WITH  A  POEM  FROM  TRACjISTORIO. 

It  has  long  been  my  custom>  when-  that  the  pleasure  is  partly  orer  with 

erer  I  have  found  a  book  that  I  had  the  chase.    It  was^  indeed,  a  very 

riever  before  heard  of>  warmly,  and  sensiblej  well-written,  degant  wor< 

Co   all    appearance    disinterestedly,  of  the  Cardinal's ;  and,   I   believe, 

commended  by  any  writer  who  has  much  better    adapted    to   practice 

himself  gained  uiy«confidencc,  not  to  than  the  system  constructed  oy  Jean 

mt  satisfied  till  I  have  seen  what  it  Jacques,  or  any  of  the  modem  school, 

18  that  has  induced  him  to  give  this  to  sul  which,  if  I  remember  right, 

drculating  letter  of  credit  to  another,  the  iudicious  critic  above-mentioned 

Thus  it  was,  some  years  ago,  that  hi  prefers  it.    Yet  must  it  be  acknow- 

readfng  the  history  of  Itanan  litera-  ledged  that   the    ''  EmUe,"  which 

ture  by  Tiraboschi,  I  met  with  such  came  to  me   unsought,  and   '*  un- 

commendations  of  a  tractate  on  the  wooed  was  won,"  afforded  me  far 

suliject  of  education  (then,  and  ever  higher  entertunment.    There  Is  the 

since,  a  very  interesting  one  to  me),  same  kind  of  difference  as  between 

as  determined  me  to  seize  the  first  Plato's  republic,  and  an  essay  on  the 

odcasion  that  offered  itself  of  penis-  British  Constitution ;  or  that  which 

ing  it    Many  a  day  passed  before  Fuseli  has  well  observed,  between  the 

the  arrival  of  this  desved  moment  Epic  and  Historic  styles  in  painting. 

Many  a  bookseller's  catalogue  did  I  that  "  the  one  astonishes,  the  other 

turn  over,  and  more  than  one  public  informs."     But  this  is  an  age  that 

library  did  I  viut,  to  no  purpose,  in  very  sagely  has  taken  "  nil  admirari" 

this  search.     Scarcely  can  any  one  for  its  motto ;    when    oUr  children 

but  an  old  fisherman,  who  has  been  read  no  fairy  talcs,  and  our  states^ 

watchinff   his  float  through  a  long  men  *  no  mcfaphytics,  except ''  Locke 

summer  s  evening,  and  seen  it,  after  on  the  Unman  l)iiderstandmg :"  and, 

lying  motionless  on  the  surface  of  the  therefore,  a  brief  account  of  Sadoleti's 

water,  at  last  makhig  two  or  three  lit-  book,  that  has  nothing  chimerical  in 

tie  ducks  and  nods,  and  then  drawn  it  but  the  conclusion,  may  not  come 

briskly  in  a  sidelong  direction  down-  amiss. 

wards,  imajrine  the  joy  1  felt  when  It  is  in  the  form  of  a  dialogtie,  a 

one  of  Mr.  Payne's  brochures  opened  favourite  one  with  the  writers  of  that 

a  glimpse  of  the  long-sought  treasure  time  fLeo  the  Tenth),  but  more  in 

to  my  view.     It  was  not  in  that  plea-  Cicero  s  manner  than  in  that  of  Plato . 

sant  nook  near  the  Mews'  gate,  where  Tlie  author  represents  himself  hold- 

I  used  to  angle  for  such  prey  in  my  ing  a  discourse  with  a  very  discreet 

cmll^ge  days,  almost  as  retired  and  young  man,  his  nephew,  the  care  of 

unseen  as  under  the  alders  in  —  whose  eilucation  had  been  entrusted 

park ;  but  from  the  spacious  reser-  to  him,  and  who  came  every  day  to 

voir  to  which  the  vivarium  has  since  lecture  in  Aristotle's  ethics,  with  his 

been  transferred,   that  I  drew  my  tntor  and  kinsman.    At  the  request 

booty  to  shore.    It  was  "  Sadoletus  of  Paolo,  who  comes  somewhat  ear- 

de  Liberis  recte  instituendis  "  itself.  Her  than  usual,  for  the  sake  of  mak- 

Whether  it  were  from  the  habit  I  ing  the  inquiry,    his  uncle  readily 

had,  when  a  boy,  of  throwhig  my  lish,  enters  on  an  explanation  of  what  he 

when  caitght,  immediately  into  my  conceives  the  best  mode  of  bringing 

pouch,  niui  not  letting  them  lie  on  up  a  young  person ;  and  beginning 

the  bank,    lest  they   should   spring  from  his  infancy,  gives  some  pnident 

back  again  into  the  stream,  I  Know  directions  as  to  the  choice  of  a  nurse, 

not ;  but  so  it  was,  tliat  the  money  though  he  strongly  advises  that,  if 

was  no  sooner  out   of  one   pocket,  ])ossibIe,    that  office  should  be  dis- 

than  my  purchase  wjis  in  tlic  other,  charfjcd  by  tlie  mother  herself.     Till 

Reader,  thou  knowcst  in  what  such  the  reason  is  capable  of  acting,  dis- 

inirsuits  usually  end.    Thou  knowcst  ripliue,  it  is  obser\'ed,  is  all  in  all ; 


*  See  ihc  Ciriiop  of  \\'iiiclics(n*8  life  of  Mr.  FiiL 


1881.;]  0«  SadoUtCi  Dkilogui  on  EducaHon.  Iflt 

the  xnamien  and  temper  are,  ther&-  wiitert  if  the  fault  of  this  latter  part, 

fore,  to  be  moulded  by  auiduous  and  which,  on  the  whole,  is  less  satia* 

aiTectionate  care ;  and  ^ery  precaur  factory  than  the  former.    Music  ia 

tion  is  to  taken,  that  no  taiut  of  ill  reluctantly  permitted,    and  with  a 

example  should  be  suffered  to  come  due  caution  against  the  corruption  of 

near.     Then  follow  some  precepts  the  art,  whicn  had  become  merely 

beautifully  expressed,  as  to  the  ne«  a  sensual  indulgence,  instead  of  the 

cessity  of  instilling,  as  soon  as  may  means  of  allaying  and  tempering  the 

be,  a  sense  of  piety  into  the  young  more  violent  emotions  of  tne  mind ; 

pupil ;  and  the  unremitting  attention  but  dancing  (that  favourite  relaxa^ 

which  the  father  of  the  family  must  tion  of  Socrates)  is  proscribed,  as  ut- 

use,  that  every  thing  in  his  own  car-  terly  inconsistent  with  a  maidy  gra- 

riage  should  be  as  it  ought,  and  that  yiij  and  sobriety  of  manners.    The 

wiUiout  any  appearance  of  study  and  severer  sciences  are  now  approached; 

intention,  so  as  to  work  its  effect  and  last  of  all,  she,  to  whom  they 

by  a  silent  and  imperceptible  influ-  are  but  subservient  and  introduce 

ence.    If  the  parent  is  conscious  of  tory^   Philosophy  herself,   with  her 

his  inability  to  perform  this  part^  he  two  great  ministers,  Aristotie  and 

is  to  seek  out  lor  another,  on  whom  Plato,  receives  the  pupil  at  the  apex 

he  may  devolve  the  charge  of  hia  of  the  mount,  and  either  sends  him 

son.  back  thoroughly  furnished  and  fitted 

After  the  usual  admonition  to  pre«  for  whatever  walk  of  active  life  he 

serve  a  due  mean  between  inaul-  may  choose,  or,  if  he  wisely  prefer 

gence  and  severity  in  the  treatment  takmg  up  his  abode  with  her,  guards 

of  the  boy,   the  writer  breaks  out  him  m  biisful  contemplation, 
into  a  noble  euloffium  on  Truth,  the  ,  ,    _,,,_ 

intermediate    link    between    morals  JHiere  bright  •attlsjrfritsKvcinsphered 

and  speculative  wisdom,  which  is,  I  J?  «f*™  "rfW  of  «dm  and  semie  wr, 

tiiink,  tile  finest  passage  in  the  dia-  ^^"  ™JJ*-^  ""^  and  rtir  of  this  dmi 
logue.     For  the  latter  part  is  re-  ''*°^ 

serrcd  the  course  of  reading.  It  is  Another  eminent  Italian,  who  waa 
recommended,first  of  all,  to  encourage  a  contemporary  with  Sadoleti,  has 
the  child  to  a  love  of  his  book,  by  left  us  an  extreme! v  pleasing  report 
letting  him  see  others,  older  than  of  the  manner  in  which  he  dedicated 
himself,  caressed  and  rewarded  for  his  time  to  the  instruction  of  his  two 
their  application.  No  more  know-  sons,  in  the  retirement  of  his  coimtiy 
ledge  of^  grammar  is  exacted  from  villa.  He,  whom  I  speak  of,  is  Fra^ 
the  learner  than  is  requisite  for  en-  castorio,  the  physician,  to  whom  the 
abluig  him  to  understand  what  he  palm  in  Latm  verse  ia  usually  attri- 
reads,  and  to  express  hhnself  readily  buted  ainon^  the  modems;  and  aa 
and  correctiy ;  and  the  difficulties  of  the  subject  is  much  more  agreeable 
the  art  are  veryjudiciously  postponed  than  that  of  his  longer  and  more  ce- 
to  a  riper  age.  He  is  then  handed  lebrated  poem,  so  has  he  been  quite 
over  to  rhetoric  and  poetry,  and  put  as  successful  in  his  manner  of  handlii^ 
under  the  special  tuition  of  CHcero,  it  I  am  not  aware  that  it  has  ever 
the  idol  of  that  time ;  after  whom  been  introduced  to  the  English  read- 
come  the  other  orators  and  poets  in  er ;  and  a  translation  of  it  will  form 
the  two  learned  languages  of  anti-  no  unfit  accompaniment  to  the  fore- 
quity.     A   leaning    to    the   Roman  going  remarks. 

TO   GIOVAKNI    BATTISTA   TOftRIANO. 

Torriano,  if  my  simple  village  farm 

Could  boast  more  jo^s  a  welcome  guest  to  charm. 

Or  if  I  thought  mv  friend  coqld  better  brook 

The  scant  convenience  of  this  rustic  nook. 

Then  should  I  covet  thy  dear  company 

Amidst  Incaffi's  mountains  here  with  me. 

These  mountains,  where,  but  that  with  chirpings  shrill 

The  grasshoppers  our  lofly  woodlands  thrill, 

I  scarce  that  it  were  summer-tide  could  know. 

So  mildly  does  the  air  •£  July  blow. 


199  0«  Sadoteiti  Dialogue  an  Educatioti.  C^^V* 

'  What  though  thf  died  be  lowly !  yet  if  pur€ 
From  sordid  stain,  from  eddying  dust  secure ; 
Yet  if  no  sound  unwelcome  break  my  rest. 
No  guilt  alaitn  me,  and  no  care  molest ; 
80  peace  throughout,  and  deep-felt  auiet  reign. 
With  Ease  that  brings  the  Muses  in  nis  train; 
And  the  long  slumber  of  the  silent  night : 
Nought  moves  it  me,  though  other  eyes  delight 
In  vermeil  hues  that  on  their  ceilings  shine ; 
Content  to  see  the  chimney-smc^e  on  mine. 

If  round  my  walls  no  g^ant  forms  thou  spy, 
Hurl'd  by  Jove's  lightnmg  firom  the  starrer  sky. 
No  life-impassion'd  fij^ures,  that  may  daun  . 
A  deathless  guerdon  ror  Romano's  name ; 
Boon  liberty  awaits  thee;  she,  who  loves 
Above  aU  haunts  the  sylvan  wild,  and  roves 
With  easy  footstep,  unconcem'd  and  gay. 
Where  chance  impels,  or  fancy  leads  Uie  way. 
Some  nicer  rules  if  thou  shouldst  here  offend. 
Loll  with  too  careless  freedom  on  a  friend. 
Or  haply  from  thv  grasp  the  platter  slip. 
Or  the  press'd  goblet  sound  beneath  thy  lip ; 
None  marks  thee.    Sit  or  walk  thou  mayst  at  will. 
Be  grave  or  merry,  fSut  or  take  thy  fill. 
In  this  retreat  how  circling  days  I  spend, 
M^hat  recreation  with  what  studies  blend. 
Thou  haply  wouldst  inquire  ;  and  on  the  view 
Award  of  praise  or  blame  the  impartial  due. 
The  dawn  appears.    Enchanted,  I  survev 
In  the  broad  east  the  kindling  wheels  of  daj , 
That  in  no  clime  with  state  more  radiant  rise. 
And  woods,  and  rocks,  and  many-colour'd  skies ; 
Then  turn  to  clear  Benacus'  brimming  lake. 
Toward  whose  ample  breast  their  progress  take 
A  hundred  streams,  which  green*hair'd  Naiads  pour 
To  swell  the  mighty  &ther's  crystal  store. 
Next  from  the  breezy  height  I  pleas'd  discern 
Up  to  the  woods  the  lowing  oxen  turn. 
And  scatter'd  o'er  their  pasture  range  the  goats : 
The  master  of  the  flock  his  beard  denotes. 
Shagged  and  crisp,  and  locks  depending  low  ; 
Stalking  before  the  rest  with  measur'd  pace  Bnd  slow : 
The  goatherd  damsel  w^es^r  wand  oehhid, 
A  bunch  of  flax  about  Hergfrdle' twined. 
That  streams  and  flo^t^  m'tt»' passing  wind. 
Meanwhile  my  sooiil  i^ottiWlMit  I  Imn ' 
To  venerate  the^ribtl^'  thal'^^  th6  pIMo^     . 
I  beckon  to  di^'tttaHie':  ihey  straight  6ll^y 
The  caD,  with  books  to  charm  an  nouir  away : 
These  on  the  grassy  couch  at  random  thrown. 
Studious  we  con ;  or  seated  on  a  stone. 
Where  his  rough  arms  the  bruad-leaved  chestnut  bends. 
And  chars^  with  oily  mast  the  beech  impends ; 
The  bougns  on  every  side  and  thickets  round. 
With  sport  and  song  of  teather'd  warblers  sound. 

Sometimes  the  more  to  vary  the  delight. 
Green  alleys  and  the  yielding  turf  invite 
Amid  the  forest  ways  our  feet  to  roam. 
Till  sharpen'd  appetite  reminds  of  home : 
Then  wearied  and  athirst  the  boys  complain 
llctum  too  long  delay'd ;  nor  tuneful  strain. 


•<-. 


1821.]]  On  Sadoleiii  Dialogue  on  Education.  188 

Pan,  nor  Ljcteun  with  its  umbrage  boar 

Of  whispering  pbie-trees  can  detain  tliem  more^ 

But  on  they  speed  with  busy  haste  before ; 

With  laughing  wine  the  glass  transpicuous  fill> 

And  limpid  waters  sparkling  from  the  rill ; 

In  order  due  each  ready  vessel  place. 

And,  minffling  flowers  between,  the  banquet  grace. 

I  come :  Uie  orchard  first  suppUes  the  board 

With  tender  figs,  or  the  dark  mulberry  stored  ; 

The  garden  and  the  court  the  rest  afford. 

With  frequent  stroke  meanwhile  the  granary  rings : 

Rebounding  light  the  cracklinr  hanrest  springs ; 

The  heavy  flau  descending  smites  amain 

The  floor  alternate  and  the  sparkling  grain ; 

Echoes  the  glen ;  the  neighbourinsr  rocks  reply  ; 

And  the  light  chaff  floats  upward  m  the  sky. 

Indulgent,  on  the  sturdy  thresher's  toils. 

Glad  Ceres  downward  looks  from  heaven,  and  smiles. 

Books,  exercise^  and  slumber  wing  with  down 
Our  following  hours,  whilst  ProcyOn  fires  the  town : 
But  at  their  close,  when  up  Olymnus'  height 
Emer^ng  Uesper  leads  the  host  ot  night. 
On  the  tall  cliff  I  take  my  custom'd  stand. 
Point  to  their  eager  gaze  the  radiant  band. 
With  love  of  its  celestial  home  inspire 
The  youthful  soul,  and  feed  the  sacred  fire  ; 
Wond'ring  they  learn  to  spell  each  shining  star, 
Cepheus,  and  Arctos,  ana  Bodtes'  car. 

And  canst  thou  doubt,  for  thb  our  calmer  fife. 
To  quit  awhile  the  jarring  city's  strife  ? 
To  solitude  and  ease  thy  thoughts  resign. 
And  change  thy  loftier  pursuits  for  mine  ? 

Our  cell  e'en  great  Naugero  once  adom'd ; 
Nor  Battus,  fiivorite  of  the  muses,  soom'd, 
Wliat  time  his  harp  fint  taught  the  Hst'ning  groves 
Their  c^ardian  Pan  and  Tellus'  ancient  lores: 
Here  adiBO  I,  whom  healing  arts  engage 
In  these  last  moments  of  m^  waning  age. 
Once  more  the  Nine  regarding,  point  my  song 
At  the  mad  frdlies  of  the  vulgar  throng. 

Lest  these  light  numbers  meet  Ghiberti's  glance. 
Beware:  except  at  Bubulo,  perchance. 
On  the  green  bank  he  nurse  some  milder  mood. 
Where  roUs  smooth  Tartarus  his  tranquil  flood. 
For  oft  his  gracious  audience  entertains 
The  gladden'd  muse,  nor  sliffhts  her  rustic  strains. 
But  when  his  soul  into  herseuUf  retires, 
nVliether  to  realms  of  light  her  wing  aspires. 
Or  meekly  ministrant  on  rites  divine 
Duteous  she  bends  before  the  hallow'd  shrine,) 
Then  holds  he  sweet  communion  with  the  skies : 
Nor  lighter  themes  attract  his  awful  eyes. 
To  whom  the  life,  that  angels  lead,  is  given 
On  earth,  to  know,  and  antedate  his  heaven. 


164                                           7^  Coronation.  [;Auf . 

THE  CORONAnON. 
Letter  from  a  Oentleman  in  Town,  to  a  Latfy  in  the  Ckmniry, 

Dear  P The  newspaper  The  venr  early  hour  at  which  the 

whidi  I  senty  ^ve  you,  I  fear^  but  doon  of  WestmiiMter-hall  were  to 
a  very  faint  idea  of  the  magni-  be  opened  put  to  flight  all  notions 
ficent  and  impressive  ceremony  of  of  sleep;  and  he  must  have  been  a 
the  Cor<^ation^  although  I  select-  rash  man  indeed  whose  mind  could 
ed  that  which  appeared  to  me  to  dare  for  that  night,  to  bend  itself 
offer  the  most  full  and  faithful  ac-  to  bedward.  At  twelve  o'clock  I 
count.  But  the  short  time  allowed  began  to  array  myself,  and  I  will 
to  the  dfuly  writer  for  the  execution  not  say  how  long  I  was  employed 
of  his  task,  and  the  fatigue  in  which  in  this  perplexing  work>  let  it  suf- 
he  was  left,  sufficiently  apologize  for  fice,  that  at  half-past  three  o'clock,  I 
his  rapid,  imperfect,,  and  uncorrected  was  competent  to  sally  forth  from 
relation.  On  reading  the  several  the  house  of  a  friend  near  the  Abbey, 
papers  of  fjbe  day^  I  could  not  but  and  to  approach  that  door  of  the 
Seel,  from  my  own  disappointment  House  of  Lords,  by  which  I  was  to 
in  the  description  of  such  parts  of  the  enter  the  Hall.  >fever  was  seen  so 
pageant  as  I  did  not  myself  behold,  cahn  and  fair  a  morning,  and  the 
that  your  curiosity  would  be  but  very  freshness  and  breatii  of  the 
miserably  fed  throughout  I  could  country  seemed,  amongst  other  luz- 
reaUsse  nothing  from  the  long  cold  uriet,  to  have  been  brought  to  West- 
columns  ;  every  thing  was  named  in  minster  for  this  day  and  its  noble 
processional  order,  but  the  relation  ceremony.  I  emerged  a  little  before 
would  have  suited  the  course  of  a  the  sun,  and  had  something  of  the 
frineral,  as  well  as  the  order  of  a  feeling  of  being  rather  the  brighter 
Coronation.  I  looked  through  the  of  the  two  ;->  but  the  soft  sky  over 
editor's  glass ;  but  I  saw  darkly !  It  my  head  tempered  the  pomp  and 
is  mv  intention  now  to  me  you  as  pnde  of  mv  mmd,  and  subdued  me 
fiuthnd  a  history  of  the  day,  as  my  to  quiet  feeUngs,  and  more  humility, 
memory  vrill  compass ;  and  I  hope  When  I  reached  Abingdon  Street, 
that  I  shidl  be  able  in  some  measure,  which,  I  must  take  leave  to  inform 
by  the  smooth  honesty  of  my  narra-  jfov  of  the  country,  is  a  street  very 
tive^  to  apply  a  little  balsam  to  your  near  to  the  Hall  of  Westminster,  I 
diiorderea  aqd  wounded  curiosity,  found  soldiers,  both  horse  and  foot, 
Tnj  let  your  sisters  read  this  letter,  standing  and  lyin^  about  in  every  di- 
and  do  not  fail  to  sweeten  your  mo«  rectioo.  The  chill  of  the  morning 
ther's  herb  tea  with  some  of  the  rich-  seemed  to  affect  then,  and  they  were 
est  morseb  of  the  fkaa/L  stretched  at  full  len^  under  the  pi- 

I  was  not  put  in  possessioa  of  my  azza,  partalung  of  that  comfortless 

ticket  for  Westminster-hall,  until  the  sleep  which  the  stones  coldly  afford, 

day  previous  to  the  ceremony,  so  that  fnd  the  summomng  trumpet  breaks. 

I  was  thrown  into  an  elennt  bmll^  ■  A  iBan,so  ndnded,  might  have  walked 

about  the  provision  of  siutable  liaM  49«r  foot-soldiers  like  so  many  mush- 

Ilments  for  the  occasion.    Gealkan  fooms,    fa  they  slumbered  around 

of  limited  incomes  are  not  HMraAM  ii\  most  M|C0us  plenteousness.     I 

for  having  layers  of  eavrnwessea  in  walked  iwftbout  toe  street  and  the 

their  drawers,  or  for  seeing  the  pegs  pas»ag«*s„  fadkfaig  into  the  carriages, 

in    their    passages    swarminr   with  which  stood  in  mie,  filled  with  many 

cocked  hats ;  I  was  compelled  there*  feathers  and  a  few  ladies,  or  watching 

fore  "  to  wood  and  water,"  as  the  the  workmen,  even  at  this  advanced 

siulors  term  it,  for  the  day,  or,  in  hour,  accomplishing  the  passage  to 

plain  words,  to  purchase  the  antique  the  Abbevj—or  observinff  the  small, 

and  costly  coat,  and  the  three  cor-  but  splendid,  crowd,  nesUing  around 

nered  heaver,  to  fit  me  for  appearing  the  yet  unopened  door,-— or  contem- 

before  royalty.     I    only   wish   you  plating,  amid  all  the  confusion,  and 

could  have  seen  me  cooked  up  for  the  lustre,  and  pride  of  the  space  around 

Hall,  you  would  have  allowed  that  I  me,  the  serene  dawn  opening  above 

was  "  a  dainty  dish,  to  set  before  a  me  in  the  sky,  like  a  flower.    The 

king."  jingling  and  shining  arms  of  the  ca« 


1821.3  ^^  Caronaiion.  18& 

valrj, — the  courtly  dresses  of  the  ao-  other  doors  had  been  previouslj  open- 

proaching  people^ — the  idlesse  of  the  ed)^    and  adown  the  cloth-covered 

sleeping  soldiery,  >~ the  dingy  appear-  pavement  all  was  life,  and  eagerness, 

aiice,    and  earnest  labours,    oi   the  and  joy,  and  hope  !   Here  you  woujid 

workmen,— the  passing  splendour  of  see  the  pages  putting  back  a  cluster  of 

some  richly  clothed  ofi&cer, — the  echo-  plumed  beauties,  with  a  respectful 

ing  silence  (if  I  may  so  express  my-  determination   and  courtly   baste^n- 

self )  of  the  dr, — the  tall,  graceful.  There  you  should  behold  a  flight  of 

and  solemn  beauty  and  quiet  of  the  peeresses,  feathered,  and  in  white  at- 

Abbey, — all  contrasted — each  with  tire,  winging  their  way,  as  though  hi 

the  other, — and  filled  the  mind  with  hopeless  speedy  like  buds  to  theur  al- 

an  excited  consciousness  that  a  great  lotted  dove-cotes.    In  one  place  you 

day  was  dawning.    I  felt  this — and  would  behold  some  magnincent  sol- 

at  length  took  my  station  at  the  door,  dier,  half  in  confusion,  and  half  in 

anxiously  waituig  for  admission.  self-satisfaction,  pausing  in  bewilder- 

The  moment  at  length  arrived,  and  ed  doubt  and  pleasure  over  his  own 
the  door  was  opened  to  the  crowd.  I  splendid  attire.  And  in  another  part, 
advanced,  ticket  in  hand,  with  a  de-  those  who  had  reached  their  seats 
light  nut  easily  to  be  depressed,  and  were  sighinff  happily,  ac^ ustinff  their 
succeeded  in  gaining,  by  many  pas-  dresses,  and  gazmg  around  with  de- 
sages,  my  entrance  into  the  Htul.  light  at  the  troubles  of  others  below 

I  must  endeavour  to  the  best  of  my  them.    I  had  much  difficulty  in  at- 

ability  to  give  you  a  picture  of  West-  taining  my   "place  of  rest;"  and, 

minster  Hall  as  I  now  beheld  it.  How  fi-om  the  confusion  of  the  pages,  I 

difierent  was  its  appearance  at  this  verily  believe  that  I  attained  it  more 

time  from  that  which  it  made  not  from  having  ^'  Providence  my  guide/' 

many  moons  past,  when  I  was  rush-  than  from  meeting  with  any  earthly 

ing  about  after  wandering  and  pam-  assistance. 

pered   witnesses,  and  calling  them        It  might  be  about  four  o'clock,  or 

together  "  to  save  mv  cause  at  Nisi  a  litUe  after,  when  I  took  my  seat. 

Prius."    Imagine  a  long  and  lofty  The  light  streamed  in  at  the  great 

room,   (the  longest   and    widest  ip  window,  like  a  flood  of  iUutnlned 

Europe,  I  believe,  without  the  sup-  water,  and  touched  every  plume,  and 

port  of  pillars,)  lined  with  two  tiers  every  cheek.    Expectation  appeared 

of  galleries  covered  with  red  cloth,  to  have  given  a  bloom  and  life  to 

and  carpeted  down  the  nuddle  with  each  female  countenance,  as  though 

broad  cloth  of  blue.    At  the  very  to  make  up  for  the  ravages  which 

end,  facing  the  north,  were  erected  broken  rest  and  fatigue  had  endea- 

two  gothic  towers,  with  an  archway,  voured  to   make.      I   beguiled  the 

which  led  to  Falace-yard,  and  over  tune,  which  might  else  have  passed 

this  was  a  huge  gothic  window.  The  most  tediously,  by  watching  the  se- 

tables  for  the  feast  ran  down  on  each  veral  parties  of  peeresses,  and  others, 

side;  and  at  the  head,  on  a  raised  enter  fVom  behind  the  throne,   and 

platform,  was  a  bright  gold  throne,  ■  As^l^  the  state  box,  in  which  some 

with  a  square  table  standing  before-^  If  thcT- royal  family  were  seated  at  a 
it,  on  which  was  a  costiy*fcwie  cloth  ^^lyHmy  hour.    The  most  eager, 

worked  with  gold.    Doelft  M  each  sfhatiM^'MlMt  gorgeous  lady,  became 

side  led  up  to  the  galletfpi^  The  theli^iiunt^  the  sight,  and  checked 


dark  firetted  roof,  from  wlM^^^ui^  herself,  in^itetamuldest  career,  to 

bright  chandeliers,  was  an  iliinirable  drop  a  curtsey  to  "  her  Highness  of 

rel&f  to  the  whole.    You  will  per-  Gloster."    I   was  much  pleased  to 

haps  have  no  very  clear  notion  or  the  see  that  when  the  Duchess  of  Kent, 

haU  after  this  description,  but  I  shall  or  any  new  member  of  the  family, 

said  yoo  a  sketch  which  has  appeared  joined    the    illustrious    party,    the 

in  the  Observer  newspaper,  by  which  greetings  had  all  the  kindHness  and 

you  will  be  able  to  realize  my  imper-  afiection   of   persons   whose  hearts 

ttd  picture.  are  their    whole   wealth ;   and    the 

I  entered  by  a  door  behind  the  young  daughter  of  the  Duchess  was 

throne,    and  was  astonished  at  the  kissed  as  frankly  and  tenderly,    as 

magnificent    spaciousness    and    rich  though  she  had  had  no  diamond  in 

adornments  of  the  place.    The  long  her  hair,  and  her  eyes  had  been  her 

galleries  were  nearly  half  filled,  (for  only  jewels.  Over  the  royal  box,  the 

Vol.  IV.  P 


196  The  Coronation.  C^ug. 

ladiet  of  the  principal  officers  of  emtn^dered  wKh- the  ftar  of  the 
state  sat ;  and  Immediately  opposite  order^  and  lined  with  white.  Their 
were  the  Foreign  Ambassadors,  and  lialf*boota  were  of  white  silk,  with 
their  suite.  I  uiould,  however,  tell  red  heels,  crimson  satin  tops,  and 
you,  that  the  Duchess  of  Gloster  crimson  roses;  tMr  spurs  were  of 
wore  a  beautiful  sUver  transparent  gold,  their  sword-belts  and  sheaths 
dress  orer  lilac,  and  had  a  rich  plume  white ;  and  their  hats  were  black, 
of  ostrich  feathers  in  her  head.  I  so  with  white  ostrich  feathers.  The 
well  know  how  interesting  this  in-  dress  of  the  Knights  Grand  Crosses 
formation  will  be  to  you,  that  I  had  all  the  beauty  of  that  of  the 
cannot  tlunk  of  omittinff  it  About  Knights  Commanders,  with  some- 
asven  o'clock.  Miss  Fellowes  This  what  more  magnificence,  it  being  in 
Majesty's  herb- woman),  with  ner  all  respects  the  same,  except  Uiat 
handmaids  in  white,  was  conducted  for  the  short  cloak  was  substituted 
hito  the  Hall  by  her  brother,  and  took  an  ample  flowing  mantle,  and  for  the 
her  seat  at  the  lower  end  of  it  At  feathers  a  larger  and  loftier  plume, 
this  moment,  I  wished  that  you  could  The  Privy  Counsellors  were  dress- 
hare  seen  Uiis  pretty  and    simple  ed  in  blue  satin  and  gold. 

Emip,  I  was  so  sure  that  it  would  All  at  once  the  doors  of  the 
ve  delighted  you.  Hall,  which  had  been  opened,  were 
The  Hall  now  filled  rapidly,  and  suddenly  closed;  and  there  was  a 
-  not  with  mere  visitors  only,  but  with  confused  murmur  among  those  at 
knights,  and  pages,  and  noble  serv-  the  gateway,  which  was  soon  cir- 
inff-men,  all  m  the  richest  dresses,  culated  and  explained,  by  a  buz  of 
The  Barons  of  the  Cinque  Ports  re-  ^*  The  Queen.  Some  of  the  at- 
hearsed  the  ceremony  of  bearing  the  tendants  were  aLarmed  for  the  mo- 
gold  canopy  down  ihe  Hall,  to  the  ment ;  and  the  ladies  were,  for  an 
no  small  mirth  of  the  company, — for  instant,  disturbed  with  an  apprehen- 
they  staggered  along  at  most  uneven  sion  of  some  m/sterious  danger  ;— 

rees;  and  one  splendid  personage,  but    the  gates   were  presently  re- 
powder,  could  not  walk  straight,  opened,  and  all  proceeded  as  gaily 
In  spite  of  himself,  so  encumbered  as  ever. 

was  he  with  the  sense  of  his  own        The  peers  now  poured   in   from 
magnificence.    A  part  of  the  regalia  behind  the  throne,  all  robed  in  crim- 
was  brought  in,  and  deposited  on  one  son  velvet,  with  ermine  tippets,  and 
of  the  side  tables.  rich  coronets.  The  Royal  Dukes  also 
The  interest  manifestly  deepened  entered,  and  took  their  seats  on  each 
now  at  every  moment,  and  not  a  side  of  the  throne.    At  about  half- 
plume  was  still  in  the  galleries.    At  past  nine  the  names  of  the  peers 
length  the  Judges,  the  Law  Officers,  were   called  over    by   one   of  the 
the  CSentlemen  of  the  Privy  Chamber,  heralds,  and  the  order  of  their  pro- 
the  Aldermen  of  London,   and  the  cession  was  arranged.    It  is  impos- 
King's  Chaplains,  entered  the  Hall,  sible  for  me  to  describe  to  you  the 
and  gave  sign  of  preparation.    The  hushed  silence  that  reigned  at  mter- 
Knights  of  the  Bath  arranged  them-  vals   over  the  whole  of  the   com- 
aelves  at  the  lower  end  of  tbe  Hall ;  pany ;  so  breathless  was  the  expec- 
and,  certainly,    their  dresses   were    tation,  that  the  King  was  immedi- 
highly  splendid.      The  officers   at-    atelv  about  to  enter.  All  that  was  no- 
tenduit  on  the  Knights  Commanders    ble  m  character  and  person,  all  that 
wore  crimson  satin  vests,  ornamented    was  imposing  and  lustrous  in  dress 
with  white,  and  over  these  a  white    and  costly  furniture,  was   lavished 
silk  mantle.    They  also  wore  rufi*s,    before  the  eye — and  the  massive  table 
chains,  and  badges.   Their  stockings    and   empty  throne  only  waited  for 
were   of  white   silk,   with   crimson    one  presence,  to  crown  and  complete 
roses.    The  Knights  Commanders  of    the  magnificent  efiect      The   long 
the  Bath  wore  the  prevalent  costume    wished-for  moment  arrived ;  and  the 
of  the  day,  that  d  la  Henri  Qmire,    people  arose  with  waving  handker- 
with  ruffs  and  hats  turned   up  in    chiefs,  and  lofty  voices,  to  greet  tlie 
front    Their  vests  and  slashed  pan-    entrance  of  the  Kuig. 
taloons  were  of  white  satin  over-        His  Majesty  advanced,  arrayed  in 
spread  with  a  small  silver  lace ;  their    a  stately  dress.    On  his  head  was  a 
cloaks  were  short,  of  crimson  satin,    rich  purple  velvet  cap,  jewelled,  and 


i82U2                                       Thi  Coronaii&n.  lar 

adorned  With  a  phime  of  OBtrich  fei^  through  the  grey  golhic  arch  at  the  end 

then-      Hil   robe  was  of  crimson  oftheHall^in  slow,  solemn^  and  bright 

velvet,  spreading  amply  abroad,  and  beauty ;  and  certainly  nothing  could 

studded  with  golden  stars.     Eight  surpass  the  gorgeous  efiect  of  the 

young  nobles  supported  the  train,  whole  scene.    A  copy  of  the  Herald's 

You  would  have  thought  that  such  ''  Order  of  the  Procession,"  which 

magnificence  was  not  of  the  earth,  cannot  fail  to  be  more  correct  than 

but  of  the  fancy  ;^-«ot   made   by  any  work  of  the  memory,  is  given  in 

mortal  hands,  but  wrought  by  fairy  every  newspaper ;  but  its  length  in* 

spell  out  of  wonders  of  tne  sea  and  duces  me  to  refrain  from  copying  it 

air.    It  seemed  that  being  once  in  here ; — ^if  you  are  inclined  to  read  it, 

existence,  it  could  never  pass  away ;  you  have  but  to  class  all  the  noble 

but  would  glow  for  ever  so  brightly,  names  of  England  in  the  most  har- 

so  beautifully,  so  full  of  matchless  monious  ord^,  and  you  will  imme- 

romance.      The  Kinff  looked  down  diately  have  a  list  well  befitting  this 

his  hall  of  state  wiu  a  proud  ex*  august  ceremony, 

pression  of  deliffht ;  and  tne  eyes  of  The  King  left  his  throne,  and  de« 

the  attendant  ladies  seemed  to  spar-  scended  the  steps  of  the  platform, 

kle  thrice  vividly  with  the  conscious-  Hd  paused  at  the  first  flight ;  and  a 

ness  of  their  being  the  living  lights  genUeman  in  a  scarlet  imiform  im- 

and  jevrels  of  the  scene.  mediately  advanced   to  tender    his 

The  whole  arrangements  for  the  support.    His  Minestv,  placing  his 

procession    being   perfected,  —  the  right  hand  upon  the  shoulder  of  this 

Duke  of  Wellington,  as  Lord  High  gentleman,    descended    the    second 

Constable,    and    Lord   Howard   of  flight  ofsteps  and  dismissed  him  with 

Effinffham,  as  Earl  Marshal,  ascend-  gracious  tlianks.    The  splendid  ffol- 

ed   the  steps  of  the  platform,  and  den  canopyy  of  which  I  have  before 

stood  at  the  outer-side  of  the  tal^e.  spoken,  awaited  his  Migesty  at  the 

The   train-bearers    stationed  them-  foot  of  the  steps, — ^but  he   walked 

•elves  on  each  side  of  the  throne.  under  and  past  it,  and  so  continued 

The  three  swords  were  then  pre-  to  precede  it,  untU  he  left  the  Hall; 

sented  by  the  Lord  Chamberlain,  and  whether  that  he  wished  the  worthy 

the  oflBcers  of  the  Jewel  Office ;  and  Baron-supporters    to   have    further 

the  gold  spurs  were  in  like  manner  trial  of  their  strength  and  skill,  or 

delivered  and  placed  on  the  table.  It  that   he  chose  at  first  to  pass  un« 

was  curious  and  amusing  to  see  the  shrouded  before  his  people,  I  know 

anxiety  and  care  with    which    the  not.  Very  magnificent  was  his  course 

bearers  of  these  made  good  their  re-  down  the  thronged  avenue  into  the 

treat;  they  walk^  backwards,  but  open  air,— the    ladies    standing  up 

with  a  wary  eye  to  the  steps ;  pru-  with  waving  kercliiefir,  and  the  bril- 

denUy  guarding  agunst  any  accident,  liant  attendants  throngmg  around  the 

likely  to  affect  the  solemnity  of  the  sovereign  with    busy  pride,  and  a 

ceremony,  or  the  safety  of  their  per-  resdess  consciousness  of  their  glory, 

sons.      The  noblemen  and  bishops  The  Kinst  looked  about  him  with 

who  were  to  bear  the  Regalia  havhig  marked  delight,  and  smiled  on  his 

been  summoned,  the  several  swords,  people.    He  walked  slowly,  and  with 

sceptres,  the  orb,  and  crown,  were  a    sort    of  balanced    precision,  not 

delivered  to  them  separately,  and  the  from  any  immediate  weariness,  but 

procession    immediately    began    to  as  though  he  were  husbanding  his 

move.      There  was  some  confiision  powers  for  the  labours  of  the  after- 

to wards   the   gateway  of  the  Hall,  aay.     He  certainly  looked  well,  and 

arising  frx)m  the  tartness  of  those  much  younger  than   I  expected  to 

whose  duty  it  was  to  attend  the  ce-  find  him. 

remony ;  but  after  much  idle  busUe  When  his  Migesty  had  passed  half 

in  the  defaulters,    and  considerable  down  the  Hall,  I  arose  from  my  seat  in 

anxiety  and  exertion  on  the  part  of  the  gallery,  and  scrambled  along  over 

the  heralds,  the  noble  and  brilliant  red  baize  seats,  and  flowered  skirts 

multitude  was  launched  into  the  air.  of  coats,  and  muslin  and  satin  trains. 

The  martial  music  heralded  the  ca-  from  box  to  box,  until  I  reached  the 

valcadefiUy  along;  and  the  procession  music  gallery  at  the  very  bottom  of 

itself  seemed  one  stream  of  vaiying  tlie  Hdl,  which  had  now    become 

and  exquisite  colour.  It  poured  forth  emptied  of  flutes^  iod  ketUe  dnnns^ 

P  « 


t9S                                          7%e  Coronation.  Z^'^tS' 

krid  hautboys ;  and  from  which    I  enomuniB  roof  under  which  I  had  at 

imagined  a  good  view  might  be  had  first  observed  them.    The  vivid^  yet 

though  ''  the  great  gazing  window."  aoft  lustre,  of  the  satin  cloaks  of  the 

I  hnagined  correctly  enough ;  for  by  Knights  oif  the  Bath  floated  before 

a  little  scratching  at  the  mite  paints  the  eye  Uke  liquid  siker. — The  Peers'' 

cd-  pane,    I  procured  an  excellent  long  'uid  matchless  robes  of  solemn 

kbht  of  Pslace-yard,  and  the  covered  crimson   streamed   over  the  purple 

platform  on  wmch  the  King  was  to  loot-way,  and  looked  nobility ;  while 

walk  to  the  Abbey.     Most  of  the  the  dare  blue  garbs  of  the  passinr 

tanes  of  the  window  were  cleaned  pAges  seemed  to  relieve  the  nch  and 

I  a  similar  manner  by  the  company^  flowing  stream  of  colour,  which  else 

nid  feathered   heads  were  jostling  had  been  too,  too  bright ! — ^Do  not 

each  other  for  a  peep,  as  eagerly  as  think  that  I  speak  extravagantly  here, 

though  they  never  would  see  day-  It  was  all  enchantment, 

light  agun.    I  had  one  of  my  feet  I  saw  the  Kinf  advance  along  the 

as  handsomely  trodden  on  by  a  white  platform  before  I  saw  him ; — for  the 

aatin  shoe,  with  a  lady's  round  vio-  ooxes    which   fronted    me    literally 

lent  foot  in  it,  as  heart  could  desire ;  Mrt7M with  shaken  gloves,  and  hands, 

ittd  my  new  coat  was  clawed  in  a  &nd  handkerchiefs ; — and  the  shouts, 

Ibarftil  mamier,   by    several  ardent  mingling  at  first,  and  then  overwhelm- 

and  unruly. kid  gloves;  so  much  90,  in  ing  the  music  beneath  me,  brake  like 

fict,  as  to  make  me  tremble  for  its  thunder  on  my  ear.    The  band  of  the 

MIken  safety.    But  let  me  quit  this  horse-guards  was  stationed  immedi- 

lumdsome  atrife,  and  proceed  to  give  ately  under  me,  in  the  Palace-yard, 

you  some  description  of  the  scene  and  it  appeared  to  play  with  increased 

'abroad,  as  I  beheld  it  vigour  as  the  King  passed, — ^but  in 

The  fi'onts  of  the  houses  in  Palace-  vain !    The  trumpeter  swelled,  and 

yard  were  clothed  witii  boxes  fi-om  thrust  forth  his  brass  fiimiture  with 

tbp  to  toe,  that  is,  from  roof  to  area,  zealous  fury ;  but  he  only  looked  the 

^  you  see  the  sides  of  a  theatre ;  and  blast.    The  doubte^rum  waved  hi» 

ia  very  pretty  effect  they  had,  being  sticks,  and  beat  with  anvil-strokes ; 

Ihed  with  scarlet  cloth,  and  decorated  but  it  was  like  beating  wool.    The 

with    becoming     ornaments.      The  cymbals  flashed  in  the  air,  and  met 

crowds  here  were  certainly  very  great,  with  lightning  fierceness;  but  they 

^aiid  I  know  not  when  I  have  seen  so  kissed  as  quietly  as  lovers  at  the  twi- 

rich  a  multitude  in  the    open  air.  light.    And,  breathe  eamestiy  as  they 

Close  to  the  side  of  the  platforms  would,  the  flutes  and  hautboys  could 

Ihere  was  a  row  of  horse  soldiers ;  but  *^  pipe  to  the  spirit  ditties  of  no 

Imt  this  guard  was  by  no  means  consi-  tone."    The  MgA/  of  this  music  was 

'derable,  and  the  people  were  adnutted  to  me  deeply  interesting  ;  for  I  could 

to  approach  very  near  to  the  platform  ftncy  it  all  that  was  rich  and  enchant- 

itself.    I  could  see  that  every  nook  6f  hig^    even  amid  the  deafennig  and 

building,  or  scaffolding,  was  tenanted  multitudinous  noise  that  shrouded  it. 

Inr  man  or  woman,—  ti   -j      1  j-               .  i_     .u 

'                              '  Heard  mdooies  are  iwect,  but  those  un- 

A]l,tnabtoadtogttef  Are  s^Lsr! 

'and  even  the  lamp-irons  and  balus-  His  Majesty  now  passed  slowly  be- 
trades  of  Westminster-bridge  (which  fore  me,  and  seemed  to  walk  amid  the 
I  could  just  distinguish  through  the  voices  of  his  subjects.  I  looked  till 
opening  to  the  right  of  me)  were  te-  I  could  look  no  longer ;  and  then,  like 
naciously  occupiMl  by  those  who  co-  Fatima  in  Blue  Beard,  I  came  down, 
veted  something  more  indistinct  than  lest  I  should  be  fetched  down.  The 
a  bird's-eye  view.  Hall  was  very  soon  nearly  half  emp- 
The  covered  platform  to  the  Abbey  tied,  by  those  who  had  tickets  for 
took  a  circular  course  to  the  left  im-  viewing  the  solemn  ceremony  of  the 
mediately  before  me,  so  that  I  could  Cktnvmng  in  the  Abbey.  I  had  no 
clearly  see  **  the  order  of  the  course."  ticket ;  but  I  took  my  walk  abroad, 
—And,  if  any  thing,  I  think  the  to  look  at  those  who  had,  and  I  gam- 
dresses  looked  more  superb  and  mag-  ed  from  several  friends  the  few  parti- 
nificcnt  in  the  warm  and  free  day-  culara  which  I  now  venture  to  give 
light,    than  when   subdued  by  the  you. 


1891.;]                                     The  Conmaium.  189 

My  fnend  F.  whose  eloquent  tongue  they  nid  unto  ma.  Let  ui  go'  into 

and  happy  memory  faave  more  than  the  house  of  the  Lord.*'     Tne  full 

once  surprized  you,  says  that  the  chorus   was    awfully   sublime,  and 

entrance  at  the  north  door  of  the  thrilled  all  hearers  ^  while  the  august 

Abbey  was  very  forbidding,  owing  crowd  poured  on  like  a  grand  vuiNe 

to  the  intricate  roots  of  the  acafBM"  accompaniment  under  it     The  ca* 

ing ;  but  that  when  you  were  in  the  nopy  stopped  at  the  chancel,  and  Hii 

interior,  the  scene  was  truly  impres-  Majesty  advanced  to  the  sacrarium, 

sive.     The   early   morning   pierced  attended  by  the  ofi^ers  bearing  th^ 

through  the  lofty  shafts,  and  touched  regalia. 

anffle  and  point ;  while,  with  grey  The  King  now  stood  up,  and  the 

light,  the  crimson  boxes  stood  brave-  Archbishop  turned  on  all  sides  to  the 

Ij  out  from  the  solemn  walls  on  each  people,    saying,    ''  I    present   you» 

side.    The  throne  of  ffold  raised  in  King  George  the  Fourth,  the  un* 

the  centre  of  the  cross,  nad  a  solitary  doubted  King  of  this  Realm ;  where- 

grandeur,  which  he  declares  he  can  fore,  all  you  that  come  this  day  to  do 

never  forget ;  and  the  sacrarium,  or  him  homsLBre,  are  ye  willing  to  do  thm 

chapel,  fronting  the  tlirone,  was  mag-  same  ?  "  The  shout  was  suElime— tht 

nificently  furnished  forth.    The  pui-  multitude  standing  up,  and  waving 

pit  of  crimson  velvet  and  gold,  ued  caps  and  handkerchiefs  for  sevenU 

to  a  pillar,  hi^d  also  a  grand  and  sim-  minutes.    The  plumes  tossed  about 

pie  effect.     And  the  table  of  gold  in  the  chancel  and  transept  like  A 

plate,  standing   under  the  canopy,  brilliant  stormy  sea;  and  a  thousand 

supported  by  palm-trees,  struck  him  glowing  colours  played  within  grey 

as  sin^arly  elegant.     An  ottoman  nook^  and  from  gracefid  pUlar. 

of  ennched  tissue,  intended  to  be  Certain   services  were  now  pev* 

held  over  the  King  at  his  unction,  formed,  and  after  short  prayers  were 

was  placed  on  one  side  of  the  altar;  said,  a  Sermon  was  delivered  by  the 

and  there  was  also  a  blue  velvet  Archbishop  of  York;  the  text  choso) 

chair  and  desk  for  the  King's  devo-  was,    "  He  that  ruleth  over  niai 

tions.    King  Edward's  throne,  an  an-  must  be  just,  rulinff  in  the  fear  tt 

tiquc  ^Iden  chair  of  state,  stood  in  God.    And  he  shall  oe  as  the  li^ht  n 

the  middle  of  the  area.    You  will  the   morning  when  the  sun  nsetliy 

have  some  idea  of  this  sacred  scene,  even  a  morning  without  clouds ;  af 

tf  you  recall  to  mind  the  cathedral  ^  the  tender  grass  springeth  out  of  the 

^our  neighbouring  citv,  and  imagine  earth  by  dear  shining  after  rainJ* 

It  thrice  spacious,  thrice  lofty,  thrice  My  friend  rejoiced  that  the  morning 

beautiful.    Conceive  that  the  whole  was  fine,  to  correspond  with  the  text  j 

of  the  aisle,  from  the  door  to  the  for  he  thinks  a  louring  da^  would 

altar,  is  left  open,  and  that  the  boxes  have  mined  the  effect  of  this  bean* 

for  the  company  occupy  each  side  be-  tiful  verse.     However,  he  consoles 

tween  the  pillars.    Imagine  a  ^rone  himself  with  thinking,  that  the  Ardif 

of  gold,  raised  on  a  platform,  oppo-  bishop  mav  have  haa  another  text  for 

site  the  altar,  with  royal  seats  near  bad  weather,  in  case  he  had  beeq 

to  it    You  will  thus  really  have  a  driven  to  use  it    The  sermon  was 

picture  of  the  Abbey  '*  in  little."  not  such,  perhaps,  as  Parson  Adams 

There  was  as  much  bustle  in  the  would  have  selected  for  His  Ma- 
Abbey  as  in  the  Hall,  by  my  friend's  jesty's  ears, — but  it  was  sufficiently 
account,  at  the  approach  of  the  nonest  and  riiort: — and  conciseness 
King ;  and  the  affitation  of  the  la-  at  such  a  time  is  a  virtue, 
dies  was  no  wmt  inferior  to  that  The  Coronation  Oath  was  next  ad^ 
which  was  got  up  at  the  first  siffht  of  ministered  to  the  King. 

His  Mi^esty.    The  royal  musicians  „•      •          »*  -^^^    •«•     .  .  i.   .». 

stood  in  act  to  hurl  forth  the  an-  ^ir?  is  your  Majesty  wiOing  to  tJcs  the 

them,  the  moment  the  signal  should  King.-!  «n  wilUDg. 

be  ffiven.    The  procession  was  ush-  ^                   ° 

erea  into  the  gateway,  by  Miss  Fel-  The  Archbishop  then    ministered 

lowes,  and  her  white  cluster,  scat-  these  questions ;  and  ^e  King>  hav- 

tering  flowers.    On  the  Kinjg's  ca-  ing  a  copy  of  the  printed  Form  and 

nopy  appearing,  a  universal  shout  Order  of  the  Coronation  Service  in 

arose,   and   the  coronation  anthem  his  hands,  answered  each  question 

was  commenced :  <«  I  was  glad  when  severally,  as  Mows  ^— 


IPO                                             Th€  Coronaiion.  Z^^S* 

Arch.— Win  jou  loleiiisly  prooalie  and  At  this  moment  tbe  thoutt  of  the  peo- 

iwear  to  govern  the  people  of  this  United  pie  had  a  fine  effect.    The  trumpetb- 

digdom  of  Great  Britain  and  Inland,  rang  out  their  martial  music,  and  the 

and  the  domimwis  thereto  belonging,  ac  g^^  ^f  ^  p^rk  and  the  Tower  were 

q'^  to  ^''J^'^!^  ^,^^^T  •"  fired  instantaneously. 

gSfri>T^e%"^"  law.  and  cu-  ^^^  noise  ceasing^  the  AnAbishop 

King.— r  solemnly  promise  so  to  do.  ^^  ^^  »»*d>— 

ArdL— M'in  you  to  your  power  cause  Be  strong  and  of  good  courage :   ob- 

tew  and  justice,  in  mercy,  to  be  executed  senre  the  commandments  of  God,  and  walk 

in  all  your  judgments  ?  in  his  holy  ways :  fight  the  good  fight  of 

King. ^I  will.  faith,  and  lay  hold  on  eternal  life;  that  in 

Arch— —Win  you  to  the  utmost  of  your  this  world  yon  may  be  crowned  with  suc- 

power  maintain  the  laws  of  God,  the  true  cess  and  honour,    and    when   you  have 

piofessioQ  of  the  Gospel,  and  the  Protes-  finished  vour  course,  you  may  receive  a 

tant  Reformed    Religion    established   by  crown  of  righteousness,  whioi  God  the 

tew  ?  And  win  yon  maintain  and  preserve  righteous  Ju^  shaU  give  you  in  that  day. 

inviolably  the  settlement  *of  the  United  Amen. 

.  Church  of  BngUnd  and  Ireland,  and  the  rp,  _   ..  ^  tn^^,  .«„„  .  „k^»»  -« 

i,^!,;,, .  _,_i,p    ii;i»u»i:n«   •„*!  <MMr..*n  *  "C**  "^^  Ciioir  sang  a  snort  an- 

doctrine.  wonnip,  aisapime,  ana  govern-     ., ^         , .  ,       '^   m.t  i 

ment  thereof,  «  by  tew  established  within  "^^m :    after  which,  the  Bible  was 

JBn^d  and  Ireland,  and  the  territories  presented   and  duly   returned— and 

ttereunto  belong?  And  wiU  you  pre-  the  King  was  solemnly  blessed  by 

serve  unto  the  Sshops  and  dorgy  of  £ng-  the  Archbishop, 

tend    and  Irittend,  and  to  the   Unitol  His  M^gesty  was  now  borne  to  his 

Qiurch  committed  to  their  charge,  aU  such  throne  by  the  bishops  and  peers  a- 

zig^tB  and  privileges,  as  by  tew  do,  or  shatt  round  him.    Homage  was  then  done 

meruan  to  dirai,  or  any  of  them  ?  publickly  and  solemnly,— the  Trea- 

King.— An  this  I  promise  to  do.  5^,^^    scattering    silver   medals    as 

Then  the  King  arising  out  of  his  ^«^^  ^°>  ^«  ^^§'     The  Peers, 

diair,  supported  as  before,  and  as-  o*^?   ?®"®   "*«?   homage,    stood 

dated  by  the  Lord  Great  Chamber-  aU  togeUier  round  about  the  Kin^  ; 

Imn,  the  Bword  of  State  being  carried  ^^  «*,^  ^  ^^  degree  going  by 

before  him,  went  to  the  altar,  and  Jbemselves,  aUthe  Peers,  one  by  one, 

there  being  uncovered,  made  his  so-  "^  order,  put  off*  then-  coronets,  singly 

lemn  oath  hi  the  sight  of  aU  the  peo-  «««nded    the    Throne    again,    and 

Se,  to  observe  the  promises ;  laying  stretchmg  forth  their  himds,  touched 

B  right  hand  upon  the  Holy  Gospel  ^«  9*'?^'"  ^  ^  Majesty  s  head,  as 

in  the  great  Bible,  which  had  be^  promising  by  that  ceremony  to  be 


he  knelt  upon  the  steps,  saymg  these  ,^P&  ™  homage,  the  Sceptic 

^^u^..^  with  the  Cross  was   held,    on  the 

-_    *  .         ^.  ^   ,  .        ^       .  ^  King's  right  hand,  by  the  Lord  of 

The  tfirngs  which  I  have  here  before  the  manor  of  Worksop;    and    the 

pomised,  I  win  performand  keep.  g^     ^^  ^^  ^    jy^^        ^    ^    D  j^ 

80  help  me  God.  ofliuUand. 

Then  the  King  kissed  the  book.  My  friend  declares  that  this  part 

and  signed  the  oath.  of  the  ceremony  was  very  impressive  ; 

Now  foUowed  the  aiiomting,  and  and  he  observed,  that  the  King  was 

a  couple  of  anthems.     The  Dean  of  much  affected  when  his  Royal  Bro- 

Wesbninster  afterwards  dried  away  thers  prepared  to  kneel  before  him — 

the  oil  from  the  King  with  fine  wool  he  raised  them  almost  in  tears  (my 

or  linen.  friend  says  His  Majesty  was  in  tears ; 

After  other  ceremonies  had  been  but  I  dare  not  trust  my  friend ;  for, 

'  performed,  in  the  course  of  which  the  when  his  feelings  are  excited,  he  is  apt 

King  was  robed  by    the    Dean  of  to  exaggerate),  and  looked  upon  them 

Westminster,  and  was  uivested  with  with  a  kind  and  maiiffest  affection, 

the  armill,    the    Archbishop    stood  The  Holy  Sacrament  was  now  ad- 

before    the   altar,  took   the  crown,  ministered  to  His  Migesty,  and  an 

and  prayed    over    it.     The    King  anthem  sung,  at  the  end  of  which 

then  sat  down  in  Edward's  chau-,  the  drums   beat  and  the  trumpets 

and  was  crowned  by  the  Archbishop,  raug,  and  the  people  shouted.  Long 


1 82 1 .3                                          '^^^f  CuronaiioH,  1 9i 

live  the  Kiiig.  Tbe  ArchbitiUop  then  had  tasted  oiily  of  the  caineleou's 
went  to  the  altar,  and  prayed  for  dish  for  some  \5  hours,  this  prepara- 
»ome  tune — and  the  ceremony  ended,  tlon  for  "  the  solidn^  Sir  Giles !  was 
You  cannot  expect  that  1  should  about  as  painful  an  exhibition  as  Mrs. 
describe  this  part  of  the  day  with  Brownrigg's  loaf  placed  at  a  respect- 
any  peculiar  force  or  effect,  as  I  can  ful  distance  before  her  half-starred 
but  speak  from  the  communication  apprentices.  I  longed,  yet  dreaded, 
of  another.  My  friend  will  have  it  to  see  the  Baron  oi  beef  brought  in 
that  the  Abbey  was  a  finer  scene  (a  P<rer  of  some  likelihood  now  m  my 
than  the  HaU,  but  you  know  his  old  estimation) ;  I  thirsted  to  hear  the 
propensity  to  extol  what  he  alone  champagne  cork  explode  at  inter- 
enjoys  or  possesses.  I  am  free  to  vals,  though  to  me  the  minute  guns 
confess,  that  I  lost  a  very  solemn  and  of  distress !  But  what ! — could  I  not 
gorgeous  ceremony,  by  being  absent  diet  myself  upon  splendour?  or  what 
from  the  Abbey ,--but  I  would  not  business  had  I  tucre?  Hungry  I' 
have  ^ven  up  the  chivalrous  ban-  might  be;  but  had  I  not  the  satisfac- 
quet  in  the  Hall,  for  all  the  middle  tlon  of  beholding  a  couple  of  fallow- 
aisles  in  the  universe  on  such  a  day.  creatures  perishing  on  each  side  of 
The  procession  b^an  its  return,  says  me,  and  oi  the  same  gnawing  death  I 
my  mend,  and  in  tiie  words  of  honest  Wbat  signified  it  that  I  was  dry !— - 
Casca,  *'  then  the  people  fell  a  shout-  Was  I  not  about  to  see  '^  robes  and 
uig,  and  then  I  came  awav ! "  furred  gowns  "  filled  as  full  of  hock 

1  rushed  back  to  the  Hall  with  a  as  though  barrels,  and  not  men,  were 

velocity  quite  appaUing  to  the  com-  ermined  for  the  occasion !    I  did  not, 

mon  people,  intimating  by  m^  speed  perhaps,  start  these  decisive  reasons 

nothing  less  than  that  a  Knight  of  at  the  time,  but  I  now  see  how  very 

the  Bath  was  bunimg  down ;  and  idle  it  was  to  be  faint — I  have  just 

only    stayinff   my    course    for   five  dined. 

minutes  to  look  after  the  balloon.  There  was  an  afr  of  indolence  now 
which  some  kind  creature  told  me  spread  over  the  whole  scene.  A  few 
"  was  up,"  but  which,  like  myself,  ofiicers  were  loitering  about,  leaning 
had  been  "  up  too  long ;"  for  it'  was  against  the  rails  in  uie  Hall  in  their 
certainly  not  visible,  though  I  yielded  happiest  attitudes,  or  idling  in  the 
to  his  repeated  inquiries,  and  con-  best  light,  to  give  their  ffolden  lace 
fessed  that  I  saw  it  plainly.  When  and  trappings  a  beam  of  Uie  sun ;— « 
I  reached  my  box  in  the  Hall  aeain,  few  servants  were  furnishing  forth 
the  servants  were  lighting  the  chan-  the  tables  with  knives,  and  napkins, 
deliers,  which  hung  finely  fi-om  the  and  bread;— the  doorkeepers  (se« 
fretted  roof,  and  turned  with  a  cour-  lectedfrom  the  most  eminent  bruisers, 
tier-like  ease  to  the  hand  that  could  as  I  was  informed ;  but  never  having 
give  them  brilliance ;  at  this  time  seen  them,  I  cannot  vouch  for  the  in- 
there  was  assuredly  no  need  of  any  formation ;)  reclining  in  part  against 
artificial  lustre ;  for  the  sun-light  was  the  side  of  the  gothic  arch  at  the  door, 
beautifully  alive  on  wall  and  gallery,  or  quietly  banqueting  in  some  conti- 
and  shamed  to  death  the  branches  of  guous  apartment  >— when  the  distant 
a  hundred  lights  that  were  pendent  bray  of  a  trumpet,  or  a  voice  at  the 
in  the  air.  But  as  it  was  considered,  gateway,  struck  life  and  confusion 
I  presume,  an  indecorum  to  light  a  into  all.  The  rush,  the  hurry,  the 
candle  before  a  King ;  and  as  it  was  flight  to  and  fro,  the  distant  and  faint 
concluded  that  his  Majesty  would  noises,  the  instantaneous  flutter  of 
not  quit  the  Hall  till  after  ^y-light,  feathers,  the  pretty  womanly  alarm, 
we  were  compelled  to  endure  this  --all  seemed  but  the  picture,  the 
struggle  of  light— this  litigation  of  mockery,  of  what  the  first  faint  can- 
radiance — ^this  luminous  suit  carried  non  sound  must  have  been  at  the  ball 
on  ill  Westmuister  Hall, — Sol  versus  in  Brussels, — the  awful  summoner 
Wax,— in  which  a  verdict  was  re-  from  revelry  to  battle !  The  effect, 
cord^  in  every  lady's  eye  for  the  methought,  was  similar, — "  alike, 
plaintiff.  but  oh !  how  different !  "--here  were 

The  white  cloth  had  been  laid  on  joy,  and  spirit,  and  splendour,  and 

the  tables  during  the  Kuif's  absence,  pleasure,  awakened,  and  by  day ; — 

and  a  silver  plate  placed  before  each  there  death  spake  to  the  gallant,  the 

scat ;— to  a  gentleman,  whose  mouth  proud,  and  the  beautiful,  and  its  voice 


ttn                                            The  Coronation,  C^^?- 

came  through  the  iiight    I  know  not  the  colours  of  imaguiatlon  teeoied 

why  I  intrude  this  dreary  contrast  housing  from  the  world— and  the  eye 

upon  you  (for  it  is  no  comparison^  became  enamoured  of  beautiful  dyes, 

although  I  called  it  such) ;  out  the  and  seemed  to  dance  upon  a  sea  of 

thought  did,  in  reality,  occtu-  to  my  fforgeous  and  restless  beauty.    Kach 

miiicf  at  the  time,  and,  therefore,  I  dress  was  exmiisitcly  neighboured,-— 

do  not  withhold  it.     It  was  evident  pink  and  gold  and  white-— and  soft 

that  the  cavalcade  was  on  the  return,  blue— and  light  and  deep  red— all 

and  all  that  had  duUes  in  the  Hall  mingled  as  though  they  were  married 

were  summoned  to  their  posts.    I  by  magic  hands.    The  colours  ran 

was  all  anxiety  again,  and  watched  into  each  other  like  waters,— they 

die  door  with  .an  eager  eye.  played   together  even  as  music  !— 

First  came  Miss  \  ellowes,  with  her  they  shifted— end'  were  the  same. 

MX  beautiful  flower  girls,  scattering  The  procesrion  now  promised  no 

rose-leaves  over  the  blue  cloth,  as  eud,  and  for  my  own  part  I  would 

though  they  had  been  Flora's  hand*  have  had  it  thus  ever  pour  on — I 

maids;  indeed.  Miss Fellowes  seemed  could  endure!     The  Hendds,  and 

to  me  a  more  important  personage  Archbishops,  and  OflEicerg  of  State, 

than  Flora  herself.    After  them,  the  succeeded  the   Dukes.     At  length, 

procession  entered,  not  by  twos  and  alone  and  in  stately  silence,  entered 

threes,  as  it  left  the  hall,  but  in  rich.  Prince  Leopold.  Pnncely  indeed  was 

vet  regular,  clusters.    Nothing  could  his  bearing — ^but  methought  there  was 

have  a  finer  effect  than  the  dress  of  a  melancholy  in  his  eye  Uiat  spake  of 

the  choristers;  all  in  an  excess  of  all  that  had  been,  and  all  that  vras  not 

white,  they  appeared  to  be  the  per-  to  be.    He  walked  up  the  Hall,  amid 

sonification  of  day-light  The  arrange-  the  plaudits  of  thousands,— but  his 

ments  were  for  a  moment  now  some-  spirit  walked  not  with    him. — ^The 

what  impeded  by  the  ardour  of  the  Royal   Dukes   followed :— and  after 

Aldermen  of  London,  which,  at  the  some  Nobles  of  State,  the  King  again 

sight  of  the  white  doth  and  silver  entered  the  banquet-room.  He  looked 

plates,  became  quite  immanageable,  weary,  but  cheerful.  He  was  habited 

and  carried  «iud  dashed  them  with  a  in  robes  of  purple  velvet,  furred  with 

civic  fury  into  the  first  seats  they  ermine ;  the  crown  of  state  was  on 

«,*ouId  reach.    Happily  a  herald,  or  his  head,— in  his  right  hand  was  the 

some  person  of  trust,  called  them  sceptre,  and  in  his  left  the  orb  with 

back  to  tiie  ranks ;  but  they  were  the  cross.    He  walked  under  the  ca- 

evldently  impatient  *'  to  get  a  good  nopy,  which  was  supported  as  before, 

place,"  having  once  tasted  the  gout  CHncers  and  W'omcn  of  the  Guard 

of  a  cushion !   After  the  Law  Officers  closed  the  procession, 

had  eutercd  (the  gloomiest  part  of  I  cannot  help  feeling  how  difficult 

the  pageant,  by  the  by),  the  Knights  «-nay,  how  impossible  it  is  to  give 

Commanders  of  the  Bath  advanced  you  any,  the   smallest  idea  of  the 

Vinder  the  archway.    I  can  give  you  cjfTect  of  the  whole  scene : — recall  all 

no  idea  of  the  effect  of  their  magnifi-  that    you  have  read  of  chivalrous 

cent  appearance.  Their  plumes  rolled  banquets,  and  you  Tiiill  do  more  in 

like  the  foam  of  the  sea,  and  were  all  your  own  fancy  than  I  can  achieve 

silver  white !    The  day  streamed  in  for  you. — You  will  wish  me,  how- 

with  them,  as  though  glad  to  bear  e\'er,to  be  more  particular  in  my  ac- 

along  so  radiant  a  company.    I  have  count  of  some  of  the  dresses ;  or  such 

spoken  ofthe  dresses  of  these  Knights,  will  he  the  wish  of  your  sisters ;  and 

but  no  description  can  indeed  touch  I  shall,  therefore,  to  the  best  of  my 

them.    Next  came  nobles  and  stan-  ability,  select  you  a  few  of  the  richest 

dard- bearers,— and  marvellously  rich  habits,  and  describe  them  as  aptly  as 

ond  chivalrous  did  the  standards  float  I  may.    The  King  retired  for  a  cou- 

]]ito  the  banquet^hall.    Barons,  Vis-  pie  of  hours  previously  to  the  dinner; 

counts.  Earls,  Marquisses,  and  Dukes,  so  you  may  feast  on  my  description 

all  followed,  in  separate  clusters,  all  until  his  return, 

wearing  their  coronets  and  full  robes.  The  Privy  Coimsellors  had  vests 

and  walking  as  though  they  stepped  and  hose   of  deep  blue  silk ;    with 

tp  the  best  bright  days  of'^Engmnd.  mantles  of  blue  satm  lined  with  white. 

The  gorgeous  company  appeared  to  They  had  ruffs,  with  black  Spanish 

0warm  in  as  to  some  fairy  hive !    All  hats  and  plumes.    The  Registrar  of 


1891.^                                      The  CormuOkM.  198 

the  Order  of  the  Ckirter^  and  a  Kidgfat  at  Armfty  namelyj  Ulster^  Clarencenl> 

(the  Marquis  of  Londonderry)^  were  and  Norroy,  decoH^ted  aa  the  fbnner. 

in  the  splendid  full  dress  of  the  order  The  Lord  PriTy  Seal  said  the  L^d 

-—a  purple  velvet  manUe^  with  red  President  of  the  Council  wore  their 

velvet  cape,  &c.    His  Lordship's  hat  robes  of  estate ;  the  Archbishops  of 

was  enriched  with  most    dazzling*  Ireland,  and  the  Archbishop  of  YorlL, 

jewellerv,  and  surmounted  with  an  their  black  and  lawn ;  the  Chanodloir 

ample  plume  of  white  feathers.    His  his  robes  of  estate,  with  a  full  bot^ 

Mflgesty's  Vice-Chamberlain  and  the  tomed  wig ;  and  the  Archbishop  of 

Comptroller  of  his  Household  were  Canterbury,  like  the  other  Prelatea^ 

both  in  crimson  velvet  cloaks,  with  black  and  lawn, 

black  hats  and  white  feathers.  Thdr  The  Lord  Lvon  of  Scotland,  aAd 

cloaks  were  laced  with  gold;  their  Garter  Mndpel  King  of  Arms,  were 

vests  blue,  slashed  wiA  white ;  and  in   their   rich   tabaras,    with  thdr 

their  stodEinffs,  shoes,  uid  rosettes,  crowns  and  sceptres, 

all  white.    I^ie  Treasurer  of  his  Bfa-  The  Usher  of  the  Black  Rod  wore 

jesty's  Household  bore,  in  virtue  of  a  scarlet  dress  slashed  with  white, 

his  office,  the  bag  with  the  medals,  a  crimson  mantle  lined  with  white. 

He  was  dressed  in  a  crimson  velvet  with  the  Red  Cross  shield  cmbroider- 

doak ;  and  was  succeeded  by  a  Pur-  ed  on  his  left  shoulder,  red  stockings 

suivant  of  Arms,  the  Herald  of  Scot*  and  sword-sheath,  white  shoes  with 

land,  and  the  Herald  of  Ireland,  all  in  red  rosettes,  and  a  black  hat  and  fea- 

tabards ;  the  two  latter  with  collars  ther :  he  carried  in  his  hand  the  blade 

ofSS.  rod. 

The  Eari  of  Mayo,  in  his  robes  of  The  Deputy  Lord  Great  Chamber- 
estate,  as  a  peer,  canied  the  stand-  lain  of  England  wore  his  robes  of 
ard  of  Hanover,  a  red  flag,  bouing  estate  as  a  peer,  and  carried  in  his 
for  its  device  a  white  horse,  and  pre-  lumd  his  white  stivS*. 
ceded  the  barons.  The  noblemen  of  Prince  Leopold  was  dressed  in  tiie 
this  rank  immecUately  followed,  the  full  habit  of  tne  Order  of  the  Onxtier, 
juniors  walking  first.  They,  as  well  wearing  a  long  purple  velvet  man- 
as  all  the  other  peers,  were  in  their  tie,  cap,  and  feathers,  and  carrying 
robes  of  estate,  namely,  a  crimson  in  his  right  hand  his  Marshals 
velvet  mantle,  with  an  ermine  cape,  baton.  His  train  was  borne  by 
having  two  rows  of  spots,  a  white  gentlemen  in  the  following  dresa— 
silk  vest,  breeches,  stockings  and  a  white  silk  vest  and  breeches  edged 
shoes,  with  white  rosettes;  acrim-  with  gymp,  white  stockings,  riioes, 
son  velvet  surcoat,  and  sword  belt.  and  rosettes,  a  blue  velvet  sword- 

The  Lord  Chamberlain  of  hb  Ma-  belt  and  sheath,  a  plain  blue  satin 

jesty's  Household,  in  his  robes  of  es-  cloak  lined  with  white  silk,  and  a 

tate,  was  attended  by  an  officer  of  block  hat  with  white  feathers, 

the  Jewel  Office  in  a  scarlet  mantle.  The  Barons  of  tlie  Cinque  Ports 

with  a  crown  embroidered  on  his  left  wore  a  scarlet  satin  dreft,  puffed  with 

shoulder,  bearing  a  cushion,  on  which  blue  and  gold  gymp  edging,  a  blue 

were  placed  the  ruby  ring,  and  the  satin  surcoat,  blue  velvet  sword-belt 

sword  to  be   girt  about  the  King,  and  sheath,  scarlet  silk   stockings. 

The  Lord  Steward  of  his  Majesty's  white  shoes    with   scarlet   rosettes. 

Household  was  also  in  his  robes  of  and   a  black  hat  with  scarlet  and 

estate.      He  was  immediately  sue-  black  feathers, 

ceeded  by  Earl  Harcourt  in  his  robes  The  Train-bearers  and  Masters  of 

of  estate,  carrying  the  Royal  Stand-  the  Robes  were  habited  alike  in  a 

ard,  a  flag   emblazoned    with    Ids  white  satin  dress,  slashed  and  laced 

Migesty's  arms.  with  gold,  a  crimson  velvet  cloak. 

Three  Kings  of  Arms  followed,  laced  with  gold,  crimson  velvet  sword- 

namely,  the  Ionian,  the  Gloucester,  belt  and  sheath,  white  silk  stockings, 

and  the  Hanover,  drest  in  their  rich  shoes,  and  rosettes,  a  black  hat  and 

tabards.    They  carried  their  heraldic  white  feathers, 

crowns  in  their  hands  as  they  went  to  The  Gentlemen  Pensioners  wore  a 

the  Abbey,  and  on  their  return  wore  scarlet  dress  slashed  with  blue,  and 

them  on  their  heads.    Dukes  came  almost  wholly  covered  with  gold  but- 

neit :  and  then  the  three  other  Khigs  tons,  spread  like  lace  over  great  part 


IM                                         The  ConmatioH.  C'^u^- 

qftlMhahlt;  red  lilkstookiiigt,  white  ffnie>  and  the  Duke nf  Wellingtai^  m 

•hoes  with  red  and  black  roses^  white  Lord  High  Constable,  the  Marquis  of 

fiFes,  and  a  black  hat  with  red  and  Anglesea,  as  Lord  Hi^h  Steward,  and 
ck  feathers.  Lord  Howard  of  £ffingham,  as  De- 
The  Lords  of  the  King^s  Bedcham*  puty  Earl  Marshal,  entered  upon  the 
ber  had  a  peculiar  dress,  consisting  floor  on  horseback.    The  Marquis  of 
of  a  blue  vest  slashed  with  white  and  Anglesea's   horse    was   a   beautiful 
gold  lace,  white  stockings,  shoes,  and  cream-coloured  Arabian ;  Lord  How* 
rosettes,    a  blue  velvet    sword-belt  ard's  was  a  dun ;  and  the  Duke's  a 
and  sheath,  a  crimson  velvet  cloak  white  steed.    After  a  short  pause, 
laced  with  gold,  and  a  black  hat  with  they  rode  gracei^y  up  to  the  royal 
white  feathers.  table,  followed  by  the  gentlemen  with 
The  Keeper  of  his  Migest/s  Privy  the  first  course.    When  Uie  dishes 
Purse  succeeded  them.    He  wore  a  were  placed  on  the  board,  the  bearers 
blue  satin  cloak  trimmed  with  broad  first  retired,  with  their  fiu:es  towards 
gdd  lace,  a  blue  satin  dress  slashed  the  King ;  and  then  the  noble  horse- 
with  white  and  laced  with  gold,  white  men  retreated,  by  backing  then:  steeds 
stockings,  shoes,  and  rosettes,  a  black  down  the  HaU,  and  out  at  the  arch- 
hat  and  white  feathers.  way.  Their  noiseless  steps  on  the  blue 
The  Gentlemen  of  the  Bedchamber  cloth   conveyed   the  idea  that   the 
wore  a  blue  dress  edged  with  span-  horses  had  been  shod  with  felt,  ac- 
gkd  ^ymp,  and  dashed  with  white,  cording  to  Lear's  invention.     The 
a  plam  blue  satin  cloak,  lined  with  Duke  of  Wellington's  white  charger 
white ;    blue  silk  stockings,    white  "  walked  away  with  himself"  in  the 
shoes,  with  blue  roses ;  blue  sword-  aptest  manner ;  but  the  Marquis  of 
belt  and    sheath,  a  black  hat  and  iuiglesea  had  great  difficulty  m  per- 
white  feather.  suading  his  Arabian  to  retire  tail- 
There  : — I  think  I  have  made  up  a  wise.    The  company  could  hardly  be 
dish  of  dress  sufficient  for  the  most  restrained  from  applauding,  although 
inordinate  female  appetite.     I  now  it  was  evident  tnat  a  shout  would 
must  forward.    The  King  returned  have  settled  the  mind  of  this  eteed  in 
to  the  Hall  precisely  at  the  time  he  a  second,  and  have  made  him  reso- 
promised,  and  took  his  seat  at  the  lute  against  completing  his  unpleasant 
table,  on  which  was  a  noble  display  retreat.    The  pages  soothed  him  be- 
of  gold  plate.   Previous  to  the  King  s  fore  and  behind;   but  he  shook  his 
entry,  however,  I  should  not  omit  to  head  and  tail,  and  paused  occasion- 
tell  you  that  orders  were  issued  that  ally,  as  if  he  had  considerable  doubts 
the  middle  of  the  Hall  should  be  upon  the  subject, 
cleared,  which  occasioned  great  con-  Before  the  dishes  were  uncovered, 
atematlon  amongst  groups  (^  ladies,  the  Lord  Great  Chamberlain  present- 
who  were  oiuetly  and  happily  refresh-  ed  the  basin  and  ewer,  to  bathe  his 
ins  themsdves  in  all  directions.   The  Majesty's  hands ;  and  the  Lord  of  the 
Older  frayed  them  like  birds,  and  they  Manor  of  Heydon  attended  with  a 
were  seen  ffitting  up  and  down,  with-  rich  towel.     The  dishes  were  then 
out  any  place  of  rest.    Lord  Gwydir  bared ;  and  his  Mijesty  was  helped, 
pursued  them  with  the  fury  of  a  falcon,  by  the  carvers,  to  some  soup.    He 
and  he  eventually  succeeded  in  ef-  tasted  it  I    This  was  a  source  of  end- 
fecting   a  clearance.     His  Majesty  less  wonder  to  a  lady  near  me. 
wore  his  crown  and  mantle  on  his  re-  At  the  end  of  this  course,  the  gates 
turn,  and  the  Royal  Dukes,  and  the  of  the  Hall  were  affain  thrown  open. 
Prince  Leopold,  sat  near  Mm  at  his  and  a  noble  flouriw  of  trumpets  an- 
table.  nounced  to  all  eager  hearts  that  the 
The  passage  from  the  kitchen  to  Champion  was  about  to  enter.    He 
the  lower  end  of  the  Hall  was  now  advanced  under  the  gateway,  on  a 
<H>ened ;  and  the  gentlemen  bearing  fine  pie-bald  charger  (an  ill  colour), 
tne  golden  dishes  tor  the  first  course  and  clad    in  complete  steel.      The 
were  seen  in  regidar  line,  ready  to  plumes  on  his  head  were  tri-coioiu'ed, 
proceed  to  the  King's  table.    At  this  and  extremely  magnificent ;  and  he 
moment  the  doors  at  the  end  of  the  bore  in  his  hand  the  loose  steel  gauiit^ 
Hall  were  opened,  the  clarions  and  let,    ready  for  the  challenge.    The 
trumpets   sounding  bravely  at  the  Duke  of  Wellington  was  on  his  right 

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hand ;  the  Marqulf  of  Angloiea  on  of  Arragoiv  there  is  a  rerf  qnafait 

hiB  left.    When  he  had  come  within  and  interesting  account  of  the  chal- 

the  limits  of  the  Hall«  he  was  about  lenge^  which,  as  I  think  it  will  i^tlj 

to  throw  down  his  glove  at  once,  so  illustrate  this  part  of  my  letter,  and 

eager  was  he  for  the  fray, — but  the  serve  to  amuse  you,  I  shall  take  leave 

Herald  distinctly  said,  «  Wait  till  I  to  a>pj  :— 

have  read  tiie  Challenge,"  and  read  ^he  seeoode  ooarw  beyng  ierved,   hi 

It  accordingly,-.tiie  Champum  hua-  ^  the  haule  doore  entered  •  Knyhte  armed 

banding  his   valour  for  a  few  mi-  .t  al  poyntes,  his  bases  rich  tissue  embma^ 

nutes : —  dered,  a  great  phime  and  a  sampteoas  of 

If  any  person,  of  what  degree  soever,  OMtriehefcthers  on  his  helmet,  sittyng  oo  m 


Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  mm  and  ^T^    4"?  P^P8.  •^^^g'j,  *^«  ^^'^ 

next  heir  to  our   Sovenaon  Lord  King  pw««ted  hymsdf  with  humble  zeverenoe 

Oeoige  the  Third,  the  lastKing  deceased,  )f^^  ^«  ^y^R''    ^f^^,  ^  T^ 

to  be  right  hdr  to  the  Impwiid  Crown  of  ^^^  Kynaje  of  heraulds  cncd  and  said 

this  United  Kingdom,  or  that  he  ought  not  ^*  »  ^^*  Toyce,  Sir    Knyhte,  from 

to  enjoy  the  same,  here  is  his  Chammon,  ^'»«nce  ccme  ywi,  and  what  is  your  me. 

who  saidi  that  he  licth,  and  is  a  false  tod-  Jf^^^JThis  Knj^  name  was  Sv  Ro- 

tor;  being  ready  in  person  to  combat  with  f*^  Dmnnoke,  ChuapMn  to  the  Kynge 

Mm,  and  in  this  quarrd  will  adventure  his  ^J  ««»««  of  his  enhentaupce,  who  Mswend 

Ufe  against  him  on  what  day  soever  he  shaU  the  said  Kypge  of  aimea  in  effecte  after  dm 

be  appointed.  manner,   bir,  the  puce  that  I  come  from  is 

not  matfriall,  nor  the  cause  of  my  rqaaim 

At  the  conclusion  of  this  "  awful  hvther  is  not  conoemyng  any  matter  of  any 

challenge,"  as  a  gentieman  near  me  P^»<»  <>'  countrey,  but  ondy  this.    And 

termed  it,  tiie  Champion  hurled  down  therewithal  wmmanded  Us  h™dd  to  m^ 

his  ^untiet  wbieh  fell  witii  a.solemn  ^^Z^;^^  ^^i^^yffe^  t 

dash  upon  the  floor.     It  rang  m  most  c^of  my  compge  and  pretince.    Thenf 

hearts!  Hetiien  stuckhis  wrist  agamst  he  commanded hb  own  her^dd  by  pit)c]m. 

his  steeled  side,  as  though  to  show  idontosaye:    If  there  be  any  persone,  of 

how  indifferent  he  was  to  the  conse-  what  estate  or  degree  soever  he  be  that  will 

quence  of  his  challenge.    This  cer-  saie  or  prove  that  King  Henry  the  £i^ 

tauily  had  a  very  pleasmg  and  gallant  is  not  the  rig^itful  enheritor  and  Kynge  of 

effect.    The  Herald,  in  a  few  seconds,  this  realm,  I  Sir  Bobert  Dimmoke  ben 

took  up  the  glove,  delivered  it  to  the  his  champm  offre  my  glove,  to  fight  in  his 

Squire,  who  kissed  it,   and  handed  ^"«^  ^«^  ^7  P«™»»«  ^  thuttcrance. 

it  to  the  Champion.    In  the  middle  of  The  champions  appear  to  have  been 

the  Hall  the  same  ceremony  was  per-  more  fiimiliar  in  the  olden  time,  and 

formed :  and  at  the  foot  of  the  royal  to  have  discoursed  more  freely  with 

platform  it  was  a  third  time  gone  those  about  them;— but  perhaps  the 

through.    The  Kuig  then  drank  his  less  that  is  said  the  better  amongst 

health,  and,  methinks,  with  real  plea-  fighting  men ;  so  I  shall  not  diner 

sure,  for  the  Champion  had  riffht  gal-  with  our  present  Sir  Knight  on  ao- 

lantiy  conducted  himself.    His  Ma-  count  of  his  solemn  taciturnity.    The 

iesty  then  sent  the  cup  to  him ;  and  same  old  writer  from  whom  I  have 

he,  taking  it,  drank  to  the  King,  but  given    you    the   above    description, 

in  so  low  a  tone,  that  I  could  only  speaks    curiously    of  the    pageants 

catch  the  meaning  by  the  tumultuous  which  were  had  to  enliven  the  pro« 

shouts  of  the  people.  The  noise  seem-  cession  of  Anne   Boleyn    from  the 

ed  to  awaken  the  courage  of  his  horse;  Tower  to  Westminster.    The  Three 

but  he  mastered  his  steed  admirably.  Graces,  he  tells  us,  took  their  stand 

Tlie  ceremony  of  backing  out  of  the  on  Cornhill,  and  the  Cardinal  Virtues 

Hall  was  then  again  penormed,  and  in  Fleet-street — a  foimtahi  of  Helicon 

suocessfulljr,  with  the  exception  of  ran Rhenith  wine;  and  the  Conduit 

the  Marquis  of  Anglesea's  Arabian,  in  Cheap,  with  a  laudable  courtesy, 

whose  doubts  were  not  yet  satisfied,  spouted  daret*    But  I  must  not  lose 

and  he  was  literally  shown  out  by  the  myself  amongst  books, 

pages.  On  the  Champion  retiring,  the  se« 

In  Hall's  Account  of  tiie  Corona*  cond  course  was  served  up  as  before; 

tion  of  Henry  VIIL  and  Katherine  the  Marquis's  horse  bccomuig  more 


IM  The  Drama.  « t^«g* 

and  more  nraiumneiiy.    It  was  noC  af  to  the  little  children  of  1896,  or  to 

andse  that  hi«  duties  were  oyer.  write  to  kind  friends  in  1891.  Before 

Certain  serrices  were  now   per«  I  quitted  the  banquet-room,  I  took 

Ibrmed,  wliich  generally  ended  m  a  the  liberty  of  nocketinff  a  sweetmeat 

peer,  or  some  ether  fortunate  per-  dolpliin,  fildiea  from  3ie  top  of  the 

sonage,    carrying  off  a  sold   cup.  Temple  of  Concord,  which  I  shall 

The  most  interesting^  was  the  present  long   preserve   amongst  my  scarce 

ff  two  fidcons  to  his  Miyesty  from  papers  and  curious  coins,  as  a  reUe 

the  Duke  of  AthoL  of  the  great  Coronation  Feast.  Thus 

The  King's  health  was  about  this  ended  this  splendid  day. 
tfane  drunk  with  great  acclamations,        I  have  detailed  the  particulars  of 

aad  the  national  air  of  ''  God  save  the  pageant  as  faithfully  as  possible; 

the  King"  sung  in  a  grand  style.    I  and  I  mly  hope  that  thelengthof  my 

tUnk  I  never  heard  it  sung  better  be-  letter,  and  its  tedious   minutoiess, 

fore.  will  not  weary  you.    I  have  pur- 

The  King,  standinff  up,  drank  to  posely  abstained  from  any  political 

Ids  people ;  notice  of  wnich  honour  discussion  about  the  exdusion  of  the 

was  communicated  by  the  Duke  of  Queen,  or  her  Migesty's  morning  visits 

Norfolk :  and  very  shortly  aiterwards  because  I  only  intended  a  description 

{JVom  Nobii   Dmmne  having   been  of  the  pageant,  and  I  knew  that  you 

flung,  in  which  I  heard  the  King  take  cared  not  to  have  a  repeatedly  dia« 

a  part,)  his  Migesty  retired  amidst  cussed  subject  discussed  again.    lu 

the  joyous  clamours  of  his  people.  the  same  manner  I  shall  desist  from 

I  now  descended  into  the  body^of  sobering  the  conclusion  of  my  letter 

tibe  Hall,  which  was  thronged  with  with  any  solemn  reflections  on  the 

splendour  and  beau^.     Hock  and  events  of  the  day^ — you   have  the 

cnunpagne,  and  fruit  and  venison  mind  to  reflect  for  yourself,  if  this 

pasties,  were  passing  and  repassing;  Altxandrine  of  a  letter  will  allow  you 

and  the  most  brilliant  ladies  were  the  time.    Do  not  fail  to  tell  me  how 

gnatrhing  at  all  the  good  things  of  you  all ''  like  the  play,"  and  to  what 

this  wond  from  officers  and  gentle-  extent  you  have  envied  me.    I  think 

men  waiters.    I  was  not  idle ;  for  I  see  Mrs. struck  calmly  mad  at 

having  asked  for  a  glass  of  water,  and  the  profunon  of  satin, 
bdng  informed  '*  You  get  no  water,  I  ^xn,  ^c 

takethe  wine.  Great  Potentate,"  1  feU  j  ,     ^^^  ^^  Hekbeet. 

aenously  to  work  upon  a  cherry  pie,         ^*  

the  nearest  dish,  and  followed  this  — — 

victory  up  with  others  of  a  more  de-        P.  8.  If  you  covet  the  dolphin,  I 

dsive  nature.    I  forgot  that  I  had  will  send  it  to  you;  but  it  is  a  curiosity 

been  famished;  and  Hfring  a  cup  of  you  must  keep  from  children.  I  wish 

burgundy  to  my  lips^declaned  that  the  I  could  pack  you  up  a  Knight  of  the 

fotigue  of  the  day  had  been  nothmg"—  Bath  in  all  his  glory;  but  1  fear  he 

a  Jest-^  merriment— a  thing  to  tell  would  not  bear  the  carriage. 


THE  DRAMA. 
No.  XIX. 


T«ismonth  has  been  rich  in  events:  Even    **  The    Cobourg,"   pride   of 

— ^the  death  of  Bonaparte  has  been  Surrey  (that  county    where  melo- 

prodaimed — ^the  coronation  has  been,  drame  has  flourished  so  lonff,   and 

and  passed  away— and  Mr.  Kean  has  quadrupeds  and  tumblers  still  hold 

escaped  from  the  republicans  of  the  tneir  ancient,  but  not   "  sectary," 

great  continent,  and  is  trans-atlandc  rei«i),  has  affected  the  cap  and  bells, 

DO  longer.    In  addition  to  these  mat-  and  presented  us  with  a  specimen  of 

ters  eminently  notorious,  the  summer  the  buriesque.    And  yet,  the  drama 

theatres  have  opened  their  doors,  and  itself  has  been  very  barren  of  novelty. 

infi»Tned  us  that  they  have  each  a  We  foel  this  so  much,  on  commencing 

pleasant  saloon,  prodigal  of  odours  our  article,  that  we  cannot  but  en- 

and  ices,  but  Icavinff  us  to  the  dis->  tertain  a  presentiment,  that  we  shall 

covery   of  their   other   attractions,  have  some  difficulty  ui  offering  our 


1891.3                                       Tke  Drama:  197 

readen  any  deUil  which  will  in-  even  admired  him  (Heaven  forgive 

terest  them.  us— but  we  were  young)  in  traged]r> 

The  death  of  Bonaparte  was  the  though  we  have  lived  to  correct  that 

talk  of  some  two  hours !  (who^  after  «rror.    To  see  him  in  Lsickland^  fa 

this^  would  be  the  fool  of  fame?)  Ta^^  in  Jeremy Diddler^  in  Tangent^ 

and  Mr.  Kean's  return  did  not  produce  or  m  Vapid^  is  delighted  still ;  but 

quite  the  same  vivifying  sensation  as  the  robe  of  tragedy  encumbers  him^ 

of  dd.  But  the  coronation,  certainly^  he   is   too    pompous ;     and   makes 

for  a  time^  absorbed  all  the  sympa-  *'  serious  mirth  "  of  the  Muse ;  lift- 

thy  of  the  fashionable  crowd,   and  ing   her    simplest    sayings    to   the 

was  not  without  its  attractions  for  highest  pitch  of  his  utterance,  andl 

the  vulgar.    We  suppose  that  it  was  drownhig  her  stately  periods  in  the 

on  that  account  that  the  summer  deep  thunders  of  his  declamation, 

managers   ddayed   producing  their  In  snort,  he  is  a  very  clever  comedian, 

usual  stock    of  farces  and  operas,  and  in  tragedy  indiiorerently  bad. 
*'  operettes,"  and  "  petites  pieces," 

until  the  ferment,    excited  by  the  covent  oahden. 

royal  exhibition,  ahould  have  sub-  ffamlet.^-We  regret  that  a  day  or 

aided.    This  was  weU.    There  is  an  two's   illness  prevented  our   seeinc 

old  catch,  beginning,  <'  It  is  well  to  Mr.  Charles  Kemble  in  Hamlet.    A 

be  merry  ami  wise ;"  but  this  was  competent  iriend  of  ours,  who  witx 

being  dutiful  and  wise,  which  is  bet-  nessed  the  representation,  made  very 

ter  still.    They  wisely,  then,  forbore  favourable  report  of  it ;  but  he  ha* 

to  interfere  with  state  matters,  and  omitted  to  send  us  a  statement  for 

left  the  ceremony   of  crowning  to  the  Magazine.      Mr.  Kemble's  air 

stand  by  itself,  the  great  imposing  and  person  are  certainly  well  qnali^ 

marvel  of  the  season.    Covent  Gan-  fied  to  sustain  the  interest  of  the  me- 

den,  it  is  true,  used  less  forbearance,  lancholy  Hamlet : — of  his  perform- 

and  filled  its  benches  with  the  giddy  ance  of  the  character,  we  can  say  no 

and  the  gay,  at  the  expence  of  the  more  than  that  it  gives  us  pleasure 

house-proprietors  in  Palace-yard  and  to  learn  that  it  was  successful.    Of 

George-street.     Indeed,  Drury  Lane  Miss  Dance's  Ophelia  we  have  nof 

got  up  a  sort  of  phantasma  of  the  thing  to  say.  WesawMissStephen%' 

matter ;  but  the  shadow  of  regality  and   heard  her,  and  were  content ; 

passed  off  without  doing  any  iiyury  and  onr  friend  (who  went  for  us  to 

to  the  greater  show,  or  any  good  to  see  Hamlet  the  second  time)  was  too 

Mr.    liilliston.      Yet    Mr.    EUiston  dissatisfied  at  Miss  Stephens'  aece»* 

(though  he  mimicked  so  indifferently  sion,  to  give  favourable  report  of  the 

the  royal  pageant)  is  a  truly  loyal  lady  who  succeeded  her. 

man,  and  menacea  the  public  with  Henry  IV*  Part  IL^-Thin  ptaj  of 

three  butts  of  porter  to  seep  up  (or  Shdcspeare    has    been    woncferfuUy 

allay?)  the  fervour  of  their  rejoicings,  attractive, — ^not   from    its   intrinsic 

Why  does  not  that  worthy  manager  merit,  however,  great  and  undeniable 

enact  the  king  himself,    and  walk  as  it  is,  but  from  the  fact  of  the 

with  steps,  stately  and  slow,  from  coronation    ceremony    having   beeo 

stage-door  to  stage-door,  before  the  added,  by  which  the  people  could 

eyes  of  admiring  audiences  ?    We  see    a  good   representation   of  the 

thhik  that  a  diadem  would  sit  easily  courtly  pomps,  at  the  moderate  ex- 

on  his  brow,  and  a  sceptre  would  be  pence  or  seven  shillings.    The  lessees 

but  a  bauble  in  his  hand.    He  is  ac-  of  houses  and  ground  in  the  neiglK- 

customed  to  ermine  and  prompt  obe-  bourhood  of  Westmiuster-hall  nuide, 

dience ;  and  may,  perhaps,  have  as-  on  the  contrarv,  the  most  extravagant 

phrations  after  state  and  ceremonial,  demands,  and  suffered  accordingly, 

and  the  clapping  of  hands,  and  shouts  We  own  that  we  are  not  very  aorry 

that  seem  to  come  from  the  heart,  for  this,  unless  where  heavy  sums  of 

We  remember  Mr.  Elliston  when  he  money  were  originallv  asked  by  the 

was  a  ''fine,  gay,  boldfaced"  per-  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Westminster.; 

son,  who  would  have  been  invaluable  in  which  case  it  is  hoped,  for  the 

hi  a  procession.    He  had  all  the  ease,  credit  of  the  church  in  general,  and 

and  something   of  the  grace,  of  a  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  in  particu- 

gentleman  of  the  last  age ;  and  we  lar,  that  a  portion  of  the  money  will 

confess  he  pleased  us  much.     We  be  refunded.     A  rich  public  body 


196                                              lU  DrawOu  ];;Aiii^. 

will  Karoely  fufllsr  individualt  to  at  nwy  be  required.    He  wlU  do  m 

suffer  ruin,  or  eren  loas^  upon  tuch  the  iuadce  to  recollect,  that  a  good 

an  occasion.    Loyaltj  and  good-con*  deal  goes  (or  ought  to  go)  to  the 

science^  and  Saint  Stephen  (who  b  ^  maldng  up"  <rfa  true  pnnce. 
their  nearest  Saint)  forbid ! 

The  plays  of  Henry  IV-  are  of  the  ^»"»^  ^»^- 
finest  order  of  mixed  plays.  They  Rob  Roy,  Guy  Mannering,  and  a 
are  not  entirely  comic,  nor  too  tragic  few  other  mixed  dramas,  have  been 
either ;  but  they  are  lively,  with  a  got  up  at  this  theatre  lately,  for  the 
•pleasant  dash  of  the  serious,  and  a  purpose  ofintrodudng  Mr.  Mackay  to 
fittle  of  the  tragic  intermingled.  Fal-  the  public.  His  reputation  had  pre- 
■Uiff  is  the  hero  of  both ;  and  he  is  ceded  him  in  London ;  and  his  per- 
big  and  witty  enough  to  sustain  more  fbrmance  of  Baillie  Jarvie,  and  Do- 
heaviness  than  is  to  be  found  in  either  minie  Sampson,  had,  it  is  said,  been 
play.  In  truth,  the  second  part  of  pronounced  admirable  by  a  high  au- 
ilenry  IV.  is  occasionally  dull  enough  thority  at  Edinburgh.  With  these 
in  representation ;  and  the  speeches  advantages,  Mr.  Madkay  appeared  at 
tif  his  majesty  the  kmg  fatigue  us  Drury  Lane ;  and  we  confess  that 
«ven  more  than  they  ai91ict  ms  son.  report  has  done  him  nothing  but 
JB^vity  is  the  soul  of  dramatic  writ-  justice.  He  is  the  best  comedian  that 
Ing,  as  well  as  of  wit;  and  (though  we  we  have  ever  seen  make  his  debut 
would  not  wish  a  word  lost)  we  could  in  London.  He  is  marvellously  free 
be  content  if  only  part  of  the  scenes  from  the  coarseness  and  supe^uous 
between  the  prince  and  the  Icing  were  omainent  which  mark  the  country 
represented  on  the  stage;  the  rest  performer;  he  is  earnest  in  the  perform- 
would  be  more  sacred,  and  we  should  ance  of  hb  part,  as  well  as  excellent 
nrobably  enjoy  it  more,  at  home,  in  the  conception  of  it.  He  has  none 
mm  its  not  having  been  mouthed  at  of  the  indolence  or  affectation  of  a 
the  theatre.  We  say  this,  of  course,  spoiled  actor,  and  none  of  the  awk- 
without  reference  to  Mr.  Macready  wardness  of  a  provincialist.  There 
and  Mr.  Charles  Kemble,  who  made  is  at  once  ^at  truth,  and  spirit,  and 
the  dialogue  pass  off  as  lightly  as  predsion^  m  his  style ;  which,  with 
could  be  hoped.  They  both  played  nis  moderation,  prove  him  a  keen 
well;  but  it  was  impossible  for  either  observer  of  manner,  as  well  as  a 
to  produce  any  great  effect.  It  may  sensible  man.  There  is  no  person 
be  remarked,  however,  that  the  pause,  who  plays  Baillie  Jarvie,  or  Dominie 
and  searching  look  which  the  father  Sampson,  like  him.  We  do  not  think 
cast  on  his  son,  when  he  had  taken  either  of  these  characters  (particularly 
the  crown  from  his  pillow,  was  not  the  Baillie)  adapted  to  Liston's  ta^ 
unfelt  by  the  audience,  and  that  the  lents ;  ana  it  is,  therefore,  saying  no- 
dying  king's  last  impressive  exhortfr-  thing  in  dispraise  of  him,  when  we 
lion  was  acknowleoged  by  repeated  own  that  we  prefer  Mr.  Mackay  to 
plaudits.  Mr.  C.  Kemble  looked  him.  Mr.  Mackay,  it  is  true,  could 
regally,  and  became  his  throne.  No  not  compete  with  Listen  in  Lubin 
king,  from  the  conqueror  of  Asin-  Log,  and  such  characters ;  nor  is 
court  to  the  present  times,  ever  had  there  any  one  who  can  approach  him. 
•uch  a  prinoely  representative.  We  He  is  altogether  inimitable.  But  on 
wish  that  he  had  been  more  *'  i'  the  Scotch  ground,  Mr.  Mackay  may  rest 
'amile;"  but  perhaps  the  audience  his  foot  very  securely,  without  appre- 
•  would  have  deemed  it  vulgar.  Fa w-  hension  of  a  rival  firom  our  English 
cett  played  Falstaff,  in  parts,  well,  theatres.  We  sincerely  trust  that  he 
Farren  was  Mr.  Justice  Shallow;  but  will  have  a  permanent  engagement 
he  disfigured  the  justice  of  peace,  we  next  season,  and  have  an  opportunity 
thought,  and  reduced  lum  to  a  mere  of  actinf  with  other  support  than  he 
inanity.  Emery  looked  portentous  received  lately.  Cooper  was  Rob 
in  Silence.  We  thought  that  the  Roy — Mrs.  Harlowe,  Helen  — Mr. 
markets  were  fast  *^  coming  down  ;"  Home  and  Mr.  Barnard,  Francis  and 
and  that  he  had  his  granaries  full,  Rashleigh  Osbaldiston — a  Mr.  Vin- 
and  huge  droves  of  bullocks  on  hand,  inr,  Dougal,  and  so  on.  Besides 
Mr.  Claremont  must  forgive  us  if  we  this,  there  was  on  Mr.  Mackay's 
dp  not  admire  his  Prince)  John,  or  nif^t  (we  were  sorrv  to  see  it),  a 
Thomas,  we  forget  which)  so  much  ''beggarly  account  of  empty  boxes.*' 


I89t.;]  The  Drawm.  199 

THB  KNOLUH  OPB&A  Hou«B  ktteii  OH  his  fooe^  ind  he  ii  m  ^ii»- 

Ifl  one  of  the  pleasantest  of  all  jmm-  rulous  as  hard  work  and  one  meal 
sible  places.  There  ii  Miu  KeUy  a-daj  can  possibly  suggest  or  ezouM. 
there,  who  is  giough  to  satisfy  the  -We  wonder  that  he  has  never  been 
most  fastidious  of  critics,  be  it  in  engaged  at  one  of  the  winter  theatres, 
comedy  or  tragedy,  melodrame  or  He  has  something  of  the  quality  of 
farce.  She  has  not  the  iiiU  sweep  of  Liston  about  him,  but  without  that 
tragedy,  perhaps ;  and  falls  short  in  actor's  fine  spirit  of  burlesque,  and 
stature;  and  has  a  voice  less  Dowerful  without  that  power  of  filling  up  m 
than  Mrs.  Becher  (Miss  O'Neill);  character,  by  bye-play  and  high  c»- 
but  her  powers  of  pathos  are,  to  our  louring,  which  Liston  possesses.  Ioh 
appreheusions,  greater,  and  her  ex-  deed  he  carries  his  originality  a  little 
ercise  of  them  more  legitimate  and  too  Ux  sometimes,  and  forgets  the 
true.  She  acts  a  dumb  or  a  blind  boy  advice  of  the  Prince  of  Denmark  to 
in  a  way  that  makes  us  forget  that    the  players. 

any  sense  is  wanting  or  impenect,  or        We  will  not  tremble  our  readers 
rather  sheds  such  a  grace  upon  in-    with  an  analysis  of  the  petite  piece 
firmity  as  to  make  it  unpleasant  no    called  '^  Love's  Dream,"  which  hm 
longer.    She  plays  a  scene  in  <<  Inkle    been  presented  at  this  theatre ;  but 
and  Yarico"  m  a  manner  more  heart-    we  will  assure  them  that  it  is  very 
rending  than  we  have  ever  seen ;  and    light  and  pleasant,  and  that  if  they 
the  trembling  earnestness  of  her  voice    want  an  hour  or  two's  amusement^ 
is,  beyond  comparison,  more  powerful    thev  cannot  do  better  than  see  this^ 
than  the  stately  periods,  or  artificial    ana  the  new  farce  of  **  Twopence^ 
shrieks  of  more  highly  reputed  ac-    which  follows.    The  first  is  the  story 
tresses.    In  comedy  she  is  quite  un-    of  a  lover's  quarrel,  which  ends  in  the 
rivalled  in  the  present  day ;  and  there    usual  manner.    Mr.  P^arman  is  the 
is  no  one  in  our  recollection,  except    lover,  and  Miss  Kelly  the  *'  admired 
Mrs.  Jordan,  who  can  compare  with    Miranda"  (or  rather  the  Cecilia  Doi^ 
her.    Besides  Miss  Kelly,    there  is    mer)  of  the  piece;    They  misunder- 
Wrench,  the  most  easy  of  actors.   He    stand  each  other,  and  pout  and  quar- 
comes  on  and  goes  ofiT  like  an  old    rel.    The  lady  is  afiumced  to  Mr. 
glove.    If  he  never  stimulates  you    Frederick  Easy,  (what  a  name  fat 
much,  he  at  least  never  fatigues  you.    Wrench,  who  acts  Mr.  Easy !)  end 
He  has  all  the  colloquial  pleasantness    yielded  up  with  sighs  and  a  torn  heeit 
of  an  acquaintance,  and  never  ob-    by  Henry  Morton  (Mr.  Pearman), 
trudes  a  disagreeable  topic.    No  one    who  sings  his  woes  melodiously,  but 
can  be  more  merry  than  he,  unless  it    commits  mighty  havoc  with  the  dia^ 
be  i/ar/ejf,  who  generally  follows  him    logue.    Simon  (Mr.  Easy's  servant) 
on  the  stage,  and  is  either  servant,  or    is  played  by  Harley,  who   sleepe, 
pedagogue,  or  apothecary,  as  circum-    sorely   agunst    his   inclination^    in 
stances  require.    This  latter  actor  is    a    haunted  room,    which  Miss  C^ 
iuller  of  mirth  than  any  man  in  our    cilia   Dormer,     who   walks   in  her 
memory:  he  seems  restless  under  his    sleep,  has  made  ''holy  ground."   Si- 
weight  of  animal  spirits ;  and  goes  off   mon  has  a  reasonable  quantity  of  eu- 
like  a  bundle  of  crackers,  joke  after    perstition,  and  has  an  utter  aversion 
joke,  sudden,  startling,  and  irresistil>le.    to  ghosts  and  gunpowder.  To  the  lat- 
in calm  contrast  to  Harley,  may  be    ter  he  has  become  averse,  from  the 
placed  his  compeer  WiUcijison,  who  is    circumstance  of  Mr.  Easy,  who  is  a 
as  indolent  as  the  other  is  spurited  and    ''  good  shot,"  having  killed  his  hmee 
uneasy.    He  seems  always  to  be  in    under  him :— to  the   former  he  hm 
the  ''  passive  mood,"  to  be  swayed    innate    oljections.      The    principal 
to  and  fro  by  the  dialogue,  and  to  give    scene  in  this  piece,  is  one  wherehi 
himself  up  to  the  wit  of  the  piece.    Miss  Kelly  plays  the  somnambuliat, 
like  one  who  is  helpless.    But  he  is    aud  discourses  touching  certain  paints 
the  receptacle  of  a  good  deal  of  hu-    which  are  absolutely  necessary  for 
mour ;  and  the  fun  oozes  out  of  him    the  proper  termination  of  the  love 
as  surely,  though  as  slowly,  as  the    disputes.     We  must  own  that  she 
drops  come  from  the  "  serpent^pipe"    acts  verv  excellently  in  this,  although 
in  the  process  of  distillation.     He    we  think  it  a  pity  that  she  has  so 
plavs  a  diarity  boy  capitally :  hunger    much  to  say.    The  hush  and  scatter- 
aof!  discontent  are  written  in  plain    ed  exclamations  hi  the  scene  of  i«dy 


Tke  Drama*  CA^^ 

ICaebetliy  havefiu*  greater  efiect  than  has  nothing  to  do  with  words  we 

the  long*  conTenation  which  we  hear  admire   his  stature^    his   frowning, 

in  ^'La<re'B  Dream;" — butcompari-  "awful  as  Joye/'— his  dumb  ex{^- 

aons  are  odious ;  and  we  will  not  com*  nations,  fads  menaces,  his  appeals  to 

pare  Mr. (we  do  not  know  the  heaven ; — but  when  he  speaks,  the 

author^s  name)  with  Shaksneare. —  charm  is  broken.     He   always  re- 

''  Two-'penee,"  is   a  lively  bustling  minds  us  of  the  terrible  Pisarro.  But 

little  farce,  and  is,  as  it  justly  an-  of  Mr.  Rowbotham,  who  enacts  Capt. 

nounces,  "  as  broaJ  as  it  is  iong."    It  Dashington,  and  such  beaux,— or  of 

is  written  by  a   very  lively  young  Mr.  Pearman,  whom  dialogue  does 

writer,  Mr.  Peake,  who  was  the  au«-  not  suit  so  well  as  song,  what  shdl 

thor,  as  will  be  recdlected,  of  a  very  we  say  ?  To  the  one,  as  to  the  other, 

laughable  piece,  called,  *'  Amateurs  we  may  apply  the  lines  of  Porson— 

and  Actors,"  which  was  played  last  (keeping  in  nund  Mr.  T.  P.  Cooke's 

season  with  great  success.  Mr.  Peake  similitude)— 

iias  a  good  deal  of  the  true  spirit  of  of  Alonzo  we've  only  this  little  to  say, 

joke  hi  hmi ;  and  burlesauc  comes  His  boots  were  muA  netter  than  those  of 
easily,  as  weU  as  pleasantly,  off  his  Pizano. 

S^  In  IhrdrinartSue*^  S        ^  young  debutante,  of  the  nanus  of 
Se^^t^atio^SiKSTohS    Forde,,has  appeared  as.Polly  in  the 

*ai»-ferinrtaDce:-  '  ^'^'^'^"t    P°"y  "  "»*  t».  »>« 

-.  played    but    by   an    accomplished 

OipheiurBlaaTioU  {morejimd  of  Ms  Bas^  ^^      ^^^  Miss  Forde  is  as  yet  in- 

toon  Man  hit  hvHnett),  Mr.  Hailey.  exMrienced  and  vouiiir      Her  atvlc 

Bodcrick  Rappington  {not  worth  a  penny),  .e^penencea  ana  you»g-    «er  style 

Mr  Wrench.  savours  somewhat  of  the  school :  she 

Ttammy  Patta  iPupU  and  Apprentice  to  ^^"^  freedom  and  air  both  in  voice 

Orpheut),  Mr.  Wilkinson.  and  action ;  and  she  is  not  at  pre- 

Ansdne  ijfkce  to  Mr.  Bungay),  Mij^  sent  adapted  to  the  stage.    A  year 

Stevenson.  or  two  may,  probably,  make  her  a 

But   the  farce  itself   is  such  as  to  Pheasant  concert  singer;  but  a  year 

beguile  a  man  of  his  smUes,  let  him    <>i  j^'^  ^J?."'^  S^iY''''^^  ^*^  ^'''?  ^ 
be  a  dissenter  ever  90  strong.    We    f^l'      ^^iss    Wilson    wants    (not 

diould  like  to  hear  that  Mr.  Peake    {"i^*??*  j*"^)  !5*^"*^^,'  ^,  '""^.  ^ 
had  written  a  character  for  Munden.    ^^im  Forde,  and  she  has  done  wise- 

We  think  he  would  turn  that  vete-  ^/'/  '^P^'*'  ^^  ^^'  "»  ^omg  to 

fan's  eyebrows  to  account,  and  place  ^^7* 

a  pot  of  ale  in  his  hand,  and  a  bit  of  haymarket. 

narrative,  or  a  nmve  speech,  in  his  This  new  theatre,  which  has  arisen 

mouth,  so  as  to  produce  more  than  'like  an  exhalation'  since  the  last 

common  effect.  As  Mr.  Peake  is  one  season,   has  opened  its  gay  portals  , 

of  the  pillars  of  the  Lyceum,  we  see  for  the  reception  of  its  summer  com- 

DO  reason  why  he  should  not  lend  his  pany.    The  old  Ha3rmarket  theatre 

helputf  hand  to  prop  the  prouder  arch-  was  sadly  in  decay,  and  its  numer- 

es  of  Drury  Lane.  Harfey  is  already  ous  inconveniencies    were   scarcely 

at  that  theatre  ;  and  we  hope  that  counterbalanced  by  the  air  of  famf- 

Wrench  will  be  there  next  season ;  liarity,  aud  want  of  pretension,  which 

and  our  author  has  shown  already  belonged  equally  to  the  place  and 

•what  he  can  do  for  these  two  exc«l-  the  persons  who  frequoited  it.  There 

lent  actors.    Before  we  quit  the  Ly-  is  an  imposing  state  about  the  win- 

ceum,  we  should  not  forget  Miss  J.  ter  theatres,  toat  seems  to  demand 

Stevenson,  who  is  a  pleasant  young  the  preparation  of  dress:  silk  and 

actress,  and  pretty ;  her  articulation  muslm,  and   '  fine  linen'  belong  of 

is  rather  too  elaborate,  and  she  wants  right  to  theur  widely  extended  boxes  ; 

ease ;  but  she  has  a  good  deal  of  ear-  but  we  go  to  the  Hmnarket,  and 

nestpess,  and  seems  always  on  the  the  Lyceum,  as  to  a  mend's  house, 

^vine.    Mr.  T.  P.  Cooke,  who  is  to  laugh  and  eigoy  ourselves.    We 

one  of  the  Lyceum  corps   (or  was  do  not  know  that  any  of  the  old 

last  year,— we   have  not  seen  him  pleasure  is  actually  subtracted  from 

there  this  season),  is  really  eminent  the  Haymarket ;  but  we  have  scarce- 

as  a  melo-dramatic  performer ;  but  ly  learned  to  make  ourselves  at  home 

dialogue  is  his  bane.    So  long  as  he  there  yet.    The  paint  and  distemper 


18^1.]]  Tie  Drama. 

which  has  thrown  such  brilliant  hues  on  the  stage;  exceptinr  only  Dwt* 
over  the  interior  of  the  house  has  the  ton,  who  may  compere  with  hhh'. 
effect  of  reminding  us  that  the  edi-  His  voice,  which  becomes  unplea^k 
fice  is  new,  without  convincing  us  sant  when  it  is  strained,  does  not  M 
that  it  is  altogether  comfortable,  well  for  tragedy;  though  in  parts. 
Time,  however,  will  soon  remove  where  it  is  not  absolutdy  necessaiy 
these  errors.  In  the  mean  tune  we  to  split  the  ears  of  the  groundlings, 
will  introduce  our  readers  to  the  he  must  still  be  consictered  as  an 
theatre.  The  interior  seems  to  us  eminent  performer.  Of  Mr.  Conway, 
considerably  larger  than  the  former,  who  attempts  both  tragedy  and 
but  the  shape  and  fashion  are  much  comedy,  we  feel  more  hesitation  iti 
the  same  as  before.  On  the  ceiling  speakhig.  He  is,  however,  a  fine 
is  painted  a  representation  of  Mom-  handsome  young  man,  and  has  a 
ing,  which  is  pleasant  enough,  though  voice  that  can  fill  a  theatre  upon  oo* 
we  do  not  quite  luulerstand  how  it  casion.  His  firt^t  appearance  at  CO" 
harmonizes  with  the  place,  or  what  vent  Garden  was,  we'  believe,  in 
it  is  more  particularly  intended  to  Alexander  the  Great  (or  was  it  in 
indicate.  In  the  angles,  and  on  the  Jafiier?)  and  his  talent  among  peiw 
stage,  are  nillars  resemblhiff  palm-  formers  may  be  considered  of  about 
trees,  gilded,  and  the  pannels  of  the  the  level  at  which  Lee  arrived  amon^ 
boxes,  which  are  of  a  slight  red  co-  the  dramatists.  We  c<iuld  wish,  how« 
lour,  are  interlaced  with  gilded  trellis  ever,  that  Mr.  Conway  would  give 
work.  The  whole  of  this  is  very  himself  more  up  to  the  character 
graceful.  There  is  also,  over  the  which  he  plays,  and  we  feel  assured 
orchestra,  a  projection  which  springs  that  he  would  succeed  better.  There' 
from  the  proscenium,  and  is  said  to  is  an  air  of  restraint  about  him,  in 
be  for  the  purpose  of  improving  the  his  eye,  in  his  voice,  and  in  his  step, 
sound.  That  this  would  be  the  ef-  He  seems  to  measure  the  audience 
feet  is  likely  enough,  and  the  pro-  and  the  house,  and  then  to  art  an- 
nunciation of  the  actors  is  certainly  conlingly.  There  is  something  at 
sufficiently  audible.  The  drop  scene .  once  t\irgid  and  diffident  in  his  s^le; 
embraces,  as  micfht  have  been  an-  which  inclines  us  to  think  that  he  does 
ticipated,  an  allegory,  and  it  has  not  feel  properly  his  elevation.  Mr* 
somewhat  of  mystery  in  it,  like  alle-  DeCamp  (whom  we  do'not  dislike— « 
gories  in  general.  The  finest  drop  perhaps  we  like  him  from  his  afiinity 
scene  that  was  ever  seen  in  this  to  Mrs.  Charles  Kemble)  has  s  ram1>^ 
country  is,  we  believe,  the  original  line  style  xj^  acting,  but  he  is  liveh^ 
one  at  Covent  Garden,  which  repre-  and  unaffected,  and  is  a  fit  inhab(* 
aents  a  hall>  with  Shakspeare  at  the  tant  of  comic  ground.  He  is  like  s 
head ;  and  Ben  Jonson,  Moliere,  and  smiling  welcome  at  the  new  theatric,' 
other  famous  dramatists,  ranged  side  and  graces,  and  is  graced  by  it.  We 
by  side,  and  forming  an  illustrious  have  seen  better  Captain  Absolutes 
avemie  to  the  spot  on  which  the  most  than  he,  however,  for  we  have  seenr 
immortal  of  all  poets  stands.  Mr.  Charles  Kemble,   who  (whatx 

The  principal  performers  at  this  ever  difference  of  opinion  there  may 

theatre  are  Mr.  Terry  (who  is  also  l>e  among  critics,  as  to  his  tragic 

stage  manager),   Mr.  Conway,  our  powers)    is   undoubtedly    the    first 

old  acmiaSntance  Mr.  De  Camp,  Mr.  gentlemanly  comedian  on  the  stage; 

Leoni  Lee,  a  Mr.  Ward,  and  a  Mr.  His  Cassio,  Charles   Surface,   Don 

Tayleure :  and  the  performances  have  John>  Falconbridge,   &c.  &c.   were 

been — a  little  piece,  fi'om  the  French;  never  surpassed  in  the  recollection  of 

called  '  Peter  and  Paul,'  the  Rivals,  play-goers   much    older    than    our^ 

the  Provoked  Husband,   the  Green  selves,  and  his  spirited  portraits*  of 

Man,    Guy   Mannering,    and    some  chivalrous    heroes   are  entirely  ad^ 

other  matters  eoually  notorious.  mirable«-*Mr.  Leoni  />f,  the  new 

The  merits  of  Mr.  Terry  are  well  singer,  has  a  voice  of  limited  com<* 

known.    His  forte  is  decidedly  come-  pass,  bdt  without  anything-  harsh  in 

dy ;  and  in  such  characters  as  Mr.  it.    We  tiave  little  doubt,  but  that 

Green,  Mtgor  Oakley,  in  angry  fathers  we  should  like  him  in  a  room,  as  \nA 

and  hot-headed  governors,  and  sar*  has  rather  a  gracefiri  style,  and  sel«' 

castic  guardians,  &c.  there  is  no  one  dom  or  neVer  shocks  our  antipathies. 

Vol.  IV.  Q 


mm                                        RefOfi  of  Music.  J;Augv 

i¥9  do  not  know  what  to  make  of  present    The  probahility  ig,  that  h< 

Mr.  Want    We  wHl  see  Hhn  again,  nat  heen  in  the  habit  of  acting  ad  li» 

At  present  we  do  not  much  like  mm.  bihtm  to  the  good  folks  in  tiie  cowi- 

Mr.  Ta^leure  should  study  the  art  of  trj,  and  we  know^  from  the  story  of 

confinuig  himself  *  within  the  timits  honest  Mr.  FlamboMu^h's  picture, 

of  becoming  mirth/  and   he  may,  that  they  like  high  colouring  almost 

perhaps,    become   a   favourite:    he  as  well  as  truth, -sometimes,  it  la 

wants  a  little  refining,  however,  at  said,  even  better* 


REPORT  OF  MUSia 
No.  XVIII. 


AaT  certainly  vies  this  year  with    so  wonderful  a  disfrfay  of  vocal  power, 
nature,  in  protracting  her  processes ;    conjoined  with  such  high  and  touch-* 
£ar  we  were  just  meditating  on  the    ing physiognomical  expression.  ''Her 
propriety  of  summing  up  the  pro-    eve,"  said  a  gentleman  to  Monsieur 
pesa  of  improvement— of  reaping,  as    Vallebr^ue  (tne  husbaud  of  Madame 
It  were,  our  musical  harvestp— of  esti-    Catalani),    ''  is  Jove's   own  lights 
mating  the  general  growth  and  bulk,    ning,  her  face  a  whirlwind,  and  het 
and  castinff  up  the  balance  of  our    singing,  the  explosion  of  a  volcano." 
gains  and  losses,  when  lo  1  Madame        On  Uie  16th,  the  concert  took  place, 
Uatalani  appears,  like  a  portentous    the  admission  being    fixed    at  one 
comet,    and  increases    indefinitely,    guinea.     This  distinguished  person 
while  she  also  delays  the  promise  of    may,  perhaps,  have  some  title  to  make 
the  season.    Her  performance,  like    such  a  demand;  but  we  must  men- 
the  King  and  his  coronation,  super-    tion,  incidentally,  that  this  inordinate 
cedes  all  the  other  topics  of  science,    price  of  tickets  has  this  year  been 
When  riie  left  this  country  she  was    demanded  by  two  or  three  persons, 
pre-eminent ;  now  she  returns  to  it,    and  those  fireif^ners,  whose  accom- 
the  world  of  art  will  be  curious  to    plishments  entitle  them  to  no  such 
discover  whether  she  is  still  greater ;    assumption.    We  see  in  this  a  type 
or  whether  those  faculties  and  powers    of  the  character  of  the  age.     The 
which  then  seemed  too  vast  to  enjoy    princifde  of  exciusicn  is  creeping  into 
addition,  have  undergone  anv,  and    music,  as  wdl  as  into  every  thinff 
what  changes.    In  o^er  to  mrm  a    else.      Madame    Catalani    selected 
more  accurate  judgment,  it  were  ne-    four  songs :  Dd/a  Superba  Jtoma,  a 
oessary  that   we  should    present   a    new  composition  of  the  Marquis  Sam- 
sketch  of  this  wonderful  smser's  at-    pieri,   an  Italian  virtuoso  of  great 
tainments  when  she  quitted    Eng-    reputation;   an  air  written  for  the 
lajod :  but  this  cannot  be  done  in  a    violin  with  variations  by  Rode,  to 
slight  manner ;  and  we  must  content    which  words  were  appended ;  a  re- 
ourselves  by  referring  those  of  our    citative  and  air,  Mio  Bew,  by  Pu- 
readers  who  take  sufficient  interest    dtta ;  and  the  famous  bass  song  in 
in  the  subject,  (and  who  that  is  musi-    Moasart's  Figaro,    Ntrnpiu  andrai  ; 
cal  does  not?)  to  the  elaborate  de-    with  the  first  verse  of  Uod  Save  the 
scription  of  Madame  Catahmi's  at-    JTtii^,  bv  way  of  finale.    The  other 
tributes  and  acquirements  in  the  first    parts   of  the   concert  were  two  or 
volume  of  The  Quarterlif  Mutical  Ma^    three  instrumental  pieces ;  two  bass 
gazUe  and  Review.  duets  by  Angrisani  and  Placci,  and 

Madame  Catalani  arrived  in  Lon-  a  duet  for  the  harp  and  piano-forte  by 
doa  oo  the  lOth,  and  a  concert  was  the  Misses  Ashe,  which  those  young 
announced  for  the  16th.  But  on  8a-  professors  performed  with  great  taste, 
tnrday  the  14th,  there  was  a  re-  precision,  and  general  excellence, 
hearsal  of  her  songs  at  the  Argyll  But  Catidani  was  all  in  all;  and  the 
Rooms,,  at  which  about  160  of  the  room,  crowded  with  fashion,  glitter* 
Doloiity  and  most  eminent  professors  ing  with  stars,  and  graced  by  royalty 
and  amateurs  were  allowed  to  be  (the  Dukes  of  Clarence  and  Cam- 
pwaant*     We  have  never  witnessed    bridge,  with  the  Princess  Augusta^ 


1891.3                                       HepoH  qf  Muiit^  fOS 

•          •                               '                  • 

and  the  Dachesset  of  Gloucester  and  Her  choice  of  a  eomk  baks  toag  wag: 

Cambridge*  being  present),  contained  dictated^  we  presume,  not  so  muck 

no  one  who  seemed  willinff  to  at-  bj  singularity,  as  by  the  desire  to 

tend  to  any  othei:  portion  of  the  en-  show  her  talents  in  a  new  style,  and 

tert^nment.  the  richness  and  depth  of  her  lower 

Delia  superba  Rorha  were  the  first  tones.    She  transposed  it  one  note» 

words  that  broke  from  her  lips ;  and  and  sang  it  in  the  Key  of  D.    She  aU 

they  issued  fortb^  with  a  grandeur,  tered  many  of  the  passages,  by  in« 

that  might  have  led  one  to  imagine  serting  short,  but  appropriate  volate, 

the  proud  mistress  of  the  world  was  and  also  by  the  introduction  of  en- 

here  personified.     The  rich  ampli-  tirely  new  phrases,  where  repetition 

tude  of  her  magnificent  tones  fiUed  seemed  to  call  for  variation.      She 

the  ear,  as  the  oroad  splendours  of  moreover  appended  two  splendid  ca« 

the  mid-day  sun  satiate  Uie  eye ;  and  deuces  to  uie  pauses,    fiut  she  en« 

it  was  at  once  discovered  that  her  riched  the  song  with  genuine   hu* 

powers  were  only  matured   during  mour,  mellow  and  expressive,  parti« 

her  absence  fironv  England.    As  she  ctdarly  where  the  words  Non  pm 

proceeded>  this  impression  was  con-  andrai    were    repeated.      Upon  th* 

firmed  by  every  note.    Perhaps  the  whole,  this  air  eave  most  pleasure ; 

principal  and  reigninf  idea  was,  that  the  others  excited  most  surprise, 

she  had  gained  in  rorce,  and  lost  a  But  the  figure  and  features  of  Ma« 

trifle  in  sweetness.    Her  execution  dame  Catalan!  are  certainly  subjecti 

is  thus  somewhat  chanffed   in  the  for  as  much  admiration  as  her  voice, 

manner,  but  not  at  all  in  Uie  suljects  Never,  surely,  were    transitions    so 

upon   which  it  is  employed.     Her  fine,  so  instantaneous.    Yet  the  ef* 

fancy  seems  to  have  slumbered ;  for  fort,  involuntary  and  the  offspring  of 

she  ^pears  to  have  added  nothing  to  high-wrought  sensibility  (as  we  are 

her   former  stock  of  invented  pas*  convinced  it  is),  is  frequentiy  dread«* 

sages.    £ven  her  facility  is  enauedi-  fuL    The  spectator  trembles  for  tho 

with  new  and  extraordinary  force,  beautiful  creature  before  him,  who  ia 

In  one  chromatic  passage  (ascendinsr  at  one  moment  convulsed  with  pas- 

by  semitones),  to  those  who  stood  sion,    the  next    melted    by  tender* 

near,  her  voice  sounded  like  the  wind  ness.     He  cannot  escape  the  fear, 

rushing  through  trees ;  and,  indeed,  lest  those  dedicate  vessels,  that  swell 

distance  is  absolutely  indispensable  almost  to  bursting,  should  overpast 

to  the  true  enjoyment — ^to  the  true  the  point  of  safety,  and  destroy  tho 

notion,  of  this  wonderful   woman's  frame  they  serve  to  agitate, 

powers.    All  her  effects  are  calculat-  As   a  whole,  then,    this  wonder 

ed  to  operate  through  a  vast  space;  stands  alone.    Her  grandeur  of  con* 

and  at  every  remove,  we  will  veiw  ception  is  not  more  marvellous  than 

ture  to  assert,  the  auditor  would  be  the  thunders  of  her  voice,  and  the 

liable  to  entertain  a  different  idea  of  lightnings  of  her  countenance.  Thsbs 

her  singing.    Wben  very  close,  it  is  is  but  one  Catalaxi. 

reailv  terrific  (Young  Linley  fainted^  To  break  our  vast  descent  to  mU 

and  dropped  from  his  seatj  at  her  re-  nuter  objects,  we  shall  next  take  tho 

b\ike  for  playing  a  wrong  note  dur-  Concert  of  Mr.  Mocheles,  given  on 

inj^  the  rehearsal,  througn  the  fault  Wednesday,  July  4.    We  spoke  of 

ofthe  copyist)  She  would  be  said  by^  this  professor  in  our  last;  out  wo- 

judges  to  violate  every  rule  of  art;  scarcely  did  justice  to  his  very,  very 

but  as  you  recede,  distance  modifies  superior  attainments,  of  which  Ian* 

the  preternatural  strength ;  and  the  guage    can    convey   but    indistinci 

^andeur   is    retained,    while    the  ideas.    His  command  of  his  instni<« 

coarseness  evaporates.    Madame  Ca-  ment  (the  piano-forte^  is  really  prodU 

talani  has  formed  a  style  of  her  own,  gious ;    and  his  rapidity,  precision^ 

and  it  is  purely  dramatic.    It  is  also  elastic!^,  neatness  and  ddicacy  of 

florid  ill  tne  highest  possible  degree,  touch,  his  certainty  in  strikiiig  dis« 

Her  voice  is  the  most  prodigious  in-  tant  intervals,  both  at  top  ana  bot- 

strument,  in  volume  and  in  tone,  tha^  tom  of  the  compass,  his  thumb  act* 

ever  astonished  the  ear ;  her  facility  ing  like  a  fulcrum  to  his  hand,  caiKi 

is  not  less  marvellous.    Her  capital  not  be  surpassed.    In  the  intelleetoal . 

foculties  ai^   force   and   tranrition^  partsof  his  performance  he  is  not  le« 


904  Heport  of,  Munc.  CAug. 

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gifted ;  for  while  lus  fancy  is  richly  'usually  attend  compositions  of  thi» 

endowed;  hb  taste  is  pure  and  re*  class. 

fined.  To  complete  his  character^  he  M.  Bochsa  has  arranged  the  Mi- 
is  inlUl  and  unassuming;  and  his  me-  nuet  and  Gavot  from  Nina  with  va- 
rit  seems  to  be  exceeded  only  by  his  nations  for  the  harp.  There  is  no- 
modesty.  The  concert  exhibited  thinff  parUcularly  new  in  this  piece ; 
ereat  variety ;  and  presents  a  very  nor  does  it  contain  any  great  difficul- 
nonourable  testimony  to  the  homage  ties  of  execution ;  but  it  possesses  the 
which  the  English  and  foreign  pro-  animation  and  grace  which  peculiar- 
lessors  have  alike  paid  to  this  gentie-  ly  characterize  M.  Bochsa's  style^ 
man's  extraordinarv  talent,  while  and  which  bestow  a  charm  on  every 
the  distribution  and  the  disposition  thing  he  touches, 
of  the  parts  are  equally  creditable  to  IVfr.  Craven  has  adapted  four  Ro- 
his  own  judgment.  mances  for  Ihe  harp,  as  some  of  the 

Mr.  S.   Wesley  has  since  had   a  earliest  lessons  for  that  instrument. 
Concert  in  the    small  room-  at  the        M.   Klose    has  adapted  the  airs 

Argyll  Institution,  which,  during  this  from  the  Ballets  of  Nina,   and  Lr 

present  triumphant  reign  of  Italian  Carnival  de  Fenise,  with  an  acconi- 

and  German  music,  was  remarkable  pauiment  for  the  flute, 
for  an  almost  entirely  Enfflish  selec-        The  third  book  of  the  airs  from 

tjon.     It  was  wholly  vocal,  with  the  //  Barbiere  di  Seviglia  for  the  harp, 

exception  of  an  air  with  variations,  with  accompaniments  for  the   flute 

played  by  Signor  Spagnoletti,  and  an  and  violoncello,  has  appeared, 
extempore  performance  by  Mr.  Wes-        Mr.  Latour  has  puolished  selec- 

ley  himself.    In  this  department,  he  tions  from  the  same  opera,  arranged 

is  justiv  allowed  to  stand  without  a  for  the  piano-forte  and  flute, 
rival ;  but  on  this  night,  though  it        A  duet  for    the  piano-forte,  with 

lereU  might  be  thought  an  extraordi-  a  flute  accompaniment,    containing 

nary  display  of  ability,  Mr.  Wesley  two  airs  from  this  opera,  adapted  by 

was  not  so  great  as  we  have  heard  Watts. 

Vm.     We  lament  that  such  a  man        A  divertimento  for  the  piano-forte 

should  find  a  committee  of  professors  and  harp,  by  Naderman,  arranged  for 

indispensable  to   the  support  of  his  the  piano-forte  alone  by  Kiallniark. 

benefit  concert,  and  that  the  small  This  piece  is  brilliant,  without  being 

room  should  be  thought  adequate  to  difficult,  and  contains  much  that  wiS 

contain  his  audience.    This  is  some-  attract  and  amuse, 
thing  very  like  a  satire,  not  to  say  a        Amongst  the  new  vocal  publica- 

disgrace  to  the  dignified  patrons  of  tions,  are  two  duets,  a  quintett,  and 

qiusic,  in  a  country  where  a  foreign  a  song  from   Rossini's  opera  of  // 

professor,  with  not  a  quarter  of  Mr.  Turco  in  Italia.    One  of  the  duets 

Wesley's  talent  and  erudition,   can  Per  Piacerc  alia  Signora  is  much  in 

fill  the  largest  saloon  in  the  metropo-  the  style  of  ST inclina:tsej)rcnder  moglie, 

lis  at  a  guinea  admission.  thougn  hardly  so  good.    The  sons' 

We  lament  to  hear  that  Miss  Hal-  Presto  amiche,  is  very  florid,  but  is 

lande  has  broken  a  blood-vessel.  Her  inferior  to  his  usual  productions, 
voice  was  of  great  promise.  Dear  Object  of  defeated  Care,  bvH. 

M.    Sapio,    jun.  is  arrived  from  Craggs,  is  a  pretty  ballad,  capable  of 

Paris,  and  purposes  to  give  a  Concert  some  expression, 
shortly,  at  the  house  of  one  of  the        Gentle  humble-bee,  by  M.  P.  King, 

iiobility.    He  is  a  tenor  singer.     His  is  rather  a  singular  composition.  The 

tone  is  sweet  and  pure ;  his  facility  words  follow  each  other  so  rapidly 

and  fancy  considerable ;  and  his  man-  (a  semiauaver,  with  hardly  any  ex- 

ner  in  EnglLsh,  French,  and  Italian,  ception,  oeiiig  allowed  to  each),  as  to 

equally  excellent.    We  should,  how-  render  the  effect  perfectiv  ludicrous, 
ever,  perhaps,  give  the  preference  to        Love  is  like  the  Rase,  by  Lanza,  is 

his  French  Komances,  wnich  he  sings  an  elegant  littie  ballad.    The  open- 

with  remarkable  effect.  ing  of  it  bears  a  slight  resemblance 

The  seventh  number  of  the  Qua-  to  one  of  the  Irish  melodies  in  the. 

drills  Rondos,  by  Aleves,  is  light  and  eighth  number.    To  our  own  recom- 

elcgant    It  is  adapted  to  performers,  meiidation,  we  may  add,  that  it  has 

of  moderate  acquirements,   without  been  sung  by  Mrs.  Salmon,  to  whom 

the  tiameness  and  monotony  which'  it  is  dedicated. 


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LITERARY  AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE ,  &c 

Au^WiK.— According  to  the  latest  Stockholm  has  oticred  five  prizes  for 

estimation,  there  are  3^0  living  au-  subjects  of  painting  or  sculpture,  il- 

thors    in   this  country,    about  one-  lustrative  of  the  Northern  My tho]o^« 

eighth  part  of  whom  are  ecclesiastics.  Among  the  most  eminent  Swedish 

but  the  far  greater  proportion  consists  artists  are,  Sandberg,  the  historical 

of  persons  of  rank.    Backmeister,  in  painter,  Fogelberg,  uie  sculptor,  Van 

his  Russian  Library,  computed  that,  Brede,  a  painter  of  history  and  ppr« 

previously    to    1817,    there  existed  trait,  Salmson,  an  en^aver  of  ^ems, 

about  4000  different  works  in  that  Professor  Linnell,  an  historical  painter^ 

language.    In  the  extensive  collection  SneU,  and  Bergspnen. 

of  national  literature  belonging  to  the  Bourdeaux. — ^The  Royal  Academy 

Academy  of  Sciences  at  St.  retcrs-  of  Arts  and  Sciences  has  this  yeiU* 

burg,  there  were,  in  1800, 3000  works  proposed  additional  prizes  for  the  two 

printed  in  the  Russian  tongue ;  among  oest  productions  in  poetry  and  paint« 

which,  only  105  belonged  to  the  class  ing  each  to  consist  of  some  subject 

of  novels  and  romances.    Since  this  serving  to  commemorate  the  birth  of 

period,  authorship  has  increased  so  the  infant  Duke  of  Bourdeaux.    The 

much,  that  last  year  no  fewer  than  reward  for  the  former  is  to  be  a  golcl 

8000  volumes  were  printed  in  this  Ian-  medal,  worth  300  fr. ;   that  for  the 

guage.    Translations  are  very  nume-  painting  will  be  500  francs.  No  artists 

rous,  particularly  of  dramas,  novels,  will  be  permitted  to  enter  into  com^ 

works  of  imagination,  and  the  belles  petition  for  the  latter,  except  such  as 

lettres.    There  are  newspapers  and  are  either  natives  of,  or  rcpidents  in 

journals,  both  German  and  Russian^  this  city.    The  prizes  are  to  be  ad*- 

published  at  St.  Petersburg,  Moscow,  judged  on  the  Slst  of  the  present 

itiga.  Revel,  Abo,  and  other  principal  month. 

cities.    At  the  first  of  these  places  Italian  Literature,— h  voluminous 

there  are  15  printing  houses,  and  10  publication  has  been  commenced  at 

at  Moscow.  Milan :  it  is  intended  to  form  a  torn* 

A  Poetical  Jtmma!y-~ent\t\ed  Die  plete  series  of  the  best  historical  works 

Muse,  has  been  commenced  at  Leip-  in  every  language,   and  is  entitled^ 

zig,  by  Kind.     One  of  the  most  im-  Bibfioteca  Storica  di  tutti  i  Tempi,  e 

portant  articles  that  have  appeared  in  di  tuite  le  Nazioni,    The  first  work 

It,  is  a  specimen  of  a  translation,  by  selected  by  the  editor  is  Muller's  Ge^ 

Nordstem,  of  Childe  Harold,  in  the  neral  History  of  the  World,  in  six 

Spenserian    stanza  of  the   original,  volumes.    Next,  the  History  of  the 

The  writer,  however,  is  not  suffici-  American  War,  by  Botta,  an  author 

cntly  master  of  this  difHailt  form  of  who  has  been  called,  by  the  journal-* 

versification.     In  addition  to  the  poe-  ists  of  Philadelphia  and  New  York, 

try,    this  publication  is  intended  to  the  Livy  of  the  United  States;  and 

contain  theoretical,    polemical,   and  who  has  been  universally  admired,  as 

satirical  essays.  one  of  the  most  philosophical  histo- 

The  Bell  and  Lancasterian  Systems,  rians  of  the  present  age.    To  these 

— ^A  work  has  appeared  at  Lyons,  at-  succeeds  the  eloquent  woric  of  our 

tacking  the  system  of  education  pur-  own  countryman.  Gibbon :  a  very  un- 

sued  in  what  are  called,  on  the  Con-  finished  and  incorrect  translation  of 

tinent,  schools  of  mutual  instruction,  him  had  before  appeared  in  Italy ; 

eondemning  it  as  pregnant  with  dan-  but  this  has  now  been  entirely  re- 

ger,  and  pointing  out  the  mischiefs  to  written,  and  completed  by  Bertolottl, 

be  apprehended  from   its  adoption,  the  successful  translator  of  many  other 

The  title  of  this  work  is,  L'£nseign-  English  works. — Bettoni's  I^ttere  sti4 

ment  Mutuel  Devoil^,  ainsi  que  ses  Giardini  di  Venezia  is  another  publi* 

Jonglerieset  Pretiiitaillcs  Revolution-  cation,  from  the  Milan  press,  deserv- 

naires;  ou  I'Art  d  afiVanchir  I'Educa-  ing  of  notice.    In  these  seven  epistles 

tion  de  I'Enfaiice  de  toute  Influence  (four    of  which    have  been  before 

Morale  et  Religieuse  1  printed,)  the  writer  describes^  in  an 

Sweden. — The  Society  for  the  Pro-  elegant  style,  the  noble  garden  which 

motion  of  the  Arts  and'  Sciences  at  has  been  formed^  of  late  years,  in  ih» 


t06  LUerarf  mul  Seieni^  luieUigtnct.  Ci^vf . 

oeotM  of  that  chy,  the  naturally  ro-  Mgher  rank  than  it  bow  fills,  and  to 

inantic  situation  of  ^ich  it  is  well  preserve  many  beautiful  productions 

adapted  to  render  still  more  pictu-  of  this  kind  from  the  oblivion  to  which 

vesque^  especially  should  thoae  im-  they  are  otherwise  almost  ineritably 

provemeuts  be  made  which  Bettoni  consigned.     The  8d  number,    now 

•uggests.  ^  He  proposes  that  It  should  published,  contains,  along  with  a  va* 

be  embellished  witn  monuments,  sta-  riety  of  scenes  of  every  description, 

tues,  temples,  and  other  elegant  deco-  an  exterior  and  an  interior  view  of 

rations  or  art.    This  work  is  senti-  the  Theatre  La  Scala,  and  a  design 

mental  and  poetical.— -The  Cavalier  of  the  beautiful  curtain  painted  by 

{«uizi  Bossi  continues  to  labour  inde*  the  celebrated  Appiani,  for  the  private 

£iti^bly  in  the  prosecution  of  his  la-  amateur  theatre  of  the  Filo  Drama* 

bonous  work  on  Italy,  Le  Staria  (rita-  tici. — The  anonymous  Sioria  di  Ante-- 

Ua  Aniica  e  Modema,    The  twelfth  riea,  intended  as  a  sequel  to  Segue's 

Tolume  has  just  been  published  at  General  History,  gives  an  account  of 

Milan,  b^r  Giegler  and  Bianchi..   It  the  moral  and  phvsical  features  of  the 

begiina  with  the  overthrow  of  the  New  World.    The  writer  has  bor« 

Western  Empire,   from  the  time  of  rowed  much  from  Humboldt,  but  has 

the  acknowledgment  of  Theodoric,  as  not  availed  himself  of  the  assistance 

King  of  Italy,  to  the  founding  of  the  of  Azara  and  Sobrevielo.      In  the 

Idnffdom  of  Lombardy,  and  finishes  «ixth  and  last  division  of  his  work, 

with  a  description  of  ue  situation  of  he  treats  of  the  diiferent  dialects  of 

the  p^ovincesi  cities,  and  islands  of  America,  and  their  origin :  he  consi* 

Italy  under  the  dominion  of  the  Goths  ders  that  their  number,  said  by  some 

and  Lombards.— FT/ia  e  Commercio  to  amount  to  1264,  has  been  greatly 

Itetterario,  S(c,    the   Life  and  Cor-  ezagverated,   although  it  is  certaui 

i^spondence  of  Galileo  Galilei,  a  post-  that  m  a  single  province  a  variety  of 

{lumous  work  of  the  Warned  Eloren-  dialects  are  used  orally  which  are  not 

tine  Senator  De  NeUi,  is  an  interest-  employed  in  writing. — ^A  work  on  the 

Ing  pieoe  of  biography  of  the  great  science  of  history,  by  the  Duke  di 

Italian  astronomer,   composed  from  Ventignano,  a  writer  before  known  to 

the  most  authentic  sources  and  ori-  the  public  by  his  tragedies,  has  is- 

ginal  documents,  the  author  havinsr  sued  from  the  press  at  Naples,  under 

purchased  all  the  manuscripts  ana  the  titie  of  Pensieri  suUa  Scienza  deUa 

letters  he  could  meet  with  of  Galilei,  Storia.  In  this  treatise  the  author  fbl-. 

Corioelli,  Castelli,  Viviani,  and  other  lows  the  steps  of  Rio,  whom  he  calls  the 

mathematicians  of  the  17th  century.  Founder  of  the  Synthesis  of  History ; 

TUc  work,  whioh  is  in  two  volumes  and  he  endeavours  to  systematize  this 

quarto,  is  embellished  with  ten  plates:  important  study,  and  to  reduce  it  ta 

two  of  them  are  portraits  of  Galilei ;  certain  principles  founded  in  the  na-« 

the  first  taken  when  he  was  40,  the  ture  of  man.    In  conformity  with  this 

Other,  77  years  of  age.    Both  of  them  theory,  he  attempts  to  develope  the 

are  engraved  under  the  direction  of  progress    of    civilization,    and    the 

the  ce&brfited  Raphael  Morghen. —  changes  which  society  and  govem- 

The  first  volume  of  the   (SUezUme  ment  have  successively  undergone^ — 

dtgU  antichi  Storici  Oreci  volferht^  The  interesting  biographical  work, 

so/i,  edited   by   Sonzogno,    of  Mi-  entitied  Viie  e  Riiralii  diUusiri  ///i- 

Ian,  oontaiiis  a  translation,  by  Com^  Uaniy  is  now  closed  with^  the  60th 

pagnoni,  of  Dictys  Cret^sis,  and  of  number,  containinff  the  life  of  Fi- 

Diu-es  the  Phrygian.    In  the  second,  langieri,  by  Camebali,  and  his  nor- 

third,  and  fourth  volumes,  are  the  first  trait,  engraved  by  Caronni.    There 

and  second  books  of  Diodorus,  also  is  another  work,  of  nearly  a  similar 

translated  by  Compagnoni,  and  the  nature  and    titie,    Bitratti  (Tiihutri 

nine  books  of  Herodotus,  translated  liaUani  Ftventi,  of  which  the  fifth 

by  Andreas  Mustoxidi  of  Corfu,  who  number  has  just  appeared,  with  the 

hat  added  to  them  a  Commentary.—  portraits  of  Palette,  Perticari,  Ros- 

The  RaccoUa  di  Scene  Teairvli  ese-.  sini,  Stratico,  and  Venturi.   The  sixth 

gjut«  0  dUefpiaie  dei  piu  cekbri  PMni  number    will    complete    the    work. 

3<0rain  ta  mikmo  is  a  novel  and  inte-  Among  the  portraits  which  have  al- 

Ksting  woric,  well  calculated  to  adr  ready  been  given  are,  Appiani,  the 

T«paf  ^  art  of  •ceaerpaiatlng  to  a  scene  painter,  Botta>  the  historiana 


CaiMTty  Morghen,  Pter, '  the  com-  ^  Bdhenuan  LMerahrt^^^ThA  TeriMi- 
poser,  Pindemonti,  Scarpa,  Viscond,  cular  literature  of  Bohemia,  which 
the  archcologist,  and  Volta.  has  l>een  so  long  in  a  state  approadip* 
History  of  iZiwna.— <]la8telneau'8  ing  to  annihilation,  now  beflinis  to 
Euai  turt HUtoire  AnciennedelaNoM^  spring  up  again,  and  to  exhibit  signs 
veUe  Rustic  is  an  historical  work  of  of  vitelity.  The  interest  which  the 
ffreat  research.  The  labour  of  col-  Emperor  has  manifested  in  its  behaL 
lecting  materials  for  such  an  under-  has  been  the  means  of  imparting  to 
taking,  was  considerably  enhanced,  it  fresh  energy,  insomuch,  that  the 
by  the  rapid  succession  of  the  differ-  progress  it  has  made  of  late  years 
ent  tribes,  who  have  made  them-  nas  been  uncommonly  rapid.  Within 
selves  masters  of  this  country,  from  this  period,  a  great  number  of  Trans- 
the  time  when  it  was  first  described  lations  have  appeared,  and  these  have 
by  Herodotus,  until  it  was  incorpo-  been  beneficial  so  far  as  they  hare 
rated  with  the  rest  of  the  Russian  assisted  in  reyiving  literary  taste,  md 
Empire.  M.  Castelneau  has  divided  in  inciting  native  taloit  to  rival  the 
his  history  into  three  distinct  portions  productions  of  other  countries.  There 
or  eras ;  the  fbrst,  commencing  with  are  now  four  journals  established  in 
the  most  remote  antiquity,  ends  at  the  the  metropolis,  and  many  works  are 
conquest  of  the  Crimea  by  Mahomet  continually  printing  in  Kuttenberg, 
II.  in  1475.  The  second,  which  re-  Pilsen,  Poseck,  and  other  cities.  One 
cords  facts  better  authenticated,  and  of  the  most  assiduous  labourers,  in 
less  perplexed  and'  obsmure,  compri-  the  cause  of  letters,  is  Hanka,  the 
ses  three  centuries,  termmatiBg  in  the  keeper  of  the  National  Museum^  who 
year  1784;  when  the  country  was  has  rendered  a  most  fanportant  ser- 
ceded  to  the  Russians.  The  Author  vice  to  literature,  bv  editing  the  ma- 
has  spared  nopains,  that  he  might  pro-  miscript  which  he  discovered  buried 
duce  the  first  complete  and  genuine  beneaUi  an  old  piUar,  in  the  church 
history  of  a  people,  with  whose  annals  at  Kdnigfaihof.  This  document  is  in- 
we  have  hitherto  been  but  imper-  valuable,  firom  the  light  it  throws 
fectly  acquainted, — of  those  warlike  upon  the  -history  of  Bohemian  poetry, 
Tartars  and  Cossacks,  who  have  so  of  which  the  nirious  religious  con- 
often  rebelled  against  the  Porte,  and  tentions  during  the  fifteenth  century 
have  constantly  been  at  variance  with  have  left  hardly  gny  trace.*  After 
P^and  and  Russia.  The  third,  and  much  laborious  inf%stigation  of  what 
last  portion  of  the  work  is  not  defi-  was  mutilated,  and,  in  some  places, 
cient  in  interest,  to  those  who  prize  illegible,  Hanka  succeeded  in  ded- 
the  cultivation  of  intellect  more  than  phering  wlmt  constitutes  the  frag- 
the  subjugation  of  territory,  and  who  ments  of  a  collection  of  narrative  and 
consider  the  advancement  of  agricul-  lyrical  poems,  possesnng  consldto- 
ture,  commerce,  art,  and  civilization,  able  intrmuc  merit.  They  were  com- 
to  be  more  truly  glorious,  than  all  posed  at  Hie  end  of  the  thirteenth, 
the  pomp,  pride,  and  circumstance  and  the  beginning  of  the  fourteenth 
of  war  and  conquest.  These  pro-  century ;  some  ot  them  are  probably 
vinces,  so  long  exposed  to  devasta-  of  a  still  earHer  date.  The  fortunate 
tion,  now  present  a  scene  of  pros-  discoverer  of  these  relics  has  edited 
perity.  Their  situation  on  the  bor-  them  in  the  original  language,  ao- 
ders  of  the  Black  Sea,  the  navi-  companied  by  a  version  in  the  mo- 
gaUe  streams  by  which  tiiey  are  in-  dem  B^emian  dialect,  and  by  ano- 
tersected,  the  fertility  of  the  soil,  and  ther,  in  German,  by  Professor  8ipo- 
the  possession  of  a  flouri^uig  and  bode.  They  relate  the  victory  ob- 
increasing  commercial  city,  render  tained  over  the  Poles,  under  Udal- 
them  the  most  important  possessions  rich  ;  the  incursion  of  the  Saxons 
ef  the  Russian  empire.  At  the  end  into  Bohemia ;  the  battle  against  the 
of  the  work,  is  an  interesting  account  Tartars  at  Olmutz,  &c.  A  Russian 
of  a  journey  made  by  the  author  Translation  of  them  has  been  pub- 
through  the  Crimea,  for  the  purpose  fished,  on  which  occasion  the  Dow-^ 
of  collecting  information  relative  to  ager  Empress  testified  her  approba- 
its  geology,  natural  history,  numis-  tion  of  Hanka's  labours  by  present- 
matics,  statistics,  agriculture,  trade,  ing  him  with  a  valuable  medal  J^  W. 
and  navigation.  Zinuncrmaim  it  another  Mufliiou« 


flB8                            LUtrafj  dmd  MmHfic  hMligmi^  CAug. 

writer.    He  luu  hitdy  published  the  Mamiserifas  y  Mtmorias  Arabigtu, 

first  vohime  of  his  History'  of  Bohe-  and  is  written  by  the  Academician 

noBL,  under  Ferdinand  I.  from  1596  Josef  Antonio  Coiide>  who  died  last 

to  1547 ;  a  work  that  is  so  much  the  year.     The  Spaniards  have,   for  a 

more  interesting  and  valuable^  as  it  long  time^  been  indebted  to  the  re« 

relates  to  a  period  of  which  there  searches    of  the    literati    of  other 

was  before  no  printed  record;  for  countries^  but  have^  at  length,  ap- 

Haffd  and  Beczkoro^y  bring  down  plied  themselves  to  the  invefstigation 

thev  histories  only  to  1596,  and  Pal-  of  this  interesting  epoch  of  theur  na« 

■el's  Chronicle  proceeds  no  further  tional  history ;  and,  notwithstanding 

tiian  the  Rirign  of  Charles  IV.  the  number  of  documents  that  have 

Stepaneck  and  KHepera  are  the  been  destroyed,  enough  yet  remain 
two  oiief  dramatic  writers ;  the  for-  to  supply  the  deficiencies,  and  to 
ner  has  produced  many  pieces,  both  correct  the  errors  of  the  old  chroni- 
original  and  translated.  They  are  ders,  and  thus  dispel  the  obscurity 
now  publiriiing  a  collection  of  their  hn  which  the  annak  of  this  era  are 
▼arious  works,  under  the  title  Di-  enveloped.  Conde,  whose  early  death 
wado  (the  staffe);  Epic  poetry  is  Is  to  be  lamented  as  an  irreparable 
cultivated  by  Negedly  and  Hero*  loss  to  Spanish  literature,  ventared 
kowsky ;  the  former  lias  written  the  into  this  immense  and  bewildering 
poems  of  Charles  IV.  Ottokar,  mine,  examined  the  valuable  MSB. 
Wratislaw,  and  The  Last  Judge-  deposited  in  the  various  libraries  of 
ment ;  the  latter^  a  Poem,  called  the  Madrid,  as  well  as  those  in  the  ar- 
Maiden's  War.  Ptofessor  Negedly,  chives  of  the  Escurial,  and,  after  at- 
who  must  not  be  confounded  with  tantivelyoollatinff  and  studying  them, 
the  preceding  author  of  the  same  produced  a  won  that  will  confer 
name,  has  composed  an  excellent  immortal  honour  on  his  memory. 
Bohemian  Grammar,  for  the  use  of  The  policy  of  the  Arabian  conquerors, 
Germans ;  also.  Translations  of  Flo-  theur  military  tactics,  their  govern.* 
rian's  Numa  Pompilius,  Young^s  ment  and  legislation,  their  system  of 
Night  Thoughts,  and  the  first  Books  taxation,  the  administration  of  tlieir 
of  the  Iliad.  It  has  been  doubted,  police,  their  institutions  for  public 
whether  the  last  mentioned  are  trans-  charity  and  education,  their  religi.. 
lated  immediately  from  the  original,  ous  toleration,  manners  and  customs, 
yet  even  should  tnis  be  the  case,  the  form  the  principal  objects  of  the 
services  which  Negedly  has  per-  author's  attention  ;  and  the  facts  and 
formed  for  his  countr3rme9i,  are  not  documents  arc  all  original  and  au-> 
therefore  the  less  valuable.  He  is,  thentic.  He  has,  moreover,  incor- 
moreover,  the  conductor  of  the  Hla-  porated  many  fragments  from  the 
satel,  a  periodical  work,  which  was  Arabian  poets,  partly  for  the  pur- 
first  commenced  in  1808;  and  after  pose  of  elucidating  events  and  cus- 
having  been  discontinued  for  several  toms,  and  partly  to  give  an  Oriental 
years,  is  now  carried  on  again  with  air  to  the  wnole  composition.  He  has, 
mcreased  spirit.  This  is  the  first  likewise,  derived  from  Arabic  sources 
Journal  in  Bohemia,  which  g^ve  pa-  of  biography,  much  important  in- 
pers  of  any  length,  on  either  serious  formation  relative  to  those  great  men 
or  amusing  sulgects.  Pollok  has  who  distinguished  themselves,  either 
published  a  Tour  in  Italy,  and  some  in  literature  or  in  arms.  The  work 
iPoems ;  and  Schiesslar,  the  last  is  divided  into  four  books ;  the  first 
writer  we  shall  now  mention,  has  also  of  which  commences  with  a  brief 
composed  some  Poems  and  Fables,  account  of  the  situation  of  the  Ara- 
and  has  translated  Shakspeare's  Tra«  bians,  at  the  tfane  of  their  first  irrup- 
gedy  of  Romeo  and  Juliet  tion  into  Africa.    The  author  then 

Spamk  Literaiure,— The  first  vo<  proceeds  to  describe  theur  attack  upon 

lume  of  an  historical  work  of  very  Spain;  the  government  of  the  Omars; 

superior  merit,  and  indeed  of  more  their  policy,  and  their  conduct  to<« 

importance  than  any  produced  durinff  wards  the  people  whom  they  con« 

the  last  century,   has  lately  issued  quered;      tne    feuds    between    the 

firom  the  press  at  Madrid.    It  is  en-  Omars  themselves ;  the  events  which 

titled,  La  Hutoria  de  Is  Dominactoit  brought  Spain  under  the  dominion 

sEe  km  Arabes  en  Esfigna,  Mcadm  dk  oftheCalipns  of  Damascus;  and,  last^i 


Iteii .])            Ahtract  of  Foreign  mtd  Ihtimtie  Ocetrreneei.'  ftW 

ly,  he  prpwnts  a  vWid  picture  of  tbe  down  in  the  present  volume,  whkJi 

actions  and  the  characters  of  the  first  consists  of  660  pages  hi  4to.    The 

Arabian  conquerors  in  Spain,  during  third  and  fourth  books  will  be  com- 

the  interval  from  710  to  748.    The  prised  in  tlic  two  succeeding  volumcSy 

second  book  treats  of  the  Arabian  which  are  partly  printed.    It  was 

Monarchy  in  Spain     (as  it  existed  the  intention  of  the  author  to  give 

independent  of  tne  Caliphs) ;— of  the  a  glossary  and  explanation  of  all  the 

princes  of  this  powerful  dynasty,  and  Arabic  words;  and  also  a  compai*- 

the  extension  of  their  power,   both  tivegeography,  andamap  ofArabiaii 

within  and  without  the  peninsula;  Spain;  this,  however,  he  has  been 

of  the  government,  manners,  wealth,  prevented  from  executing  by  death^ 

arts  and  sciences  of  the  Arabian^,  which  seixed  him  in  the  midst  of  his' 

until  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  in  labours. 
1080j  to  which  period  we  are  brought 


MONTHLY  REGISTER. 


ABSTRACT  OF  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 

The   great  leading  event  of  the  Longvood,  St,  Helena^  May  C   . 

last  month,  we  might  almost  say  of  rxport  of  AppRAiiAircEB  on  dissec- 

the  age  in  which  we  live,  has  been  tiov  of  the  body  of  vapoleoii 

the  death  of  Napoleon.    As  it  is  our  bohapaste.' 

custom  seldom  to  offer  a  comment  On  a  Buucrficial  Tiew  the  body  appeared 
upon  the  details  of  our  chroniclcj  rery  fa^  which  suue  wan  confirmed  by  die 
and  as,  perhaps,  we  may  hereafter  fiwt  incision  down  its  centre,  where  the  fat 
make  this  striking  event  tlie  subject  was  upwards  of  one  inch  and  a  half  over 
of  a  distinct  article,  we  sliall  here  the  abdomen.  On  cutung  through  the  car- 
confine  ourselves  to  the  more  inter-  "JT*  .f  *°  "^l^lfll"^  SD  5  a'^YS 
esUng  particulars  which  have  been  J^^  tr^u%rrthl7^^^^ 
disclosed  to  U8,  and  which  will,  no  ^^  ^^  ^^^  ^  ^5j^  A^id  ^^ 
doubt,  become  matter  for  history,  contained  in  the  left  cavity,  and  neariiy  eight 
Napoleon  died  at  six  o'clock,  U|)on  ounces  in  the  right  The  lungs  were  quit« 
the  fifth  of  May,  on  his  rock,  at  St.  sound.  The  pericardium  was  natural,  and 
Helena,  after  an  imprisonment  of  contained  about  an  ounce  of  fluid, 
something  more  than  six  years.  The  The  heart  was  of  the  natural  size,  but 
dispatches  were  brought  to  England,  thickly  covered  with  fat.  'llie  auricles  and 
by  Captain  Crockatt,  and  Captain  ventricles  exhibited  nothing  extraordinary, 
Hendrie,  together  with  a  kind  of  except  that  the  muscular  parts  appeared 
medico.offi«!ial    bulletin,    signed   by  "?,"  P^^  °/^"!^ 

some    professional .  gentlemen     who  JCnTSISi:!:^;^^^!:^^^ 

opened  the  body,  m  which  his  dis-  ^^^  ^^^  ^^  ^^  ^^  ^^^  ^  ^ 

ease  is  asserted  to  be  a  cancer  in  the  ^  extensive  disease.  Strong  adhesions  era- 

stomach,   a  disease,    to    which    the  ^^g^^g^  the  whole  superior  surface,  particu- 

death  of  his  father  has  also  been  as-  i^^jy  ^^^^out  the  pyloric  extremity  to  the 

cribed.    As  this  document  is  both  cu-  concave  surface  of  the  left  lobe  of  the  liver; 

nous  and  autheiidc,  and  as  it  has  be-  imd  on  separating  these,  an  ulcer,  which 

come  the  sulyect  of  much  discussion^  penetrated  the  ooau  of  the  stomach,  was 

we  hiscrt  it  here.  discovered  one  inch  frwn  the  pylorus,  ttiffi- 


SIO  Abiiraet  of  Fore^  and Donuttie  Oeeumneet*  C^^ug- 

dfBt  to  aOinr  die  paange  of  the  little  fin-  hiB  bed,  and  died  with  hit  eyes  fixed 

gff.    The  intcniia  lur&ce  of  Che  Btoouch,  on  it  I    His  last  words  were  broken 

ID  wkAj  its  whole  eitent,  ins  a  mass  of  and  interrupted:  "  Utf,    t^te^^rmee 

^^^^^^''^^.^^^^n^^:  -^rancer    were     distinctly    orer- 

tnmitv,  for  a  small  space  near  the  tenni-  Buonaparte  had  acertain  and  distant 

ntk»  of  the  cnophagus,  was  the  only  part  presentiment  that  he  was  dying.    It 

npearing  in  a  healdiy  state.  The  stomach  ^  erroneously  stated,  in  ail  the  news- 

«H  found  needy  filled  widi  a  Urge  quan.  papers,  that  his  will  was  found  in  St. 

lityof  fluid icserabling oofiee grounds.  Helena.     It  was  not.     About    ten 

The  convex  surfsoe  of  the  left  lobe  of  days  before  he  was  confined  to  his 

the  lifer  adhered  to  the  diaphragm.    With  bed,  in  which  he  lingered  for  forty 

the  ezo^ition  of  the  adhesions  occaaoned  days,  he   gave  his  will  to  an    old 

by  tiie  diseaw  in  the  stomach,  no  linbeslthy  prfeat,  called  Bonavitti,  who  had  lat- 

•ie~«  P'T^iS^JJL??*  ?T"  terly  been    sent  out  to    him,    and 

'T  Swit  peciiaritT  in  the  fiimiatioii  of  S?"V   ""^   ^    family    at   Rome. 

ghelrfrSn^waTolierTed.  ^he  priest  arrived  in  the  English 

^IgS^ned)  channel  five   weeks  before  the  in- 

Thomas  Short,  MD.  lellJgence  of  the  deaUi  reached  Eu- 

And  Principal  Medical  Officer,  rope,  was  not  allowed  to  land  here, 

AacH.  AawoTT,  MD.  after  his  long  voyage,  and  although 

Surgeon  2(MA  Regimeni.  eif^faty  Tears  of  age  and  worn  out 

Charles  MiTeHELL,  MD.  with  illness,  he   has,   we  have  no 

Surgeon  qf  H.  M.S.Vigo.  doubt,  long  ere  this,  faithfully  per- 

FmAjrcis  B^bjok,  MD.  formed  the  last  melancholy  mission 

Surgeomeoth  BegimaU.  ^^  j^j^  departed  master.     The  pos- 

furI^H^cl'&!^."  »«"''*^  °^"  document  was  alixi- 

ar  gcon     •    .  .  ously  sought  after,  as  the  bank,  hi 

It  b  remarkable  enough,  and  has  which  Napoleon's  wealth  was  de- 
been  much  animadverted  on,   that,  posited,    alwavs  remained  a  secret, 
although  the  ex-emperor's  own  per-  and  that  wealth,  which  was  consi- 
■onid  surgeon,  Antommarchi,  is  re-  derable,  had  become  confiscated  by 
fored  to  by  Sir  Hudson  Lowe,  as  a  decree  of   the  Bourbon   govem- 
directingthe  dissection,  still  his  name  ment.    Buonaparte  died  very  rich. 
does  not  appear  annexed  to  this  re-  We  happen  to  have  the  means  of 
port.    Rumour,  also,  says,  that  he  knowing,  that  he  had  in  the  hands 
applied  for  leave  to  bring  the  stomach  of  one  individual,  nearly  half  a  mil- 
liooie  to  Europe,  and  was  refused ;  Hon,  sterling !    His  principal  bequest 
a  similar  demand  of  the  heart  of  Na-  is  supposed  to  have  been  to  his  son. 
poleon  was  made  by  Bert  rand,  which  He  had  long  given  verbal  directions 
intt  with  a  similar  refusal.    There  is  as  to  the  place  of  his  interment,  in 
•omething  to  us  exceedingly  afiecting  case  he  shmild  die  upon  the  island. 
in  this  latter  hicident.    If  ever  there  It  is  situated  in  a  romantic  little  val- 
fived  a  man  who  had  an  uipdeniable  ley,  near  a  brook,  of  which  he  was 
dafai  upon  the  heart  of  Niqibleon,  it  fond  of  drinking,  and  over-hung  by 
was    Marshal    Bertrand.      History  a  few  trees.    His  burial  was  marked 
does  not  record  a  nobler  instance  of  by  all  the  honours  due  to  a  general  of 
fidelity,  under  the  most  trying  cir-  the  first  class;    and  he  was  cased 
cumstances,  than  has  now  associated  *  down  in  a  rrave  fourteen  feet  deep, 
itself  with  the   name  of  Bertrand ;  and  orerlaid  with  stone  and  mortar- 
and  whether  the  French  revolution  work,  all  cramped  with  iron.   Surely 
be  yet  incomplete,  or  the  scene  at  it  looked  as  if  the  vigilance  of  his 
St.  Helena  may  be  termed  its  dose,  gaolers  survived  their  prisonei^>as 
posterity  will  not  find  in  its  various  if  they  thought  that  his  very  grave 
•muds  a   more  noble  or  consistent  should  be  a  dungeon,  and  that  the 
character.  Some  of  the  circumstances  mighty  spirit,  wmch  a  world  could 
attendant  upon  the  death  of  Napo-  not  contain,  might  burst  beyond  its 
leon  are  very  interesting.    When  he  last,  dark  tenement.    Before  his  fii- 
found  that  nls  illness  was  likely  to  nerai  he  was  laid  in  state,  upon  his 
'prove  fatal,  ha  directed  the  picture  little  camp-bed,  which  was  his  couch 
of  his  son  to  be  placed  at  the  foot  of  during  the  field  of  Ausierlitz>  and 


li)Sl  2  Abstract  of  Fonign  and  DomatU  Ocenrrmeet.  Sil 

which  waa  amongst  the  few  valuable  monitraace  against  th«  language  held 
relics  that  he  selected  to  accompany  by  Austria  during  the  late  Neapolitan 
his  captivity.    It  must  have  been  a  commotion.    This  is  all  the  intelU- 
striking    and   a   melancholy    sieht  ^eiice  from  abroad,  of  the  slightest 
enough  to  see  him  stretched  upon  that  mterest,  since  our  last  publication, 
bed,  the  natural  parent  of  such  as-        During  the  last  months  our  do- 
Bociations,  and  surrounded,  on  a  tro-  mestic  intelligence  is  almost  necessa* 
pical  rock,  by  the  few  faithful  friends  rily  confined  to  die  Coronation ;  an 
who  preferr^  his  prison  to  all  the  event  which  has  excited,  not  merely 
splendours  which  might  have  illu-  in  the   metropolis,    but  throughout 
mined  their  apostacy  at  the  court  of  the  whole  kingdom,  so  general  and 
his  successors.     Their  grief  is  de-  so  paramount  an  interest.    We  have 
scribed  as  having  been  most  poig-  made  every  possible  exertion  to  pitH 
nant   and  overwhelming ;    and,  ui-  cure  for  our  readers  the  most  satii- 
deed,  it  seemed  to  have  been  among  factory  account  of  this  splendid  spee- 
the  most  remarkable  peculiarities  of  tacle,  and  to  our  communication  on 
this  wonderful  man,  to  have  borne  a  this  subject  we  must,  at    present, 
ikscination  about  him,  the  influence  content  ourselves  with  referring  them» 
of  which  was  never   forgotten  by  fullj    confident  that  it  will  satisfy 
those  who  once  experienced  it    On  their  expectations.     The  remaining 
the  return  of  the  exiles  to  Europe^  events  wnich  have  occupied  the  pub- 
wc  hope  to  be  able  to  present  our  lie  attention  are  few,  and  not  very 
readers   witli   details,    not  perhaps  interesting.    The  Queen  having  laid 
within  the  reach  of  every  journalist  before  the  Privy  Council  a  claim  re- 
This  death  may,  ere  long,  cause  an  lating  to  her  right  to  a  participadoa 
important  crisis  in  the  European  go-  in  the  great  national  ceremony.  Lord 
vemments— it  has   certainly  trans-  Londonderry  informed  the  House  of 
ferred  from  the  hands  of  England,  to  Commons  that  she  should  be  heard 
those  of  Austria,   a  very  powerful  before  the  proper  tribunal,  by  her  al- 
political  engine. — The  remaming  fo-  toniey  and  solicitor   generaL     Ao- 
reign  hiteliigence  of  this  month  is  cordinfflj,  on  Tuesday  the  6th  inat 
very  circumscribed.  The  Greeks  and  the    rnvy    Council     assembled    at 
Turks  maintain  their  former  hosti-  Whitehall  for  the  purpose  of  hear- 
lity ;  and  the  accounts  of  their  vari-  ing  those  learned  gentlemeo  on  that 
ous  successes  and  vicissitudes  are  so  subject     The   arguments    on   each 
uncertain,  and  so  contradictory,  that  side  occupied  some  days ;  after  a  due 
It  is  impossible  to  say  to  what  credit  consideration  of  which,  the  Council 
they  are  entitled.    It  is,  however,  informed  the  King    that  they  had 
quite  clear,  that  the  insurgents  still  come  to  an  unanimous  opinion  against 
maintain    themselves    in   successful  the  claim ;  which  was  communicated 
insurrection ;   and  so  far  there  cer-  in  due  form  to  Her  Miyesty.    Her 
tainly  is  some  evidence  that  these  M^'esty's  course,  upon  the  receipt  of 
triumphs    are    not    altogether    un-  this  communication,  our  readers  will 
founded,  or  they  could  not  ccmtinue  learn  from  our  description  of  the  ce- 
to  array  themselves  so  lon^  as  they  remony.     Mr.   Hume  attempted  to 
have  done  ogauist  the  weight  and  move  an  Address  upon  this  subject 
authority  of  a  regular  government  in  the  House  of  Commons,  which. 
It  is  said  that   two  great  powers,  however,  was  fnistrated  by  the  ap- 
England   and  Russia,  have  offered  pearance  of  the  Gentleman  Usher  of 
their  umpirage  in   this  interesting  the  Black  Rod  summoning  the  mem- 
coatest    The  sincerity  of  the  latter  hers  to  hear  the  parliament  prorogued 
power,  however,  may  well  be  doubt-  by  commission.    His  Majesty,  it  is 
ed,  where  Turkey  is  concerned.  The  ffenerally  understood,  will  proceed  to 
king  of  Portugal  has  returned  to  his  Ireland  in  the  course  of  a  few  days ; 
European  dominions,  where  he  has  he  intends  to  embark  at  Brighton, 
been  received  as  quietly  as  if  he  had  but  some  of  his  suite,  anxious  to 
merely  left  them  on  a  tour  of  plea^  avoid  that  circuitous  route,  will  pro- 
sure  ;  in  the  mean  time,  his  son,  the  ceed  by  Holyhead.      In   the  mean 
prince  and  heir  apparent,  remains  in  time  the  Citizens  of  Dublin  are  busy 
the  Brazils  as  regent.     The  Spanish  in  preparing  for  his  suitable  recep- 
Ambassador,  at  Vienna,  has  present-  tioii.    A  very  singular  phenomenoi\ 
cd  to  that  court  a  very  strong  re-  has  lately  occupied  the  attentioQ  of 


il9                Abstract  of  Foreign  and  Ihmesfie  Oeenrrencei.  C-^-UgT- 

the  sister  kinffdom.  An  immense  tract  ftssistance  on  the  suhjectj  he  pro^ 

of  bog  was  obsenred  in  motion  in  the  fessed  his  willingness  to  do  so.  After 

vicuuty  of  Tullamore,  in  the  King's  »ome  irrelevant  observations^  not  of 

County^  at  about  eight  o'clock  in  the  the  most  amicable  nature^  amongst 

evening,  about  a  fortniglit  ago,  and  themselves,  they  again  retired,  and 

it  has  since  contiimed  in  slow  but  aflter  remaining  impannelled  for  the 

steady  progress.    To  account  for  it  entire  night,   they  were  discharged 

baffles  tne  ingenuity  of  the  most  sci-  next   morning    by    consent    of   the 

entiiic  naturalists ;  and  amongst  the  parties,   their  unanimous  agreement 

people  generally   it  has   excited  an  having  been  ascertained  to  be  im- 

universai  alarm.     The  country,  for  possible.    Tliis  b  a  sad  debut  for 

miles  around,  was  suddenly  agitated  this  celebrated  association.     A  few 

by   a   violent    convidnion,   and    the  days  before  parliament  was  proro* 

shocks  were  accompanied  by  a  noise  gued,  Mr.  I^itbread  moved  for  an 

resembling  thimder.    I'he  earth  was  address  to  his  Migesty,  praying  that 

rent  asunder  at  a  place  called  Kil-  he  would  be  graciously  pleased  to 

malsday ;  when  a  torrent,  composed  order  a  noH  prosequi  to  be  entered 

•f  boggy  compound,  issued  forth,  and  npon  all  prosecutions  commenced  by 

doyered  the  country,  to  the  extent  this  association,    which  was,   how- 

of  three   hundred  acres.     It  forced  ^ver,  negatived  without  a  division, 

tlirough  every  impediment,  carryhig  If  all  juries  act  as  that  impannelled 

in  its  progress  every  implement  of  upon  this  occasion  did,  it  was  very 

husbandry ;  which,  at  the  time,  hap-  right  in  the  honourable  House  not 

pened  to  occupy   the  ground   over  to  put  his  Majesty  to  such  unneces- 

which  it  spread.     The  quantity  of  sary  trouble. 

bog,  at  present  in  motion,  is  esti-  ^'e  congratulate  the  coimtry  on 

mated  at  above  two  thousand  acres  !  the  prospect  of  a  speedy  alleviation 

Westminster  Hall  has  been  opened  of  that  distress  which  has  arisen 
ibr  public  hi^pection  by  Lord  Gwy-  from  a  deficiency  of  the  circulating 
dyti.  whose  attention  to  every  wish  medium.  The  Manchester  papers 
expressed  by  the  public,  du.mg  the  state,  that  "arrangements  are  making 
kite  ceremony,  could  not  be  ex-  by  the  two  principal  Hanks  there, 
ceeded.  There  has  also  been  a  very  v»k«  those  of  Messrs.  Jones,  Loyd, 
mud  Concert  at  Westmhistcr  Ah-  and  Co.  and  Messrs.  Heywood, 
ber,  in  honour  of  the  Coronation,  Brothers,  and  Co.  for  the  early  issue 
and  in  furtherance  of  the  finids  of  the  of  local  notes.  The  quantity  of  Cash 
Westminster  Hospital.  It  was  most  weekly  required  for  the  great  manu- 
numerously  attended,  and  was  patro-  facturing  population  of  tliat  town, 
nized  by  the  heads  of  every  political  and  the  surrounding  district,  is  so 
party.  This  is  as  it  should  be,  and,  immense,  as  to  put  it  out  of  the 
as  we  hope  it  always  vrWl  be  in  Eng-  power  of  the  bankers  to  make  ar- 
land,  where  the  interests  of  charity  rangements  for  providimj  it  in  metal- 
are  concerned.  lie  currency.     It  is  satisfactory  to  re- 

The  first  indictment  preferred  by  fleet,  in   this  introduction    of   local 

the   Constitutional    Society    against  notes    into    Manchester,    that     the 

Mary  Anne  Carlisle,  for  a  libel,  came  i^sue  of   them  is    in  the  hands   of 

on  for  trial  at  Guildhall,  on  tlie  24th  such   well  known  capitalists,  as  to 

instant,  before  Mr.  Justice  Best,  and  justify,    in    the    public     mind,    the 

a  special  jury.     The  judge  informed  most  perfect  assurance  of  their  sta- 

them  that,  in  his  opinion,  the  libel  bility. '     This    example  will  be  fol- 

was  one  of  a  most  grossly  seditious  lowed,  we  have  no  doubt,  by  every 

character,  upon  which  they  retired.  Bank  of  undoubted  responsibility  hi 

In  the  course  of  about  half  an  hour,  the  kingdom :  prices  wul  then  agabi 

the  learned  justice  desired  an  officer  rise,  and  distress  will  speedily  disap- 

to  intimate  to  the  jury,  that  he  was  pear.    By  the  increase  of  our  circu- 

in  attendance  upon  them.     They  ac-  lating  medium,  the  public  burthens 

cocdingly  returned,  when  his  Lord-  will  be  deprived  of  that  unjust  and 

ship  tc3d  them,  that  he  had  sent  for  unnecessary  overweight,  which  they 

them,  in  consequence  of  a  note  which  have  acquired  from  the  improvement 

he  had  received  from  their  foreman,  in  the  value  of  money  by  tne  restric- 

Btating  that  they  were  not  likely  to  tions  of    the  Bank  issues ;   and  an 

agree.     If  he  could  give  them  any  equal,  uiuform,  and  general  retrench- 


1821.3                                AgricuUural  Report*  21S 

ment,  will,  from  this  source,  be  vir-  timc>  we  have  the  pleasure  to  add« 

tuaUy  and  irresutibly  effected  in  all  that  the  arranffenieiits  abovemention^ 

the  departments  of  state.    We  ihall'  ed  are  in  such  a  state  of  forward* 

probably  offer  in  a  future  number  a  ness,  as  to  leave  little  doubt   that* 

more    explicit    declaration    of    the  in  the  course  of  another  fortnight,  the 

grounds  on  which  we  have  founded  issue  of  local  notes  at  Manchester 

these  observations.      In    the  mean  will  be  in  full  operation. 


AGRICULTURAL  REPORT. 


The  tnuisactionK, which  concern  the  landed  carred  at  various  periods  of  hittOTy^  and 
interest  and  agricultural  science,  have  been  they  indulge  the  hope  that  the  tenantry  wiD 
so  various  and  so  important  during  the  last  still  be  able  to  sumxiunt  their  difficulties- 
few  weeks,  that  our  article  must  necessarily  From  this  they  take  occasion  to  notice  the 
be  this  month  connderably  extended.  diminution  of  rents  which  has  already  takoi 

The  Report  of  the  Select  C'Ommittee,  to  place,  and  the  causes  of  the  rise  between 

whom  the  several  petitions  complaining  of  1793  and  1814.     Improvements  form  one 

the  distressed  state  of  the  agriculture  of  the  part,  and  the  state  of  the  currencj  anodier. 

United  Kingdom  were  referred,  has  been  of  Uiese  causes;  and  to   the  latter  they 

published.     This  document  declares,  that  mainly  attribute  the  depression  of  prioe* 

no  present  relief  can  be  afforded  by  legida-  They  hazard  an  ojnnion  that  the  ultmiate 

tion,  while  the  hopes  it  holds  out  of  any  effects  upon  rent  wiU  be  bebw  the  aniicU 

future  provisions  to  alleviate  the  distress  pated  results,  and  wiU  not  indeed  exceed 

are  so  very  slender,  and  so  conditionally  ^^  that  proportion  of  the  increase  which* 

put,  that  it  must  be  now  quite  dear  that  during  ttie  war,  grew  out  of  the  depreciated 

agriculture  will  be  left  to  find  its  own  level  value  of  the  currency.'* 
whatever  be  the  consequences.    The  Re-        This  section  oondodes  with  two  inftr« 

port,  however,  is  deddedly  ministerial,  be-  ences  very  momentous  to  the  fimner: — IsC^ 

ing  drawn  up,  not  as  usual  by  the  Chairman  That  the  prcteni  depression  is  the  oonse- 

of  the  Committee,  (Mr.  Goodi.)  but  by  Mr.  quence  of  the  abundance  of  the  two  last 

HyslusBon,   a  member  of  administration,  harvests: — and,   2dly,   that  the    previous 

This  paper  must  also  be  considered  rather  importations  were  necessary  to  supply  the 

as  a  general  exposition  of  those  dements  wants  of  the  kingdom.    Our  readers  wiU 

and  principles  of  political  economy  by  which  scarcely  fail  to  apprehend  how  much  hinges 

the  Government  reflates  its  present  policy  upon  these  pmnt^,  since  the  one  dedares  the 

in  regard  to  agriculture,  commerce,  and  country   can  grow  more  than  enou^  in 

manufactures,  &an  as  a  more  direct  reply  plentiml  yean  for  its  own  consumpcioBy 

to  the  allegadons  of  the  petitioners.     It  while,  in  years  a  little  bdow  the  averany 

is,  indeed,  apologetical,  as  well  as  deda-  recourse  must  be  had  to  a  foreign  suppfy  ^ 

ratory.  and  thus  a  competition,  in  the  one  instaneeii 

The  Report  is  divided  into  seven  sections,  must    be    established    between    English 

The  first  simply  states  the  provisions  of  the  growers  to  dispose  of  a  redundant  cr^  | 

law  at  present  in  force  with  respect  to  the  and,  in  the  other,  between  the  English  and 

trade  in  com,  viz that  free  importation  the  foreign  proprietor.    This  state  of  things^ 

and  exportation  are  at  all  times  permitted,  it  will  also  be  dearly  understood,  can  le#vw 

but  that  com  can  only  be  sold  in  this  coun-  no  alternative  betveen  a  duty  which  would 

try  when  the  prices  are  above  a  certain  ave-  compensate  the  farmer  by  a  higli  price  toe 

rage.     The  second  sets  out  with  the  im-  his  present  high  «:penses,  and  a  general  fhH 

portant  concession,  that  ^^  the  complaints  of  of  prices  to  the  lev'd  of  the  Continent.    To 

the  petitioners  are  founded  in  fact,  in  so  far  this  part  of  the  Report,  therefore,  we  wonldr 

as  they  represent  that,  at  the  present  price  of  parUcularly  direct  the  general  attention, 
corn,  the  returns  to  the  occupier  of  an  arable        The  third  sectj  on  opens  with  referring  t» 

farm,  allowing  for  the  interest  of  his  invest-  former  periods  of  {agricultural  di8tresa;wludi9 

ment,  are  by  no  means  adequate  to  the  having  been  sui -mounted,  afford,  by  Uieir 

charges  and  outgoings;  of  which  a  oonsi-  similarity,  the    hope  of  surmountuig  the 

derable  portion  can  be  paid  only  out  of  the  present  difficult  tes.    It  also  alludes  to  the 

capitals,  and  not  from  the  profits,  of  the  suffering  state  of  other  kingdoms.    It  af- 

tenantry.**    The  Committee  go  on  to  ex-  fimis,  that  an  t  .verage  crop  is  now  equal  to. 

press  thdr  doubts  (founded  on  offidal  re-  the  national  co  nsumption — but  couples  this 

turns)  as  to  the  contraction  of  the  demand  remark  with  1 1  conjecture  originally  made 

for  various  ortidcs  of  consumption :  they  by  3Ir.  Burk  e,  tliat  '^  years  of  plenty  or 

infer  tliat  Uie  prulits  of  farming  during  the  of  scardty  hJ\ppen  in  pretty  large  cydes, 

war  were  somewhat  above  the  ordinary  pro-  and  irregulasfiy.**   From  this  the  concluskm 

fits  of  capital  in  other  branches,  anid  that  is,  that  the  o  audition  of  tlie  grower  of  coiBy 

they  are  now  considerably  bdow  that  rate ;  in  a  country  where  the  remunerating  prieea 

but  similar  revulsions,  they  lay,  hav^  oc*  shall  habwii  siOy  exceed  the  priess  «  tN 


iti  AgrtcMUural  Apori.  QAu^^ 


of  th«  woda,  miat  be  haiinlous  and  ofourtuuioiialWetldi,  depend  on  the  con" 

cmbernMing.    llie  Committee  thai  go  oo  tinnanoe  of  thtft  union  bj  wl^ch  our  agri- 

to  ihow  that  what  ia  called  a  remunerating  cnknral  praapedty  ia  ao  dearly  connected 

price  muat  fluctnate  with  drcumstancea;  with  the  prcaerfation  of  our  manufacturing 

and,  with  a  Tiew  to  this  partinilar  object,  and  commercial  greatness ;  ^   and  hence 

they  recommend  an  earnest  consideration  the^   auggest   the    wisdom   of  guarding 

of  me  efiects  of  the  present  com  laws.   The  against  ^endence  on  a  foreign  supply,  as 

Ri^Bsh  fanner,  they  assert,  has  for  the  wdl  as  against  sudi  a  price  of  subsistence 

two  kst  harvests  enjoyed  a  monopoly;  and  as  may  expatriate  capital  and  skilL    For, 

pratection  cannot  be  carried  further  than  say  tlunr,  with  the  irresistible  force  of  truth, 

nunopoly.    They  then  state  that  the  pre-  the  difference  in  the  coet  of  subsistence 

ient  «ut  must  continue  until  years  of  acar-  ^  qoerates  in  the  same  manner  as  tasuuion 

dtf  uiall  arise  and  carry  off  the  redundance  to  diminish  the  ^ofita  of  capital  in  thi» 

—and,  ftom  all  these  circumstances  com-  country,  and  there  can  be  as  little  doubt, 

bined,  they  infer  the  general  probabili^  of  that  though  capital  may  migrate,  the  un- 

fceat  fluctuations  in  price.  occupied  population  wul  remain,  and  re« 

The  fburth  section  discusses  the  cfiectsof  main  to  be  maintained  by  the  landed  in- 

tbe  present  enactments  regarding  such  flue-  terest,  upon  whose  resources,  in  proportion 

tuatfcnsj  which  it  la  very  wisdy  nronounced  to  diminished  demand,  this  additional  bur- 

to  be  die  interest  of  grower  and  consumer  then  would  prindpally  ftlL** 

aliM  to  avoid.    The  tknamittee  admit  that  The  report  then  proceeds  to  examine  the 

it  is  the  necessary  tendency  of  the  law  now  effect  of  taxation  upon  agriculture,  and  the 

in  fbiee  to  produce  them.    They  examine  inference  drawn  is  as  follows : — *•*'  whilst 

die  operation  of  fonner  laws,  and  submit  to  they  are  desirous  of  correcting  the  mis- 

Padiament   the  propriety  of  considering  taken  qpinion,  that  the  depiesuon  under 

whether  a  trade  in  com,  free  at  all  times,  which  our  agriculture  now  labours  is  ddier 

but  subject  to  a  du^,  would  not  be  prefer-  exdunvdy  or  principally  to  be  attributed 

aUeii    Sudi  a  change,  however,  they  own  to  taxation,   they   cannot  disguise  from 

eaa  be  attemnted  omv  at  a  future  pmod,  themsdves,  that  the  weight  of  the  public 

and  under  a  fsvourable  situation  of  things,  burthens  of  the  country,   their  nominal 

In  neb  an  event  they  recommend  lowering  amount  remaining  the  same,  must  be  more 

die  tate  at  which  com  ia  admissible,  and  to  severdy  fdt,  in  proportion  as  the  many  in- 

guaid  the  consumerby  enacting,  that  when-  ccnnes  derived  from  trading,  farming,  and 

ever  the  price  shall  have  rea(£ed  a  certain  manufitcturing  industry  are  diminished.** 

high  rate,  the  duty  shall  cease  altogether.  The  sixdi  section  rejects  positivdy  the 

In  die  last  paragraph,  the  Committee  em-  propoution  of  some  of  die  pedtions,  which 

bnoe  a  vanetv  of  points ; — the  free  com-  prays  a  duty  of  fbrty  diillings  a  quarter  on 

pedtion  of  sous  in  die  home  market — the  wheat,  as  utterlv  subversive  of  dl  foreign 

advantage  of  continuing  a  forced  cultivation  commerce,  which  they  say  would  be  an- 

of  inferior  lands — the  effects  of  public  bur-  nihilated  by  the  recognition  of  such  a  prin- 

deos,  &C.;  and  they  infer,  '^  tnat,  within  dple,  and  they  show  the  misconceptiob. 

die  limits  of  the  existing  competition  at  with  regard  to  the  protection  afforded  to 

home,  the  exertions  of  industry  and  the  manufacture,  on  which  this  prinajde  is 

investment  of  capital  in  agriculture  ought  adopted  by  the  Petitioners.      They  also 

to  be  protected  against  any  revulsion,  but  controvert  the  manifest  errors  upon  which 

that  the  protection  ought  to  go  no  Ibrthet.'*  the  oppodtion  to  the  warehoudng  dause  in 

At  die  dose  the  Committee  recommend,  the  present  act  is  founded,  and  show  the 

that  **  every  opportunity  should  be  watched,  advantages  the  country  derives  from  being 

ttid  every  practical  meatiure  adopted,  for  made  a  depont  for  foreign  com. 

reducing  the  amount  of  the  public  expen-  The  last  division  commences  with  la- 

ditnre.**  menting,  that  the  Committee  is  unable  to 

Hie  fifUi  division  opens  with  so  prudent  recommend  any  immediate  means  of  alle- 

a  reservation  between  free  trade  on  the  one  viation;  and  aner  recamtulating  the  causea 

side,  and  vested  interest  on  the  other,  that  of  distresai  and  then  declaring  that  these 

it  is  scarody  posdble  to  gather  any  prac-  are  in  their  own  nature  irremediable  by 

tieal  oondusion  trom  its  recommendations,  legislative  enactments,  the  Committee  dte 

Tl^  Conotmittee  refer  whatever  comes  after  the  reduction  of   die  interest  of  mone^ 

to  a  due  estimatioo,  with  a  relation  to  these  from  accumulating  capital,  and  the  dimi- 

giabd  considerations.  nution  of  jiublic  burdens,  by  the  operation 

Recurring  to  former  periods,  diey,  how-  of  the  sinking  fund,  as  the  ukeliest  means 

ever,  eondude,  that  no  provisions  to  force  of  encouraging  and  augmenting  national 

er  encourage  agriculture  ever  equalled  the  prosperity,  and  out  of  which  alone  therdief 

•timulus  supplied  by  the  increase  of  de-  can  come. 

mand  that  arose  during  the  last  rdgn.  Sudi  is  the  abstract  of  this  daborato 

Looking  to  the  general  progress  of  affairs  compontion,  of  which  we  can  only  say, 

during  that  period,  di^  state  that,  ^*  the  that  we  regret  its  materials  should  aflbvd  so 

peeaent  aoKdity,  and  ratuie  improvement,  many  points  for  controversy,  and  so  many. 


1831.3                                  AgrienIiitralJiiporL  915 

too,  wfaert  tb*  dduskm  if  pa^pftble.    Of  ment  of  tht  moral  und  <**«"ftntil  €oq» 

midi  a  kind  b  ihe  refercnoe  to  the  dnking  dition  of  the  noal  populstiQiL    Upon  d» 

ftmdaC  die  end,  of  which  an  that  the  pabHc  present  occasion,  wnen  the' complainti  of 

knows  is,  that  the  expence  of  its  ma^inoy  unirenal  distress  hsve  received,  as  it  w«%. 

exceeds  ito  actual  production,   and  duit  the  reply  of  the  parliament;   and  wfasn 

the  deAdcation  of  rerenue  in  the  picsent  that  rqily  is  generally  oonsidoed  so  uia»> 

year  leayes  no  hope  of  its  effectoal  opcr-  tisfactory ;  it  could  scarody  be  possiUe  fa 

ation.  so  large  an  assemUj  of  the  huided  intomk 

To  this  report  two  answers  hare  been  to  sfM  the  discussion  of  that  answer,  te 
giren,  the  one  in  the  commentary  eon-  grounds,  and  its  reasoning ;  snd  this  wonkl 
tained  in  a  rery  able  letter  from  Mr.  Cur-  naturally  lead  to  the  introduction  of  nma 
wen  to  those  who  entrusted  him  with  pe-  ral  politics.    Mr.  Coke,  therelore,  took  off 
titions,  the  other  in  the  report  of  the  Com-  the  restriction  he  has  hitherto  rigicBy  iaw 
mittee  of  the  Affricultural  Associations  at  posed;  andannounced  that,  in  oonsidemliflA 
Henderson's.     Mr.  Curwen,  after  a  tery  of  the  uinency  and  importance  of  the  pn- 
clear  exposition  of  the  errors  in  the  aigu-  sent  erisu,  it  was  not  his  intention  to  fo- 
ments adduced  in  Mr.  Huskis8on*s  report,  press  the  consideration  of  these  great  qoio- 
oondodes  that,  *'  if  protection  to  aU  agri-  tions.    There  was,  conseqUntly,  mndi  of 
cultural  produce  is  not  to  be  granted,  the  a  political  character  mixed  with  the  coo-  ' 
country  must  then  direct  its  Tiews  to  the  tomary  inquiries  concerning   agiiailtanil . 
only  utemative,  which  is,   to  cut  down  processes  and  improvements, 
our  establishments,  contract  the  scale  of  The  first  day*s  exhibition  commenosA. 
expence  at  home  and  abroad,  demoliah  all  with  an  inspection  of  the  various  processao 
useless  places,  reduce  the  amount  of  salary  of  flax  manufacture,  estabhahed  widi  a 
paid  fVom  the  crown  to  the  lowest  officer  view  to  the  employment  of  the  parish  poor 
of  the  state,  and  call  upon  the  funded  pro*  (particulariy  the  womqi  and  the  dulmn) 
prietor  for  his  contribution  of  a  fidr  proper-  at  Holkham.      The  instruments  and  tho 
tion  to  the  exigences  of  the  state.  *  artisans  were  placed  upon  the  lawn ;  and 

The  report  of  the  Committee  at  Hender-  the  several  operations  were  performed,  widi 

sonfs  recites  at  large  their  proceedings  to  great  facility,  under  the  aUe  directioQ  of 

excite  the  attention  of  the  Imslature— ^the  Mr.  Herod,  of  Creake :    the  prize  staU 

appointment  of  the  Committee,  and  the  lions  were  dso  shown :  and  the  party  pro- 

oommunications  that  took  pUoe.     They  ceeded  over  the  different  farms,  disooursing' 

there  declare  that,   **  the  substance,  the  on  the  appearance  of  the  crops,  the  dairies, 

-very  essence  of  their  prayers  are  entirely  flocks,  and  lotsof  Devon  cattle,  &c  as  they 

overlooked,*'  in  Mr.  Huskisson's  report,  went. 

and  they  very  sarcastically  allude  to  the  After  dinner,  theAgricuhural  Repoitwai 

opinions  of   its    fhuner — they    prophecy  much  adverted  to  by  the  several  speakeeiy 

^^  direful  eilecU  '*  in  two  years  firom  its  and  its  principles  were  univevMlly  rqxo- 

publication,  and  i^ppeal  fiom  the  Select  bated.     The  breed  of  Devon  cattle  mm 

Committee  to  the  paraament  to  render  them  mudi  extolled,  and  o  good  deal  of  into* 

justice,  by  protection  equal  to  that  which  eating  discussion  respecting  Merino  §tmm 

manufikctures  now  receive.      It  condudes  took  place.    By  Mr.  Coke,  it  was  sssCTtoo^ 

by  a  vote  of  thanks  to  those  membcn  of  that  tbeir  wool  could  not  be  aM^  and  their 

the  Committee  who  favoured  their  daim,  flesh  could  not  be  eaten.    Mr.  Bennett,  oa 

and  in  particular  to  Mr.  Curwen  and  Mr.  the    contrary,    said,  that  three  Merinoo 

John  Foster.  could  be  fed  where  two  Southdown  she^ 


could  be  maintained ;  and  that  the 

The  Hdkham  sheepshearing  was   not  of  the  former  would  sdl  for  thrice  the  o- 

only  more  numerously  attended  than  ever,  mount  of  the  fleeces  of  the  latter.     TImi 

but  there  was  a  hx  greater  assemblsffe  of  Merino,  he  contended,  was,therefbre,mncli 

eminent  political  characters,  and  of  distin-  the  most  profitable.  At  the  sheep  house,  Id 

guished  persons  from  distant  counties »  his  the  evening,  some  Southdowns  were  ofibwdy 

Aoyal  Hirimess  the  Duke  of  Sussex  ;  his  but  no  sales  effbcted. 

Grace  the  Duke  of  Bedford  ;  ihe  Earls  of  The  business  of  the  second  mooiDf^ 

Albemarle,  Arundd,  and  Nugent;  theMar-  eommenced,  as  that  of  the  preceding,  by 

quia  of  Tavistock ;    Viscount   AlAorpe ;  viewing  the  manufacture   m  flax ;  afar 

Lords  Erskineand  Crewe ;  Lord  W.  Rus-  whidi,  the  prise  sheep  were  examined;  aoA 

sdl ;    8b  Fntfids  Burdett ;   Sir  John  Sin-  it  was  admitted,  that  no  former  abow  hod 

dair ;  Sir  J.  Johnson ;  Mr.  Hume ;  Mr.  equalled  that  of  the  preaent  year.    Tkfb 

Bennett;  Mr.  Western;  Mr.  Honey  wood;  company  rode  over  the  park  fiurm,  and  vU 

Dr.  Rigby ;  Mr.  Owen ;  and  other  charac-  sited  the  village,  where  every  one  was  cx^ 

ters  of  political  or  agricultural  odebrity,  cecdingly  intereated  by  the  comfort,  neat* 

being  present.  ness,  and  order  that  reigned.  A  new  school 

Tnt  grand  object  of  this  meeting  ia  the  had  been  ecccted  since  the  last  year,  thno 

promotion  of  agriculture ;  and  with  this  proving  Mr.  Coke's  attention  to  the  aionil 

subject  is  mtimatcly  blended  the  advance-  and  intellectual  advancement  of  hia  depcoA- 


ami.  PciiM|%  IttdMd;  tilt  bigfaMt  and  ]lad8^ttid.#dl«At«bd'hBditeildbeliap. 
most  adniiraWB  part  of  tbst  gratlemmV  sjr  to  iee  thcbsud  venewci  ft<Mi  the  pnie 
chamrtur  ii  ts  bt  fbimd  ia  the  endeivoan  and  impievad  flocks  hi  8uaiex  (vefcrring 
be  ia  cQoitantly  and  awkhiwiity  makiiiff  to  to  Mr.  Piddiiigtoay  who  ii  in  the  habit  of 
pnfiwie  fior  the  meotal  jprogitss,  as  mdl  aa  purdiaHiig  from  the  beat  breedeis).  A 
the  penmiarj  proapentj,  of  tfaoae  about  bown  flo^  on  a  fann  of  anf  given  nse^ 
l^n.  The  priae  Itevon  bulla,  oaen,  and  would  paj  more  money  than  the  NorfbUu, 
heifaa,  were  ihown  at  tbe  gireat  ban.  On  by  the  whole  rent  l^e  next  object  waa 
llm  di^f  upwards  of  650  peiaens  dined  in  the  Devon  cattle :  most  admirable  cattle 
the  Iwo  rooms.  Tbe  disoaarion  was  prin-  thcj  were,  for  the  yoke,  the  dairy,  and  the 
eqpaUy  pobtieaL  Mr.  Owen,  of  Lanark,  paature ;  on  light  soil,  such  as  Norfolk, 
indeed,  qpoke,  and  diflbred  entirely  from  the  they  wieie  allowed  to  exosL  On  the  im- 
other  speakers,  as  to  the  causes  of  distress,  peitaaoe  of  irrigation,  Mr.  Coke  dwdb 
irtiich  be  aliased  prooeedi  entirely  from  aome  time  Under-draining  was  the  next 
the  want  of  giving  a  proper  direction  to  in-  topic ;  by  which  much  benefit  had  been  ob« 
dnstry  and  acient&  power.  tamed,  both  on  pasture  and  tillage  land. 

The-  mormng  of  the  third  and  last  day  He  then  descanted  on  improved  imple- 
was  devoted  to  dw  examination  of  dw.  ments,  and  eqiedally  for  the  row  culture, 
slanghtered  prize  sheep.  The  ride  was  to  Next,  a  recent  improvement,  called  sowing 
WaUs  and  Warfaam,  iriiere  the  party  took  on  a  atab  fUrrow,  came  under  review.  Mr. 
lefreshment  at  Mr.  Mooie^s,  and  Mr.  Coke  treated  shortly  on  inoculation ;  en« 
]Uomfield*s^  and  rstnnied  earlier  than  forcing  his  observations,  by  the  fscts  that 
venal,  to  allow  time  for  the  distribution  of  had  been  witnessed.  Manures  formed  ano- 
ihe  prixes,  &a.  ia  tbe  afternoon.  After  ther  topic ;  in  whidi  he  took  notice  of  the 
dinner,  Mr.  Hughea  (being  called  upon)  great  importance  of  pies,  as  recommended 
atated  that  there  wai^more  biiakneaa  in  the  by  Air.  Blaikie,  in  his  EsKsys.  Such  waa 
wool  trade ;  that  long  wool  had  advanced  the  value  of  this  method  of  preparing  ma« 
from  28«.  to  S0#.  a  tod  ;  and  combing  wool  nure,  that  a  crop  of  turnips  mi^^t  be  ren- 
was  worth  about  40#.  After  much  speak*  dered  a  matter  of  certainty  under  the  row 
ing  on  general  politici,  the  prixes  were  dis<  culture ;  and  he  had  never  failed  in  any  one 
ti&uted  as  fallows : —  instance.     Two  other  manures  he  took  no* 

To  Sir  John  Sinclair,  a  very  handsome  tiee  of;  namely,  bones  and  gypsum  :  the 
tase,  with  this  inscription :  ^^  Holkham  former  was  highly  important,  and  had  con* 
Sheep  Shearing,  from  Thomas  William  tributed  very  much  to  the  agriculture  of 
Coke,  Esq.  to  Sir  John  Sinclair,  Bart,  in  the  country :  the  latter  he  found  moctt  va« 
testimony  of  tha  donor's  approbation  of  luaUe,  in  Holkham  Park ;  and  he  wishti 
the  Tliird  Edition  of  The  Code  ofAgrictd.  others  to  give  it  a  fair  trial.  Mr.  Coke 
iure^  and  of  the  author's  indefatigable  seal  then  proceeded  to  comment  on  rotations,  on 
and  successftil  exertions,  in  promoting  im-  noangel  wurzel,  on  Talavera  wheat,  on  the 
provements  in  the  first,  most  honourable,  management  of  hedges,  on.  marl,  and  on 
and  most  useful  of  arts.*'  the  minutise  of  management.     Under  the 

To  the  Hon.  Ocn.  Fitzroy,  Messrs.  latter  head,  are  included  the  whole  eco* 
Beeve,  Harvey,  and  HiH,  pieces  of  plate,  nomy  of  proportioning  labourers  to  the 
Talue  ten  guineaa  each,  for  Southdown  vork,  and  horses  to  tbe  extent  of  tillage ; 
dieep.  together  wiA  the  mode  of  setting  them  on 

To  Messrs.  Overman,- Blylh,  Moore,  work,  and  every  particular  in  the  farm-yard 
and  Blomfield,  plate  of  like  yalae  for  De«  and  the  field,  as  to  manure,  fences,  harness, 
vonshire  cattle.  cribs,  implements,  repairs — keeping  all,  aa 

To  Messnk  Whincop,  Wright,  and  Ha-  much  as  possible,  from  perishing  by  the 
Mk,  for  atallions.  weather,  and  from  destraction  by  careless 

To  Mr.  Harvey,    a    |nece    of  plate^     ness  and  neglect 
value  six  guineas;  and  to  Mr.  Blytfa,  one        After  the  Duke  of  Sussex  had  spoken, 
qffour;  fiw  boars.  Sir  John  Smdair  proposed  the  health  ot 

There  was  no  implement  deserving  a  Mr.  Bbikie,  Mr.  Coice's  steward.  Mr. 
premium.  Coke  returned  thanks ;  and  qioke  in  tenna 

Mr.  Coke  then  proceeded  to  sum  up  the  of  the  hi^wst  respect  for  that  «ntlcman, 
benefiu  arising  out  of  the  meeting,  which  whom  he  regarded  rather  as  a  friend  than 
lecture  ia  always  marked  by  respntftil  at-  a  servant.  And  thus  terminated  this  ex- 
tention,  and  confers  real  advantages.  He  ertion  of  patriotic  hospitality,  which  eveiy 
oontrasted  the  present  appearance  of  hia  jrear  increases  in  estimation,  and  in  public 
estate,  with  the  waste  and  barren  condition  usefiilness. 
in  which  it  descended  to  his  hands,  as  af-  ■ 

fording  the  proof  of  the  utility  of  his  exer-  The  season  is  now  very  fovonrable  to  the 
tions.  In  the  place  of  old  unprofitable  advancement  of  the  harvest,  as  well  as  to 
Norfolk  sheep,  be  had  introduced  Downs ;  the  turnip  crop,  which  ii  fost  getting  be- 
flocks  of  thoin  had  become  pretty  extcn-  yond  the  reach  of  ii\jury  from  ita  early 
sive ;  but  tliey  were  much  crossed  in  some     and  dangerous  enemy,  the  fly.    The  crops 


1821.] 


Commercial  JHeport, 


Sir 


are  improved  in  appeanmce,  and  (we  speak 
from  personal  obsenration  oyer  a  Luge 
tract  or  country,  during  recent  travelling, 
as  veil  as  from  general  reports)  they  have 
seldom  presented  a  better  prospect  of  an 
abundant  cast.  The  harvest  must,  how- 
ever, be  somewhat  later  than  usuaL  Hay 
is  less  in  quantity  than  was  antidpated. 
The  stock  markets  are  every  where  lower 
in  price.  The  Inverness  annual  sheep  and 
wool  market  was  well  attended,  both  by 
growen  and  buyers.   Cheviot  wool  brought 


18f.  to  20f.  per  ttone  of  94  lb.  English. 
mafVifH^  woolkfiom  18f.  to20#.  per 
doable  stone.  At  Thetford  (NoriUk)  wool 
fair,  Mr.  Cdce  sold  his'  fleeces  to  Mr. 
Waller,  for  46t. «  but  litde  other  burfpess 
was  done,  and  that  at  reduced  rates.  It 
will,  however,  be  observed,  by  Mr. 
Hug^*s  stetement  at  Hc^cham^  that 
woolis  likely  to  be  in  demand.  But  tht 
supply  is  laige.  We  know  flock-mastca 
who  hold  four  yean*  stock. 
July  21, 1821. 


COMMERCIAL  REPORT. 
iLondony  July  23.) 

Though  no  striking  alterations  have  more  severely  on  the  tr*de  of  Gteat  Britain 

taken  place  since  our  last,  in  the  actual  state  than  of  any  other  country.    The  Statea 

of  the  Commerce  of  the  kingdom,  yet  the  General  of  the  Netheilands  have  decreed, 

various  important  measures  lately  resolved  by  very  small  majorities,  the  introduction 

upon,   and  others  now  in  contemplatioo,  of  a  more  liberal  system,  asreqtects  forogn 

are  of  such  a  nature,  that  they  cannot  fail  commerce ;  and  it  is  confidently  affirmed, 

to  have  ultimately  a  most  extensive  influ*  that  the  transit  duties,  in  pirticolar,  wiQ 

cnce  on  the  mercantile  prosperity  of  the  be  so  mitigated,  that  it  will  be  roan  advan- 

whole  empre.  The    proceedings  in  Parlia*  tageous  to  send  goods  to  OermanT,  ftc  by 

meat,  durmg  the  months  of  May  and  June,  way  of  Holland,  dian  by  any  otiier  ronts* 

were  of  the  greatest  interest  to  tne  commer-  ^t  the  details  remain  to  be  discussed  in 

dal  relations  of  the  country.    The  altera*  the     next   sesskm,    and    meantime    dw 

tions  in  the  duties  on  timber,  the  discus-  Southern   Pjroymoct,  which  are  violently 

sions  respecting  the  prohibitory  duties  as  averse  ftom  the  removal  of  oowmerdalfo* 

now  exisdng,  and  the  repeal  or  mitigation  strictiona,  are  urgently  petitioning  the  Eing 

of  several  of  the  enactments  of  the  naviga*  to  irithhold  bis  sanctHm  from  a  law,  whidi, 

tion  act,  proposed  by  Mr.  Wallace,  the  re«  they  affirm,  will  serve  only  to  enrich  tbo 

ports  respectmg  the  East  India  and  China  noithem  provinces,  and  utterly  ruin  dm 

trades,  and  the  bills  introduced  in  oonse*  southern  half  of  the  kingdom, 
quence,  are  all  and  eadi  of  vital  importance        The  accounts  ftom  Spain  clearly  provv 

to  our  commerce,  though  it  must  be  owned  diat  the  prohibitive  system  adopted  1^  the 

that  their  probable  eflfcicts  are  looked  to  by  Cortes  last  year  (so  entirely  contrary  to  the 

some  persons  with  fears  at  least  equal  to  expectation  that  had  been  entertamed)  is 

the  sanguine  expectations  conceived  of  them  absolutely  impracticable.    The  amugg^en 

by  others.  carry  on  their  uidawftil  trade  by  fbroe  of 

The  Agricultural  report  is  one  of  the  arms,  and  in  open  defiance  of  the  Metn  \ 

most  important  documents,  both  as  it  re*  and  ak  the  government  finds  it  impossiUn 

gards  the  agriculture  and  tiie  general  pros-  to  ^t  a  stq>  to  it,  and  is  convinced  by  ex- 

perity  of  the  country,  that  has  lately  been  pcnence  that  the  national  manufactures  are 

presented  to  the  puhHc :  the  whole  theory  unable  to  supply  the  demand,  it  is  aflbrmed 

of  the  com  laws  now  acted  upon  is,   in  that  die  prohibition  of  many  articles  will  be 

iact,    acknowledged   to  be  injurious  and  abolished.    An  import  duty  of  18  per  esnt. 

untenable,  and  there  is  every  reason   to  is  spoken  of;  but  even  this  duty  seems  toe 

suppose  duit  it  will  be  relinquished.     A  high,  as  the  goods  majr  be  easily  introdnoed 

duty  on  foreign  com  is  conhdently  anti*  by  smuggling,  which  is  insured  at  n  pie* 

dpated  by  the  merchant.  mium  of  16  per  cent. 

With  respect  to  foreign  countries,  little       The  afiairs  of  ^irkey  have,  fbr  some  time 

has  yet  been  done  by  them  to  affect  our  past,  engaged  the  serious  attention  of  the 

commercial  relations  with  them :  the  Ger-  merchantas  wellasof  thepditician.  Thouoh 

man    statea  have  not  taken   any  further  the  conflicting   statements  rdative  to  me 

Meps  towards  the  introduction  of  restric-  success  of  the  Greek  insurrection  have  pre* 

tions  on  foreign  trade ;  while  Russia,  on  the  vented  the  attainment  of  a  correct  know* 

other  hand,  pertinaciously  adheres  to  her  ledge  of  the  state  of  things,  it  could  not  be 

rigorous  system  of  prohibitions  and  hi^  concealed  that  their  influence  on  oonmieroB 

duties,  which  we  cannot  help  feeling  beers  must  in  every  case  be  considerable;  end  it 

Vol.  IV.  R 


SIS                                         thmmirtial  lUpori.  C!AUg. 

inH,infiiA,fthafaettdjatdieliteiUirtor  dit  maiket has  been  hoiTy.    AtapaUie 

htDcfort  and  Lenpsig,  where  no  Oiedc  Dier-  nle  on  Friday,  of  St  Dtomingo  and  Cej- 

diants  attended.  The  conduct  of  the  Turk-  km,  the  fohner  was  withdrawn  at  117#., 

iah  goremment  towards  the  Christiana  in  and  for  wfaidi  ll6#.  6d,  was  bid ;  die  lat- 

general,  and  to  the  Russian  ambassador  in  ter  sold  at  good  prices,  chiefly  114U.  Bi. 

particular,  has  excited  considerable  ahums  and  llft«.     The  marte  appears  stndy. 

of  a  war  between  Rusoa  and  the  Porte,  in  wiA  an  imprvving  demand, 

whidi  England  mi^t  finally  be  implicated.  Indigo. — The  sale  at  the  India-House 

The  latest  accounts,  however,  received  from  finfshed  the  ISth  instant ;  3,855  cheats,  of 

Paris  this  day  state  that  the  fears  of   a  wBch  about  one-fourth  was  taken  in  for 

rupture  have  in  some  degree  subsided,  and  the  proprietors :  fine  Indigo  sold  3dL  per 

that  Russia  and  England  haveofiered  their  lb.  higher  than  last  sale,  good  ISJ.,  good 

mediation  to  arrange  the  afiairs  of  Greece  middling  and  middling  6d.  a  9d.,  oon- 

and  Turkey.  suming  Indigo  9d.  a  U,  above  the  prices  of 

Cotton. — The  accounts  from   Liverpool  last  sale* 

having    been  favourable  for   this  month  per  lb.    t.  d.     t.  d* 

r,  the  prices  here  have  remained  steady ;     Fine  blue  and  violet 8  3  a  8  7 

quantities  sold  at  Liverpool,  in  the  fimr  Fine  and  good  purple  and  violet  7  9  a  8  3 

weeks  ending  14th  of  July,  amounted  to     Fine  and  good  viokt  7  6a  7  9 

above  44,000  bags,  and  the  arrivals  to  only     Middling  ditto 7  3  a  7  6 

14,000  bags.    The  accounts  from  the  ma-  Fineand  good  violet  and  copper  7  0  a  7  6 

Bofocturing  districts  are  also  very  favour-     Fine  and  good  copper 6  6  a  7  0 

aUe.    The  purchases  of  cotton  by  private     Ord^ary  violetand  copper 5  0  a  6  0 

contract,  for  the  week  ending   on  Friday    Ordinary andlow none. 

die  20th,  consisted  of  970  Bengal,  b^d,  a    Consuming  qualities   6  0  a  7  0 

t^  in  bond;   550  Surat,  Od.  a  &/.  in     Good  Madras 6  0  a  6  7 

bond ;  310  Pemambuco,  12^.  a  12}<2.  in     Middling  ditto 5  6  a  6  0 

bond;  10  Berbioe,  ll^^  ^"^  P<ud;  35 

Garriacou,  10 ^<2.  a  ild.  duty  paid;  100  R^ffh    Brandy ^    and    Hottands. — The 

Upland,   10^  duty  paid ;  50  Smyrna,  rum  market  remains  in  the  same  dqiressed 

74i.  a  6d.  duty  paid ;  imports,  from  the  atate ;   scarcely  any  sales  reported,  except 

ISth  to  the  12th  instant,  inclusive : — Cal-  small  parods  at  very  low  prices.   Tiie  wea- 

cotta,  1022 ;  Demerara,  80.  ther  having  become  propitious  to  the  vin- 

By  public  sale,  on  Friday  forenoon,  cot-  tage  has  a  very  unfavourable  effect  upon 

ton  sold  at  very  high  prices ;  80  bags  De-  brandies. 

mctara.  Hi.  a  124^. ;  65  Grenada,  10^  OiU. — There  are  no  direct  arrivals  fVom 

a  li}<2.;    12  Jamaica,   10^     The  ac-  the  Greenland  fisheries;  a vessd  has  how- 

eonnte  firom  Liverpool  this  morning  state  ever  arrived  at  Bremen,  a  full  ship,  and 

liwt  market  steady,  but  without  the  briak-  reports  fovouraUy  as  to  the  general  sue- 


of  the  preceding  week ;  on  Wednes-  cess.    The  prices  of  Whale  oil,  which  had 

di^,  only  1,200  bags  were  sold ;  the  arri-  advanced,  have  again  given  way. 

vati  were  rather  extensive,  which  occasioned  7V>6acco. — Thoe  is  a   great  improve- 

MOie  heaviness.  ment  in  the  demand  fat  tobacco ;  the  pur- 

Sugar, — The  market  has  been  languid  chases  are  considerable,  but  at  very  low 

dnring  die  month.    The  holders  seeming  prices. 

iatemiined  to  efi^  sales,  even  at  reduced  Talloxt. — ^Foreign    tallow   has    become 

prices,  and  the  buyers  holding  back  in  ex-  heavy,  yellow  candle,  45«.  6d,  and  46#.  The 

pectatkn    that   the^  market   will   decline  town  market  is  quoted  48i.  6<i.,  which  is 

iriien    the   anticipated  large  arrivals  are  the  same  as  last  week; 

brou^t  forward.   The  refined  market  con-  

Ihmes  languid,  few  sales  are  reported,  and  ~— .-. 

flmerally   at  low  rates,   particularly  the  Foreiok  Commerce.  « 

SJ  ^^S:!2S«-^  ^^  J'*^  22.-^^  has  been  sold  at 

SL5^^for^n^^^^?uTtir  Ae  following    prices:-Marienburg    cu^ 

!!!^  .7^^.                   *^             ^'  37r.;Thi«Siliku8enandDruiani**Rack. 

^v^  pnces  of  Raw  Sugar  by  Ga.  ^ut,  36  r. ;  Rist^  Th^band,  28 J  to  29  r. ; 

iiin«  9a                 ^A     siij  *^^^  ^^  '• — Hempy  rather  lower  this  week. 

T?r*? ^:  S|T  Ukraine,clean,U2r.;  Polish  ditto,  117 r.; 

•'^^  ,1 Sr-  2w  Ukraine  Out8hot,82r.;  Polish  ditto,  91  to 

jj" IjJ;  g.  90r.;  Ukraine  Pass,  72r.;  Polish,  79  to 

78  r. :  at  which  prices  there  were  still  sdlera. 

r<Sfte.— The  demand  fbr  coff^  which  Torse  49}  to  50  r. — ^Tfinp  Oi/ is  to  be  had 

was  pretty  brisk  fbr  some  time,  after  our  at  95  r. — Pot-athesy  of  jood  quality,  held 

Itat  report,  especially  in  the  week  endins  at  100  r.^TaUow^  yellow  crown,  lately 

At  3d  of  July,  has  since  subsided,  and  160  r.,  is  now  held  at  151  r.;  fbr  white 


1.6210                          ^or^*  Preparing  for  FMkaium,  fa% 

crown,  154  r.  are  asked,  137  r*  have  been  are  quite  out  of  several  kinds  of  brown,  as 

paid  fbr  soap-tallow. — Seedt,,  dull  of  sale,  Januuca  and  Domingo,  are  veiy  low ;  Inge 

especially  the  inferior  qualities. — In  Colo-  parcels  of  yellow  and  brown  Haraimdi 

nial  goods  Very  little  is  doing ;  raw  susars  have  been  sold  at  6}i.  to  7}^ 

have  been  without  demand  for  some  time,  (Copenhagen.,  July  10. — Our  com  piiees 

and  even  refined  little  inquired  after.  are  rising. 

June  29. — Hcmp^l  was  to  be  bought  Rotterdam^  July  18. — The  new  law  on 

this  week  at  94  r. ;  fine  PoUsh  Potashes  at  the  finances,  by  which  amore  liberal  qntem 

95  r.     In  other  articles  no  alteration.  of  foreign  commerce  is  to  be  introouoedy 

Hamburgh,  July  14. — Cotton  has  been  has  at  length  passed  both  Chambers,  after 

in  some  request ;  we  have  &esh  supplies  of  very  warm  and  protracted  debates,  and  bv 

East  Indiai — Cajfec^  in  demand,  without  verv  small  majorities.     We  hope  that  it 

change  of  price Rici  maintains  its  price,  will  prove  highly  advantageous,  though  all 

though  we  nave  fresh  arrivals. — Tea,    No-  the  southern  provinces  are  unfortunafidj 

thing  has  been  sold  this  week,  yet  the  dissatisfied  with  it,  regarding  it  as  the  dam 

holders  are  rather  more  firm. — Sugar.    So  blow  to  the  manufacturing  interests  of  those 

little  has  been  doing  this  week  in  Hamburg  provinces,  and  calculated  only  to  promote 

refined,  that  the  prices,  low  as  they  are,  the  advantage  ofthe  great  Dutch  merchants 

hardly  kept  up.    This,  of  course,  affected  We  flatter  ourselves  that  it  will  turn  out  to 

English  Lumps,  fit  for  our  refineries,  and  be  otherwise.     When  the  new  tarif  is  pub- 

the  price  of  good  strong  middling  was  ac-  lished,  we  shall  see  whether  the  Kmg^ 

cordmgly  depressed  to   lO^d,  and   10}^.  promise  that  foreigners  shall  find  it  most  to 

Raw  sugars  are  still  duller,  and  the  prices  their  interest  to  receive  their  goods  throuflh 

nearly  nominal.   Only  dry  white  middling  the  Netherlands,  will  be  fulfilled.    The 

and  fine  Brazil  and  Havannah,  bdng  in  transit  duties  will  certainly  be  lowered; 

some  request  for  exportation,  remain  pretty  whether  that  on  twist  will  be  under  one  per 

steady  at  \0^d,  to  I2\d.  and  I2hd.  to  13^  ;  cent,  is  uncertain.    Some  persons  speak  of 

while  the  inferior  descriptions,  though  we  one-half  per  cent,  but  we  cu>  not  b^eve  it 


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piivate)  from  the  distressing  heat  some*  plated. — June  19th,  1821. 


ECCLESIASTICAL  PREFERMENTS,  &c 

Thr  Ret.  J.  T.  Notridce  to  the  coiuolldated  English  verse:  gold  medal.—Mr.  P.  Hall,  "  Ora. 

Btetofflet  of  St.  Helena  sod  St.  Clement.  Imwkli.  tic  .ScipionlH  in  Hiipania  ad  millteii  udUloMS  a 

—The  Rev.  Uham  Case,  of  Bury,  to  the  Hectory  Livio;**  silver  medal.—Mr.  J.  L.  Elliott,  **  Cha. 

of  Qaarrlnirton,  Liucolnshlre.— The  Rev.  Chu.  racters  of  Demosthenes  and  Sclpio ;  **  "  Lord  Bo- 

Boyles  to  the  Vican^^e  of  Tamerton,  vacant  by  lingbroke;**  silver  medal.— The  whole  nnmber  of 

the  dtatb  of  the  Kev.  G.  Hawker.— The  Rev.  w.  detrrees  in  Act  Term  were :— DD.  four;  D.M.  two ; 

Villersto  the  Vlcanuce  of  Chelmarsh,  Salop.^A  BD.  six;  Al A.  fifty-two;  BA.  eighty-four;  Matit- 

Dispensation  has  passed  the  Great  Seal,  enaollnf  culationii.  eighty-one. 

the  Rev.  Thomas  Wright,  MA.  Chaplaiu  to  Lord  CAMBRIDGE.— Jaly  3.— The  derree  of  Doetor 
Somerville,  to  bold  the  consolidatea  Vicarages  of  of  Div'nity  was  conferred  on  tlie  folTowimr  gentle- 
Steeple  and  East  Claydon.— The  Rev.  Mr.  Wayet,  men,  ris.  the  Dean  of  Rochester;  the  Rer.  Geo. 
Lecturer  of  Boston,  instituted  by  the  Bishop  of  D'Oyly,  Rector  of  I^mbeth;  the  Rev.  G.  Wood 
Lincoln  to  the  valoable  Livimr  of  Pinchbeck,  near  Llovd,  Master  of  Appleby  School. 
Spalding.— The  Rev.  Dr.  Rudge  elected  Sunday  Honorary  Masters  of  Arts.— >The  Rev.  J.  T. 
fvening  Lertorer  at  St.  Sepulchre**,  I^ondon.  in  Barrett,  of'^St.  Peter's  College:  the  Hon.  C.  W.J. 
the  room  of  the  late  Rev.  Air.  Moore.— The  Rev.  Kerr :  the  Hon.  A.  L.  Melvill,  and  Sir  Francis 
Dr.  Huffb  Pearson  appointed  Chaplain  in  ordinary  I/rnch  Blosse,  Bart. 

to  his  AfiOe"ty*«    household   at  Brighton.— The  The  Porson  Prise  for  the  Greek  Translation 

BcT.  Wilter  Gee,  BD.  Fellow  and  Tutor  of  Sidney  flrom  Shakspeare,  Othello,  Act  I.  Scene  3,    "  Aod 

Sbmcx  College,  to  the  Rectory  of  Week  St.  Mary,  till  she  comes  as  truly  as  to  heaven,**  to  "  Hen 

Cornwall,  void  by  the  death  of  the  Rev.  1-Ulwara  comes  the  lady,  let  her  witness  it,**  adjudged  t» 

Bavnes.  Mr.  W.  Barham,  of  Trinity  College. 

OXFORD.— Winchester  College.— The  ananal  The  Examinen  have  selected  (honorli  caatAJ 

election  was  held  July  10th,  when  the  Members  the  two  exercises, 

were  addressed  in  a  Latin  Oration  by  Mr.  H.  Motto—"  Findamm  quisquis  stodet  emnlari.** 

Fowle.    On  the  following  dav  the  medals  were  Motto — '*  Si  placeo  tnum  est.** 

adjudged  as  follows :— Mr.  T.  R.  Mackay,  "  lk>nus  And  the  names  of  the  writers  will  be  recorded.  If 

civis  ina  a  pnblicls  commodls  non  secernlt;**  Lj^  they  intimate  to  tlie  Vice-Chanoellor  their  cea- 

tin  prose;  gold  medal.— Mr.  C.  R.  Sewell.  **  Li-  jMnt  to  have  the  mottoes  opened. 
berty  restored  to  Greece  bythe  Roman  Senate;** 


BANKRUPTS  IN  ENGLAND. 

tVhert  Ike  Town  or  City  in  which  the  Bankrupt  rteidet  it  not  expreeeedf  it  viU  be  alvnwe  in  London  or  the 
Ndgkkonrhoo^.    So  aiso  of  the  RetUeneee  <if  the  Jttomejft,  whote  names  are  pUcedi^tr  •  [. 

T  dlsUngolshes  London  Commissions,  C  those  of  the  country. 
Gazette^une  28  to  Jtdy  I7.  JJ^C.  ^^""^^  ^'  Holbon»-court.  Qn^ 

M'Nlell,  W.  Cbarles-street,  Mlddlesex-taonital, 
June  28.    A*Deaa,    H.   Hertford,    sboe-malcer.        coach-maker.     [Pinero^  Clkarles-st.  Mlddloex- 

[Stratton,  41,  Sboredlteh.    T.  hospital.   T. 

Bairdslev,  J.  jnn.  Manchester,   cottoa-splnaer.     Penvold,    W.    Leadenhall -street,    bone-dealer. 
^[Hara,  Temple.    C.  [Shepherd,  Hyde-street,  Bloomsbory.  T. 

Farley,  T.  Ratcilff-highway,  linen-draper.    [Hut-     Purchas,  R.  Vv.  and  R.  Tredwen,  Chepstow,  Mon- 
chfnson,  Crown-ct.  Threadneedle-st.   T.  moatli,    slibKboilders.      Clarke,     Chancoy- 

Hardwlck,  S.  Bimlngbam,  builder.    [Jennlnp,        lane.    C. 

Elm-court.  Temple.    C.  \\'ballev,  G.B.  Baslngba]l-atreet,wooUen-dn»er. 

'Hevwortb,  J.    Leeds,  cloth-dresser.     (Tew,    t,  [Stephen,  Broad-st-bondlngs.   T. 

Henrietta-street,  Coventnrdea.    C.  ^'bitesmith,  W. Old HshHtreet, grocer.    [Dimes, 

Jordan.  i>.  ^Tiltechapel.  druggist.    [Dickinson,  Friday-st.  CheapsMe.   T. 

CroChalUbaiWnn,  Throanofton-st   T.  Yamold,  P.  Jnn.  City-gardeo-row,  tailor.   [Raj- 

Kai^  W.O.  Bt&OBbc,  S«Mwt^  Boaey-wd-  iiol4%  St  Jolia*S4trect,  Clerkcawell.  T. 


CAuj. 


Jnat  X.  CiTWr,  3,  MIHMak.  Ogninai.  1 
knpti.    (tUkfuKU.  MMdiiTrnip]^.    C. 

CoailU.  R-Hlid  tl.L(c,Kliinloii-iijiiiii-llull,  u 
chiiin.      [RoiHU.     BBRlFlIt-bulldiutt,     I 

'  On,  H.  A.,  G.  Wnlao,  J.  FutKr,  uul  C.  Coi, 
Ulll«  BricHD.  bukui.    [SnlD,  FrsJcricL'i- 
vluc.  Old  Jtvry.   T. 
DUibh,  J-  BoiT  Si.  Ed■^olld■^  •anmn.    [Brom- 


ChU^  H.  BndOiM.  Sma,  h 


%-m 


D.EHn,  mloh-mikd.    [Uui' 

nii«,iiiugoB,eMn.   0. 
Go«4Iiick,  W.  EL  Ldfh-itTHt.  Dnnon^muoi, 

broker.    rTnTlsr,  Jrwin-st.  Aldcnnu-u.   T. 
Hlllm,  J.S.Mulinvlc-iniKl.  HddlEr,    TMUli, 

4.  Nn  N«tli4l.  K«l  I.Wm.  T. 
UKcbell,  F.  Pfcn  HnJloa.  YiA,  n> 

"™ "— flllf-.t.  HillOB^nltu.     .. 


EL  H~.  AiM-pii«t°^lbn 
[MuUnd*'-  "— -  ' 

[LoitlB^OD,  SCCDDI 


V>nd. 


(bcnaD,  a,  GnfVJi 

CBrdnll,  H.  ud  J.  Snub, 
VoTk,  ilu^plikiim.    [Alt 


r>jii>j|r|imrc'. 


CInfh,  J.  ud  EL  Lcadci. 

.    pen.      tPoin*.    ABftl-onK,    TkncBarani 

Dtki.  E.  WtU-atHM,   Janra^uiHi,  daler 


[Brut,  Hurt-mrM,  i^lnml.    T. 
Fhilpt,  W.  Caaomllf^iHt.  BkHapifUt,  or. 

fCUcr.    pVUIluH.  SdbiI  a.  H-iibrook.    T. 
lAhi'T.  H.  Sifliki,  Unntp,  niiiicF.    rKo»n, 

Wrturr,  R.  uul  W.  WiljinWunwniib,  Durbud. 

■unbuo.    rBitkbt«ti.snii«nli-laii.   c. 
WllHD,  H.  CrIiiAD4lre(t,  iipItilBtldi,  Tinul. 

Iv.    (AittHilr,  Flanbn  rv'Btmur.   T. 
Yumw,   Uriah,     ChliinlL.urwI,     ibapkrppfr. 

iSUT(iii,Si«iiCDllqp!-eudEii>,  AldirmuUniy. 

JalT  >■  Alufwonb,  T.  H.  Hdllnll.  Uncwlf r, 
allco-piliwr.    [AdIiMM,  BtdlRd-n>w.    V. 

BfUW,  J.  Muriiui,  Rsrfclb,  mllln'.  [Eir- 
buk,  ».  Nonh  AdJIct^L  GrKnixr-k].    C. 

MmiA,  J.  Oaofb-Mura,  n«t-RR!%  fturleT. 
[U-[>rf^,R,CHiir4ii«l,HglbBn.   T. 

Lm,  W'.  Old  CitrChHiben,  BbbawMe-ibTCL 

PlwMr.  T.  New  BoBd  Hnd,  tnuk-Buker. 
•Ovt,  ncM-nsTt,  Gr»j*Jiiii.   T. 

_»,.  .  „  „.  .  ^jj^,  Q,j  ArtillwTjroyBd, 
[Wcbarr,    Qsnn-unM, 


Jolt'.  Bmmll.J.LHBlBitoi  Pri 
arprnnr.  [Elm,  New  Bw«ll. 
■OHt,  UntstB-Min-ltldi.   T. 

Ben.   J.  T.  AMcua    Klib-nm 

[Ul.1,  IOr.F.«iiBnrl,-.ITrrL    1 
CooiDiKt,  J.  Lowtr  SliKlwEll,   to 

ABgcI-cran,  TbngniDriiia-itmi. 
C«BB«.  W.  Beeiuii,  L«dt,  victu 

Chioaij-line.    C. 
tint.  T.  l(iinHT,Soiilliun^i>ii,  coi 
iGltbuk,  «,Calt>"»>-Ur»*.    I 


,,.,.  ___,_— -Ju-wuarp.Puen 

[RitwtM.dl,  Sbetpdhrli.    T. 

Bnlar.  d-  iflnh-ftnel,  fibalvFll.  rlirae-nie 
cer.    rTenjilia'.  JttaiiHiReal,  Hlii»[ir,.   T. 

UGri,  W.  Snnd,  bUtec.    [Bmni'!!,  Cbut 


HflW- Dovet.HiUkr.    [LMIoriHi,  Se. 

Humpti'mi,  ^ll'i.  Widow,  Swuiei,  irictnller. 

[Seau.  hi.  Ulldnd'HouR     C. 
LmKbmtoDi.  Tllu,^  KriihlEv,  York,  muhlge- 

llUT,ILC.Hiibbonf-plaHJlHeo^nper.  [Bsor- 
dllloa.Bmd-ilrreUCbnp^e.   T. 

Hrtt.  J.  SdriIi  TowD.Ksflglk,  AiblM.nertkiat. 
[Swiln,  Fndrrick'i.pbKF,  Utd  Jewn.    C. 

MMinir,  C.  Hrdnlc,  fork.  Bu-dnuer.     [W*t- 

Jar;  14.  Aitin, 


BitrthMit.     &KI. 


iir;14.  Aitln.G.lueaflht Brook. Wnn.Salap, 
iurafr.       (Grltfittu,    SoubuDpiDnbolidlBfi, 

Inn,  V?' 


Brtiljre^treel 


vr 


r.    [G«0, 


,   wharflnjer.     [Hvflcj, 

, ,  .-nilchBl.friKi.  T.  ' 

Gimr,  J.  EflihnHoic-ftrHl  wltbln,  >ftTer.wilih. 
[Cudlnrton,  tnople.  T. 

Her.  _[Ffw.  Z,  H«ilttU-H  I'sirotinniei.  <!. 
HeM,  T:Sliipre-lnn.baUdlm.  MMdleraw.  Hal. 

ben,  di»rr.  [Etetoo,  Baw.Clnireh^iird.  T. 
Uoecier,  H.aplBiter,  New-ieid,  St.  Gtarn^U 

Ibe  Eut,   (tua  imd  StalCenli.hlre  winfwBH- 

kecper,    [Rnrd-Klni-i  BiDch.inilk.   T. 

Offer,  J.  U<Ibwek.  Bgth,   iluer.     [Sbervood, 

CnnrbarT.H.So<nhwirk.    C. 
Eyuoek.  J.  B*i>nT,Yiirk.  rictmller.    [Slockrr, 

Nnr  li<»weltet.t*r«-(!.    C. 

Sadler.T.AHoD.  KuBlmlBibun,  dniR.  [Wil. 

ker,»,  LlBcoln-iulBB-Beldi     C. 
Stnjr.M.  KBIbnban,  Verb,  lloeo-dnper.  [Kiui, 

VBMte-MRrt  Halbora.    C. 
Sodlgw.  W.  MoBcbcMer,  flonr.dnln'.    [Mlloe, 

TeBiple.    C,  ■ 

TbmiipKiB,  T.  I^BiNnrB^ehiiDibrrm,  Finrbnrch- 

■nmBdiieriit*!.*!'.  ""  "°*  """"■""*■ 
nt™*".  J-  frlalol,  bibtrdutaFr.     [Gitn,  S, 

'Ntun't-ima.   T. 
Wilih,  J.  rnnch    Hon,   BurMnii.  ilcnullir. 

WFbb.   EJ.     Itsfbdile.    Laneulrr.    woo^iupter. 

rrar>«r.  GnrS-lnD-Hgairr.    c. 
Vewut.  J.  WuT,  Ullnr.    [Sbeffirld,  GiTBl  Pni. 

Jnlv  17.  Conerrll,  J.Worte«tr,  tlmber-mcTebfcat. 

[Cudalt.  UnivlBB.    C. 
)l'>1sll<B.    W.  (i.   BBd  E.,  Hrrtferd,  poetn. 

SFIairermldt  IjBwrrBce  PauBliHT.Iiltl. 
cbcri.  J.  MiDii;Hd>4owt,  MllhjitrM,  w»n- 
bvuKOJu.    [Ellla,  41,  4'UuKen-l>Be.   V. 
PIlklixnB,  EL  Mil*  Eirt-md,  baker,     rtMa, 

Coptb>IL.<«n,T1iro|iiiioiti>ih>imi.    T. 
Spnu,  J.  Vinn,  York,  cmcer,    [Hell,  »,  Dsw. 


SCOTCH  SEQUESTRATIONS. 
Gatttte—Jane  2B  to  Jaljf  17> 

HTarlme,  IL  and  J.  M'Arlbor,  iPEithuti,  Glai. 
Hulrv.  D.  F,  Tndrilon,  CLugow,  tlflffir  aod 


er.     [EJ1^ 

t,  lfi.«-ar.prr.   [J«ei. 


BlBcki,  W.  and  J.  B.  E>«iT,  Bin 
rairfce,  KbaatTi-Laa*.    C. 

CiBB,  W.  OkkbunlBB.    Dena.  i 
[FMie,  t%  Ciq^bSqare.  C. 


1821.;] 


Birthf^Mmriages. 


BIRTHS. 


Jnfi«2L  LadyDaobar,  of  Booth,  aiOD. 

22.  At  Hambledon'.hoose,  th«  lady  of  Chas.  Seott 

MamiT,  ?.*q.  a  daughter. 
25.  In   Un^am  .place,  the  lady  of  Sir  Jamet 

Lan^hnin,  Hart.  a»on. 
38.  At  Putney,  the  lady  of  John  Patenon,  Baq. 

Capt.ofhon.  East  India  Company's  aliipHepaite, 

a  son. 
29.  At  Kin««R  Weston,  the  lady  of  Wm,  Dickinfon, 

Esq.  .\i  P.  a  son.  ,  «    * 

30  At  the  rottasfe,  .(^onthgaCe,  the  lady  of  S.  A. 

Curtlm,  E»q.  a  daughter. 

—  At  Catton,  Uerb  xhire.  the  lady  of  the  Hon. 
and  Kev.  K.  Tarleton.  a  duufrhter. 

JnW  2.  In  (treat  Marlboroairh.ntreet,  the  lady  of 

J'.  K.  Conant,  Esq.  a  daughter, 
.a.  At  Dennc-park,  the  lady  of  Edward  Bllgh,  Esq. 

a  daB^hter. 
€.  The  Lady  of  Col.  /iwynne,  of  Glaabran-park, 

Caermnrthenahlrel  a  son. 

7.  In  Albeinorle-street,  tne  Coantets  of  Lasl,  a 
dauiflMer. 

—  In  (aoncesteiwplaee,  the  lady  of  John  Forbes 
Mitchell,  Esq.  a  son. 

8.  At  St.  Leonards,  Essex,  the  lady  of  Capt.  Kor- 
hisht,  Coldstream  Cfuaids,  a  son. 

10.  The  lady  of  Andrew  Spottlswoode,  Etq.  of 
Be<lford>sqnare,  a  daughter. 

14.  At  Sindleiiham-lodge,  Berks,  the  lady  of  T.  R. 
Harman,  Esq.  aso«. 

—  At  Cambridge,  the  lady  of  Capt.  Parches,  RN. 
a  son 

15.  The  Hob.  Mrs.  Xewnham  Collingwood,  a 
daa;<hter. 

17.  At  Cheltenham,  the  lady  of  J.  Fteldea,  Esq. 

Wittoa-honsp,  Lancashire,  a  daughter. 
19.  In  Lower  (tfosYenor.sreet,  th«  Hi.  Hon.  Lady 

Caiheriae  Whvte  Melville,  a  son. 

—  The  lady  of  huilet  Sir  John  Mildmay,  Esq. 
MP.  a  son. 

S3.  In  Gluueester'place,  Portroan>sqaare,  the  lady 

of  \Vm.  Thompson.  Esq.  MP.  a  son. 
Lately,  the  lady  of  Thos.  Nichols,  Esq.  Boiton, 

Dorset,  a  son  and  heir. 

IV   8COTI.AXD. 

At  Edfnbnrrh,  the  laily  of  G.  Macpherson  Grant, 
Esq.  MP.  a  daughter. 

IV   IRELAXB. 

At  Waterfhrd,  the  lady  of  MfOor  Kettlewell,  R.  A. 

a  dauffh^er. 
At  Banylirkrv-honse,  county  of  Cork,  the  lady  of 

M^or  Clayton,  a  dnuthter. 
At  Dnb'in,  the  laily  of  Lieut.  Ellis,  Royal  Welsh 

Fasileers,  a  son. 

ABROAD. 

At  Rari^  Lady  Bochan,  a  son. 

A1  Tours,  the  lady  of  the  Kev.  G.  Way,  a  daugh- 
ter. 

At  norenc(>,  the  lit.  Hon.  Lady  Readleaham,  a 
son  and  heir. 

MARRIAGES. 

June  21.  At  St.  (•eonre's,  Hanover-square.  J.Ro- 
berto, Esq.  of  Great  Coram-st.  to  Margaret 
Esther,  sister  to  Wm.  Hothery,  Esq.  of  Vernon- 
place,  Rloomsbury-«quarr. 

—  At  Kichard,  Charles,  second  son  of  Wm.Tooke 
Robinson,  Esq.  of  Waltliamittow,  Essex,  to 
Harriet,  eldest  daughter  of  John  Cayley,  Esq. 
of  Pet<rnibunr. 

33.  At  St.  tsro-ke*a,  Hanover  aq.  Alex.  Hamilton 
Leonard  Eorle,  Em.  son  of  the  late  Col.  Earle, 
of  Tweed  liousr.  Northumberland,  to  Sophia, 
only  dani;hterof  the  late  H.  Pairy.  iCsn.  of  Hath. 
The  bride  was  given  away  by  Field  Marshal 
Lord  Beresford. 

26.  Isaac  Fryer,  Esq.  of  Wimbome  Minster, 
Dorset,  to  .Mary  Ann.  eldest  daogliter  of  Thos. 
Mottlden,  Esq.  of  .Statenborongh<hoi»r,  Kent. 

27.  A  Bow,  .(onn  Julin,  Esq.  to  Emilia,  eecond 
daufrhter  of  the  late  Hev.  Dr.  Llndsav. 

^-  Osbom  Markham.  Esq.  (•omptroller  of  the 
Barrack  Department,  lo  Mlaa  Jenris,  daughter 
of  the  late  Capt.  Jcrvia,  RN.  and  gntX  niaoe  of 
lheEarlorSt.Maoa  i 


29.  A^St.GeorMtfaniVer^inre,  Herbert  Bar- 
rett  Cu.nis,  Esq.  MP.  for  Sussex,  lo  Carolina 
8arah,  second  daogfater  and  ooheireas  of  the  lata 
Robert  Mascall,  &q.  of  Peuaraaroh-plaee,  Soa- 
sex,  and  Ashfoid,  In  Kent. 

—  Jnrors  Holmes,  Esq.  of  Montague-street.  Roe* 
eell-»nttare.  to  M!ss  Koberts,  of  Harrow  WeaUU 

—  At  St.  Mary.le-bone  New-chnreh,  T.  DuolNur, 
Esq.  2d  son  of  the  lute  Sir  G.  Dunbar.  Bart,  lo 
Clementina,  only  daui^hter  of  Sam.  J.  Trickey* 
Esq.  Upper-Charlotterst.  Fltiroy-square. 

ao.  At  St.  Genrge*s  Bloomsbnry,  by  the  Rev.  Hen. 
Pepvs.  Ch.  Pepvs,  Esq.  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  second 
son  uf Sir  Wm.  Weller  Pepys,  Bort.,  to  Caroline 
Elizabeth,  second  daughter  of  Wm.  Wingfieid, 
Esq.  of  IJncoln'S  Inn. 

July  2.  Col.  Hugh  Baillie,  of  Mortimfr-itreei; 
Cavendish-square,  to  Mary^yonngest  daughter 
und  co-heiress  of  the  late  Thomas  Smith,  Esq. 
of  Castleton-hali.  Lancashhre. 

3.  At  Eallnr,  Spencer  Perceval,  Esq.  eldest  mm 
of  the  late"  Right  Hon.  Spencer  Peroeval,  Em. 
to  Anne  Eliza,  youngest  dangliter  of  the  late 
General  Macleod,  of  Macleod. 

—  J.  Sargeanot.  Esq.  of  Coleshill,  Hertn,  tolfisi 
Steede,  of  Orohard-street,  PortaMn-aqoare. 

4.  At  Chatteris,  Samuel  George  Smith,  Em.  seeood 
son  of  Samuel  Smith.  Esq.  MP.  of  WoodhalU 

Kirk.  Herts,  to  Eugenia,  third  daughter  of  tho 
ev.  Robert  Chatfield,  LLD.  Vicar  of  Chatteris. 

9.  At  Mary-le-bone  Church.  Godfrey  Tborntos; 
Esq.  Grenadier  Gaards,  eldert  son  of  Stephen 
Thornton,  Esq.  of  Bloggerhaaicer-boBse.  Bed- 
fordshire, to  Susanna,  eldest  daughter  of  the  lata 
Joha  Dixon,  Esq.  of  Cecil-lodtfe,  Herts. 

10.  At  St.  Mary.ie-booe  choreh,  Capt.  Eveiro,  to 
Miss  Massy  Dawson,  daa^ter  of  J.  H.  Msaaf 
Dawson,  Esq.  MP.  of  New  Forest,  County  of 
Tipperary,  Ireiaod. 

11.  At  Wakerly,  Northamptonshire.  Uent.Xol. 
Read,  Grenadier  Gnards.  of  Lcadenham,  Uo- 
colnshire,  to  the  Bight  Hon.  Lady  Sosaii  She. 
rani,  sister  to  the  Earl  of  Harboroogh. 

.-  At  St.  George  s.  Hanover-squsre.  I  hos.  Veaa- 
bles,  Esq.  to  Anne,  fourtli  daughter  of  Joha 
King,  Esq.  of  Grosvenor .place. 

12.  John  Cookney.  F<sq.  of  the  Manritlns,  to  IV 
bitha,  fifth  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  Wm.  Mr- 
kins,  of  Twyford,  Bucks,  and  Kingsbury,  M» 
merseuhlre.  Chaplain  in  Ordinary  to  His  Ma- 
jesty, &e.fce.  «  .^  .■ 

—  Thos.  Spencer,  Esq.  of  Oower-street,  Bedted- 
sqnare.  to  Catherine,  daughter  of  the  late  John 
Gardner,  Esq.  of  Stamford.  - 

14.  At  Cheltenham.  Wm.  Augostos  Oriehar.  af 
Charlottc-st.  J)edfoni-sg.  son  of  the  late  Rleh* 
Oriehar,  F^sq.  of  Hinwick-bottse,  BedfbrdsUra, 
to  Mary  Caroline.  2d  daughter  of  the  late  Ben. 
Loognal,  Esq.  of  Bath.  ^^ 

—  .\t  Southampton,  J.  Diokson.  Esq.  of  thedTtn 
Rrgt.  to  Fanny  Carolina,  youngest  daughter  of 
the  late  Chas.  Bacon,  Esq.  of  Moor-park,  Snrryi 
and  of  Grosvenor-place.  Bath. 

—  Lieut.-C4>l.  Bell.  DepBtyQuarter-Master  Geo. 
at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  to  Lady  Catherioa 
Harris,  daughter  of  the  late  Eari  of  MalmshWY. 

16.  At$t.<]eorge«s.  Hanover-squan,  Capt.  Hydo 
Parker,  RN .  to  Caroline,  yoonirest  daughter,  of 
the  late  Sir  Frederick  Morton  Eden,  Bart. 

17.  At  St.  (;eorge*8,  Hanover-sqaara,  bv  the  Deaa 
of  Carlisle.  Wm.  Sam.  Best,  Esq.  eldest  soa  of 
the  Hon.  .Mr.  Justice  iJest.  to  Jane,  yosuupest 
daughter  of  the  late  Wm.  Tboytes,  hsq.  of  SbIt 
ham pstead-house,  Berks.     ^_,   ,„         ,^ 

—  The  Rev.  Baden  Powell,  AM.  Vicar  of  Plmn- 
stead,  to  Elita.  eldest  dungfater  of  V.  F.  Rhrai^ 
Esq  of  Upper  Claston ;  and  <it  the  same  time, 
Fras.  Rival.  Esq.  eldest  son  of  the  above,  to  Ma- 
rin, thlid  daughter  of  the  la  e  liev.  Fran.  Clitea, 
of  Alverstoke.  Hants,  Rector  of  Eastwell,  and 
Prebendary  of  Unoola. 

—  John  Commerell.  Esq.  only  son  of  J.  W.  Com- 
uierell,  Esq.  of  Stroud,  Sussex,  and  of  Berkeley- 
street,  lx>ndan.  lo  Henrietta  Sophia,  .seeood 
daufthter  of  the  late  Wm.  Bosaiiqiiet,  Esq.  of 
Upper  Hariev-street.  .     . 

—  Arthur  Shakspeare,  Esq.  RN.  to  Louisa,,  se- 
cond daughter  of  the  late  Joe.  Sage,  Esq..  qr 

tlie  Roval  Mint.  _        .„,,,.    .w 

la  At  Chariton,  Geo.Blreh.  Em.  of  Blarkbcath, 
to  fiUxahetb,  yoonfrest  daaghter  of  the  Her. 
Dr.  Grecniawpof  the  M«a  place. 


as.  CAuf- 

11.  SaUenl^    Mr.  AlUnMO.    of    Puta-untt, 

.^n"  E..  i«Fnii*D  of  Kclni  hti  hoiK  M.  bol  kh  ak. 

""■'^'  Ka«MLBj[»iit)il«ibly|in>uuU>l.  BMbHir. 

priK  wu  ieatiinnt,iai4  «e  *r  ibm  wral  iv 

luuJcriifihe  llienBii™BBf«c«t»liilo«ih»aow«(likl<uir 

!?5eS  ljlBf«ii»tati«kvilted«rl. 

'*™>'*^-  _  At  bl>  •al.dDrliSl.Thof.Mutli.BM.ta^ 

mtrlj  Fellov  Csbmhhir  a(  St.  JolnrtTMia- 

of  BrURc  WkkrBt,  18IM.  H<  wu  ilu,  terUw 
■erenl  yeui,  HepRteDbUw  la  Futiueol  for 
tbe  CIlT  of  LsodoB. 


^■mrU.  iDUnleKmltta-nnKWniBlaurr.iiml 


t,  HcBiT  Aninr  Htibtn,  8h.  ■ 
^oODtT  Xnn,  IrclBBd,  fcmoif 
Ooanly  of  KtRT.  ul  Ike  Bom  

_«'bir'.i?«"w5;,p».  In  8.i«.  I.  bt.  1^  iiihi;»jbj™.-i:™i.i.-««.&,.iu«dKr.( 

m  T«r.  0«-  TbOBii^  ■».  lUHatMUIn  |7  ai  l5'  nSStitt  of  Ihe  Dewint  ijab  Hor- 

sw'ut^!^  ftr  ax  CIH  orChkko«n>  Sob  i,^^  H«iw»,  M«.  RakXmt,  milctof^  iBle 


JobD  EnklDc,  Et(|,  CoB^Delter  af  Amr  Ac- 
T.  Pstcr  GudolrbTi «' 


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Ibn*,  Hi.  Aidnn^lBtilj Id ibr nUbtitlimtDi                              .u   acoTLAKD 
■   •fMr.  Coi*tt,tb*Biukw,  »iMi  MHll»IA^      ..   _    ,    .     , ,,     .        ,.,      „       ^ 

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NAPOLEON  BUONAPAKTE,  Kiri  SI  jitn 
•Bd9  II»lltb^  brJnr  Iwru  it  .Miccla  Id  ConlH, 
An;),  li.  ires.     Hr  Fiplml  iihrr  >n  lllnfll  of 

noildcnS  byhli  MnHnlAiUDd'aDU  IS  be  du. 

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t,  lerd  49.  Rtu  Admlnl  the 

ti  Mn- A1iop,the  ActrefB,BDddiiufa- 
Ul*  MltbrtUd  Mb.  Jortia. 

—  Gwn  KaatU,  Eiq.  of  Gholeiban,  Boeki,  

imettbi  ukd  OB  tk(  MhnriBic  dsf  bit  iMtr,  LmgttUfflB  Cunrbcll,  CtcmtT  VlimlDla,  Mr. 

HIM  Uunrct  naHcll,  uc4  «.  Cbu,  LitBt.  Std.  mbI  131  tnn,  bttn^  bom  u 

•.  At  bli  booae,  Ib  CltnlBBd-nnr,  Sir  JgbD  W.  AlboDiirlF,  btu  Hmklsglum  CoaDtr,  In  1700. 

CoDiitoa,  D.C.  L.  Ia»  Jadgi  of  Ihi  VIk  Adml-  H(  hu  left  (  wldoir,  inl  DO  ;<■'*■  >■>'  ■  "d- 

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Hin,  CMBbri«r.  (banti  CeBeiUlon.    He  m  *  Hlfitu  nf  foor 

—  AlheriHl.  ^libunGnn,8im*,llic  Hob.  BriHih  SoHrrlnu.  ud  i  Clllun  oFlheUnlIni 
CWhcHni  Divni;.  dHibler  of  tbe  late,  ud  StUolDr  hmtItW  jtut;  aita\  wllbin  ■  fiv 
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Bixl  I" '      vnU  Bfter  bii  dilldrto,  fTuid  eUldrcB,  nad  gnu  giud  OM. 

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■Un,  mod  (■'ictnuOnor  York.  built,,  sod  >■,  u  ■'«i- ai  •»«  "f  •»   -o 

—  At  bB  heoN^la  AadtoT^anan,  !■  bar  lOtb  tbMBtOoqwaf 


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DAILY  REMARKS  ON  THE  WEATHER,  Ac 

Juirs  1.   Fair  and  waim,  with  a  fine  15.  A  ckmdy  morning:  fine  in  the  af- 

aky  of  ctrroeumubuy  and  nascent  cumuli,  ternoon,  and  opposite  winds,  the  lower  one 

The  cresoent  of  the  new  moon  appeared  from  SW.,  also  oneparfteKon  on  the  south 

aoon  after  sunset,  near  the  NW.  horizon,  side  of  the  son,  and  descending  cirri  very 

being  only  36  hours  after  her  conjunction,  red  at  simset,  which  passed  to  cirrottrati, 

OrrostraiuMhymf^t.  16.  Afair  day:  an  overcast  sky  throu^. 

2.  Fog  ftom  3  till  7  AM.,  afterwards,  out  the  night 

nearly  as  the  preceding  day  and  night  ,-   r*        ^     -^x.           t  ^  ^ 

Opposite  currems    indie  Evening,   iid  7*  9j^'^  JH^  cumuhstratu,,    ex- 

J^  of   small    black   thunder^uds,  cept  an  hour  or  two  m  the  afternoon, 

ronned  by'inosculation  of  cirrocumuH  and  18.  AM.  as  the  preceding  t  PM.  fine, 

€irroitraii^  and  brought  up  by  a  superior  with  ctrri,  cirrocumuH^  &c  and  dew  in 

cnrreht  from  the  SE.  the  night,  when  the  NE.  breeze  became 

3.  Two  jMf^Ua  MpjpeBJKd  at  8  AM.,  ^^' 

each  H°  outsideL  of  a  solar  halo,  and  24P  19.  Fair,  with  cirri  only,  and  a  brisk 

distant  ftom,  and  in  a  right  line  with  the  wind. 

sun.— The  day  continued  fine :  an  overcast  20.  AM.  chiefly  overcast :  sunshine,  with 

aky  and  rain  in  -the  night  cumuiostratut  in  the  afternoon,  and  a  dear 

4.  AM.  li^t   rain :    PM.  fine,    with  i^>gbt     The  planets  Jupiter  and  Saturn 
paHing  diunder-douds.  ^^"^  cvly  ^^  morning,  in  apparent  con- 

«.  AM.  alowcoldmist,  which  shroud-  J"n«*i«n'  tJ>«^  Stance  being  only /rronii- 

^  It      ul      •     *i/     A     ..^wT^       •!•  nutes.    Jupiter  was  very  bright,   and  to 

ed  the  sky :    m  the  afternoon  prevajh^  ^^  „^  J^  g^^    wLch,*by  way  of 

plumose  and  1^  ""Jj  which  stretched  ^^       was  small  and  of  a^duU  V 

<rat  to  a  consideralMe  distance  from  the  |»^«--uoI 

main  body  towards  the  SW.,  whence  the  ^          ' 

zain  came  after  sunset  21.  Overcast  with  cumulottratus  in  the 

6.  AM.  sunshine,    with   cumuli,    &c  ^^^  except  an  hour  or  two  in  the  after- 

•DTLf             •-•««««»  v**!       •      A  noon :  a  fine  night     The  evaporation  has 

PM.  overcas^  and  a  httle  ram  after  sun-  .     „  ^.,  .J^^  ,,     ,^  ,,  J^  ,,_  ,_ 


let 


been  great  during  the  last  three  days  (: 
the  Table). 


7.  An  ovar«st  sky,  except  two  or  three        ^   ^,   ^^^    preceding    day:    overcast 

hours  at  nud-day  ;  after  the  mverted  «»-  throughout  the  nurht 
muli  had  mixed  with  other  modifications  ^  ^ 

ofdoud,  rain  came  on  in  the  night  23.   Overcast  with  dark  and  inverted 

a  Overcast    with    lofty    cumuli,    sur-  ^r^«»flo»ting  immediately  under  a  vol 

mounted  by  beds  of  cirroitratuM,  which  ^  ctrronratut, 

were  succeeded  by  a  rainy  day,  and  a  brisk        24.  As  the  preceding  day,   except  an 

gale  from  the  N£.:  a  doudy  night  bourns  faint  sunshine  in  the  evening,  when 

9.  AM.  the  sky  shrouded  with  attenu-  J?^,  plumose  «rH  appeared,  followed  by 
ated  cirroitratui,  whidi  afterwards  mixed  ^^*  ram  m  the  night 

with  cumuli :  PM.  showers  of  rain  mixed         25.  AM.  overcast  with  cumuhutratu*  of 

with  transparent  hailstones.    A  depression  an  dectric  appearance :  in  the  afternoon 

of  half  a  degree,  in  the  temperature  of  sunshine,  and  the  wind  veering  all  round 

apring.water,  has  taken  jdaoe  smce  the  6Ui  the  compass :  two  parhelia  at  7  P3f.,  and 

instant  a  fine  night 

10.  Some  flying  showers  of  hail  and  rain        26.  Fair,  with  loose  portions  of  cumuli, 

in  the  day:  a  doudy  night,  and  a  slight  and  other  modifications  of  doud. 

hoar-ftoet  without  the  town.  «-    *  nr  ^  i_       i:       a. 

27*  AM.  an  overcast  sky :  a  fine  after- 

1 1.  AM.    sunshine,     with    prevailing  noon,  and  a  doudless  sky  by  night 
broken  cumuloHratut :    PM.  nimbi  and 

light  showers  of  rain  at  intervals.  28.  As  the  preceding  day  and  night, 

,«   „  .        ...  ,.       ,  with  the  addition  of  an  under  current  from 

l^air,  with  currocumuli  and  ctifim-  ^^e  SE.  in  the  afternoon.     The  ground  has 

^"^  now  assumed  a  very  dusty  surface,  from 

13.  Faint  aunshine,  and  a  solar  halo  in  the  drought  of  the  last  18  davs,  and  the 
die  morning:  the  sky  overcast  with  undu-  prevailing  NE.  winds  since  the  13th  in- 
lated  cumtUot^atu*  in   the  afteitioon— a  ataflt 

^*  °^*'  S9.  Fair,  with  linear  HrH  ftom  the  SE., 

14.  A  fine  dur  and  fiigjht,  but  cold  and  and  attenuated  cirrottratus. — From  the 
doudy  at  intonilti  latter  modification  cirrocumuH  were  fonned 


1821.;] 


bourses  of  Fohign  Mxchange* 


into  bright  and  round  Jlocculi. — A  solar 
halo  and  a  parheiUm  in  the  afternoon,  a 
stratus  in  the  fields,  &c  in  the  evening, 
and  an  overcast  sky  throughout  the  night 

30.  AM.  faint  sunshine,  with  attenu" 
ated  cirrostratits :  PM.  a  steady  and  warm 
rain  from  the  S£. 


This  month,  excepting  a  few  days,  has 
been  cold  and  very  dry,  with  such  a  con- 
tinuance of  brisk  NE.  winds,  as  has  not 
occurred  these  seven  yean  past,  bavins 
prevailed  14  days  from  that  point,  and 
5  from  the  NorUi. — With  these  dry  cur- 
rents the  mercury  of  the  barometer,  from 
the  11th  to  the  close  of  the  month,  ranged 
between  .^009  and  30*34  inches ;  and  the 
Index  of  the  hygrometer  between  36^  and 

In  the  first  week  of  the  month  a  Robin 
was  observed  to  sing  strong  and  perfect  in 
the  mornings  and  evenings,  wluch  indi- 
cated the  constitution  of  the  air  to  be  more 
like  the  beginning  of  spring  than  summer. 
Qti  the  9th  a  shower  of  snow  is  said  to 
have  fallen  at  Stoke,  about  three  miles  to 
the  northward  of  Chichester ;  and  in  the 


day  of  the  10th,  several  showers  of  hail 
fell,  succeeded  in  the  night  by  a  slight 
hoar-frost  in  this  neighbourhood.  It  has 
also  been  asserted  by  travellers,  that  on  the 
11th,  snow  lay  three  inches  deqp  on  tbo. 
road  between  Northampton  and  Newpoct 
PagneL  . 

The  tnaximum  temperature  of  the  aiy 
this  month  is  only  7^^)  the  same  as  it  was 
on  the  26th  of  last  April ;  so  that  we  an 
yet  2^  short  of  summer  heat. 

The  mean  temperature  of  the  days  and 
nights  is  a  little  under  that  of  the  cold 
and  wet  June  in  1816;  and  more  than 
2^  below  the  mean  of  June  for  the  last 
six  years,  notwithstanding  the  greater 
number  of  fine  simny  days.  The  tempe- 
rature of  spring-water  has  fluctuated  im« 
usually ;  and  scarcely  any  dew  fell  in  the 
nights. — From  these  untoward  circum- 
stances, vegetation  and  the  ripening  of  tfaa^ 
fruit  were  retarded,  and  the  com  kept 
backward  in  its  growth,  but  it  has  a  pro* 
DEiising  appearance  here. 

The  atmospheric  and  meteoric  photo- 
mtna  that  have  come  within  our  observa- 
tion this  month  are  6  parheUa^  4  solar 
halos,  1  small  meteor,  and  1  strong  gale 
of  wind  from  the  N£. 


COURSES  OF  FOREIGN  EXCHANGE  AT 


ox 

Paris. 
20  July 

Hambunr. 
17  July 

Amsterdam 
19Jaly 

Vienna. 
7  July 

Genoa.    Berlin. 
14  July 

Naples. 

Lelpsi^. 
18Jny 

Bremen.! 
lOJnly 

London 

Paris 

25-40 

249 

477 
511 

13-65 
435 

13-55 

37-9i 
26* 

108} 
146) 

147i 

147i 

83| 

89| 

37i 
94 

94) 
37i 

42-1 
59i 
86* 

374 

37 

364 

93^ 

101 

424 
103A 

86 
103) 
1054 

42 

1010 

1194 

145 

135 

994 
6O4 

56| 

^^ 

7-2| 
83 
152} 
140} 
104 
1034 
1034 

104) 

mamm 

6-20 

14^ 

136 

100) 

100 

100) 

619 

17) 
132 
122) 

112 
112 

- 

Hamburg... 
Amsterdam. 

Vienna 

Franekfbrt.. 
Augsburg... 

Genoa 

Leipsig 

leghorn .... 
Lisbon  ...... 

Cadiz 

Naples 

BUboa 

Madrid 

Oporto 

COURSES  OF  FOREIOK  EXCHAKOE  AT 


OK 

Fmnekfort. 
16  July 

Nnreraberg 
12  July 

Christiana. 
6  July 

Pet^rsburn. 
2^June 

Ri(Ca. 
2  July 

Stock, 
holm. 
1  Jnlv 

Madrid. 
12  July 

Lisbon. 
27  Juue 

iIx)ndon ...... 

iParis 

1  Hamburg.... 
Amiiterdam  . 
Genoa 

154) 
80| 
146 
136 

fl.  1012 
fr.  1 19) 

145) 

136 

8>p.l2 

37 
174 
160 

1024 

i»i3 

n 

si 

10^ 

11-44 

122 
116 

371 
10-4 

51 
642 
39 
424 
870 

MARKET^ 


COURSE  OF  EXCHANGE. 

From  June  29  to  July  24. 

Amsterdam,  C.  F 12-18 

Bitto  «t  mglit 12-15 

Rotter^m,  2U 12-19 

Antwerp 12-12.. 12-11 

HambuTgh,  2^  U 38-10.  .38.« 

AHMia,2tU 88-11.. 38-9 

Paris,  Sdays'sigjit 26-86.. 25-70 

B!tto..2U    26-20.. 264) 

Bourdeaox    26-20. .  26-0 

FrankfortondieMainl  ^^^ 

£x.  M ^•••••. 

PetenbuTg,  rUe^SU 9..8| 

Yiemia,^.  flo.  2  M 10-28.. 10-25 

Trieste  ditto 1 0-28 . .  1 0-25 

Madrid,  eflfective 36 

C!idiz,  effective 86} 

Bflboa 364 

Boredona 35 

Seville 364 

Gibraltar 304 

Le^orn  .....  47 

Venice,  ItaL  liT. 27-60 

Malta 46 

Naples 384 

Palermo,  peroz.    116 

Lisbon 494.. 50 

Oporto 60 

Rio  Janeiio 49 

Bahia 69 

Dublin 94 

Cork 9 


PRICES  OF  BULLION. 
At  per  Ounce* 

£.  t,    eL      £.    e,   tL 
Portugal gdld,in coin 0    0    0  ..0    0    0 
Foreign  ^d,  in  ban  3  17  IO4..O    0    0 

New  doubloons 0    0    0  ..0    0    0 

New  dollars 0    4  94  ..0    4     10 

Silver, in  bars, stand. 0    4  IO4..O    0    0 

Tbe  above  Tables  contain  thebighest 
and  the  lowest  prices. 

Averof^e  Price  of  Raw  Sugar^   excluHve 
of  Duty,  32<.  &2. 

Bread* 

Highest  price  of  the  best  wheateoi  bread 
in  London  d^d.  the  quartern  loaf. 


Potatoes  per  Cwt.  in  SpUalJUldt. 

Ware jCO  2  6  to  0  3  0 

Middlings ...  .0  1  6  to  0  0  0 

Chats 0  1  0  to  0  0  0 

ConmumRed.  .0  0  0  to  0  0  0 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  COMf 

IN  THE  TWELVE  MAEITIXE  DIST&ICTS. 

By  the  Quarter  of  8  Winchester  Bushdi, 
Rom  the  Returns  in  the  Weeka  eoding 

June 
23 
Wheat;6l  10 
Rye  -  131  6 
Baiaey24  6 
Oats  17  9 
Beans  33  3 
Peas    1317 

Com  and  Pulse  imported  into  ^e  Put  of 
London  from  June  26,  to  July  23. 


June    July 

July 

30        7 

14 

51     661     6 

51    7 

33     6  31     0 

32     I 

23    4  23  10 

24    0 

17    8  18    3 

18    8 

30     2  30    2 

30    7 

30    2  30     1131  11| 

English 
Wheat  24,096 
Barley    22,686 


Oats 

Rye 

Beans 

Pease 

Malt 


33,684 

6,636 

1,559 

10,938 


Irish    Foreign     Total 

975      280       26,351 

130      _  8,216 

6,380      —        39,964 

56      —  66 

6,536 

1,559 

Qrs.;  Flour  36,504  Sada. 


Foreign  Flour  640  barrels. 


Price  of  Hops  per  cwt.  in  the  Borougkm 
Rent,  New  bags  . .  •40«.  to    75ff. 

Sussex,  ditto 40«.  to 

Essex,  ditto 00s.  to 

Yearling  Bags 00«.  to 

Kent,  New  Pockets  40«.  to 

Sussex,  ditto 40«.  to 

Essex,  ditto 00#.  to 

Famham,  ditto 00s,  to 

Yearling  Pockets ....  35s.  to 


70ff. 

OOf. 
OOm. 
84«. 
65«. 
00#. 
00«. 
60s. 


Average  Price  per  Load  of 
Hay.  CIo^.  Straw. 

£.   s.     £.  s.    £.s.  £.    s.    £.  s.    £. 

SmithJIeld. 
3    3to4  16. .3  10to6    0..1     8tol 

Whitcehapel 
3  10to4     8..4    0to5     6..110tol 

SU  Ja$nes*s. 
3     6^6    0..3  10to6    0..1  10to2 


16 
16 


Meat  by  Carcase^  per  Stone  of  81b.  at 

Newgate.'-^ReeS ....2s.  &2.  to  .3«.  8tf. 

Mutton.. 2#.  2d.  to  Zs.  44. 

Veal 3s.  Sd.  to  As.  M. 

Poik 2«.  8d.  U)  As.  U, 

Lamb...2#.  Bd.  to  At.  %i. 

LeadenhalL^Beei 3s.  Od.  to  As.  Od. 

Mutton.. 2«.  4^.  to  3ff.  2d. 

Veal....2«.  Sd.Xo  As.  8d. 

Pork . . .  .2s.  Ad.  to  As.  Ad. 

Lamb . .  .3s.  Od.  to  As.  2d. 


Cattk  sold  at  SmUhJUld  from  June  29, 

to  July  22,  both  inclusive. 

Beasts.        Calves.        Sheep.        Pigs. 

9,450  2,549         130,140       1,680 

HIGHEST  AND  LOWEST  PRICES  OF  COALS  (IN  THE  POOL), 

In  each  Week,  from  July  2  to  July  23. 
July  2.  July  9.  July  16.  July  23. 

s.  d.  s.  d.  s.  d.  s.  d.  s.  d.  s.  d.  s.  d.  s.  d. 
NewcMtle. . . .  35  0to42  6|300to42  3|a20to42  9|ai0tD426 
6iiiMMand...38  0to4S0340to42  3380to386|34  3to4d0 


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By  J.  M.  Rkharthon,  Slock-bnier,  23,  CorTJnll.                  1 

THE 


LONDON    MAGAZINE. 


•^"i*" 


No.  XXI. 


SEPTEMBER,  1821. 


Vol.  17,. 


»■  ■ 


COSTSSTB. 


V(^  Uon'K  l^cao. 


TftADITIOMAL  LiTBRATVRS,  No.  IX. 

Judith  BlacfQDe)  tbe  Pxoph6teit| 

wUAJMMf   ••••. 07 

Ei^riUiEitfii^ M« 

Inmienoe  of  Soenerj  on  Poetic  Qm^ 

ncter.    Bunt 

The  AntiqiMtj *••.. 

Thiipdore  md  BeHhrn^  a  Drmna^ 

Sketch 

On  6penier*8  eappoeed  Aoqaahitiiioe 

wittiShalspene..... 

LsisuuB  H0URS9  Nd-I. 

On  HomerV  Batdeof  the  Vngt 

■ndHke  .^.. 

FareweU to  Mmr^.    JBjy  J€llM  Ckn-  ITS 

Epitiqjht S74 

Renew.^M6ditet20D8  Po^ites,  ptf 

M.  AJphomede  liHOMtine 977 

The  Old  BEycBcms  of  tbk  Iv* 
itsrTsmplv.    Bf  Elia    S79 

inM  for  Q[tlf ttanti.  No.  I. 
-AeooOeetione  in  a  OooBtiyGbiivdi- 
yttd 

CoVFKSUOirS    OF    AM     £mOLI0H 

Ofium-Eate& 

loocimaMitt SIS 


OLKAinyefl  fkom  Fomsioir  Joub» 

VALS. 

Maibid  hi  tfaetehttor.  1821..  SM 
Report  of  Moile,  NoTxOL 
Thje  Diaxa,  Now  XX. 


andFUl— MeldMnaidi«--tfar 

MiUer^aMaid T SIS 

B«fiew.— A  new  Hvmn  Book ...... 

liKV^EAET  AVD  SCXXITTIFII;  ly. 
TSX.I.10X4CX «.,  Pl^ 


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Abftmet  oTFonii^nd  Domeitie  Ocr 


Biithi,  Deoth^  and  Marriagea  SSI— ISS 

EccUwiatical  Prtfannttta  ...' S8S 

AgncQlftmal  Bapovt  •••••••»«««««...SpS' 

Nomendatare of  Caooda '..  m 

Ofaaenratiaiia  on  the  Weather,  ibr  Jid^  SSS 
Meteowioglcal  Joonaly  ftr  iliily .....  SV 

Coimnerdal  Beport...... ....... ...  SSS 

Worha    prepanng    for   PnbJication    .. 
and  lately  jpnbl&hed,  new  Patenti, 
BanlanuBlcieByMABKST8,8Toclc8)  ' '' 
&C. 941-SM' 


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LONDON 


PRINTJSD  FOB  TAYLOR  AND  HES8EY. 


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ZEjUeri'd  ai  Siathnfr/  HalLJ 


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TBB  UOIPB  BSA]>. 


We  have  received  the  suljohied  Letter  from  Mr.  Herbert— the  ezpUimi* 
turn  is  best  given  in  his  own  words. 

Sib — I  know  not  howa  oopy  of  my  kttsr  toa  Mod,  dwcripdfc  of  Aehle  Comiatiiiii 
fell  into  your  hands ;  bnt  as  ywL  ha?o  tfaonght  fit  to  print  it,  I  troat  you  win  comet 
an  enor  which  has  crept  into  ttie  aeooont.  You  make  me  state,  that  the  Marquis  of 
Anglesea  had  consideraMe  difficulty  hi  managmg  lua  hone  during  the  retreat:  this  wm 
not  the  fiict.  My  hotd  Howaid  or  Rffingjmm  (teodedy  be  tt  qpokcn)  wu  troubled  in 
his  departure,  and  did  not  make,  what  the  old  nnnea  call,  agiMdend;  but  the  Mar- 
quis rode  gnoeftdly  and  nobly.  And  I  must  b^  that  yon  will  do  hhn  justice  witfi 
your  readers,  by  correcting  the  passage. 

I  cannot  coodnde  without  ezprettmg  mydeep  seoae  of  die  honour  yon  lia?e  done  ms^ 
by  placing  my  pogt-office  prooe  in  jm)  mteugent  and  plesssnt  a  wqkx  ssthe  LovDOtf 
Magazine.    May  I  try  my  hand  again  t  * 

I  am,  Sir,  yoms  leqpectftilly , 
Aibamifi  Aug.  1821.  Edwaed  HsBBEaT. 

The  ThebtM,  who  requests  us  to  address  D.  0.  soars  fiur  beyond  the  limita 
of  the  London  Magazine:  witness 

The  meditatkai  ib'd,  the  silmlness 

Of  yon  lone  tone  en  die  darik  shon  sitdag, 

So  W0tti0fiii||r  In  aMffacHoik 

This  is  our  conditioD>  after  reading  our  Ckmrespondeat's  vmbbs. 

T.  T.  T.'s  lines  to  '' ny  Mwrj,"  are  not  amiss  for  a  lover  rising  fifteen. 
We  shatt  be  glad  to  hear  mm  hun  again  upon  his  Gomiqg  of  age. 


Cidin  has  sent  us  a  Sunmier  Pastoral^  and  sajs  that  he  can  mxpffy,  us  wHh 
one  ererj  montlL— Has  he  always  got  sheep  in  his  ffaf 


Beta's  proposal  of  ScriptuireBgnnets,  '' two  a  month  or  so,"— is  kind,  but 
we  hare  no  deshne  to  see  the  Scriptures  cut  up  into  sonnets.  His  Poem  on 
Fame  will  bring  neither  him  nor  ua  any. 

Fenieia  is  put  under  eorer  as  desired.  J.  W.  has  not  ''  tiie  Honour  of 
addressing  ."    The  lines  addressed  to  a  Catalpa  are  ingenious,  but 

they  want  more  than  we  can  giro  them  to  become  good  poetry.    We  al^|ure 
the  «« Ghosts"  of  i;. 

A  Constant  Reader  hayhiff  read  hi  our  '« last  Work,  No.  II.  entitled  the 
Dnuna,  or  Theatrical  Magasme,^  that  the  Champion  atCovent  Garden  ''haa 
backed  himself  into  our  good  graces ; "  urgently  requests  that  the  nubtte 
should  know  (after  the  maimer  of  Bottom's  interpretation  of  hhnself)  that 
the  Champion  is  not  the  Champion,  but  Mr.  CoUett,  fotmqjy  Biding  Master 
of  Mr.  Astiey's  Amphitheatre,  the  old  originalBlood  Red  Kidght 

We  have  not  recdved  the ''  Trifles  forwarded  by  O."  There  are  three  of 
our  Corre^Nmdenta  all  using  this  signature.  The  Packet  from  B  ■■  b 
received* 


«  Yet,   LiON*8  Head. 


836  The  Lions  Head. 

W^  really  cannot  think  of  inserting  such  verses  as  the  foUowmg :— 

THE    champion's    FAREWELL. 

Otium  cum  Dignitatc. 

Here !  bring  me  my  breeches,  my.  mmour  is  over  { 

FareweU  Kir  somie  time  to  my  tui  ftrntalooPi ; 
Double  millM  kerseymere  is  a  kind  of  leg  clover, 

Good  luck  to  broad  doth  ^r  a  score  or  two  moons ! 

Here !  han^  up  my  helmet,  and  reach  me  my  beaver. 

This  avoirdupois  wdght  of  glory  must  fSall ; 
I  think  on  my  life  that  again  I  shall  never 

Take  my  head  in  a  saucepan  to  Westminster-hall. 

Oh,  why  was  our  family  bom  to  be  martial  ? 

'Tis  a  mercy  this  ghmd  show-of-fight  day  is  up, 
I  do  not  think  Gafto  i^as  mudi'omwpartial 

To  bsck  through  the  dishes,  with  me  and  my  cup. 

By  the  blood  of  the  Djrmokes  1*11  sit  in  my  lodgine^ 
And  iSbt  gauntlet  resign  for  ^  neat  gentleman's  doe  :" 

If  I  ride,  I  vi/lride,  md  no  longer  be  dodging 
My  horse's  own  tail  "twixt  Due,  Marquis,  and  Go. 

No  more  at  my  hbrseman-ship  folks  shall  make  merry. 
For  I*U  ship  man  and  horse,  and  ^^  show  off,*' — not  on  sliorc  ; 

No  funnies  for  me !  I  will  ride  in  a  wherry  ; 
They  featherM  my  scuH— but  YM  feather  my  oar. 

60  Thomas  take  Cato,  and  put  on  his  halter. 
And  give  him  some  beans,  since  I  now  am  at  peace ; 

If  a  diampion  is  wanted,  jpray  go  to  Sir  Walter, 
And  he'll  let  you  oat  Marmions  at  sovereigns  a-piecc. 

The  ladies  admired  the  pyebal^  nag  vastly. 

And  dapp'd  his  old  sober-sides  into  thp  street : 
Here's  a  cheque  upon  CHld,  so  my  man  go  to  Astlcy, 

Pay  the  charge  of  the  charger,  and  bring  a  receipt. 

N.  of  Margate,  says  he  means  to  send  us  *'  A  Marine  Subject."  We 
hope  it  will  be  a  Mermaid. 

*^  Summer  Holidays"  are  very  pretty^  and  might  be  relished  by  those 
who  are  young  enough  to  enjoy  them  in  reality — but  the  world  is  not  so 
young  aa  It  was. 

Philogenes'  "  Verses  to  the  Matchless  Orinda,"  are  defective  hi  the  title, 
as  our  legai  adviser  informs  us  ;  Mrs.  Katherinc  Phillips  was  once  married. 
We  thought  we  saw  some  other  flaws  not  less  fatal  to  his  pretensions. 

The  article  on  H—  is  written  with  too  much  asperity.  If  piquant 
means  personal^  we  decline  the  other  Communications  offered  by  Aliquis, 

Henry  has  some  good  stuff  in  him^  but  it  is  as  much  as  our  place  is  worth 
to  obUge  him.  **  Sweet  Quarter  of  the  Year "  tickled  our  kidneys.  We 
suspect  IT.  Zr.  Is  a  ipelation  of  his  ;.  the  same  answer  will  apply  to  both. 


On  Modes  of  Sepulture,  by  M.  should  have  been  addressed  (like  a  funeral 
society's  hand  bill)  '«  To  those  who  wish  to  be  biuied." 

Many  other  Signatures  arc  waiUng  for  answers^  but,  to  be  brief^  they 
Ifnust  guess  at  the  reasons  of  our  refuw. 


THE 


lonlion  nWlaBajine^ 


N**  XXI.  SEPTEMBER,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


TRADITIONAL  LITERATURE. 
No.  IX. 

JUDITH    MACROKB   THE    PROPHETESS. 

But  I  am  haunted  by  a  f^Miftil  shape— 

Some  hated  thing  which  sharp  fear  forma  of  shadows ; 

Something  which  takes  no  known  form,  yet  alarms 

Me  worse  than  my  worst  foeman  armM  in  proof — 

Something  which  haunts  my  slumbers — finds  me  out 

In  my  deep  dreams — in  fiercest  strife,  when  Uood 

Runs  rife  as  rivulet  water — in  quiet  peace 

When  rustic  songs  aboiUid— in  sflent  prayer, 

For  prayer,  too,  have  I  tried— still  is  it  mere— 

Now — ^now— the  dismal  shadow  stalks  before  me. 

More  visible  than  ever.  Old  Play. 

The  whole  course  of  Annan- w»-  and  wild  plum,  remains  ^  of  iniH* 
ter,  in  Dumfries-shire^  is  beautiful ;  tary  or  feudal  greatness^  dismantled 
from  where  it  arises  among  the  up-  keeps  or  peels,  and  repeated  ves* 
land  pastures^  in  the  vicinity  of  the  tiges  of  broad  Roman  roads  and 
sources  of  the  Clyde  and  the  Tweed,  ample  camps,  with  many  of  thoae 
and  winding  its  way  by  old  church-  massive  and  squat  structures,  vault- 
yard,  decayed  castle,  Roman  en-  ed,  and  secured  with  double  iron 
campment,  and  battle-field — through  doors,  for  the  protection  of  cat- 
fine  natural  groves,  and  well-culU-  tie,  in  former  times,  fit>m^  reavers 
vated  ^rounits,  finally  unites  its  wa-  and  forayers.  The  river  itself  has 
ters  with  the  sea  of  Sol  way,  after  attractions  of  its  own :  its  inconsi- 
conferring  its  name  on  the  pretty  derable  waters  are  pure;  and  the 
little  borough  of  Annan.  The  in-  pebbles  may  be  numbered  in  the 
terior  of  the  district,  it  is  true,  pre-  deepest  pools,  save  when  the  stream 
sents  a  singular  mixture  of  desolate  is  augmented  by  rains ;  and  for  die 
nature  and  rich  cultivation ;  but  the  net,  Uie  liester,  and  the  fly-hook,  it 
immediate  banks  of  the  river  itself  produces  abundance  of  salmon,  giil- 
are  of  a  varied  and  romantic  charac-  ses,  herlings,  and  trouts.  The  pea^ 
ter.  At  every  turn  we  take,  we  santry  are  as  varied  in  their  cfaarae* 
come  to  nooks  of  secluded  and  fairy  ter  as  the  district  they  inhabit  A- 
beautv — ^^roves  of  fine  ancient  trees,  griculture  and  pastura^  claim  an 
coeval  with  the  ruined  towers  they  equal  share  in  the  pursmts  of  almost 
embosom — clumps  of  the  most  beau-  every  individual ;  and  they  are  dis- 
tiful  holly,  skirted  with  rones,  or  tinguished  firom  the  people  of  many 
irregular  rows  of  hazel,  wild  cherry,  other  lowland  districts   by  superior 

Vol.  IV.  T 


938  TnuHiioiul  Literaturt.  C^P'- 

strcngth,  a^ilitf ,  aiid  courage :  the  straight  itema  of  the  trees,  escaped 

free  mountain  air,  gentle  labour,  aiid  into  the  free  air  through  the  ii{)|>«r 

Tarietv  of  pursuits,    give  a  health  bough*  of  the  grore.    Between  the 

and  activitj  which  fit  them  for  mar-  tower  and  the  river  laj  manv  webs 

tial  exercises  ;  and  they  have,    per-  of  fine  linen,  blenching  on  the  grass ; 

hnps,  more  of  a  miliary  air  abotit  wliile  from  the  niin  itself  came  the 

them,   than  the   inhabitants   of   any  uninterru|ited     nierrinient    of    some 

of  the  ni'ighbonring  rales.     Msnj  conntr;  maidens — ■  »ngidar  medlev 

Btrnnge,  romantic,  and  martial  sto-  of  open  laughter,   fragments  of  sung, 

ries,  ]iii);i'r  among  them;  anil  tho^c  anil    tainiU    alxnit    i-oiirtsbip,    and 

who   linve   the   giiud  fortune   to   h'i  sarcasms    on   the  luclc   of  lovers. — 

admitteil  to  their  friendship,  or  their  "  Lads  !  "   s«td   a   sIitIII   voice,    "  1 

fireside,  may  hare  tluir  conilcscen-  never  saw  such  soidless  coufs -ane 

»!on   richly   repaid   by   curious   oral  would  think  we  had  ne'er  a  tiHith  in 

comroiulications,    in   which   history,  our  head,  or  a  pair  n'  lips   for   the 

tnie  and  fabulous,  and  poetry,  and  kisung."     "  Kisshig,    indoeil  I "  siiiil 

■nperstition,  are  strangely  blended  to-  anoLber ;     '*  Ane    would    think    our 

getber.     The  tale  of  the  spirit  which  lips  were    made    for    nought     snve 

for  many   generations   has    haunted  supping-  curds  or  croudy,   and  thut 

the  castle  of  Spedlans,  will  have  its  we  were  suspected  of  witchcraft 

narrative  of  ordinary  horror  accom-  here  we  haTe  l)cen  daidlbig  in  tliix 

panted  by  fairy  legends,  and  tradi-  den  of  woe  and   dool   from  blesseil 

tions  mure  romantic  ht  their  origin,  aim-rise,  and  dell   a   creuliin^   with 

and  more  deeply  steeped  in  the  dews  hair  on  its  lip  has  mistaken  its  rouJ. 

of  superstition,  and  come  near  iis.     1  think  ancient 

One  tine  September  morning-,  for  spunk  and  glee   be  dead  and  gone 

the  combined  purpose  of  angling,  ga-  from    merry   Annan-water." — "  Ah, 

thering  nuts,  and  exploring  the  strong-  my    bonnie   lasses,"   interrupted'  ail 

holds  of  the  ancient  heroes  of  Annan-  old    woman,     half   choked    with    a 

dale — the    Hallidays,   the  Jardines,  church-yard  congh,    "  1  iniiid   weel 

the  Carlytes,  the  ^lls,  and  the  In--  in  the  blessed  year  fifteen  ue  iiud  a 

ings,  I  proceeded  up  the  river  bank,  bonnie  bleaching  in  this  very  place 

and   employed   my  fish-rod   with   a  —there  was  Jeany  Bell,   and  Kate 

tucceai  which  drove  me   in   despair  Bell,  her   cousin,    who   had   a  mis- 

to  nut-gathering.     It  was  past  mid-  fortune  at  fcKty,  and  was  made  an 

day  when  I   arrived  at  a  line  bold  honest    woman   at   tiftr-eight ;   and 

sweep   of   the    stream,    where    the  there  was  Bell  Irving  and  me, — lads] 

ahade  of  the  bordering  graves   was  we  had  the  choice  of  the  parish  ;  ye 

inritinglj  cool,  and  the  ereen-sward  might  have  heard   the   caressing  o' 

fresh,    woft,    and   untrodden.       The  our  lips  as  far  as    the   M'yiiehole; 

sun  was,  to  use  the  ezpresuoo  of  a  and  what  would  ye  think — Pate  Ir- 

Bcottish  poet — "  wading  'maiiff  the  Ting,  now  a  douce  man  and  8  Rodly, 

mist,"  iw  as  a  fastidious  Englishman  was  the  waiitonest  of  all.     Ab,  hit 

would  say,  "  strugglinK  amid  diia-  bonnie  kimmcn,  that  waa  a  nigfat. ' 

Ely  rain,'    which  abated  the  beat  a(  Thia  daacriptian  of  dRtartad  jm 

the  lumbiary,  and  rendered  tbegiaM-  MeoiMl  b>  faifiiM  ha  warn  kto  tM 

Uade  cool  and  muat.    A  Jmt  o«fc«  Touwwr  btaacbM  ti  a»  wtuUUk- 

beauty  of  na^ 

row   holm,   or   bord      ,,   

award,  between   the   wood  i  . 

water;  whileat  the  exttcuiity  of  the  litce,    iinnuocaled  with   b  nrodi 

walk,  where  the  stream  was  limited  «f  glialcruig  nut-lira«ii  li^u, 

by  pTOJei-iinjt  rocks,   stood  .Ibe  r»-  J#ct«d   post   tb«   pnn*.    on-l    •■■ 

-muns  of  one  of  thuw  ii<|tiuiv  unit,  rioUrii^  me  vrry  sifiiH  ''■ 

.ur  lowers  of  reliijiv,  alrcwly  alliidnl  bead  writh  dart  r    . 

ID.     The  buildiog  wm  ruolltH  :  ami  faiibuitlTaari*!'''' '' 

tbo  w:Ulx  hmtl  hmm  leasennl  in  tbeli  [mwtrtly   Ibw   in-.i  ' 

height  by  violence;    whitf  fn 

bilerior  oaccnilcvl  n  thit   ' '   " 

w  liich,    mrlinir    awap 


1831.;]  Traditional  LUeraiMre.  S$9 

(leni  allegory.  A  Tartan  night-cap  failed  to  mend  it  with  Dick  Bell 
endeavoured  in  vain  to  restrain  her  o'  the  Cowfioshan."  The  secret  his- 
matted  and  withered  hair,  which  the  tory  of  the  old  woman's  unhappy 
comh  had  not  for  a  long  while  sought  loves  was  interrupted  by  the  appear- 
to  shed,  or  the  scissars  to  abridge ;  ance  of  a  very  handsome  girl,  who> 
her  cheeks  were  channeled ;  and  a  bearing  refreshments  for  her  me- 
pair  of  spectacles  perched  on  a  nose  nials,  glided  through  the  grove,  with 
something  of  the  colour  and  shape  a  foot  so  light  and  white — a  look  so 
of  a  lobster's  claw,  assisted  her  in  sweet— a  high  white  forehead,  shaded 
drawing  conclusions  from  the  ap^-  with  locks  clustering  over  the  tem- 
pearance  of  a  stranger.  1  heard  pies— and  with  eyes  so  large,  so  bright, 
the  tittering  and  whispering  of  the  and  blue,  that  she  seemed  a  personi- 
maidens;  but  the  voice  of  the  old  fication  of  the  shepherd  maidens  of 
woman  aspired  to  something  more  Scottish  song.  Two  fine  moorland 
elevated  than  a  whisper,  and  mingled  dogs  accompanied  her :  they  sat  as 
counsel  and  scolding  in  equal  quan-  she  sat,  stood  as  she  stood,  and 
titles.  "  A  fisher,  indeed !  respond-  moved  as  she  moved.  She  withdrew 
ed  the  sybil  to  the  queries  of  one  from  her  companions,  and  approach- 
of  her  greener  companions — "  and  ed  where  I  stood,  with  a  look  at 
what's  he  come  to  fish?  — a  snow-  once  so  sweet  and  demure,  that, 
white  web  from  the  bottom  of  Our  trespasser  as  I  imagined  myself  to 
cauldron — Aye,  aye,  cause  he  has  ae  be,  I  was  emboldened  to  abide  a 
handsome  leg,  and  something  of  a  rebuke,  which  I  hoped  would  come 
merry  ee— mind  ye,  I  say  na  twa —  softened  from  such  sweet  lips, 
ye  christen  his  calling  honest.— He's  a  Though  apparently  examining  the 
long  black  fallow  with  a  tinker  look,  progress  oi  ner  linen  towards  perfect 
and  ril  warrant  there's  no  his  mar-  whiteness,  and  approaching  me  ra- 
row  from  Longtown  to  Lochmaben,  ther  by  a  sidelong  than  a  direct 
for  robbing  hen-roosts ;  and  yet  I  step,  I  observed,  by  a  quick  glance 
shouldna  wonder,  Mysie  Dinwoodle,  of  her  eye,  that  I  was  included  in 
if  ye  held  tryst  with  that  strange  lad  her  calculations.  I  was  saved  the 
for  a  whole  night,  with  no  witness  confusion  which  a  bashful  person 
save  the  blessed  moon."  '<  Hout  feels  in  addressing  a  stranger,  by  a 
now.  Prudence  Caird,"  said  the  fair-  voice  from  the  river-bank,  which, 
haired  girl,  "  ye  are  thmkuig  on  the  ascending  from  a  small  knoll  of  green 
mistake  ye  made  with  Pate  John-  willows,  sang  with  singular  wildness 
stone,    of   Dargavel*— and    how    je  some  snatches  of  an  old  ballad. 


1. 

O  Annan  runs  smoothly  atween  its  green  banks; 

The  ear  may  scarce  listen  its  fiowlne ; 
Ye  may  see  'tween  the  ranks  of  the  lofty  green  trees 

The  golden  harvest  growing; 
And  hear  the  horn  wound— see  the  husbandman's  bands 
Fall  on  with  their  sharp  sickles  bright  in  their  hands. 


I  have  seen  by  thy  deep  and  romantic  stream 

The  sword  of  the  warrior  flashing ; 
I  have  seen  through  thy  deep  and  my  crystal  stream 

The  barbed  war  steeds  dashing : 
There  grows  not  a  green  tree — there  stands  not  a  stone. 
But  the  fall  of  the  valiant  and  noble  has  known. 

When  the  song  ceased,  1  observed  and  I  could  not  help  imagininff ^  that 

two  hands  shedding  apart  the  thick  my  companion  felt  a  partiou^  in- 

willows,  while  an  eye  glanced  for  a  terest  in  the  minstrel's  story.    The 

moment  through  the  aperture  on  the  time  and  the   place  contributed  to 

young  maiden  and  me.    A  song  of  the  charm  of  the  sweet  voice  and  the 

a  gentler  nature  instantly  follow^ —  rusticpoetry. 

T2 


940  IVttdUiomU  LUeraiure.  [[Sept. 

BONNIE    MARY    HALLIDAT. 
1. 

Boimie  Marj  Halliday^ 

Turn  agauiy  I  call  you ; 
If  you  go  to  tbe  devry  wood 
^  Sorrow  will  befal  tou  : 

The  rinffdove  frocn  tbe  dewy  wood 

Is  wailing  sore,  and  caUing ; 
And  Annan-water,  'tween  its  banks. 

Is  foaming  £ur  and  filing. 

2. 
Gentle  Mary  Halliday, 

Come,  my  bonnie  lady ; 
Upon  the  river's  woody  bank 

My  steed  is  saddled  ready ; 
And  for  thy  haughty  kmsmen's  threats. 

My  faith  shall  never  faulter ; 
The  bridal  banquet's  ready  made. 

The  priest  is  at  the  altar. 

3. 
Gentle  Mary  Halliday, 

The  towers  of  merry  Preston 
Have  bridal  candles  gleaming  bright. 

So  busk  thee,  love,  and  hasten ; 
Come,  busk  thee,  love,  and  bowne  thee 

Through  Tinwald  and  green  Mouswal ; 
JCame,  be  the  grace  and  be  the  charm 

To  the  proud  towers  of  Machusel. 

4. 
fionnie  Mary  Halliday, 

Turn  again,  I  tell  you : 
For  wit,  an'  grace,  an'  loveliness. 

What  maidens  may  excel  you : 
Thouffh  Annan  has  its  beauteous  dames. 

And  Corrie  many  a  fair  one. 
We  canna  want  thee  from  our  sight. 

Thou  lovely  and  thou  rare  one. 

6. 
Bonnie  Mary  Halliday, 

When  the  dttem's  sounding. 
We'll  miss  thy  lightsome  lily  foot 

Amang  the  blythe  lads  boimding : 
The  summer  sun  shall  freeze  our  veins. 

The  winter  moon  shall  warm  us, 
£re  the  like  of  thee  shall  come  again. 

To  cheer  us  and  to  charm  us. 

During  the  song,  I  walked  uncon-  filled    with    withered  flowers,    and 

sclously  down  to  the  river-bank,  and  black-cock  and  peacock  feathers,  lay 

stood  on  a  small  promontory  which  at  her  side ;  ana  its  removal  allowed 

E rejected  into  the  stream ;  it  was  a  fine  fieece  of  hazel-coloured  hair  to 
oraered  with  willows  and  wild-  fall  down  on  all  sides,  till  it  curled  on 
flowers,  and  the  summit,  nibbled  by  the  grass.  She  wore  a  boddice  of 
some  pet  sheep,  was  as  smooth  as  the  green  tarnished  silk ;  her  lower  gar- 
softest  velvet.  Here  i  obtained  a  full  roents  were  kilted  in  the  thrifty 
view  of  this  -singular  songstress.  She  fashion  of  the  country  maidens  of 
was  seated  among  the  willows,  on  the  Caledonia ;  and  round  her  neck  and 
indented  bank,  with  her  bare  feet  in  arms  she  wore— as  much,  it  is  true, 
tbe  stream :   a  slouched  straw  hat,  for  a  charm,  as  an  ornament— seve- 


I«ik3  Tra^Uikmai  Liimd»t.  9*1 

ral  bracelets  of  the  hanf,  round,  and  laas,  je  wear  the  mood  of  sinffkne* 

bitter  berries  of  the  mountain-iuih,  yet,  for  &'  yere  gentle  blood,  -  and 

or  witch-tree.    **  It  is  poor  Judith  yere  weel-filled  fiums.      But  wba'a 

Macrone,    Sir,"    said    the    maiden,  this  ye  have  got  vrith  ye  ? — May  I 

who  with  the  privilege  of  a  listener  love  to  lie  on  wet  straw  wi'  a  cold 

had  come  close  to  my  side. — '^  She  sack  above  me,  if  it  is  not  Francis 

has  found  her  bed  in  Uie  wild  woods  Forster,   all    the  way  from   bonnle 

for  some  weeks,  living  on  nuts  and  Derwentwater.     Alake,  my  bonnle 

plums:    I  wish   the  poor  demented  lass,  for  such  a  wooer. — He  could 

maiden  would  come  and  taste  some  nae  say  seven  words  of  saft,  sappy, 

of  my  curds  and  cream."     Judith  loving  Scotch  t'ye,  did  ever^  word 

rose    suddenly  from   her   seat,   and  bring  for  its  dower  the  bonme  lauds 

scattering  some    handiuls   of  wild-  of  Lochwood,  which  your  forefathers 

flowers  in  the  stream,  exclaimed  with  lost.    No,  no — Mary  Halliday,  take 

something  of  a  scream  of  recosni-*  a  bonnie  Annan^'water  lad,  and  let 

tion !    *'  Aha,  bonnie  Mary  Halliday,  the  Southron  gang." 

1. 
There's  bonnie  lads  on  fairy  Nith, 

And  cannie  lads  on  Dee, 
And  stately  lads  on  Kinnel  side. 

And  by  Dalgonar  tree ; 
The  Nithsdale  lads  are  frank  and  kind. 

But  lack  the  bright  blue  ee 
Of  the  bonnie  Amian-* water  lads. 

The  wale  of  lads  for  me. 

2. 
There's  Willie  Watson  of  Witchstone, 

Dick  Irving  of  Gowktree, 
Frank  Forest  of  the  Houlet^ha, 

Jock  BeU  of  Lillylea  ; 
But  give  to  me  a  Halliday, 

The  witty,  bauld,  and  free. 
The  frackest  lads  of  Annan-bank, 

The  Hallidays  for  me. 

3. 
The  Johnstone  is  a  noble  name. 

The  Jardine  is  a  free. 
The  BeUs  are  bauld,  the  Irvings  good. 

The  Carlvles  bear  the  gree. 
Till  the  gallant  Hallidays  come  in 

With  minstrel,  mirth,  and  glee. 
Then  hey !  the  lads  of  Annan-bank, 

The  Hallidays  for  me. 

This  old  rude  rhyme  was  suns  Ye'll  fall  belly-flaught,  breadth  and 
with  considerable  archness  and  e£  length,  on  the  lily-white  Hnen  that 
feet :  the  songstress  then  came  to-  has  cost  such  a  cleansing.  Away  to 
wards  the  place  where  we  stood,  the  woods  like  another  gowk— away 
not  with  a  regular  direct  step,  but  —else  Ise  kirsen  ye  widi  a  cupfiu 
a  sidelong  hop  and  skip,  waving,  as  of  scalding  watei — my  sooth  snail 
she  came,  her  bonnet  and  feathers  I ;" — and  partly  suiting  the  action  to 
from  side  to  side,  accompanying  the  word,  she  came  forward  with  a 
every  motion  with  a  line  ot  an  old  cupful  of  water  in  her  hand.  The 
song.  Old  Prudence  Caird  seemed  singular  person  to  whom  these  bitter 
scandalized  at  the  extravagant  de-  words  were  addressed,  heard  them 
meanour  of  the  poor  girl ;  and  ad-  with  a  loud  laugh  of  utter  contempt 
vancing  towards  her,  waving  her  and  scorn ;  and  with  a  thousand  fan- 
hands  to  be  gone,  exclaimed — "  In  tastic  twirls  and  freaks,  she  thread- 
the  name  of  all  aboon,  what  are  ye  ed,  with  ffreat  dexterity,  the  whole 
skipping  and  skirling  there  for,  ye  maze  of  hnen  webs,  and  confronted 
born   gowk   and    sworn    ^meraJ?  old  Prudence.    She  looked  her  full 


in  the  iaoe-^-ahe  eyed  her  on  one  the    broad  .green    boogh — wasting 
•Ide^  and  eyed  her  on  another--sbe  yere  sweetest  songs  on  a  fool  quean 
stoo|>ed  down,  and  she  stood  on  tip-  fike  me— but  ye  shall  not  go  uiire- 
toe,  examining  her  all  the  whHe  with  warded."    80  sayinff,  she  scattered  a 
an  eye  of  simple,   but  crafty  scru-  spoonfiil  of  curds  beside  her  on  the 
tiny. — '*  Protect  us.  Sirs ! "  said  the  grass,    and  said,  with  some  abate- 
wandering  maiden,  "  what   wicked  ment  of  her  mirth — "  Come,    and 
liars  these  two  blue  een  o'  mine  are  pickle  at  my  hand,  my  poor  feathered 
— -I'll  ne'er  credit  them  again— and  mnocents-ilka  bird  of  the   forest, 
yet,  believe   roe,  but  it's  like  her.  save  the  raven  and  the  hooded  crow, 
-^Hech  bet,  she's  sore  changed  since  is  a  sister  to  me."     A  red-breast, 
that  merry  time  —it  cannot  be  her. —  as  she  spoke,  with  an  audacity  which 
Harkee,   my    douce    decent-looking  that  lover  of  the  human  face  seldom 
dame,  d'ye  ken  if  Prudence  Caird  be  displays  save  when  the  snow  is  on 
living  yet?" — *'  And  what  hast  thou  the  ground,  came  boldly  to  her  el- 
to  say  to  Prudence  Caird  ?"  said  the  bow,  and  began  to  obey  her  iiivita- 
old  woman,   growing  blacker  with  tion.       "  Aha,   Rabin,  my  red-bo- 
anger,  and  clutching,  as  she  spoke,  somed  lover,   are    ye  there? — Ye'll 
the  long  sharp  fingers  of  her  right  find  me  stiff  and  streeket  under  the 
hand,    portending    hostility    to    the  greenwood    bough    some    morning, 
blue  eyes  of  Judith—"  Say  to  Pru-  and  ye  maiina  stint  to  deck  me  out 
dence  Caird  ?"  said  the  maiden — "  a  daintily  with  green  leaves,  my  bon- 
bonnie  question,  indeed! — what  ad-  nie  man:" — and  throwing  the   binl 
vice  could  a  poor  bewildered  crea-  some  more  au*ds,  she  proceeded  to 
turc  like  me  give  to  a  douce  person,  sup  the  remainder  herself,  indulging 
who  has  had  twice  the  benefit  of  the  between  every  mouthful  in  much  be- 
counsel  of  the  minister  and  kirk  ses-  wildered  talk, 
sion?"    And,  with  unexpected  agi-  The  interest  I  took  in  the  poor 
lity,  away  Judith  danced  and  leaped,  girh— a  few  handfids  of  nuts,  and, 
eluding  the  indignation  of  her  less  above    all,   a    few  pleasant  glances 
active  antagonist.  from   one,    who   (though   old,    and 
I  could  not  help  feeling  anxious  to  bent,  and  withered  now)  was  once 
learn  something  of  the  history  of  Ju-  twenty-one,  had  a  handsome  leg,  and 
dith;  and   while  I   was    expressing  mirth  in  his  eye,    obtained  me  the 
this  to  Mary  Halliday,  the  poor  girl  good  graces  of  tiie  nymphs  of  An- 
approached  and  received  a  bowl  of  nan-water.    Our  conversation  turned 
curds    and    cream,    which  she   ac-  upon  poor  Judith  Macrone.    '^  She  is 
knowledged  with  abundance  of  fan-  a  poor  innocent,"  said  Mary  Halliday, 
tastic  bows  and  becks.    "  Look  at  "  as   wild  and  as  harmless  as  the 
her  now,"  said  my  companion,  "  but  birds  she  is  feeding.    She  was  ever 
sav  not  a  word."    Judith  seated  her-  a  singular  girl,  and  wit  and  folly 
self  on  the  margin  of  the  river;  and  seem  to  keep  alternate  sway  over  her 
throwing  a  spoonful  of  the    curds  mind."     "She  an  innocent!"   said 
into  the  stream,  said, — ^'  There,  taste  Prudence  Caird ;   ^^  she's  a  cunninf;^ 
that,  thou  sweet  and  gentle  water —  and  a  crafty  quean,  with  a  wicked 
and  when  I  bathe  my  burning  brow  memory,  and  a  malicious  tongue.     It 
in  thy  flood,  or  wade  through  thee,  sets  her  weel  to  wag  her  fool-tongue 
and    through    thee,    on    the    warm  at  me,  and  say  a  word  that  is  nae  to 
moon-light  evenings  of  summer,  mind  my  credit" — "  Hoot,  toot,  woman," 
who  fed  yere  bonuie  mottied  trouts,  said  one  of  the  fair-haired  menials  ; 
and  yere  lang  silver  eels,   and  no  '^  we  can  scarce  keep  our  balance 
drown  me  as  ye  did  my  bonnie  sister  with  aU  the  wit  we  have— what  can 
P^gy>  ^^'^  her  young  bridegroom."  ye  expect  o'  such   an  addercap  as 
In  a  small  thicket  bende  her,  a  bird  crazy  Jude  ?    But  of  all  the  queans 
or  two,  confiding  in  the  harmlessness  of  ^nan-bank  she  is  the  quean  for 
of  a  creature  with  whom  they  were  old-world    stories.      Set   her    on  a 
well  acquainted,  continued  to  pour  sunny  hill-side— give  her  her  own 
fiMrth   their    uninterrupted  strain   of  will---and  wise  or  daft,  who  likes  na 
•on|y[.     "  Ye  wee  daft  things,"  said  that  ? — and  she'll  clatter  ye   into  a 
Judith,  chanffing  from  a  tone  of  sad-  dead  sleep,  with  tales  of  spirits  and 
ness  to  one  of  the  most  nddy  gaiety  apparitions,  and  the  dead  who  have 
— -"  What  sit  ye  lilting  Uiere  for,  on  not  peace  in  the  grave,  and  walk  the 


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earth  for  a  season.  I  heard  dcAioe  lap  of  wuiter-rtlve  flnow  laj  deep  on 
John  Stroudwater,  the  (/ameronian  the  ground— the  ice  was  thick  on  the 
elder,  say,  that  assuredly  an  evil  spirit  river,  and  the  wheel  of  her  fatherV 
has  filled  her  head  with  fool-sonffs,  miU  had  not  turned  round  for  full 
and  queer  lang-sin-syne  ballads^  by  forty  dayn.  The  bride  was  a  sweet, 
and  attour  a  foreknowledge  of  com-  and  a  kind-hearted,  beautiful  girl ; 
ing  evil.  It's  well  known  that  she  and  there  was  not  a  cleverer  lad  than 
foretold  the  drowning  of  her  sister  her  bridegroom,  David  Carlyle,  from 
and  her  bridegroom,  in  that  black  the  head  to  the  foot  of  Annan- water, 
pool  before  us,  where  poor  Jude  now  I  heard  the  muiister  of  the  parish 
sits  so  sorrowful."  *'  Troth  and  at-  say,  afler  he  had  ioined  their  handB 
weel,  and  that's  too  true,"  said  Fru-  together,  that  fifty  jears  he  had 
dence  Caird — '^  and  I  was  unwise  been  a  marrier  of  loving  hearts,  but 
to  grow  cankered  with  such  a  kittle  he  had  never  married  a  fairer  pair, 
customer.— She  tried  my  patience  The  bridegroom's  mother  was  a 
sore,  but  I  never  heard  of  any  one's  proud  dame,  of  the  ancient  house 
luck  who  crossed  her — that  one  of  Morison — she  took  it  sore  to  heart 
never  did  good  that  she  wished  harm  that  her  son  should  marry  a  miller's 
to  yet— I  hope  she'll  wish  no  kittle  daughter ;  she  forbade  him,  under 
wish  to  me."  *'  I  know  not,"  said  pain  of  the  mother's  curse — and  a 
Mary  Halliday,  with  more  than  or-  woman's  curse,  they  say,  is  a  sore 
dinary  gravity,  and  ui  a  tone  some-  one  —  to  bed  with  his  bride  under 
thing  between  hesitation  and  belief,  a  chiu-l's  roof- tree;  and  as  he  wished 
'*  I  know  not  how  Judith  is  informed  to  be  happy,  to  bring  her  home  to 
of  evil  fortune — ^but  her  foreknow-  his  father  s  house  on  the  niffht  of 
ledge  of  human  misfortune,  whether  the  wedding.  Now,  ye  will  con- 
it  comes  from  a  good  or  an  evil  sider,  that  the  house  of  the  bride 
source,  is  of  no  use  but  to  be  won-  stood  on  one  hill  side,  and  the  home 
dered  at,  and,  perhaps,  sorrowed  for.  of  the  bridegroom  on  another ;  while 
What  is  foredoomed  will  surely  come  between  them,  in  the  bosom  of  the 
to  pass,  and  cannot  be  guarded  valley,  lay  no  less  a  water  than  the 
against — and,  therefore,  I  deem  all  Annan,  with  its  bank  knee-deep  in 
warning  of  the  event  to  be  vain  and  snow,  and  its  surface  plated  with 
useless.  But  touching  her  skill  in  ice.  The  mirk  winter  night  and  the 
minstrel  lore— with  her,  each  oak-  mother's  scorn  did  not  prevent  one 
tree  has  its  tale,  each  loop  of  Annan-  of  the  blythesomest  bridaJs  from  tak- 
water  its  tradition,  and  every  green  ing  place  that  ever  a  piper  played 
knowe  or  holly-hush  its  ballad  of  true  to,  or  a  maiden  danced  m.  Ye  have 
love,  or  song  of  knightly  bravery." —  never  seen,  Sir,  one  of  our  inland 
'^  But  the  story  of  her  sister's  bri-  merry-makings,  and  seen  the  lads 
dal,"  said  one  of  the  menials,  "  is  and  the  lasses  moving  merrily  to  the 
the  best  of  all  the  tales  told  of  idle  sound  of  the  fiddle  and  the  harp- 
Jude— it  is  said  to  be  sorrowful — ^ye  string,  else  ye  might  have  some  no- 
may  pick  sorrow  out  of  ought,  as  tion  of  the  mirth  at  Margaret's  bri- 
weel  as  ye  may  pick  mirth;  and  some  dal.  The  young  were  loudest  in 
cry  for  what  others  laugh  at — but  I  their  joy,  but  the  old  were  blyther 
know  this,  that  lang  Tam  Southerin-  at  the  heart ;  and  men  forgot  their 
aim  the  tinker  told  me,  that  save  white  heads,  and  women  mat  they 
the  drowning  of  the  bride  and  bride-  were  grandames— and  who  so  glad 
groom  in  the  mirkcst  pool  of  Annan-  as  they.  An  old  man  -  one  of  the 
water,  shame  fall  of  ought  saw  he  frank-hearted  Bells  of  Middlebee, 
to  sorrow  for;  and  he  would  not  have  wiped  his  brow,  as  he  sat  down  from 
such  a  duck  again  as  he  had  that  a  reel,  and  said— 'A weel,  Mary, 
blessed  night,  for  all  the  tup-honis  my  boiinic  lass — ^there  are  just  three 
of  Dryfesdale,  and  the  heads  they  things  which  intoxicate  the  heart  of 
grow  upon."  man :  first,  there  is  strong  drink ; 
'^  I  had  better,  without  farther  clip-  secondly,  there  is  music ;  and,  third- 
ping  and  cutting  of  the  bridal  tale,  ly,  there  is  the  company  of  beau- 
relate  it  at  once,'  said  Mary  Halliday;  tiful  women,  when  they  move  to  the 
''  it  is  a  strange  story,  and  soon  told,  sound  of  dulcimer  and  flute.  Blest 
The  marriage  of  Margaret,  the  sis-  be  the  Maker,  for  they  are  the  most 
ter  of  Judith,  happened  in  the  very  wooderfid  of  all  his  works.'.  But  the 


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wtftieBlt,  as  well  as  the  fidrest,  was 
the  bride  herself;  she  danced  with 
unequalled  life  and  grace— her  feet 
ffB^e  the  tone,  rather  than  took  it 
fitmi  the  fiddle;  and  the  old  men 
said,  the  melody  of  her  feet,  as  they 
mored  on  the  floor,  would  do  more 
mischief  among  men's  hearts  than  her 
eyes,  and  her  eyes  were  wondrous 
liright  ones.  Many  stayed  from 
dancing  themselves,  and  stood  in  a 
circle  round  the  place  where  she 
danced.— I  lutened  to  their  remarks, 
which  the  catastrophe  of  the  evening 
impressed  on  my  memory.—'  I  think, 
said  William  Johnstone  of  Chapel- 
knowe,  *  our  bonnie  bride's  possest— 
I  never  saw  her  look  so  sweet,  or 
dance  so  delightfully— It's  no  sonsie 
to  look  so  smiling  on  her  wedding- 
night — a  grave  bride's  best— owre 
blythe  a  bride  is  seldom  a  blest  one.' 
— *  There's  no  a  sweeter  or  more  mo- 
dest maid  on  Annan-bank,'  said  John 
Stroud  water  the  Cameronian — who, 
scorning  to  mingle  in  the  dance  him- 
self, yet  coidd  endure  to  be  a  wit- 
ness of  youthful  folly  where  the 
liquor  was  plenty — '  she's  a  bonnie 

aueau  ;  yet  I  cannot  say  I  like  to  see 
^e  light  which  comes  from  her  eyes, 
as  if  it  were  shed  from  two  stars ; 
nor  love  I  to  hearken  the  vain  and 
wanton  sound  which  she  causeth 
the  planed  floor  to  utter,  as  she  di- 
recteth  her  steps  to  the  strange  out- 
cry of  that  man  s  instnmient  of  wood 
— ialled  by  the  profane,  a  fiddle.' 
Nor  were  the  women  without  their 
remarks  on  the  bride's  mirth  on  this 
unhappy  night  '  I  protest,'  said  an 
fM  dame,  in  a  black  hood,  *  against 
all  this  i^rofane  minstrelsy  and  dan- 
cing-—it  IS  more  sinful  m  its  nature 
than  strong  drhik — I  wish  good  may 
eome  of  it ;'  and  she  paused  to  mois- 
ten her  lips  with  a  cup  of  brandy,  to 
which  a  piece  of  sugar,  and  a  single 
tea-spoonful  of  water,  had  communi- 
cated the  lady-Hke  name  of  cordial. 
*  I  wish,  I  say,  good  may  come  of  it— 
I  have  not  danced  these  thirty  years 
and  three ;  but  the  bride  is  dancing 
as  if  this  night  was  her  last — 1  fear 
she  is,  fey.'  If  the  bride  and  bride- 
groom were  blythe,  there  was  an- 
other sad  enoujrh — even  poor  Judith, 
who,  retiring  from  the  mirth  and  the 
dancing,  went  to  a  little  hillock  be- 
fore her  father's  mill-door,  and  seat- 
ing herself  on  a  broken  millstone, 
and  loosing  her  locks  from  the  comb. 


LiUrai^re.  C^^pt- 

let  them  (all  like  a  throad  around 
her,  while  she  gazed  intent  and  si- 
lent upon  Annan-water,  which  lay 
still  and  clear  in  the  setting  light 
of  the  moon.  I  had  an  early  regard 
for  this  unhappy  maid— we  were 
school-fellows,  and  play-fellows ; 
and  though  her  temper  was  way- 
ward, and  her  mind,— equal  to  tne 
hardest  task  one  week,  was  un- 
equal for  any  kind  of  learning  an- 
otner ;  yet  from  the  frequency  of  these 
remarkable  fits  of  impulse  and  abi- 
lib^,  she  became  one  of  the  finest 
scholars  in  Annandale.  So  I  went 
out  into  the  open  air,  and  found  her 
sitting  silent  and  melancholy,  and 
looking  with  a  fixed  and  undeviating 
gaze  on  the  river,  which  glittered 
a  good  half-mile  distant.  I  stood 
bende  her,  and  sought  rather  to 
learn  what  oppressed  her  spirit,  from 
her  actions  and  her  looks,  than  by 
questioning  her.  It  has  been  re- 
marked, that  on  ordinary  occasions, 
though  she  is  talkative,  and  fond  of 
singing  snatches  of-  songs,  yet,  when 
the  secret  of  any  coming  calamity 
is  communicated  to  her  spirit,  she 
becomes  at  once  silent  and  gloomy, 
and  seeks  to  acquahit  mankind  with 
the  disaster  awaiting  them,  by  sen- 
sible signs  and  tokens — a  kind  of 
hieroglyphic  mode  of  communication 
which  she  has  invented  to  avoid  the 
misery,  perhaps,  of  open  speech.  She 
seemed  scarcely  aware  of  my  pre- 
sence. At  last,  she  threw  hack  her 
long  hair  from  her  face,  that  nothing 
might  intercept  her  steady  gaze  at 
the  river ;  and  plucking  a  silver  bod- 
kin from  her  bosom,  she  proceeded  to 
describe  on  the  ground  two  small  and 
cofiin-shaped  holes — one  something 
longer  than  the  other.  I  could  not 
help  shuddering  while  I  looked  on 
these  symbols  of  certain  fate;  and  my 
fears  instantly  connected  what  I  saw 
with  the  wedding,  and  the  bride 
and  bridegroom.  I  seized  her  by 
the  arm,  and  snatching  the  bodkin 
from  her,  said,  '  Judith,  thou  art  an 
evil  foreboder,  and  I  shall  cast  this 
bodkin  of  thine,  which  has  been  made 
under  no  good  influence,  into  the 
blackest  pool  of  Annan-water.' — At 
other  times  I  was  an  overmatch  for 
her  in  strength ;  but  when  tlie  time 
of  her  sorrow  came,  she  seemed  to 
obtain  supernatural  strength  in  l>ody 
as  well  as  in  mind ;  and  on  this  oc- 
casion  she    proved    it   by    leaping 


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swifUj  to  her  feet,  aiid  wresting  the  groom/  said  oneadtlBer,  '  I  would 
bodkin  from  me.  She  resumed  her  go  by  the  bridge — I  have  heard  ol^ 
seat ;  and  taking  the  bride  and  bride-  tener  than  once  to-night  the  sough* 
groom's  ribbons  from  her  bosom^  she  ing  of  the  west  wind^  and  the  roar* 
put  the  latter  into  the  larger  grave*  ing  of  ti^e  linns — the  Annan  is  fair 
and  the  former  in  the  less,  and  water  in  summer-time,  but  I  would 
wnmg  her  hands,  threw  her  hair  not  trust  such  a  borniie  lass  as  the 
wildly  over  her  face,  and  wept  and  bride  on  its  fickle  bosom  on  a  winter 
sobbed  aloud.  night' — 'An'  I  were  you,  bride- 
**  All  this  had  not  passed  unobsenr-  groom,'  said  another  counsellor,  '  I 
ed  of  others.  '  Mercy  on  us,' cried  the  would  lippen  to  the  old  proverb-— 
laird  of  Gooseplat,  '  but  the  young  The  nearest  road  to  the  bride's  bed's 
witch  is  casting  cantraxps,  and  mak-  the  best;  the  bosom  of  the  Annan- 
ing  the  figures  of  graves,  and  doom-  water  is  bound  in  ice  as  hard  and  bb 
ing  to  the  bedrals  spade,  and  the  firm  as  iron — ye  might  drive  Bums- 
parish  mortcloth,  the  ouick  instead  of  wark-hill  over  its  deepest  pools,  pro^ 
the  dead. — Ise  tell  thee  what,  my  viding  it  had  four  feet  So  dauner 
cannie  lass,  two  red  peats  and  a  tar-  away  down  the  edge  of  the  wood^ 
barrel  would  make  a  warm  conclo-  and  cross  at  the  DewLman's-plump— ^ 
sion  to  these  unsonsie  spells  ye  are  and  if  ye  give  me  a  shout,  and  the 
casting— and  may  I  be  choked  with  bride  a  kirn,  when  ye  cross  over't,  it 
a  thimbleful  of  brandy,  if  ye  should  will  give  pleasure  to  us  both.'  The 
want  a  cross  on  the  brow  as  deep  bride  herself  came  forward  to  bid 
as  the  bone,  if  I  had  my  whittle.'  farewell  to  her  sister,  not  unconscious 
— Other  spectators  came  to  more  that  the  time  of  sorrow  had  come 
charitable  conclusions.  '  Red  peats  over  her  spirit,  and  that  whispers 
and  sharp  whittles,'  muttered  Wil-  of  the  import  of  her  predictions  were 
liam  Graeme  of  Cummerlair,  *  Ise  circulatea  among  the  bridal  guests, 
tell  ye  what,  laird,  if  ye  lay  a  She  stood  before  Judith  with  a  cheek 
hand  of  harm  on  the  poor  demented  flushed  with  dancing,  and  parting 
lassie,  Ise  lend  ye  a  Lockerby  lick  benedictions  from  rustic  lips,  and 
to  take  home  with  ye.~£h.  Sirs,  her  eyes  gleaming  with  a  wild  and 
but  this  be  fearful  to  look  upon — she  unusual  light — wUch  has  often  since 
is  showing  us  by  dumb  looks,  and  been  noticed  by  the  tellers  of  her 
sure  nods,  and  sad  signs,  and  awful  melancholy  tale,  as  a  light  too  un- 
symbols,  the  coming  of  wrath  and  like  that  of  eardily  eyes  to  be  given 
woe. — There  are  two  graves,  and  the  for  her  good.  '  Graves,'  said  the 
bridal  ribbons  laid  like  corses  in  bride,  with  a  laugh,  which  had 
them — he  that  runs  may  read.'  something  of  a  shriek  in  it,  '  is  tins 
While  tliis  passed  out  of  doors,  the  all  you  have  as  an  apology  for  your 
dancing  and  bridal  mirth  abounded  fear  ? — where's  your  sight,  if  your 
more  Uian  ever. — It  was  now  ten  senses  be  wandering? — My  sister 
o'clock;  and  as  the  bridal  chamber  has  only  made  the  bridal  beds,  and 
lay  a  mile  distant,  the  bride  and  strewed  them  with  bridal  favours.' 
bridegroom  prepared  to  depart,  ac-  She  turned  round  to  depart — Judith 
companied  by  a  siure  friend  or  two,  uttered  a  piercing  shriek,  and  throw- 
to  witness  the  conclusion  of  the  mar-  ing  her  arms  about  her  sister,  clunr 
riage.  '  Let  them  go,'  said  more  to  her,  giving  one  convulsive  sob 
voices  than  one;  '  we  shall  make  the  after  another ;  and,  finally,  throwing 
fiddle-strings  chirp,  and  shake  our  herself  between  her  and  the  river, 
legs,  till  the  small  hours  of  the  mom-  strove,  but  still  strove  in  silence,  to 
ing. — Come,  Tom  Macthairm,  play  impress  her  with  a  sense  of  danger, 
us  up  something  wily  and  wanton :  It  was  in  vain :  the  bride  and  bride- 
who  can  leap  ratter  high  to  a  sorrow-  groom  departed ;  while  Judith  cover- 
fid  psalm  tune  like  that?' — The  fid-  ing,  or  rather  shrouding  herself  in 
dler  complied,  and  wall  and  rafter  her  mantle,  and  tumhig  her  face 
quivered  and  shook  to  the  reviving  from  the  river,  sat  as  mute  and  as 
merriment.  The  young  couple  now  still  as  a  statue  ;  a  slight  convulsive 
8to<K]  on  the  threshold,  and  looked  sluidder  was  from  time  to  time  visi- 
towards  their  future  habitation,  in  ble.  The  young  pair  reached  the  An- 
which  the  lights  of  preparation  were  nan,  and  attempted  to  pass  over  the 
ahinuig.— <  An'  I  were  you,  bride-  pool  called  the  Deadmaa's-plump ; 


836  Thd  LioHt  Head, 

We  really  cannot  think  of  inserting  sucli  verses  as  the  foliowmg :— « 

THE   CnAUP10N*S    FAREWELL. 

(}tium  cum  Dignitatem 

Here !  bring  me  my  breeches,  mv  onxiour  is  orer  | 

Farewdl  wr  waam  time  to  my  on  pantaloons  i 
Double  millM  keiieymeie  is  a  lund  of  leg  clover, 

Good  hick  to  bxoad  cloth  Ibr  a  score  or  two  mooni ! 

Here!  han^ up  my  hdmet,  and  reach  me  my  beaver. 

This  avoirdupois  wd^^t  of  glory  must  fall ; 
I  think  on  my  me  that  again  I  shall  never 

Take  my  head  in  a  saucepan  to  Westminster-halL 

Oh,  why  was  our  family  bom  to  be  martial  ? 

'Tis  a'mercy  this  gtand  show-of-fi^t  day  is  up, 
I  do  not  think  Gatto  was  mndi-ofierbipartial 

To  iMck  through  the  dishes,  with  me  and  my  cup. 

By  the  blood  of  the  Dymoikes  1*11  sit  in  my  lodnnff. 
And  die  gauntlet  resim  for  ^^  neat  gentlemairs  doe  :** 

If  I  ride,  I  vi/7ride,  aid  no  longer  be  dodging 
My  horsed  own  tail  *twizt  Due,  MarquiH,and  Co. 

No  more  at  my  horseman-ship  folks  shall  make  merry. 
For  in  ship  man  and  horse,  and  ^*  show  oflr,*'->not  on  shore ; 

No  funnies  for  me !  I  will  ride  in  a  wherry ; 
They  feathered  my  scull— but  TJX  feather  my  oar. 

80  Thomas  take  Cato,  and  put  on  his  halter. 

And  give  him  some  beans,  since  I  now  am  at  peace ; 

If  a  diampion  is  wanted,  pray  go  to  Sir  Walter, 
And  ho^  let  you  oat  Marmions  at  sovereigns  a-piccc. 

The  ladies  admired  the  pyebal4  nag  vastly. 

And  clapp*d  his  old  sober-sides  into  the  street : 
Here's  a  cneque  upon  Child,  so  my  man  go  to  Astlcy, 

Pay  the  charge  of  die  charger,  and  bring  a  rcccipu 

N.  of  Margate,  says  he  means  to  send  us  '^  A  Marine  Subject."  We 
hqie  it  will  t^  a  Mermaid. 

''Summer  Holidays"  are  Tery  pretty,  and  might  be  relished  by  those 
who  are  young  enough  to  enjoy  them  in  reality — but  the  world  is  not  so 
yoKBigaattwas. 

Philogenes'  "  Verses  to  the  Matchless  Orinda"  are  defective  in  the  title, 
as  our  l^id  adviser  informs  us  ;  Mrs.  Katherine  Pliillips  was  once  luarried. 
We  thought  we  saw  some  other  flaws  not  less  fatal  to  his  pretentsions. 

The  article  on  H«—  is  written  with  too  much  asperity.  If  piquant 
meana  personal,  we  decline  the  other  Communications  offered  by  Aliquis. 

Hemy  has  some  good  stuff  in  him,  but  it  is  as  much  as  our  place  is  worth 
to  oblige  him.  **  Sweet  Quarter  of  the  Year"  tickled  our  kidneys.  We 
•uspect  IT.  Zr.  is  a  relation  of  his  ;  the  same  answer  will  apply  to  both. 

On  Modes  of  Sepulture^  by  M.  should  have  been  addressed  (like  a  funeral 
iode^'a  hand  bill)  <«  To  those  who  wish  to  be  buried." 

Ifaay  other  Signatures  aie  waiting  for  auswers,  but,  to  be  brief,  they 
mint  ^M  at  the  reatfons  of  our  refusal 


THE 


lontion  :^fia^tne. 


N*'  XXI.  SEPTEMBER,  1821.  Vol.  IV, 


TRADITIONAL  LITERATURE. 
No.  IX. 

JUDITH    MACRONS   THE    FROFHETKHS. 

But  I  am  haunted  by  m  feaiful  shape- 
Some  hated  thing  which  sharp  fear  forma  of  shadows ; 
Something  which  takes  no  known  form,  yet  alarms 
Me  worse  than  my  wont  foeman  armM  in  proof — 
Something  which  haunts  my  slumbers— iinds  me  out 
In  my  deep  dreams — in  fiercest  strife,  when  blood 
Runs  rife  as  rivulet  water — in  quiet  peace 
When  rustic  songs  abound— in  sflent  prayer, 
For  prayer,  too,  have  I  tried  ^  still  is  it  mere 
Now — ^now— the  dismal  shadow  stalks  before  me. 
More  visible  than  ever.  Old  Play. 

« 

The  whole  course  of  Annan- wa«  and    wild  plum,    remaina   of  rnili* 
ter,  in  Dumfries-shire^  is  beautiful ;  tary  or  feudal  greatness^  dismantled 
from  where  it  arises  amoiitf  the  up-  keeps  or  peels^   and  repeated  ▼es- 
land  pastures^  in  the  vicinity  of  the  tiges  of   broad    Roman  roads  and 
sources  of  the  Clyde  and  the  Tweedy  ample  camps^  with  many  of  those 
and  winding  its  way  by  old  church-  massive  and  squat  structures,  vault- 
yard,   decayed    castle,    Roman   en-  ed,  and  secured  with   double  iron 
campment,  and  battle-field — through  doors,    for  the    protection    of  cat- 
fine  natural  groves,  and  well-culti-  tie,  in  former  times,   from  reavers 
vated  ^rouncis,  finally  unites  its  wa-  and  forayers.     The  river  itself  has 
ters  with  the  sea  of  Solway,   after  attractions  of  its  own:  its  inconsi- 
conferring  its  name  on  the   pretty  derable  waters   are  pure;  and  the 
little  borough  of  Annan.     The  in-  pebbles   may    be   numbered  in  the 
terior  of  the  district,  it  is  true,  pre-  deepest  pools,  save  when  the  stream 
sents  a  sine^lar  mixture  of  desolate  is  auffmented  by  rains ;  and  for  the 
nature  and  rich  cultivation ;  but  the  net,  Uie  liester,  and  the  fly-hook,  it 
immediate  banks  of  the  river  itself  produces  abundance  of  salmon,  gril- 
are  of  a  varied  and  romantic  charac-  ses,  herlings,  and  trouts.    The  pea- 
l^^ter.     At  every  turn  we  take,   we  santry  are  as  varied  in  their  charac- 
^l^mne  to  nooks  of  secluded  and  fairy  ter  as  the  district  they  inhabit    A- 
wtutv — ^oves  of  fine  ancient  trees,  griculture  and  pastura^  claim  an 
viral  with  the  ruined  towers  they  equal  share  in  the  pursuits  of  almost 
bosom— clumps  of  the  most  beau-  every  individual ;  and  they  are  dis- 
il  holly,    skirted  with   nmeM,   or  tinguished  from  the  people  of  many 
fgular  rows  of  hazel,  wikl  cherry,  <ither  lowland  districts   by  superior 
Vol.  IV.  T 


936  The  Lum't  Head. 

We  really  cannot  think  of  inserting  such  verses  as  the  foUowmg :«« 

THE   CHAUPlOM*8   FAKJEWSLL. 

OHumcum  Dlgnitaie. 
Hob  I  briqg  n^  w^  Imodiei)  WLipmovir  is  ota  | 


FnewcSliriNBS  llaM  to  iny  ai>aldooM  I 
Doable  iiiill*d  toiejfiuwe  is  m  Viad  of  leg  dover. 
Good  hick  to  Imeom  doth  |br  a  sooie  or  two  Qoooi  I 

Hen!  fasnff np tajr taebiflft,  sod lesdi oas mj bcsfcr. 

This  avoudupois  wdg^t  of  doty  most  £dl ; 
I  Aink  OD  my  mb  that  sgdn  I  ifaisn  nerer 

Tske  my  hesd  in  a  sauo^sn  to  Westmiaster-ludL 

Oh,  ivfay  ^nMoat  ftm&y  bom  to  be  msirtiil  ? 

'TIS  a  mercy  this  ghund  diow-of-fl^  day  is  op, 
I  do  not  Aink  Osto  «ss  ltaA:«^irppiKtisl 

To  beck  timmi^  the  diribcs»  whh  me  and  my  cup. 

By  te  bkod  of  te  I)>ymokes  ni  dt  hi  my  lodriitt. 
And  te  gsmidet  TCnm  Ibr  **  neat  gentkmairS  doe  :** 

If  T  Tide,  I  «iilnde»  wA  no  kn«r  be  dodgfaig 
My  hoiseni  oira  ndl  Hmt  Do^  M^ 

No  mon  at  my  iMncihaD-sl^'  ioDa  ahsll  make  merry, 
ForlHihipmanandhna^aBd  ^  show  ofl^^-^iot  on  shoie ; 

NofiumieBrarme!  I  will  noi  is  a  vheny ; 
Ihey  feslherM  my  toali— bpt  IH  fieaUicr  my  osr* 

8q  Thonus  tska  Cato,  and  pat  on  his  halter, 
And  ^ve  him  some  beans,  sfaiee  I  now  am  at  peace; 

If  a  chlorate  is  wanted,  Msy  0»-to  Sir  Walter, 
Andhs'l}  1st  yon  oiUllaimiqnsat  soferogis  a-piece. 

The  ladies  sdm&cd  the  pyebal^  nifg  mtly. 

And  d«pp*d  his  old  si^-s^to  into  ih^  street: 
Here*s  a  okqAe  nponXSmd^  *^^  ™^  8°  ^  Astlcy, 

Pay  Ac  dungeof  Ae  c^kigtfj  H|d  bo^ii^  a  leodpu 

N.  of  Morgalo.  says  he  means  ta  and  ua  '^  A  Marine  SuLg^^ct."  ^^ 
liope  it  will  \^  a  Mermidd. 

^  Summer  HoUdaya"  are  very  pnUf,  and  ndglit  be  relished  by  those 
who  are  young  enough  to  ei^joy  tnem  m  ieality---but  the  world  is  not  so 
ybdng  aa  n  waa.     ' 

Fhilogenes'  «'  Verses  to  the  MtOMm.  Ortnda,"  are  defective  in  the  title^ 
as  our  l^gai  adviser  informs  us ;  Mn.  ^^*^^niw  PhiUiM  was  once  roamed. 
We  thoi^flit  we  paw  some  other  flaws  not  km  &tal  to  his  prclen$ions. 

The  article  on  H<— —  is  written  with  too  much  asperity.  If  piquant 
means  pcfaoDal,  we  decline  the^oUier  Communications  offered  by  Aliquis. 

Henry  has  aome  rod  aliiff.in  hbD.  butiiiaas  nmch  as  our  place  is  worth 
to  oblige  hhn.  '<  Sweet  Q^Kvier  of  the  Year"  tickled  our  kidneys.  We 
auspect  H.  L,  is  atdatioD  pf  hia  ;.the  aame  answer  will  apply  to'both. 

On  Modea  of  Sepnltiin^  hy  M*  should  have  been  addressed  (like  a  fuuend 
aade^a  hand  lull)  «'  To  tlwae  who  wish  to  be  buried.** 

Many  other  Wgnaturea  are  waiUii^  fiar  answers^  but»  to  bo  biiefj  they 
miiat  ^sr  at  the  leiiioiM  trf  our  ireAMt> 


TUB 


lonlion  M^mi^- 


N°  XXI.  SEPTEMBER,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


TRADITIONAL  LITERATURE. 
No.  IX. 

JUDITH    MACRONS   THE    FROFHETK88. 

But  I  am  haunted  by  a  feaiful  shape- 
Some  hated  thing  which  sharp  fear  forms  of  shadows ; 
Something  which  takes  no  known  form,  yet  alarms 
Me  worse  than  my  worst  fbeman  arm*d  in  proof — 
Something  whidi  haunts  my  slumbera— finds  mc  out 
In  my  de«p  dreams — in  fiercest  strifie,  when  blood 
Runs  rife  as  rivulet  water — in  quiet  peace 
When  rustic  songs  abound— in  sflent  prayer, 
For  prayer,  too,  have  I  tried— still  is  it  Uiere — 
Now — now— the  dismal  shadow  stalks  before  me, 
More  visible  than  ever.  Old  Play. 

• 

The  whole  course  of  Annan- wa«  and  wild  phim,  remaina  ^  of  mill- 
ter,  in  Dumfries-shire^  is  beautiful ;  tary  or  feuaal  greatness^  dismantled 
from  where  it  arises  amonff  the  up*  keeps  or  peels,  and  repeated  Tes- 
laud  pastures^  in  the  vicinity  of  the  tiges  of  broad  Roman  roads  and 
sources  of  the  Clyde  and  the  Tweed,  ample  camps,  with  many  of  those 
and  winding  its  way  by  old  church-  massive  and  squat  structures,  vault- 
yard,  decayed  castle,  Roman  en-  ed,  and  secured  with  double  iron 
campment,  and  battle-field — through  doors,  for  the  protection  of  cat- 
fine  natural  groves,  and  well-culu-  tie,  in  former  times,  from  reavers 
vated  grounds,  finally  unites  its  wa-  and  forayers.  The  river  itself  has 
ters  with  the  sea  of  8k}lway,  after  -attractions  of  its  own:  its  inconsi- 
conferring  its  name  on  the  pretty  derable  waters  are  pure;  and  the 
little  borough  of  Annan.  The  in-  pebbles  may  be  numbered  in  the 
tenor  of  the  district,  it  is  true,  pre-  deepest  pools,  save  when  the  stream 
aents  a  sine^lar  mixture  of  desolate  is  auffmented  by  rains ;  and  for  the 
nature  and  rich  cultivation  ;  but  the  net,  Uie  liester,  and  the  fly-hook,  it 
immediate  banks  of  the  river  itself  produces  abundance  of  salmon,  gril- 
are  of  a  varied  and  romantic  charac-  ses,  herlings,  and  trouts.  The  pea- 
ter.  At  every  turn  we  take,  we  santry  are  as  varied  in  their  diarao- 
come  to  nooks  of  secluded  and  fairy  ter  as  the  district  they  inhabit  A- 
beautv — proves  of  fine  ancient  trees,  griculture  and  pasturage  claim  an 
coeval  with  the  ruined  towers  they  equal  share  in  the  pursuits  of  almost 
embosom— clumps  of  the  most  beau-  every  individual ;  and  they  are  dis- 
tiful  holly,  skirted  with  row^i,  or  tinguished  from  the  people  of  many 
irregular  rows  of  hazel,  wild  cherry,  other  lowland  districts   by  superior 

Vol.  IV.  T 


S50                      Influemee  cf  Scemrji  on  Poetic  Character,  QBept. 

INFLUENCE  OF  SCENERY  ON  POETIC  CHARACTER. 

BURNS. 

Switzerland  is  rich  in  romantic  in  the  metropolis ;    and  we  cannot 

scenes;  but  Gessner  is  her  only  poet;  conceive  how  the  scenery  of  streets 

and  even  he  could  not  rise  to  the  and  squares^  though  to  this  we  add 

sublimities    which    he    saw  around  the  river  and  the  parks^  could  ever 

him.     He  was  contented  to  lay  him-  be  deemed  romantic,   or  could    be 

self  by  the  side  of  a  clear  stream,  supposed  to  be^et   noetic  imagery, 

after  it  had  come  down  from  its  Al-  Westminster  Abbey  has  certainly  a 

pine  course  to  the    meadows,    and  romantic  aspect, — but  it  is  rendered 

there  he  warbled  his  pastorals,  and  tame  and  vulgar  by  the  assemblage 

trimmed  his  flowery  paragraphs.    A  of  paltry  houses,  and  narrow  streets, 

mountain  storm,    or  an  avalanche,  among  which  it  towers  like  an  oak 

would  have  quite  astounded  him, —  half  smothered  with  brambles  and 

and,  in  its  roar,   the  piping  of  his  brushwood,  —  a    scanty    field,    wc 

shepherds,  and  his  pretty  lamenta-  should  imagine,  (though  we  embrace 

tions  for  the  death  of  Abel,  would  every  scene  in  the  vicinity  of  Lon- 

have  been  quite  unheard.  don,^  for  Chaucer,  Spenser,  Milton, 

[  Yet   has   romantic   scenery   been  Dryclen,  Pope,  and  Cowper,  to  gather 

called  the  best  nurse  of  poetic  fancy,  their  matenals  from,  for  the  images 

Dryden,  we  think  it  was,  who  was  of  jpoetrv. 

laughed  at  for  proposing  to  write  an  But  tne  critics  will  turn  upon  us, 

epic,  though  he  had  never  seen  a  and  ask  if  the  poets  of  Scotland  do 

mountain  ;  and  Leigh  Hunt  has  had  not  furnish  them  with  an  illustrious 

the  '^greenery"  of  Hampstead  and  example.    They  will  ask  if — 

its  hedge- rows,  turned  into  a  mock  i.  i    j  ^  v 

argument  against  the  genuineness  of  z;z —  u      •       r  ! "T!°**?!^ ™^' 

hi? poetry.   Critics  who  so  think,and  Where  Ae^ pine  of  the  forest  for  mges  h» 

80  argue,  must  have  studied  the  for-  ^^  ^^  ^^  ^^  forth  on  the  wing* 

mation    of   poetic    character    much  ^f  the»t<wm 

more  profoundly  thwi  the  facts  au-  And  her  young  ones' ue  rock'd  on  the  lofty 

thorise;  or  rather  they  have  tram-  Cairngorm, 
pled  on  the   facts,   and  trusted  to 

the  vagaries  of  fancy  to  keep  them  has  not  imprinted  on  the  fancy  of  her 
to  an  opinion.  They  ou^ht  to  be  bards,  all  the  romantic  grandeur 
able  to  exemplify  theu*  pnnciple  by  which  lives  among  her  scenery,  and 
ample  appeals  to  the  biography  of  comes  with  a  power  so  irresistible 
emment  ooets.  Hiey  ought  to  be  upon  the  spirits  of  those  who  are  its 
able  to  show,  that  Shakspeare  and  visitors?  Their  questions  do  not 
Milton  spent  their  infancy  and  youth  dismay  us ;  we  shall  answer  them, 
^ther  in  Switzerland,  or  in  some  Of  the  eminent  poets  of  Scotland, 
other  grand  and  romantic  region ;  Bums  is  indisputably  the  chief;  and 
diat  Spenser  sojourned  for  a  time  in  him  we  shall,  thererore,  select  as  an 
fairy  land ;  and  that  Dante  ascended  exemplification  of  their  opinion,  or  its 
Mont  Blanc,  and  descended  into  reverse,  according  to  the  truth  which 
Aveinus,  to  catch,  if  possible,  a  our  inquiry  shaU  elicit.  In  the  poetry 
glimpse  of  the  other  world,  before  of  Bums,  there  b  little  that  is  purely 
he  ventured  on  its  description.  This  descriptive ;  and  he  seldom  rises  to 
they  cannot  do.  grandeur  and  sublimity,  the  very  con- 
The  opinion,  indeed,  is  founded  ception  of  which  overpowers  the  ima- 
on  the  most  presumptuous  ignorance  gination  by  its  magnificence.  He 
of  the  lives  of  great  poets,  few,  if  has  no  relish  for  the  wild  and  the 
any,  of  whom  have  been  natives  of  wilderness,  nor  does  he  like  to  soar 
a  romantic  country,  or  have  had  op-  among  Alpine  rocks  and  mountain 
portunities  of  visiting  picturesque  forests.  The  whirl wuid  and  the 
scenery.  All  our  eminent  Ensnsh  storm  are  too  boisterous  for  his  con- 
poets,  with  the  exception  of  Shak-  templation, — imless  he  is  sheltered 
speare,  have  l>ecn  liom  or  educated  under  a  thick  wood,  and  hears  them 


18S1.^  Injbienee  of  Seenery  on  Poetic  Ckm^aeUr.  861 

roar  at  a  distance.    He  is  most  at  worth  a  painter's  pflgrimage^  or  a 

home  in  the  hardest  fields  on  *'  the  scene-hunter's  Tisit : — 

lea-rig/'  or  where  the  "rosy  hrier  -.,  ,   ^„  .      .       .  , 

blooms  far  frae  haunts  o' man/'    He  ^t'i^  "^Ar"^ ''l^!,  ^ 

..,,./.  Where ghaUtt  and  howkts  nightly  cry. — 

reioices    in    the    beauty   of   spring,  »- Ab'timehe  wiaciora  the  ford, 

when  where  in  the  snaw  die  chapman  smoorM ; 

Nature  dirows  her  mande  green  ^nd  past  the  birks  and  muckle  stane 

On  every  field  and  tree,  Whaie  drucken  C^harhe  brak  •  neck.bane; 

And  spieads  her  sheet*  of  daiaiea  white,  ^^^  ^^^'  ^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^J  ^^  <»»™' 

Out  o'er  the  grassy  lea ;  >VTieTe  hunters  found  the  murderM  baim ; 

And  near  the  thorn  aboon  the  well, 

and  when  spring  ripens  into  summer.  Where  Mungo^s  nuther  hangM  iierseL 

lie  delights  to  haunt  "  the  banks  and  Before  him  Doon  pourt  aii  hitjloodt ; 

braes/  where  he  can  listen  to  "  the  2?*^  donhUng  storm  roart  thro'  tlu  woods. 


courtships,  when,  as  he  says  with  in-  Jj^y^*  ^^^  bore' thi'b^aiiJw7re  glancing, 

imitable  sweetness.  And  loud  leaounded  mirth  and  dancing. 

The  golden  boons  on  aogd  wings,  ^^  ^^  ^^    ^^^^^  ^^  ourselvee. 

Flew  o  er  me  and  my  deane ;  ^%    ^  •  .^.       ^i.«  l*  1.1 

For  dear  to  me  as  light^and  Hfe,  *^**  <>"  ^"^°f  ^If  «^«"«  «°  ^«^ 

Waa  my  young  ffighland  Mary.  wrought  up  by  the  poet,  we  were 

miserably    disappointed.      Kirk-Al- 

A  sort  of  pensive  moral  pathos  loway,  as  may  be  seen  from  Grose's 

seems,  in  his  earlier  pieces,  to  have  print,  bad  as  it  is,  exhibits  nothing 

been  a   predominant  feeling  in  his  but  the  naked,   roofless  walls  of  a 

mind  ;  and  to  this  we  owe  The  Cot^  Scots  country-church,   and  is  abso- 

ter's  Saturday  Night,  and  his  lines  lutely  not  larger  than    an   English 

To  a  Mouse,  and  To  a  D^usy, — the  peasant's  cottage,  or  a  small  bam. 

two  latter  of  which,  though  border-  No  stranger  would  ever  imagine  it 

ing    on    the    morbid   sentimentality  had  been  a  church,  except  from  some 

which  is  now  happily  out  of  fashion,  dozen  or  twenty  grave-stones  which 

exhibit  none  of  its  puling  and  whim-  are    nearly  hid    among    the    grass, 

pering,  but  by  their  melting  tender-  What  has  been  the  belfry  is  very 

ness  at  once  come  home  to  our  best  little  larger  than  a  bird-cage.     The 

regulated  feelings.  surroundmg  landscape  is  equally  un- 

Now  all  these  efTusions  of  his  ge-  interesting,    except  in    its  associaF- 

nius  are  in  strict  accordance    with  tions  with   the  poetry  of  Burns.^- 

the  scenes  where  Bums  spent  his  The  river  Doon,  whose  flood,  in  the 

youth.    But  how  do  scenes  of  rural  poem,  is  poured  like  a  torrent  through 

tameness  accord  with  the  romantic  the  glimmering    trees,    is    a    small 

tale  of  Tam  o'  Shanter,  in  which  the  stream,  running  placidly  among  banks 

poet  seems  to  hold  unlimited  sway  covered  with  copse  wood>  and  a  few 

over  the  wildest  imagery,  as  if  he  clumps  of  trees  which    have  been 

had  been  cradled  in  a  Highland  glen,  planted  by  the  proprietors  of  one  or 

and  had  spent  his  midnight  studies  two  comfortable-looking  villas  in  the 

in  church-yards  and  haunted  ruins  ?  vicinity.      The  "brig'  is  a  crasy 

Salvator  Rosa   himself,    could   not  structure  of  one  arch,  as  plain  and 

have  pictured  a  wilder  group  than  unpoetical  as  may  be ;  and  the  village 

the    hags   revelling    in    the    ruined  of  "  Shanter,"  whither  the  hero  was 

church,  and  the  half-tipsy  peasant  in  homeward-bound  when  his  evil  star 

the  storm^  eyeing  them  with  mingled  led  him  to  take  an  unhallowed  peep 

dread  and  curiosity;    nor  could  he  at  the  witches—is  a  row  of  about 

have  better  suited  the  landscape  to  twenty  tiled  cottages,  consisting  of 

his  story.    Our  question  therefore  is,  only  one  floor,  and  ranged  along  the 

Where  did  Bums  obtain  the  mate-  highway.      The   whole  scenery  in- 

rials  for  the  wild  scenery  of  the  tale  ?  deed,  from  the  town  of  Ayr  to  May- 

When  we  read  his  description,  we  bole,  which  includes  all  that  young 

naturally  imagine    that    "  Alloway's  Bums  could  have  frequented,  is  more 

auld   hauuft'd  kirk,"   must    be   well  tame,  and  uninteresting,  than,  per- 


dSS                         InfhieiM  of  Scenery, (m  Poetic  Charaeier,  QSept. 

hape^  any  tract  of  gimilar  extent  in    to  accuse  Buras  of  want  of  fidelity 

Scotland.  The  only  part  of  his  Tisible  to  his  scenery,   in  one    marlced  in- 

horizon  entitled  to  be  called  grand,  stance.    In  the  beautiful  song  of  My 

is  the  bay  of  Ayr,  and  the  mountain-  Nanny  O,  the  first  edition  ia — 

ous  island  of  Arran :  but  of  these       «  . .  ,  _^  .  ni    v o*^    i.     a 

features  of  his  scene  he  has  made  no  5f*^  ^ hill  wh««5/ti.c^r Bowi, 

««.»«.»««>  VM.  uw  ov«»ic  u^  •MM  uicMv.  ijv  Mang  moozs  and  mones  many  O— 

use.  ^                                 ' 

After  his  removal  from  the  neigh-  afterwards  altered  to 

bourhood  of  Ayr,    first  to  Lochlea,  Bdiind  yon  hill  where  La^r  flows; 

and  then  to  Mossgiel,  his  landscape,  .                        i.      t          • 

instead  of  being&tter  suited  to  In-  ^'^^^^    «^y»  ^^  ^l^  "  *  "J?"^ 

spire  his  geniui,  was  worse,  at  least  P^^,  "*™^  ^"*  Stmchar.     Un- 

in  his  hnmediate  neighbourhood.    At  fortunatdy,  however,  for  the  amend- 

Lochlea,    indeed,    Acre  is  a  smaU  ment,  there  is  neither  a  moor,  moss, 

lake,-but  it  is  not  much  more  po-  ?^'  ^*\  J"  ^^  7.^^^  ^^""^  «^  ^^ 
etlcal  than  a  miU-pond,  to  which  Sse  '  t"^'.  I^^U?^  ^^  scene^  on   its 

it  is  occasionally  turned.    Mossgiel  baiis  is  highTy  romanUc,  parUcularly 

is  a  cold,  barren,  tree-less  eminence,  "ear  Auchmlech  House,  the  seat  of 

about  a  mUe  from  Mauchlme,  which  the  famous  James  BosweU,  of  chit- 

is   a  paltry,   bleak-looking   vUlage,  chat  celebrity.        ^       _      ^ 

weU  calculated,  we  should  ima^e  At  a  subsequent  penod,  when  our 

to  freeze  the  spirits  of  any  ordSary  F^^i^^^^  opportunity  of  visiUng 

pQg^                 '^                 ^              ^  the  finest   scenery  m  Scotland,    m- 

^ut  we  must  do  Justice  to  die  »*^  ^^-^J?  tending  to  brighten  the 

scenery  of  Ayrshire.    The  tameness  ^"^^^  ?^,  .^  imagery,  it  seems,  in 

which   we    have  described    is  only  most  of  his  pieces,  to  have  operated 

partial,  and  is  richly  redeemed  by  af  a  feadennjg  spell  upon  his  geniu^ 

the  romantic  views  which  tiie  banks  J.^®  ^^  and  poetied  scenenr  around 

of  tiie  river  Ayr  present,  from  tiie  ^\''^^^  """"^^^  inspired  him  to 

linage  of  Lorn,  till  it  falls  into  tiie  ^"*«^  ^^^^  Shanter;  tiie  flat  and 

sea,  a  distance  of  about  fifteen  mWes.  !JJ^^ .  \andscapes  at  Lochlea,  and 

The  finest  part  of  tiiis  scenery,  from  Mo«^el,   produced   tiie   wild, 

Lom  to  BarBkimmin^.  whinh  dp«PrvP«  «^fy  imageiy  of  tiie  Vision,- 


un- 
and 


Lorn  to  Barskimming,  which  deserves  ^f^  imagey  oi  tne  vi8ion,--and 

to  be  better  known  to  our  Scottish  of  Deatii    and  Dr.   Hornbook;    sis 

tourists,    is  only  about  three  miles  I^^^,  ^c?'l!i"''^xTP'u?"'^u'^ 

from  Mossgiel;  and  tradition  reports,  the  Cotters  Saturday  Night  :--but 

tiuit  tiie  poet  was  a  frequent  visitor  ^«  «F^"^^  the  subbme,  and  tiie  ro-  •- 

to  a  very  picturesque  spot,    below  ™^^^  «^?«  ""^  the  Highland  lakes    • 

Howfbrd,  where  tiie  Ayr  makes  its  and  mountams,  wkch  now  live  so 

way  among  lofty  wooded  rocks,  by  ff®*^J"  ??.  ^^^^  ^^  ^l"  ^,^«i^  ®^ 

turns  overiianging  and  disclosing  its  T®     .    ,    ^.  « ®®®"*  *?  '^^^  ^^^  ®" 

channel.    It  was  on  tiiis  spot  tiiat  he  the  mind  of  Burns  only  a  momentary 

is  said  to  have  composed  The  Lass  ^^'  like  tiie  breezes  on  a  lake,  oil;o' 

of  BaUochmyle,    after    having  met  ^1.™!^°"    *?    *    summer  sky.^  »»• 

one  morning  a  young  lady  5f  tiie  ^"?®  ^"^J"  'J.'^l.T'^^^  ^^'^  ^'i'^i  « 

BaDochmyle  family,  on  his  way  to  ception ;— of  which  his  descnpUon  w'  * 

his  favourite  haunt.    The  song  was  admwable.— 

^rwards  transmitted  to  her,  wltii  wildly  here  without  controul, 

the  poet  s  respects ;  but  she  had  the  Nature  reigns,  and  ndes  the  whole 

good  manners,    and  the  eood  taste.  In  that  sober,  pensive  mood, 

to^  return    this    inimitable   pastoral  Dearest  to  the  feeling  soul ; 

with  contempt.     He  could  also  ex-  ShepianUthefireH,  pour t  the  Jtood: 

press  his  contempt.     Her  name  was  lAJk^s  poor  day  ni  musing  raxvj 

mstantiy  erased,  and  another  substi-  -^^  J^'^  ^  "^^ «  shattering  cave^ 

tuted   in  its   place.  Where  waters  Jlow  and  wild  woods  wax>e^ 

We  must  not  foi^t  tiiat  we  have  ^^  ^"^  ^^^^  ^**^^- 


»^ 


1891.3  The  Antiguary.  9S$ 

THE  ANTIQUARY. 

His  cfaaniber  dl  wm  bng'd  about' with  raflf* 

And  old  reoordi  firom  aundent  timea  derived, 

Some  made  in  books,  some  in  Ions  parchment  scrolls, 

That  were  all  worm-eaten,  and  foU  of  canker  holes. 

Amidst  them  all  he  in  a  chain  is  sett. 

Tossing  and  taming  them  withouten  end.  Spenter. 

Since  Spenser's  time^  our  lauflTuage  other  man  posseued  by  one  subject 

has  grown  much  more  criticu  and  with  which  other  people  want  sym- 

distinguishing ;  and^  to  use  Mr.  Cole-  pathv.     **  That  a  jest's  prosperity 

ridge's  words>  we  have  disbursed  some  lies  m  the  ear  of  him  that  hears  it^" 

of  "  the  reversionary  wealth  "  our  an-*  is  not  only  true  of  a  jest,  but  of  all 

cestors  left  us ;  that  is  to  say,  we  discourse ;  and  Mr.  Burke  could  have 

have  got  rid  of  the  "  equivocation "  proved  it  as  well  as  Mr.  Canning, 

of  words^  and  can  now  distinguish  The  lover  and  the  antiauary,  in  fact,  . 

the  individual  from  the  class  to  which  differ  in  the  duration  of  their  passion, 

he  belongs.      We  have  not  only  a  and  little  else;  the  antiquary  loves 

generic  name,    but  a  specific  one ;  for  li£p,  the  lover  only  swears  to  do 

and  he  that  is  here  so  beautiAiHy  so.    The  mistress  of  the  one  is  his 

described  by  the  poet,   as  an  anti*  first  love,  and  his  last ;  she  is  ever 

quarian,  we  hold  to  be  only  id  genus,  present  to  hb  thoughts ;  he  takes  her 

and  si)ecially  distinguished  from  an«  tor  better  for  worse,  and  life  is  but 

tlquarians  by  the  hard  word  bibUo*  a  long  courtship ;  there  is  no  waning 

maniac.     If  this  refinement  be  not  in  his  affection,— -At>  passion  increases; 

VQij  clear  and  conclusive,  the  reader  with  her  age, — he  prefers  wrinkles  to 

will  excuse  it,  since  psvcholoffy  and  dimples,  and  the  crow's-foot  at  the 

metaphysics  are  Mr.  Coleridge  s  hob-  corner,  to  the  lustre  of  an  eye.    The 

by,  and  not  mine — never  having  had  mistress  of  an  antiquary  is  a  '^  god- 

a  passion  for  hard  riding  or  rough  dess,  nymph  divine,  and  rare,  pre- 

roads.  clous,  celestial ;  "  and  he  never  de« 

But  I  certainly  see  an  intelligible  scends  from  his  hlffh  passion,  to  dally 

distinction  in  this  instance ;    and  I  with  mere  earthly  beauty.  Who  ever 

hold  an  antiquary  to  be  a  more  out-  heard  of   Mistress    Camden,    Mrs^ 

of-doors  animal  than  Spenser  des-  Stow,  or  Mrs*  Speed  ?    I  would  not 

cribes  him ;  one  that  burrows  about  believe     there    were    such    people, 

tumuli,  Roman  roads,  and  encamp-  though  the  marriage  register  were 

ments,    nestles    among    dilapidated  brought   hi  proof;   forgery,    fraud, 

castles  and  cathedral  ruins,  and  only  trick,  deception,-— any  thing  would 

retires  into  his  "  grub  state "  at  the  be  more  probable  than  the  ralsehood 

^^oach  of  winter,  old  age,  or  bo-  of  my  '^  bookish  theoric : "  and  as  to 

ml^  infirmity.  *'  exceptions,"  and  those  limitationB 

A  real  antiquary  is  now  rarely  met  with   which  people  usually  qualify 

inth.    It  is  not  taking  in  the  county  their  assertions,  I  hate  them,   and 

histories,    nor    reading   Grose    and  have,  ever  since  I  learned  the  first 

Pennant,  nor  collecting  drawings  of  rule  in  the  Latin  Grammar.     It  is  a 

churches,  or  inscriptions,  nor  visit-  beggarly  way  of  discussing  a  ques- 

me  tomb-stones,   nor  belonging    to  tion.    If  there  be  a  hundred  excep- 

**  The  Socie^,"  nor  writing  a  dull  tions,  never  trouble  me  with  vour 

article    in    'The    Gentleman's,    nor  rule ;  and  if  it  were  once  established, 

shaking  hands  with  its  Editor, — ^that  that  half  a  dozen  antiquaries   had 

will  make  an  antiquary.    Oh  no! —  wives,  I  would  drive  them  all  into 

Antiquity  is  neither  to  be  so  wooed,  the  herd  of  common-place  people,— 

nor  so  won : — she  is  a  jealous  mis-  but  that  is  impossible, 
tress ;    and   will  engross  the  whole        If  men  would  needs  converse  with 

man — mind  and  body— intellect  and  a  rational  antiquary,  there  must  be 

passion.  some  *'  sympathy  in  their  loves  ;  " 

It  is  a  vulgar  error  that  an  anti-  or  they  must  first  exorcise  him — fall 

quary  is  necessarily  a  dull  animal,  to  with  bell,  book,  and  candle,— and 

He  is  no  more  so   than  a  poet,  a  even  then  be  content  to  lose  their 

painter,  a  musician,  a  lover,  or  any  labour.   There  are  a  thousand  people 

Vol.  IV.  U 


t54                                            The  dnUquanf.  E[8ept. 

that  have  a  little  illicit  pasaion  that  and  Sufferings."  How  the  first  came 

way ;  but  not  one  in  a  thousand  that  to  be  admitted  I  know  not ;  and  the 

is  a  genuine  antiquary.    Clergymen  latter,  I  suspect,  would  have  been 

have  always  had  a  relish  for  it,  but  the  exchanged  for  a  more  "  enlarged  " 

true  clerical  antiquary  abdicated  with  edition,   but  that  it  was  a  sort  of 

King  James.    A  whiff  and  an  anti-  heir-loom,    that    had   passed   down 

auarian  were  never  buttoned-up  in  through  the  successive  generations  of 

^e  same  ffreat-coat ;  and  an  anti-  hb  family,  from  its  first  publication 

quarian  Calvinist  is  impossible— it  is  in  1661,  with  the  autograph  of  every 

a  contradiction  in  terms ;  there  may  possessor. 

be  people  that  profess  it,  but  I  deny  As  the  reader  will  presiune,  an  an- 

Uieir  sincerity  in  one  or  the  other : —  tiquary  is  necessarily  a  high  church- 

I  leave  them  the  election.  man  and  a   tory ;    and    you   coidd 

Even  in  the  Church  of  England  he  always  have  distinguished  my  friend 

b  but  a  poor  dumb  thing,   like  a  in  his  canonicals,  by  his  bowing  three 

f wallow  in  December.    It  is  not  his  times  from  the  church  door  to  the 

dement.     In  my  whole  life  I  have  pulpit     He  thought  the  Refonnation 

never  known  but  one  who  had  the  a  fine  thing, — that  is,  \e  belonged  to 

authentic  stamp  and  impress  of  a  le-  the  church  900  vears  after  it ;  but 

gitimate  descendant  of  old  Camden ;  always  qualified  nis  commendation, 

poor  W        ,  who  died  last  autumn  by  regretting  the  devastation  of  the 

of  a  ''  restoration."    Though  living  cathedrals,  and  shrank  with  instinc- 

within  half  as  many  miles,  he  had  tive   horror   at  the  name   of  John 

not   been    at    Salisbury   for  thirty  Knox.     He  did  not  believe  in  tran- 

years;  and  wanting  to  settie  some  substantiation,  of  course;   but  was 

disputed  chronological  fact,  by  re-  equally  incredulous  in  Pope  Joan,  and 

flerence  to  an  old  monument  tiiere,  the  Popish   Antf^ist.      He  hated 

he  determined,  after  six  months'  de-  (the  old)  controversial  texts;    and, 

liberation,  to  visit  it  again.    There  therefore,    discoursed  twice  a  year 

he  arrived  with  a  liciit  heart,  in  a  regularly  on  the  Seventh  Verse  of  the 

green  old  age,  on  the  first  of  August :  Fourteenth  Chapter  of  St.  John.   He 

he  fell  into  some  idolatrous  lapses  in  thought  a  reconciliation  and  union  in 

the  cathedral  close— entered  the  ca-  the    Christian    church    possible,     if 

thedral    itself,  vrith  a  bewildering,  people  would  not  dispute  about  tri- 

but  subdued  and  religious  passion, —  fles ;    and  was  willing   to   give  up 

and  found  the  monument  swept  away  his  living,  rather  than  his  band  or 

in  the  late  "  restoration."    He  never  his  surplice.      He  disliked  the  Act 

looked  up  after  this.    He  complained  of  Parliament  Parish  Registers,  be- 

instantiy  of  a  cold  chill,   wnich  I  cause  these  '' flimsy  foolish  things" 

took  for  an  indirect  hint  at  the  na-  could  not   last  above  a  few  years 

kedness  that  surrounded  him :   the  (centuries),  and  must  perish  before 

old  screen,  he  said,  if  it  did  break  they  could  possibly  be  of  service  (to 

the  view,  broke  the  wind  in  addition;  an  antiquary).    He  took  in  The  St. 

he  wandered  once  round  the  cathe-  James's  Chronicle,  and  thought  the 

dral,  heaved  a  sigh  or  two,  returned  obituary  in  The  Gentieman  s  very 

to  Stockbridffe  the  same  evening,  and  entertaining : — by  the  bye,    1  may 

got  home  to  Winchester,  just  in  time  add,  he  was  singular  in  commending 

to  die  on  the  third.  the  engravings  in  the  latter  work ; 

W  '  "■  was  so  entirely  an  M  anti-  but  he  objected  against  those  of  a 
quarian,  that  he  must  have  had  a  higher  finish,  that  with  their  sha- 
bitter  consciousness,  if  rail  were  in  dows  and  their  perspective  they  con- 
so  gentle  a  creature,  iJbat  he  had  fused  all  detail— the  consummation 
outlived  his  generation.  His  library  and  end  of  the  art.  He  was  a  minor- 
alone  would  prove  this  to  any  other  canon,  without  a  higher  ambition : 
person.  Out  of  71 1  volumes  he  resided  all  his  life  under  the  wing  ot 
bequeathed  me,  there  were  305  fo-  his  cathedral,  and  was  "  plagued  to 
Hos,  808  quartos,  196  octavos,  and  death  "  to  show  it  to  friends' friends  ; 
tVFO  ISnios.  This  "  halfpenny  worth  and,  therefore,  if  a  stranger  but  casi 
of  bread  "  was  the  *'  Sixe  Court  Co-  an  eye  towards  the  great  clock,  while 
Biedies,"  by  John  Lilly ;  and  the  he  was  sunning  himself  on  the  south 
"  Elkon  Basilike,  the  Portraiture  of  side,  he  pidled  out  his  key,  and  ac- 
hlf  sacred  Majesty  in  his  Solitudes  companied  him  all  over,  even  into  the 


crypt  and  the  olobten,  witli  Infitiite  no  doubt  felohum't  tensile  bad  the 

^ratification.     The  zeM  of  the  en-  lancet  arcfa^— *^'  he  made  windows  «ff 

Joyment  was  in  the  south  transept^  narrow  liglits^''   if  it  were    pot   a 

when  he    refuted  ^^--'s  ridiculous  purdjOoQiic  building;  for ''against 

supposition  about  the  circular  arch ;  the  wall  of  the  house^  he  built  chain- 

and  in  the  gpracious  smile  with  which  liers  "  which  he  ever  suspected  to  be 

he  refused  the  half-crown  at  the  west  th^  little  chapelries  that  so  beautify 

door,    and  startled   his    companion  a  Gothic  cathedral,  and  of  which  ihe 

into  an  assurance  that  he  was  not  Parthenon    l^nows  nothing.      There 

the  verger.    People  had  no  relish  for  were  innumerable  other  corroborative 

antiquity   if  this  occurred  less  than  circumstances  that  he  would  throw 

three  times  a- week,  from  June  to  out,ifhis  conjecture  were  questioned; 

October.  such  as  ''  the  carving  with  knops  and 

He  was  a  bachelor,  of  course ;  and  open  flowers,"  and    ''  the  walls  of 

maintained   two   maidfen  sisters,  of  the  house  round  about  with  carved 

course,  —  an    antiquarian    bachelor  figures  of  cherubim,  and  palm-tr^es, 

oould  do  no  less ;  and  drove  a  four-  and  open  flowers  within  and  wiUi- 

wheeled  chaise,  with  a  Suffolk  eobb,  out ; "  the  former  of  which  he  main- 

of  course  ;  he  drank  ale,  and  smoked  tained  were  yet  visible  in  our  corbels 

m  moderation.     He  visited  no  where,  and  gutter-spouts, — and  the  latter  not 

and  was  visited  by  no  one  that  lived  only  in  the  cathedral  itself,  but  was 

within    twenty    miles  of    his    own  the  hint  on  which  Warburton  founded 

house.   He  was  not,  to  speak  strictly,  his  theory. 

either  a  capuchin,  or  a  carmelite, —  Nothing  was  more  pleasant  than 
neither  of  the  order  of  St.  Benedict,  the  self-satisfaction  with  which  he 
nor  St.  Francis, — since  the  protestant  refuted  Inigo  Jones's  conjecture  about 
church  knows  no  such  abominations ;  Stonehenffe  being  a  work  of  the  Ro- 
yet  was  he,  in  spirit, ''  a  right  monk,  roans.  He  admitted  the  transmarine 
if  ever  there  were  any,  since  the  speculation  about  Merlin  to  be  an 
monking  world  monked  a  monkery,"  iale  tale;  thought  ColtHoare  vision- 
as  Rabelais  phrases  it.  He  was  stiff  ary;  smiled  at  the  Druids;  overthrew 
and  reserved  out  of  the  shadow  of  the  Danes  in  a  moment ;  and  laughed 
his  cathedral ;  but  full  of  kind  heart-  outright  at  the  cenotaphlan  humour 
edness,  under  all  his  formality,  }f  about  the  BriUsh  kings;  admitted  the 
you  could  but  get  at  it ;  which  was  work  was  in  existence  before  the  Con- 
somewhat  difiicult  through  so  much  quest ;  and  thus  having  disposed  of 
flannel  and  fleecy-hosiery.  ful  generations,  ^ce  the  first  peoplinjg 

He  made  sure  of  an  old  colle^^an  of  the  island,  shook  his  head  signi- 

or  two  at  the  Vbitation,  when  the  ficantiy,  and  had  ^  ah  opinion  of  his 

toilet    was    unpinned    in    the    best  own.'* 

chamber,  and  he ''played  his  part:"  He  wdl  remembered  Mr.  Gray, 
a  part  full  of  humanity,  but  with  and  was  surprised  to  hear  he  was  a 
some  spice  of  infirmity ;  for  he  cared  poet.  He  had  doubts  about  Rowley, 
not  then  to  "  hear  the  chimes  at  out  never  mentioned  which  way.  He 
midnight," — ^bore  a  part  in  a  catch  of  thought  Drayton's  Polyolbion  the 
Anacroon's,  that  was  in  vogue  for^  finest  poem  i;i  our  language,  but  too 
years  ago  at  St.  John's, — ran  revels  superficial  and  imaginative,  and  all 
over  his  old  poet, — talked  of  Aspasia,  the  rhyme  the  worse.  He  believed  he 
Cleopatra,  and  Nell  Gwyn,  —  and  liked  fishing,  for  no  other  reason  but 
awoke  on  the  morrow,  with  a  mix-  that ——*  bequeathed  him  his  tackle; 
ture  of  regret  and  good  humour,  and  he  went  once  a-year  to  Bishops- 
hoping  to  be  forgiven,  as  the  Visita-  Waltham,  to  unfold  and  fold  it,  and 
tion  came  but  once  a-year.  keep     up    the    self-delusion.      He 

In  his  youUi  he  had  been  intro-  thought  Isaac  Walton's  was  a  clever 

duced  to  old  Cole    of  Cambridge,  book,   and  would  have  been  better 

visited  every  cathedral  in  England,  but  for  the  idle  dialogue  nothing  to 

and  went  to  France  for  the  sole  pur-  the  purpose.    He  had  a  somewhat 

Eose  of  seeing  the  facade  of  Rheiras.  similar    ol]jection    to    Sir   Thomas 

[e  lauffhed  at  Whittmgton's  opinion  Brown's    Urn     Burial,     which     he 

about  the  antiquity  of  Gothic  archi-  thought  discursive,   and  too  full  of 

tecture  there ;  agreed  with  Carter  in  irrelevant  speculation, 
calling  it  English  ;  and,  in  proof,  had        These  are  a  few  opinions  that  may 

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956  7%eodore  tmd  Bertha.  [^BepU 

aenre   to   gAre   indlTiduidity  to  his  of  the  hunan   mind;  the  text  to 

character ;  but  he  had  a  tiiousand  Sterne's  chapter  on  Hobby-horses  ; 

others  no  better  worth  recording,  in  the    soul  of  Wordswbrth's  poetry  ; 

all  which,  ''  affection,  master  ofpas-  the    source    of  Hazlitt's   power, — 

aion,  swayed   him  to  the  mooa  of  Rousseau's     pathos,  —  Montaigne's 

what  it  liked  and  loathed ; "  and  so  knowledge ;  the  foundation  of  Shak- 

it  does  not  only  a  simple  antiquary,  speare's    dramatic   characters ;    and 

but  all  other  people  worth  remember-  possibly  the  occasion  of  this    first 

ing:  it  is  a  clue  to  the  whole  mystery  essay  in  the  London,  by 

Tmuriia. 


THEODORE  AND  BERTHA» 

A  DRAMATIC  SKETCH. 


The  story  of  this  littie  drama  is  taken,  with  some  variation  in  the  scene 
and  catastrophe,  from  the  beautiful  ballad  entitied  Pause  Foodrage,  hi  the 
Minstrelsy  of  the  Scottbh  Border. 

f  Countess  Lindorf. 
I  Bertha. 
Characters,  <  Theodore. 
I  Conrade. 
t  Frederick. 

Scene,  a  Forttt  in  Bohemia — a  Castle  in  the  Back-ground. 

Theodore  alone. 

The.    Lie  there,  dark  murderous  weapon  !  I  renounce  thee  ! 
Farewell,  ye  barbarous  sports !    Alas,  poor  fawn  I 

Enter  Bertha. 

Ber.    Did  I  not  hear  a  ^n  ?    The  poor,  poor  fawn 
Licking  its  bleeding  mother !    This  is  cruel  f 

The.    Oh !  cruel !  cowardly !    Never  again  will  I — 
I  hate  my  treacherous  skill — I  hate  myself. 

Ber.    liOok  how  the  poor  fawn,  with  his  nudging  nose 
And  pretty  stamping  feet,  dabbled  in  blood. 
Tries  to  awake  his  dam  !    How  piteously 
He  moans,  poor  spotted  thing !    Are  you  quite  sure 
The  doe  is  dead  ?     I  thought  I  saw  her  move. 

IVie.    Too  sure.    'Twas  not  her  motion  ;  that  fond  thing 
Btriying'^I  cannot  bear  to  look  on  them ! 
8he  is  too  surely  dead ;  when  I  came  up 
I  found  her  dying ;  her  fine  delicate  limos 
Trembling  with  the  death-shiver.    She  scarce  breathed ; 
But  the  pure  instinct  of  maternal  love 
Struggled  to  keep  in  life :  she  fix'd  her  sad. 
Affectionate  eyes  upon  her  young-one's  face. 
Then  moaning  over  her  as  now  he  moans — 
Stretch'd  out  ner  feet  and  died.    Oh,  Lady  Bertha, 
Man  is  the  wilder  brute  ! 

Ber.  But  you  are  grieved, — 

And  knew  not — ^no,  I'm  sure  you  never  dreamt 
Of  this  poor  fawn  ? 

JTie.  ^  No ;  it  lay  sleeping  there 

Behind  the  bushes.*    But  a  savage  heart 
Was  mine,  that  could  even  here—-    Look  round  you,  lady ! 
There  is  not  in  the  forest  such  a  root 
As  this.    Look  how  the  wood-walks  hither  tend. 
As  to  a  centre :  some  in  vistas  green. 


19»l.3  naodmr€  mtd  Btrika.  9Sf 

Pillared  and  ofver-arcli'd— «•  tbe  long  aides 
Of  an  old  proud  cathedral ;  others  wandering 
In  loveBer  mazes  through  a  Tarlous  scene— 
HoUj  or  copse-wood ;  soaroe  the  eye  can  trace 
Their  coj  meanders,  hut  all  meeting  here 
Beneath  this  monarch  dak,  through  idiose  thick  boughs 
The  sun  comes  flickening*    How  the  indented  leaves. 
Of  brightest  men,  cut  deailT  the  Uue  sk j 
And  the  small  clouds  I    And  how  this  dn j  spring 
'Bubbles  and  sparkles  round  the  moss-grown  roots. 
Winding  its  suver  thread  slon^  the  short 
Elastic  turf,  so  tfalcklj  set  wf&  flowers. 
And  mix'd  ^th  fragrant  herbs,  till  it  is  lost 
Amongst  the  bowery  tidcfcets !    Not  a  wpot 
In  all  the  forest  can  compare  with  this-^ 
Nature's  own  temple !    And  that  deUcate  thing 
Made  up  of  innocenoej  and  love,  and  fear. 
And  trembling  happiness, — ^most  beautiiul 
Of  all  this  beauty^— she,  wlio  stood  ef^Joying, 
With  a  sweet  peaceful  spirit,  drinking  in 
This  flood  of  Missi— that  I—    I  hate  myself! 
And  you  must  hate  me,  lady*. 

Ber,  Oh  I  no;  no; 

You  are  so  sorry! 

I%e.  'Tis  my  Other's  &ult: 

He  keeps  me  here,  waging  unequal  war 
With  t£Lei<a')[KKHr  harmless  deer,  when  I  sliould  be 
Arm'd  in  the  desperate  strife,  stemming  the  tide 
Of  glorious  battle,  winning  death  or  fame. 

Ber.    That  were  a  strange  place  to  learn  gentieness. 

The.    The  only  place  for  me.    Oh,  I  must  forth 
Into  the  stininff  world  I    I  have  wild  dreams 
Which  I  would  &in  make  real;  daring  thoughts 
Wbich  must  be  tum'd  to  action ;  hopes  wldch  soar 
High  as  the  eagle's  vHng;  all  madness  now  ;     ■ 
But,  Lad^  Bertha,  I  have  bask'd  too  long 
In  the  bnght  blase  of  beau^.    I  have  gaied 
Unseen,  imknown,  as  our  poor  forest  cot 
Looks  upwards  OD  your  cam;  I  must  gain 
A  name,  or  die-*«  glorloua  name  I 

Ber.  Nay,  Theodore^ 

l%e.    She  knows  me! 

Ber.  Tlieodor^— 

I%e.  (^  I  now  that  name 

Is  precious  to  my  heart!    Xliou  know'st  me,  lady? 

Ber.    Think  you,  I  thus  had  spoken  with  a  stranger? 
I've  often  seen  you  at  our  earty  mass. 
And  sometimes  finom  the  windows  ;  imd,  besides^ 
My  own  dear  mother  often  sneaks  of  yout's — 
Her  fiuthful,  favouiite  maid. 

7^.  Stkd  was  lier  maid  ; 

Her  fiEivourite  maid*    Oh !  I  had  not  forgotten  1 

Ber.    And  of  your  father,  her  Und  faithful  friei|d,i 
That  old  and  reverend  man,  whose  shiidng  ludnr. 
Whiter  than  ermine,  so  beoDme  his  bright 
And  healthful  cheek.    How  much  I  love  to  see  him ! 
How  much  I  wish  to  know  lifan !    My  dear  mother 
Talks  oftentimes  of  him.    Aye,  and  of  you — 
Oftenest,  I  think,  of  alL    Do  you  not  know 
Tluit  I'm  your  foster-sister?    That  one  breast— 
Alas,  Uiatbreastiscoiai  BMirish'd  ua  both  ? 


And  thai  we  ihould  be  fifandi?    Ob,  I  teve  Idocfd, 
Ereu  In  the  holv  lampdi,  to  aajtUi; 
But  my  steni  unde— 

The.  KSadfit^  loreqMt  maid ! 

How  well  that  heart  ia  mated  to  that  tee  1 
And  does  tiie  centle  Coimteat  speak  of  dm-- 
That  beauUM  grief  ?    Yet,  I  have  often  seen. 
Have  often  fidt  those  dewy  era,  where  lore 
Mixes  nith  ^tj,  as  hi  ang^s  looks;, 
Flx'd  upon  mlne^  as  she  woold  read  my  souL 
Oh!  die  would  find  it  ftdl  of  deep  respect 
For  her— and  for  W  daqij^tMr. 

Ber.  Theodore, 

Look,  the  poor  &wn  has  moaa'd  hitoiself  asleep  f 
Give  him  to  me.    I-^-capthre  thou^  I  be> 
Or  little  better^  in  those  fluwuiim;  wal]s,r- 
Yet  have  I  th&re  a  lone  deserted  nook. 
Which  long  nedect  has  made  a  sort  c^  garden, 
AH  dothed  with  moss,  and  grass,  and  trdlUng  plants. 
And  deck'd  With  goigeous  weeds.    IThe  wild-vme  their. 
And  white-vein'd  ivy,  form  a  natural  arbour  ; 
And  I  have  mingled  odorous  shmbi^  and  sprhikled 
Bright  showers  of  wden  blossoms.    It  is  now 
A  bower  fit  for  the  ndries;  and  undaim'd 
Of  any  other^  I  ftUl  call  it  mine; 
And  there  my  pretty  fiiwn  shall  dwell  with  me. 
And  feed  on  roses  j^^-my  poor  damded  fiiwn  I 
No— not  m  your  anns--give  him  mto  mkie. 

The,    Nay,  let  me  parry  him? 

Ber.  Oh  I  no,  no,  no; 

I  must  not,  dare  not 

The.  Only  to  the  gate  ? 

Ber.    The  gate!    Then  I  must  tell  my  truant  tale- 
Must  own  my  wandertngs!    First  nnt  down  the  lawtw 
I  know  not  why—but,  Theodore,  I  feel 
As  if  I  had  done  wrong — as  jH^— and  yet 
I'm  sure  I  meant  no  lumn.    Let  us  sit  here 
On  these  soft  mosinr  roots.    It  1%  Indeed, 
A  chosen  spot !    Well,  Theodore,  thou  know*st 
That  my  good  father  (tied  ere  I  was  bom, 
A  luckless  giri  I  and  that  his  castle,  lands. 
Titles  and  vassals,  to  his  brother  foD, 
And  I,  amongst  the  rest,  his  ifldhnt  ward. 
With  my  dear  motlier  I  have  lived  with  him 
In  a  most  strict  sedurion— wlsoners 
In  every  thing  but  name  1    For  e||^teen  yean^ 
All  my  short  nfo,  we  ne'te  have  pass'd  the  gate. 

7%e.    VUlahil  base  cowardOhr  vHkia !    Boon  a  time 
Shall  come—  Oo  oa»  sweet  laay  I 

Ber.  She  stIU  mourning 

Her  lord's  untimely  deaths  and  I— 

The.  Oh!  villain. 

That  drink'st^Qqphan*s  tears  I    A  tfane  shall  Corne- 
lls.   Naj,  peace :  I  prythee^  peace  1    I,  still  contents- 
Content  Is  not  enough !— I  was  as  happy 
As  a  young  bird. 

The.  Happy !  with  that  fieroe  tyrant. 

That  stem  oppressor] 

Ber.  He  was  sometimes  kind; 

And  my  de^  mother  always.    All  tlie  house 
Was  good  and  kbd  to  ma— too  good  I  lookindi 


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Oh !  there  ii  in  man's  heart  a  fathomleM  well 

Of  goodness !     I  had  nought  but  gratitude^ 

And  yet  how  kind  they  were !    Content  and  happy 

Was  I ;  yet  sometimes  an  unbidden  thought 

Sprang  up— a  hope — a  wish — an  earnest  wish! 

A  powerful  passionate  hope !    We  had  a  maid 

Bred  hi  the  forest^— a  young  innocent  girl^ 

Who  pined  for  trees^  and  air,  and  liberty^ 

Even  till  she  sicken'd^  and  her  round  red  cheeks 

Grew  thin  and  pale ;  and  books^  dear  books !  they  all 

Of  freedom  spake  and  nature  ;  and  the  birds 

That  eddied  round  our  windows^  every  song 

Caird  me  to  lovely  nature ;  till  I  \ongd 

Intensely^  as  the  school-boy  yearns  for  home> 

To  cast  aside  only  for  once  the  walls 

Of  our  old  castle^  and  to  feel  green  leaves 

About  me^  and  to  breathe  the  pleasant  air, 

Freshen'd  with  bright  strange  flowers  and  dewy  grass. 

And  warm'd  with  Uie  bright  sun. 

The.  And  did  the  Count 

Refuse  thee,  lady  ? 

Ber,  Yes. 

7%e.  But  they— his  vassals? 

Surely,  one  only  man  of  all  the  world 
Could  utter  no  to  thee ! 

Ber.  I  ask'd  them  not. 

Have  I  not  told  thee  they  were  good  and  kind, — 
Kindest  to  me  ?    And  could  I  tempt  them  on 
To  possible  punishment  ? 

The.  Oh !  what  a  bliss 

For  thee !    But,  lady,  thou  art  here  ? 

Ber.  I  found 

The  lone  deserted  court  I  call'd  my  garden. 
And  dress'd  my  bower,  and  tried  to  trifle  thus 
My  bootless  wish  away ; — but  stUl  it  dung ! 
And  one  day — ^following,  wkh  my  eye,  my  heart, 
A  rui^-dove  hastening  to  her  woodland  nest. 
Wishing  I  too  had  wmgs,  I  mark'd  how  low 
In  that  dark  angle  was  the  ruln'd  wall, 
Cover'd  with  dusteringr  ivy,  and  o'erhung 
By  an  old  ash*    And  fumost  with  the  thought. 
The  ivy  boughs  my  ladder,  and  the  ash 
My  friendlv  veil,  I  dimb'd  the  wall,  and  came 
Down  on  the  other  side,  a  safe  descent 
Propp'd  by  the  uneven  trunk,— and  there  I  stood. 
Panting  with  fear  and  jov,  i^  liberty ! 
Yet  was  I  so  o'ermaster'd  by  my  fear. 
That  for  that  day  I  could  not  move  a  step 
Into  the  forest ;  but  crept  trembling  back — 
And  wept  as  if  for  grie^    Often  since  then. 
When  the  Count  Lindorf  is  abroad,  as  now 
That  he  lies  sick  at  Prague,  I  venture  forth 
As  fearless  as  a  dove. 

The.  And  sdll  unmark'd  ? 

Ber.    The  shdtering  forest  reaches  to  the  wall — 
Look,  'tis  close  by ! — 1  never  have  seen  trace 
Of  man  but  once :  then  thou  wert  reading  here : 
I  had  resolved,  if  ever  I  should  meet 
Thee  or  thy  good  old  father,  to  accost  ye  ; 
Yet  when  I  saw  thee  here — I  know  not  how— 
But  my  heart  £ul'd  me— and  I  fled.    I  wondei* 


At  to-day's  courage ;  but  the  poor>  poor  fkwii — 
I  only  thought  of  him.    Well>  I  must  hence ; 
My  mother  ebe  may  miss  me. 

The.  Then  th«  Countets 

Knows  not  this  path  ? 

Ber,  No;  her  sweet  gentle  spirit 

Is  cast  in  a  too  anxious  mould ;  she  iaars 
For  all  she  loves.    No ;  I  have  never  told  her. 

But  now — that  we and  she  must  see  my  fawn ! 

Aye— and  she  ou^ht  to  know. 

The.  And  when  she  knows. 

Oh !  lady,  I  shall  never  see  thee  more ! 

Ber.    Yet  I  must  tell  her— surely  I  must  tell  her ! 
She  is  my  own  most  dear  and  loving  mother  ; 
Ought  I  not,  Theodore? 

The.  lAdy>  ytvu  must ; 

Though  it  will  root  from  out  my  heart  a  hxxipe 
Deeper  than  life,  you  must. 

Ber.  Give  me  the  fawu ! 

And,  Theodore,  stay  here.    I  think — I  hope 
That  she  will  wish  to  see  thee.    If  she  should-— 
Come  not  with  me.    Be  sure  to  stay  just  here. 
Farewell !—  Nay,  struggle  not,  my  pretty  fawn  ! 
Thou  must  along  with  me«— Farewell !  C^'''  Beriha. 

The.  Farewdi, 

Loveliest  and  most  beloved !    Well  might  she  wish 
To  tread  the  woodland  path, — flight-footed  maid ! 
How  beautiful  she  is,  with  her  white  arms 
Wound  round  her  innocent  burthen,  and  her  head 
Bent  over  his  so  lullingly !    Even  he. 
That  wild  and  timorous  creature,  feels  the  charm. 
And  is  no  more  afraid.    She  disappears  ;— 
I  scarce  distinguish  now  her  floating  veil. 
And  her  brown  waving  hair.    How  beautiful ! 
How  graceful !    Most  like  one  of  Dian's  nymphs. 
But  full  of  deeper  tenderness.    Her  voice. 
Her  words  still  lin^  round  me  like  the  air. 
The  dewy  sunny  air  of  which  she  spake. 
Glowing  and  odorous.    Oh !  that  I  were — 
.\nd  I  will  be. — Yes,  loveliest,  most  beloved, 
I  will  deserve  thee !    I  will  make  my  name. 
My  humble  lowly  name,  worthy  to  join 
With  thine,  sweet  Lady  Bertha !    Hapless  thing  \ 
Thv  ffay  compeers  may  bound  at  peace  for  me ; 
I  snail  seek  braver  fields.    For  thee,  poor  doe, 
I  wiU  go  bury  thee  deep  in  yon  dell. 
Should  she  return—  and  will  she  then  return  ? 
How  my  heart  throbs  to  know. 

Enter  Conrade. 

Con.  Surely  I  saw 

Some  bright  and  lovelv  maiden  flitting  by. 
Close  to  the  casUe  wall ;  along  this  path 
She  must  have  come.    Or  was  it  but  the  vision. 
That  fills  my  dreams  all  night,  my  thoughts  all  day, 
The  bright  and  lovely  form  ?-*Ha,  Theodore ! 
Hast  thou  seen  here  a  woman,  a  fair  woman  ? 

7^.    She  has  just  parted  hence,  the  lady  Bertha. 

Ton.    Bertha !  Oh,  I  must  see,  must  follow  her  ! 

ne.    Nay,  'tis  too  late;  ere  now  she's  in  the  castk. 
She  will  return. 


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Con.  Oh^  wondrous^  wondrous  chance ! 

The  lady  Bertha !— Did  she  speak  to  diee  ? 
What  seems  she^  Theodore?    Gay,  gentle,  kind  ? 
Her  mother  was— Oh^  tdl  me  of  her>  boy ! 

lite.    Father,  1  must  to  the  wars. 

Con.  Tell  me  of  her ! 

The.    1  must  go  win  a  name. 

Con.  Well!  well!  thou  shalt 

Talk  to  me  now  of  Bertha ! 

The.  lliis  is  Bertha ! 

Why  war,  and  fame,  and  life,  they  are  all  Bertha ! 
Nothing  but  Bertha ! — Oh^  I  love  her,  fkther. 
Madly  and  wildly ;  she  is  my  whole  world ; 
Rip  up  my  heart,  and  you  will  find  all  Berma, 
And  1  will  wed  her.    I  must  to  the  wars. 
And  earn  her  love.    Nay,  shake  not  thus  thy  head ; 
Though  she  be  great  and  I  be  lo#ly,  fatiier, 
I  tell  thee,  I  will  nmke  a  glorious  names  ■  ■ 
Or  die. 

Con.    This  is  most  wondrous !    But  tiie  Count- 
Count  Lindorf. 

lite.  Oh,  true  love  is  strong  and  mighty ; 

Pride  bends  before  it* 

Con.  Were  it  pride  alone ! 

Count  Lindorf,  as  I  hear^  would  rather  see 
The  lady  Bertha  in  a  convent  cell 
Than  wedded.    He  is  dark  and  dangerous. 
And  full  of  fears.    Men  say— 

The.  9peBk  on,  speak  on. 

What  say  they,  father  ? 

Con.  Dark  and  dangerous — 

A  fierce  and  gloomy— Nay,  no  more  ofthis. 
Whither  dost  drag  that  doe  ? 

The.  To  bury  It 

Far  from  her  siffht  ^-^she  will  be  here  anon. 
She  fain  would  know  you,  and  she  speaks  of  you 
So  reverently !     In  truth,  she  is  as  humble 
As  a  poor  vUlage  maiden  >  yst  as  gradoua 
As  a  bom  princess.    I  shall  soon  return. 
Stay,  dearest  father,  lest  $be  come  the  while ; 
She  fain  would  see  you.  [^Exk  Theodore. 

Con.  Oh,  if  she  could  Imow — 

Could  feel— could  shares— Be  still,  my  bfeathig  heart ; 
Thou  shalt  not  master  me;  be  still  !--She  comes. 
The  beautifid!  the  kind !--Oh,  that  I  dared— 

Enter  Countess  lAndorJand  Berthcu 

Ber.    This  is  the  place,  I'm  sure  ;  but  where  is  he  ? 

Con.    These  are  the  first  words  I  have  heard  her  speak 
In  all  my  life !    How  my,  ear  drinks  her  voice ! 
The  Countess  toOi — 

Countess.  Conrade !  my  kindest  fiiend  1 

My  faithfuUest !  my  best !  How  many  cares 
Have  made  me  old,  since  in  thy  parting  tears 
I  said,  farewell  to  truth  and  honesty ! 

Con.    My  gracious  lady ! 

Countess.  Conrade,  where  is  he  ? 

Con.    In  yonder  dell.    She  hath  caught  sight  of  him. 

Ber.    Ah,  there  he  u,  burying  the  poor,  poor  doe ! 
1  must  go  help  him. 


Comiieu^  .    ^Rnt  ooom  hUbt&r,  Botha. 

This  b  my  iaithfia  fticnd-* 

Ber.  Thaodora'B  fkdier, 

I  kuovr  hhn  w«lL    He  If  no  atranm,  nodwr  ; 
Wlij  I  have  loved  him  aver  ikiot  1  aaw 
Those  rererend  haln ;  and  he,  I'm  8ure>  knres  me. 
Dost  thou  noty  Conrade?    fie^hekM^atme 
With  such  A  Idndly  gmie. 

Con.  How  beaudful 

She  is !    What  a  bright  smile  lives  in  her  eyes ! 
And  see  1  her  soft  wute  hand  is  dimpled  o'er 
LiilLe  a  young  babe's.    Oh,  talK  it  not  away. 
That  soft  and  dhnpled  tiand ! 

Qmnteis.  No»  rather  give 

Both  hands,  my  Bertha.    He's  thy  foster  fiither. 

Ber.    MaT  I  not  call  him  firtlier?    I>  alasl 
Have  never  niown  one. 

Cm.  Blessfaigs  oo  thy  head. 

Beloved  child  I 

ComUett^       New,  my  own  Berdia,  gn 
And  seek  young  Th^ore,  and  bring  him  hither. 
Nay,  let  her  go  I—  lExit  Bertha. 

Yea,  Conrade,  she  is  more 
Than  thy  heart  paiiits  her,  thnmch  these  long,  long  years 
Mr  only  comfort,    fihe  is  afl  BMoe  up 
Of  sweet  serene  content;  a  buoyant  spirit 
That  is  its  own  pyn  ha|qpineWi    If  e'er 
Count  UndiHrf  cmde  lier    and»  in  nodi,  even  he 
Can  raid^  find  a  fimlt  to  Uame  in  Bertha— 
But  should  he  chide  her,  she  will  mei^y  bend 
For  one  short  moment,  tiien  rise  smiling  up. 
As  the  elastic  moas  when  trampled  on 
By  some  rude  peasant's  foot.    Never  was  heart 
Stronger  than  her's  in  peaeeful  innocence. 
Now  gpeak  of  him* 

Ckm.  Fiiat^  madam,  he  loves  her; 

I  knew  it  but  to-day. 

Couniess*  fio  slie  loves  him. 

And  knows  it  not.    But  teUna  of  his  temper. 

dm.    Kind,  noble,  ggBSHms,  hot  all  too  hot: 
Just  like  those  bright  black  eyes,  whose  iery  flask 
Kindling  with  Hving  Hglit.  Fve  seen  you  watch 
WithsnchapaSnMJoy. 

Counteu.  I  luKve  gazed  on  him 

Till  m^  eyes  aoh'd,  till  every  sense  was  daaaled. 
Yet  with  that  fir^  there  was  a  gentleness, 
A  softer,  tenderer  look.    And  edll  he  knows  not — 

Con.    I  dare  not  trust  Um,  lady.    He  already 
Abhors  Count  Lindorf:  he  already  longa 
For  war,  for  danger,  for  renown,  for  aiwfat 
Where  imminent  deadly  pcxil  Biaj  he  stKed 
Against  a  noble  name. 

Cotmtess,  AnoUenamel 

He  pants  for  that!    Aad  I,  that  with  a  word— 
Oh,  mayl?4n«l? 

Ctm.  NdUeladhr,  no. 

The  Count  is  dangerous,  and  this  rarii  yewth"- 

CotMlesf.    True  ;  true.    And  I  expect  my  powerful  kinsman. 
The  Baron  gulphen;  he  shall  kear  my  atorr, 
Mraadr  8ad9tot7,.Cownde.    Oh,  lfae«trife 
Of  love  so  long  pent  in,  so  strong,  so  dee|^ 


iaM-3 


So  gushing  tliroiwh  the  hofft,  witii  bltttr  fear  1 
And  I^  that  ne'er  nave  known  the  deer  ddttght 
To  give  hha  pieefcire--Oh^  to  thhik  that  I 
Could  with  a  word,  one  wold— I  must  away— 
I  dare  not  tnut  myeelf.    Good  Goande,  hop  me 
Back  to  the  castle. 

Omi.  Rett  tiiee  here  aii^ile» 

Dear  lady.'-^How  she  treniUes  S--^i^,  sit  down: 
Command  thyself 

Ber.  Mother  I 

Couniesi,  Who  caD'd  me  mother  ? 

The.    Letmesm^ortheri—- Uidy>  kanonme. 

Counteu*    His  very  tone  1 

Ber.  How  art  thoi^  dearest  mother? 

Countess.    Better. 

Ber.  But  stiU  thou  tremblest,  and  so  pale ! 

I%e.    Oh,  do  not  rise  1    You  are  too  weak. 

Countess*  A  Strong 

And  a  kind  arm  supports  me. 

The.  Never,  madam. 

Was  it  so  honoured.    Would  that  all  my  li& 
Might  pass  as  this  brief  moment  I 

Counieu.  Theodore, 

I  think— 

The.    And  ibr  my  firthei^s  sake,  periiaps— 

Countess.    Thy  father  I'-^e,  indeed— thy  father !   Thepdore, 
I  have  a  boon  to  ask  of  thee. 

The.  A  boon  I 

Say,  madam,  a  command. 

Countess.  WeU— a  command. 

Conrade  has  told  me  thou  wilt  to  the  wars  ; 
I  have  a  nowerfiil  kinsman,  young,  and  brave,  . 
High  in  tne  Emperor^s &vo^ ;  leipeot him 
At  Lindorf  in  the  autumn.    Be  content 
To  wait  his  coming,  and  niy  first  request 
Shall  be,  that  he  will  ^pide  thee  in  that  path 
Of  stainless  honour  which  himself  hath  trod. 
Say  wilt  thou  wait  till  then? 

The.  How  can  poor  Theodore, 

The  humble,  low-bom  Theodore,  deserve 
This  wondrous  bounty  1  .  Not  for  the  wide  world. 
Not  even  for  her,  would  1  deceive  such  goodness. 
Madam,  all  poor  and  lowly  as  I  am» 
Yet  I  have  dared  tolove— %h,  pardcm  me  I 
Even  if  you  banish,  pardon  I'—Who  could  see 
Your  Bertha  and  not  love  her  ? 

Countess.  And  what  says 

My  Bertha  to  sui^  love? 

Ber.  My  dearest  mother. 

What  is  that  proud  word  fYiail  P    What  hath  it  been. 
But  Uie  stem  prison-bolt  tbatbarr*d  me  out 
From  air,  and  sunshine,  and  the  song  of  birds. 
And  the  sweet  soent  of  flowers?    And  must  it  now 
Exclude — 

Bnter  Frederidk. 
Fred.     Thank  Umren,  she's  finnd  i-*-«l  have  soi^t  you 


Every  wbeie*  madtth.    I  hare  that  to  tell 
Which  may  not  brook  delay. 

Countess.  Is  the  Count  Lindorf 

Retum'd? 

Fred.     My  gradous  lady>  Jie  is  dead. 

Con.    Dead! 

Fred.  Even  so.    Last  night  Count  Lindorf  died. 

Countess.    No,  no^  he  lives !  the  real  Count  Lindorf  lives  ? 
My  son !  my  son !  my  own,  my  very  son ! 
Thou,  for  whose  sake  I  have  endured  to  live 
In  prison  and  in  sorrow — ^thou  art  mine. 
My  Theodore !    In  the  face  of  all  the  world 
1  will  proclaim  thee  rightful  Count  of  Lindorf. 

The.    Mother !    I  do  not  ask  if  this  be  real. 
My  heart  has  always  dalm'd  thee.    Yes ;  I  am 
Thy  son,  thy  very  son. 

Ber.  And  the  poor  Bertha — 

What  then  is  she  ? 

Countess.  My  daughter,  still  my  daughter: 

7^.    Bertha,  my  sister! 

Countess.  No ;  thy  wife.    Will  that 

Please  thee  as  well  ?    And  our  dear  Conrade's  child. 

Con.    My  own  sweet  child. 

Countess.  My  son,  thy  speaking  eyes 

Demand  my  story.    Briefly  let  me  tell 
A  grief  wmch  euhteen  years  have  left  as  fresh 
As  yesterday.    Thy  father  was  a  man 
Bom  to  leaa  all  hearts  captive.    Such  he  was 
As  thou  art  now.    Look  at  the  features,  Frederick — 
The  shape,  the  air. 

Fred.  It  is  his  very  selfl 

Countess.    1  loved  him — we  were  in  our  bridal  year — 
Oh,  how  I  loved  him !    So  did  all  the  world. 
Except  his  envious  brother.    Thev  went  forth 
Together,  at  the  break  of  dav,  to  hunt 
Here  in  this  very  forest;  and  at  eve. 
One— only  one— petum'd.    Mine— Mine— O  God ! 
The  agony,  the  frighted  affonv. 
When  he  at  last  was  brougnt  I— O  God ! 

The.  My  mother ! 

Countess.    Some  tale  was  told  of  direful  accident—- 
Would  that  I  cmdd  believe !    But  from  that  hour 
Peace,  rest,  and  appetite,  and  natural  smiles. 
Forsook  the  conscious  fratricide— -Oh,  suilt 
Hath  well  avenged  us !     But,  ere  yet  Uie  flush 
Of  bold  triumphant  crime  had  paled  to  fear 
And  dark  remorse,  did  Conrade  overhear — 
For  I  was  great  of  thee,  my  Theodore, 
And  gtief  and  horror  had  brought  on  my  pains — 
This  Lindorf  bribed  a  ruffian  to  secure 
My  infimt,  if  a  male.    Thou,  sweetest  Bertha, 
A  new-born  innocent  babe,  wert  in  the  castie ; 
And  he,  and  my  kind  nurse,  and  she  the  kindest 
And  fruthfrdlest  of  aU,  thy  blessed  mother. 
Contrived,  I  scarcely  conscious,  to  exchange 
My  boy  for  his  &ir  girL — ^A  boundless  debt 
We  owe  thee,  Conrade. 

Con.  Pay  it  to  my  Bertha. 

The.    She  is  herself  that  debt  I    What  was  the  life 
Of  fifty,  such  m  I,  compared  to  Bertha? 


1891*^         Or  Spetuer^s  iuppomd  AeqmmUme^  wiA  SMetpiatt*  988 

A  paltry  boon,  scarce  w<Mrth  my  thanks,  dear  father  f 
She  is  the  treasure !    Sh&— 

Ber,  Cease,  flatterer,  cease! 

I  must  go  tend  my  fawn. 

CoujUess.  My  son,  I  long 

To  see  you  in  your  castle* 

Fred.  You  will  find 

The  Baron  Zutphen  there  to  greet  you,  madam. 
He  came  to  pr(mer  succour  and  protec^on 
To  you  and  Lady  Bertha ;  he  wiU  now 
Welcome  his  brave  young  kinsman.    Not  a  heart, 
Vassal  or  servant,  but  will  feel  the  joy 
Of  this  discovery. 

Countess.  Theodore,  my  son. 

How  proud  I  am  of  that  unwonted  word! 
Let  us  go  meet  the  Baron.    Bertha,  Conrade> 
Daughter  and  friend^  come  with  me ;  this  kind  cousin 
Must  see  how  rich  I  am.    My  own  dear  son !  [^Exeuni. 


ON  SP£NS£R*S  SUPPOSED  ACQUAINTANCE  WITH  SHAKSPEARE. 

Few  of  our  readers  are  aware,  we  torn  of  the  sack.  If  this  should  be 
dare  say,  of  the  late  launch  of  Mr.  so,  how  happy  a  circumstance  will 
Malone's  Shakspeare,  in  twenty-one  it  prove  for  the  real  admirers  of 
thick  8vo.  volumes ;  but  a  Shak-  Shakspeare ;  they  may  henceforth 
spearian  feels  it  to  his  cost.  We  are  auote  beauties,  without  fear  of  being 
not  so  wealthy  as  to  deem  121.  I2s.  a  aetected  in  admiring  a  faulty  read- 
trifle  for  the  mere  additions  made  by  ing;  for  it  is  a  fact,  uiat  many  of  the 
Mr.  Malone,  to  the  late  Variontm  passages  which  make  the  best  stuflT 
Shakspeare;  nor  can  a  plain  man's  for  quotation,  are  most  closely  .allied 
library  contain  twice  twenty-one  vtv-  to  absurdity,  either  in  conception  or 
lumes  on  the  same  subject,  without  expression ;  and  if  they  were  now 
^convenience.  Thebooksellersshould  presented  to  the  world,  for  the  first 
^  have  given  us  the  additional  notes  time,  as  the  production  of  a  living 
and  other  amplifications  in  two  or  poet,  he  would  scarcely  survive  the 
three  volumes  of  appendix;  and  **  bolts"  which  woula  be  shot  at 
when  a  new  edition*  of  Johnson  and  him. 

Steevens's  Shakspeare  was  required.  But  if  research  be  at  an  end,  we 
which  is  said  to  be  even  now  the  are  still  not  out  of  jeopardy,  for  con- 
case,  they  might  then  have  invested  jecture  is  more  alive  than  ever.  Her 
the  body  corporate  with  the  shreds  wings  being  no  longer  clipped  to 
y^  and  patches  of  Mr.  Malone's  latest  keep  her  on  the  ground  with  her 
accumulation.  Perhaps  this  may  be  companion,  she  may  now  beat  the 
done  hereafter ;  for  it  is  imreasonable  thin  air  with  them  in  the  regions  of 
to  expect,  that  when  a  man  calls  for  imagination.  We  have  proof  of  this 
a  few  more  nuts  to  crack  over  his  excursiveness  in  the  work  before  us, 
wine,  he  should  be  compelled  to  pay  where  Mr.  Malone  introduces  Spen- 
for  an  additional  dinner.  ser's  works,  and  comments  on  his  al- 
So  far  as  we  have  looked  over  the*  lusions  with  somewhat  less  felicity 
novelties  of  this  last  work,  we  than  he  was  wont.  He  finds  that 
roust  confess  that  our  expectation  is  though  ^'  onr  pleasaunt  Wiify  who 
not  gratified  by  finding  any  disco-  is  dead  of  late, '  could  not  be  Shdc- 
very  roade,  worthy  of  tne  ingenuity  speare,  he  was,  doubtless,  JohnLyly, 
and  perseverance  of  Mr.  Malone;  the  dramatic  poet,  the  first  letter 
but  the  investigation  is,  no  doubt,  of  his  name  being  altered,  according 
barren,  from  the  exhaustion  of  mate-  to  the  conceited  custom  of  that  age  ; 
rials ;  and  nothing  new  appears,  be-*  that  for  the  same  reason,  lAtbHn 
cause  research  has  reached  the  bot-    stands  for  Robin  (Robert  Dudley), 


9t6              On  Sfitim^imtfpued  AeqiutmHmn  with  Shaktjmm.  CiepL 

the  Earl   of  Ldcetter;  that  Dido  under  which^  lor  more  than  two  cen- 
means  an  illegitimate  daughter  of  the  turies,  the   characters  and  produc- 
Eari'Sj  by  Douglas  Howard,  the  wi-  tions  of  so  many  ingenious  men  have 
dow  of  the  Earl  of  Sheffield.    Dido  been  concealed ;  and  will  feel  no  less 
was  bom  ^^  perhaps  "  in  1571  ^  died,  satisfaction  than  I  have  done,  on  dis- 
*'  it  may  he  presumed,"    in  1578,  coyering,  that,    though  Shakspeare 
and,  as  in  Virgil  she  is  called  also  was  not  the  comick  writer  eulogized 
Elisa,  was  chnstened,   "  I  appre-  by  the  author  of  the  Tears  of  the 
hend,"  Elizabeth,  "  probably  after  Muses,  at  a  time  when  hit  name  was 
the  Queen."     A  former  conjecturer  scarcely  known  in  the  world,  he  yet, 
had  guessed  that  the  fer-famed  Ro-  afterwards,  was  duly  appreciated  by 
salinde,  was  Rose  Linde,  because  a  hia  illustrious  and  amial)le  contem- 
family  of  the  name  of  Linde  resided  porary ;  who  in  talents  and  virtues 
in  Kent,  in  the  time  of  Henry  VI.  more  nearly  resembled  Shakspeare, 
Mr.  Malone  finds  that  another  fa-  than  did  any  writer  of  that  age ;  and 
mily,  named  Harden,  lived  iu  the  who,  we  find,  at  a  very  eariy  period 
same   county.    In  the  same   king's  of  our  great  poet's  dramatic  life,  had 
reign ;  and  with  mater  ability  of  a  just  and  high  sense  of  his  trans- 
scent,  he  detects  Rosalinde  in  the  cendent  merits."    Vol.  II.  p.  279. 
anagram  of  Elisa  Ordn.    This  is  all  We  are  sorry  that  we  cannot  feel 
we  know  of  either  of  them,  and  all  the   satisfaction   which    our   warm- 
that    our    ingenious    commentators  hearted  commentator  must  have  ex- 
condescend  to  tell  us  of  a  woman  so  perienced,  when  he  penned  this  con- 
renowned  for  her  beauty  and  accom-  eluding  paragraph.    He   sits  down 
pluhments.    It  is  dangerous  to  ob-  happy,  with  naving  accomplished  a 
jcct  to  these  discoveries ;  for  the  dtie  great  undertaking,    and  invites  his 
of  '^  shallow  buffoons,  and  half-frit-  poetical  readers  to  repose  with  him  ; 
tad  scoffers,"  is  prepared  befinehand  but  facts,  substantial  facts,  rise  up 
for  the  punishment  of  all  unbelievers,  and  push  us  from  our  stools.     We 
After  eunmerating  many  poets  and  have  very  littie  confidence  generally 
enkient  persons  of  both  sexes,  who  in  tiie  explications  which  have  been 
are  supposed  to  be  alluded  to  by  heretofore  given  of  Spenser's  meaii- 
Spenaer,  in  his  Tears  of  the  Muses,  ing ;  but  in  Mr.  Mabne's  opinion, 
and  Colin  Clout's  Come  Home  A-  tliat  the  name  of  ^tion  is  a  mask 
gain,  in  several  of  which  he  coin-  for  Shakspeare,  we  cannot  for  a  mo- 
ddes  with  Mr.  Todd, — Mr.  Malone  ment  agree.    Our  reasons  are  neither 
brings  in  another  improvement  of  his  few,  nor  soon  stated ;  but  perhiq^s  the 
own,  conceiving  JEtion,  in  the  latter  reader    will   grant    us  his  patience 
poem,  to  shadow  forth  obscurely,  but  while  we  produce  them. 
''  unqutstionably"  the  name  of  Shak-  The  poem  of  Colin  CUmts  Come 
m>eare.    He  has,  certainly,  more  ap-  Home   Again,  in  which  the  above 
parent  reaaon   with  him  than  Mr.  lines  appear,  was  dedicated  to  Sir 
Todd,  who  imagines  Drayton  to  be  Walter  Raleigh,  on  the  27th  of  De- 
iaiended  by  the  iniea:  oember,  J  591.  Now  we  hare  not  the 
...        ^      ^  ,            ,        .    ^  .  \t9tX  evidence  adduced  by  any  of  his 
And  then,  tboo^  IsM^  not  lost,  is  iEtioo,  biographers,  to  show  tiiat  Shakspeare 
A  g<^  diqihesrd  may  no  whoe  be  wai  k^wn  as  a  writer  at  timt  tbne. 

Who«.mu8c;  fun  of  high  thoughts'  m-  Jhe  MirB«t  iiyposed  aUi^^ 

▼ention,  if  m  Greene  s  Groatsworthe  of  Witte, 

JMh,Hki:Mnuelf,heroicaUy  sound.       '  PJiWished  between    September    and 

December,  1598,  and  written  when 

Having    made    these  discoveries,  Greene  was  on  his  death-bed:   ad- 

which  fill  no  less  than  1  iS  pages  of  vising  some  of  ids  '^  fellow  scollers 

the  Life  of  Shakspeare,  Mr.  Malone  about  this  dty  "  to  « let  these  apes," 

adds:  "  For  this  long,  but,  1  trust  the  players,  imitate  only  their  ''  past 

not  whoUy  uninteresting,  disquisition,  excdlence,"  and  never  more  acqii  aint 

no  apoloay  is  necessary.   Every  poe-  them   with  their   '*  admired  inven- 

tical  reader,  I  am  confident,  will  be  tions,"   he  says,  "  Yes,  trust  them 

gratified  by  an  endeavour  to  '  pluck  not,  for  there  is  an   upstart    crow 

out  the  heart  -of  this  mystery,'  to  beautified    with  oiur  feathers,  that, 

penetrate  the  thick  '  veil  of  words,'  with  his  tiger's  heart  wrapt  in  a  ptay^ 


er's  hide,  supposes  he  is  as  welt  abl6  been  betrayed  Ir^  his  zeal  ibr  8hak* 
to  bombast  out  a  blank  verse  as  the  speare^  he  would  liave  pronounced 
best  of  you  ;  and  being  an  absohite  him  to  be   the  man.     Of  Thomas 
Johannes  Jhciotum,  is  in  liis  own  con-  Sackrille,  Lord  Buckhnrst^  it  might 
cdt  the  only  Shake^seene  in  a  coiui-  be  said  with  truths  *'  a  gentler  ahep- 
try."    If  tlus  means  Shakspeare,  as  heard  may  no  where  be  found."    nlS 
it  probably  may^  it  shows  great  dis-  tragedy  of  Gorboduc^  or  Porrex  and 
cemment  in  Greene  thus  to  warn  his  Ferrez>  had  gained  him  the  highest 
friends  beforehand  of  his  rising  great-  reputation  as  a  poet^  and  is,  indeed, 
ness ;  but  it  also  proves  that  Shak-  **  mil  of  high  tnoughts'  invention, 
speare  was  only  just  then  venturing  The  play  upon  his  name  is  also  in 
to  bomlmst  out  a  few  lines  of  blank  proof:  "  there's  that  will  sack  a  city/* 
verse> — that  he  was  a  player  by  pro-  says  Falstaff  of  his  favorite  wine ; 
fession,  and  not  a  writer, — afaetoium,  like  his  muse^  it  doth  heroicaUy  sound* 
because  he  united  both  omces>  and  Sackville  was  at  this  time  60y  or  as 
liad  doubtless   the  temerity  to  try  some  say,  60  years  of  age,  and  not 
his  hand  at  mending  one  of  Greene  s  likely  to  write  again ;  but  in  enu- 
own  plays.    We  may  take  another  merating  the  poets  of  Elizabeth's 
occasion  to  show  that  this  was  ac-  court,  it  would  have  been  a  marked 
tually  done  by  Shakspeare.  Thus  his  affront  not  to  notice  him.    In  1590, 
talent  was  felt  and  estimated,  we  he  was  made  K.  G. ;  and  in  the  year 
allow,  as  early  as  the  autumn  of  1692  when  these  lines  were  written,  he 
— but  then  only  by  those  who  had  so  was    appointed    Chancellor   of  the 
intimate  a  connexion  with  the  ma^  University  of  Oxford.    Spenser's  opi- 
nagement  of  the  theatre,  as  to  know  nion  of  his  genius  might  be  inferred^ 
what  improvements  were  made  by  if  that  were  necessary,  from  his  friend 
him  in  the  plays  which  they  pro-  Sir  Philip  Sydney's  diaracter  of  Gor« 
duced.    In  the  following  year,  159S,  boduc,  in  the  Defence  of  Poesy:  ^'Onr 
Shakspeare  publicly   announced  his  tragedies  and  comedies,  not  without 
pretensions  to  the  title  of  a  poet,  by  cause,  are  cried  out  against,  observ- 
printing  his  poem  of  Venus  and  A-  ing  rules  neither  of  honest  civility, 
donis,  wluch  he  says,  in  his  dedica-  nor  skilful  poetry.    Excepting  Gor- 
don of  it  to  the  Earl  of  Southamp-  boduc  (agam  I  say,  of  those  that  I 
ton,  is  the  first  heir  of  his  invention;  have  seen),  which,  notwithstandybigy 
meaning,  of  course,  his  first  original  as  it  u  full  of  stately  speeches,  and 
performance ;  and  he  vows  to  take  ad^  foeU  sounding  phrases,  climbing  to  the 
vantage  of'  all  idle  hours,  till  he  have  height  of  Seneca  his  style,  and  asfidi 
honoured  him  with  some  graver  &r-  of  notable  morality,   which  it  dodi 
hour.      This  poem  was  entered  on  most  delightfiUiy  teach,  and  so  obtain 
the  books  of  the  Stationers' Company,  the    very    end    of  poesy;    yet,   in 
in  April,  1593;  and  as  it  was  then  truth,  it  is  very  ddfectuous  in  the 
declared  by  the  author  to  be   his  circumstances,  which  grieves  me,  be* 
first   and   gravest  labour,    Spenser,  cause  it  might  not  remain  as  an  exact 
we  may  be  certain,  could  not  mean  model  of  all  tragedies.'^    So  tluit> 
to  commend  the  same  writer  for  his  except  for  the  plot  or  management  of 
^'  muse  full  of  high  thoughts'  inven-  the  story,  it  would  be,  in  the  opinion 
tion,"  so  early  as  December,  1591.  of  Sir  Philip  Sydney,  a  perfect  tra- 
Mr.  Malone  and  Mr.  Todd  are  so  gedy.    He  proceeds  to  state  his  rei^ 
well  aware  of  this,  that  they  attempt  sons,  which  in    no   degree  detract 
to  find  an  error  in  the  date  of  Spen-  from  the  character  of  the  poetry : 
fier's  dedication ;  but  the  arguments  ''  For  it  is  faulty,  both  in  place  and 
they  adduce  for  it  are  all  incompetent  time,  the  two  necessary  companions 
to  shake  the  fact,  as  will  be  snown,  of  all  corporal  actions.     For  where 
when  we  come  to  speak  of  the  poem  the  stage  should  always  represertt 
of  Colin  Clout,  but  one  place,  and  the  uttermost  time 
There  was  another  poet  living  at  pre-supposed  in  it  should  be,  both  by 
that  time,  famous  and  noble,    and  Aristotle's  precept,  and  common  rea- 
cvery  way  proper  to  be  designated  son,  but  one  day,  diere  is  both  many 
by  the  verse  in  cjuestion,  to  whom  days  and  many  places  inartificially 
Spenser,  in  our  opinion,  alluded ;  and    imagined.    But  it  it  be  so  in  Gorbo- 
if  Mr.  Malone's  judgment  hacl  not    due,  how  much  more  in  all  the  rest  f  " 


96S  Or  S^xmer's  mppfrnd  Acquamkuice  with  Skaiufearef 

Thk  was  the  opinion  Sir  PJiilip  la  too  curious  to  be  omitted ;  and  the 
Sydney  entertained  of  the  genius  of  insertion  of  it  here  is  also  due  to  thet 
Sacknlle ;  but  the  words  of  Spenser  fair  understanding  of  the  sulyect. 
Wmself  vouch  for  our  application  of  .  it  may  be  conjectured  that  before  dua 
-the  character  of  JEUon  to  that  noble-  poem  was  writtem^aafapeare had  produced 
man.  Prefixed  to  the  Fairy  Queen,  on  the  stage  onef  or  more  of  his  historical 
and  written  .fortunately  at  the  time  plays,  probably  King  Richard  the  Second 
(1390)  when  we  may  most  Mrly  and  Third.  Spenser,  therefore,  while  he 
compare  the  description  it  fives  of  distinguished  mm  by  that  cfaaracteristick 
SacKville,  with  that  under  the  name  cpidiet  which  several  of  his  oontemporariea 
•  of  i£tion,  is  the  following  sonnet.  ^^^  applied  to  him,—"  A  gentkr  shep- 

herd may  no  where  be  found,*'  and  allnji*! 
7V>   the  Right   Honourdble  the  Lard  of    to  the  brandished  spear   fiom  which  hia 
^•«*Aar««,  <^  cfHerMajeMiies  PHvie    name,  so  congenial  with  hertfiek  tong,  was 
CoutuelL  originally  derived,   may  be  supposed  U> 

Invain  I  think.  Right  Honourable  Lord,      ^^  ^  ^  contempbtion  these  imperial 
By  this  rude  rhyme  to  memorize  thy    tragedies,  then  perhaps  perfonning  with 
name,  applause  at  die  Curtain  Theatre,  aa  well  aa 

Whose  learned  muse  hath  writ  her  own  re.    his  Venus  and  Adonis,  and  die  newly  pub- 
eoid  lished  poem    of  the   Rape  of  Lucreoe, 

Ixi  golden  veru^  wordiy  immortal  ftme.    ^^^  t»d  appeared  in  the  middle  of  the 

year  1594,  and  may,  with  perfect  pro- 

How  much  more  fit  (were  leisure  to  the     priety,  be  referred  to  under  the  denomma- 

same)  tion  (k  heroick  verse.    In  Richard  die  Se- 

Thy  gracious  Sovereign's  praises  to  com-    cond,  the  challenge  of  Bdlingbroke  and  the 

pile,  Duke  of  Norfolk  in  the  first  act,  and  the 

And  her  knperial  Majestic  to  frame  contention  in  the  fourth  act  between  the 

In  hftp  numbers^  and  A^roic  ttple*  various  noble  disputants  assembled  in  die 

■        . ,     ,  .      ,  lists  at  Coventry,  being  conducted  with  all 

«di  Aou  mayst  not   so,  give  leave    theforms  and  pomp  of  chivalry,  fomished, 

a^me^  ^  doubdess,  a  very  splendid  spectacle;  and 

To  baser  wu  his  power  thercm  to  spend,    indeed  die  whole  drama,  as  well  as  dua  of 

Whose  jMss  de&ults  diy  damty  pen  may     Richard  die  Third,  dodi,  like  its  auOior, 

.    s^^'.  .    ,  .  ,  ,  ''heroicaUy  sounds    VoL  II.  p.  274— 

And  unadvised  oversi^ts  amend.  276. 

But  evermore  vouchsafe  it  to  maintain  /%  ^  •    ?       j  mi         j 

Against  vile  Zoilus'  backbitings  vain.  ,  Ourunpoeitcai  readers  wdl  wonder 

°  to  see  by  what  a  slender  thread  this 

To  suppose  that  Spenser  would,  in  whole  episode  concerning  Spenser  b 
theyear  after  this  was  written,  omit  to  connected  with  the  proper  subject  of 
name  this  nobleman  among  the  poets    Mr.  Malone's  investigation ;  but  we 

of  the  time>  is  too  much  at  variance  must  do  him  the  justice  to  say,  diat 

with  probability  not  to  require  some  he  certainly  would  not  have  produced 

excuse;  and^accordingly,  Mr.  Malone  this  argument^  had  he  not  fancied 

imputes  to  Spenser^  a  regard  for  his  that,  by  some  mistake,  the  poem  of 

immediate  friends  which  blinded  his  Colin   Clout's    Come  Home   Again 

judgment^   under    the   influence    of  was  dated  1591,  instead   of   1594.  * 

wh^  partiality  he  overlooked  '*  Ri«  His  reasons  for  supposing  this  are,  aa 

chard    [[ThomasH    Sackville,    Lord  we  have  observed,  wholly  unsatisfac- 

Budchurst,  and  l£dward  £arl  of  Ox-  tory  to  us,  and  easy  to  be  combated  ; 

ford."  but  the  opening  of  the  question  of 

We  fear  Mr.  Malone's  ''  friendly  dates  would  lead  us  into  too  long  a 
partiality "  is  more  in  fault  than  disquisition  at  the  present  time.  We 
Spenser's  on  this  occasion.  Mr.  Ma-  shall  endeavour  to  mtroduce  this  sub- 
lone  had  game  in  view ;  he  thought  ject  in  another  number,  when  we 
he  could  connect  his  author  inth  may  probably  show  that  the  above  is 
Spenser ;  and  the  wish  wluch  was  not  the  only  instance,  apparently  un- 
fiuher  to  that  thought,  robbed  him  of  known  to  the  commentators,  in  which 
his  accustomed  discretion :  he  could  Sackville,  as  a  poet,  has  been  alluded 
not  otherwise  have  mentioned  Sack*  to  by  Spenser  in  terms  of  high  com- 
▼ille  as  he  has,  without  perceiving  raendation ;  and  that  Li/fy  has  no 
the  true  drift  of  the  verse  in  ques«  better  title  than  Shakspcare  to  the 
tion.  The  argument  by  which  he  compliment  paid  "  our  pleasaunt 
attempts  to  support  his  own  opinion  Mllly  "  in  the  Tears  of  the  Mtisrs» 


1821.]]                                        Leiiure  Hours.  !W9 

LEISURE  HOURS: 
No.  I. 

ON    HONEB's   battle   or   THE   PB068   AND   MICE. 

I  WOULD  gi^e  something  to  meet  the  Rape  of  the  Lock,  and  what  (s^ 

with  an   intelligent  disquigition  on  opinori  as    Emesti   says)    is    fairlj 

this  admirable  old  poem:  the  first  worth    them  both^  Nudibras.    We 

instance  that  I  know  of^  in  the  serio-  are^  Mr.  Word-catcher^  most  exceed- 

comic  manner.    Biair  Lb  as  silent  as  inglv  desirous  to  know  what  block- 

his  namesake's  grave ;  and  the  mere  heads  they  are,  who  ascribe  a  biuu 

common-place  of  that  much  over-  lesque  of  epic  poesy  in  general,  and 

rated   writer's  lectures   (a   quality,  of  the  Iliad  in  particular,  to  the  au-. 

which,  by  the  way^  is  the  secret  of  thor  of  the  Iluid  himself.    If  they 

their  popularity)  might  have  deterred  had  fastened  it  on  Zoilus,  it  would 

us  from  cherishing  any  violent  ez«  have  been  a  plausible  hit ;  and  if  he 

pectation  that  he  would  throw  light  had   written    it^  there  would  have 

on  the  matter.     I  have  got  no  Homer  been    an  additional  preponderating 

but  Clarke's,  with  Emestts  additions,  argument  against  the  sentence  of  the 

and  on  turning  to  the  ''  prtefatio,"  holy  criticd  inquisition  of  Alezan- 

with  an  eagerness  which  some  ex-  dria,  which  sentenced  this  luckless 

perience  of  uie  ^^  sterile  abundance "  Perrauli  of  antiquity  to'  be  burnt, 

of  the  classic  commentators  makes  instead  of  his  papers ;  seeminglv  with 

rather  ridiculous,  I  read  as  follows :  the  full  matter-of-course  approbatioD 

"  To  speak  either  of  the  author  or  of  all  English  schoolmasters.    Every 

the    genius   of  this  poem»  after  so  stray  waif  in  poetry  was  sure  to  find 

many  disputes  on  each  side  of  the  its  way  to  Homer ;  but  he  would  no 

question^  is,  in  my  opinion,  nothing  more  have  burlesqued  his  own  divine 

to  the  purpose."  Grant  me  patience  1  song,  than  Milton  would  have  written 

But,  sir^  it  does  ''  appertain "  to  me,  a  Coitonian    travestie   of  his.     Mr. 

and  to  many  others  of  your  readers.  Monk  Lewis^  indeed,  turned  his  A» 

take  my  word  for  it,  that  we  should  lonw  and  Imogene  into  a  comical  bal« 

know  somethiuK  of  the  reasons  pro  lad,  almost  as  nonsensical,  and  ten 

and  con ;  though  as  to  the  ^^  genius  "  times  as  stupid ;  and  so  he  might ; 

of  the  poem^  we  shall  scarcely  oome  but  imagine  Jkft/ton,  proud  as  he  was 

to  a  note-maker  for  his  assistance,  of  his  ''  ancient  liberty  recovered  to 

Vou  have   palmed  upon    us   three  heroic  poem,"  being  charged  with 

whole  pages  of  information  concern-  inditing  Philips's    "  Splenoid  ShU- 

ing  the  dinerent  copies;  from  which  ling!"  The  lofty  legends  of  Troj 

we  learn,  that  one  copy  is  short  by  ,  would  not  admit  of  being  debased  by 

eighty-six  lines^  and  another  by  six-  a  light  association  in  the  mind  of 

teen ;  but  you  can  afford  to  tell  us  such  a  bard  as  Homer ;  they  must 

nothing  of  the  possible  inventor  of  have  been  laid  up  in  the  inner  re- 

the  grave  burlesque ;  though  its  ex-  cesses  of  his  soul,  with  all  sacred 

istencc,  at  a  period  of  unquesdonable  and  inviolable  things.    But  the  ques- 

antiquity,  is,  of  itself,  a  curious  and  tlon  is  laid  at  once  to  rest  by  a  stub-, 

interesting  phenomenon.     Mr.  God-  bom  prose-fact     The  idea  of  this 

win,  I  believe,  treating  on  the  sue-  old  minstrel  that  floats  about  among 

cessive  impercepUble  Imks  of  cause  the  mob  of  readers,  is  something  like- 

and  effect,  starts  a  notion,  in  his  pro-  the  frontispiece    to    Scarronides ;   a 

found  hypothetical  manner,  that  if  blind  ballad-singer,  with  a  fist^full  of 

Alexander   had    never    crossed    the  printed  son^s.     We  will  not  insist  as* 

Granicus,  the  fire  of  London  could  to  the  printing;  but  we  may  give  a 

never  have  liappened.    But  we  need  shrewd  guess  that  Homer  could  not 

not  be  supposea  to  have  taken  a  de-  write.    The  craft  was  not  in  exist- 

gree  in  tne  university  of  Laputa,  if  cnce.      It  is  no  use  to  talk  of  the 

we  conic  to  the  conclusion,  that  but  trufxellei  huyga,    the  mournfiil   symbols 

for  the  Battle  of  the  Frogs  and  Mice  sent  to  BeUerophon :  the  Mexican  bar- 

we  should  not  have  had  the  Lutrin,  harians  corresponded  with  each  other 

Vol.  IV.  X 


5n^O  Leitwrt  Hours.  [[Sept. 

by  means  of  pictorial  signs;  but  we  seated;  makes  you  side  with  some 

do  not,  therefore,  thuik  them  good  common-place  about  the  Muses;  (I 

penmen.      The  parts  of   the  Iliad  wish  I  had  never  written  a  verse ;) 

were  not  books,  out  rhapsodies ;  the  or  intercepts  you  on  your  way  to  the 

bard  did  not  unroll  a  written  papy-  book-ladder,   and  (like  that    "  fell 

rus,  but  recited  his  verses,  like  an  seijeant  Death,  strict  in  his  arrest,") 

Italian    improvisatore,    marking  the  dans  a  forked  hand  on  your  bieast, 

cadence  with  a  rude  harp,  or  waving  ana   detains    you  some  twenty  mi- 

a  bough  of  laurel.    Those  ingenious  nutes  with  the  fall  of  stocks,  the  im- 

gentlemen  called  reporters  were  not  pending  ruin  of  cash  x>ayments,  the 

Set  in  existence ;  the  songs,  which,  revolution  of  1688,  and  the  propriety 

ke  a  snow-ball,  gather^  by  sue-  of  excluding  placemen  and  pension- 

oessive  recitations  into  a  poem,  were  ers  from  the   House  of  Commons, 

not  written  down,   but  gotten    by  Mv  friend  Aauiilius  helped  me  on  the 

heart.    It  was  an  oral  age.    Now  in  other  day,  wnile  sitting  after  a  tete- 

the  very  outset  of  the  "  Battle  of  l^tete  dinner,  (I  have  been  all  my 

the  Frogs  and  Mice,"  the  poet  says,  life  what  Johnson  calls  a  tete-i-t^te 

in  Cowper's  version  of  him,  man)  by  advising  me  to  trace  the 

, . ,  _  ^  ,  progress  of  burlesque,  or  serio-comic 

—-My  song,  which  I  have  newly  J^^^^  downwards   hi    a    series  of 

V    ^vi*'*?!?  ^A  ^  «,„  V.,—  essays.     He  talked  very  glibly  of  the 

In  UM»  open  a  on  my  toe*  ^^.y^  ^^  ^^,  ^^^  for  a  m<m.ent  (I 

And  thus  there  is  an  end  of  the  dis-  had  not  the  remotest  idea  of  doing 
pute.  all  this  myself)  I  was  casting  in  my 
*'  Pray,  sir^  why  do  not  you  make  mind  the  request  that  he  would  set 
fome  search  after  the  labours  of  these  about  it  himself.    But  I  thought  of 
Kveral    ilkutrissimi  f    Mr.    Boswell  his  painting-room  and  his  port-folio, 
would  run  to  the  opposite  extremities  and  I  did  not  ask  it.    My  friend  (not 
of  London,  not  reckoning  bye-alleys,  to  speak  it  profanely)  remmds  me 
garrets,  and  trunk-makers'  shops,  in  ofJIfrj-Afo/aproy^  address  to  the  Cap- 
quest  fk  a  solitary  fact,  which  he  ac-  tain :  "  I  hope.  Sir,  you  are  not  like 
Knowledges  nobody  would  care  about  Cerberus  ;  three  gentlemen  at  once." 
but  himself." — Grentlemen,  I  have  not  At  times  he  is  like  Wordsworth  in  his 
the  indagatorUd  organ.     (If  there  be  retrospective  poem  :  "  the  tall  rock 
none  of  the  kind  or  name.  Dr.  Spurz-  haunts  him  like  a  passion."     The 
beim  may  thank  me  for  helping  him  gross  remembrance  of  dinner  does  not 
on  towards  the  number /or^jr,  by  this  molest  him  (and  in  this,  I  confess,  he 
little  addition  to  his  very  simple  and  has  the  advantage  of  me)  when  loll- 
intelligible  nomenclature.     I    never  ing  on  a  stone  in  some  valley,  with 
oan  believe,  by  the  bye,  that  I  have  his  drawing-board  before  him,  and  his 
only  just  thirty'ihree  organs.    There  box  of  colours,  ten  to  one,  slipped 
IB  something  questionable  and  unsa-  into  a  neighbouring  brook,  witnout 
tisfactory  in  a  broken  number.    It  is  leave  asked.     He  deposits  this  im- 
llke  being  asked  to  dinner  at  a  quar-'  finished  piece  (like  a  tahufa  votit^  to 
ter  past  six.    I  would  have  stopped  the  Dryads)  unaer  some  tuft  of  broom 
at  thirty,  or  subdivided  a  few  more  or  fern ;    and  imagines  we  live  in 
feculties,    till  I  eked  out  the  next  those  times  of  Arcadian  simplicity, 
round  number.)    I  hate  trouble.    I  that  it  will  be  respected.    A  wag  of 
am  not  certain  whether  I  should  lift  his  acquaintance,  a  brother  of  the 
down  a  book  from  a  high  shelf,  parti-  brush,  found  it,  and  wrote  '^  very  bad" 
cularlv  if  dusty,  as  mine  always  are,  in  the  margin  of  a  towering  sketch 
though  I  should  be  sure  to  ascertain  of  rock,  jutting  out  amidst  ivy  and 
what  I  wanted.     I  had  rather  call  in  underwood,  and  capped  with  a  verge 
the  figure  of  periphrasis  or  of  meta-  of  heath,  and  a  sprinkling  of  imex- 
thesis,  or  any  other  that  saves  exer-  pectedly  defined  trees,  at  scattered 
tion ;  and  talk  of  somewhere,  or  some  distances,  with  azure  glimmerings  of 
writer  has  said.    As  to  library  hunt-  horizon.  He  took  the  criticism  some- 
ing,   I  have  forsworn  it.     You  are  what  to  heart,  till  he  detected  the 
sure  to  meet  the  very  man  whom  you  commentator;    and  retaliated,  in   a 
most  wish  to  avoid ;  who  looks  over  lucky  moment,   by  a   few    random 
your  shoulder,  if  you  are   doggedly  touches,    surreptitiously    introduced 


1691.;]                                        i^isure  Hours.  sn 

into  a  drawing  of  hi^  woodland  critic^  hare  a  seOM  of  awful  and  appalling 
by  which  the  pendant  boughs  of  dreariness  and  solitariness:  I  fed 
trees^  and  swelling  projections  of  among  them  desolate,  hopeless,  imd 
rocks,  were  made  to  assume  the  con-  forsaken.  I  clin^  to  undulating  field- 
fiffuration  of  chins,  eyes,  and  noses :  paths,  and  familiar  knolls  under  plane 
of  which  the  painter  himself  was  first  or  birch-trees,  with  glimpses  of  rare- 
apprized  by  an  explosion  of  laughter  Iv  passing  rural  faces,  and  the  lotur^ 
round  a  supper-table.  He  is,  after  uaxen,  uncut  ringlets  of  cottage  chuDU 
all,  happier  m  a  dim  closet,  with  a  dren.  I  had  rather  look  at  a  shel- 
aky-lignt,  where,  planted  at  his  easel,  tered  farm,  with  sheep  nibbling  on 
he  shows  a  reckless  disdain  of  the  slope  that  overhangs  it,  than 
Wordsworth's  remonstrance  about  gaze  dizzily  upwards  to  the  monaa-i 
'*  growing  double."  He  has  little  tery,  however  hospitable  within,  or 
love  for  the  sun,  and  commends  a  however  picturesque  without,  on  the 
fine  day  according  as  the  landscape  summit  of  mount  St.  Gothard.  I  can- 
In  its  tmts  and  shadows  approximates  not  say  with  Correggio,  **  ed  io  sono 
to  canvas.  He  abominates  green.  I  pittore."  I  am  afraid  I  jlike  Mor^ 
always  considered  it  as  a  striking  land*8  bits  of  nistic  animal  life  and 
proof  of  his  good-nature,  that,  after  homely  cottage  nature :  his  she-ass 
his  manner  of  encouraging  poor  art-  and  her  colt  in  a  straw-yard,  when 
ists,  he  once  gave  a  guinea  for  a  green  under  snow  (though  I  had  rather  the 
park  and  wooden  deer,  for  which  this  latter  were  away) ;  his  shaggy  cart- 
obscure  competitor  oi  Claude  had  mo-  horses,  standing  with  a  sort  of  sleep  j 
destly  charged  five  shillings.  As  patience  in  a  dark  field-stable,  into 
Tom  Paine  said  of  the  Quakers,  that  which  a  broken  light  streams  down 
if  they  had  had  any  hand  in  the  crea-  from  a  hole  in  the  roof;  above  all,  his 
tion,  they  would  have  clothed  the  pigs,  especially  if  a  chubbv-faced 
lace  of  nature  in  drab,  so  we  may  be  child  is  clambering  over  a  half-door, 
certain  that  my  fnend  would  have  and  leaning  to  look  at  them.  I  am 
proscribed  Coleridge  $  not  on  terms  of  intimacy  with  WHf- 

-a   ,^,  - , -»j     ^   *!.        1  *f^*9  tempest-troubled  landscapes.    I 

Healthfiil  greenness  pour-d  upon  the  soul,  ^^^  feWwpirings  beyond  G^bo- 

In  favour  of  reds,  browns,  and  yel-  rough's  catUe,  standing  in  a  clear 

lows :  autumn,  therefore,  for  his  mo-  pool,  or  winding  up  along  a  steep 

ney.    He  has  no  sympathy  with  the  hollow,  under  banks  of  broad  dus- 

dewy  emerald  of   a  meadow  in  a  tering    oaks    with     their     sketchy 

showery  summer.    These  strike  me  and    natural    leafing.      My    friend 

as  some  of  the  disadvantages  of  a  is   fond    of    spreadmg   his    canvas 

painter.     I  am  always  at  fault  in  with    the    massive,    umbered    tints 

conversation  with  an  artist.    I  have  of  Poussin :   he  plunges  his  genius 

a  most  plebeian  fondness  for  enclosed  into    a  brown    overhanging    forest 

fields,   gently  swelling  and  sinkinff,  with  a  splash  of  broken  river,  and 

with  their  hedge-rows  thick  set  wiSi  one  delicious  peep  of  sky,  of  a  deeper 

hollies  and  hawthorns,  and  now  and  blue  than  the  kingfisher's  plumage, 

then  an  elm  or  an  oakling.    These,  I  which  relieves,  what  I  should  call, 

find,  I  must  not  confess  the  liking  of.  the    melancholy    blackness    of    the 

But  I  may  admire  a  brown  inter-  scene.       He    deliehts    to   surround 

minable  heath,  that,  such  is  my  cock-  himself  with  gnarled  mountain  ash- 

neyism,  always  puts  me  in  mind  of  a  trees,   that  straggle  from  the  sides 

gibbet :  and  1  may  talk,  as  long  as  I  of  cliffs ;  and  often  sketches  out  a 

please,  of  glaciers,  of  mountains  that  root  of  most  fantastic  growth,   and 

topple  over  our  heads,  and  lakes  that  undefinable  figure,   about  which  he 

give  the  sensation  of  a  bottomless  has   not   qiute  made  up  his  miod, 

watery  abyss  at  our  feet.     I  should  whether  it  shall  be  a  scathed  fibre 

like  (but  for  the  trouble  of  motion)  of  a  tree,  or  a  twining  dragon,  like 

to  visit  such  scenes :  though  I  am  ra-  one  in  Lucan's,   or  Tasso  s  forest, 

ther  of  Dr.  Johnson's  way  of  think-  By  tlie  way,  he  has  no  objection  to 

ing  respecting  the  Giant's  Causeway  a  soldier  or  two,  sheathed  in  armour, 

in  Ireland:  <^  Worth  seeing,  Sir,  yes  !  climbing  out  of  a  midway  mountain- 

but  not  worth  going  to  see : "  but  I  cavern,  from  behind  a  huge  disparted 

do  not  covet  to  live  among  tliem.    I  crag,  and  looking  down  over  it,  in 

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tT9                                           Leiturt  Hours.                                       USeptl 

tnch  apofltareas  tomakeon^giddy:  characteriatic   of   the   original^    he 

or,  what  is  more  usual  with  him,  a  avowed  his  intention  of  completing 

kidght,  in  panoply  complete,  all  but  the  whole  in  the  manner  that  he  had 

hit  hdmet>  stretched  at  his  length  begim.    He  hit  off  the  thing  with 

on  the  wild  herbage,  and  a  damsel  such  an  easy  freedom,  that  for  once 

gleammg  through  t£e  shadowy  brakes,  I  began  to  persuade  myself  he  would 

■od  wheeling  away   on  a  fugitive  '^  keep  the  word  of  promise  to  the 

palfrey.    I  went  to  see  Mb  progress  hope  as  well  as  to  tne  ear."     His 

m  one  of  these  romantic  sVetches,  perseverance  was  a  nine  weeks'  won- 

■od  found  him  half  suffocated  with  der ;  and  in  this  time  he  mastered 

the  vapour  of  aqua  JMis,  of  which  nine    cantos ;   when    he    murmured 

he  had  inhaled  rather  an  unreason-  something  about  having  heard  that 

able   quantity,    in  etching  a  small  Mr.  Coleridge  had  expressed  a  similar 

Venice-piece  of  Canaletti.     He  al-  intention ;  and  I  found  the  MS.  had 

lowed  the  inconvenience  of  this  sort  been  slid  into  a  drawer  among  some 

of  accidental  intpiratian;  but  gave  sketches,  which  he  had  once  com- 

Tery  cogent  reasons  for  the  superior  menced,  but  never  finished,  illustra- 

aatufaction  resulting  from  the  sraver  tive  of  the  scenes  and  adventures  in 

over    the   pencil,    and    thought   he  St  Pierre's  Paul  and  Virginia.    In 

■hould  never  touch  canvas  again.    I  fact,  as  he  told  me  in  confidence,  he 

thought  differently.     However,  the  was  now  very   busily  employed  in 

copper  fell  into  the  same  disgrace  as  counteracting  the  spread  of  Metho- 

the  canvas.    The  window  of  a  book-  dism,  by  a  sermon  and  commentary 

seller  of  my  acquiuntance  exhibited,  on  King  James  the  Firsfs  anti-sa1>> 

all  of  a  sudden,  a  weekly  succession  batical  proclamation  for  the  encou- 

of  macaronic  poems.    The  subjects  ragement  of  sports  and  exercises  on  a 

were  various.    There  was  an  eccen-  Sunday. 

trie  French  dancing-master,  who.  This  is  a  very  formidably  faulty 
among  other  freaks,  set  up  a  child's  digression ;  but  how  else  could  I 
wh^et>chair  with  a  sail  to  it,  which  make  it  quite  clear,  that  there  would 
he  called  a  char  volant :  and  in  this  his  have  been  little  hope  in  persuading 
daughter,  a  stout  stocky  demoiselle  of  my  friend  to  give  us  a  svstematic 
fifteen,  dragged  herself  heavily  along  history  of  burlesque  poetry  r 
the  floor ;  the  flying  being  limited  to  He  had,  however,  got  actually  a 
his  own  capers,  as  he  preceded  the  car  good  way  in  translatinff  the  battle : 
with  his  kit.  There  was  a  Logierian  when,  just  as  he  arrivea  at  the  words 
professor,  who  taught  the  theory  ix^/^ni  yax^ij,  (verse  113,)  (which  he 
and  practice  of  music  in  four  lessons,  persisted,  with  Pamell  and  Cowper, 
There  was  a  doctor,  a  violent  fa-  ui  calling  a  cat,  for  want  of  taking 
▼ourite  of  the  ladies,  who  brought  the  trouble  to  reflect  that  cats  are 
elderly  gentlemen  to  a  crisis  in  four  not  usually  found  hi  open  fields,  and 
days,  by  wrapping  them  in  sheets  on  the  borders  of  marshes)  a  cat, 
steeped  in  brandy ;  and  who  cured  one  mid-day,  sprang  upon  his  bed 
his  own  children,  by  baking  them  in  (which,  accordmg  to  custom,  was 
puff  paste:  and  there  was  a  radical  piled  with  books  and  papers),  over- 
•chool-master,  who  demonstrated,  turned  his  ink-bottle  on  the  coverlet, 
.  from  Cobbett's  grammar,  that  the  and  put  to  flight  frogs  and  mice  ih 
House  of  Commons,  and  a  den  of  pell-mell  rout  and  irretrievable  con- 
thieves,  being  both  nouns  of  multi-  nision.  He  had  always  an  antipathy 
tude,  were  convertible  in  meaning,  to  this  *'  democratic  beast,"  (as  Ro- 
This  accounted  for  the  glance,  whidi  bert  Southey,  before  he  dubbed  him- 
I  now  so  frequently  had  at  my  self  Esquire,  and  was  created  Doctor 
friend's  back,  as  he  turned  into  a  of  Laws,  and  Poet  Laureate,  and 
printing-office.  He  wasgrown  mys-  wrote  the  Vision  of  Judgment,  sym- 
terious  and  invisible.  Till  **  dawd-  paUieUcally  called  it  m  his  Annual 
Hng  with  him  over  a  dish  of  tea,"  AtUhohry ;)  and  this  incident  has 
one  evening,  he  read  me  half  a  canto  forced  nim  to  rise  before  noon,  and 
of  Wielandts  Oberon  in  stanzaic  verse ;  ply  his  pencil  once  more  in  the  val- 
and  afler  explaining,  to  my  i>crfect  ley.  It  was  a  poetical  battle  of 
apprehension,  that  Sofhrhu's  version  spurs,  and  his  epic  ideas  have  never 
was  too  terse  and  polished  to  be  rallied  since. 


I89n;]                                    FareweU  to  Mary.  979 

I   wish   the  cat  had   not  intei^  bionathus  ?  Who^  that  has  a  tooth 

meddled ;  for  there  is  no  translation  which  dreads  hard  crusty  would  wiU- 

of  this  mock-heroic^  that  conveys  to  inglj  take  upon  him   to  pronounce 

an  English  reader  any  idea   of  its  Pstchabpax?     What   smiles    will 

humour.     The  origmal  has  by   no  flicker  round  the  comers  of  an  £ng- 

means  that  stately   and  unben^ng  lish  mouthy  at  the  sounds  of  fioaso* 

Sravity  of  phrase,  which  the  stan-  bocoites  and  Cnissodioctes  ?  John 

ard  versions  impute  to  it.     Gold-  Bull,  111  be  sworn, 
smith,  who  is  usually  right,  blamed 

Pamell    for    retaining     the    Greek  Would  nther  hear  a  bnysen  caadletddE 

names ;  and  Johnson,  who  is  oftener  t«ra*d, 

right  than  the  admh-ers  of  Gray^s  Or  a  diy  whed  grsto  on  tha  aale^Me. 
hubble-bubble  sublimity  will  allow, 

concurs  in  the  criticism.    Cowper,  ^^  ^7  ****^  leUure  how  I  may» 

thus    fore-warned,    was    not    fore-  pe™ap«,  cull  out  a  sample  or  two 

armed;   but  blundered   on   in    the  for  the  London  Magazikb. 

same  error.     Who  cares  for  Pmr-  An  Idlsb* 


FAREWELL  TO  MARY. 

Whsbb  is  the  heart  thou  once  hast  won. 

Can  cease  to  care  about  thee? 
Where  is  the  eye  thou'st  smiled  upon. 

Can  look  for  joy  without  thee  ? 
Lorn  is  the  lot  one  heart  hath  met. 

That's  lost  to  thy  caressinff  ;-« 
Cold  is  the  hope  that  loves  thee  ye^ 

Now  thou  art  past  possessing : — 

Fare  thee  well ! 

We  met — we  loved — we've  met  the  last,-*- 

The  farewell  word  is  spoken : 
O  Mary,  canst  thou  feel  tne  past. 

And  keep  thy  heart  unbroken  ? 
To  think  how  warm  we  loved,  and  how 

Those  hopes  should  blossom  never ! 
To  think  how  we  are  parted  now — 

And  parted,  oh,  for  ever ! — 

Fare  thee  well ! 

Thou  wert  the  first  my  heart  to  win. 

Thou  art  the  last  to  wear  it ; 
And  though  another  claims  akin. 

Thou  must  be  one  to  share  it* 
Oh,  had  we  known,  when  hopes  were  sweet. 

That  hopes  would  once  be  thwarted, — 
That  we  snould  part  no  more  to  meet. 

How  sadly  we  had  parted  !— 

Fare  thee  well  I 

John  Clabe. 


^^'  SpHaphB.  ^fkf^ 


EPITAPHS. 

Thirx  is  a  Iii|mble>  unpretending  yard>  Surrey^  seems  to  be  composed 

k!nd  of  poetiy,  lunited  in  its  sulject  on  the  ju^cious  precept  of  Butler : 

—the  production  alike  of  the  learned  ^at  bienty  is  very  good, 

and  the  ignorant,  the  hiffh  and  low.  Where  we  are,  or  are  not,  undentood. 

the  rich  and  poor— which,  alike  m-  w  .        foii„«g . 

teresting  to  all,  has  failed  to  obtain  *^  "  ^  *®"®'^'  • 

much  regard  from  those  to  whom  it  I^ve  well,  die  never, 

addresses  instruction :  I  mean  Epi-  !>»«  "^^y  •^  Kv«  ^^  «▼«*• 

taphs.    The  Uviiig  naturally  wish  to  ^any  wretched  cooceits,  middling- 

«h«n  all  mtercourse  with  the  dead;  ^^^^  obscure  compliments,  as  wdl 

and    though  the  latter,  m  many  a  ^  innumerable  Hes,  are  cut  in  stone. 

warning  hne,  lift  up  theu-  voice,  and  xhe  following,  on  a  child  six  nxmtha 

caU  aloud  from  the  ground,  we  heed  old,  will  be  found  at  Brighton : 

not    the    posthumous   counsel,    but  _         ^   *,.^,  ,. 

tread  over  the  gravel,  or  the  green  f  %*^  °^  ^t  "*^**"^~P' 

.^wi  ,„k:^k  ^^«r^i«  «..•  «n^«.»^.*<.^...*  Refused  to  drink  the  potion  up; 

sod,  winch  covers  pur  ancestor  s  dust,  ^^  ^,^  his  litde  hSid  asid^ 

without  even  whistbng  to  keep  our  Disgusted  with  the  taste,  and  died. 
courage  up.    In  the  course  of  a  long 

and  busy  fife,  I  have  read  manv  epi-  Those  who  die  at^  peace  with  the 

taphs  in  various  parts  of  England ;  world,  and  leave   rich   legacies  to 

and,  though  many  of  these  are  the  their  relations,  commonly  come  in 

avowed  productions  of  men  of  learn-  ft*  a  veiy  reasonable  share  of  good 

ing  and  fenius,  yet  by  far  the  great-  qualities  m  their  epitaphs.    There  is 

est  number,  like  die  songs  of  the  some   bitterness    contained   in   two 

Eeasantry,    are    the   production    of  liocs  on  a  tomb-stone  at  Pentonville : 

umble    and    nameless  persons.     I  Death  takes  the  good-too  good  on  earth 

nave  not  failed  to  observe,  that  the  ^  g^-     *              * 

inscriptions  which  spoke  the  plainest  And  leaves  the  bad— too  bad  to  take  away, 
sense,  expressed  the  happiest  sen- 
timents, contained  the  ridiest  poetry.  An  inscription  at  Islington  is  in 
and  gave  the  most  original  and  vivid  better  taste  and  gentler  feeling.  It 
portraiture  of  past  beauty  or  worth,  is  on  a  child  some  months  old ;  and, 
were  generally  the  works  of  obscure  brief  as  it  is,  contains  a  fine  senti- 
persons,  whose  names  are  unknown  ment : 

wvl^w^'^'n^'^i  "'**'''    tr^''^^^  Here  Virtue  Sleep—restrain  the  pious  tear! 

both  before  .and  after,  sought  no  m-  gfe  waits  thatlid^ent  which  he  cannot 

tercourse  with  the  muse.     I  shall  |^. 
only  transcribe  now  a  few  of  these 

epitaphs,  which  seem  not  generally  T^    fi^^o^  people  of  Newcastle 

Imown,  and  confine  myself  rather  to  seem  a  facetious  generation ;  and  it  is 

the  curious  than  the  beautiful.    The  a  blessing  worth  coveting,  to  die  in 

following  very  simple  and  affecting  their  neighbourhood,  should  the  bard 

epitaph  expresses  more  in  few  words  ^till  live  who  wrote  this  epitaph  : 

than  we  usually  observe  in  this  kind  Here  lies  Robin  Wallis,  the  king  of  good 

of  composition:  fellows, 

Nineteen  years  a  maiden,  ^^^  of  AllhaUows,  and  a  maker  of  bd. 

One  year  a  wife,  1®^*  5 

One  hour  a  mother,  ^^  bellows  did  make  to  the  day  of  his 

And  so  I  lost  my  life.  ^     ,  death; 

Bat  he  that  made  bellows,  could  never 

The  brevity  of  the  following  is  of  "wk*  breath. 

a  different  nature,  and  approaches  We  wish  the  people  of  Manchester 

too  close  to  the  epigrammatic :  had  as  litUe  malice  in  their  mirth  as 

life  is  uncertain,  deadi  is  sure ;  ^^  ,People    of    NewcastJe.       Who 

Sfai  is  the  wound,  and  Christ  the  cure.  ^O"*^  "^^^  *o  1*^^  »"  ^^^  'legion  of 

yam  windles  and  spinning  jeumes. 

An  inscription  in  Kingston  church-  and  go  down  to  the  grave  with  an 


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epitaph  such  as  they  haye  cut  on  the 
tomb-stone  of  honest  John  Hill : 

Here  lies  John  Hill,  a  man  of  skill, 

BJB  age  wa8  five  times  ten. 
He  nerer  did  good,  nor  never  would, 

Had  he  livel  as  long  again. 

The  merry  people  of  Cheshire  min- 
gle no  gall  in  their  remembrance  of 
Uieir  benefactors.  We  have^  our- 
selves^ always  loved  the  calling  of  a 
tailor^  and  thought,  ¥rith  the  old 
Scottish  poet^  that  he  is  more  than 
man^  ratner  than  less.  The  inha- 
bitants of  Cheshire  seem  of  the  same 
opinion ;  and  we  hope  all  the  tailors 
of  the  district  lay  the  virtues  of 
their  righteous  brother  to  heart,  and 
seek  to  practise  them  in  their  lives : 

Here  lies  entombed,  within  this  vault  so 

dark, 
A  tailor,  soldiec,  cloth-drawer,  and  clerk ; 
Death  snatched  him  hence,  and  also  ham 

him  took 
His  needle,   thimble,  sword,  and  prayer 

book. 
He  could  no  longer  work  nor  fight:  what 

dienP 
He  left  the  world,  and  ftindy  cried,  Amen. 

The  conceit  and  unnatural  taste  so 
common  to  inscriptions^  will  be  found 
in  full  strength  hi  the  church  of  Ca- 
verswell;  in  Staffordshire,  on  a  mo- 
nument belonging  to  the  ancient 
name  of  Cradock.  One  is  sorry  to 
read  such  a  .memorial ;  it  impairs  the 
charm  which  the  singular  and  sweet 
romance  of  the  Page  and  Enchanted 
Mantle,  has  thrown  around  the  name 
of  Cradock ;  and  we  wish  some  one 
who  claims  connexion  with  this  fa- 
vorite name  in  chivalry  would,  with- 
out wholly  destroying  the  original 
strain  of  thought,  abate  its  extrava- 
gance: 

George  Cradock  Esqr.  for  his  great  pru- 
dence in  y*  common  lAwes  well  worthy  to 
be  Beav-derk  of  y'  assizes  for  this  circuit, 
did  take  to  wife  y*  most  amiable  and  most 
loving  Dorothy  y**  Daughter  of  John  Saun- 
ders doctor  of  Physicke,  by  whom  he  had  a 
pair-royale  of  incomparable  daughters,  viz. 
Dorothy,  Elizabeth  and  Mary.  It  is  easie 
to  guess  that  he  lived  in  splendid  d^ree  if 
I  shall  but  recount  unto  you  that  Sir  Tho- 
mas Slingsby  Baronet,  K*.  Hon.  Richard 
Lord  Cholmondelcy,  Sir  George  Bridge- 
man  Baronet  married  Dorothy,  Elizabeth, 
Mary,  Coheir.  Bot  ?  hot !  to  our  grief 
George  Cradock  is  assaulted  by  death  in 
th«  meridian  o(  his  age,  not  far  off  firom 


his  oostle  of  GavenweU^lately  built  even 
unto  beauty  by  Mathew  Cradock  his  father 
who  lies  interred  near  this  place — and 
dying  of  y*  small  pox  1643,  betooke  him* 
selfe  to  y«  private  mansion  of  thin  Torabe 
erected  for  him  at  y*  expense  of  Dorothy 
his  obsequious  wife,  whoe  he  now  isitB 
under  y«  protection  of  an  essoinee  until  he 
shall  be  summonM  to  appear  at  y«  Int 
great  and  general  assize. 

In  tlie  same  church,  is  the  follow- 
ing, simple  and  curious  memorial  of 
a  very  respectable  name^  which  the 
reader  will  be  apt  to  contrast  with 
its  more  elaborate  companion : 

Ano  domi.  1670. 
Beest  here  and  neer 

in  peace  doe  rest 
AU  they  of  these 

that  are  deceast 
Thomas  Browne  and  Marjery 
Ralph  BzDwne  and  Mary 
Ralph  Browne  and  Dorothy 
Ralph  Browne  and  Joyce 
Ralph  Browne 
Ral]^  Browne 
John  Browne 
The  two  first  Brownes 

of  Carsewell  were 
But  all  the  rest 

were  of  the  Meere 
The  fourth  made  this  in  memorie 

of  parents  to  postcritie. 

There  is  some  conceit  in  this  plain 
epitaph  at  Southampton,  but  it  will 
be  forgiven  for  the  sake  of  the  cow* 
mencing  line : 

A  plain  rough  man,  but  without  guHe  or 

pride, 
Goodness  his  aim,  and  honesty  his  guide ; 
Could  all  the  pomps  of  this  vain  world  de< 

spise. 
And  only  after  death  desired  to  rise. 

One  on  a  young  man  at  Chichester 
will  not  be  read  without  emotion : 

Art  thou  in  health  and  spirits  gay? 
I  too  was  so  the  other  day ; 
And  thought  myself  of  fife  as  safe. 
As  thou  who  read^st  my  epitaph. 

The  humble  and  meritorious  la- 
bours of  Mistress  Anne,  the  wife  of 
Matthew  Garland,  of  Deptford,  a 
special  midwife,  have  not  been  for- 
gotten ;  and  though  recorded  in  the 
remembrance  of  many  a  rosy  lass 
and  strapping  lad,  as  well  as  (fti  good 
durable  stone,  I  shall  endeavour  to 
extend  her  fame  by  transcribuig  her 
epitaph : 


«7«  •  EpitcfkM.  [?ept. 

Forty-two   yea«  the  Almighty  gmre  me  Hwn  in  their  form,  but  rich  they  were  in 

power  n""^  s 

To  aid  my  aez  ID  iiatiiTe*ft  tiying  hour ;  Religious,  quiet,  honest,  meek,  and  kind. 

Tlifou^«uwHl«ad,hyday,byd^        Nor  do  I  dislike  the  lines  on  Sophia 

TosaTeThaploiwaimychiefddi^t;  BovM,  a  child  of  two  years  old  : 

My  tails  are  past :  my  weeping  fri^ids.  Rest  soft  thy  dust,  wait  the  Almighty *s 

adieu  1  will, 

IVn  call*d  to  Heaven,  and  hope  to  weloome  Rise  with  the  just,  and  he  an  angd  stilL 

^°***  The    foUowing    ludicrous    verae. 

Honest  Stephen  Rumbold,  of  Ox-  though  none  of  the  happiest,  happens 

ford,  is  thus  briefly  remembered:  to  be  a  recent  producuon  : 

He  lived  one  hundred  and  five.  Here  fast  asleep,  full  six  feet  deep, 

Sangume  and  strong ;  And  seventy  summers  ripe. 

An  hundred  to  five  Geoige  Thomas  lin  in  hopes  to  rise. 

You  Uve  not  so  long.  And  smoke  another  pipe. 

In  the  epiteph  on  a  Marine  at  Chi-  ^  ^  ^    ^ 

Chester,    the    writer    has    made  an  ^ru        %    wY  I  "^••.•*'"* 

adroit  turn  from  mortal  to  spiritual  ?1^^™.^?P^^  ^^  ?"^  ^  ^^\^ 

^.i^o.^     rr\.^^^  -«»  .«•«»  .iiSHfo.^  be  made  m  his  ganlen,  surmounted 

SStionJ^^Tte^  aS thfcor  ^7  »  «•«*  "^•'l^,  "^"K  ^-r  which 

Hoe  Ues  a  true  loldfer,  whom  all  must  ap-  directions  that  his  executors  shoiikl 

nUud ;  fill  up  the  blank : 
Mudi  hudshqi  he  suflfer'd  at  home  and  j^y^  Home  Tooke, 

_      ,  ■p''*^ »  Urts  proprietor,  now  occupier  of  this  spot. 

But  the  hardest  c»(^ganent  he  ever  was  in,  *^birn  in  1736,  died  ?n 

Was  the  battle  of  Self  m  the  conquestof  Centented  and  mteful. 

Sin.  * 

A  soklier 

shire  from  drinl  _^ 

a  hot  march,  and  this  is  his  epitaph :  TolTblrtonrwar^^ovk  fr^'m' th^' 

Heie  sleeps  in  peace  a  Hampshire  grena-  garden,  the  old  inscriotion  effaced, 

dier,  and  its  place  siipplied  by  an  epitaph 

Who  caught  his  deaA  by  drinking  cold  from  another  hand. 

o  u-    T^  ^\      x^     ^    ^^^r^  In  the  church-yard  of  Bayswater, 

5!S^J?i::^wi^^^^^  «id-^ay  down  the  ground^n  th^ 

And  when  fouTe  not,  oiinKffroii^,  or  none  i_iv  t      j    i       •  °*  _▲  ^i.  m 

^^  ^  left  hand,  leaninff  agamst  the  wall, 

obscured  by  netUes  and  rank  grass. 

The  followhig  ludicrous  addition  unnoticed,   and    perhaps   unknown, 

was  made  by  the  oflficers  in  garrison  stands  a  rude  memoriiu  of  common 

when  they  restored  the  decayed  mo-  rough  stone,  indebted  to  no  gifted 

nument:  and    cunning   hand    for   beauty   of 

An  honest  soldier  never  is  forgot,  form,  and  to  no  elegant  muid  for  the 

Whether  he  died  by  musket  or  hj  pot.  inscription  with  which  it  is  covered. 

.      - ,  ^  ,  ^  „        -      .  It  is    the  tomb-stone  of   Laurence 

An  old  fisherman  of  Kent  is  thus  gteme.      Perhaps    his    countrymen 

remembered    hi  the  church-yard  of  ^|,o  are  so  patriotic,  so  witty,  when 

nythe:  ^^  wine  is  good,  so  affectionate  hi 

His  net  old  fisher  Oeorge  long  drew^  their  remembrances,  so  fond  of  num- 

Shoals  upon  shoals  he  caught,  *  bering  Sterne  among   those  steady 

Tm  Death  came  hauling  for  his  due,  '  lirfits  which  contribute  to  the  fixed 

And  made  poor  Geoige  his  draught  s^endourof  Ireland,  may  reflect,  while 

Dh^  fishes  ?°^^gh  various  shades ;  they  laugh  and  wonder,  and  weep  over 

Nor  filHc*  fiSierman  Lcapea  ^,  P^«'  ?*'  he  sleeps  among  the 

Death's  an^ndoring  ncT  ^"^  ^^«^'  ^^  have  the  ^race  to 

^  propose    to  honour   themselves   by 

I  like  the  unassuming  epitaph  of  erecting  a  monument  to  his  memory. 

John  and  Martha  Wright; — ^it  says  That  ue  noble,  the   wealthy,    the 

much  hi  small  space :  witty,  and  the  gay,  left  the  interment 


Alpkoiue 


an 


of  Sterne  and  the  erection  of  his 
grave-stone^  to  mechanics  and  stran- 
gers, is  a  reproach  that  can  never  be 
removed. 

Near  this  place  lies  the  body  of 

The  Reverend  Laurence  Sterne,  A.  M« 

IMed  Sept  13,  1768,  aged  63  yean. 

This  monumental  stone  was  erected  to  the 
memory  of  the  deceased  by  two  brother 
Masons ;  for  although  he  did  not  live  to 
be  a  member  of  their  society,  yet  all  his 


incomparable  performaneea  evidently 
prove  him  to  have  acted  by  rule  and 
souare.  They  rejoice  in  this  oppoirtunit|r 
or  perpetuating  his  high  and  iixeproacii* 
ablechaiacter  to  after  ages. 

What  did  it  boot  him,  ridiculed,  abnaedi 
By  fools  insulted,  and  by  prudes  accused  ; 
In  him,  mild  reader,  view  thy  ftiture  &te  ; 
like  him,  despise  what  were  a  sin  to  hate* 

&C.  &ۥ  W.  &  8. 

Cumberland^  Aug.  1821. 


MEDITATIONS  POETIQUES,  PAR  M.  ALPHONSE  DB  LAMARTINE. 

These  poems  have    been    much  Cq)endant,s*^]an9antdelaflechegothique» 

read  and  admired  in  France.    The  Un  son  religieux  se  r6pand  dans  les  aiw, 

copy   that  lies  before  us  bears  the  ^  vovageur  s'arr^  et  la  cloche  rusti^ue 

fourth     edition     on    its    tiUe-paye.  Aux demiOTbruits  du jour mSle de samt. 

Those  that  preceded  it,  we  are  in^  concerts. 

formed,  appeared  also  in  the  course  Yet  lingering  on  this  moantain*8  woody 

of  last  year,  and  several  more  have  crest, 

suice  followed.    The  author  is  said  The  last  faint  beams  of  parting  twilight 

to  be  a  very  amiable  man,  who,  in  rest; 

his  complaints   that  death    has  be-  And,  whit«ingon  tbehoriam'sedgeafcr^ 

reaved  him  of  the  object  of  his  ten-  The  queen  of  shadows  guides  her  vapoury 

derest  affections,    and  that  he  has  ^*'* 

been  himself  on   the  brink  of  the  Meanwhile,8low..spfeadingftom  thegothie 

grave,  does  not  impose  on  the  com*  ^'^^ 

miseration  of    his    readers  by    the  The  pious  anthem  brwthet  a  holjr  strain  ; 

recital  of  imaginary  evils.    It  will.  And  pau«ng  pilgnm  hears  the  village  beU 

therefore,  we  trust,   not  be  unwel-  ^*^  ^^  "'™""  °^  '^  ~**™ 
come    information    to    them,  if  we 

add,  that  he  has  not  only  been  re-  Here  he  is  placed,  and  employed 

stored    to  health,   but  b  fortunate  exactly  as  a  young  poet  of  his  dis- 

enough  to  be  now  united  to  one  of  position  ought  to  be.  ^  But  when  in 

our  own    countrywomen,   who  has  ^®  following  meditatbn,  addressed 

had  the  discernment  to  perceive  and  ^o    Lord   Byron,  he    compares    his 

reward  his  merit,  and  that  he  has  Lordship     to    an    eagle    launching 

been  sent  out  as  secretary  to  the  ^^rth  from   the  horrible  summit  of 

French  embassy  at  Naples.  Mount   Athos,  and   suspending  his 

Whenever,  in  these  "  Poetical  Me-  *®"e  over  the  abyss  that  vawns  at 

ditations,"  as  he  calls  them,  the  wri-  ^^s  8>de ;    where,    surrounded    with 

ter  expresses  what  appear  to  be  his  palpitating   limbs,    and    with  rocks 

own    unpremeditated  thoughts,    and  incessantly  dripping  with  black  gore, 

spontaneous  feelings,  without  forcing  delighted  with  the    shrieks    of  his 

himself  into  a  state  of  excitement  for  P''^J>„®°^  cradled  by  the  tempest, 

the  occasion,  he  is,  for  the  most  part,  "«  falls  to  sleep  in  his  joy  ; 

very  pleasing.     In  some  of  his  al-  i,»^e,  roi  des  deserts,  dMaigne  ainsi  la 

titudes,  it  must  be  owned,  we  have  plaine  i 

followed  him  with  much  less  satis-  •••••• 

faction.     Thus,   in  the  first  poem,  •••••• 

where  he  describes  himself  seated  on  Lui,  des  sommets  d*AthDs  franchit  rhor«> 

an  eminence,  at  the  foot  of  an  old  rible  cime, 

oak,   "  watching  with   wistful  gaze  Suspend  auz  flancs  des  monts  scm  aire  snr 

the  setting  sun :  I'abyme, 

Et  1^  seul,  entour^  de  membres  palpitans, 

Au  sommet  de  ces  monts  oonronn^de  bois  De  rochers  d*un  sang  noir  sans  cesse  d6- 

sombres,  gouttans, 

Le  creouscule  encor  jette  un  dernier  rayon,  Trouvant  sa  volupt^  dans  ks  cris  de  aa 

£t  le  oiar  vaporeux  de  la  reine  des  ombres  proie, 

Monte,  etblanchitd^jalesboidsde  l*hori20Q.  Berc^par  la  tempAte,ils*cndortdanssa  joie; 


S78  MHUaiimu  PtiHifHit,  par . 

and  when,  not  contented  with  this, 
and  a  good  deal  <^  of  the  like  stuff," 
he  perseveres  in  his  compliment  to 
the  noble  bard  so  far  as  to  put  him 
on  a  par  with  his  Satanic  majesty 
hinnBelf ; 

Ton  ceil,  oomme  SaUn,  a  mesor^  Tabyme, 
£t  ton  axxie,  y  plongeant  loin  da  jour  et  de 

Dieu, 
A  dit  a  Tespi^rance  un  ^temd  adieu  ! 

•  ••••* 

*  *    ta  voix,  sur  un  mode  infernal, 
Chante  rhjrmne  de  gloire  au  sombre  dieu 

du  mal ; 

we  begin  to  lose  all  sympathy  with 
the  poet,  and  most  heaitily  wish  our- 
selves away  from  such  perilous  com- 
pany, and  safe  back  again  under  tlie 
old  oak,  ready  to  forswear  all  illu- 
dons  of  the  imagination  for  the  fu- 
ture, and  to  cry  out  in  the  most 
eonfined  sense  of  the  words, 

Le  viai  seul  est  beau,  le  vrai  seal  est  ai- 
Diable. 

In  the  third  Meditation  we  are, 
therefore,  well  satisfied  to  find  our- 
selves at  the  side  of  M.  de  Lamartine 
once  more,  in  the  silence  of  an  even- 
ing landscape : 

Le  soir  ramene  le  silence. 
Aaaia  sur  ces  luchers  deserts, 
Je  suis  dans  la  vague  des  airs 
Lie  char  de  la  nuit  qui  s'avance : 

Venus  se  Uve  a  Thorizon ; 
^A  mes  pieds  Tetoile  amourcuse 
De  sa  lueur  myst^rieuse 
Blanchit  les  tapis  de  gazon : 

and  so  far  forget  our  late  resolution 
as  to  fall  into  a  douce  reverie^  and 
believe  that  somethmg  in  the  shape 
of  a  gentle  spirit  is,  indeed,  gliding 
to  us  on  a  beam  of  the  evening  star. 
But  we  will  not  pursue  the  Medi- 
tator through  au  his  moods  and 
musings ;  out  content  ourselves 
with  observing,  that  the  sixth,  en- 
titled "  Le  Desespoir,"  is  the  least  to 
our  taste,  as  the  tenth,  called  ''  La 
Retraite,"  is  the  most  so.  It  is  much 
pleasanter  to  point  out  beauties  than 
faults;  and  we  shall  accordingly  in- 
didge  ourselves  with  making  one  or 
two  extracts  from  the  latter  of  these 
poems. 


\£^jUfiiUue  De  Lamartine.        CSepCw 

Ce  qu*on  appelle  bos  beaux  jouxa, 
N^est  qu^un  wLux  briUant  dans  uoe  nuH 
d^orage, 

Et  rien,  excepte  nos  amouni, 

N'y  merite  un  regret  du  sage ; 

Mais,  que  di»-je?  on  aime  4tout&ge 
Ca  feu  durable  et  doux,  dans  Time  ren- 

Donne  nlus  de  chaleur  en  jetant  moins  de 

namme; 
C*est  le  souffle  diviu  dont  tout  lliomme  est 

fbrrn^, 
n  ne  s'^teint  qu^avec  son  lone. 

This  is  not  less  philosophically 
true,  than  it  is  poetically  beautiful. 
In  the  wish  for  his  friend's  happi- 
ness, which  concludes  this  same 
little  poem,  the  writer  seems  to  us 
just  to  have  hit  that  tone  to  which 
the  French  poetry  is  best  suited* 

Soyez  touch6,  grand  Dieu,  dc  sa  reconnais- 
sance: 
D  ne  V0U8  lasse  point  d'un  inutile  tcw  ; 
Oardez-lui  settlement  sa  rustique  opulence, 
Donnez  tout  a  celui  qui  tous  deraande  pea. 

Des  doux  objets  de  sa  tendresse, 
Qu*a  son  riant  foyer  toujours  environn^ 
Sa  femme  et  ses  enfans  couronnent  sa  vieiU 

lesse, 
Comme  de  ses  fruits  murs    un  arbre  est 

oouronnc : 
Que  sous  Tor  des  6pis  ses  collincs  jaunis- 

sent : 
Qtt*au  pied  de  son  rocber  son  lac  soit  tou« 

jours  pur; 
Que  de  ses  beaux  jasmins  les  ombres  s^^pai- 

sissent : 
Que  son  aoleil  soit  doux,  que  son  ctd  soit 

d*azur: 
£t  que  pour  rctranger  toujours  ses  vins 
.  murissent. 

May  our  lively  neighbours  on  the 
Continent  long  continue  to  pursue 
the  peaceable  pleasures  which  are 
here  described  ;  may  strains,  as  ten- 
der and  as  blameless  as  these,  long 
add  a  zest  to  theu-  enjoyment  of 
them;  and  now  that  we  are  about 
wishing,  not  to  leave  ourselves  out  of 
the  question,  may  M.  de  Lamartine's 
prayer,  that  "  tlieir  vines  may  ripen 
for  the  stranger,"  be  granted  so  far 
beyond  the  limits  in  which  he  in- 
tended it,  tliat  we  may  be  allowed 
to  cheer  our  own  firesides  with  their 
produce,  and  to  send  his  country- 
men whatever  of  ours  they  most 
covet  (if  they  think  any  thing  of  ours 
worth  naving)  in  return. 


18S1.;]  Tke  Old  Bencher*  of  the  Jmier  Tempk*  979 


THE  OLD  BENCHERS  OP  TUB  INNER  TEMPLE. 

I  WAS  born,  and  passed  the  first  the  now   ahnost  effaced    sun-diak, 

•eren  years  of  my  life,  in  the  Tem-  with  their  moral  inscriptions,  seem- 

ple.     Its  church,  its  Iialls,   its  gar-  ing  coevals  with  that  Time  which 

dens,  its  fountain,  its  river,   1  had  they  measured,  and  to  take  their  revc-* 

almost  said ;  for  in  those  young  years,  lations  of  its  llight  immediately  from 

what,  was  this  kuig  of  rivers  to  me,  heaven,  holding  correspondence  with 

but  a  stream  that  watered  our  plea-  the  fouutain  of  Ughi !     How  would 

sant  places  ?— these  are  of  my  oldest  the  dark  line  ttcal  imperceptibly  on, 

recollections.     I  repeat,  to  this  day,  watched   by  the  eye  of  childhood, 

no  verses  to  myself  more  frequently,  eager  to  detect  its  movement,  never 

or  with  kindlier  emotion,  than  those  catched,  nice  as  an  evanescent  cloud, 

of  Spenser,  where  he  speaks  of  this  or  the  first  arrests  of  sleep ! 

'^  *  Ah  !  3ret  dodi  beauty  like  a  dial-hand 

Tliere   when   they  came,   whereas  thote  Steal  from  his   figure^  and  no  pace  per« 

bricky  towers,  ceiTed ! 

The  which  on  Themmes  brode  aoed  back  __.              .     •.     « .        .           ,    , 

doth  ride,  Unat    a  dead  thmg  is  a  clock. 

Where  now  the  studious  kwyers  have  their  ^'^^  i^  ponderous  embowelmenta  of 

bowers,  lead  and  brass,  its  pert  or  solemn  dul- 

There  whylome  wont  the  Templer  knights  ness  of  communication,  compared  with 

to  bide,  the  simple  altar-like  structure,  and 

Tin  they  decayd  through  pride.  silent  heart-language  of  the  old  dial  I 

Indeed,  it  is  the  most  elegant  spot  ]}  »^*^  f  ^«  ??r^^"  ?^.  ®^  ^^^"^ 
in  the  metropolis.  What  a  transi-  ^^^  gardens.  }Vhv  is  it  almost 
tion  for  a  countryman  visiting  Lon-  everywhere  varashed?  If  its  busi- 
don  for  the  first  time— the  passmg  nfss-use  be  superseded  by  more 
from  the  crowded  Strand  or  Fleet-  f^aborate  inventions,  its  moral  uses, 
street,  by  unexpected  avenues,  into  J^«  ^^^^^}y>  might  have  pleaded  for 
its  magnificent  ample  squares,  its  '^  conUnuance.  It  spoke  of  mode- 
classic  green  recesses!  What  a  ^^^^  labours,  of  pleasures  not  pro- 
cheerful,  liberal  look  hath  that  por-  ^^cted  after  sun-set,  of  temperance, 
tion  of  it,  which,  from  three  sides,  *"A  §^<>^  ^JO"''^  **  ^"  *^^.  P"- 
overlooks  the  greater  garden:  that  ™*^^«  clock,  the  horologe  of  the 
ffoodly  pile  ^^^  world.  Adam  could  scarce  have 

missed  it  in  Paradise.     It  was  the 

Of  buUding  strong,  albeit  of  Paper  bight,  measure  appropriate  for  sweet  plants 

confronting,  with  massy  contrast,  ai^d  flowers  to  spring  by,  for  the 
the  lighter,  older,  more  fantastically  birds  to  apportion  their  silver  warb- 
shrouded  one,  named  of  Harcourt,  ling*  ^Yf  for  ^ocks  to  pasture  and 
with  the  cheerful  Crown-office  Row  l>e  led  to  fold  by.  The  shepherd 
(place  of  my  kindly  engendure),  right  "  carved  it  out  quaintly  in  the  sun ;" 
opposite  the  stately  stream,  which  and,  turning  philosopher  by  the  very 
washes  the  garden-foot  with  her  yet  occupation,  provided  it  with  mottop 
•carcely  trade-polluted  waters,  and  ^ore  touching  than  tombstones.  It 
•eems  but  just  weaned  fix>m  her  was  a  pretty  device  of  the  gardener, 
Twickenham  Naiades !  a  man  would  recorded  by  Marvell,  who,  in  the 
give  something  to  have  been  bom  in  days  of  artificial  gardening,  made  a 
Buch  places.  What  a  collegiate  as-  dial  out  of  herbs  and  flowers.  I 
pect  has  that  fine  ElizabetSuan  hall,  must  quote  his  verses  a  little  higher 
where  the  fountahi  plays,  which  I  up,  for  they  are  ftdl,  as  all  his  seri- 
havemade  to  rise  and  fall,  how  many  ous  poetrv  was,  of  a  witty  delicacy, 
times !  to  the  astoundment  of  the  They  will  not  come  in  awkwardly,  I 
young  urchins,  my  contemporaries,  hope,  in  a  talk  of  fountsuns  and  sun- 
who,  not  being  able  to  guess  at  its  dials.  He  is  speaking  of  sweet  gar- 
recondite  machinery,  were  almost  den  scenes. 
tempted  to  hail  the  wondrous  work  What  wondrous  life  in  this  I  lead  ! 
as  magic  !    What  an  antique  air  had  Ripe  apples  drop  about  my  head. 


M> 


ne  OidBemehers  of  the  Inner  TempUf. 


QSept« 


Tlie  luflckmi  dusters  of  the  Tine 
Upoo  my  mouth  do  crush  their  wine. 
The  nectarine,  and  curioui  peach, 
Into  my  hands  themselves  do  reach. 
Stumbling  oo  mdons,  as  I  pass, 
InsnarM  with  flowers,  I  fiiU  oo  gran. 
Meanwhile  the  mind  ftom  pleasure  less 
Withdraws  into  its  happiness. 
The  mind,  that  ocean,  where  eadi  kind 
Does  Btiai^  its  own  lesembUnce  find ; 
Yet  it  creates,  transcending  these, 
Far  other  worlds,  and  other  seas; 
Annihilating  all  that^s  made 
To  a  green  thought  in  a  green  shade. 
Here  at  the  fountain's  sliding  foot. 
Or  at  some  fruit-tree's  mossy  root. 
Casting  the  body's  vest  aside, 
My  soul  into  the  boughs  does  glide : 
There,  fike  a  bird,  it  sits  and  sings, 
'    Then  whets  and  dsps  its  silTer  wings ; 
And,  tiU  prepared  ror  longer  flight. 
Waves  in  its  plumes  the  various  li^t. 
How  well  the  skilfbl  gardener  drew. 
Of  flowers  and  herbs,  this  dial  new ! 
Where,  ham  above,  the  milder  sun 
Does  throng  a  ftagrant  zodiac  run : 
And,  as  it  works,  the  industrious  bee 
Computes  its  time  as  well  as  we. 
How  could  such  sweet  and  wfaokaome 

hours 
Be  reckon'd,  but  with  herbs  and  flow- 
ers?* 

•  The  ardficial  fountains  of  the  me- 
tropolis are^  in  like  manner^  fast 
Tanishinff.  Most  of  them  are  dried 
up^  or  Dricked  over.  Yet^  where 
one  is  left,  as  in  that  little  green 
nook  behind  the  South  Sea  House, 
what  a  freshness  it  gives  to  the 
dreary  pile!  Four  fittle  winged 
marble  boys  used  to  play  their  vir- 
gin fancies,  spouting  out  ever  fresh 
streams  from  their  mnocent- wanton 
lips,  in  the  square  of  Lincoln's-inn, 
when  I  was  no  bigger  than  they  were 
figured.  They  are  gone,  and  the 
spring  choked  up.  The  fashion, 
tney  tell  me,  is  gone  by,  and  these 
things  are  esteemed  childish.  Why 
not  then  gratify  children,  by  letting 
them  stand?  Lawyers,  I  suppose, 
were  children  once.  They  are  a- 
wakening  images  to  them  at  least. 
Why  must  every  thing  smack  of 
man,  and  mannish?  Is  the  world 
all  grown  up  ?  Is  childhood  dead  ? 
Or,  is  there  not  in  the  bosoms  of 
the  wisest  and  the  best  some  of  the 
diild's  heart  left,  to  respond  to  its 
earliest  enchantments  ?    The  figures 


were  grotesque.  Are  the  stiff- wigged 
living  figures,  that  still  flitter  and 
chatter  about  that  area,  less  fothic 
in  appearance?  or,  is  the  shutter 
of  their  hot  rhetoric  one  half  so  re- 
fireshinjg^  and  innocent,  as  the  Uttle 
cool  pmyful  streams  those  exploded 
cherubs  uttered  ? 

They  have  lately  gothicised  the 
entrance  to  the  Inner  Temple-haB, 
and  the  library  front,  to  assimilate 
them,  I  suppose,  to  the  body  of  the 
hall,  which  they  do  not  at  all  re- 
semble. Mliat  is  become  of  the 
winged  horse  that  stood  over  the 
former  ?  a  stately  arms !  and  who  has 
removed  those  frescoes  of  the  Vir- 
tues, wliich  Italianized  the  end  of 
the  Paper-buildings? — ^my  first  hint 
of  allegory !  They  must  account  to 
me  for  these  things,  which  I  miss  so 
greatly. 

The  terrace  is,  indeed,  left,  which 
we  used  to  call  the  parade ;  but  the 
traces  are  passed  away  of  the  foot- 
steps which  made  its  pavement  aw- 
ful!  It  is  become  common  and  pro- 
fane. The  old  benchers  had  it  al- 
most sacred  to  themselves,  in  the 
forepart  of  the  day  at  least  They 
mignt  not  be  sided  or  jostled.  Their 
air  and  dress  asserted  the  parade. 
You  left  wide  spaces  betwixt  you, 
when  you  passed  them.  We  walk 
on  even  terms  with  their  successors. 

The  roguish  eye  of  J ^11,   ever 

ready  to  be  delivered  of  a  jest,  al- 
most invites  a  stranger  to  vie  a  re- 
partee with  it  But  what  insolent 
familiar  durst  have  mated  Thomas 
Coventry? — whose   person    was    a 

Eqjuadrate,  his  step  massy  and  ele- 
nantine,  his  face  square  as  the 
on's,  lus  gait  peremptory  and  path- 
keeping,  indivertible  from  his  way 
as  a  movinff  column,  the  scarecrow 
of  his  inferiors,  the  brow-beater  of 
equals  and  superiors,  who  made  a 
solitude  of  children  wherever  he 
came,  for  they  fled  his  insufferable 
presence,  as  they  would  have  shunned 
an  £lisha  bear.  His  growl  was  as 
thunder  in  their  ears,  whether  he 
spake  to  them  in  mirth  or  in  rebuke, 
his  invitatory  tones  being,  indeed,  of 
all,  the  most  repulsive  and  horrid. 
Clouds  of  snuff,  aggravating  the  na- 
tural terrors  of  his  speech,   broke 


*  From  a  copy  of  verses  entitled,  The  Oarden. 


1881.3  The  Old  Benchers  of  the  Imur  Ten^p  281 

from  each  mfgestic  nostril^  darkening  to  allude  to  her  gtoiy  that  day.  S. 
the  air.  He  took  it^  not  by  pinches^  promised  faithfully  to  observe  the  in- 
but  a  palmful  at  once^  diving  for  junction.  He  had  not  been  seated  in 
it,  under  the  mighty  flaps  of  his  old-  the  parlour,  where  the  company  waa 
fashioned  waistcoat  pocket;  his  expecting  Uie  dinner  summons,  four 
waistcoat  red  and  angry,  his  coat  minutes,  when,  a  pause  in  the  con- 
dark  rappee,  tinctured  by  dye  origi-  versation  ensuing,  he  got  up,  looked 
nal,  and  by  adjuncts,  with  buttons  out  of  window,  and  pulling  down  his 
of  obsolete  gold.  And  so  he  paced  ruffles-— an  or^ary  motion  with  him 
the  terrace.  —observed,  "  it  was  a  gloomy  day," 

By  his  side  a  milder  form  was  and  added,  '^  Miss  Blandy  must  be 
sometimes  to  be  seen ;  the  pensive  hanged  by  this  time,  I  suppose."  Iu« 
gentllity  of  Samuel  Salt.  They  were  stances  of  this  sort  were  perpetual, 
coevals,  and  had  nothing  but  that  Yet  S.  was  thought  by  some  of  the 
and  their  benchership  in  common,  greatest  men  of  his  time  a  fit  person 
In  politics  Salt  was  a  whig,  and  Co«  to  be  considted,  not  alone  in  matters 
ventry  a  staunch  tory.  Many  a  sar-  pertaining  to  the  law,  but  in  the  ordi- 
castic  growl  did  the  latter  cast  out,  nary  niceties  and  embarrassments  of 
for  Coventry  had  a  rough  spinous  conduct — ^firom  force  of  manner  en- 
humour,  at  the  political  confederates  tirely.  He  never  laughed.  He  had 
of  his  associate,  which  rebounded  the  same  good  fortune  among  the 
from  the  gentle  bosom  of  the  latter  female  world,  was  a  known  toast 
like  cannon-balls  from  wool.  You  with  the  ladies,  and  one  or  two  are 
could  not  ruffle  SamuePSalt.  said  to  have  died  for  love  of  him — I 

S.  had  the  reputation  of  being  a  suppose,  because  he  never  trifled  or 
very  clever  man,  and  of  excellent  talked  gallantry  with  them,  or  paid 
discernment  in  the  chamber  practice  them,  indeed,  hardly  common  atten- 
of  the  law.  I  suspect  his  Imowledge  tions.  He  had  a  fine  face  and  per- 
did  not  amount  to  much.  When  a  son,but  wanted,  methou^t,  the  spirit 
case  of  difficult  disposition  of  money,  that  should  have  shown  them  off 
testamentary  or  otherwise,  came  be-  with  advantage  to  the  women.  His 
fore  him,  he  ordinarily  handed  it  over  eye  lacked  lustre.  Lady  Mary  Wort- 
with  a  few  instructions  to  his  man  ley  Montague  was  an  exception  to 
Iibvel,  who  was  a  quick  little  feUow,  her  sex :  she  says,  in  one  of  her  let- 
and  would  dispatch  it  out  of  hand  by  ters,  *'  I  wonder  what  the  women 
the  light  of  natural  understanding,  of  see  in  S.  I  do  not  think  him  by  any 
which  he  had  an  uncommon  share,  means  handsome.  To  m^e  appears 
It  was  incredible  what  repute  for  ta-  an  extraordinary  dull  fellow,  and  to 
tents  S.  enjoyed  by  the  mere  trick  of  want  common  sense.  Yet  the  fools 
gravity.  He  was  a  shy  man ;  a  child  are  all  sighing  for  him."  Not  so, 
might  pose  him  in  a  minute — indo-  thought  Susan  P— ;  who,  at  the 
lent  and  procrastinating  to  the  last  advanced  age  of  sixty,  was  seen,  in 
degree.  Vet  men  womd  give  him  the  cold  evening  time,  unaccompa- 
credit  for  vast  application  in  spite  of  nied,  wetting  the  pavement  of  B-— d 
himself.  He  was  not  to  be  trusted  Row,  with  tears  that  fell  in  drops 
with  himself  with  impunity.  He  which  might  be  heard,  because  her 
never  dressed  for  a  dinner  party  but  fiiend  had  died  that  day— he,  whom 
he  forgot  his  sword — tney  wore  she  had  pursued  with  a  hopeless 
swords  then — or  some  other  neces-  passion  for  the  last  forty  years — a 
sary  part  of  his  equipage.  Lovel  passion,  which  years  could  not  ex- 
had  his  eye  upon  him  on  all  these  tinguish  or  abate,  nor  the  long  re- 
occasions,  and  ordinarily  gave  him  solved,  yet  gently  enforced,  puttings 
his  cue.  If  there  was  any  thing  off  of  unrelenting  bachelorhood  dis- 
which  he  could  speak  unseasonably,  suade   from  its   cherished  purpose. 

he  was  sure  to  do  it — He  was  to  dine  Mild  Susan  P ,    thou  hast  now 

at  a  relative's  of  the  unfortunate  Miss  thy  friend  in  heaven ! 
Blandy  on  the  day  of  her  execution;        Thomas  Coventij  was  a  cadet  of 

-—and  L.  who  had  a  wary  foresight  the  noble  family  of  that  name.     He 

of  his  probable  hallucinations,  before  passed  his  yotith  in  contracted  cir- 

he  set  out,  schooled  him  with  great  cumstaiiccs,   which  gave  him   early 

anxiety  not  in  any  possible  maimer  those  parsimonious  habits  which  in 


im  V^  OkHkme/tgrs  of  ih£  Inner  Temph.  d^ept. 

9fter4ife  never  forsook  hias ;  io  that«  in  the  world.    He  resigned  his  title 
viUi  one  windiaU  or  another^  about  almost  to  respect  as  a  master,  if  L. 
the  time  I  knew  him^  he  was  master  could  ever  have  forgotten  for  a  moM 
of  four  or  .five  hundred  thousand  ment  that  he  was  a  servant, 
pounds ;  nor  did  he  look,  or  walk,        I  knew  this  Level.    He  was  a  man 
worth  a  moidore  less.     He  lived  in  of  an  incorrigible  and  losing  hones^. 
a  gloomy  house  opposite  the  pump  A  good  fellow  withal,  and  "  wouia 
in    Seijeant's-iim^    Fleet-street     «i.  strike."    In  the  cause  of  the  oppress* 
the  counsel,   is  doing   self-imposed  ed  he  never  considered  inequalities, 
penance  in  it,  for  what  reason  I  di-  or  calculated  the  number  of  his  oppo- 
vine  not,  at  this  day.    C.  had  an  uents.    He  once   wrested   a    sword 
agreeable  seat  at  North  Cray,  where  out  of  the  hand  of  a  man  of  quality 
})e  seldom  spent  above  a  day  or  two  that  had  drawn  upon  him ;  and  pom- 
ata  time  in  the  summer;  but  preferred,  melled  him  severely  with  the  hilt  of 
during  the  hot  months,  standing  at  it    The  swordsman  had  ofiered  in- 
ills  window  in  this  damp,  close,  well-  suit  to  a  female — an  occasion  upon 
like  mansion,  to  watch,  as  he  said,  which  no  odds  against  him   could 
<'  the  maids  drawing  water  all  day  have  prevented    the  interference  of 
long."    I  suspect  he  had  his  within-  Level.    He   would  stand  next  daj 
door  reasons  ior  the  preference.    Hie  bare-headed  to  the  same  person,  mo- 
€umu  et   arma  fuere.     He  might  destly    to    excuse    his   interference, 
think  his  treasures  more  safe.    His  For  L.  ^  never    forgot   rank,   where 
luHise  had  the  aspect  of  a  stronr  box.  something  better  was  not  concerned. 
C.  was  a  close  hunks — a  hoarder  ra-  He  pleaded  the  cause  of  a  delinquent 
ther  than  a  miser — or,  if  a  miser,  in  the  treasury  of  the  Temple  so  ef- 
none  of  the  mad  £lwes  breed,  who  fectually  with  S.  the  then  treasurer — 
have  brought  discredit  upon  a  cha-  that  the  man  was  allowed  to  keep  his 
ncter,  which  cannot  exist  without  place.     L.  had  the  offer  to  succeed 
certain  admirable  points  of  steadiness  nim.    It  had  been  a  lucrative  pro- 
and  unity  of  purpose.   One  may  hate  motion.    But  L.  chose  to  forego  the 
a  true  miser,  out  cannot,  I  suspect,  so  advantage,  because  the  man  had  a 
easily  despise  him.    By  taking  care  wife  and  family.      L.  was  the  live- 
of  the  pence,  he  is  often  enabled  to  liest  little  fellow  breathing,  had  a  face 
part  with  the  pounds,  upon  a  scale  as  gay  as  Garrick's,  whom  he  wai 
that  leaves  us  careless  generous  fel«  said  greatly  to  resemble  (I  have  a 
lows  halting  at  an  immeasurable  dis-  portrait  of  him  which  confirms  it), 
tance  behind.    C.  gave  away  30,000/.  possessed  a  fine  turn  for  humourous 
at  once  in  his  life-time  to  a  blind  cha-  poetry — next  to  Swift  and  Prior— 
rity.    His  house-keeping  was  severe-  moulded  heads  in  clay  or  plaister  of 
ly  looked  after,  but  he  kept  the  table  Paris  to  admiration,   by  the  dint  of 
of  a  gentleman.     He  would  know  natural  genius  merelv ;  turned  crib- 
who  came  in  and  who  went  out  of  bage  bo£U*d8,  and  such  small  cabinet 
his  house,  but  his  kitchen  chimney  toys,  to  perfection ;  took  a  hand  at 
was  never  suffered  to  freeze.  quadrille  or  bowls  with  equal  facility  ; 
Salt  was  his  opposite  in  this,  as  in  made  punch  better  than  any  man  of 
all— never  knew  what  he  was  worth  his  degree  in  England ;  had  the  mer- 
in  the  world ;  and,  having  but  a  com-  riest  quips  and  conceits,  and  was  al- 
petency  for  his  rank,  which  his  indo-  together  as  brimful  of  rogueries  and 
lent  habits  were  little  calcidated  to  inventions  as  you  coidd  desire.    He 
improve,  might  have  suffered  severe-  was  a  brother  of  the  angle,  moreover, 
ly  if  he  had  not  had  honest  people  and  just  such  a  free,  hearty,  honest 
about  him.     Level  took  care  of  eveiy  companion    as    Mr.    Isaac    Walton 
thin^.    He  was  at  once  his  clerk,  his  would  have  chosen  to  go  a  fishing 
good  servant,  his  dresser,  his  friend,  with.    I  saw  him  in  his  old  age  and 
his    "  flapper,"     his    guide,    stop-  the  decay  of   his  faculties,    palsy- 
watch,  auditor,  treasurer.      He  did  smitten,  in  the  last  sad  stage  of  hu- 
nothing  without  consiUUng  Level,  or  man  weakness — *'  a   remnant  most 
failed  in  any  thing  without  expecting  forlorn  of  what  he  was," — yet  even 
and  fearing   his  admonishing.     He  then  his  eye  would  light  up  upon  the 
put  himself  almost  too  much  in  his  mention  of  his  favourite  Garrit  k.    He 
liands,  )iad  they  not  been  the  purest  was  greatest,  he  would  say,  in  Bayes 

6 


1^1.3  The  Oid  Btfukert  of  ike  Immr  Tmpk.  98S 

--.<'  was  upon  the  stage  nearly  dine— -amwerli^  to  the  eombination 
throughout  the  whole  performance^  rooms  at  college — ^mnch  to  the  e^se- 
and  as  busy  as  a  bee."  At  hitervals  ment  of  his  less  epicurean  brethren, 
too^  he  would  speak  of  his  former  I  know  nothing  more  of  him. — Then 
life,  and  how  he  came  up  a  little  boy  Read,  and  Twopenny— Read,  EP^^ 
from  Lincoln  to  go  to  service,  and  humoured  and  personaUe — ^Two- 
how  his  mother  cried  at  parting  with  penny,  good-humoured,  but  thin,  and 
him,  and  how  he  returned  after  some  felicitous  in  jests  upon  his  own 
few  years*  absence  in  his  smart  new  figure.  If  T.  was  thin,  Wharry  was 
lirery  to  see  her,  and  she  blessed  her-  atteniiated  and  fleeting.  Many  must 
self  at  the  change,  and  could  hardly  remember  him  (for  he  was  rather  of 
be  brought  to  believe  that  it  was  later  date)  and  his  singular  gait, 
'<  her  own  bairn."  And  then,  the  which  was  perfbrmed  by  three  steps 
excitement  subsiding,  he  would  weep,  and  a  jump  regularly  siicceeding. 
till  I  hare  wished  that  sad  second-  The  steps  were  little  etforts,  like  that 
childhood  might  have  a  mother  still  of  a  child  beginning  to  walk;  the 
to  lay  its  head  upon  her  lap.  But  jump  comparatively  vigorous,  as  a 
the  common  mother  of  us  all  in  no  foot  to  an  inch.  Where  he  learned 
long  time  after  received  him  gently  this  figure,  or  what  occasioned  it,  I 
into  hers-  could  never  discover    It  was  neither 

With  Coventry,  and  with  Salt,  in    graceful  in  itself,  nor  seemed  to  an« 
their  walks  upon  the  terrace,  most    swer  the  purpose  any  better  than 
commonly  Peter  Pierson  would  join    common  walking.    The  extreme  te- 
to  make  up  a  third.     They  did  not    nuity  of  his  frame,  I  suspect,  set  him 
walk    linked   arm  in  arm  in  those    upon  it.    It  was  a  trial  of  poising, 
days — "  as  now  our  stout  triumvirs    Twopenny  would    often    rally  him 
sweep  the   streets," — ^but  generally    upon  hb  leanness,  and  hail  him  as 
with  both  hands  folded  behind  them    Brother  Lusty;  but  W.  had  no  relish 
for  state,  or  with  one  at  least  be-    of  a  joke.    His  features  were  spite- 
hind,  the  other  carrying  a  cane.     P.    ful.      I  have  heard  that  he  would 
was  a  benevolent,  but  not  a  prepos-    pinch  his  cat's  ears  extremely,  when 
sessing  man.     He  had  that  in  his    any  thing  had  offended  him.    Jack- 
face  which  you  could  not  term  un-    son — the  omniscient  Jackson  he  was 
happiness ;  it  rather  implied  an  inca-    called — ^was  of  this  period.    He  had 
pacity  of  being  happy.     His  cheeks    the  reputation   of  possessing  more 
were  colourless,  even  to  whiteness,    multifarious    knowledge     than    any 
His  look  was  uninviting,  resembling    man  of  his  time.    He  was  the  Friar 
(but  without  his  sourness)   that  of    Bacon  of  the  less  literate  portion  of 
our  great  philanthropist.      I  know    tiie  Temple.     I  remember  a  pleasant 
that  he  did  good  acts,  but  I  could  ne-    passage,  of  the  cook  applying  to  him, 
ver  make  out  what  he  was.    Contem-    with  much  formality  of  apology,  for 
porary  with  these,  but  subordinate,    instructions  how  to  write  down  edge 
wasDainesBarrington — another  odd-    bone  of  beef  in  his  bill  of  commons. 
ity — he  walked  burly  and  square—    He   was  supposed  to  know,  if  any 
in  imitation,  I  think,  of  Coventry—    man  in  the  world  did.    He  decidfed 
howbeit  he  attained  not  to  the  dig-    the  orthography  to  be — as   I    have 
nity  of  his  prototype.    Nevertheless,    given  it — fortifying  his  authority  with 
he  did  pretty  well,  upon  the  strength    such  anatomical  reasons  as  dismissed 
of  being  a  tolerable  antiquarian,  and    the  manciple  (for  the  time)  learned 
having  a  brother  a  bishop.    When    and  happy.  Some  do  spell  it  yet  per- 
Uie  accounts  of  his  year's  treasurer-    versely,  aiich  bone,  from  a  fanciful 
ship  came  to  be  aiidited,  the  follow-    resemblance  between  its  shape,  and 
ing  singular  charge  was  unanimously    that  of  the  aspirate  so  denominated, 
disallowed  by  the  bench :   *'  Item,    I  had  almost  forgotten  M^ngay  with 
disbursed  Mr.  Allen  the  gardener,    the  iron  hand— but  he  was  somewhat 
twenty  shillings,  for  stuff  to  poison    later.    He  had  lost  his  right  hand  by 
the  sparrows,  by  my  orders."    Next    some  accident,  and  supplied  it  with  a 
to  him  was  old  Barton — a  jolly  ne-    grappling  hook,  which   he   wielded 
gallon,  who  took  upon  him  the   or-     witn   a  tolerable   adroitness.     I  de- 
dering  of  the  bills  of  fare  for  the  par-    tected  the  substitute,  before  I  was 
liament  chamber,  where  the  benchers    old  enough  to  reason  whether  it  were^^ 


9B4  Tkk  Old  Bendknlqf  the  Iimer  Tni^  CjBept- 


artiflciid  or  not    I  remember  tlie  as-  what  il  new  light  does  this  [dace 

toiiishment  it  raised  in  me.    He  was  refection  (O  call   it  bv   a  gentler 

a   blustering,    loud-talking  person  ;  name !)  oi  mild  Susan  P— ,  unra- 

and  I  reconciled  the  phenomenon  to  vdling  into   beauty    certain    pecu«- 

my  ideas  as  an  emblem  of  power—  llarities  of  this  Tery  shy  and  retiriD§^ 

somewhat  like  the  horns  in  the  fore-  character !— Henceforth    let  no  one 

head    of  Michael   Angelo's  Moses,  receire  the  narratives  of  £lia  for  true 

Baron  Maseres,  who  walks  (or  did  records !  They  are>  in  truth,  but  sha- 

till  very  lately)  in  the  costume  of  the  dows  of  fact — ^verisimilitudes,  not  ve- 

reign  of  George  the  Second,  closes  rities — or  sitting  but  upon  the  remote 

my  imperfect  recollections  of  the  old  edges  and  outskirts  of  history.     He 

benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple.  is  no  such  honeM  chronicler  as  R.  N,, 

Fantastic  forms,  whither  are  ye  and  would  have  done  better  perhaps 
fled  ?  Or,  if  the  Uke  of  you  exist,  to  have  considted  that  gentleman^ 
why  exist  they  no  more  for  me?  Ye  before  he  sent  these  incondite  remini- 
inexplicable,  half-understood  appear-  scences  to  press.  But  the  worthy  sub- 
ances,  why  comes  in  reason  to  tear  treasurer — who  respects  his  old  and 
away  the  preternatural  mist,  bright  his  new  masters— would  but  have 
or  gloomy,  that  enshrouded  you  ?  been  puzzled  at  the  indecorous  liber- 
Why  make  ye  so  sorry  a  figure  in  ties  or  Elia.  The  good  man  wots  not, 
my  relation,  who  made  up  to  me —  peradventure,  of  the  license  which 
to  my  childish  eyes — the  m3rthology  Magazine*  have  arrived  at  in  this  per* 
ci  the  Temple  ?  In  those  days  I  saw  aooM  age,  or  hardly  dreams  of  tneir 
Gods,  as  *'  old  men  covered  with  a  existence  beyond  the  Gentleman  9 — 
mantle,"  walking  upon  the  earth. —  his  furthest  monthly  excursions  in 
Let  the  dreams  or  classic  idolatry  this  nature  having  been  long  con- 
perish,— extinct  be  the  fairies  and  fined  to  the  holy  ground  of  honest 
niry  trumpery  of  legendary  fabling,  Urban's  obituary.  May  it  be  long 
—in  the  heart  of  childhood,  there  before  his  own  name  shall  help  to 
will,  for  ever,  spring  up  a  well  of  in-  swell  those  columns  of  unenvied  flat- 
nocent  or  wholesome  superstition —  tery ! — Meantime,  O  ye  new  Bench- 
the  seeds  of  exag^ration  will  be  ers  of  the  Inner  Temple,  cherish  him 
busy  there,  and  vital — ^fi-om  every-  kindly,  for  he  is  himself  the  kindliest 
day  forms  educing  the  unknown  and  of  human  creatures.  Should  infir- 
the  uncommon.  In  that  little  Groshen  mities  over-take  him — he  is  yet  in 
there  will  be  light,  when  the  grown  green  and  vigorous  senility— make 
world  flounders  about  in  the  darkness  allowances  for  them,  remembering 
of  sense  and  materiality.  While  that  "  ye  yourselves  are  old."  80 
childhood,  and  while  dreams,  re-  may  the  winged  horse,  your  ancient 
ducing  childhood,  shall  be  left,  ima-  badge  and  cognisance,  stiU  flourish ! 
ffinatiou  shall  not  have  spread  her  so  may  future  Hookers  and  Seldena 
holy  wings  totally  to  fly  the  earth.  illustrate  your  church  and  chambers  I 

Elia.  ^  ^^7  ^^  sparrows,  m  default  of 

.._^  more  melodious  quiristers,  unpoison- 

ed  hop  about  your  walks!  so  may 

P.  S.  I  have  done  injustice  to  the  the  fi:esh-coloured  and  cleanly  nur- 

soft  shade  of  Samuel  Salt    See  what  sery  maid,  who,  by  leave,  au*s  her 

it  is  to  trust  to  imperfect  memory,  playful  charge  in  your  stately  gar- 

and  the  erring  notices  of  childhood !  dens,   drop   ner    prettiest    blushing 

Yet  I  protest  I  always  thought  that  ciutsey  as  ye  pass,  reducUve  of  juve- 

he  had  been  a  bachelor !  This  gen-  nescent  emotion !  so  may  the  youn- 

tleman,  R.  N.  informs  me,  married  kers    of  this    generation    eye   you^ 

young,  and  losing  his  lady  m  child-  pacing  your  stately  terrace,  with  the 

bed    within  the  first  year  of   their  same  superstitious  veneration,  with 

union,  fell  into  a  deep  melancholy,  which  the  child  Elia  gazed  on  the 

firom  the  efiects  of  which,  probably,  old  worthies  that  solemnized  the  pa<i 

he  never  thoroughly  recovered.    In  rade  before  ye ! 


1881.;]  C.  Vam  FMboomt,  hUDogmatfit  DMkmii.  t8# 


•lljiT^ir. 


€»  tliat  tiBtiifdioomjf»  tiiipt  SDognuijI  fine 

No.  I. 

RECOLLECTIONS  IK  A  COUNTRY  CHURCH-YARD. 

Down  by  a  flowoy  greene  I  went. 
Full  thick  of  (^raif,  full  loft  and  sweet, 
With  flowres  ftiU  fiure  under  feet. 
And  little  used,  it  seemed  thus ; 
For  both  Flora  and  Zepherus, 
^piey  two  that  make  flowres  grow. 
Had  made  their  dwelling  there,  I  trow ! 
•        ••••• 

For  an  the  wood  was  waxen  greene. 
Sweetness  of  Dewe  had  made  it  waze. 
It  is  no  need^  for  to  axe 
Where  there  were  many  green^  greves 
Or  thicks  of  trees,  so  mil  of  leayes, — 
And  erery  tree  stood  by  himsdve 
Fro  th*  odier,  well  ten  foot  or  twelre. 

With  crops  broad,  and  eke  as  thiek. 

They  were  not  an  inch  asunder. 

That  it  was  shady  o*er  all  under ; 

Through  here  I  romed  wonder  fast 

Down  the  wood,  so  at  the  last 

I  was  aware  of  a  man  in  black 

That  sat  in  a  church-yard  and  tum*d  his  back 

To  an  oak,  an  hugi  tree. 

"  Lord,"  said  I,  "  who  may  that  be  ? 

What  aileth  him  to  sitten  there  ! "  Chaucer, 

This  will  be^  in  all  probability^  a  not  syUogisticallv  so,)  I  have  a  won- 
ahort  article.  For,  as  1  am  now  sit-  derfiU  ''exposition"  to  gossip  about 
tine  in  a  chiirch-yard,  seventy-three  Michael  Aneelo^  Tristan le  Leonnois, 
miles  from  London,  without  a  single  M^jor  CocKbum,  Goethe^  (I  beg 
book^  either  in  my  pocket  or  port-  pardon^  respected  Editor !  but  what, 
manteau,  I  must  put  my  trust  for  in  the  name  of  Sathanas,  set  some- 
fine  phrases  in  my  memory,  which  is  body  t^o  or  three  numbers  back  a-' 
not  to  be  relied  on  —  and  in  my  Mistering,  eight  or  ten  times  in  a 
brains,  which  are  little  copious.  On  page,  ^f.  le  Baron  John  Wolfgang 
this  very  account,  however,  I  am  de-  Von  Goethe?)  Keats,  '  La  Demoi- 
termfaied,  with  a  parity  of  reasoning  selle  qui  songeoit,'  and  the  like:  and, 
which  induced  the  Latins  to  derive  Sdly,  I  am  promise-bound  for  not 
hcus  k  nan  lucendo,  and  our  late  Mr.  less  than  four  pages  on  something 
Drama  to  pitch  on  Salisbury  Plain  as  this  month.  Therefore,  my  unknown 
the  fittest  station  for  penning  a  cri-  fiiends,  as  soon  as  my  messenger  re- 
tique  on  Convent  Garden  (as  Ld.  P —  turns  from  the  village  with  some  ma- 
writes  it),  to  describe  a  few  pictures  terials  for  writing,  I  shall  expostu- 
in  the  British  Institution,  and  two  or  late  a  few  of  the  above-mentioned  to 
three  prints  or  books  besides,  which^  ye.  Now  in  the  meantime,  I  give  ye 
as  I  said  before,  are  seventy-three  leave  to  express  your  wonder  at  my 
miles  distant  from  my  '  visttal  eye,'  choice  of  site;  and  as  it  is  rather  earlv 
I  have  likewise  three  motives  for  my  in'the  day,  and  as  I  know  how  ye  a& 
present  action,  which  the  gentle  read-  love  my  nice  little  preambles,  I  have 
er  shall  have,  whether  he  likes  it  or  no  objection  to  teU  briefly  the  why. 
not:  1st,  I  am  lying  on  the  cool  Be  it  known,  then,  that  I  have  three 
grass,  ^  on  a  very  elevated  spot  not  things  in  great  estimation,  viz.  to  sit 
five  miles  from  the  green  salt  sea ;  lazily  on  an  eminence  which  com- 
and  a  due  approximation  to  the  wan-  mands  a  rich  prospect, — to  be  sha- 
dering  clouds  is  held  by  Dr.  Johnson  dowed  by  the  thick  trees  while  the 
to  favour  the  wit :  SdUy,  (which  is  gav  sun  sMnes  around  me,— and  to 
the  consemienee  of  the  first,  though  ei\]oy  solitude  witk  tbft  cottMAOi&aNna 


tB6  a  Van  Vinkhoonu,  his  Dogmas  for  DUeiiamiL.  &9^ 

of  neighbourhood.  Here  they  are  hj  the  pleasure-grounds  and  shrub« 
all — for  the  church-yard  is  the  sum-  bery  of  an  elegant  rural  mansion ; 
mit  of  a  short  but  steepish  hDI^  fea-  and  flanked  on  the  one  hand  by  m, 
thered  with  the  finest  plantations  of  range  of  wood-shaded  meadows,  and 
oak,  the  white-barked  ash,  beeches,  on  the  other  by  a  rustic  attempt  at  m. 
noble  pines,  and  lofty  acacias,  which  road  leading  nowhere,  or  there- 
rise  like  columns  out  of  broad  sweep-  abouts.  True  it  is,  that  my  retreat 
faig  meadows,  soft  and  level  as  a  is  crossed  by  a  thoroughfare,  leadhi^r 
garden  lawn.  Their  high  hedges  are  from  the  said  road  to  the  aforesaid 
smothered  with  hazel ;  and  the  wood  meadows ;  but,  at  present,  this  path 
strawberry  runs  luxuriantly  over  the  is  barred  by  a  convenient  exclusive 
banks,  decorated  with  wild  flowers,  and  excluding  bull,  who  holds  hia 
*  yellow,  and  bhie,  and  white.'  —  court  hi  these  green  realms,—  and  in 
Down  in  the  hollow,  crossing  the  the  evening,  not  a  soul  would  ap- 
front  of  the  ancient  white  church,  proach  the  yard  out  of  respect  to  a 
there  is  a  clear  trout  stream,  winding  monstrous  black  dog,  with  soup-dish 
along  like  a  snake,  in  some  places  eyes,  glaring  livid  like  blue  lights, 
among  marshy  ground,  rugged  with  who  plays  at  leap-frog  over  the  tomb- 
brambles,  thonis,  and  snaggy  stumps,  stones,  and  is  supposed  to  be  the 
forming  a  fine  contrast  with  the  property  of  an  ancient  admiral  who 
•mooth  masshiess  of  the  high  stem-  takcth  his  walks  in  all  weathers, 
med  trees  on  the  uplands.  The  dressed  in  a  red  coat  and  yellow  waisi^ 
church-yard  itself  is  one  of  the  pret-  coat!!!  an  attire  sufficiently  out  of 
tiest  of  Its  kind — I  am  quite  in  love  the  ordinary  course  of  nature  to  appal 
with  its  irregular  little  paths ;  the  every  thinking  mind,  if  to  this  horrid 
more  ancient  paved  with  flags  and  enormity  he  did  not  add  the  omission 
red  brick;  and  the  recent  with  sifted  of  his  head!!! — But  here  comes  my 
gravel.  It  looks  as  if  it  were  clean  smock-frocked  valet-de-place,  Ralph 
and  neat  from  nature,  hot  from  art :  Westropp,  with  my  forage.  "  Sur, 
—the  herbage  is  long  and  thick  with-  Measter  says  as  that," — **  Where  is — 
out  rankness ; — there  is  not  a  nettle  ^confound  ye !  mhid  how  you  set 
in  it  to  alarm  ladies'  silk-covered  aown  the  jug !)  Where's  my  paper, 
ancles ; — the  few  yews  are  dark,  but  Ralph?"  "  There,  Siu-,"  (pulling out 
not  dismal ; — the  circling  hedge  of  four  soiled  crumpled  sheets  of  4to«) 
living /^Etfrr/,  of  the  brightest  green  I  J'vebeenaxingand'quieringallupana 
ever  behdd ;  and  its  whole  appear-  down,  and  that's  every  bit  the  pJeace 
ancc,  tumuli  and  all,  is  as  domestic,  do  hold,"  (alack  for  the  progress  of 
cheerful,  and  snug,  as  if  it  were  kept  literature!)  ''but  if  you  thnik  proper, 

in  such  apple-pie  order  for  the  better  111  just  step  over  to    T fteu 

seducuig  tolks  to  come  and  be  bu-  miles  off),  and  be  back  in  no  time. '— -» 

ried.  *'  No,  no,  I  shall  manage ;  and  now  I 

Two  of  my  requisites  are  tolerably  suppose   landlord    wants   to    know 

well  made  out,  and  the  third  will  not  about  dinner  ? — Well ! — tell  him  tm 

cost  me  much  more  trouble.    M^ith  get  me  that  leff  of  South-down  roast- 

regard  to  neighbourhood,  the  viUa^e  ed  by  nine  o'clock ;'  I  shall  dhie  and 

is  so  near  that  I  can  hear  the  litUe  sup  altogether — and  be  sure  they  lioil 

boys  and  girls  playing  by  the  duck-  me  plenty  of  marrow-fats  and  pota* 

pond  at  the  bottom  of  its  approach  ;  toes !  —  and — and — ^get  about   your 

and  receive  from  my  *'  honest  ale-  business ! — and   leave  Bhcher  with 

house"  (what  I  am  now  awaiting,  as  me !"  *'  £es,  Sur !  I'll  look  up  again 

I  breakfasted  at    seven  o'clock)  a  by  and  by,  and  see  if  you  don  t  want 

fine  luncheon  of  home-baked  bread,  nothing." — ''Aye— aye."  ^^jriVJBo^ 

a    cold    slice  of  home-smoke-dried  — Cornelius  manef.)    "  Blucher !   do 

Hampshire   bacon,    and    a  mug  of  you  love — "  but  I  beg  your  pardon, 

home-i)rewed  sound  ale,  for  which  sweet  reader ;  allow  me  to  introduce 

mine  host  of  the  King's  Arms,  or  Blucher,    the    worthy    bull-headed 

Head,   or  whatever  it  may  be,    is  mastiff  of  my  hostelrie,  who  kindly 

justly  famed.    And    touching    soli-  patronizes    me    in   consideration    of 

tude,  the  situation  of  the  ground  is  certain  mouthfuls    of    bread,  beef, 

in  itself  extremely  advantageous,  be-  bacon,  and  cheese — "  Blucher,  do  you 

ing  defended  in  front  by  some  im-  love  fat    bacon  ?   (Blnclier    bolts  a 

ptacAcMe  waste  land ;  ui  the  rear,  banging  bit  of  bacon.)    Good :  now: 


1891.]]  C.  Van  Vinkhooms,  his  Dogma$  fir  t>ileiianH.  887 

lie  down  here  in  this-nice  hollow  be*  it  becomes  every  one  to  lend  hit  hand 
tween  the  two  graves^  and  catch  to  restore  the  public  scale  of  taste  to 
flies ! — ^Where's  the  case-knife  to  cut  a  fitter  equilibrium ;  and  I  am  inclined 
BIT  pencil — (N.  B.  neither  pen  nor  to  thinks  from  the  elegant  choice 
hik)So!  Now  I  begin. —  displayed  in  three  pictures  in  the 
ARTICLE.  present  exhibition  at  the  British  In* 
The  thoroughly  grounded  painter  stitution^  that  these  exertions  will  be 
and  connoisseur  may  safely  mdulge  aided  by  the  example  of  the  first 
himself  in  admiration  of  every  spe-  personage  in  the  kingdom, 
cies  of  picture^  good  in  its  kind^  At  all  events^  I  shall  be  amply  re* 
from  M.  Angelo,  to  van  Anybody,  the  paid  for  the  trouble  of  writmg,  if 
artist  of  dunghills  and  pigsty es — ^but  three  people  should  feel  induced  from 
this  cannot,  with  safety  to  the  pro-  the  perusal,  to  look  a  little  higher  in 
gressoftaste,  be  allowed  to  beginners,  art  than  tiiey  have  been  hitherto 
either  in  practice  or  amateurship.  accustomed.  Obstacles  arise  to  the 
The  art  of  smking  is  much  easier  than  general  diffusion,  as  in  Italy,  of  the 
that  of  rising ;  and  though  the  well-  grand  gusto,  from  different  circum- 
Gonstructed  mind,  educated  and  stances.  One  is,  that  several  of  the 
formed  by  the  study  of  the  antique,  finest  pictures  have  never  been  en- 
and  Uie  schools  of  Kome  and  Parma,  graved  at  all,  or  so  inadequately  ae 
with  ease  unbends  and  enjoys  the  to  mislead  rather  than  satisfy— ano- 
products  of  mere  imitation,  yet  an  ther  is,  the  extreme  rarity  and  high 
instance  has  rarely  or  never  occurred  price  of  manv  of  the  most  desirable 
of  the  cabarti  pauiter  who  has  been  prints  (this,  however,  is  not  without 
able  to  feel  or  comprehend  the  true  exception) ;  added  to  which,  suppoa* 
aim  and  excellencies  of  the  epic  and  ing  tne  amateur  or  artist  amply  pro- 
dramatic  styles.  Andrea  del  Sarto  vided  in  fiinds,  he  is  not  always  able 
is  a  notable  example  of  the  Bathos ;  to  put  his  ffood  intentions  in  practice, 
and  stands  out  a  striking  beacon  to  for  want  of  a  well-selected,  roughly- 
windy  judgments.  This  weak  man,  priced  catalogue  of  the  tnost  faithfid 
though  unnaturally  buoyed  up  for  a  engrofvingsfrcm  the  tnoMt  tharacteruHc 
time  Dj  the  strong  food  of  Fuirence  invetUUmt  of  the  mo$t  prominent  mas^ 
and  of  Rome,  on  beholding    some  ters, 

German  novelties  more  congenial  to  Such  a  manual,  I  know,  would  have 
the  native  contraction  of  his  mind,  saved  me  much  time  and  trouble 
abandoned  the  style  in  which  it  when  I  began  my  littie  collection ; 
seemed  he  had  so  well  succeeded;  and  indeed,  without  it,  Fuseli's  ad* 
and  shrank  from  the  fulness  of  Buo*  mirable  and  indispensable  second  leo* 
narotti  and  lyUrbino,  to  the  shrivel*  ture  loses  much  of  its  utility  to  the 
led  meanness  of  Durer — a  fact,  student  in  a  practical  point  of  view, 
nearly  as  mcredible  as  true. — If,  them,  who  cannot  be  much  enlightened  by 
one  possessed  of  great  talents  (im*  critiques  on  works  which  he  never 
accompanied  unfortunately  by  stea*  saw,— but  let  it  be  placed  before  him 
diness)  fell,  owing  to  the  contftg^on  of  accompanied  by  a  proper  set  of  illus* 
injudicious  models,  how  muc£  more  trations,  and  he  will  acquire,  in  six 
is  it  needful  now,  at  home,  when  the  days,  as  good  a  view  of  the  creneric 
influence  of  taste  in  the  Fine  Arts  on  features  of  the  different  schools  as  I 
many  branches  of  commerce  and  ma-  have  been  able  to  do  in  six  years.  In 
nufactures  is  so  generally  allowed,  to  sincere  hopes  that  some  one  more  ca* 
endeavour,  with  the  best  of  one's  pable  will  take  it  up,  I  shall  attempt 
abilities,  to  direct  the  public  in  what  a  littie  essay  towards  this  desirable 
courses  their  admiration  may  be  la-  object,  to  be  continued,  if  it  should 
vished  with  safety  and  profit.  I  am  not  incur  the  disapprobation  of  our 
very  far  from  hoping  tnat  my  exer-  readers,  by  small  parcels  through 
tinns  can  do  mucn,  even  in  the  sphere  some  succeeding  numbers  of  toe 
of  our  sale;  but  considering  the  un-  London  Magazine.— I  shall  entreat 
due  manner  in  which  Dutch  drolle*  the  leniency  of  the  practised  con* 
rics  lord  it  over  the  pure  sublimity  noisseur  and  artist  towards  mv  errors, 
and  tenderness  of  the  sons  of  Italia,  which  he  will  the  more  readily  grant, 
and  the  prices  given  by  wealthy  gulls  as  desire  of  showing  my  little  know- 
to  tricking  picture-dealers  for  worth-  ledge  has  not  actuated  me,  hvvt^DQ!»%- 
less  copies  from  worthless  originals, —  ly  of  do\i\g  vc«&  ««!n\e«. 

Y  « 


988  C  Fan  Fmkhoomss  ki$  Dogmat  Jbr  JDiUUmnk.  Dtept. 

After  what  I  liaye  said  above,  it  i«  terior  particles  of  Ids  grace  were 
hardly  necessary  to  advertize  the  refined  by  Parmegiano  to  afiectA- 
readei>  that  my  hst  will  be  confined  tion ;  wmle  his  suavity  dwindM 
chiefly  to  the  Italian  school^  and  that  into  unmeaning  imbecility  in  the 
the  thorough-bred  print  collector  will  hands  of  the  delicate  but  flimsy  Ba^ 
find  nothing  to  pamper  his  appetite  roccio.  Something  of  a  kindred  feel- 
for  Maso  Fimguerras,  Baldinis,  ing  pervaded  Reynolds^  as  may  be 
Niello  plates^  Robettas,  Wolfgangs,  seen  in  his  <'  Cuuid  and  Psyche,"  in 
&c.  No  further  order  or  arrange-  the  collection  ot  the  poet  Rogers ; 
ment  will  be  observed,  than  that  and  in  the  moonlight  portrait  of  Mi%. 
every  separate  portion  shall  contain  Stanhope.  But,  in  my  opinion,  Fii* 
one  or  two  subjects,  from  eight  or  sell  has  several  times  shown  more  of 
ten  different  painters,  which  1  think,  Allegri's  soul  than  any  of  his  most 
by  its  variety,  will  be  at  once  useful  enthusiastic  followers.  A  picture  by 
sund  agreeable  to  the  new  collector,  the  professor,  penes  tne,  answers  fully 
For  want  of  books  1  am  not  able  to  to  the  above  little  sketch  of  the 
manage  even  this  desultory  plan  so  prevailing  powers  of  the  Lombard* 
orderly  as  I  wish,  this  number;  there-  Keats,  in  the  Eve  of  St.  Agnes,  has 
fore  let  us  talk  about  what  we  have  several  lines,  which  harmonize  sweet- 
all  seen,  viz.  the  Exhibition  of  Old  1^  with  the  style  alluded  to.  If  they 
Masters  at  the  British  Institution —  live  in  my  memory,  I  will  give  them 
J  have  almost  every  one  of  these  pic-  to  you. 
lures  clearly  before  me,  and  they  will 

aerve  as  land-marks  to  my  memory.  Thus  whispering,  hii  wmrm,  iinneived  ami 

Some  other  day  we  will  run  over  Mr.  Sank  in  her  pillow.   Shaded  washerdi^am 

Angerstein's    together,    after  which  By  the  dusk  curtains :— 'twas  a  midn%ht 

we  will  drive  to  Uie  exceUent  Dulwich  charm, 

qoO^^;^!)^  Impossible  to  melt  as  iced  stream : 

The  pamtings  which  1  wish  you  ^*  ^"^'  "^^^   "^   ^  moonfight 

•now  to  look  at  are  those  of  Cor-  Bm«l  ^d^  fringe  "pon  the  carpet  lies: 

W«gio,  Tmtoretto,   and  Pohdoro.--  it  «cemM  he  nevST ne?er  could  rSeem 

We  have   but  a  fragmental   8i)eci-  From  such  a  stedfast  spell  his  Udy's  Ayes ; 

men  of  Correggio— but  it  is  precious  So  mused  awhfle,  ento&'d  in  woofed  pfmn- 
■as  a  gem  fa  small  female  head  in  tasies. 

firesGO,  Lora  Mulgrave).    No  master 

is  so  little  known  in  England,  ex-  Awakening  up,  he  took  her  hoUow  Ittte, 

■oept  Polidoro    and    Schiavone;   not  Tumultuous,— and,  in  chords  that  tender* 

but  we  have  manv  copies  under  his  est  be, 

•name,    among   wldch  I   must  class  He  playM  an  ancient  ditty,  long  since  mute, 

Mr.   Anjrerstein's    "  Christ    in    the  In  ftoVence  call'd  '' La  Belle  Dame  sant 

Garden,^  the  original  of  which  is  '  Meroy:" 

nrobably  in    the  coUection  of  the  SSlL^^  ^'^^JJ^'^^'^  "^ 

rSuke   of  Wellin^on,  obtahied   by  ^^'^'^'^^^'"'*' **'  "^'^  utter  d  a  soft 

^  fitnn  the  King  of  Spain,   who  He  ccascd-Jhe  panted  quick-and  sud. 

thus    deprived    the    Escunal  of  its  denly 

greatest  treasure.     Harmony  is  the  Her  hlue  aftmyed  eyes  wide  open  shone : 

characteristic  stamp  of  his  mind,  and  Upon  his  knees  he  sank,  pale  as  smooth. 

an  amorous,  dream-like  mystery,  in  sculptured  stone. 

.which  his  figures  appear  to  float  as 

on  an  enchanted  lake.    The  manner  «( Ah,  Porphyro  I "  said  she,  <*  but  eten 

in  which  his  best  productions  affect  now 

me,  b  by  a  combination  of  luxuries  ;  Thy  voice  was  at  sweet  tremble  in  -mine 

"  all  impulses  of  soul    and    sense  ear, 

thrill  me."     To  lie  nested   serenely  Made  tuneable  with  every  sweetest  vow ; 

immoveable  in  down,  among   rich.  And  those  sad  eves  were  spirimal  and  cl«r: 

ahadowy    curtauis,    through    which  How  chang^  thou  art  I  liow  paUid,  chdl, 

should  stream  seraphic  strains,  and  ^.  „  «!^u.»'^J.  .^:„  «,.  Pn^k«w« 

coo.   perf«a.c.   boSie   on   the   soft  §Er.±*iZJ:.S:"irSiag. 

beams  of  the  summer  moon — this  is  ^^^  j 

the  nearest  parallel  that  1  can  make,  oh  leave  me*  not  in  this  eternal  woe ; 

He  is  truly  a  sentimental  painter.  For  if  diou  dies^  my  k>ve,  I  know  not 

aod  If  tiierefore  inimitable.    The  ex-  where  toga.** 


I8S1.;]  a  Vm  Finkboonu,  hi$  Dogmoi  fir  DUetUadu  989 

BsfoiidaiiMitdniAniiniMMnimM  flur,  '  We  mutt  leave  Coiregglo  for  the 

At  thMB  ndupouNu  •ecentB,  ha  ARwe,  present,  and  attend  to  the  two  plo- 

Ethemly  fluih'd,  ud  lik«  a  throbbing  itar  turei,  from  the  bnwh  of  his  contrast,' 

$Mi  »imd  the  itpphire  beaT<»*»  deep  re-  Giacopo  Robusti,  commonly  called 

P^**'  Tintoretto,  one  of  the  brightest  or^ 

Though  the  genius  of  Correggio  lay  naments  of  the  Venetian  school- 
there  in  pourinff  harmony  and  repose  than  whom  scarcely  any  man  pos- 
over  a  whole,  than  in  striking  origi-  sessed  such  exuberance  of  fancy, 
nality  of  invention,  or  strength  of  with  so  powerful  a  hand  to  embody 
individual  expression,  yet  he  has  ita  purposes.  At  once  ardent  and 
occasionally  soared  into  these  re-  laborious,  he  turned  out  more  work 
gions,  with  a  vigour  that  defies  all  than  all  the  painters  in  Venice  put 
competition.  The  supernatural  group  together— pwnting  at  all  times,  and 
of  Jupiter  and  lo— the  divine  heads  accepting  and  executing  commissions 
of  Christ  and  the  Virgin,  in  his  Eccc  at  all  prices.  Bred  under  the  tutor- 
Homo —and,  in  my  humble  opinion,  age  ot  Vecelli,  he  became  speedily 
his  Sigismonda,  are  sufficient  evi-  so  thoroughly  initiated  m  that  great 
dences  of  this  assertion.  He  was  master's  principles  of  colour,  as  to 
the  greatest  master,  if  not  the  m-  beget  his  own  expulsion ;  an  act 
ventor,  of  that  species  of  fore-short-  both  mean  and  foolish  on  the  part  of 
ening,  termed  "  Di  sotto  in  su,"  in  Titian.  Not  at  all  discouraged,  Gia^ 
which  the  figures  are  seen  from  be-  copo  did  not  content  himself  with  his 
low,  as  on  ceilings,  cupolas,  &c. ;  acquirements  there,  but  sat  down  re- 
and  to  this  principle,  which  he  push-  solutely  to  the  study  of  M.  Angelo, 
ed  into  extravagance  in  the  sprawl-  and  the  antique,  at  the  same  time 
ing,  almost  indecent  figure  of  his  modelling  in  clay,  perfecting  himself 
glorified  Saviour,  most  of  his  male  in  anatomy,  and  drawing  from  life  by 
fresco  figures  are  indebted  for  what-  lamplight,  whence  he,  no  doubt,  de- 
ever  of  grandeur  they  may  possess,  rfved  those  grand  scientific  masses. 
Luckily  for  the  English  amateur,  his  yea,  floods  of  shadows,  which  form 
effects  are  not  unreadily  transferred  one  great  mark  of  his  style.  Fully 
to  copper;  as,  notwithstanding  his  impressed  with  the  fleshiness  and 
exquisite  hues,  legtimate  chiaroscuro  tnitli  of  his  master's  tints,  he  waa 
was  his  organ.  The  engravings,  a-  not  blind  to  his  defects  in  drawing 
mong  others,  best  calculated  to  fur-  and  expression,  which  he  conceived 
nish  a  good  idea  of  his  style,  are :—  the  grand  pr^ect  of  remedying  by 
The  Jupiter  and  To,  a  valuable  and  rather  superadding  Titian's   migestic  tone, 

scarce  print,  from  Love's  own  picture,  glow,  and  Juice,  to  the  severity,  leam- 

iDuehangr.)    6*.  or  6#.  Jng^  and  gigantic  expansion  of  the 

HiaAUegory,  called  diel>(/a,  once  cut  to  forms  of  Buonarotti.    Had  his  deptii 

pieces  by  squamish  bigot^,  but  sine*  y^^^  ^^^^1  to   his  warmtii,  and  his 

~^"!f '•  ^M^TT^JJ^I^  steadiness  to  his  industry,  tiiis  noble 

engraved  m  Filhol  s  Oalene  du  Mus^       i  i^    -.     j     ^a J  a  v     m**.'  - 

iDuckangc.^    10*.  or  15*.  ?!«">  ^J^^^'^^^^"  adopted  by  Titian 

The  Descent  from  the  Cross,  at  Parma,  himself,^  would  have  rendered  Wm 

described  in  the  second  number  of  die  "^^  undisputed  king  of  the  modem 

LowDOK  Magazine,  a  channing  twi-  oil-painters.     But,  to  use  the  word* 

li^tprinL  iF.diRosaapkna,)  Rll«.6<2.  of  Fuseli,  "goaded on  by  the raffe  of 

or  2A  2t.  doiuff  singly  the  work  of  all,  and  de- 

The  Ecce  Homo,  engraved  by  Agos.  Ca-  baucncd  by  the  unexampled  facility 

racd,  though  I  prefer  as  more  faithftd,  of  his  own  execution,  he  gave  him- 

though  stOl  inadequate,  the  print  by  gelf    neither  time    to    conceive,    to 

BetHiinL    l'*  ^*'  judge,  nor  to  finish ;  content  to  catdi 

^K    irllT  "i."^?  *^  Palm-trees,  inUi  ^^  ^j      jf  j^  jj^d  novelty,  he  turned 

tl^'^  U^frS.t  raT ""  ^^  -y-t  mto  a  W,l  trampled 

The  Christ's  Agony  in  the  Garden  (I/wd  ^^^  P^'-t^  Jjto  undistinguished  masses : 

Wellington's),  from  Hamilton's  Schola  «""  sacrificing  mind,  character,  de- 

Italica.    N.  B.  the  good  hnpressionn  are  «]?»»,  and  sense,  to  incongruous,  but 

on  a  very  thick  and  stiff  Roman  paper,  picturesque   imagery,    and    fugitive 

iVolpaio.)    7#.  effect,"  he  converted  his  art  into  a 

*  See  the  Pietro  Martire,  the  David  and  Goliath,  Cain  and  Abel,  and  Sacrifice  of 
Abraham,  all  given  mLe  Febre's  ^^  Opera  SekeUara,  fe.^  Vcn.  \MI. 


MO  C.  Vast  rinkbooms,  kit  Dognuu  fttr  DUciimOi^  V^^V^ 

I^aytluiigi  leaving  behind  him  little  princess  on  tlie  fiHre-gVOUDd^  conti* 
more  than  the  reputation  of  being  nued  by  the  duskj  hodj  of  a  dead 
the  head  of  the  ornamental  schooL  man,  beyond  whom  the  fierce  ddi* 
The  characteristics  of  his  8t]^e  rerer,  with  head  down,  arm  raised, 
are,  prodigious  breadth  of  cluaros-  knees  griped  to  the  saddle,  and  spurs 
euro,  richness,  harmony,  depth,  and  back  in  the  flanks,  drives  his  white 
orisp^ity  of  tone  and  colour,--4>old  war-horse  down  the  slope,  into  the 
and  violent  fore-shortenings ;  con-  side,  and  swoln,  tender  belly  of  the 
trasted  postures,  oftener  rather  sin*  already  reeling  dragon.  A  burst  of 
gular  than  graceful,  though  by  no  radiance  from  the  heavens  (between 
means  without  elegance  in  his  fe-  a  very  pale  orange  and  straw  co« 
males ;  a  turbulent  mode  of  com-  lour)  meets  the  diagonal  line  of  com- 
position,  sometimes  appropriate,  al-  position,  and  finishes  the  whole, 
ways  pcturesque  ;  a  luxuriant  in-  Tintoretto  has  not  here  displayed  so 
▼ention,  more  fiery  than  dignified,  ostentatiously  his  broad  banners  of 
more  capricious  than  grand,  more  light  and  shade;  but  the  glowing 
copious  than  correct.  These  quali-  depth  and  harmony  of  the  colouiing 
fications  are  rounded  by  a  sweeping  are  worthy  of  his  pencil.  The  robe 
mastery  of  execution,  which  fives  to  of  Sabra,  warmly  glazed  with  Prua- 
hia  largest  works  as  much  umty  as  M  sian  blue,  is  relieved  firom  the  pale 
they  had  been  dashed  ofiT  at  a  sitting,  greemsh  back-ground  by  a  vermi- 
In  Tintoretto's  drawing,  the  efiects  Bon  scarf;  and  the  full  hues  of  both 
are  not  always  apparently  propor-  are  beautifiiUy  echoed,  as  it  were,  in 
tioned  to  his  application,  ana  well-  a  lower  key,  by  the  puiple-lake-OH 
chosen  course  of  study.  His  men  loured  stuff's,  and  bluish  u-on  armour 
possess  muscularity  and  size,  with-  erf*  the  saint;  besides  an  ample  ba^ 
out  either  grandeur  or  selection.  His  lance  to  the  vivid  azure  drapery  on 
women,  more  ideal  and  more  man-  the  fore-ground,  in  the  indigo  shades 
nered,  particularly  in  their  counte-  of  the  wild  wood  surrounding  the 
nances,  style  of  hair  T  which  is  little  castle.  Mr.  Westall  had  once  a 
else  but  the  mode  of  tne  period),  are  grand  Resurrection  of  Lazarus,  full 
often  too  contorted,  and  too  osten-  of  beautiful  colour,  well  impastedp 
tadously  postured,  for  grace ;  and  and  most  furiously  executed ;  and  at 
seem  weak-limbed  and  awkward,  Mr.  Hammond's,  the  picture-dealer, 
firom  their  excessive  length.  This  of  Greek-street,  Soho,  I  have  seen 
last  defect  is  perceptible  in  the  Venus  a  very  fine  sketch  of  die  Last  Judg- 
of  Lord  Eardley's  picture  of  Vulcan,  ment,  which,  however,  Mr.  Ottley 
Venus,  and  Cupid,  (one  of  the  two  inclines  to  ascribe  to  young  Palma. 
in  the  B.  1^  but  much  more  so  in  1  rather  wonder  that  the  Academy 
The  Birth  of  St.  John,  well  engraved  did  not  purchase  this  last,  which  is 
by  Honthemels,  in  the  Cabinet  du  an  admirable  study  in  point  of  co- 
Crozat.  Before  we  leave  Giacopo,  lour.  The  best  specimens  of  Tinto- 
let  us  just  look  at  the  Rev.  Mr.  retto's  style,  are  the  "  Crucifixion," 
Carr  8  picture  of  *'  St.  George  delU  in  the  Scuola  di  San  Rocco,  at  Ve- 
vering  the  Egyptian  Princess  from  the  nice ;  the  '*'  Resurrection,"  and  the 
Dragon"  formerly  in  the  hands  of  '*  Massacre  of  the  Innocents,"  in  the 
R.  Vr  estall,  £sq.  RA.  where  I  once  same  place ;  and  the  ''  Miraculo  del 
saw  it.  Tlie  ordonnance  of  this  Servo, '  painted  for  the  S.  di  S.  Mar- 
highly  desirable  performance  is  very  co,  whose  holy  deed  it  blazons.  In 
characteristic  of  the  school  of  Ro-  portrait,  he  was  scarce  inferior  to 
busti:  the  line  of  Uie  horizon  is  two-  Titian,  as  may  be  seen  from  his 
thirds  up  the  picture  (an  upright) ;  Archbishop  of  Spalatro,  now  in  this 
the  fiigures  are  placed  on  a  piece  of  country.  To  convey  an  adequate 
woody,  broken,  grassy  ground  by  idea  of  his  excellencies  by  prints  is 
the  margin  of  the  sea,  which  forms  impossible,  as  his  most  characteristic 
one  side  (about  a  fifth)  of  the  paint-  allurement  is  the  chromatic  part.  Even 
ing,  and  appears  to  flow  behind  a  his  tone,  somewhat  more  attainable, 
dim  stone  castle  standing  in  the  hasbeengenerally  missed  by  his  tran- 
distance.  They  are  grouped  in  such  slators ;  witness  the  enormous  mis- 
a  manner,  as  to  shoot  obliquely  a-  take  cngiaved  by  Agos.  Carracci  from 
cross  the  canva8s,fi'om  the  base  to  the  his  Crucifixion ;  however,  take  a  few 
horizon,  beginning  with  the  terrified  of  them,  such  as  they  arc : 


189(.3               C.  Van  Finkbooms,  hU  Dognuufir  DUatUmU^  £91 

The  Mafder  of  the  Innocents :  of  which  conception  and  execution^  so  closely 

there  is  a  copy  in  reverse  without  the  to  his  partner's^  as  to  render  diMCii- 

cngr»7cr'i   name.   i^/EgidiM   Sadekr.^  mination  nugfctory.     Their  conapod^ 

__*^'r    ^,  .^        ^  ^   ,          .„.  ,  tions,  executed  in  chiaroscuro,  once 

10*"^?                ^'^   (^'Areftoji-)  decorated  the  outside  waUsof  every 

The  Origin  ofthe  Galaxy,  from  the  Palais  ^^^'^^   '"  ?^f™!:,  "k%^*''    ^ 

Royalt;    a   veiy   sublime   conception,  ^^^^ye^^  or  defaced    by   Time,   and 

whoeMj  vigour  of  design  nearly  equals  ^^^^  hands;  and  we  are  obliged  to 

that  of  the  tone  and  colour.  T.  Phillipt,  f  lean  our  knowledge  of  their  merit 

Esq.  RA.  possesses  a  repetition  of  this  m>m  the  prints  of  Cherubino  Albertl 

subject,   with  an  additional    group  of  (a  painter  himself),  the  small  etchht 

figures  placed  under  the  line  Ss  clouds  ings  of  Gallestruzzi ;   and,  what  i« 

which  support  the  couch  of  the  startled  stul  worse,  from  the  exaggerations 

Juna  It  ought  to  be  wdl  engraved  on  a  of  Goltzius  and  Sanredam,  and  the 

hir^  scale,   yaunay.^    6#.  ^i^y  meagreness  of  that  impudent- 

The  Mirade  of  the  felave;  a  mannered  ly.u„faithful   mannerist,    Sante-Bar^ 

pnnt,  deficient  m  tone;  but,  it  is  ^ this  /^\\     t«  «^  ««;.i*^-  ^-m^^l^^  t%*ti^uu*^ 

wnone.'    iMatl^m,  the  pupil  of  GoU^  ^        "^ITi  ^K  ^^^  5^  ?    r*"^ 

riiM.)    8*.                      r  r    J  do  We  find  such  unaffected  simphcity, 

sJ  Jerome,  the  Virgin,  and  Angels;  a  ^^^  an  unobtrusion  of  the  artist; 

fine  rich  thing.  iAgot.  Carracci,)    I5t,  ^^^  ^^8  ^^  "  which  renders  them,  on 

or,  lA  1#.  the  first  sight,  so  little  remarkable. 

The  Marriage  at  Cana,  in  the  Schola  Ita-  There  is  no  manner  to  hook  the  raw 

Hca.    ( Volpato,)    6#.  eye ;  the  student  fancies,  with  Par^ 

The  Descent  from  the  Cross.    iSadekr.y  tridge,    that  he   could  easily  do  as 

^^  well  himself;  and  it  is  not  tiU  failure 

In  the  south  room  we  have  two  has  taught  him  wisdom,  that  he  di»« 

pictures,    by    Polidoro  di  Caldara  covers    this   very    circumstance    to 

(Cujnds  and    Swans,    and     Cupids  constitute  Caldara's  inviolability  from 

aroffffing'  Nets,  both  in  chiaroscuro) ;  imitation.    If  his  conceptions  seldom 

and,  I  declare,  I  never  felt  so  much  or  never  rise  to  the  sublime,   they 

pleasure  as  I  did  on  reading  his  Ma-  are  always  dignified.    His  attitudes, 

jesty's    name    as    the    possessor  of  sufficiently  contrasted  without  pos* 

tliese  graceful  productions,  of  that  turing,  are  earnest,  yet  noble ;  aiii« 

valuable  and  scarce  artist. — Polidoro,  mated,  without  bombast;  and  pro- 

a  Milanese,  sumamed  from  his  na-  bable,  without  vulgarity.    His  gusta 

tive  town,  Carravaggio,    became  a  in  design,  is  completely  of  a  piece 

])ainter  from  viewing,  in  the  charac-  with  his  conception ;  correct,  but  not 

ter  of   hod-man,    me  execution  of  stiff^  or  hard ;  learned,  yet  not  ana- 

Jlaffaello's  and  Udhio's  works,  in  the  tomically  pedantic ;  full  and  broad, 

Vatican.    Just    at  this   time   great  without    heaviness ;    vigorous    and 

discoveries  of  antiques  were  taJdn^  masculine,  without  losing  delicacy; 

place  in  Italy,  besides  the  casts  and  uniting  precision  with  grace.  Though 

drawings  which  Raffaello  caused  to  he  never,  like  my  favourite  Parme-> 

be  procured  from  Greece ;  and  Poll-  giano,  is  contented  with  afi*ectation» 

doro  fell  so  heartily  to  studying  and  when  in  search  afler  elegance,  yet  his 

investigating  the  principles  ofthe  an-  lines  are  flowing  and  sweepy ;  and  in 

clents,  as  displayed  in  their  basso  and  their  emanation  from,  and  conncxioa 

alto  relievos,  friezes,  vases,  &c.  that  with,  each  other,  uniformly  harmo* 

in  a  short  time  he  succeeded  in  esta-  nious.     The  beauty  and  nature  of 

blishing  a  style,  which,  totally  free  his  flying  draperies  have  never  been 

from  servile  imitation  of  their  husks,  excelled.     His  chiaroscuro  is  forci- 

is  more  in  the  spirit  of  his  models  ble  and  well-conducted ;   giving  to 

than  either  that  of  Rafia^o,  Giulio,  single  figures  and   groups   prodigi-^ 

Primaticcio,  or  N.  Poussin  himself,  ous  roundness ;  and  his  composition^ 

Luckily  for  Rome,  his  talents  were  compact,   yet  distinct,  is,  consider- 

appreciated ;  and  the  number  of  his  ing  the  fetters  of   the  monumental 

commissions  so  much  exceeded  his  style,  extremely  varied  and  appro* 

ability  to  satisfy  them,  that  he  was  priatc. 

forced  to  call  in  the  aid  of  Maturino,  Such  are    the   high    characteris- 

the  Florentine,  an  honoured  name ;  tics  of  a  painter,  neglected  and  un« 

who  linked  his  own  style,  both  in  known  (except  to  a  few)  in  these 


4bj9,    when  fordid  Tulgarltj,   and  nan  will  have  folly  enoogh  to  study 

acddental   defonmty^    assume    the  deejply  the  principles  of  die  blazing 

Bfemes  of  nature  and  truth ; — when  luminaries  of  Fk)rence>  Rorae^  and 

a  bad  copy  irom    a    spurious   Ti-  Parma^  for  the  purpose  of  embody- 

tian^  or  retouched  Rembrandt,  con-  ing  the  patriarchs  of  Genesis,  tne 

stitutes  any  given  Roggins  or  Soil-  heroes  and  fair  women  of  Homer, 

kins  a  critic  on  Fine  Art ;  and  when  Hesiod,  Sophocles,  Herodotus,  Ari- 

a  blasphemous  use  of  the  names  of  osto,  and  Spenser,  or  the  mystic  and 

Ri^QSigllo  and  Phidias  erects  an  ela-  picturesque  situations    of   La  Mort 

borate  trifler,  an  industrious  congre-  d'Arthur,  and  of  Undine,*  in  order 

gator  of  mean,  imbecile,   and  uglff  to  be  insulted  by  the  preference  given 

thysiognomies  and  actions,  into  an  to  ''  Crossing  a  Brook"  **  The  Dog 
istoric  pamter.  Stealer,"  "  The  Cock  Figki/'  '*  The 
His  Migesty's  example  may  do  apm-oach  to  Mr.  Pummoek's  Grot," 
much  towards  calling  people  from  *^  Officers  of  the  *  *  *  Lancers,"  or 
their  grovelling  love  for  those  pro-  a  pack  of  paltry  prints,  published  for 
ducts  of  dull  patience^  and  want  of  the  tnexpressed  purpose  of  deforming 
imaginations,  the  pictures  of  Netscher,  the  beauteous  pages  of  John  BsJlan- 
Penner,  Douw,  old  Mieris,  &c.  while  tyiie,  and  Thomas  Davison  ?  t  Here, 
the  elegance  of  taste,  and  the  penetra^  for  the  present,  we  stop,  begffing  par- 
tion  shown  in  the  choice  of  the  two  don  for  our  digression,  and  rccom- 
Polidoros  and  the  Schiavone  {Brisks  mending  the  amateur,  and  especially 
ravished  from  Achilles),  thouffh  no  the  young  practitioner,  to  study  care- 
more  tiian  was  to  be  expected  from  fully  the  few  and  imperfect  prints  af- 
the  Firsi  Gentleman  in  the  empire,  ter  the  inventions  of  this  solid  master, 
may,  paradventure,  shame  some  of  I  am  not  able  to  describe  all  those 
our  wealthy  self-dubbed  connoisseurs  put  forth  by  Aiherti,  as  I  possess  but 
ami  of  their  itch  for  Brouwers,  and  tew,  and  cannot  here  call  on  the 
into  the  purchase  of  such  pictures  as  assistance  of  M.  Bartsch  He  Peintre- 
grace  the  invaluable  collection  of  J.  irraveur)  j  but  the  desiderante  will 
Julius  Angerstein,  £sq.  Till  this  nnd  little  trouble  in  selecting,  if  he 
is  done,  and  till  faithful  artist-like  inquires  fusing  our  name)  at  Messrs. 
prints,  from  the  leading  masters,  are  Colnaghi  s,  or  Molteno's,  for  a  port- 
published  at  such  prices  as  may  al-  folio  of  Chenibino  Alberti,  or  Po- 
low,  and,  indeed,  invite  an  exten-  lidoro.  He  will  find  them,  I  be- 
stve  sale,  it  is  all  foolishness  for  Mr.  lieve,  extremely  reasonable,  notwith- 
This,  or  Mr.  T'other,  to  write  ''plans  standing  their  comparative  scarcity, 
for  advancing  the  fine  arts,"  &c. — 

When  people,  from  having  the  best  poUdoro's  finest  work,  which  still  exists 
models  constantiy  before  their  eyes,  -^  ^ins,  w  the  long  frieze  of  the  "  FaHe 
begin  to  comprehend  the  capabihties  of  Niohe;'  engraved  on  eight  pUtes, 
of  separate  s^les,  and  know  what  is  yery  valuable,  though  caricatured  by 
to  be  expected  fi-om  the  powers  of  the  the  false  taste  of  Sanredam,  the  pupu 
art;  where  and  when  it  is  to  work  and  relation  of  Ooltaus.  Ih  4s.  or, 
with  the  simple  materials  of  history ;        2A  2«. 

where  to  change  and  transmute  them  The  Rape  of  the  Sabines ;  a  very  extensive 
to  fit  better  its  own  peculiar  pur-        ^T^^'^iJf^  ^  ^^  '*^°'  ^^^' 

poses:   and  at  what  crisis,   and  in  •,       •    *^  7     ..  «    _j  •  .  .v   o   i 

5:S:r  emergency,  it  is  permitted  the  ""^Z^  ^''^^TX'!'''  ""  "^ 

use  of  vmon,  symbol,  or  double  ap-  ^  ^^^  Triumph.    (V.  jilbcriu)    5s. 

position ;  then  only  will  theu-  patron-  The  Story  of  Perseus  and  Atlas ;  one  part 
aKe  acquu^  the  permanent  weight  of  this  long  plate  conuins  some  nymphs 
of  utility.  At  present,  it  evidently^  gathering  fruit  in  a  river-watered  grove, 
does  more  harm  than  good :  for  what       (C  AibertL)    7«. 


*  Why  win  not  the  translator  of  Siniram  fitvour  us  with  the  Summer  and  Autumn 
Ramancfg ;  or  the  Magic  King^  or  the  Sigfried  and  Brunhildf 

•f  I  trust  Messrs.  Stothard,  WestaU,  and  Richard  Cook,  (why  do  we  see  you  so 
seldom,  good  Mr.  Cook  ?)  wiU  not  put  on  caps  intended  for  a  very  Afferent  set  of  people. 
It  is  a  small  crime  to  illustrate  the  novds  of  Sir  W.  S.;  but.  Lord  prcMrve  us!  the  dsad 
(witneM  Shskspeaie)  an  not  safe. 


1891.3  6b*^nioii«  of  am  Engliak  Opkm^Aim  nM 

Tht  Wint  Vat;  anuDcfadb.    {C.  AL  Correggio,    Barocdo/    Andxm  dd 

Olic  Twdre  Godfof  Antoqmty,  on  twdft  Titiano,  Tmtoretto,  Paolo  VewamSi 

plates.  (Gotefii**.)    XL  is.  or,  U  lOf.  Basaano,  Palma  Guido,  DominichiiM^ 

These  are  sufficient  to  begin  with.  M.  A.  de  Carravaggio^  Alhano,  Ov^ 

Good  b'ye.  ercino,  Lanfiranco,  and  the  CarraooL 

r**m*^   j7/.«.«.a;^    j«^  t  "^^  ^^^  **  <>^  *^*«*f  *  Gallery  to  a 

""""■"  you  have  your  hand  in  your  pockety 

PS.  Before  I  hare  the  pleasure  of  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  add  the  set 

seeuig  you  again^  my  dear  Sir^  let  of  plates    called  Raffaelle's  Biblesp 

me  counsel  you  to  acquire^  in  some  published  in  dilong  fol.  1790^    by 

way  or  other,  a  choice  old  copy  of  Montagnani  of  Rome :  if  you  should 

Gaven  Hamilton's  Schola  Italica  Pie^  light  on  a   good  copy  of  Maurer^a 

turtgy   large  fol.  Rome,  1773,   price  Emblems,   or   Stimmer's  Huntings^ 

about  fhre  or  six  guineas,  which  con*  or,  indeed,  any  of  his  works,  except 

tains  forty-one  specimens,  in  general  his  Bible  (small  4to.  Basle,  1576)y 

admirably  engrarcd  by  Cunego  and  secure  them   immediately ;    and   If 

Volpato,  from  the  best  pictures  (both  you  don't  like  'em,  send  mem  to  9S, 

fresco  and  oil)  of  M.  Angelo,   Raf-  Fleet-street,   and  you  shall  receire 

faello.   Da  Vinci,    Fra.  Bartolomeo^  their  value,  and  my  hearty  thanks. 


CONFESSIONS    OF    AN    ENGLISH    OPIUM -^EATER: 

BEING  AN  EXTRACT  FBOM  THE  LIFE  OF  A  SCHOLAR. 

To  TUB  Reader. — I  here  present  alive  to  reproach  of  this  tendency^ 
you,  courteous  reader,  with  the  re-  that  I  have  for  many  months  hesi- 
cord  of  a  remarkable  period  in  my  tated  about  the  propriety  of  allowing 
Mfe :  according  to  my  application  of  this,  or  any  part  of  my  narrative,  to 
it,  I  trust  that  it  will  prove,  not  come  before  the  public  eye,  undl 
merely  an  interesting  record,  but,  in  after  my  death  (when,  for  many  rea** 
a  considerable  degree,  useful  and  in-  sons,  the  whole  will  be  published): 
structivc.  In  ihut  hope  it  is,  that  I  and  it  is  not  without  an  anxious  re* 
have  drawn  it  up :  and  that  must  be  view  of  the  reasons,  for  and  against 
my  apology  for  breaking  through  thi8Step,that  I  have,  atlast,conclud- 
that  delicate  and  honourable  reserve,  ed  on  taking  it. 
which,  for  the  most  part,  restrains  Guilt  and  misery  shrink,  by  a  na* 
us  from  the  public  exposure  of  our  tural  insthict,  from  public  notice: 
own  errors  and  infirmities.  Nothing,  they  court  privacy  and  solitude :  and, 
udeed,  is  more  revolting  to  English  even  in  their  choice  of  a  grave,  will 
feelings,  than  the  spectacle  of  a  hu«  sometimes  sequester  themselves  from 
man  being  obtruding  on  our  notTce  the  general  population  of  the  church- 
his  moral  ulcers  or  scars,  and  tear-*  y&rd,  as  if  declining  to  claim  fellow- 
ing  away  that  *  decent  drapery,'  ship  with  the  p^reat  family  of  man, 
which  time,  or  indulgence  to  human  and  wishing  (in  the  affecting  Ian- 
frailty,  may  have  drawn  over  them :  guage  of  Mr.  Wordsworth) 
accordingly,  the  greater  part  of  our  _^__  HumU  to 
confessions  (that  is,  spontaneous  and  ^  penitential  Jelin^^T^ 
extra-judicial   confessions)    proceed 

from      demireps,      adventurers,    or        It  is  well,   upon  the  whole,  and 

swindlers :  and  for  any  such  acts  of  for  the  interest   of  us   all,   that  it 

gratuitous  self-humiliation  from  those  should  be  so :  nor  would  I  willingly, 

who  can  be  supposed  in    sympathy  in  my  own  person,  manifest  a  dis- 

with  the  decent  and  self-respecting  regard  of  sucn  salutary  feelings ;  nor 

part  of  society,   we  must   look   to  in  act  or  word  do  anything  to  weaken 

French  literature,  or  to  that  part  of  them.      But,    on  the  one  hand,   as 

the  German,   which  is  tainted  with  my  self-accusation  does  not  amount 

the  spurious  and  defective  sensibi-  to  a  confession  of  guilt,  so,  on  the 

lity  of  the  French.    AU  this  I  feel  other,  it  is  possible  that,  if  it  did, 

so  forcibly,  and  so  nervously  am  I  th«  benefit  f«iviU»k%  Xo  fsA^EkKim,  Ssmsi 


«94                        Coiifiiukmk  of  an  English  Opknii^Eaiers  Z^^^P^ 

the  reo6rd  of   an  experience   pur-  Englieh  -Mciety  (the  ckisg  of  men 

chased  at  so  heavy  a  price,  might  distinguished  for  talents,  or  of  emi- 

oompensate,  bj  a  vast  overbalance,  nent  statibn),  who  were  known  to 

for  anj  violence  done  to  the  feelings  me,  directly  or  indirectly,  as  opimn- 

I  have  noticed,  and  justify  a  breach  eaters ;  such   for   instance,  as  the 

ofdie  general  rule.  Infirmity  and  mi-  eloquent  and  benevolent  <^-^— ,  the 

■ery  do  not,  of  necessity,  imply  guilt    late  dean  of ;  Lord  ;  Mr. 

They  i^proach,  or  recede  from,  the  — ,  the  philosopher ;  a  late  under- 

shades  of  that  dark  alliance,  in  pro-  secretary  of  state  (who  described  to 

portion  to  the  probable  motives  and  me  the  sensation  which  first  drove 

prospects  of  the  oflfender,  and  the  him  to  the  use  of  opium,  in  the  very 

palliations,  known  or  secret,  of  the  same  words  as  the  dean  of       ■».  viz. 

ofienoe :  in  proportion  as  the  tempta-  '*  that  he  felt  as  though  rats  were 

tions  to  it  were  potent  firom  the  first,  gnawing  and  abrading  the  coats  of 

and  the  resistance  to  it,  in  act  or  in  his  stomach");  Mr.  — -^;  and  many 

effort,  was  earnest  to  the  last.    For  others,  hardly  less  known,  whom  it. 

ray    own    part,   without   breach  of  would  be  tedious  to  mention.    Now^ 

truth  or  modes^,  I  may  affirm,  that  if  one  class,  comparatively  so  limits 

my  life  has  been,  on  the  whole,  the  ed,  could  iiumish  so  many  scores  of 

life  of  a  philosopher :  from  my  birth  cases  (and  that  within  the  knowledge 

I  was  made  an    intellectual    crea-  of  one  single  inquirer),  it  was  a  na* 

ture :  and  intellectual  in  the  highest  tural  hiference,  that  the  entire  po- 

sense  my  pursuits  and  pleasupes  have  pulation  of  England  would  furnish  a 

been,  even  from  my  school-boy  days,  proportionable  number.    The  sound- 

If  opium-eating  be  a  sensual  plea-  ncss  of  this  inference,   however,   I 

siu-e,  and  if  I  am  bound  to  confess  doubted,  until    some   facts   became 

that  1  have  indulged  in  it  to  an  ex-  known  to  me,   which  satisfied  me, 

etaSf  not  yet  recorded*  of  any  other  that  it  was  not  incorrect     1  will 

nan,  it  is  no  less  true,  that  I  have  mention  two :   1.  Three  respectable 

slniffgled  against  this  fascinating  en-  London  druggists,  in  widely  remote 

thraiment  with  a  religious  zeal,  and  quarters  of  London,  from  whom  I 

have,  at  length,  accomplished  what  happened   lately  to  be   purchasing 

I  never  yet  heard  attriinited  to  any  small  quantities  of  opium,   assured 

other  man — have  untwisted,  almost  me,    that    the   number   of  amafeyr 

to  its  final  links,  the  accursed  chain  opium-eaters  (as  J  may  term  them) 

which    fettered    me.    Such    a   self-  was,   at  this  time,    immense;    and 

conquest  may  reasonably  be  set  off  that  the  difficulty  of  distinguishing 

in  counterbalance  to  any  kind  or  de-  these  persons,  to  whom  habit  haa 

grec  of  self-indulgence.    Not  to  in-  rendered  opium  necessary,  from  such 

mst,  that  in  my  case,  the  self-con-  as  were  purchasing  it  with  a  view 

quest  was  unquestionable,  the  self-  to    suicide,    occasioned    them  daily 

indulgence  open  to  doubts  of  casuis-  trouble  and  disputes.    This  evidence 

try,  according  as  that  name  shall  be  respected    London    only.      But,    2. 

extended  to  acts  aiming  at  the  bare  (wnich   will    possibly    surprise    the 

relief  of  pain,  or  shall  be  restricted  reader  more,)  some  years  ago,   on 

to  such  as  aim  at  the  excitement  of  passing  through  Manchester,  I  was 

positive  pleasure.  mformed  by  several  cotton-manufao- 

Guilt,  therefore,  I  do  not  acknow-  turers,  that  their  work-people  were 

ledge :  and,   if  I  did,  it  is  possible  rapidly  getting  into  the  practice  of 

that  1  miffht  still  resolve  on  the  pre-  opium-eating ;  so  much  so,  that  on 

sent  act  of  confession,  in  considera-  a  Saturday  afternoon  tlie  counters  of 

tion  of  the   service    which    I  may  the    druggists    were    strewed    with 

thereby  render  to  the  whole  class  of  pills  of  one,  two,  or  three  grains,  in 

opium-eaters.     But  who  are  they?  preparation  for  the   known  demand 

Reader,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  a  very  of  the  evening.    The  immediate  oc- 

numerous  class   indeed.     Of  this  I  casion  of  this  practice  was  the  low> 

became  convinced  some  years  ago,  ness  of  wages,  which,  at  that  time, 

by  computing,  at  that  time,  the  num-  would  not  allow  them  to  indulge  in 

ber  of  those  in  one  small   class  of  ale  or  spirits :  and,  wages  rising,  it 

*  *  Not  ytt  recorded^'  I  aay  t  for  there  is  erne  celebrated  man  of  the  present  day» 

who,  if  all  bs  tme  which  »  repoinad  of  him,  haa  greatly  exceeded  mc  in  quantity. 


1821.3  Cotifi$$Um»  of  an  EngUA  Opivm^Eaitr:  HM 

may  be  thought  that  this  practice  which  else  would  poinfiilly  obtnida 

would  cease :  out^  as  I  do  not  readi*  itself  In  the  course  of  the  Opiunv* 

Ij  beliere  that  any  man,  haring  once  Confessions — *^  How  came  any  ret^ 

tasted  the  divine  luxuries  of  opium,  sonable  being  to  subject  himself  to 

will  afterwards  descend  to  the  gross  such  a  yoke  of  misery,  volontarily  to 

and   mortal   enjoyments  of  alcohol,  incur  a  captivity  so    servile,    and 

I  take  it  for  granted,  knowingly  to  fetter  himself  with  suah 

That  those  emt  now,  who  never  ate  before?  a    seven-fold    chain?"-*    T^^j^^ 

And  those  who  always  ate,  now  eat  the  which,   if  not  somewhere  plausibly 

more.  resolved,  could    hardly  fail,  by  the 

_   .     ,  ^,     •     .     . .  .  indignation  which  it  would  be  apt  to 

Indeed  the  foscmaUng  powers  of  ^aise  as  against  an  act  of  wanton 

opnim  arc  admitted,  even  by  medi-  ^^y^  ^  interfere  with  that  degree  of 

cal  writers,  who  are  its  greatest  ene-  gympathy  which  is  necessary  in  any 

mies:    thus,    for  Distance,  Awsiter,  case  to  an  author's  purposes, 
apotheciuy    to    Greenwich-hospital,        ^  ^^  furnishing  a  key  to  some, 
m  his  ;'  Essay  on    the   EfTccts  of         ^^   ^f   ^hat    tremendous  scenery 

Opium   (pubbshcdm  the  year  1763),  Which  afterwards  peopled  the  dreani 

when  attempting   to  explain,    why  of  the  Opium^aten 
Mead  had  not  been  sufficiently  cxpli-        3^  As  creating  some  previous  Inte- 

cit  on  the  properties,  counteraj^ents,  ^est  of  a  personal  sort  in  tiie  confess- 

&c.  of  this  drug,  expresses  himself  j      ^^.i^j^^t  ^  ^  from  the  matter  of 

m  the   following   mysterious  terms  ^^  confessioni,  which  cannot  fail  to 

(j<«r«7«(n;..To.^O: "perhaps he tiiought  render   tiie    confessions    Uiemselves 

tiie  subject  of  too  delicate  a  nature  j^^^^      interesting.        If     a    man 

to  be  made  common ;  and  as  many  ,,  ^^^  ^^  j^  ^f  ^,g„;.  ^^^^^  l^ 

people  might  then  indiscriminately  ^^^  ^  Opium-eater,  tiie  probabl- 

use  It,  It  would  take  from  tiiat  ne-  jj^    -     ^^^  /jf  he  b  not  too  duUlo 

ccssaiT    fear    and    caution,     which  dream  at  aU)-.he  will  dream  aboot 

shoidd  prevent  their  ex^jerlenclng  the  ^^^^.    whereas,  in  tiie  case  befora 

extensive  power  of  this  dnig :  Jhr  y^^    ^^  ^^^er  wdl  find  tiiat  tiio 

f  here  are  many  properties  m,t,  if  Mat-  Opium-eater  boastetii  himself  to  bo 

versally  known,  thai  uroutd  habituate  a  philosopher ;  and  accordingly,  tiiat 

lis  dreamt 
-dreams  or 

me  resuii  01  wnicn  Kiiowiciige,     ae  ,iight-d'reams)  is  suitable  to  one  who 

adds,  "  mujt  prove  a  general  ims-  .^^^^  character, 
fortune.       In  the  necessity  of  this         „        .    ., .,  ,.  ^^ 

conclusion  I  do  not  altogether  con-        ^""^  "^  •  "•  aliennm  putat. 
cur :    but  upon  that  point  I  shall        For  amongst  the  conditions  which 

have  occasion  to  speak  at  the  close  ^e  deems  mdispensable  to  the  sus- 

of  my  confessions,  where  I  shall  pre-  taining  of  any  claim  to  the  titie  of 

sent  the  reader  with  the  moral  ot  my  philosopher,   is  not  mcrelv  the  pos- 

narrative.  session  of  a  superb  intellect  in  its 

analytic  functions  (in  which  part  of 

piELiMiNAEY  CONFESSIONS.  ^jjg  pretenslou,    however,    England 

These  preliminary  confessions,  or  can  tor  some  generations  show  but 

introductory  narrative  of  tiie  youth-  few  claimants ;  at  least,  he  is  not  a- 

ful  adventures  which  laid  the  foim-  ware  of  any  known  candidate  for  this 

dntion  of  the  writer's  habit  of  opium-  honour  who  can  be  styled  emphati- 

eating  in  after-life,  it  has  been  judged  cally  a  snhtle  thinker,  with  the  excep- 

proper  to  premise,  for  three  several'  tion  of  Samuel    Taylor    Coleridge, 

reasons:  end   in    a  narrower  department  of 

1.  As    forostelling   that  question,  thought,  with  the  recent  illustrious 

and  giving  it  a  satisfactory  answer,  exception  •  of  David  liicardo)— hut 

*  A  third  exception  might  perhaps  have  been  added :  and  my  reaMm  for  not  adding 
that  exception  is  diicfly  because  it  waa  only  in  his  juvenile  efforts  tliat  the  writer  wliom 
I  allude  to,  cxprcaaly  luldrciutcd  himself  to  philosopliical  themes ;  Iiis  riper  powers 
having  been  all  aedicatcd  (on  very  excusable  and  very  intelligihle  grounds,  under  the  pre- 
sent  Erection  of  tlic  popular  mind  in  England)  to  criticism  and  the  Fine  Arts.  Tliis 
reason  apart,  however,  I  doubt  whether  he  is  not  rather  to  be  considered  an  aoite  Uiinkcc 


SM                        Oot^fhtimu  of  (ui  EngUsh  Opnim^Eater.  C^pi 

«bo  on  siibh  h  cQudtutkiii  of  tlw  which  first  produced  this  derange- 

wural  fiiculties,  as  shall  gire  him  an  nient  of  the  stomachy  were  interest- 

iniier  eye  and  power  of  intuition  £dr  ing  in  themselves,  and  kk  the  dr- 

the  vision  and  the  mysteries  of  our  cumstances  that  attended  them,  I 

human  nature :   thai  constitution  of  shall  here  briefly  retrace  them, 

fecultiesy  in  short,  which  (amongst  My  ^Either  died,  when  I  was  about 

idl  the  generations  of  men  that  from  seven   years    old,    and   left   me   to 

the  bc^p^inning  of  time  have  deployed  the  care  of  four  guardians.     I  was 

into  life,  as  it  were,  upon  this  planet)  sent  to  various  schools,  great  and 

cmr  English  poets  have  possessed  in  small ;   and  was  very  early  distin- 

the  highest  degree— and    Scottish*  gulshed    for    my    classical    attain- 

l^ofessors  in  the  lowest.  ments,  especially  for  my  knowledge 

1  have  often  been  asked,  how  I  of  Greek.     At   thirteen,     I    wrote 

4rst.  came  to  be  a  regular  opium-  Greek  with  ease ;  and  at  fifteen  my 

eater;  and  have  suffered,  very  un-  command  of  that  language   was  so 

justly,  in  the  opinion  of  my  acquaint-  great,   that    I    not    only    composed 

•nee,   from  being  reputed  to  have  Greek    verses  in  lyric  metres,  but 

brought  upon  myself  all  the  suffer-  could  converse  in  Greek  fluently,  and 

ings  which  1  shall  have  to  record,  without  embarrassment— an  accom- 

by  a  long  course  of  indulgence  in  plishment   which  I  have  not  since 

this  practice  purely  for  the  sake  of  met  with  in  any  scholar  of  my  times, 

creating  an  artificial  state  of  pleasur-  and  which,  in  my  case,  was  owing 

able  excitement    This,  however,  is  to  the  practice  of  daily  reading  on 

m  misrepresentation  of  my  case.  True  the  newspapers  into  the  best  Greek 

it  is,  that  for  nearly  ten  years  I  did  I  could  nu-iush   extempore :   for  the 

occasionally  take  opium,  for  the  sake  necessity  of  ransacking  my  memory 

of  the  exquisite  pleasure  it  gave  me:  and  invention,  for  all  sorts  and  com- 

but,  so  long  as  I  took  it  with  this  binations  of  periphrastic  expressions, 

▼iew,    I    was   eflectually  protected  as    equivalents    for    modem    ideas, 

from  all  material  bad  consequences,  images,  relations  of  things,  &c.  ffave 

by  the  necessity  of  interposing  long  me    a    compass    of    diction    which 

intervals  between  the  several  acts  of  would   never  have  been  called  out 

indulgence,  in  order  to    renew   the  by  a  dull  translation  of  moral  essays, 

geasurable  sensations.  It  was  not  &c.  ''  That  boy,"  suid  one  of  my 
r  the  purpose  of  creating  pleasure,  masters,  pointing  the  attention  of  a 
but  of  mitigating  pain  in  the  severest  stranger  to  me,  ''  that  boy  could 
degree,  that  1  first  began  to  use  harangue  an  Athenian  mob,  better 
opium  as  an  article  of  daily  diet,  than  you  or  I  could  address  an  £ng- 
In  the  twenty-eighth  year  of  my  lish  one."  He  who  honoured  me 
age,  a  most  painful  affection  of  the  with  this  eulogy,  was  a  scholar, 
stomach,  which  I  had  first  experi-  *^  and  a  ripe  and  good  one :"  and  of 
enced  about  ten  years  before,  at-  all  my  tutors,  was  the  only  one 
iacked  me  in  great  strength.  This  whom  I  loved  or  reverenced.  Un- 
afiection  had  originally  been  caused  fortunately  for  me  (and,  as  I  after- 
by  extremities  of  hunger,  suffered  terwards  learned,  to  this  worthy 
in  my  boyish  days.  During  the  sea-  man's  great  indignation),  I  was 
son  of  hope  and  redundant  happi-  transferred  to  the  care,  first  of  a 
ness  which  succeeded  (that  is,  from  blockhead,  who  was  in  a  perpetual 
eighteen  to  twenty-mur)  it  had  panic,  lest  I  shoiUd  expose  nis  igno- 
slumbered :  for  the  three  following  ranee  ,*  and  finaUy,  to  that  of  a  re- 
years  it  had  revived  at  intervals:  spectable  scholar,  at  the  head  of  a 
and  now,  under  unfavourable  cir-  great  school  on  an  ancient  foun^a- 
cumstances,  from  depression  of  spi-  tion.  This  man  had  been  appointed 
rita,  it  attacked  me  with  a  violence  to  his  situation  by  — —  College, 
that  yielded  to  no  remedies  but  Oxford ;  and  was  a  sound,  weU-built 
opium.    As  the  youthful  sufferings,  scholar,  but  (like  most  men,  whom 


than  a  subde  one.     It  is,  besides,  a  great  drawback  on  his  mastery  over  philosophical 
sabjects,  that  he  has  obviously  not  had  the  advantage  of  a  regular  scholastic  education : 
he  has  not  read  Plato  in  his  youdi  (which  most  likely  was  only  his  misfortune) ;  but  nei- 
ther hat  he  read  Kant  in  his  manhood  (which  is  his  fault). 
•  J  disclaim  any  alhisian  to  esitUng  professon,  of  whom  indeed  I  know  only  one. 


1891.3  Omffuiani  of  an  EngUsh  OpnmmSaier.  907 

I  hare  known  from  that  college)  meaflures.  Summer  was  now  coming 
coarse,  dumsj,  and  inelegant.     A  on  with  haatr  steps,  and  my  seveiw 
miserable  contrast  he  presented,   in  teenth  birth-daj  was  fast  approach-' 
my  eyes,  to  the  Etonian  brilliancy  of  ing ;  after  which  day  I  had  swom 
my  faTOurite  master :    and  besides,  within  myself,  that  1  would  no  longer 
he  could  not  disguise  from  my  hourly  be  numbered  amongst  school-boya. 
nodce,  the  poverty  and  meagreness  Money  being  what  I  chiefly  wanted,  I 
of  his  understanding.    It  is  a  bad  wrote  to  a  woman  of  high  rank,  who, 
thing  for  a  boy  to  be,  and  to  know  though  young  lierself,  luid  known  me 
himself,  far  beyond  his  tutors,  whe-  from  a  child,  and  had  latterly  treated 
ther  in  knowledge  or  in  power  of  me  with  great  distinction,  requesting 
mind.    This  was  the  case,  so  far  as  that  she  would 'lend 'me  five  guineas, 
regarded   knowledge    at  least,  not  For  upwards  of  a  week  no  answer 
with  myself  only :  for  the  two  boys,  came ;  and  I  was  beginning  to  de- 
who  jointly  with  myself  composed  spond,  when,   at  len^,   a  servant 
the  first  form,  were  better  Grecians  put  into  my  hands  a  double  letter, 
than  the  head-master,    though    not  with  a  coronet  on  the  seal.     The 
more  elegant  scholars,   nor   at    all  letter  was  kind  and  obliging:    the 
more  accustomed  to  sacrifice  to  the  fair  writer  was  on  the  sea.«oast,  aiid 
graces.    When  I  first  entered,  I  re-  in  that  way  the  delay  had  arisen : 
member  that    we   read   Sophocles ;  she  inclosed  double  of  what  I  had 
and   it   was   a  constant  matter   o£  asked,   and  good-naturedly    hinted, 
triumph   to  us,   the  learned  trium-  that  if  I  should  never  repay  her,  it 
virate  of  the  first  form,  to  see  our  would  not  absolutely  ruin  her.    Now 
*  Archididascalus '    (as  he  loved  to  then,  I  was  prepared  for  my  scheme: 
be  called)  conning  our  lesson  before  ten  guineas,   added    to    about  two 
we  went  up,   and  laying  a  regular  which    1    had   remaining  from  my 
train,  with  lexicon  and  grammar,  for  pocket  money,  seemed  to  me  sufBci- 
blowing  up  and  blasdng  (as  it  were)  ent  for  an  indefinite  length  of  time : 
any  difficulties  he  found  in  the  cho-  and  at  that  happy  age,  if  no  definite 
ruses ;  whilst  we  never  condescended  boundary  can  oe  assigned  to  one's 
to  open  our  books,  until  the  moment  power,  the  spirit  of  hope  and  plea- 
of  going  up,  and  were  generally  em-  sure  makes  it  virtually  infinite, 
ployed  m  writing  epigrams  upon  his        It  is  a  just  remark  of  Dr.  John- 
wig,  or  some  such  important  matter,  son's  (and  what  cannot  often  be  said 
My    two    class-fellows    were   poor,  of  his  remarks,  it  is  a  very  feeling 
and  dependant  for  their  future  pros-  one),   that  we  never  do  any  tlung 
pects  at  the  university,  on  the  re-  consciously  for    the    last    time    (of 
commendation  of  the  head-master :  things,  that  is,  which  we  have  Icsng 
but  I,  who  had  a  small  patrimonial  been  in  the  habit  of  doing)  without 
property,  the  income  of  which  wAs  sadness  of  heart.    This  truth  I  felt 
sufficient  to  support  me  at  college,  deeply,  when  I  came  to  leave         , 
wished    to   be   sent   thither  imme-  a  place  which  I«did  not  love,  and 
diately.     I  made  earnest  representa-  where  I  had  not  been  happy.     On 
tions  on  the  subject  to  my  guardians,  the  evening  before  I  left  — —  for 
but  all  to  no  purpoKe.      One,  who  ever,    1   grieved  when  the   ancient 
was  more  reasonable,  and  had  more  and     lofty     school-room    resounded 
knowledge  of  the  world  than  the  rest,  with  the  evening  service,  peribrmed 
lived  at  a  distance :  two  of  the  other  for  the  last  time  in  my  hearing ;  and 
three  resigned  all  their  authority  into  at  night,    when  the  muster-roll  of 
the  hands  of  the  fourth ;    and  this  names  was  called  over,    and  mine 
fourth  with  whom  I  had  to  negotiate,  (as  usual)  was  called  first,  I  stepped 
was  a  worthy  man,  in  his  way,  but  forward,    and,    passing    the    head- 
haughty,  obstinate,  and  intolerant  of  master,    who    was    standing  by,    I 
all  opposition  to  his  will.    After  a  bowed  to  him,  and  looked  earnestly 
certam  number  of  letters  and  per-  in  his  face,  thinking  to  myself,  *  He  is 
sonal  interviews,  I  found  that  I  had  old  and  infirm,  and  in  this  world  I 
nothing  to  hope  for,  not  even  a  com-  shall  not  see  him  again.'  I  was  right : 
promise   of   the   matter,    from    my  I  never  did  see  him  again,  nor  ever 
guardian :    unconditional  submission  shall.      He  looked  at  me  compla- 
was  what  he  demanded :  and  I  pre-  cently,    smiled   goodnaturedly,    re- 
pared   myself,   therefore,   for  other  turned  my  salutation  (or  ratherj  my 


▼aledlctioa),  and  we  parted  (thouffh  not  fail  to  have  ei\joyed  many  happy* 
he  kiiew  it  not)  for  ever.    1  could  hours  in  the  midst  of  general  dcjec- 
not  reverence  him  intellectually :  but  tion.    I  wept  as  I  looked  round  on 
he  had  been  uniformly  kind  to  me,  the  chair,  hearth,  writing-table,  and 
and  had   allowed  me  many  iudul-  other  £Bmiiliar  objects,  knowing  too 
gendes :  and  I  grieved  at  the  thought  certainly,  that  1  looked  upon  them 
of  the  mortification  I  should  inflict  for  the  last  time.     Whilst  I  write 
upon  him.  this,  it  is  eighteen  years  ago :  and 
The  morning  came,  which  was  to  yet,   at    this    moment,    I    see    dis- 
launch  me  into  the  world,  and  from  tinctly  as  if  it  were  yesterday,  the 
which  my  whole  succeeding  life  has,  lineaments  and  expression  of  the  ob- 
in    many    important  points,    taken  ject  on  which  1  iixed   my  parting* 
its  colouring.    I  lodged  in  the  head-  gaze :  it  was  a  picture  of  the  lovely 
master's  house,    and  liad  been  al«  ,  which  hwig  over  the  mantle- 
lowed,  from  my  first  entrance,  the  piece ;  the  eyes  auu  mouth  of  which 
indulgence  of  a  private  room,  which  were  so  beautiful,   and   the  whole 
I  us^  both  as  a  sleeping  room  and  countenance    so    radiant    with    be- 
as  a  study.     At  half  alter  three  I  niriiity,  and  divine  tranquillity,  that 
rose,  and  gazed  with  deep  emotion  I  had  a  thousand  times   laid  down 
at  the  ancient  towers  of , '  drest  my  pen,  or  my  book,  to  gather  con- 
in  earliest  light,'   and  beginning  to  solatlon  from  it,  as  a  devotee  firom 
crimson  with  the  radiant  lustre  of  a  his  patron  saint.    Whilst  1  was  yet 
cloudless  July  morning.     1  was  firm  gazing  upon  it,    the  deep  tones  of 
and  immo\'eable  in  my  piupose :  but  '  ■     '  ■  clock  proclaimed  that  it  was 
yet  agitated  by  anticipation  of  uncer-  four  o'clock.    I  went  up  to  the  pic- 
tain  danger  and  troubles ;  and,  if  I  turc,  kissed  it,  and  then  gently  walked 
could  have  foreseen  the  hurricane,  out,  and  closed  the  door  for  ever! 
and  perfect  hail-storm  of  affliction  —    —    —    —    —    —    — 

which  soon  fell  upon  me,  well  might  I  ^  So  blended  and  intertwisted  in  this 
have  been  agitated.  To  this  agi-  life  are  occasions  of  laughter  and  of 
tation  the  deep  peace  of  the  mom-*  tears,  that  I  cannot  yet  recal,  with* 
ing  presented  an  affecting  contrast,  out  smiling,  an  incident  which  oc- 
and  m  some  degree  a  medicine.  The  curred  at  that  time,  and  which  had 
silence  was  more  profowid  than  that  nearly  put  a  ston  to  the  immediate 
of  midnight :  and  to  me  the  silence  execution  of  my  plan.  1  had  a  trunk 
of  a  summer  morning  is  more  touch-  of  immense  weight ;  for,  besides  my 
ing  than  all  other  silence,  because,  clothes,  it  contained  nearly  all  my 
the  light  being  broad  and  strong,  as  li]>rary.  The  difficulty  was  to  get 
that  of  poon-oay  at  other  seasons  of  this  removed  to  a  carrier^s:  my  poooi  - 
the  year,  it  seems  to  differ  from  was  at  an  aerial  elevation  in  the 
perfect  day,  chiefly  because  man  is  house,  and  (what  was  worse)  the 
not  yet  abroad ;  and  thus,  the  peace  stair-case,  which  communicated  with 
of  nature,  and  of  4he  innocent  crea-  this  angle  of  the  building,  was  ao- 
tures  of  God,  seems  to  be  secure  and  cessible  only  by  a  gallery,  which 
deep,  only  so  long  as  the  presence  of  passed  the  head-master's  chamber- 
man,  and  his  restless  and  unquiet  door.  I  was  a  favourite  with  all  the 
^irit,are  not  there  to  trouble  itosanc-  servanta ;  and,  knowing  that  any  of 
tity.  I  dressed  myself,  took  my  hat  them  would  screen  me,  and  act  con- 
and  gloves,  and  lingen^  a  little  in  fidentially,  I  commmiicated  my  em- 
the  room.  For  the  last  year  and  a  barrassm^nt  to  a  groom  of  the  head- 
half  this  room  had  been  my  '  pensive  master's.  The  groom  swore  he 
citadel:'  here  I  had  read  and  studied  would  do  any  thing  I  wishe<l ;  and,- 
through  all  the  hours  of  night :  and,  when  the  time  arrived,  went  up 
though  true  it  was,  that  for  the  lat-  stairs  to  bring  the  tnuik  down.  This 
ter  part  of  this  time  I,  who  was  ^  feared  was  beyond  the  strength  of 
framed  for  love  and  gentle  afiec-  any  one  man :  however,  the  groom 
tions,  had  lost  my  gaiety  and  happi-  was  a  man — 

^jIron"ii!^'  m^^  .^A'  ^^''  ^/  W  Atlantean  rfioulders,  fit  to  bear 

^/^  ?h     I     1^  g"  wdian ;  yet,  ^^  weight  of  mighti«t  monardiies ; 

on  the  other  hand,  as  a  boy,  so  pas-  ^ 

sionately  fond  of  books,   and  dedi-  and  had  a  back  as  spacious  as  Salis- 

cated  to  untelleclual  pursuits,  I  could  bury   plain.     Accordingly    he  per^ 


1681.]]  Confi$tians  of  an  EngHsh  Ofium'Sakr,  tii^ 

sisted  10  hAntAng  down  the  trunk  ing  about  nine  plays  of  EurfpideSi  fat 

alone>  whilst  I  stood  waidng  at  the  the  other. 

foot  of  the  last  flighty  in  anxiety  for        It  had  b^en  mj  intentlcm  orfgm^llV' 

the  event.    For  some  tune  1  lieard  to  proceed  to  Westmoreland,  both 

him  descending  with  slow  and  firm  from  the  love  I  bore  to  that  county, 

steps:    but,  unfortunately,  from  his  and    on    other   personal    accounts, 

trepidation,  as    he    drew   near   the  Accident,  however,  gave  a  different 

dangerous    quarter,    within    a    fow  direction  to  my   wanderings,  and  I 

steps  of  the  gallery,  his  foot  slipped;  bent  my  steps  towards  North  Wales, 
ana  the  mighty  burden  falling  nrom        After  wandering  about  for  some 

his  shoulders,  gained  such  increase  time    in    Denbighshire,   Merioneth- 

of   impetus  at    each   step    of    the  shire,  and  Caernarvonshire,    I  took 

descent,  that,  on  reaching  the  hot-  lodgings  in  a  small  neat  house  in 

tom,  it  trundled,   or  rather  leaped,  B-- — .     Here  I  might  have   staid 

right  across,  with  the  noise  of  twenty  with  great  comfort  for  many  weeks  ; 

devils,   against  the  very   bed-room  for,  provisions  were  cheap  at  B        ^ 

door    of   the  archididascalus.      My  from  the  scarcity  of  other  markets 

first  thought  was,  that  all  was  lost ;  for  the  surplus  produce  of  a  wide 

and  that  my  only  chance  for  execut-  agricultural  district.     An  accident^ 

ing  a  retreat    was   to  sacrifice  my  however,  in  which,  perhaps,  no  of- 

baggage.     However,  on  reflection,  I  fence  was  designed,  drove  me  out  to 

determined  to  abide  the  issue.     The  wander  again.    1  know  not  wheUier 

groom   was   in   the   utmost   alarm,  my  reader  may  have  remarked,  but 

both  on    his  own  account  and  on  /   have    often    remarked,   that    the 

mine :  but,  in  spite  of  this,  so  irre-  proudest  class  of  people  in  England 

sistibly  had  the  sense  of  the  ludio-  (or  at  any  rate,   the   class    whose 

reus,  in    tliis    unhappy    coniretems,  pride  is  most  apparent)  are  the  &•« 

taken  possession  of  his  fancy,  that  milies  of  bishops.     Noblemen,  and 

he  sang  out  a  long,  loud,  and  canor-  their    children,    carry    about   with 

ous  peal  of  laughter,  that  might  have  them,  in  their  very  tides,  a  sufficient 

wakened  the  Seven  Sleepers.    At  the  notification    of   their    rank.      Nay, 

sound  of  this  resonant  merriment,  with-  their  very  names  (and  this  applies 

in  the  very  ears  of  insidted  authority,  also  to  the  children  of  many  untitled 

1  could  not  myself  forbear  joining  in  houses)  are  often,  to  the  English  eat, 

it:  sululued  to  this,  not  so  much  by  adequate  exponents  of  high  birth,  or 

the  unhappy  Hourderie  of  the  trunk,  descent.     Sackville,  Manners,  Fitz- 

as  by  tne  effect  it  had  upon  the  roy,  Paulet,  Cavendish,   and  scores 

groom.     We  both  expectea,    as  a  of  others,  tell  their  own  tale.    6uch 

matter  of  course,   that  Dr.   ■  persons,  therefore,  find  every  where 

would  sally  out  of  his  room :  for,  in  a  due  sense  of  their  claims  already 

general,  if  but  a  mouse  stirred,  he  established,  except  amoriff  those  who 

sprang  out  like  a  mastiff  from  his  are  ignorant  of  the  world,  by  virtue 

kennel.     Strange   to  say,    however,  of  their  own    obscurity :    '  Not    to 

on  this  occasion,  when  the  noise  of  know    theniy   argues  one's    self  un- 

laughter  had  ceased,  no  sound,  or  known.'    Their  manners  take  a  suit- 

nisUing  even,  was  to  be  heard  in  the  able  tone  and  colouring ;    and,  for 

bed-room.    Dr.  — —  had  a  painfid  once  that  they  find  it  necessary  to 

complaint,  which,   sometimes  keep-  impress  a  sense  of  their  consequence 

ing  him  awake,  made  his  sleep,  per-  upon  others,  they  meet  with  a  thou- 

haps,  when  it  did  come,  the  deeper,  sand  occasions  for  moderating  and 

Gathering  courage  from  the  silence,  tem])ering  this  sense  by  acts  of  cour* 

the  groom  hoisted  his  burden  again,  teous  condescension.    With  the  fa- 

and  accomplished  the  remainder  of  milies  of  bishops  it   is  otherwise: 

his    descent    without    accident.      I  with  them  it  is  aU  up-hill  work,  to 

waited  until  I  saw  the  trunk  placed  make  known  their  pretensions :   foi' 

on  a  wheel-barrow,  and  on  its  road  the  proportion  of  the  episcopal  bench, 

to  the  carrier's :  then,  *  with  Provi-  taken  from  noble  families,  is  not  at 

dence  my  guide/  I  set  off  on  foot, —  any  time  very  large ;  and  Uie  succes- 

carrying  a  small  parcel,  with  some  sion  to  these  dignities  is  so  rapid, 

articles  of  dress,  under  my  arm;  a  that  the  public  ear  seldom  has  time 

favourite  English  poet  in  one  pocket;  to  become  familiar  with  them,  im- 

and  a  small  ISmo.  volume,  contain-  less  where  they  are  connected  with 


aOO  Oot^kaioiu  qf  <m  EngUsh  Opium^EaUr.  C^^iC- 

aottie  UteraiT  reputadon.  Hence  it  SngUnd^and  of  English  swindlerSj 
igy  that  the  children  of  bishops  carrj  irunning  away  jfrom  their  debts  to 
about  with  them  au  austere  and  re-  the  Isle  of  Man^  are  likely  to  take 
pulsiFe  Bjr,  indicative  of  claims  not  this  place  in  their  route.'  This  advice 
generally  acknowledged,  a  sort  of  was  certainly  not  without  reasonable 
noU  tne  tangere  manner,  nervously  grounds:  but  -rather  fitted  to  be 
iili|)rehen^ve  of  too  familiar  ap-  stored  up  for  Mrs.  Betty's  private 
proach,  and  shrinking  with  the  sen-  meditations,  than  specially  reported 
sitiveness  of  a  gouty  man,  from  all  to  me.  "What  followed,  however^ 
contact  with  the  6t  iroXXw.  Doubtless,  was  somewhat  worse : — '  Oh,  my 
a  powerful  understanding,  or  un-  lord/  answered  my  landlady  (ac- 
usiud  goodness  of  nature,  will  pre-  cording  to  her  own  representation 
serve  a  man  from  such  weakness :  of  the  matter),  '  I  really  don't  think 
but,  in  general,  the  truth  of  my  re-  this  young  gentleman  is  a  swindler  ; 
presentation  will  be  acknowledged:  because  'You  don't  think 
pride,  if  not  of  deeper  root  in  such  me  a  swindler?'  said  I,  interrupt- 
nunilies,  appears,  at  least,  more  upon  inr  her,  m  a  tumult  of  indignation : 
the  surface  of  their  manners.  This  '  for  the  future  I  shall  spare  you  the 
spirit  of  manners  naturally  commimi-  trouble  of  thinking  about  it.'  And 
cates  itself  to  their  domestics,  and  o-  without  delay  I  prepared  for  my  de- 
ther  dependants.  Now,  my  landlady  parture.  Some  concessions  the  good 
had  been  a  lady's  maid,  or  a  nurse,  in  woman  seemed  disposed  to  make : 
the  family  of  the  Bishop  of ;-and  but  a  harsh  and  contemptuous  ex- 
bad  but  lately  married  away  and  pression,  which  I  fear  that  I  applied 
'  settled '  (as  such  people  express  it)  to  the  learned  dignitary  hunself, 
for  life.  In  a  little  town  like  B  ,  roused  her  indignation  in  turn :  and 
merely  to  have  lived  in  the  bishop's  reconciliation  then  became  impossi- 
funily,  conferred  some  distinction :  ble.  I  was,  indeed,  greatly  irritated 
and  mv  good  landlady  had  rather  at  the  bishop's  having  suggested  any 
more  than  her  share  of  the  pride  I  grounds  of  suspicion,  however  re- 
have  noticed  on  that  score.  What  motely,  against  a  person  whom  he 
'  my  lord '  said,  and  what '  my  lord'  had  never  seen :  and  I  thought  of 
did,  how  useftil  he  was  in  parlia-  letting  him  know  my  mind  in  Greek : 
ment,  and  how  indispensable  at  Ox-  which,  at  the  same  time  that  it  would 
ford,  formed  the  daily  burden  of  her  furnish  some  presumption  that  I  was 
talk.  All  this  I  bore  very  well :  for  no  swindler,  would  also  (I  hoped) 
I  was  too  good-natured  to  laugh  in  compel  the  bishop  to  reply  in  the 
any  body's  face,  and  I  could  make  same  language;  in  whicn  case,  I 
an  ample  allowance  for  the  garru-  doubted  not  to  make  it  appear,  that 
lity  of  an  old  servant.  Of  necessity,  if  I  was  not  so  rich  as  his  lordship, 
however,  I  must  have  appeared  in  I  was  a  far  better  Grecian.  Calmer 
her  eyes  very  inadequately  impressed  thoughts,  however,  drove  this  boyish 
with  the  bishop's  unportance :  and,  design  out  of  my  mind :  for  I  consi- 
perhaps,  to  punish  me  for  my  in-  dered,  that  the  bishop  was  in  the 
difiference,  or  possibly  by  accident,  right  to  counsel  an  old  servant; 
she  one  day  repeated  to  me  a  con-  that  he  could  not  have  designed 
versadon  in  which  I  was  indirectly  that  his  advice  should  be  reported 
a  party  concerned.  She  had  been  to  me;  and  that  the  same  coarse- 
to  the  palace  to  pay  her  respects  to  ness  of  mind,  which  had  led  Mrs. 
the  family;  and,  dinner  being  over,  Betty  to  repeat  the  advice  at  all, 
was  summoned  into  the  dinuig-room.  might  have  coloured  it  in  a  way  more 
In  giving  an  account  of  her  house-  agreeable  to  her  own  style  of  think.* 
hold  economy,  she  happened  to  men-  ing,  than  to  the  actual  expressiona 
tion,  that  she  had  let  her  apart-  of  Uie  worthy  bishop. 
noents.  Thereupon  the  good  bishop  I  left  the  lodgings  the  very  same 
(it  seemed)  had  taken  occasion  to  hour ;  and  this  turned  out  a  very  im- 
caution  her  as  to  her  selection  of  fortunate  occurrence  for  me:  be- 
inmates :  '  for,'  said  he,  '  you  must  cause,  living  henceforward  at  inns^ 
recollect,  Betty,  that  thb  place  is  in  I  was  drained  of  my  money  very  ra- 
the high  road  to  the  Heaa ;  so  that  pidly.  In  a  fortnight  I  was  reduced 
multitudes  of  Irish  swindlers,  run-  to  short  allowance ;  that  is,  I  could 
ning  away    from   their  debts   into  allow  myself  only  one  meal  a-day. 


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From  the  keen  appetite  produced  by  Blfteot  with  proper  rtaSdenlf  prida. 
congtant  exercise^  and  mountain  air,  I  contrived  lo  to  temper  my  expreii* 
acting  on  a  youthful  stomach,  I  toon  sious,  as  to  reconcile  the  mtimi* 
began  to  suffer  greatly  on  this  slen*  tion  of  both  feelings :  and  tney  Weing 
der  regimen  ;  for  the  single  meal,  as  .much  pleased  with  the  way  ia 
which  1  could  venture,  to  order,  was  which  I  had  expressed  their'thougfi^ 
coffee  or  tea.  Even  this,  however,  as  (in  their  simplicity)  they  wave 
was  at  length  withdrawn :  and  after*  astonished  at  my  having  so  readihf 
wards,  so  long  as  I  remained  in  discovered  thein.  The' reception  pA 
Wides,  I  subsisted  either  on  black*  meets  with  from  the  women  c^  si 
berries,  hips,  hawiB,  &c.  or  on  the  fiimily,  generally  detisrmines  thetfe* 
casual  hospitalities  which  I  now  and  nor  of  one's  whole  entertainmeift. 
then  received,  in  return  for  such  lit-  In  this  case,  I  had  dlflucharged  itKV 
tie  services  as  I  had  an  opportunity  confidential  duties  as  secretory,  ao 
of  rendering.  Sometimes  I  wrote  let-  much  to  the  general  satisfaction,  pts^ 
ters  of  business  for  cottagers,  who  haps  also  amusing  them  with  vtf 
happened  to  have  relatives  in  Livei^  conversation,  that  I  was  pressed  t6 
pool,  or  m  London :  more  often  I  stay  with  a  cordiality  which  I  hAd 
wrote  love-letters  to  their  sweet-  little  inclination  to  resist  T  slept 
hearts  for  young  women  who  had  with  the  brothers,  the  only  unoceu* 
lived  as  servants  in  Shrewsbury,  or  pied  bed  standing  in  the  apartment 
other  towns  on  the  English  border,  of  the  young  women :  but  in  all 
On  all  such  occasions  1  gave  great  other  pohits,  they  treated  m^  with 
satisfacdon  to  my  humble  friends,  a  respect  not  usually  paid  to  piirsei 
and  was  generally  treated  with  hos-  as  light  aa  mine;  as  if  my  scnolai^ 
pitality  :  and  once,  in  particular,  ship  were  sufficient  evidence^  tfaAt  I 
near  Uie  village  of  Llan-y-styndw  was  of  *'  gentle  blocfd."  Thuf  I 
(or  some  such  name),  in  a  seques-  lived  with  them  for  three  days,  and 
tered  part  of  Merionethshire,  I  was  great  part  of  a  fourth :  and,- from  the 
entertained  for  upwards  of  three  undiminished  kindness  which  they 
days  by  a  family  of  young  people,  continued  to  show  me>  I  believe  1 
with  an  affectionate  and  mtemal  might  have  staid -with  them  up  to 
kindness  that  left  an  impression  this  time,  if  their  power  had  cor- 
upon  my  heart  not  yet  impaired,  responded  with  their  wishes.  On 
The  family  consisted,  at  Uiat  time,  the  last  morning,  however^  I  per* 
df  four  sisters,  and  three  brothers,  ceived  upon  their  countenances,  at 
all  grown  up,  and  all  remarkable  for  they  sate  at  breakfast,  the  expires* 
elegance  ana  delicacy  of  manners,  sion  of  soine  unpleasant  communica« 
^  much  beauty,  and  so  much  n4-  tion  wluch  was  at  hand;  and  soon 
tive  good-breeding  and  refinement,  after  one  of  the  brothers  explained 
I  do  not  remember  to  have  seen  be-  to  me,  that  their  parents  haa  gone> 
fpre  or  since  in  any  cottage,  except  the  day  before  my  arrival,  to  an 
once  or  twice  in  Westmorland  and  annual  meeting  of  Methodists,  held 
Devonshire.  They  spoke  English:  at  Caernarvon,  and  were  that  day 
an  accomplishment  not  often  met  expected  to  return ;  *'  and  if  they 
with  in  so  many  members  of  one  should  not  be  so  civil  as  they  ought 
family,  especially  in  villages  remote  to  be,"  he  begged,  on  the  part  of  all 
from  the  high-road.  Here  I  wrote,  the  young  people,  that  I  would  not 
on-  my  first  introduction,  a  letter  take  it  ami^s.  The  parents  returned, 
about  prize-money,  for  one  of  the  with  churlish  faces,  and  **  Dym 
brothers,  who  had  served  on  board  Saaenach"  (no  Englhh),  in  answer 
an  English  man  of  war;  and  more  to  aill  my  addresses.  I  saw  how 
privately,  two  love-letters  for  two  of  matters  stood ;  and  so,  taking  an 
the  sisters.  They  were  both  inte-  affectionate  leave  of  my  kind  and 
resting  looking  girls,  and  one  of  un-  interesting  young  hosts,  I  went 
common  lovelmess.  In  the  midst  of  my  way.  For,  though  they  spoke 
their  confusion  and  blushes,  whilst  warmly  to  their  parents  in  my  be- 
dictating,  or  rather  giving  me  gene-  half,  and  often  excused  the  manner 
ral  instructions,  it  did  not  require  any  of  the  old  people,  by  sa3ring,  that  it 
great  penetration  to  discover  that  was  '^  only  their  way,"  yet  I  easily 
what  they  vinshcd  was,  tliat  their  understood  that  my  talent  for  writ- 
letters  should  be  as  kind  as  was  con-  ing  love-letters  would  do  as  little  to 
Vol.  IV.  Z 


808  (^nf$$noM  of  an  English  Optum^EfdOTh  C^^BfA. 

recommend  me,  with  two  grave fieza-  household   or   eetabllahment  in  it;; 

Smarian  Welsh  Methodists,   as  my  nor    any   funuture,   indeed^    except 

reek  Sapphics  or  Alcaics :  and  what  a  table^  and  a  few  chairs.     But  I 

had  been  hospitality,  when  offered  found,   on  taking  possession  of  xaj 

to  me  with  the  gracious  courtesy  of  new  quarters,  that  the  house  already 

my  young  friends,  would  become  cha-  contained  one  single  inmate,  a  poor 

rity,  when  connected  with  the  harsh  friendless  child,  apparently  ten  years 

demeanour  of  these  old  people.    Cer-  old ;  but  she  seemed  hunger-bitten  ^ 

tjdnly,   Mr.  Shelley  is  right  in  his  and    suiferings    of  that    sort  oftea 

qotions  about  old  age :  unless  power-  make  children  look  older  than  they 

fiUly  counteracted    by    all   sorts  of  are.      From    this    forlorn    child    | 

apposite  agencies,  it  is  a  miserable  learned,  that  she  had  slept  and  lived 

corrupter  and  blighter  to  the  genial  there  aJoue,  for  some  time  before  I 

charities  of  the  human  heart.  came :  and  great  joy  the  poor  crea* 

Soon   after  this,   I  contrived,  by  ture  expressed,  when  she  found  that 

means  which  I  must  omit  for  want  I  was,  in  future,  to  be  her  compa- 

<^  room,  to  transfer  myself  to  Lon-  nion  Uurough  the  hours  of  darkness, 

don.    And  now  began  the  latter  and  The  house  was  large ;  and,  from  the 

fiercer  stafe  of  my  long-sufferings;  want  of  furniture,  the  noise  of  the 

without  usmg  a  disproportionate  ex-  rats  made  a  prodigious  echoing  on 

pression   I  niight  say,  of  my  agony,  the    spacious   stair-case    and   hall ; 

For  I  now  suffered,  for  upwards  of  and,   amidst  the  real  fleshly  ills  c^ 

sixteen  weeks,  the  physical  anguish  col^  and,  I  fear,   hunger,   the  for-* 

of  hunger  in  various  degrees  of  in-  saken  child  had  found  leisure  to  suf- 

tensity ;  but  as  bitter,  perhaps,  as  fer  still  more  (it  appeared)  from  the 

ever   any    human  being   can  have  self-created  one  of  ghosts.     I  pro- 

■lifl&red    who   has  survived  it     I  mised  her  protection  against  all  ghorts 

would    not    needlessly    harass   mv  whatsoever :  but,  alas !  I  could  ofSkx 

reader's  feelings,  by  a  detail  of  all  her  no  other  assistance.  We  lay  upon 

that  I  endured :  for  extremities  such  the  floor,  with  a  bundle  of  cuned 

•8  these,  under  any  circumstances  law  papers  for  a  pillow :  but  with  no 

of  heaviest    misconduct    or   guilt,  other  covering  than  a  sort  of  large 

cannot   be   contemplated,    even   in  horseman's  cloak:  afterwards,  how* 

description,    without  a  ruefid  pity  ever,  we  discovered,  in  a  garret,  an 

that  is  painful  to  the  natural  good-  old  sopha-cover,  a  small  piece   of 

ness  of  the  human  heart.     Let  it  rug,  aud  some  fragments  of  other 

suffice,  at  least  on  this  occasion,  to  articles,  which  added  a  little  to  our 

say,  that  a  fiew  fragments  of  bread  warmth.    The  poor  child  crept  close 

from  the  breakfast-table  of  one  indi-  to  me  for  warmth,  aud  for  security 

vidua!  (who  supposed  me  to  be  ill,  agdnst  her  ghostly  enemies.    When 

but  did  not   know  of  my  being  in  I  was  not  more  than  usually  ill,  I 

utter  want),  and  these  at  uncertain  took  her  into  my  arms,  so  Uiat,  in 

Intervals,  constituted  my  whole  sup-  general,    she    was  tolerably  warm, 

port.    During  the    former    part   of  and  often  slept  when  I  could  not: 

my  sufferings  (that  is,  generally  in  for,  during  the  last  two  months  of 

Wales,  and  always  for  uie  first  two  my  sufferings,  I  slept  much  in  the 

months  in  London)  I  was  houseless,  day-time,  and  was  apt  to  fall  into 

and  very  seldom  uept  under  a  rodf.  transient  dozings  at  ail  hours.    But 

To   this   constant   exposure  to  the  my  sleep  distressed  me  more  than 

open  air  I  ascpbe  it  mainly,  that  I  my  watching :  for,  besides  the  tu- 

did  not  suik    under    my   torments,  multuousness  of  my  dreams  (which 

Latterly,  however,  when  colder  and  were   only   not  so  awfid  as  those 

more  inclement  weather   came  on,  which  I  shall  have  to  describe  here- 

and    when,  from  the  length  of  my  after  as  produced  by  opium),  my 

sufferings,  I  had  begun  to  sink  into  sleep  was  never  more  than  what  is 

s  more  Tangubhing  condition,  it  was,  called   dog-sleep;  so    that  I   could 

no  doubt,  fortunate  for  me,  that  the  hear  mysdf  moaning,  and  was  often, 

same    person    to    whose  breakfast-  as  it  seemed  to  me,  wakened  sud- 

tsble  I  had  access,  allowed  me  to  deidy  by  my  own  voice ;  and,  about 

sleep  m  a  large  unoccupied  house,  this  time,  a  hideous  sensation  began 

of  which  he  was  tenant.     Unoccu-  to  haunt  me  as  soon  as  I  fell  into  a 

pie4«    I    eall  it,  for  there  was  no  slumber,   which  has  since  returned 


]  881 .]]  Comfidnons  of  an  EngRsh  Ophm^Eaier:  S<^ 

upon  me,  at  diiTercnt  periods  of  my  usuaHy  was  his  final  depdrturt  for 

life,  viz.  a  sort  of  twitching  (I  know  the  night    Whether  this  child  were 

not  where,  but  apparently  about  the  an  illegidmate  daughter  of  Mr.  — > 

region  of  the  stomach)^  which  com-  or  only  a  servant,  1  could  not  ascier- 

peUed  me  violently  to  throw  out  my  t^n ;  she  did  not  herself  know ;  but 

ieet  for  the  sake  of  relieving  it.   This  certainly  she  was  treated  altogether 

sensation  coming  on  as  soon  as  I  be-  as  a  menial  servant.    No  sooner  did 

gan  to  sleep,  and  the  effort  to  relieve  Mr. make  his  appearance,  than 

it  constantly  awaking  me,  at  length  she  went  below  stau«,  brushed  Uf 

I  slept  only  from  exhaustion  ;  and  shoes,  coat,  &c. ;  and,  except  wheu 

from  mcreasing  weakness  (as  I  said  she  was  summoned  to  run  an  errand* 

before)  I  was  constantly  falling  a-  she  never  emerged  from  the  dismal 

sleep,  and  constantlv  awaking.  Mean-  Tartarus  of  the  kitchens,  &c.  to  the 

time,  the  master  of  the  house  some-  upper  air,  until  my  welcome  biodf 

times  came  m  upon  us  suddenly,  and  at  night  called  up  her  little  trembling 

very   early,  sometimes  not  till  ten  footsteps  to  the  front  door.    Of  her 

o'clock,  sometimes  not  at  alL    He  life  during  the  dav-time,  however,  I 

was  in  constant  fear  of  bailiffs :  im-  knew  little  but  what  I  ^thered  frond 

pra^riDg  on  the  plan  of  Cromwell,  her  own  account  at  nighty  for,  a4 

every  night  he  slept  in  a  different  soon  as  the  hours  of  business  conn 

quarter  of  London ;  and  I  observed  menced,  I   saw   that   my   absence 

tnat    he  never  failed   to  examine,  would  be  acceptable;  and,  in  ge» 

through  a  private  window,  the  ap-  neral,  therefore,  I  went  off  and  sattf 

pearance  ot  those  who  knocked  at  in  tbe  P^^   ^   elsewhere,   imtll 

the  door,  before  he  would  allow  it  to  niffht-fall. 

be  opened.  He  breakfasted  alone:  But  who,  and  what,  meantiBMv 
indeed,  his  tea  equips^  would  hard-  was  the  master  of  the  house  himself  r 
ly  have  admitted  of  his  hazarding  an  Reader,  he  was  one  of  those  anoma-^ 
invitation  to  a  second  person — any  lous  practitioners  in  lower  depart^ 
more  than  the  quantity  of  esculent  ments  of  the  law,  who— what  shalK 
materiel,  which,  for  the  most  part,  I  say  P — who,  on  prudential  reasons^- 
was  little  more  than  a  roU,  or  a  few  or  from  necessity,  deny  themsdve^ 
biscuits,  which  he  had  bought  on'  all  indulgence  in  the  luxury  of  too 
his  road  from  the  place  where  he  had  delicate  a  conscience:  (a  periphrad^ 
slept  Or,  if  he  had  asked  a  partv,  which  might  be  abridged  consider-' 
as  I  once  learnedly  and  facetiously  ably,  but  that  I  leave  to  the  readei^* 
observed  to  him— ^the  several  mem-'  taste:)  in  many  walks  of  life,  a  con*' 
bers  of  it  must  have  stood  in  the  re-  science  is  a  more  expensive  incunW' . 
lation  to  each  other  fnot  sate  in  any  branoe,  than  a  wife  or  a  carriage;' 
relation  whatever)  or  succession,  as  and  just  as  people  talk  of  ''  Isybig- 
the  metaphysicians  have  it,  and  not  down"  their  carriages,  so  I  suppose* 
of  co-existence;  in  the  relation  of  my  friend,  Mr.  '  had  "laid- 
the  parts  of  time,  and  not  of  the  down "  his  conscience  for  a  time  ;• 
parts  of  space.  During  his  break-  meaning,  doubtless,  to  resume  it  as- 
fast,  I  generally  contrived  a  reason  soon  as  ne  could  afford  it.  The  inner^ 
for  lounging  in  ;  and,  with  an  air  of  economy  of  such  a  man's  daily  htb' 
as  much  indifference  as  1  could  as-  wovdd  present  a  most  strange  picture^' 
sume,  took  up  such  fragments  as  he  if  I  could  ^allow  myself  to  amuse  the' 
had  left — sometimes,  indeed,  there  reader  at  his  expense.  Even  with- 
were  none  at  all.  In  doing  this,  I  my  limited  opportunities  for  obsenr* 
committed  no  robbery  except  upon  iiw  what  went  on,  I  saw  many  scene* ' 
the  man  himself,  who  was  thus  o-  of^  London  intrigues,  and  complex ' 
bilged  (I  believe)  now  and  then  to  chicanery,  «  cycle  ^  and  epicycle,' 
send  out  at  noon  for  an  extra  bis-  orb  in  orb,"  at  which  I  someumei; 
cuit ;  for,  as  to  the  poor  child,  she  smile  to  this  day-^and  at  wliich  't- 
was never  admitted  into  his  study  smiled  then,  in  spite  of  my  misery, 
(if  I  may  give  that  name  to  his  chief  My  situation,  however,  at  that  tinier' 
(lepositarv  of  parchments,  law  writ-  gave  me  little  experience,  in  my  owii« 
iugs,  &C.)  ;  that  room  was  to  her  Uie^  person,  of  any  qualities  in  Mr.— ^'e' 
Blue-beard  room  of  the  house,  being  character  but  such  as  did  him  ho- 
regularly  locked  on  his  departure  to  nour ;  and  of  his  whole  strange  com- 
dinner,    about    six    o'clock,    which  position,  I  must  for«4t  ev^t^  \^»% 


30i                       OmfeimnM  of  an  English  OjmiM-JSaler.  ES<BP^ 

but  that  towards  me  he  wat  obliging^  there  was  at  that  time^  whom  I  have 

and,  to  the  extent  of  hSj  power,  ge-  dnoe  sought  to  trace  with  far*  deeper 

nenMas.  earnestness,  and  with  fsa  deeper  aoi^ 

That  power  wlU  not,  hideed,  verr  row  at  my  fiuhure.  This  person  was 
exteaaiv^e ;  however,  in  common  with  a  young  woman,  ahd  one  of  that  im^ 
the  rats,  I  sate  rent  fiee;  and,  as  happy  class  who  subsist  upon  the 
Dr.  Johnson  has  recorded,  that  he  wages  of  prostitutioh^  I  feel  no 
never  but  once  in  his  life  had  as  shame,  nor  have  any  reason  to  &el 
much  watt-fmit  as  he  could-eat,  so  it,  in  avowing,  that  I  was  then  on 
lei  me  be  grateful,  that  on  that  sin-  ^niliar  and  friendly  terms  with  many 
gle  occasion  I  had  as  large  a  choice  women  in  that  unfortunate  condition, 
of  apartments  in  a  London  mansion  The  reader  needs  neither  smile  at  thisr 
as  I  could  possibly  desire.  £xoept  avowal,  nor  frown.  For^  not  to  re-r 
tbe  Blue-beard  room,  which  the  poor  mind  my  classical  readers  of  theold" 
child  believed  to  be  haunted,  all  Latin  proverb—-^&'iitfOr«iv,'&c.,  it 
others,  from  the  attics  to  the  cellars,  aiay  well  be  supposed  thatin  the  ex- 
were  at  our  service ;  ''  the  world  was  Isting  state  of  my  purse,  my  connex- 
all  before  us ;  **  and  we  pitched  our  ion  with  such  women  could  not  have 
lent  for  the  night  in  any  spot  we  been  an  impure -one.  But  the  truth  is, 
chose.  Thia  house  I  have  already  that  at  no  time  of  my  life  have  I  beeii- 
described  as  a  Isr^e  one ;  it  stands  a  person  to  hold  myself  poUuted  by 
ia  a  cons|ttcuous  situation,  and  in  a  the  touch  or  approach  of  any  creaturcr 
W)di-imown  part  of  London.  Many  that  wore  a  numan  shape:  on  the 
of  my  readers  will  have  passed  it,  I  contrary,  from  my  veiT  earliest  youth' 
doubt  not,  within  a  few  hours  of  it  baa  been  my  pride  to  converse 
'neadiiig  this.  For  myself,  I  never  familiarly,  more  SocrtUico,  with  all 
fiul  to  visit  it  when  buauess  draws  human  beings,  man,  woman,  and  clald, 
me  to  London ;  about  ten  o'clock,  that  chance  might  fling  in  my  way : 
Ihia  very  night,  August  15,  1881,  a  practice  wMch  is  friendly  to  the 
Iking  my  bifth^Lay-->I  turned  aside  kaowledgeof  human  nature,  to  good 
fiom  my  eveniag  walk,  down  Ox-  feelings,  and  to  that  frankness  of  ad- 
fKd-atreet,  purposely  to  take  a  glance  dicas  which  becomes  a  man  who 
at  it :  it  is  now  occujued  by  a  re-  would  be  thought  a  philosopher.  For 
flpectable  femily ;  and,  by  the  lights  a  philosopl^r  ^oula  not  see  with  the 
lo  the  front  diawing-rooai,  I  ehserr-  eyes  of  the  poor  limitary  creature 
ed  a  domestic  party,  assembled  per-  calling  himself  a  man  of  the  world, 
haps  at  tea,  and  apparently  chemil  and  nlled  with  narrow  and  self- 
aodgay.  Marvellous  contrast  in  my  regardhig  prgudices  of  birth  and 
eyes  to  the  darkness-— oold — silenoe  emu^on,  but  diould  look  upon  him- 
— ond  desolation  of  that  same  house  self  as  a  Catholic  creature^  and  as 
o^;bteett  yean  ago,  when  its  nightly  ataading  in  aa  equal  rieladoa  to  high 
occupants  were  one  famishing  acho-  aad  low— to  educated  and  unedu-^ 
lar,  and  a  n^g^ected  child.— Her,  by  oated«  to  the  griilty  and  the  innocent. 
tbe  bye,  in  wer  years,  I  vainly  en-  Bc^  myself  at  that  time  of  necessity 
deavourcd  to  trace.  Apart  from  her  apenpatedc,or  a  walkerof  thestreet^ 
situation,  she  was  not  what  would  I  naturally  fell  in  more  fr«quantij 
be  called  an  iateresUng  child :  she  with  those  female  peripatetics  who 
was  neither  pretty,  nor  quick  in  tfn-  art  technically  called  Streetwalkers. 
4entaadtug,  nor  remarkably  plearing  Many  of  these  women  had  occasion- 
io  mamiers.  But,  thaidL  God !  even  ally  taken  my  part  against  watchmen 
io  those  years  I  seeded  not  the  em-  who  wished  to  drive  me  off  the  steps 
beUishatents  of  novel-^accessaiies  to  of  hauses  where  I  was  sitting.  But 
conciliate  my  afleetions  ;  plain  hti-  one  amongst  them,  the  one  on  whose 
Kanuatttie,  In  its  hnrobl^t  aadmoat  account  I  nave  at  all  introduced  this 
Ibomely  apparel,  was  enough  far  me:  sul^ect — yet  no !  let  me  not  class 

aad  I  loved  the  duU  because  she    thee.  Oh  noble  minded  Ann- ^,with 

was  my  partner  ia  wretchednesa.    If  that  order  of  women ;  let  me  find,  if 

rile  is  now  living,  she  is  probably  a  it  be  possible,  some  gentler  name  to 

mother,  with  children  of  her  own;  designate  the  condition  of  her  to  whooe 

but,  aa  I  have  said,  I  could  never  bounty  and  compassion,  ministering 

Ixaoe  her.  to  ray  necesuties  when  all  the  world 

This  I  regret,  but  another  person  had  forsaken  me,  I  owe  it  that  I  am 


^^fl  -U  Confisskms  tf  on  EngiUh  OpUim^Feiet>  SOB 

at  this  tfme  allFe.  —  For  manr  weeks  ter  a  dar  when  I  had  felt  more  than 
1  had  walked  at  nights  with  this  poor  usuallj  ill  and  iiihrt>  I  requested  her 
friendless  girl  up  and  down  Oxford  to  turn  off  with  me  hito  %<mo  Squares 
Btreet>  or  had  rested  with  her  on  thkher  we  went;  and  we  sate  down 
eteps  and  under  the^ihelterof  porticos,  on  the  steps  of  alionse,  which^  to  thia 
fittie  cmild  not  be  so  old  as  -myself:  hour,  I  never  pass  without  a  pangaf 
she  told  roe,  sideed, 'that she  h^i^not  grief,  and  an  inner  act  of  hemage  to 
completed  her  sixteenth  year.  By  such  the  spirit  of  that  unhappy  girl,  in  me* 
questions  as  my  interest  about  her  mory  of  the  noble  action  which  she 
«rompted,4liad gradually  drawnforth  there  performed.    4(udden)y,  as  w% 
her  sunple  history.   Hers  was. a  case  sate,  I  grew  much  worse:  1  had  baoi 
of  ordinary  occurrence  (as  1  have  leaning  my  head  against  her  bosom; 
since  had  reason  t&thiuk),  and  one  in  and  au  at  once  I  sank  from  her  anna 
which,  if  London  beneficence   had  and  fell  backwards  on  the  steps.  From 
better   adapted  its  arranffments  .to  the  sensations  I  then  had,  1  felt  in 
meet  it,  the  power  of  the  law  might  iimer  conviction  of  the  tireliest  kind 
4)ftener  be  interposed  to  protect,  and  that  without  some  powerful  and  re- 
to  arenge.  But  the  stream  of  London  viving  stimulus,  1  should  either  bava 
charity  flows  in  a  channel  which,  died  on  the  spot— or  should  at  least 
•though  deep  and  mighty,  is  yet  noise-  hare  sunk  to  a  pmnt  of  exhaustion 
4ess  and  underground ;  not  obvious  or  from  which  all  refiscent  under  my 
readily  accessible  to  poor  houseless  friendless  circumstances  would  soon 
wanderers :  and  it  cannot  be  denied  hare  1)ecome  hopeless.   Then  k  was^ 
that  the  outside  air  and  frame-work  at  this  crisis  of  my  fate ;  that  my  poor 
of  London  society  is  harsh,  cruel,  and  orphan  companion  —  who  had  herself 
repulsive.    In  any  case,  however,  I  met  with  little  but  injuries  m  this 
saw  that  part  of  her  injuries  miglK  world  —  btretclied    out    a     saving 
easily  have  been  redressed:   and  I  hand  to  me.  Uttering  a  cry  of  terror^ 
urged  her  often  and  eamestiv  to  lay  but  without  a  moment's  delay,  she  ran 
her  complaint  before  a  magistrate:  oif  into  Oxford  Street,  and  in  lesstime 
friendless  as  she  was,  I  assured  her  than  could  be  imagined,  returned  te 
that  she  would  meet  with  immediate  me  with  a  glass  of  port  wine  and 
attention ;  and  that  English  justice,  spices,  that  acted  upon  my  empty 
•which  was  no  respecter  of  persons,  stomach  (which  at  that  time  would 
woidd  speedily  and  amply  avenge  her  have  rejected  all  solid  food)  with  an 
<in  the  brutal  ruffian  who  had  plun«  instantaneous  power  of  restoration: 
dered  her  little  property.     She  pro-  and  for  this  glass  the  generous  ghl 
miscd  me  often  that  she  would;  but  without  a  murmur  paid  out  of  ller 
she  delayed  taking  the  steps  1  pointed  own  'htimble  purse  at  a  timc-*be  it 
out  from  time  to  time:  ibrstiewas  remembered!  —  when  she  had  scarce- 
timid  and  dejected  to  a  degree  which  ly  wherewithal  to  purchase  the  bare 
showed  how  deeply  sorrow  had  taken  necessaries  of  life,  and  when  she  could 
-hold  of  her  young  heart:  and  perhaps  have  no  reason  to  expect  that  I  should 
she  thought  jusUy  that  the  most  up-  ever  be  able  to  rdmburse  her.— — — 
right  judge,  and  die  most  righteous  Oh!  youthful  benefactress  I  how  oflen 
tribuiials,  could  do  nothing  to  repair  in  succeeduig  years,  standing  in  sdll« 
her  heaviest  wrongs.  Sometning,  how-  tary  places,  and  thinking  of  tnee  witik 
ever,  would  perhaps  have  been  done:  grief  of  heart  and  perfect  love,  how 
for  it  bad  been  settied  between  us  at  often  have  I  wished  that,  as  in  an- 
length,  but  unhappily  on  the  very  cient  times  the  curse  of  a  father  was 
last  time  but  one  tnat  I  was  ever  to  bcMevedtohave  a  supernatural  power, 
see  her,  that  in  a  day  or  two  we  should  and  to  pursue  its  object  with  a  fatal 
go  together  before  a  magistrate,  and  necessity  of  self-fulfilment, »-  even  so 
that  I  should  speak  on  her  behalf,  tiie  benediction  of  a  heart  oppressed 
This  little  service  it  was  destined,  ivith  gratitude,  might  have  a  like  pre- 
however,  tliat  I  should  never  realise^  rogative ;  might  have  power  given  to 
Meantime,  that  which  she  rendered  it  from  aliove  to  chace  —  to  haunt  — 
to  me,  and  which  was  greater  than  I  to  way-lay  —  to  overtake — topursne 
could  ever  have  repaid  her,  Avas  this:  thee  into  the  central  darkness  of  a 
—One  night,  when  we  were  pacuig  London  brothel,  or  (if  it  were  possU 
lilowly  along  Oxford  Street,  and  af«  Uc)  uito  the  ddriuMMlbQi^^3lfc 


305                       ConfeuUnu  of  on  Ei^gKih  Opium^Eaitr,  [[Sept. 

there  to  awaken  thee  withan  authen-  that  he  suspected  its  contents,   he 

tic  message  of  peace  and  foigiveness^  gave  it  up  to  me  honorably  and  with- 

and  of  final  reconciliation!  out  demur. 

I  do  not  often  weep:  for  not  only  This  present,  from  the  particular 
db  my  thoughts  on  subjects  connect-  service  to  which  it  was  appUed,  leada 
ed  with  the  chief  interests  c(£  man  me  naturally  to  speak  of  tne  purpose 
dafly^  nay  hourly^  descend  a  which  had  allured  me  up  to  London^ 
thousand  fathoms  "  too  deep  for  and  which  I  had  been  (to  use  a 
tears;"  not  only  does  the  sternness  of  forendc  word^  soliciting  from  the  first 
my  habits  of  thought  present  an  an-  day  of  my  arriyal  in  London,  to  that 
tagonism  to  the  feelings  which  prompt  of  my  final  departure. 
t^ars  —  wanting  of  necessity  to  those  In  so  mighty  a  world  as  London,  it 
who,  being  protected  usually  by  their  will  surprise  my  readers  that  I  should 
levity  from  any  tendency  to  medita-  not  have  found  some  means  of  stav- 
tire  sorrow,  would  by  that  same  ing  ofi*  the  last  extremities  of  penury: 
tevity  be  made  incapable  of  resisting  and  it  will  strike  them  that  two  re*- 
it  on  any  casual  access  of  such  feeU  sources  at  least  must  have  been  open 
ings: — but  also,  I  believe  that  all  tome,  —  viz.  either  to  seek  assist- 
mmds  which  have  contemplated  such  ance  from  the  friends  of  my  family,  or 
pljects  as  deeply  as  I  have  done,  to  turn  my  youthful  talents  and  at- 
must,  for  their  own  protection  from  tainments  into  some  channel  of  pecu- 
utter  despondency,  have  early  en-  niary  emolument.  As  to  the  first 
couraged  and  cherished  some  tran-  course,  I  may  observe,  generally,  that 
quilizmg  belief  as  to  the  future  balan-  what  I  dreaded  beyond  all  other  evils 
oes  and  the  hieroglyphic  meanings  of  was  the  chance  of  being  reclaimed  by 
human  sufierings.  On  these  accounts,  my  guardians;  not  doubting  that 
i  am  cheerful  to  this  hour:  and,  as  I  whatever  power  the  law  gave  them 
have  said,  I  do  not  often  weep.  Yet  would  have  been  enforced  against  me 
some  feelings,  though  not  deeper  or  to  Uie  utmost;  that  is,  to  tne  extre- 
laore  passionate,  are  more  tender  than  mity  of  forcibly  restoring  me  to  the 
others:  and  often,  when  I  walk  at  this  school  which  I  had  quitted:  a  resto- 
time  in  Oxford  Street  by  dreamy  lamp-  ration  which  as  it  would  in  my  eyes 
light,  and  hear  those  airs  played  on  a  have  been  a  dishonor,  even  if  sub- 
barrel-organ  which  years  a^o  solaced  mitted  to  voluntarily,  could  not  £ul, 
me  and  my  dear  companion  (as  I  when  extorted  from  me  in  contempt 
must  always  call  her^  I  shed  tears,  and  defiance  of  my  known  wishes 
and  muse  with  myself  at  the  myste-  and  efibrts,  to  have  been  a  humili- 
rious  dispensation  which  so  suddenly  ation  worse  to  me  than  death,  and 
and  so  critically  separated  us  for  which  would  indeed  have  terminated 
ever.  How  it  happened,  the  reader  in  death.  I  was,  therefore,  shy  enoa^ 
will  understand  trom  what  remains  of  applying  for  assistance  even  m 
of  this  introductory  narration.  those  quarters  where  I  was  sure  of 

Soon  after  the  period  of  the  last  in-  receiving  it — at  the  risk  of  fiutdsh- 

cadent  I  have  recorded,   I  met,  in  ing  my  guardians  with  any  clue  for 

Albemarle  Street,  a  gentleman  of  his  recovering  me.    But,  as  to  London  in 

late  Majesty's  household.    This  gen-  particular,  though,  doubtless,  my  fa^ 

tleman  had  received  hospitalities,  on  ther  had  in  his  life-time  had  many 

different  occasions,  firom  myfiunilv:  friends  there,  yet  (as  ten  years  had 

and   he   challenged    me    upon  the  passed  since  his  death)  I  remembered 

strength  of  my  family  likeness.    I  few  of  them  even  by  name:    and 

did  not  attempt  any  disguise :  I  an-  never  ha^ng  seen  London  before,  ex- 

•wered  his  questions  ingenuously, —  cept  once  for  a  few  hours,  I  knew  not 

aqdj  on  his  pledging  his    word  of  the  address  of  even  those  few.    To 

honor  that  he  would  not  betray  me  this  mode  of  gaining  help,  therefore, 

to  my  guardians,  I  gave  him  an  ad-  in  part  the  difficulty,  but  much  more 

dress  to  my  fiiend  the  Attorney's.  The  the  paramount    fear  which  I  have 

next  day  I  received  from  him  a  lOL  mentioned,  habitually  indisposed  me. 

Bank-note.     The  letter  inclosing  it  In  regard  to  the  other  mode,  I  now 

was  delivered  with  other  letters  of  feel  half  inclined  to  join  my  reader  in 

bushiess  to  the  Attorney :  but,  though  wondering  that  I  Jiould  have  ovcr- 

hls  look  and  manner  informed  me  looked  it    As  a  corrector  of  Greek 


1881.;]                  Confiukm  of  on  Etigiuk  Opkm-Bai«r>  307 

§roo&  (if  in  no  other  way),  I  might  Jewish  fiiends  scrutinized  me  keenlj> 

oubtless  have  gained  enough  for  my  that  I  might  be  too  well  known  to  be 

slender  wants.    Such  an  office  as  this  that  person — and  that  some  scheme 

I  could  have  discharged  with  an  ex-  might  be  passing  in  their  minds  fbr 

emplary  and  pimctual  accuracy  that  entrapping  me  and  selling  me  to  my 

would  soon  have  gained  me  the  con-  guardians.    It  was  strange  to  me  to 

fidence  of  my  employers.  But  it  must  nnd  my  own  self^  materialiier  cond« 

not  be  forgotten  tnat^  even  for  such  an  dered  (so  I  expressed  it^  for  I  doaU 

office  as  this,  it  was  necessary  that  I  ed    on   logical  accuracy  of  disUne* 

should  first  of  all  have  an  introduc-  tions),  accused^  or  at  least  suspect- 

tion  to  some  respectable  publisher :  ed,  of  counterfeiting  my  own  self, 

and  this  I  had  no  means  ofobtaining.  formalifer  considered.     However,  to 

To  say  the  truth,  however,  it  had  satisfy  their  scruples,  I  took  the  only 

never  once  occiured  to  me  to  think  of  course  in  my  power.    Whilst  I  was 

literary  labours  as  a  source  of  profit,  in  Wales,  I  had  received  various  let* 

No  mode  sufficiently  speedy  of  ob-  ters  from  young  friends :  these  I  pro« 

taluing  money  had  ever  occurred  to  duced :  for  I  carried  them  constantly 

me,  but  that  of  borrowing  it  on  the  in  my  pocket — ^being,  indeed,  by  this 

strength   of  my  future  clauns  and  time,  almost  the  only  relics  of  my  per^* 

expectations.     This  mode  I  sought  sonal   incumbrances  (excepting  the 

by  every  avenue  to  compass :   and  clothes  I  wore)  which  I  had  not  in 

amongst  other  persons  I  applied  to  a  one  way  or  other  disposed  of.    Most 

Jew  named  D .•  of  these  letters  were  from  the  Earl  of 

To  this  Jew,  and  to  other  adver«  ,  who  was  at  that  time  my  chief 

tising  money-lenders  (some  of  whom  (or  rather  only)  confidential  friend* 

were,  I  believe,  also  Jews),  I  had  These  letters  were  dated  from  Eton. 

intro<luced  myself  with  an  account  I  had  also  some  from  the  Marquis  of 

of  my  expectations ;  which  account,  — ,  his  father,   who,  though  ab« 

on    examniiiig  my  father's  will   at  sorbed  in  agricultural  pursiuts,  yet 

Doctor's  Commons,  they  had  ascer-  having  been  an  Etonian  himself,  and 

tained  to  i)e  correct.     The    person  as  good  a  scholar  as  a  nobleman  needi 

there  mentioned  as  the  second  son  to  be— still  retained  an  affection  for 

of         ,  was  found  to  have  all  the  classical  studies,   and    for  youthful 

claims  (or  more  than  all)  that  I  had  scholars.    He  had,  accordingly,  firom 

stated :  out  one  question  still  remdn-  the  time  that  I  was  fifteen,   corre* 

ed,  which  the  faces  of  the  Jews  pret-  sponded  with  me ;  sometimes  up<m 

tv  significantly  suggested,  —  was  /  the  great  improvements  whidi  he  nad 

that  person?  This  doubt  had  never  made,  or  was  meditating,  in  the  coun« 

occurred  to  me  as  a  possible  one :  I  ties  of  M—  and  SI—  since  I  had 

had   rather    feared,    whenever   my  been  there ;  sometimes  upon  the  me* 


*  To  this  same  Jew,  by  the  way,  some  eighteen  months  afterwards,  I  applied  again  oil 
the  same  business;  and,  dating  at  that  time  from  a  respectable  oollef^,  I  was  fortunate 
enough  to  gain  his  serious  attention  to  my  proposals.  My  necessities  had  not  arisen  firami 
any  extravagance,  or  youthfbl  levides  (these  my  habits  and  the  nature  of  my  pleasmrt 
raised  me  far  above),  but  simply  from  the  vindicdve  malice  of  my  guardian,  wiio,  wfa« 
he  found  bimsdf  no  longer  able  to  prevent  me  tnm  Roins  to  the  univexri^,  had,  ■•  a 
parting  token  of  his  good  nature,  refused  to  sion  an  order  ror  granting  me  a  shilling  ba* 
yond  ue  allowance  made  to  me  at  schodi  —  nz.  lOOA  per  ann.  Upon  this  sum  k  «h» 
m  my  time,  barely  possible  to  have  lived  in  college ;  and  not  possible  to  a  man  wfao^ 
though  above  the  paltry  affectation  of  ostentatious  disregard  fbr  money,  and  withont  aaf 
expensive  tastes,  confided  nevertheless  rather  too  much  in  servants,  and  did  not  delight  ia 
the  petty  detiula  of  minute  economy.  I  soon,  therefore,  became  embarrassed :  and  at  lo^tby 
after  a  most  voluminous  negotiation  with  the  Jew,  (some  parts  o£  which,  if  I  had  leisuiis 
to  rehearse  them,  would  greatly  amuse  my  readers),  I  was  put  in  possession  of  the  sumt 
asked  for — on  the  *•  reguhur  *  temis  of  paying  the  Jew  seventeen  and  a  half  per  cent  bj 
way  of  annuity  on  all  the  money  furnished ;  Israel,  on  his  part,  graciously  resuming  n6 
more  than  about  ninety  guineas  of  the  said  money,  on  account  of  an  Attorney's  bill,  (ffar 
what  services,  to  whom  rendered,  and  when,  whether  at  the  siege  of  Jerusalem  —  at  tha 
building  of  the  Second  Temple  —  or  on  some  earlier  occasion,  I  have  not  yet  been  abis 
to  discmr).  How  many  perches  this  bill  measured  I  really  fbvget :  but  I  still  keep  it  la 
a  cabinet  of  natural  cariosities ;  and  lomttime  or  Mher  I  believe  I  shall  pnaeat  Vl  ^^ 
Dritish  Museum. 


SOB                      Coffisikmi  of  ffn  Sngtish  Opkm'Saier.    -.  [^Bept. 

tpM  of  a  Latin  poet;  at  other  times,  with  anv;  and  that  I  would  never 

q^gk^^tiM  sulfjects  to  nve  on  Hfblch  fonake  her,  as  feoon  as  I  had  power 

)|e  wished  me  to.  write  verses.  to  protect  her.  •  This  I  fully  mtend- 

..On  reading  the.lett^kv,  one  of  mv  ed,.as  much  from  inclination  as  from 

Jewish     friends    agreed    to  frunuh  a  sense  of  dutj :  for,  setting  aside  gra- 

ij^wo  or  three  hundred  pounds  on  my  titude,  which  in  any  case  must  have 

"p^nonal  security— provided  I  could  made  me  her  debtor  for  life, . I  lovdd 

Mcsuade  the  young  Earl,  who  was,  her  as  affectionately  as  if  she  had 

by  the  wdy,  not  older  than  myself,  to  been  my  sister :  and  at  this  moment, 

narantee  the  payment  on  our  com-  with  seven-fold  tenderness,  from  pity 

Vig  of  age :  the  Jew's  final  object  be-  at  witnessing  her  extreme  dejection, 

ing,^  as  I  now  suppose,  not  the  trifling  I  had,  apparently,  most  reason  for  de- 

prrat  he  could  expect  to  make  by  jection,  because  I  was  leaving  the 

Hoe^  but  the  prospect  of  establishing  $aviour  of  my  life :  yet  I,  consider- 

a  connection  witn  my  noble  friend^  ing  the  shock  mv  health  had  receiv- 

whope  .immense   expectations  were  ed,  was  cheerfril  and  friU  of  hope, 

well  known  to  him.    In  pursuance  She,  on  the  contraiy,  who  was  part- 

^  this  proposal  on  the  part  of  the  ing  with  one  who'  had    had  little 

Jew,  about  eight  or  nine  days  alter  means  of  serving  her,  except  by  Idnd- 

1  had  received  the  10/.,  I  prepared  to  ness  and  brotherly  treatment,  was 

go  down  to  Eton.    Nearly  3/.  of  the  overcome  by  sorrow ;  so  that,  when 

money  I  had  given  to  my  money-  I  kissed  her  at  our  final  farewell,  she 

lending  friend,  on  his  alleging  that  put  her  arms  about  my  neck,   and 

'the  stamps  must  be  bought,  in  order  wept  without  speaking  a  word.    I 

that  the  writings  might  be  preparing  hoped  to  return  in  a  week  at  farthest, 

whilst  I  was  away  ^om  London.    I  and  I  agreed  with  her  that  on  the 

ithought  in  my  heart  that  he '  was  fifth  night  from  that,  and  every  night 

lying;  but  I  did  not  wish  to  give  afterwards,  she  should  wait  for  me 

lum  any  excuse  for  charging  his  own  at  six  o'clock,  near  the  bottom  of 

delays  upon  me.    A  smaller  sum  -I  Great  Titchfield-street,  which  had 

had  given  to  my  friend  the  attorney  been   pur   customary  haven,    as  it 

(who  was  connected  with  the  money-  were,  of  rendezvous,  to  prevent  our 

ienders  as  their  lawyer),  to  which,  missing  each  other  in  the  great  Me- 

Indeed,  he  was  entitled  for  his  unfur-  diterranean  of  Oxford-street.    This, 

Hished  lodffings.    About  fifteen  sUl-  and  other  measures  of  precauilon  I 

lings  I  had  employed  in  re-establish-  took:  one  ohlv  I  forgot    She  had 

ing  (though  fai  a  very  humble  way)  either  never  told  mt,  or  (as  a  matter 

my  dress.    Of  the  remainder  I  gave  of  no  great  interest)  I  haid  forgotten, 

Dne  quarter  to  Ann,  meanmg  on  my  her  surname.    It  is  a  general  prac- 

fitum  to  hay  e  divided  with  her  whi^  tice,  indeed,  with  girls  of  humUe 

ever  might  remain.    These  arrange-  rank  in  her  unhappy  condition,  not 

meiits  made,— soon  after  six  o'clock,  (as  novel-reading  women  of  higher 

on  a  dark  winter  evening,  I  set  o^  pretensions^   to  style    themselves— 

aboompaitiied  by  Aiin,  towards'  Pic-  Miss  Dougiass,  Miss  Montague,  Sec, 

cadilly;  for  it  w^  my  Jotcntion  to  but  simply  by  their  Christian  names'^ 

00  down  as  far  as  SaJt-hiU  on  the  Mart/,  Jane,  Frances,  &c.    Her  siir- 

Bath  or  Bristol  MaiL*  Our  course  name,  as  the  sm-est  means  of  trading 

lay  through  a  part  of  the  to]pm  whi^k  h^^  hereafter,  I  ought  now  to  have 

has  now  all  disappeared,  so  that  I  inquired:  but  the  truth  is,  having  njo 

can   no  longer   retrace  its  ancient  reason   to  think  that   our  meeting 

boundaries:  Swallow-street,  1  tiiink  could,  in  consequence  of  a  short  in- 

it  was  called.    Having  thne  enough  terruption,  be  more  difficult  or  un« 

before  us,  however,  we  bore  away  to  certain  than  it  had  been  for  so  many 

the  left  until  we  came  into  Golden-  weeks,  T  had  scarcely  for  a  moment 

touare :    there,  near    the  corner  of  adverted  to  it  as  necessary,  or  placed 

^herrard-strcet,  wc  sat  down ;   not  it  amount  my  memoranda  against 

wishing  to  part  in  the  tumult  and  this  parting  interview :  and,  my  final 

blaze  of  IMccadilly.     I  had  told  her  anxieties   being  spent  in  comforting 

of  my  plans  spme  time  l>efore:  and  I  her  with  hopes,  and  in  pressing  upoH 

now  assured  her  again  that  she  shoidd  her  the  necessity  of  getting   some 

jduuv  ju  my  good  /ortuue,  if  I  met  medicines  for  a  violent  cough  and 


hoe^mentm  with.which  the  w.aB  tnni-  lo  him^  and  Msured  him  I  woidd  ilo 

•bled,  I. wholly  forgot  it  until  it  was  what  I  could  to  avoid  falling  asleep 

too)iKt9.  to  recal  her*  for  the  future;   and^  at  the  same 

Jt;wa8  past  eight,  o'clock  when  I  time,  in  as  few  words  as  possible^  I 

reached  the  Gloucester  Coffee-house :  explained  to  him  that  I  was  ill  and 

imd,  the  Bristol  Mail  being  .on  the  in  a  weak  state  firom  long  suffering; 

point  of  going,  ofl^  I  mounted  on  the  and  that  I  could  not  afford  at  tut 

.outside.    The  fine  fluent  motion  *  of  time  to  take  an  inside  place.    The 

.this  Mail  soon  laid  me  asleep :  it  is  man's  manner  changed,  upon  heariw 

jBomewhat  remarkable,  that  the  first  this  explanation,  in  an  instant:  and 

vosy    or    refreshing  sleep  which  I  when  I  next  woke  for  a  minute  firom 

had  erjo^ed  for  some  months,  was  on  the  noise  and  lights  of  Hounslow  (fbr 

the  outside  of  a  Mail-coach-— a  bed  in  spite  of  my  wishes  and  efforts  I  bed 

which,  at  this  day,  I  find  rather  an  fallen  asleep  again  within  two  minutae 

uneasy  one.     Connected  with  .ttds  from  ^e  time  I  had  spoken  to  him) 

sleep  was  a  little  incident,    which  I  foimd  that  he  had  put  his, arm 

served,  as  hundreils  of  others  did  at  round  me  to  protect  me  from  falling 

that  time,  to  convince  me  how  easily  off:  and  for  the  rest  of  my  joumej 

a  man  who  has  never  been  in  anv  he  behaved  to  me  with  the  gentleneaa 

great  distress,  may  pass  through  liie  of  a  woman,  so  that,  at  lei^^,  I  al* 

without  knowing,  in  his  own  person  most  lay  in  his  arms:  and  this  was 

at  least,    anything   of  the  possible  the  more  kind,  as  he  could  not  lurre 

f>odnes8  of  the  human  heart—or,  as  known  that  I  was  not  going  the  wlude 

must  add  with  a  si^h,  of  its  possi-  way  to  Bath  or  Bristol.    Unfortn- 

ble  vileness.    So  thick  a  curtain  of  nately,  indeed,  I  did  go  rather  farther 

mannas  is. drawn  over  the  features  than  I  intended:  for  so  genial  and 

and  cxpressign  of  men's  natures,  that  refreshing  was  mv  sleep,  that  the 

to  the  ordinary  observer,  the  twO/C^-  next  time,  after  leaving  Hounslow 

rtremities, .  and  the  infinite  field  of  va-  that  I  fuU  v  awoke,  was  upon  the 

rieties  which  lie  between  them,  are  sudden  pulling  up  of  the  Mail  (possi- 

all  confounded — the  vast  and  multitu-  bly  at  a  Post^ffice) ;  and,  on  maid- 

dinous  compass  of  Uieir  several  harmo-  ry,  I  found   that  we  had  readied 

nies  reduced  to  the  me^re  outline  Maidenhead— six  or  seven  miles,  I 

of  differences  expressed  in  the  gamut  think,  a-head  of  Salt-hill.    Here  I 

or  alphabet  of  elementary,  sounds,  alighted:   and   for  the  half  minute 

The  case  was  this :  for  the  first  four  that  the  Mml  stopped,  I  was  entreat- 

or  five  miles  from  London,  I  annoyed  ed  by  my  friendly  companion  (wbb^ 

my  fellow  passenger  on  the  roof  by  from  the  transient  glimpse  I  had  had 

occasionally  falling  against  him  when  of  him  in  Piccadilly,  seemed  to  me  to 

jthe  coach  gave  a  lurch  to  his  side ;  be  a  gentleman's  butler— or  person  of 

an4  indeed,  if  the  road  had  been  less  that  rank)  to  go  to  bed  without  delay* 

smooth  and  level  than  it  is,  1  should  This  I  promised,  though  with  no  m- 

have  fallen  off  from  weakness.    Of  tention  of  doing  so:  and  in  fact,  I 

.this  imooyance  he  complained  hea-  immediately  set  forward,  or  rather 

vtfy,  €^  perhaps,  in  the  same  circum-  backward,  on  foot.  It  must  then  have 

|i(anc'es  most  people  would ;  he  ex-  been  nearly  midnight :  but  so  slowly 

pressed  his  complaint,  however,  more  did  I  creep  along,  that  I  heard  a 

morosely  than  the  occasion  seemed  clock  in  a  cottage  strike  four  before 

.to  warrant ;    and,  if  I  had  parted  I  turned  down  the  lane  from  Slough 

with  him  at  that  moment,  1  should  to  Eton.    The  air  and  the  sleep  had 

have  tliought  of  him  (if  I  had  consi-  botn  refreshed  me;  but  I  was  wearj 

dered  it  worth  while  to  think  of  him  nevertheless.    I  remember  a  thou^t 

at  all)  as  a  surly  aiid  almost  brutal  fel-  (obvious  enough,  and  which  has  been 

low.    However,  I  was  conscious  that  prettily  expressed  by  a  Roman  poet) 

jl  had  given  him  some  cause  for  com-  which    gave  me    some   consolation 

plaint :  and,  therefore,  I  apologized  at  that  moment  under  my  poverty* 


*  The  Bristol  Mail  is  the  bcHt  appointed  in  tlie  kini^dom — owing  to  the  double  ad- 
vantAgc  of  an  uiiuisually  good  rvod,  and  of  an  extra  sum  for  cxpeaces  twbbcribed  by  the 
Bristol  merchants. 


Ifhare  hid  bean  0one  time  before  a  I  was  awakened  by  Ae  Toice  of  a 

teurdercemmitted  oa  or  near  Hotm»*  map  otaading  orer  me  and  mirveying 

tow-heath*    I  thfaik  I  cannot  be  mia-  me.    1  know  not  what  he  waa:  he 

taken  when  I  aay  that  Uie  name  of  wiUi  a&  i)l-k>oking  fellow — but  not 

tiie  murdered  person  was  Steele,  and  therefore  of  necessity  an  ill-meaning 

that  he  waa  the  owner  of  a  larender  fellow :  or,  if  he  were,  I  suppose  he 

plantation   ni  that    ncaghbourhood.  thought  that  no  person  sleeping  out- 

Svery  step  of  my  progress  was  bring*  of-doors  in  winter  could  be  worth 

%ig  me  nearer  to  the  Heath :  and  it  robbing.    In  which  conclusion,  how* 

aaturally  occurred  to  roe  that  I  and  erer,  as  it  regarded  myself,  I  beg  to 

the  accursed  murderer,  if  he  were  assure  him,  if  he  should  be  among 

that  night  abroad>  miffht  at  every  in*  my  readers,  that  he  was  mistaken. 

aCant  be  unconsciously  approaching  After  a  slight  remark  he  passed  on : 

each  other  throus^  the  daiVnese :  in  and  I  was  not  sorry  at  his  disturb- 

which  case,  said  I,  •-»  supposing  I,  ance,    as   it   enabled   me   to   paaa 

Instead  of  being  (as  indeed  I  am)  through  Eton  before  people  were  ge« 

Httle  better  than  an  outcast,-—  nerally  up.      The   night  had   been 

Lord  of  my  lewniiig  and  no  land  beside,  **ea^  "»4  ^^^fring :  but  towards  the 

J   T     J  u  •  mormng  it  had  changed  to  a  shght 

were,  like  my  fnend.  Lord ,  heir  ^Qg^ .  ^nd  the  ground  and  the  trees 

by  general  repute  to  70,000/.  per.  ann.,  ^ere  now  covered  with  rime.  I  slip- 
whata  panic  should  I  be  under  at  ped  through  Eton  unobserved ;  wash- 
this  moment  about  my  throat  !—m.  ^  myself,  and,  as  far  as  possible,  ad- 
deed,  it  was  not  hkely  that  Lord— -  jugted  my  dress  at  a  HtUe  public- 
should  ever  be  m  my  situabon.  But  l^ouse  in  Windsor;  and  about  eight, 
nevertheless,  the  spirit  of  the  remark  o'clock  went  down  towards  Pole's, 
remains  true-  that  vast  power  and  Qn  my  road  I  met  some  junior  boys 
possessions  make  a  man  shamefuUy  of  whom  I  made  inquiries:  an  Eto- 
draid  of  dying:  and  I  am  convinced  ^Sxti  is  always  a  gentleman ;  and,  fai 
that  many  of  the  most  intrepid  ad-  gpite  of  my  shabby  habiliments,  they 
Fenturers,  who,  bv  fortunately  bemg  answered  me  civUly.  My  friend.  Lord 

poor,  enjoy  the  full  use  of  their  natu-  ^  ^as  gone  to  the  University  of 

ral. courage,  would,  if  at  the  very  in-  .„_.    €  ibi  omnia  efiusus  labor !'  I 

itant  of  going  mto  action  news  were  had,  however,  other  friends  at  Eton : 

brought  to  them  that  they  had  uncx-  but  it  is  not  to  all  who  wear  that 

nectedly  succeeded  to  an  estate  ui  name  in  prosperity  that  a  man  la 

Sogland  of  50,000i.  a  year,  feel  theur  billing  to  present  himself  m  distress, 

dislike  to  bullets  considerably  sharp-  On  recollecting  nyself,  however,  I 

ened*— and  their  efforts  at  perfect  askedfortheEariofD >  to  whom, 

equanimity  ai^  self.possesaon  pro-  (though  my  acquaintanee  with  him 

portionably  diflScult.   So  trueit  ij,  m  ^aa  not  so  mtimate  as  with  some 

the  laugua^  of  a  wise  man  whose  others)    I  should  not  have  shrunk 

awn  experience  had  made  him  ac-  from  presentmg  myself  under  any  dr- 

f|uainted  with   both  fortunes,    that  cumstances.    He  was  still  at  Eton, 

inches  are  better  fitted—  though  I  believe  on  the  wmg    for 

To  ihekeD  virtae,  snd  abate  her  edge,  Cambridge.     I  called,  was  received 

Than  tempt  her  to  do  aaght  may  merit  kindly,  and  asked  to  breakfast. 

pmiM.  Parai.  Regained.  Here  let  me  stop  for  a  moment  to 

I  dally  with  my  solject  because,  check  my  reader  from  any  erroneoua 

to  myself,  the  remembrance  of  these  conclusions :    because    I    have    had 

times  is  profoundly  interesting.    But  occasion  incidentally  to  speak  of  va« 

my  reader  shall  not  have  any  further  rious  patrician  friends,  it  must  not  be 

cause  to  complain :  for  I  now  hasten  supposed  that  I  have  myself  any  pre- 

to  ita  close.— In  the  road  lietween  tensions  to  rank  or  high  blood.     I 

8lough  and  Eton,  1  fell  asleep:  and,  thimk  God  that  I  have  not:— I  am 

just  as  the  morning  began  to  dawn,  the  son  of  a  plain  English  merchant. 


*  It  win  be  objected  that  many  men,  of  the  highest  rank  and  wealth,  have  in  oar 
own  day,  as  well  as  throughout  oar  history,  been  amonsst  the  foremast  in  coarting  danger 
in  battle.    Troe :  but  this  is  not  the  case  supposed:  kpg  ftmillarity  with  power  has  to 


them  deadened  its  effect  and  its  attractioos. 


18810                  ConfeiMio^t  t^  am  BngiUk  Qjidm^  ■                     ^H 

esteemed  during  his  life  for  his  gieat  not  at  all  better  ^kff&  OBua)^  ;|^ 

integrity,  aiid  strongly  attached  to  1^-  in  the  midst  of  hixuiiaB,  I  .li#d  ao 

tcrary  pursuits  Hndeed^  he  was  him-  appetite.  I  had^howeyer^unfortuiuUe* 

self,  anonymously,  an  author):  if  he  ly  at  all  tim^s  a  craving  for  wine:  I 

had  Uvcd,  it  was  expected  that  he  explained  my  situatiop,  therefore,,  to 

would  have  been  very  rich ;  but,  dy<»  lord  1>— — >  Vid  gavfi  bixq  a  short  .ac^ 

ing  prematurely,  he  left  no  more  than  count  of  my  late  sufferings,  at  wlii^h 

about  30,000/.  amongst   seven   dif-  he  expressed  great  compassion,  a«d 

ferent  claimants.    My  mother  1  may  called  for  wine.  •  This  gave  me.m 

mention  with  honour,  as  still  more  momentary  relief  and  pleasure ;  and 

highly  gifted.    For,  though  unpre-  on  all  occasions  when  1  had  an  op-» 

tendhig  to  tlie  name  and  honours  of  portunity,   I  never  failed   to  4nw 

Qt  literary  woman,  1  shall  presume  to  wint — which  1  worshi]q)ed  then  m 

call  her(what  many  literary  women  are  I  have  since  worshipped  opium,    ] 

not)  an  inieUeciual  woman :    and   1  am  convinced,  however,  that  this  in« 

believe  that  if  ever  her  letters  should  dulgence     in  wine    contributed    to 

be   collected    and   published,     they  strengtlien  my  malady ;  for  the  tone 

would  be  thought  generally  to  exhi-  of  my  stomach  was  apparently  quite 

bit  as    much  strong  and  masculine  sunk;   but  by  a  better   regimen  it 

sense,  delivered  in  as  pure  'mother  mightsooner,  and  perhaps  effectually^ 

English,'  racy  and  fresh  with  idioma-  have  been  revived.    1  hope  that  it 

tic  graces,  as  any  in  our  language—  was  not  from  this  love  of  wine  that  I 

liardly  excepting  those  of  lady  M.  W*  lingered  in  tlie  neighbourhood  of  mj 

Montague. — These  are  my  honours  of  Eton  friends :    1  persuaded   myself 

descent:  Iluive  no  others:  and  1  have  then  that  it  was  from  reluctance  to 

thanked  God  sincerely  that  1  have    ask  of  Lord  D j  on  whom  I  was 

iiotybecause,  in  my  judgment,  a  sta-  conscious  I  had  not  sufficient  claims, 

tion  which  raises  a  man  too  eminently  the   particular  service  in    quest,  of 

above  the  level  of  his  fellow-creatures  which  I  had  come  down  to  Eton.      I 

is  not  the  most  favourable  to  moral,  was,  however,  unwilling  to  lose  my 

or  to  intellectual  qualities.  journey,  and — 1  asked  it.  LordI>       , 

Lord  D- placed  before  me  a  whose  ^^ood  nature  was  unbounded, 

most  magnificent  breakfasL    It  was  and  which,  in  regard  to  myself,  had 

really  so  ;  but  hi  my  eyes  it  seemed  been  measured  rather  by  his  compaa-r 

trebly  magnificent  —  from  being  the  sion  perhaps  for  my  condition,  and 

first  regular  meal,  the  first  ''  good  his  knowledge  of  my  intimacy  with 

man's  table,"  that  I  had  sate  down  some  of  his  r^blatives,   than  by  an 

to  for  months.    Strange  to  say,  how*  over-rigorous  inquiry  into  the  extent 

ever,  I  could  scarcely  eat  any  thing,  ofmy  own  direct  claims,faultered,  ne- 

On  the  day  when  I  first  received  my  vertheless,  at  this  reijuest.   lie  ac« 

10/.  Bank-note,  1  had  gone  to  a  ba«  knowledged  that  he  did  not  like  to 

ker's  shop  and  bought  a  couple  of  have  any  dealinffs  with  money-lend* 

rolls :    tills   very  shop    I    had  two  ers,  and  feared  lest  such  a  transao* 

months  or  six  weeks  before  surveved  tion  might  come  to  the  ears  of  hia 

with  an  cagemest  of  desire  which  it  connexions.    Moreover,  he  doiibtai 

was  almost  humiliating  to  me  to  re-  whether  hii  signature,  whose  expect 

collect.      I  remembered    the    story  tations  were  so  much  more  bounded 

about  Otway ;  and  feared  that  there  than  those  of  — -— ,  would  avail  with 

might  be  danger  ui  eating  too  rapid*  my  unchristian  frioids.  However,  he 

ly.    But  I  h^  no  need  for  alarm,  my  did  not  wish,  as  it  seemed,  to  mortif  j 

appetite  was  quite  sunk,  and  1  b«^-  me  by  an  absolute  refusal :  for  after  a 

came  sick  before  I  had  eaten  half  of  little   consideration,    he    promised, 

what   I   had   bought.      This  effect  under   certain   conditions  which  he 

from  eating  what  approached  to  a  pointed  out,   to   give   his  security, 

meal,  1  continued  to  feel  for  weeks :  Lord  D           was  at  this    time'  not 

or,  when  I  did  not  experience  any  eighteen  years  of  age:  but  I  have 

nausea,  part  of  what  I  ate  was  re-  ouen  doubted,  on  recollecting  since 

jcctcd,  souK'tinies  with  acidity,  some-  the  good  sense  and  prudence  which 

times  iuimeillately,  and  wiUiout  any  on  this  occasion  he  mingled  with  so 

aciiliiy.    Oil  the  present  occasion,  at  much  urbanity  of  mauner  (an  urba-; 

loril  D 'b  tabic,   I  found  myself  iiity  which  m  him  wore  the  grace  al 


519  Coiifimkm  tf  m  SifgfUk  Opiwm  EtOer.  CBepc 

jootfafUl    4BMrl^r)>    wlietlwr  .an^  tfiat  the  had  quitted  those  lodgiiig» 

gtatefOHm-'tbe  CMdett  and  th«  noft  before  we  -pnrted.    She  had  few  ao* 

acconipthhed  Id  diftonacy  —  eonU  quahitaQee;  moat  people,  heaides, 

liare  aoqniUed  hinnelf  better  under  Qiouj^ht  that  the  earaeatneoa  ef  bit 

the  sane  drcuBHtances.    Most  pao**  jnqumes  arose  fifom  motiyea  whm 

ple>  indeed,  camot  be  addreasea  on  mored  ^eir  Imighter^  or  their  8l%4it 

audi  n  buaineas,  without  surrejrhig  #^gard;  and  o Aera^  thinkiDg  I  was  ia 

joa  wMi  looks  aa  auatere  and  unpro^  tiM&s  ii  a  ^;H  who  had  robbed  me 

p&doua  aa  tiuiae  of  a  Saracen's  h^ui.  of  aoaw  trifles,  were  nattiraMy  and 

Rccomforted    b^   tlda    promiae,  excusabty  indisposed  to  gire  me  any 

whibh  waa  not  qiute  equal  to  the  due  to  her,  if>  indeed,  thej  had  any 

best,  but  Ux  abore  the  worst  that  I  to  glye.    f%ia!lj,  as  my  despairing' 

bad  pietiffed  to  nyMlf  aa  possible,  resource,  on  the  day  I  left  iiondoii 

I  returned  in  •  Windsor  eoadi  to  I  put  into  the  lianda  of  the  only  per* 

Loudon  three  days  after  I  had  quitted  aon   who  (I  waa  sure)  must  4uew 

It    And  now  I  come  to  tlie  end  of  Arnie  -by  sij^ht,  from  baring  been  m 

my  story : — tfie  Jews  did  not  ap-  compai^  with  us  once  or  twice,  a» 

prove  of  Lord  D        's  terms ;  whe-  address  to  — —  in  ■  shire,  at 

ther  they  woidd  in  the  end  have  ao»  tiiat  time  the  residence  of  my  family, 

ceded  to  them,  and  were  only  seek*  But,  to  this  hour,  I  have  never  heard 

ing  time  for  making  due  inquiries,  I  a  syllable  about  her.    This,  amongst 

know  not ;   but  many  ddays  were  such  troubles  as  most  men  meet  with 

made — time  passed   on — the   small  in  this  life,  has  been  my  heaviest 

fragment  of  my  bank  note  had  just  afRictionw-<-If  ^e  lived,  donbtless  we 

■Kited  away ;  and  before  any  con-  must  have  been  sometimes  in  search 

chision  could  have  been  put  to  the  of  each  other,  at  the  very  same  xnf}^ 

bumness,  I  must  have  relapsed  into  ment,  through  the  mighty  labyrinths 

my  former  state  of  wretchedness.  8ud«  of  Lmidon;  perhaps,  even  within  a  few 

deidy,    however,    at  this  crisis,  an  feet  of  each  other — a  barrier  no  wider 

opening  wa%  made,  almost  by  ac-  in  a  London  street,  often  amounting 

cment,  for  reconciliation  with   my  in  the  end  to  a  separation  for  etemitvl 

Mend*.   I  quitted  London,  in  haste.  During  some  years^  I  hoped  that  she 

§m  a  remote  part  of  £ng]and :  after  did  live;  and  I  suppose  that,  in  the  li* 

aome  time,  I  proceeded  to  the  uid«  teral  and  unrhetorical  use  of  the  word 

vcrsity  ;  and  it  was  not  until  many  myrfad,!  maysaythatonmy  different 

montha  had  passed  away,  that  I  had  visits  to  London,  I  have  looked  into 

k  in  ray  power  affain  to  re-visit  the  many,  many  myriads  of  female  facet*, 

ground  which  had  become  so  inter-  in  the  hope  of  meeting  her.   I  should 

esting  to  roe,  and   to  this  day  re-  know  her  again  amongst  a  thoasand, 

BtMuna  so,  as  the  chief  scene  of  n^  if  I  saw  her  for  a  moment  $    for, 

youthftd  sufiferiiigs^  though  not  handsome,   she   had    a 

Meantime,  what  had   become  of  sweet   expression    of   countenance, 

poor  Anne?  For  her  I  have  reserved  and  a  peculiar  and  graoeful  earriage 

my  conduding  words :  according  to  of  the  head. — I  sought  her,  I  have 

•ur  agreement,  I  sought  her  dfuly,  said,  in  hope.    'So  it  was  for  years  ; 

and  waited  for  her  every  niffht,  so  but  now  I  should  foar  to  see  her;  and 

lang  aa  I  staid  in  London,  at  the  cor*  hear  oough,  which  grieved  me  whei^ 

aer  of  Titchfield-street.    I  inquired  I  parted  with  her,  is  now  my  cimso* 

for  her  of  every  one  who  was  likely  lation.     I  now  wish  to  see  her  no 

to  know  her ;  and,  during  the  last  longer ;  but  think  of  her,  more  glad^ 

boars  of  my  stay  in  London,  I  put  ly,   as  one  long  since  laid   in  the 

into  activity  every  means  of  tracmg  grave ;  in  the  grave,  I  would  hope, 

ker  that  my  knowledfpe  of  London  of  a  Magdalen;  taken  away,  before 

suggested,  and  the  limited  extent  of  injuries  and  cruelty  had  blotted  out 

■IT  power  made  possible.   The  street  and  transfigured  her  ingenuous  na- 

whtm  ahe  had  lodged  I  knew,  but  not  ture,  or  the  brutalities  of  ruffians  had 

the  house  ;    and   I  remembered    at  completed  the  ruin  they  had  l>egun. 
last    some    account  which  she  had         HTke  remainder  of  this  vertf  infer^^ 

given  me  of  ill  treatment  from  her  e$Hnfr  Arlicle  wiH  be  given  in  the  next 

Jfuuilard,  whidi  juade   it  probable  Number.    £11.]] 


it»r.-] 


Lotf€  in  a  Men. 


SIS 


iJO^l^  is  A  MIST. 

fio  teasiinff  is  t&e  gM  I  Iotc*^ 

So  cniei-kmd  1  find  her, 
T  would  to  Heaven  she  would  prore 

Or  tx^idOer  or  lunder. 

Her  li^8  fori)id  my  hopes  to  rise ; 

But  whilst  she's  tiras  declaring, 
A  wiclted  something  in  her  eyes 

Pretaits  me  fitofti  despairing. 


flcr  eyes  say  yes,  hef  £ps  say  no; 

And  so  m  ajaabt  it^j  ateep  me: 
I  wiflhthat  she  would  let  me  g«^ 

Or  pay  ibe  price  to  keep  me* 

To  her  is  such  attraction  givea^ 

In  sodthmg  or  in  scoffing, 
She  has  hung,  me  up  'twixt  hell  and  hooren^ 

Just  like  Mahomet's  coffin. 

'Tis  my  belief,  When  women  twe 

Us  in  this  sort  of  lashnon. 
They  hate  the  man,  Init  woidd  not  lose 

The  loner^  or  &e  pikshru 

Raply  with  neitber  love  nor  bate, 

Nor  any  passisn  breathing. 
As  anglers  gravely  hook  their  bait. 

Id  spile  «f  all  its  wxithingr-i 

So  it  may. 'be  her  tboughtless  wish, 

RegarolesB  of  my  ikte,  \o 
Hook  ihei,  to  catch  some  other  fish, 
.    Wliom  I  may  serve  as  bait  tOK 

I  fahi  woidd  get'  the  length  ef  her  foot ; 

But  if  I  were  not  bora  to*t. 
It  does  ifiot  mv  free  spirit  suit. 

To  ht  the  shoeing-boni  «o*t. 

Had  I  but  proof,  Fd  <piicltly  show. 
To  her  hard  Iheart,  a  hard  head  ; 

Leaving  my  card,  with  D.  L  O. 
And  thus  be  self  dU-^arded. 


OLEANINOS  FROM  FCmEION  JOiniNAL& 

MADBID  rir  THI  SfBINO  OF  1881. 


This  year,  the  Carnival  hassassed 
with  but  little  gaiety  or  bustle.  It 
is  on^  in  the  houses  of  grandees  that 
brilliant  balls  are  occasionally  given ; 
for  political  events  have  seriouMly  af- 
fected the  amusements  usual  at  this 
season.  Suspicion  of  the  actual  si- 
tuation of  affairs,— and  discontent. 


added  to  retrenchments,  arising  from 
necessity,  or  adopted  fitmi  prudence* 
operate  as  checks  to  indulj§pencies  of 
tius  nature.  The  jiatriotic  society^ 
denominated  the  Friends  of  Order, 
has,  liowever,  given  two  splendid 
balls.  Senora  Correa  continued  her 
concerts  upon  her  former  planj— that 


S14  Gleanings  fiMn  -Fartign  Journals.  [[Sept 

b  to  say,  they  were  entertainments  by  flinging  each  other  to  the  ground, 
with  Rossini  at  the  beginnings  Ros-i  CHtinge- women,  aguadores,  melon- 
rini  in  the  middle,  and  Rossini  at  the  renders,  all  added  to  the  bustle,  the 
end.  But,  if  scenes  of  gaiety  have  noiBe,  and  the  liveliness  of  the  scene  ; 
been  somewhat  more  rare,  and  less  nor  were  there  wanting  grotesque 
showy  than  usual,  there  has  been  at  masks,  who  contributed  greatly  to 
least  one  entertainment  without  any  the  diversion  of  the  popiuace.  Se- 
deficiency  of  festivity  or  brilliancy,  veral  thousand  persons  of  the  lowest 
1  aUude  to  that  which  takes  place  dass  were  here  met  together,  singing, 
annually  on  the  last  day  of  the  Car^  shouting,  bawling,  and  occasionalhr 
nival,  when  the  lower  orders  as*  cursing;  with  scarcely  one  of  the  midi- 
Bemble  in  the  spacious  island  between  dling  ranks :— indeed,  no  respectable 
the  Canal  and  the  Manzanares,  which  female  would  think  of  venturing  into  a 
then  serves  them  for' a  ridotio  al  cr6wd  of  frantic  bacchanalians,  where 
fresco.  This  year  it  made  an  ap-  all  decency,  both  of  words  and  actions, 
pearance  more  handsome  than  usual;  appeared  to  be  forgotten. 
for,  rwing  to  the  extreme  mildness  Vklthiif  the  last  week  or  two,  there 
and  forwardness  of  the  season,  tiie  has  been  no  want  of  attractions  well 
long  rows  of  almond  and  mulberry  calculated  to  collect  toeether  the 
trees  were  all  in  ftill  bloom.  On  mob.  The  consecration  of  the  stand- 
passing  through  the  Atocha  gate,  a  ards  of  the  National  Guard, — when 
long  line  of  people  was  seen,  whose  this  splendidly-arrayed  troop,  pre- 
merriment  was  audible  at  a  great  ceded*  by  men  in  the  old  Spanish 
distance.  Many  a  wide  mantle  costume,  heralds,  &c.  went  in  pro- 
was  there  spread  upon  the  ground ;  cession  to  the  church,  where  the  ce- 
and  seated  around  them  were  fami-  remony  was  performed ; — the  public 
lies  feasting  upon  dishes  of  roast  dinners  given  by  the  different  negi- 
meat  or  em ;  while  the  leathern  ments  of  the  gatrlsoif  ;<— the  opening 
bottle  ran  uie  gauntlet  from  motfth  of  the  Oertev,  at  which  the  Queen 
to  mouth,  until  at  length  it  dropped '  wib  present,  in  a  dress  glittering 
down  fairly  exhausted.  Ai  smM'  av  '  vrith  diamonds,  and  well  worthy  m 
these  patriarchal  banquets  were  ter-  the  majesty  of  both  the  Indies : — 
minated,  and  the  wine  had  set  their  all  these  exhibitions  served  to  gratify 
blood  in  more  than  usual  motion,  the  the  taste  of  the  multitude  for  fine 
caatanels  and  guitars  were   taken;  shows. 

and  those  who  had  been  indolently  In  the  middle  of  February,  died 
lolling,  leaped  up,  and  displayed,  in  the  notorious  Abb^  Marchena,  of 
the  vehemence  of  the  bolero,  their  which  circumstance  little  notice  was 
agility,  though  not  always  their  grace-  taken  here,  at  the  time,  by  the  public 
fmness,  to  circles  of  spectators  who  journals  c  some^said  nothing,  because 
immediately  formed  around  them,  they  detest  the  Afranzesados ;  and 
Attention  was  suddenly  called '  fh)m  the  Afranzesados  themselves  were 
the  dancers  to  a  spot  whence  issned  silent,  because  they  wished  the  most 
long  and  reiterated  shouts  of  laugh-  notorious  leaders  of  their  party  to  be 
ter :  the  noise  proceeded  from  a  forgotten.  The  Abb^  was  known  in 
mirthful  troop  of  both  sexes,  who  Germany  by  his  fragment  from  Pe- 
were  tossing  up  a  stuffed  flgure,  tronius,  and  from  having  served  in 
most  curiously  dressed,  and  tanci-  the  army  of  the  Rhine,  under  Moreau. 
fully  named  by  them  Don  Pellejo  He  was  bom  at  Utzera,  m  Aiida- 
(or  Mr.  Bottlebelly).  The  dexterity  lusia,  about  the  year  1770 ;  and  dis- 
with  which  this  singular  personage  tinguished  himself  early  in  life,  by 
was  made  to  ascend,  was  as  wonder-  his  superior  talents.  His  first  pro- 
fiil  as  his  descent  was  entertaining;  fession  was  that  of  the  church,  where 
for  he  generally  fell  upon  some  un-  he  was  a  " religieux  sans  religion;" 
lucky  headj  to  the  great  amusement  for,  wiA  all  the  eagerness  of  an  un^ 
of  the  bystanders.  Dancing,  cards,  settled  and  restless  mind,  he  de- 
jumping— all  contributed  their  shares  voured  the  writings  of  the  French 
towards  the  entertainment ;  —  and  philosophers,  at  that  time  prohibited 
when  every  other  sport  had  been  in  in  Spam, — and  adopted  tneir  prin- 
tum,  the  company^  more  boisterous  ciples ;  which  were  so  much  the  more 
than  refined,  exereised  their  strength  agreeable  to  him,  as  they  preached 


1821.3  Gleanings  from  Foreign  JoumaU- 

down  erery  thing  resemUing  intoleiw  tbough  with  little  reaflon  ;  fins  hariui;^ 

ance  in  matters  of  opinion.    These  etgoyed  the  privil^es  of  a  Fienoft 

doctrines    he    promulgated  with   a  citizen  for  fiye  years^  the  law  of  tho 

zeal    which  soon  obtained  for  him  Slst  Floreal  could  not  justly  be  en* 

the  notice  of  the  Inquisition.     He  forced  against  him.    The  Legialativ% 

was  ordered  to  be  apprehended ;  but  Body^  which  w.<s  then  at  variance 

his  friends  found  means  to  warn  him  with  the  Directory,  recalled  him  to 

of  his  danger, — and  he  escaped  to  France.     At  the  breaking  out  of  the 

France,  just  as  the  Revolution  was  new  war  in  1800,  he  obtamed  a  cdoh 

on  the  point  of  breaking  out.    He  mission;  and   though    a    little  ilU 

now  gave  himself  to  this  cause  with  shaped  figure,  he  had  the  foUy  to^ 

a  youthful  glow,  which  shortly  after-  imagine  that  all  the  handsome  women 

wards  increased  into  an  impetuoua  were  in  love  with  him :  this  rid&ci»« 

flame.  After  a  short  stay  at  Bayonne,  lous  fancy  rendered  him  the  gencaral 

he  hastened  to  Paris,  where,  in  con^  subject  of  conversation  amongst  tha 

sequence  of  his  possessing  a  thorough  officers.    It  was  at  this  time  that  he 

knowledge  of  the  dassicm  languages,  was  ordered  to  draw  up  a  statisdcal 

an  exceUent  memory,  a  happy  tact  account  ofGermany,  for  the  use  of  the 

at  composition,  and  considerable  ta«  army.    He  was  quite  unacquainted 

lents,  he  was  favourably  received  by  with  the  language ;  but  soon  learned 

many  literati  of  the  highest  celebrity,  it;  and  readmg  the  best  statistical 

At  first  he  was  employed  in  writing-  writers,  he  compiled  a  work  whieb 

for  Marat's  notorious  journal ;   but  was  highly  approved  of,  and  much 

he  subsequently  attached  himself  to  relied  on  by  the  French  generala* 

Brissot  and  the  Girondists.    He  was  After  his  return  from  Germany,  h» 

apprehended  at  Moulius,    and  waa  was  for  some  time  secretary  to  Mo« 

brought  to  Paris  and  imprisoned.—?  reau,   and  is  copjectured   to.  have 

The    furious    pamphlets    which    he  been  not  altogether  innocent  of  the 

composed  during  nis  incarceration,  misfortunes  of  that  General.    When 

could  not,  however,  obtain  for  him  the  French  invaded  Spain,  Marchena 

that  crown  of  martyrdom  to  which  returned  into  hb  own  country ;  and, 

he  so  ardently  aspired.    On  the  9th  after  some  time,  obtained  a  post  in 

of  Thermidor  he  ootained  his  liberty^  the  Muiistly  of  the  Interior.     He 

and  soon  after  was  appointed  secre-  then  produced  on  the  stage  his  trana* 

tary  in  a  public  office.    About  this  lations  of  the  Misanthrope  and  the 

time  he  began  to  write  for  the  jour-  Tartuffis  of  Moliere,  both  of  whioli 

nal  called  JuAmi  de$  Loix.    Upon  the  met  with  great  success.     But  he  left 

Thermidorists  dividing  into  two  par-  Madrid  again  when  it  was  evacuatecl 

ties,  Marchena  unfortunately  attach-  by  the  French,  and  retired  to  Nismes^ 

ed  himself  to  that  which  lost  its  in-  where  he  continued  to  reside  untii 

fluence  in  August,  1796;  owin^  ta  the  return  of  the  Afranzesados. 

which  circumstance,  he  was  deprived  Marchena  has  written  much,  and  on 

both  of  his  situation  and  of  hb  share  various  subjects ;  but,  unfortunately* 

in  the  above-mentioned  journal.    He  though  highly  gifted,  he  was  one  of 

now  occupied  himself  for  some  time  those  who,   by  a   strange  abuse  o£ 

in  writing  against  Tallieu,  Legendre,  talent,    extract   poison    from    those 

and  Freron,  the  heads  of  the  victo-  flowers  whence  tney  ought  to  derive 

rious  party ;  who,  losing  all  patience  honey.    Morality  and  religion  wero 

at  hb  repeated  attacks,   denounced  regarded  by  him  as  matters  of  peiw- 

him,  and  caused  him  to  be  banbhed.  feet  indiflerence;  hence  that  cynidsnt 

At  thb  juncture  he   retired  to  Swit-  which  he  manifested  in  hb  pursuita 

zerland,  where  he  is  reported  to  have  and  gratifications.    Notwithstanding 

solicited  Madame  de  Stdel  to  inter-  the  eagerness  with  which  he  alwaya 

cede  in  hb  behalf;  but  she  refused  to  aimed  at  obtaining  public  notice,  he 

notice  him,  although  he  had  before  died  neglected,  and  nearly  forgotten  ^ 

ei^joyed    free    access   to  her  house  nor  will  his  name  long  survive  him, 

during  the  time  tluit  she  resided  at  except  in  the  annals  of  the  Frendi 

Parb.    Having  failed  there,  he  had  Revolution. 

recourse    to    the  Council    of    Five  Another    character  of  note,  who 

Hundred,  to  which  he  complained  of  recently  died  in  this  city,    b  Don 

the  oppression  he  had   endured,—-  Baniaba  Garcia  de  CastUia,  one  of 


Sie  lUpoHcfMimc.  CScpt* 

the  Minittert  <rf  the  Fbeal^  and  R»-  great  advances  in  mineraiogy.  In 
meflentadye  In  the  Cortes  for  the  1818,  he*  edited.  In  coigunction  widr 
Ctoiary  Islands.  The  UnivtrnU  ghres  Ph)fe8Sor  Manrique,  El  Redactor  Ge^ 
%  biographical  sketdi  of  this  worthy  nietaly  in  which  journal  he  declared 
oompatnot  of  Clarigo,  of  which  the  himself  to  be  a  zealous  partizan  of 
Ibllowing  is  an  id^ract.  Garcia  de  Uie  new  constitution  of  the  Cortes. 
Castilla  was  a  naUve  of  Valle  Her-  In  consecjuence  of  his  thus  interesting- 
inosa,  in  the  island  of  Gomera,  one  himself  m  public  affairs,,  he  was 
of  the  Canaries.  From  his  parents,  banished  to  Melilla,  vrhere  his  studies 
irfao  were  possessed  of  rank  and  became  to  him  a  rich  source  of  con- 
]iroperty,  he  receiFed  a  good  educa-  solation  and  entertainment.  He  gave 
tion,  and  commenced  Mb  studies  at  lessons  in  the  mathematfes  and  na- 
Orotava,  in  Teneiiffe,  where  he  soon  tural  history ;  and  eren  founded  an 
distinguished  himself  by  his  talents,  academy  for  them,  on  which  he  bc^- 
end  by  the  rapid  progress  which  he  stowed  the  title  of  Academia  de  Ci" 
made  in  the  sciences :  nor  did  he  eneiou  de  MeWItu  After  the  Consti- 
neglect  the  modem  languages  while  tntion  of  the  Cortes  was  introduced 
employed  in  these  severer  pursiuts,  last  year  at  Madrid,  Garcia  was  re- 
but applied  himself  to  the  study  of  called,  was  appointed  to  an  employ- 
ftencn,  Italian,  and  English.  After  ment  in  the  administration  of  the 
•ome  time  spent  in  this  manner,  he  Finances,  and  was  elected  Repre- 
lepaired  to  Spahi,  and  prosecuted  sentative  of  the  Canary  Islands.  His 
Us  studies  at  Madrid,  in  the  Col-  death,  which  happened  on  the  8th  of 
lege  of  St.  Isidore.  A  new  field  hut  January,  carried  him  off  in  the 
was  now  opened  to  him:  his  fa-  meridian  of  life,  when  he  was  cn- 
Touritis  purauits  were  the  mathe-  joying  the  esteem  due  to  his  nublic 
vatks  and  physicSy  and  he  made  services,  his  virtues^  and  his  talents. 


REPORT  OF  MUSIC. 

No.  XDL 

Trb  only  novehy  In  the  musical  render  him,  particularly  at  this  moK 
world,  sfaice  our  last  report,  has  been  ment,  a  most  valuable  accession  to 
tiie  private  subscription  concert  the  list  of  our  vocalists. 
ghren  by  Mr.  Sapio,  jun.  The  house  Madame  Catalan!  has  given  a  se- 
df  Lady  Desanges  was  opened  on  cond  concert  at  the  Argyll  Rooms, 
tins  occasion,  and  the  tickets  were  the  receipts  of  which  were  appro- 
one  guinea  each.  Every  part  of  the  ptiated  to  the  benefit  of  the  West- 
entertainment  was  in  the  highest  or-  minster  HospitaL  The  room  wais 
der  of  excellence  and  elegance.  Sir  again  crowned  with  nobility  and 
George  Smart  conducte£  Messrs.  vtrtit.  By  this  exhibition  of  her 
Moscheles,  Bochsa,  Puzzi,  and  Llnd-  wonderful  powers,  she  has  onl^  con- 
ley,  were  Uie  principal  instrumental-  firmed  her  triumph.  It  is  said,  riie 
iats,  the  concert  being  chiefly  vocal,  is  about  to  make  a  tour  through  the- 
Madame  Camporese,  Madame  Ronzi  principal  towns,  accompanictl  by  Mr. 
de  Begnis,  Miss  Goodall,  Signors  de  Flo  Cianchettini,  as  the  conductor  of 
Begnis  and  Ambrogetti,  and  Mr.  Sa-  her  concerts ;  and  it  is  believed  that 
plo,  were  the  singers ;  and  it  follows,  M.  Vallabreque  (her  husband)  ha» 
tiuit  everv  thing  was  executed  in  the  been  engaged,  together  with  another 
nost  perfect  manner.  Mr.  Sapio,  in  gentleman,  deeply  interested  in  the> 
Bossini's  duet.  Amor  passenie  Numi,  tiieatrical  property  of  London,  in  a 
with  Madame  Camporese,  ^ave  proofs  negotiation  for  the  Opera  House  next 
of  his  masterly  accomplishment  in  year. 

the  great    style  of  ringing,  while  There  was  also  a  grand  oratorio 

Said  a  Smile  ^o  a  Tear  Q which  was  in  honour  of  die  Coronation,  at  St. 

introduced  by  desire)  exhibited  his  Margaret's    Church,    Westminster, 

power  of  ornament  to  equal  advan-  for  the  benefit  of  a  charity.    The 

tage.     His  voice  is  purely  una  voce  selection  was  principally  from  Haii- 

di  camera;  but  his  command  and  va-  del,  and  was  |>erfomied  by  Brahani, 

riety  of  manner,  together  with  the  Vaughan,   Mrs.  Sahnou,   Miss  Ste-* 

neatness  and  finish  of  his  execution,  phens^  and  the  £nglish  train  of  dis- 


tinguiflhed  tocalists.     The  amoiut  teemed  the  legitimate  tchool  of  ez^ 

of  tne  receipts  was  very  considerable,  {n-esslon^    and   for   £Tu;lish  compo- 

The  music  of  London  may  now  be  sition,  will  very  soon  depart,  unless 

flsdrly  considered  as  ended  for  the  something  more  be  done  in  its  behalf, 
season ;  and  the  provincial  meetings        It  should  seem,  however^  that  the 

are  already  commencing.    Salisbury  verv  perfection  of  art  is  contributing 

has  one  this  week  (August  20) ;  the  to  its  decline.    The  self-devotion  of 

first  En^ish  and  Italian  talent  is  en-  talent  has  accomplished  such  fiiush- 

iraged :     Madame   Camporese,    and  ed  results  hi  everv  department,  that 

Mrs.  Salmon ;  Messrs.  Vaughmi,  W.  nothing  short  of  the  greatest  natural 

Knyvett,  and  Bellamy,  and  Signor  ability,  cultivated  by  the  utmost  la- 

Ambrogetti.    There  has  also  b^  a  hour  (every  moment  of  a  life  dcdi< 

large  exportation  of  scientific  ability  cated  to  study  and  practice],  will  sa« 

to  Dublin,  in  order  that  music  may  tiafy    the  delicate  and  critical  au* 

contribute  her  share  to  the  enters  diences  of  the  metropolitan  concerts* 

tainment  of   Majesty ;  Mr.  Bochsa,  Hence  it  follows,  that  these  excessive 

Mr.  Begrez,    Mr.  RoUes  of  Bath,  attainments  must  be  compensated  hf 

and  Miss  Stephens,  are  amongst  the  more  than  ordinary  gains ;  and  mu« 

professors  who  have  crossed  the  Irish  sic  becomes,  not  the  cheap  solace  of 

Channel.    We  may  now  proceed  to  leisure  hours,  but  the  expensive  and 

examine  the  progress  which  music  exclusive  enjoyment  of  nie  Affluent* 

has  made.  Hence,  also,  it  happens,  that  as  pro* 

The  ca[ntal  feature  Is  the  deser-  fessors  exhaust  the  common  resources 
tion  of  £ii|plish  for  foreign  style,  and  of  expression,  they  invent  and  add 
of  the  loftier  affections  for  the  more  new  parts.  In  the  progress  of  me^ 
voluptuous  sensations  originated  by  chanical  attainment,  that  which  haf 
the  powers  and  associations  inherent  cost  one  individual  prodigious  labour 
in,  and  attendant  upon,  this  most  to  acquire,  being  acquired  and  exhi<* 
entrancing  language.  Our  very  ora-  bited,  is  caught  by  another  with  the 
torios  are  become  mere  pasticcio  greatest  comparative  ease,  who  a*i 
concerts,  selected  from  the  music  of  gain  transcends,  in  some  particular^ 
the  Italian  opera,  the  Catholic  ri-  nis  predecessor,  or  competitor;  and 
tual,  and  the  theatre ;  with  a  slight  thus  new  diJfficuHies  are  successively 
interspersion  of  poor  dear  dull  Han*  added  and  overcome,  till  no  part  ia 
de],  as  a  salvo  to  the  conductors  left  without  excess  of  ornament.  To 
during  the  sacred  season  of  Lent,  such  a  pitch  execution  appears  now 
Our  concerts  differ  in  littie  or  no-  to  have  arrived ;  and  there  will  short* 
thing  from  our  oratorios,  except  ly  be  nothing  lefl  but  a  return  to 
those  of  the  Ancient  Music,  the  only  tne  simpler  graces  of  natural  expres- 
place  where  the  principles  of  the  se-  sion.  Mere  agility  has  pretty  nearly 
nuine  great  style  are  preserved  in-  done  Its  worlc. 
violate.  The  Opera  itself  is  in  At  present,  there  is  certunly  no 
great  danger  of  losing  entirely  the  other  symptom  of  this  restoration  of 
gran  gusto,  by  the  help  of  such  fine  taste,  than  the  apparent  impose 
composers  as  Signor  Rossini ;  who,  sibility  of  carrying  force,  transition^ 
though  he  is  not  absolutely  destitute  and  agility,  much  farther.  The  opera 
of  the  hi^h  resources  of  his  art,  yet  has  certainly  exhibited  no  very  comi* 
suffers  his  grander  conceptions  to  be  manding  examples  of  talent,  either 
obliterated,  obscured,  or  dissipated,  in  composition  or  performance;  while 
by  the  composition  of  tnusic  that  the  universal  applause  that  follows 
demonstrates  little  more  than  strong  Madame  Camporese  proves  what  the 
animal  spirits,  and  a  lively  fancy,  genuine  great  style  can  efiect.  £vei7 
Our  own  theatres  have  done  some-  real  judge  of  the  art  admits  that  thia 
thing  towards  making  a  stand,  in  the  lady  possesses  the  finest  manner  of 
performance  of  Artaxerxes,  and  Zj)pe  any  suiger  that  has  lately  visited 
in  a^  Village,  at  Drury  Lane,  and  in  England ;  yet  her  natural  organ  ia  by 
the  introduction  and  adaptation  of  no  means  superior.  But  she  never 
some  of  the  fine  old  English  compo-  sings  a  note  in  vain  ;  so  powerful  b 
sitions  into  Shakspeare's  plays,  with  mind  over  oi^ects  merely  mecha* 
some  very  clever  additions  by  Mr.  nical.  On  the  contrary,  in  Mrs.  Sal- 
Bishop,  at  Covent  Garden.  But  the  mon,  the  first  and  chief  of  our  English 
relish  for  what  has  hitherto  been  et-  artists,  we  perceive  otkV^  >^\«.teii^\» 

Vol.  IV.  ftX 


SIB                                          Eepori  of  Music.  Z^^^ 

of  natural  organic  endowment    lier  masters  of  the  song.    Some  of  those 
tone  is  exquisite,  her   agility   sur-  we  have  noticed  arc,  we  are  sure, 
prising ;  but  her  performance  is  as  about  as  well  informed  in  such  mat- 
destitute  of  any  species  of  concep-  ters,  as  the  celebrated  Madame  D. 
tion,    beyond    diversity  of  figurate  tlie  pianuie,    who    recollecti'd    Sir 
passages,  as  it  is  possible  for  smging  Isaac  Newton    '^  as  the  man  that 
to  be.    It  is  to  oe  regretted,  that  signed  the  bank  notes  in  the  city." 
there  is  no  prominent  example  in  Uie  Aielodious  Abraham  Newlaud !  how 
▼ocal  profession  of  an  artist  suffi-  much  hidebtsd  was  he  to  the  resem** 
ciently  informed,  or  courageous,  to  blance  in  sound  which  one  syllable 
attempt  the  introduction  or  revival  of  his  name  afforded,  to  that  of  the 
of  the  grand  manner.    When  Br&-  greatest  philosopher  that  ever  lived, 
ham,  and  when  Vaughan,  shall  have  Braham  and  Bartleman  both  gave 
retired,  there  is  not  a  singer  to  sue*  the  rein  to  fancy ;  and  they  both  were 
ceed  them ;  nor  is  there  a  bass  who  men  of  reading,  as  well  as  warm 
has  any  pretension  to  follow  Bartle-  temperament.  These  performers  were 
man.    Tne  age  that  has  just  passed  intimately  versed  in  the  philosophy 
exhibited  wonderfiil  variety,  as  well  of  their  art,  as  well  as  warmed  by  a 
as  excellence :  Mara,  BilUi^ffton,  Ca*  natural  sensibility, 
talani,  Harrison,  Hraham,  Vaughan,  The  instrumental  progression,  high 
Goss,  Knyvett,  Evans,  and  Bartle«  as  it  has  ffone,  is  far  better  sustmn- 
man.    Some  of  these  names  are  now  ed;  but  here  too  we  owe  much  to 
gone  by ;  the  rest  will  follow :  there  foreign  aid.  It  is,  however,  probable 
aeema  to  be  no  succession  of  ability  that  the  examples  we  have  recently 
at  all  equal  to  them  in  any  depart*  imported,  and  the  seal  with  which 
nient.               :  their   instructions  are  sought,  will 
English  composers  seem  to  us  to  extensively  promote^  the  assiduous 
fail  in  combining  graceful  and  touch-  cultivation    of     indigenous    talent. 
hig  melody  witn  strength,-  and  with  Many  uistances  of  this  kind  are  with- 
the  certaui  portion  of  simplicity  ne-  in  our  knowledge, 
ccssary  to  grandeur  and  truth  of  ex-  If  we  may  judge  from  foreign  pro- 
pression.    The  points  in  which  our  feasors  who   have  recently   visited 
singers  are  deficient,  Ue  in  the  ab-^  England,   other   countries,  hitherto 
aence  of  sensibilitv,  whidi  enriches  considered  as  the  fountains  of  mu- 
its  subject  with  the  warm  and  ani-  sic,  exhibit  the  same  symptoms  as 
mating  alow  of  tone  and  manner  Uiat  ourselves ;  but  it  will  probably  be 
forms  the  characteristic  of  Italian  urged  that  we  only  take  our  colour 
ainging.    The  English  are  certainly  firom  them.    It  may,  perhaps,  be  too 
chaste  beyond  any  other  vocalists,  true.    Amongst  the  mstrumentalists 
but  they  are  also  as  certaudy  cold,  there  have  been,  however,  somc^  very 
Camporcse  is  chaste,  but  she  is  not  extraordinary  men;  Moschcles,  Keise- 
cold :  Mrs.  Salmon  is  voluptuous  in  wetter,  and  Puzzi,  are,  in  their  de- 
sound,  but  there  is  no  true  fecling^^  partments,    the  first  of  their   age. 
there  is  nothing  for  the  affections,  but  pre-eminent  vocal  talent  there  is 
and  not  much  lor  the  senses :  Miss  none — save  only  Catalan!,  who  can 
Stephens  has  a  rich  and  full  voice,  afford  no  example  to  others,  because 
and  polished  manner;  but  in  her  sing-  nature  has  done  more  for  her  than 
ing  she  has  little  fire,  and  no  passion,  art,  and  far  more  for  her  than  for  any 
The  truth  is,  we  suspect,  that  oiir  other  human  being, 
singers  afford  the  imagination   net-  The  cultivation  of  music,  in  pri- 
ther  sustenance  nor  exercise.    They  vate,  is  nevertheless  extending  itself; 
praetUe  much,  but  they  neither  read  and  to  render  us  a  musical  people, 
nor  reflect ;  they  repress  enthusiasm,  nothing  is  now  wanting,  but  to  make 
without  which,  art  IS  lifeless.    If  the  the   science  a  part  of  the  scheme 
educationof  a  shwer  were  committed  of  general  education,  and  thus  to 
to  us,  we  would  first  nourish  and  communicate  the  art  and  its  enjoy- 
stimulate,  and    warm    and  indulge  ment  to  the  cottages  of  the  poor,  as 
tlds  predominating  faculty,  with  all  well  as  to  the  mansions  of  the  rich, 
the  aids  of  poetry  and  classic  ro-  The  introduction  of  such  a  know- 
mance.    We  much  question  whether  ledge  of  music,  as  is  thus  commu- 
some  of  our  distinguished  vocalists  nicated  in  Germany  and  Italy,  would 
^r»r  tcMrd  erea  tnc  names  of  the  pcobaUy  produce  a  striking  change 


.18^.]]                                       The  Drama.  dl9 

in  the  manners  of  the  faidustrlous  tew  notes.  There  are  no  difficulties^ 
classes,  and  might  afford  such  an  em^  either  in  compass  or  execution,  in  the 
ployment,  and  such  a  solace  of  lei-  voice  part»  or  accompaniment ;  and 
sure  hours,  as  would  save  multitudes  there  is  not  one  which^  even  tolerably^ 
from  "  the  worm  that  never  dies  " —  sung,  will  not  please, 
the  worm  of  the  still.  Miut  it  be,  and  The  Indian  Hun» 
Mr.  Owen  is  tryinff,  very  success-  Ur,  two  songs,  by  Mr.  Macdonald 
iully,  to  introduce  uis  innocent  re-  Harris,  are  nieither  of  them  equal  to 
creation  amongst  the  other  parts  of  some  other  of  this  gentleman's  pro- 
his  plan.  But  we  must  hasten  to  ductions.  There  is  too  much  prc- 
our  conclusion,  fbr  this  is  a  discussion  tenmon  in  the  first,  which  is  too 
that  might  lead  us  far  indeed.  The  chromatic,  in  the  voice  part  cape- 
cultivation  of  music,  in  private,  will  dally ;  the  second  b  a  lively  con[H 
continue  to  extend  itselt,  unless  the  mon-placc. 

perfection   now   indispensable,    and  Twn,  turn  those  Eyes,  a  glee  for 

the  labour,  time,  and  expense,  im-  three  voices,  by  Mr.  Webbe,  jun.  is 

plied'  in  that  perfection,  become  A  not  distinguislied  by   any    peculiar 

l)ar  to  its  adoption  as  a  pursuit  This  beauty  of  melody  or  construction, 

is  to  l>e  lamented ;  for  tnere  is  no  ao-  There  are  two  Italian  songs,  SH 

complishmcnt  so  social  in  its  nature,  mio  bene,  and  Amor  frriuna  e  pace, 

as  well  as  so  delightful  to  the  indi-  by  Caraia ;  their  prhicipal  rcconi- 

vidual  who  possesses  it.    That  mu-  mendation    is    novelty,    which,    ft 

sic  is  nevertheless  at  present  extend-  ehouldseem,i8  often  enough  to  teinpt, 

ing  into  every  comer  of  the  realm.  Is  if  not  to  re-pay  publisncrs.      Th^ 

completely  proved  by  the  visible  in-  ouartetto,  Siete  turchi  non  vi  credo, 

crease   or    instructors,    instrument-  vom  //  JSireo   in  Italia,  has  also 

makers,  and  publications.    We  re-  been  printed  In  a  separate  form, 

joice  at  these  symptoms,  because  we  Mr.  Latour  has  arranged  a  selec-* 

are  satisfied  it  is  amongst  the  most  tion  of  airs  from  //  Barhiere  di  Se^ 

innocent  and  the  most  elegant  means  ^figHa^  and  they  make  very  brilliant 

of  advancing  hinnan  happmess.  duets  for  the  piano-forte. 

-   The  publications  of  the  month  are  Mr.  Bochsa's  fourth  book  of  duets 

few,    and  inconsiderable;   there  is  for  the  harp  and  piano-forte,    the 

one,  however,  of  much  merit;  Spa»  same  Opera,  has  also  appeared. 

nish  Melodies,  with  eharaeteristie  Plofm  Mr.    Burrowes    has   published   a 

try,  by  J.  It  Planch^,  Esq.  the  Sym^  TMrd  Number  of  Handel's  Chorus- 

jJionies  and  ActompanimenU  by  C  Mm  ses,  as  duets  for  the  harp  and  piano. 

Sola.    This  is  an  elegant,  a  popular.  The  subject  is.  See  the  Conquering 

and  a  captivating  selection,  at  once  Hero  Comes. 

tasteful  and  delightf\il.    Nothing  so  The   ninth  number  of  the  Opc« 

near  to  Moore's  publications  has  ap-  ratio  Airs,  by  Rawlings,  is  an  agrce- 

pearcd  from  any  other  hand ;    tne  able  lesson.    The  tiiemc.  Faint  and 

melodies  possess  the  charm  of  feel-  Wearily,  from  the  ^Mountaineers,  is 

ing  and  simplicity.    The  words,  if  introduced  by  a  very  pretty  pastorale 

not  highly  i)oetical,  have  the  same  movement.     The  rondo  is  lively  and 

characteristics.    We  recommend  this  elegant,  and  the  allegretto  foniis  a 

little    work    to    every    singer    who  very  spirited  conclusion 

knows  how  to  make  the  most  oi  8  Anguti90, 1821. 


=3 


TH£  DRAJifA. 
No.  XX. 


'^  I  coNFKSS  we  excel  in  our  dra- 
matical compositions,"  says  M.  Saint 
Kvrcmond ;  and  the  French  silentiy 
acquiesce  in  their  countryman's  plea- 
sant opinion.  M.  Saint  £vreraond 
was  a  gallant  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  was  an  adnurer  of  the 
celebrated  Ninon,    with  whom  he 


corresponded  till  he  was  ninety,  and 
she  fourscore  years  of  age.     There 
is  an  apparent  mixture  of  candour 
and  self-love  in  his  letters  to  her,  as, 
well   as  hi  his  opinions   "  on  'Tra-' 
gedy,"   and  other  matters.     In   his 
Kssav  on  Tragedy,  >iit  wvwj  ^«i^»N^v$ 
shorUy,   NiYiaX  &a    "^t^wcVl  t«Sw«v 
2\2 


390  TheDraauu  Q8ept« 

thought  and  think  on  the  sulgect  of  to  hare  attained  the  last  perfection.** 
dramatic  art ;  and  there  is  no  other  The  long  discourses  that  we  read  in 
writer  of  that  country  (at  least  that  Sophocles  and  Eschylus,  are  as  ex- 
we  recollect  at  this  moment)  who  plicit,  and  as  much  to  the  ])urpose, 
has  committed  himself  in  the  same  as  the  pompous  declamation  oi'  the 
candid  manner.  "  I  confess  we  ex-  French  theatre^  where  passion  ia 
eel  in  our  dramatical  compositions;"  torn  to  rags^  and  love  distorted^  and 
aiid^  without  flattering  Comeille^  he  common  mortals  are  lifted  up  on  the 
jay 8^  he  thinks  he  may  safely  prefer  itilts  of  false  sentiment  and  unna* 
bis  tragedies  to  those  of  the  ancients,  tural  ''  grandeur^"  till  they  become 
.The  ancients  might  be  very  well  in  stationary  at  some  point  between 
their  waj,  he  thinks ;  but  n-eatness,  the  earth  and  skics^  where  they  divest 
magnificence,  and,  above  all,  "  dig-  themselves  of  all  the  true  and  fine 
nity,  was  a  thing  they  but  little  un-  qualities  of  men,  without  arriving  at 
derstood."  Afterwards  he  commends  any  of  the  perfections  of  the  gods, 
the  Greeks  for  their  success  in  ex-  .  Enough  has  already  been  said, 
pressing  the  '^  quafUies  "  of  their  he-  perhaj>s,  on  this  subject,  by  coAtem- 
roes ;  but  when  they  thought  of  the  porary  writers :  but  it  is  well,  at 
*'  magnificence  of  great  kiugs,"  it  nil  times,  to  judge  our  adversary 
rather  spoiled  than  raised  their  ima-  put  of  his  advocate's  mouth,  if  it  be 
gination.  However,  he  adds,  "  they  p068it)le.  Besides,  the  opinions  of 
could  not  be  imposed  upon  as  to  cou-  M.  Saint  Evremoud  are  the  opinion 
rage,  constancy,  lustice,  and  wisdom,  of  the  French  nation;  but  the  reasons 
of  which  they  had  diuly  instances  for  that  opinion  we  do  not  remem- 
before  their  eyes."  *'  Their  senses  ber  to  have  seen,  in  so  fair  a  manner, 
lieing  weaned  from  pomp,  gave  their  elsewhere  recorded.  It  is  well 
reason  a  greater  latitude  to  consider  known,  that  we  ourselves  (i.  e,  the 
fRTA  in  themselves"  English)  took  pattern  from  oiur  con- 
.  This  is  quite  satisfactory;  and  if  tinental  neighbours,  and,  for  the 
the  French,  who  have  a  tolerable  space  of  a  century  or  more,  forsook 
contempt  for  our  drama,  would  get  our  great  mistress.  Nature,  and  were 
into  the  practice  of  giving  all  their  as  full  of  "  grandeur,"  and  as  fool- 
reasons,  as  honestly  as  M.  Saint  £v-  ish  as  they.  But  better  days  are 
remond,  when  they  shower  down  come,  or  are  coming.  ^ 
their  taunts  on  our  barbarous  spec-  .  Nor  was  it  only  in  dramatic  writ- 
tades,  we  shoidd,  we  suspect,  have  ing,  that  a  false  taste  prevailed, 
but  little  misunderstanding  with  The  actor,  as  well  as  the  author, 
them.  He  gives  us  a  fair  debtor  and  was  fond  of  "  grandeur ;"  and  ac- 
creditor account,  which  is  amusing  cordingly  a  style  of  acting  grew  into 
enough ;  and  so  it  is  when  he  shuts  reputation,  where  it  was  only  neces- 
his  eyes,  and  strikes  the  balance  in  aary  to  be  as  unlike  other  people  as 
his  own  favour.  How  quick  is  his  possible,  in  order  to  succeed.  It  is 
tumming  up !  '^  I  avoid  being  te-  mcredible  how  the  fustian  of  the  last 
dious  as  much  as  possible;  and  I  century  could  possibly  please,  and 
will  only  add,  that  no  nation  can  dis-  yet  it  did ;  and  when  Gar  rick  came, 
pute  with  us  the  superiority  in  tra-  to  remove,  in  some  measure,  the 
gedy."  It  is  really  a  pity  that  a  man  spell  that  had  spread  like  a  film  over 
who  comes  to  such  rash  decisions,  t£e  eye  of  taste,  he  found  plenty  of 
in  such  a  style,  should  beguile  one  persons,  who  considered  his  style 
into  forbearance  by  his  previous  ho-  vulgar,  and  himself  rather  as  imperti- 
nesty.  A  few  words  more,  and  we  nent  than  bold,  for  having  adopted 
will  then  leave  M.  Saint  Evremond  it.  Time,  however,  settled  the  of- 
fbr  more  recent  matter.  The  Greek  fair,  as  he  always  docs,  and  merit 
dramatists,  he  says,  '*  thought  it  found  its  level.  Mr.  Kenible  may 
enough  to  know  persons  by  their  ac-  be  considered  as  the  next  great  acti»r 
tions,"  while  "  ComeiUe  dived  to  to  Garrick,  hi  point  of  time ;  but  he, 
the  bottom  of  the  soul "  to  find  them  witli  all  his  high  talent  (and  in  one 
out.  Now  this  happens  to  be  ma-  or  two  characters  he  was  matchless) 
terially  wrong.  The  Greeks  admitted  does  not  come  altogether  luider  our 
ua  into  their  secrets,  at  least  as  far  tneaning.  Cooke  had  a  great  deal 
MB  M.  Comeille,  ui  whom,  M.  Saint  of  rougli  power ;  and  Macklin  (con- 
Evnmimd  8aj§^  ^'grandeur  leema  aidering  oia  Shylock)  might  be  ac- 


1921.|]  The  Dnmuu  S91 

counted  a  fine  tragedian ;  but  Mr,  cdourings  with  a  iiotent  skill,  mak* 

Keen  it  was,  who,  since  the  days  of  ing  him  neither  too  weak  for  admira* 

Garrick,  first  gave  a  strong  impulse  tion,  nor  too  fierce  for  sympathy.    In 

to  popular  taste,   and  tinned  once  a  word,  he  was,  and  is  a  great  actor, 

more  the  current  of  opinion.  who  has  had  power  enough  to  make 

Mr.  Kean, — Our  countrjr  readers  the  public  his    proselytes,  and  haa 

will  be  glad  to  hear  that  this  gentle-  judgment  and  discretion  enough  to 

man  has  returned  from  the  shores  of  keep  them  so.    We  do  not  wish  to 

the  Mississippi  and  the  Ohio,  with  discuss  his  transatlantic  disputes,  nor 

all    hia   great   powers   unimpaired,  to  innuire  how  his  time  was  Uiere 

Unfortunately,  he  came  a  fortnight  occupied. — But  there  Is  one    tUn^ 

or  three  weeks  too  late,  to  fire  all  which  it  is  right  to  record ;  namely,* 

his  friends  an^  opportunity  of  mani-  the  fact  of  his  having  erected  a  nu>* 

festing  the  delight  which  they  felt  on  nument  to  the  memory  of  Cooke,  who, 

his  return ;  but  there  were  still  many  after  havins^  excited  the  strong  adnd- 

remaining  in  town,  whom  the  corona-  ration  of  tne  great  Republi^tas,  dkd 

tion  had  not  occupied  or  fatigued;  there,  without  leaving  one   persoo 

and  by  these  he  was  welcomed  in  a  behind    him    who    had    generosibr 

way  that  left  him  no  room  to  sua-  enough  to  raise  a  simple  stone  to  hu 

pcct  '  any  decay  of  old    regard.—  honour.    Mr.  Kean  did  this  for  him 

One  can  scarcely  conceive  that  this  at  hb  own  expense, 
fine  performer  could  have  acted  for       And  now  what  shall  we  say  of  die 

years  without  attracting  any  notice  theatres? — CovenUCktrden,  after  hav-« 

whatever :  and  yet,  when  he  first  ap-  ing  reaped  very  large  benefit  from 

peared  on  the  London  boards,  he  had  the  Coronation,  has  closed  its  doon 

certainly  come  direct  from  some  pro-  till    the   97  th    of  September.    Mr. 

vincial  theatres  in  the  west  of  £ng-  Fawcett  delivered  the  usual  addresa 

land,  where  he  had  been  performing  at  the  close  of  the  season,  and  bade 

in  tragedy,  comedy,  opera,  and  pan-  the   audience    farewell.      There   ia 

tomime,    without   acquiring    either  something  hearty  in  Fawcett's  maiiF* 

fame    or    fortune.    ''Let  me    see:  ner,  when  he  comes  in  contact  with  a 

Kean? — Kean?"  said  the  manager  theatrical  assembly;   and  he  is  no 

of  the  Bath  theatre;  '' I  think  we  Aa^  despicable  orator  on  an  emergency, 

a  man  of  that  name  with  ns  last  We  like  to  meet  him. 
summer ;  but  he  is  gone,  I  believe,  to  drury  lake. 

Exeter  or  thereabouts;" — and  thus  it        The  Coronatiom* — ^We  are  no  pTO« 

was  thai  Kean  had  been  (we  won't  phets ;  and  ^et  Mr.  EUiston  has  en*- 

say  wasting  his  sweetness  on  the  de-^  acted  the  Kins-  in  pursuance  of  our 

sert  air,  because  that  is  not  a  new  forebodings.  His  '  Coronation'  bore 

quotation,  but)  losing  the  best  years  a  strong  resemblance  to  the  actual 

of  his  life  in  toiling  for  the  illiterate  pageant,  and  was  got  up  with  '  ht» 

and  other  vulgar  of  the  west.    But  coming  splendour.'    This  is  all  that 

he  spranff  at  once  from  obscurity  to  we  need  say  about  it ;  for  the  daihf 

fame,    edlpsing  every  other   repu-  papers  have  teemed  with  accounta 

tation,    coimteracting  old   opinions,  of  the  great  show,  till  every  person, 

and  vanquishing  every  thing  but  pre-  however  curious,  must,   we  should 

judice,  which  is  blmd,  and  interested  think,  be  satisfied.     Mr.  Elliston'a 

enmity  that  will  not  see.  It  was  an-  exhibitors  invaded  the  peaceable  do- 

ticipated  that   he   could    not   have  main  hi  the  front  of  the  lamps ;  and 

height  enough  for  one  part,  nor  '  dig-  in  this  they  differed  from  the  miieter 

nity'  enouffn  for  another;    but   he  folks  at  Covent-Garden,  as  weu  aa  In 

contradicted  prophecy  at  once ;  and  having  dresses   precisely  similar  to 

ran  the  whole  roimd  of  tragic  cha-  those  used  by  the  lords,  and  pagaf, 

racters  with  a  success  which  was  as  and  great  ones,  at  Westminster, 
eminent  as  it  was  marvellous.    The        Tie  MountaineerM.  —  Mr.  Cooper 

Roman,  the  Greek,  the  Moor, — the  has  appeared  in  the  character  of  Oc- 

tvrant,  the  lover,  the  master,  and  the  tavian  in  this  pli^  of  the  younger 

slave— he  undertook,  and  accomplish-  Colman.    His  performance  does  not 

ed  all.    He  made  Richard  what  he  require  any  particular  notice.    He  la 

never  was  before ;  and  drew  out  all  an  inoffensive  actor,  but  has  no  great 

the  shades  of- Othello,  showing  off  points  about  him.    KecEiUft  xmw^Xa 

and  contrasting  the  goiUe  md  darker  gWt  effiBd  \o  levtniiL  \^a^  ^^«>**^ 


Ml                                            7%€  Drama:  [[Sept. 

vian ;  though  he  always  made  love  In  man  whom  hti  has  fixed  upon."    He 

a  mournful  style,  and  not  at  all  to  our  teUa  her  also,  that  he  has  already 

taste.  written  to  hhn,  and  that   she  may 

THE  HAYMABKCT.  expect  him  wlthout  delay.   The  lady 

Mise  and  Fall,  —  a  short  comedy,  protects  against  this,  and  says,  that 

irom  the  pen  of  Mr.T.  Dibdin,  has  been  no  military  hero  shall  enter  the  house. 

Sroduced  here,  and  Jones  made  his  In  the  mean  time,  Rakely,  who  is 

ebut  in  it  for  the  season,  as  a  Tillage  Colonel  of  Belmont's  regiment  (and 

school-master.    The  play  is  a  light  according  to  an  hnpudent  servant's, 

lively  thing,  adapted  to  the  summer  Shuffle's,  account,  a  jewel  of  a  man) 

weather,  and  contains  the  characters  discoverstheparticularsof  Match'cm's 

of  a  London  citizen,  a  nabob,    an  letter,  and,  by  way  of  a  frolic,  dis- 

altomey,  a  French  valet,  a  reduced  patches  his  captain    on    regimental 

gentleman,  and  so   forUi,   none   of  duty,  and  sets  off  for  Match'cm's 

which  strike  us  as  containing  mudi  famise,  as  Captain  Bebnont.     Here 

petension  to  originality.    The  play  he   is   recogniased   by  Shuffle,  and 

Itself,  is  a  mixture  of  comedy  and  somewhat  jeered  bv  the  young  lady, 

farce,  with  a  dash   of  the  impro-  who  speaxs  in  lavish  terms  of  the 

bable  in  it,  and  some  jokes  that  are  accomplishments  of  Colonel  Rakcljp'. 

laughable  enough,  and  have  not  wit  At  this   period,    the   real    Captam 

enough  to  set  us  thhiking.     Jones  Belmont  is  announced;  and  though  his 

played  excellently  well,  and  Terry  actual  presence  is  delayed  by    the 

also ;  and  Oxberry,  who  was  *Volubk,  ingenuity  of  Shuffle,  he  finally  breal(s 

let  his  flood  of  discourse  escape  with-  in  upon  them,  and  is  recogiiized  as 

out  any  apparent  exertion.  We  much  having  preserved  Lady  Kmilv  from 

like  this  easy  sort  of  actor.    Mn.  some  danger  at  the  Opera.    1  his  oc- 

Chatterley  made  a  very  handsome  curs  in  the  absence  of  Kakely,  who 

'  JRose'    (her  father  is  a   gardener,  now  returns,    and   is   overwhelmed 

and  is  called    '  Dot^rose,'    which  is  with  confusion,   for   Bdmont    now 

altogether  silly),  and  forced  fi-om  ua  afiects  to  be  reaUy  the  Colonel,  and 

a   certain    quantity   of  admiration,  exhibits  the  airs   of  high  military 

fittie  is  a  fine  oriental-looking  woman,  rank,  to  the  no  small  edification   of 

and  would  become  the  silken  gar*  his  superior  officer.    At  last  the  joke 

ments  of  a  Georgian  sultana,  better  is  made  clear,  and  Belmont  and  Lady 

than  the  boddice  and  scanty  dress  of  Elizabeth  are  matched:  Jones  was  the 

an  English  gardener's  daufffator.  She  Colonel,  and  Terrv   the  Maker   of 

plays  very  pleasantly;  and  ue  comedy  Matches  (he  played  admirably),  l>e 

was  on  the  whole  wdl  *  got  up.'  Gamp,  the  Captain ;  and  Mrs.  Chat- 

Fonfainbleau  has  been  penonned  terly,    the    Lady    Elizabeth.    This 

here,  sxid  *jMckiand'  (the  principal  theatre  seems  well  attended,  though 

oharacter)  was  performed  bv  Jones,  the  scent  of  the  pauit,  &c.  is  not  yet 

He  Im  always  lively  and  busthng;  but  gone, 

he  does  not  give  us  qtiiie  so  good  an  Lvcsric  theatbe. 

idea  of  Lackland  as  Ellistou,  who  This  agreeable  little  summer  house 

really  looks  the  thing  to  perfection ;  wluch  is  not  **  too  hot  to  hold,"  and 

we  give  credit  to  his  nungered  IocJls,  is  therefore  a  favourite  place  of  a- 

ond    have    inplicit    rehaiice  on   the  musement  during  this  pipmg  month, 

holes  in  his  elbows.     Jones   seems  —is    continually    producing    some 

■carccly  so  much  in  earnest,  as  his  pleasant  or  pathetic  little  drama,  of 

brother  actor ;  he  does  not  cast  the  its  own  size,  which  never  fails  to  iu- 

flame  eager  and  anxious  looks  on  all  tcrest  and  delight  us. 

strangers,    nor  does   he   borrow   •  The  MiNer's  Maid,  founded  upon 

guinea  with  the  same  felicity.  BJoomfield's  ballad  of  the  same  name, 

Maich-^makififfj — ^This  is  a  pleasinr  b  really  one  of  the  most  afTecting 

little  faiteriude.  Mr.Terry  (Match'em)  pieoes  we  ever  recollect  seeing.    I'he 

is  one   of  those  persons  who  have  mddents  are  natural  and   lorciblc, 

the    passion   on    them   for    making  and  the  dialogue  is  throughout  easy 

two  people  happy.  If  is  benevolence,  and  sensible. 

in  this  instr:ncc,  leads  him  to  his  own  Our  readers  will  recollect  that  the 

niece.  Lady  Emily,  to  whom  he  sub-  ballad,  as  told  by  Bloomfield,  relates 

mits  his  Hat  of  bachelors,  ami  tells  the  hnres  of  two  Fmmdlings  who  nre 

Ihw  ibai   ^i?|ppC«m  BelflOMnit  it  thii  ^tn  ^K«riy  tAictcd  with  on  hwur- 


1S21.3  ^  Ntw  Htfmn-Book.  988 

mountable    relat&onBhip.     By   dint,  suasions  of  Fhcebe,  ailer  having  plot- 

however,    of    certain    marks     and  ted  her  ruin^  is  deeply  affecting ;  m 

chances    common    to   ballads^    this  the  tears  of  Uie  men  (Uie  best  of  eri- 

alarming  trouble  is  averted — and  the  dence !)  testify.    Miss  Kelly  plays  as 

lovers  are  duly  married  in  the  course  though  she  never  was  two  miles  from 

of  the  last  lines  of  the  poem.    The  the  mill  in  her  life.    Hartley  had  a 

author  of  the  drama  has  retained  all  ffood  dusty  look,  and  carried  himself 

the  difficulties,  and  all  the  "  miracu-  bravely  like  a  corn-factor.  The  frank 

lous  escapes,"  of  the  ballad ;  and  in  character  of  George  was  well  repre* 

addition  to  these,  he  has  introduced  sented  by  Mr.  T.  F.  Cooke  (a  sensi- 

a  Foundling's  rival  with  uncommon  ble  man  at  all  times),  and  Mrs.  Grove 

vigour  and  effect.    This  character^  was  exquisitely  tedious  in  the  MiDer't 

Gues  (a  name  Xxken  from  the  Far-  wife.    We  should  not  forget  Harley^ 

mer's  boy,  we  presume),  is  very  for-^  who,  of  all  men  on  the  stage,  is  the 

cibly  delineated  by  the  author,  and  most   restless    and    contented ;— he 

most  admirably  struck  out  by  Emery  played  an  illiterate  narrator  of  ghoat 

in  the  performance.    The  rude  and  stories  with  great  spirit  and  humour, 

powerful  passion  of  a  rustic  is  riven  Ghost  stories,    however,    are    ''no 

to  the  life.    The  scene  in  whicii  he  jokes!" 
ruggedly  yields  to  virtue  by  the  per- 


A  NEW  HVMN.BOOK.* 


ts,  pretty  well  known    may  be,  are  by  this  new  li^i  of  mifr- 
!aders  (for  old  stories    tic,  reminded  of  the  vanities  and  re- 


It  is,  doubtless, 
to  most  of  our  rci 

travel  fast),  that  a  celebrated  Dis-  velries  of  their  youth,  and  are  blessed 
tenter  of  the  present  day  laid  holy  with  the  opportunities  of  connecting 
and  violent  hands  on  sundry  favourite  the  old  airs  with  the  profound  organ, 
jigs  and  country  dances,  and  putting  and  of  dismissing  for  ever  the  volatile 
decorous  verses  to  them,  and  sober-  rhapsodies  of  the  dancing  master's 
ing  down  the  time  to  a  ehapel'Uke  kit  Music,  so  chastened,  becomes 
placidity,  set  them  before  his  congrc*  a  Magdalen,  and  repents  of  its  er« 
gation  and  his  organist,  declaring  rors.  Its  beauty  is  deemed  pardon- 
that  *'  it  was  a  pity  the  devil  should  able,  being  thus  controulca  by  a 
have  all  the  best  tunes ! "  Thus  the  staid  dress,  and  tamed  to  an  orderly^ 
young  and  devout  milliner,  who  teDdemett.  Country  dances  become 
flaunted  about  in  flowers  during  the  the  ekci^  The  graceless  Paddy  Carey 
week,  and  whose  ears  were  oc(»*  walks  forth  like  the  old  gentleman  In 
sionally  fkttered,  yet  shocked,  with  the  Antient  Marinere,  *'  a  wiser  and 
faint  sounds  of  the  White  Coekade^  a  better  man.*'  The  Dusty  Miller 
and  Money  Musk,  and  Go  to  the  Devil  whines  like  Mawworm ;  and  Voulez 
ami  shake  yourself ,  as  she  carried  the  vous  danser  drops  its  erring  request, 
band-box  along  by  the  side  of  the  and  goes  off  with  ''  a  dying,  dying 
palings  of  Vauxhall  gardens,    was  fall." 

rewarded  for  her  resolute  and  deoor^        Is  It  absolutely  necessary,  in  this 

ous  resistance  of  the  tunes,  by  hetf^  strange  age  of  reform   and   refine* 

ing  them  float  about  her  on  Sunday*  ment,  that  the  solemnity  and  depth 

evenings,  with  a  propriety  tluit  sank  of  the  rich  old  church  music  shoidd 

her    into    a    justifiaiile    tenderness^  be  changed  for  the  light  and  frivol- 

While  the  eye  was  turned  up  to  the  ous  airs  whidi  are  associated  only 

brazen  branches  of  the  chandelier,  in  our  minds   with    ''  dance    aiid 

and  the  hands  were  crossed  upon  the  song,  and  sun-burnt  mirth  ?  "—Will 

tippet,  the  feet  might  be  trying  little  not  those  arave  and  awful  hymns, 

pardonable  steps  under  the  shade  of  which  made  our   fkthers   virtuous^ 

the  hassock,  and  the  heart  damse  a  and  lifted  the  souls  of  men  to  the 

devout  minuet  with    the   heart   of  skies,   strike  sacredly  on  living  ears, 

young  Mr.  Jones  in  the  next  pew  for  and  lead  the  hearts  that  now  beat  to 

a  partner.    Old  ladies,  maiden  they  holy  and  serious  joy }    Indeed,  wc 

•  The  besatics  of  Mossrt,  Hsi^d,  Pleyfll,  Haydn,  Bcilhofar^*  tXMi  ksaSbax  <d^ 
brated  eonpoMN,  adi^Ctd  lo  lbs  winds  of  i^oj^uks  ^Bttuaai  tB&b^Bsa.  XjmAci^'^'^^" 


guipeot  tii^'  most  fiital   rev^ne  of  What  young  lady,  after  a  day's 

what  \b  ffood  must  follow  this  mar-  preparation  in  such  a  chapel  as  we 

riaire  of  the  chapd  and  the  ball-room,  nave  hinted  at,  and  with  ner  heart^ 

It  18  not  po88il)le  to  conceive  that  over-brimmed  with  Haste  to  the  Wed- 

any  mind  can  retain  that  passionless  ding,  or  the  Emperor  Ahxander,-^ 

qiuet  which  is  the  soul  of  devotion,  ooiud  sit  down  to  ner  evening  piano^ 

when  the   disordered  spirit  of  the  and   play  and  sing  such  hymns  as 

dance  passes  with  new  allurements  these    with   sincere  devotion?   The 

ever  it.  very  certainty  that  she  was  Mwind* 

.   We  have  been  led  to  make  these  ling  the   day,    that  she  was  pass* 

lew    obaervationsj    by    the   strange  jxiqjia^h  notes. — that  the  muidc  the 

GbUcation    now   before   us  :-»The  was  playing  had  an  alias,  and  that 

■uties  of  Handel,  Mozart,  Fley-  too  or  a  very  suspicious  description, 

el,  Haydn,  Beethoven,  and   Qthers,  -^would  bo  some   way  to  the  de« 

sd6pted  to   the   worcls  of  popular  spoiling  of  her  sincerity.    She  is  told 

]MNuros  and  hymns.    We  cannot  but  tnat   Don   Giovanni   must    not   be 

regard  this  work  as  more  outrageous  thought  of, — with  the  Italian  errors 

in  its  intentions,  and  more  dangerous  whidi  associate  with  it  during  the 

in  its  effects,  than  that  sprightly  in-  week, — but  with  a  slight  dippinff  it 

troduction  of  pleasure  into  the  Dis-  is  made  fit  for  use  ou  the  Sunaay* 

senter's  orsan  loft  of  which  we  have  We  shall  now  proceed  to  point  out  a 

been  complaining.    The  book  is  evi-  few  of  the  airs,  and  to  give  our  rea^ 

dently  planned  for  a  Sunday  piano,  ders  some  notion  of  the  words  ac-* 

The  serious  family  need  no  longer  companyhig  them, 

start  up  in  torror  at  the  twinkle  of  /r/y  not  yet!  that  bcauUfid  invo- 

a  harpsichord  key,  for  those  tunes  cation  to  late  hours,  and  love,  is  not 

which,  on  the  Saturday,  clothed  words  forgotten  in  this  selection.    And  the 

of  gay  passion  and  laughing  plea-  lines  are  provided  after  the  followmg 

sure,  arc  "  other  guess  sort  of  crea-  fushion  * 

J"J^  ",  ""li^^  ^Y"f*^'  "t"^  ^"^^  Sin^  life  in  mnow  must  be  spen^ 

infused  with  a  holy  rapture.    We  g^  ^e  it,^l  un  veU  contenC^ 

really  look  upon  this  work  as  the  And  meekly  wwt  my  kit  remove, 

opera  of  the  devout^  the  pky  for  the  And  leeking  only  growth  in  k)ve, 

insincerely  pious.    Will  the  reader  And  seeking  growth  in  love, 

believe,   that  all,  or  nearly  all,  the  tn-    u            •        i     ^-         u    i 

joyous  airs  of  Don  GiovaniS  are  thu»  ■Y'^J^l  «7*"  boardmg.«chool 

ciiverted.      We   have    somewhere  fW,  with  ttw  tune  running   n  her 

read,    that   poor  Ned    Shuter,   the  ^ead.  coomiet  ^growth  of  love  u 

comedian,  wL  was  the  soul  of  hu-  W  other  than  that  love  which  grows 

mour  during  the  week,  moaned  and  **  ^r.  Newman  s  nursery,  m  Lea- 

phied  in  taT&emacles  on  the  Sunday,  «»e«Aall-jtrect  ?  "  Mercv  on  us !     as 

and  lived    "with  a   difference."-  '«'5'«  N»»  "ay^. "  '''>•*  .»  P«>«'- 

Music  seems  now  becoming  a  Ned  «=*** '     Almost  the  next  air  to  the 

Shuter  !-B^t  it  is  not  alone  to  this  "Jf  *«  ^^'^"5  "T,^'/?*)"/! 

afaigular  adaptation  of  music  that  ^'  r'"'  ^V'  "f^i  ?JSX 

we  »  much  object  J  we  must  also  "f  ^r*"^  AT' •2J^*-m  i       2 

protest  against  the  artful  arrange-  {"*  ^'-'S^^^^^  PITSiTI'^KT.^ 

ment  of  wme  of  the  words,  to  s*uit  Jf  T.'^*'y,  STfi  1^™^"w  7i 

the  acknowledged  tendenew  of  the  ???^?»',"^  Whitefield  ""d  Wes  ey 

air,  by  which  the  mind  is  thrown  ^^^  H  ''»*''' ."  «:«>«»Jf««*Wy  ^*^ 

into  a  doubt,  whether  it  U  listening  ''1'  *«  foUowmg  words : 

to  what  is  huqian  or  divine.    In  one  O  tell  me  no  more 

page  we  have  the  serenade  from  Don  Of  this  world's  vwn  stoie, 

Giovanni,  with  words  as  demure  and  "Hie  time  for  nidi  trifles  with  me  now  is  o'er  i 

suspicious  as  the  muric  calls  for.—  ^°^*^  ^  *Tf '  j, 

In  another  page,  the  celebrated  tat  ,-„.u     "?  •?"*  JT* '^  .  i        _— .-j 

"La  ci  daiim*"  is  made  question,  •T«»»««nly«lwdltogmth.th.ppygmnnd. 

ably  serious,  by  such  lines  as  tliese ;  Is  this  a  Hymn  ?— 

Oh^eak  tbst  giadous  word  again,  I"  ^^  words  to  JoAn  Andtmm  my 

And  chcCT  my  broken  bcut;  Jo!    we  might  almost  suq)ect  that 

Jfe  voiot  but  thne  can  loadie  my  pain,  the  principle  (if  principle  it  can  be 

t^bidmyfyaaiiftAt  callea)   upon  which   this   singular 


Iftil.:]                   LUerary  and  Sdemt^  tniMginee,  Sfc  3«l 

work  is  wraughiy  if  intended  to  be  Olnu  tnotfitr  y«»  if  iown, 

quaintly  promulgated :  Now  it  b  no  moie  eur  own. 

Come  ye  tfaftt  l9ve  the  Lend,  tndlft  jfoar  If  it  brought  or  pranieedaMid, 

joyi  be  known,  Hun  the  yew  bdbie  the  flood. 
Join  in  a  song  with  sweet  fceord,  wUIo  ya 

Rommnd  the  throne.  We  have  the  MermaUTs  »ong  fllM 

The  sorrows  of  the  mind  be  baniah'd  ftom  with  tnnnpetf^  and  joy^  and  mci^ 

thisplmee,  which   hecome   it    as   propeny   «f 

ReUgUmfuver  v««  detienU  10  mofto  oar  Barr/f  introductifm  of  Dr.  Burner 

-P*™"^  *^*'-  floating  down  the  Thames  amonff  tli^ 

.    'We  gire  the  following  Terse,  ouite  water  gods^  in  Ids  ^g.    The,  fiunr 

Bure  that  our  readers  will  read  m  it  garian  Wmtz,  and  the  Miss  peiH 

the  air,  and  all  the  original  language ;  netU'  Walti,  are  also  ffiyen^-^BHk 

00  doselyj  in  fact,  is  it  a  parodgf  d  enough  of  this  wretBhed  and  iR»- 

Moore.  rerentwork. 

Go  when  mercy  waits  thee,  We  cannot  conclude  without  seii- 

Bat  while  hope  ehrtce  thee,  ously  and  earnestly  protesthig  agidn^ 

Oh  still  submissive  be !  the  attempt  which  many  writers  of 

Bangers  ma^  oVertoke  thee,  late  have  made,  to  introduce  volui^ 

^?^,^"?,"/'"^f  **l*^   .  tuous  songs  under  the  garb  of  xe&- 

Oh  humbly  bend  thy  knee !  rfon.    Moore  and  Lord  Byron  harp 

V:^^^l£SS^^  ^  ^  guatyof  this;  and  ttl,. 

But  God  win  s^l^Sect  1L,  t^^S^    *>7»"«  ,*?  *TL,?'**  J? 
ThenmostgratdWbel  have  the  professed  hymn-booknow be- 
Think  of  all  his  merdes,  fore  us.  The  Sabbath  has  ever  becA  A 
\llifle  thy  voice  rehearses  ^y  of  rest ;  let  not  its  ^niet  now  be 
What  he  has  done  for  thee.  disturbed  by  these  deceitfid  and  se* 
The  very  OA  /  m  the  third  Une  is  ^u^tive  hiftingements.     The  h]rao. 
retained,  that  the  sigh  may  not  be  crisy  of  this  mvention  is  its  mam  rin; 
lost  to  which  the  mu5c  gives  so  ten-  ""^  ^*  ^«  ^  ^^  ^«t  ^«  ^^ct  our 
der  an  echo.  most  serious  opposition.    If  hvmns 
Let  the  reader  try  these  words  to  f®  played  and  suny  on  the  Sabbath" 
the  tune  of  Awav  with  Melancholy!  l«t  hwnns  be  plaved  and  sung:--and 
and  see  how  Uiey  go.  ^^^  ^^^^^^^  doubtful  songs  which  di<- 
Time  my  moments  steals  awi^,  vide  the  heart  between  heaven  and 
First  the  hour,  and  then  the  di^ ;  «arth  ;— wWch  appeal  to  the  senses 
Small  the  dafly  loss  appean,  ^^  a  holy  disguise ; — and  set  up  saint- 
Yet  it  soon  amounts  to  yean.  ^  ^i^  >*  A  divinity. 


LITERARY  AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE,  Ac 

New  Game  of  CA^tt.— Giuseppe  Giecor  united  together  serve  cquaDy  well  ss  the 

lini  of  Rome  has  puUished  a  description  of  iron  rods  now  fixed  upon  biifldinga  for  the 

a  new  game  of  chess,  under  the  title  of  former  purpose ;  at  the  same  time  that 

Teniativo  di  un  nuovo  Giuoeo  di  SeacchL  they  are  not  attended  with  similar  inooo- 

The  board  is  so  much  enlarged  that  instead  veniences.    In  consequence  of  this  diseo-' 

of  G4  squares,  it  contains  100,  and  in  order  very,  the  commonest  DuildiDgs  may  be  se* 

still  farther  to  increase  the  variety  of  moves,  cured  from  the  effects  of  lightning  in  the 

and  the  complexity  of  the  game,  a  new  most  economical  maimer,  and  even  cnpa 

piece  is  added,  which  the  author  denomi-  on  the  land  may  be  protected  fWnn  tiie 

nates  *•  The  Elephant.'    He  has  also  eon-  ravages  whidi  they  sometimes  sufi^  ftom 

siderably  extended  the  power  of  the  Bishop,  haiL    The  Professor  treats  of  the  imno^ 

to  which  he  allows  the  same  movements  as  tant  advantages  that  may  bo  CKpectca  to 

the  Rook,  with  the  excqition  of  their  being  result  from  the  practical  applieatioo  of  his 

confined  to  its  own  colour.    Nor  has  the  disooveiy,  in  a  publication  entitled  Traifi 

Knight  been  less  favoured,  since  his  pro-  dcM  ParajfbudreaeidetFttnigrUeMemcordeM 

CIS  through  the  board  is  now  almost  un-  depaUk. 
ited.  Buit  of  B<maparte.-^A  fine  marble  bust 

Natural  /Tlf/ory.— Professor  LapostoDo  of  the  late  Ex-emperor  of  France,  executed 

of  Amiens  has  discovered  that  straw  pot-  from  the  lift  by  Canova,  has  been  placed 

iesses  the  quality  of  serving  as  a  con-  in  die  library  of  the  Devon  and  Exeter 

dudor  to  Uffhtni^  and  ha£     Repeated  Insdtotion  at  Exeter.    It  is  a  very  highly 

•xpcrimnts  have  cdQriBcsd  him  that  stnws  finiriicd  pisos  oC  «ojl!goau 


SM  JkriMe^^J^f^igutmiDomuiicOccurftneei.  C'^pt* 


EdmcoHm  im  ZM^^^TU  l«MOMleika  CiMro.— The  Abb6  FagrnO)  PtoAwr 

miem  hM  been  introduced  into  wamnj  of  of  Odenul  Ijingiiam  at  the  UniTcnity  of 

the  iKiiicipaldtieiiMid  towns  of  tfaoItaliMi  Tiuin,  hag  fiwnd  in  a  MS.  brionging  to 

]tcninniU»auch  as  Nib]m»  MilaD,  BrMcb,  te  oon?0nt  of  St  Columbano  at  Bobbie, 

Valensa  on  the  Po,  IuV«li«'&c and  tdioQU  a  town  of  Sardinia,  several  fragments  of 

€D  this  pUn  are  now  artoilly  crtaUidGBig  tUe  preat  Roman  orator.   They  are  partly 

si  both  Genoa  and  Rome.    The  Abb6  Mtumrof  works  abeadj  known,  ndi  as 

Gesdb  and  M.CBitpin  have  employed  Aooo-  the  *  Oratio  pro  Scauro,' that  *  pro  M.M. 

idfcs  in  fbnnmc  ifanibr  odes  in  Ae  citj  TnO&s'Jbc.  Soma  of  these  have  been  pre- 

and  eofirons  of  rlies.    Nor  has  diis  me*  vionsly  bnmg^t  to  li^  by  the  kbonrs  of 

tedofinstnictiainlctwHhlesseneoaage.  Aagelo  Mai,  bat  this  manuscript  is  much 

mdBt  at  flifffoee,  fai  whidi  dty  is  ns  ttots  perfect  and  conect,  so  that  tho  de- 

**  FkwtbB  Institwtiont"  sTsiy  wwriar  idndessodenocsoftheodiercan  besnp- 

tls  estaUidimMit,  bflfag,  in  ta)  ft  «ai-  pBid  and  altered  from  this.    Tboe  is  a 

iHBBtioo  of  sennA  scfaoM     It  Is  nndsr  coaiMAaUe  differenoe  in  the  writing  of  the 

the  imr^'Mit  patronage  ol'tiie  Gofsm-  two  MSS.  and  also  in  their  fbnn,  the  one 

nont,  and  Is  supajnlcnded  by  Emo^  bcbic  in  two  cohimns,  the  odier  in  three. 

OriaiklinI,  tibe  fini  msctor  6t  Ae  plan.  TlkimA'^yvknM  bonoins  have  been 

He  is  assistodby  Bmnl,  Fienotfaii,^  fftd  to  die  memory  of  dds  distinffoished 

Gtnlmni,  yoong  men  no  aBsIonsfy  eo^  Atdunlqgjbt    Ohcnrdo  de  Road  has  de- 
hh  funk 


^eiatowfili  hmi  kiiadeaipi  so  pattibdc,  Bvwed  an  d^  wpea  him  In  Uie  Academy 

sad  tcndhw  m  ffftOj  to  ssadlotato  the  of  Aniiqaities  at  Rome^     The  Academt- 

OBditkii  of  lb«  iielW  eithNOS.     TUs  dsossfSt  Luke's  have  also  testified  their 

Inslltnriiin  doasnotconftieitsinstructiflpsto  leipect  by  holding  a  sokmn  meeting  ftir  the 

the  mere  riwisnts  of  leadiBg  and  wiitkigi  puqioss  of  commemonting  him.    At  the 

tein  addition  to  the  prcpttatory  schoQA,  Aesdsmy  of  Bolppiay  Stroechi  ledted  a 

tbers  are  teacfacfa  fisr  dqgant  peninanship^  wery  elegantly-written  memoir  of  him,  and 

arithnwitic,  dramng,  gjsagriDay,  and  pro-  linular  marks  of  attachment  and  regard 

iue  and  Itierary  histoiy.. .  Ine  papils  are  have  been  paid  to  him  in  odier  dties ;  but 

likewise  t^o^  \uivetsd  Jorammar,  and  its  smon^  aU  the  vsiioas  memoirs  which  have 

^^Ecatkm  to-dkcir  own  iSom.  They  leam  been  eomposed  on  this  erudite  schoUr  and 

Asttcfa,  and  are  initiated  into  die  falg^  a&tlquarv,  none  is  so  elegant  and  satislac- 

departmenits  of  literature,  and  into  physics  toir  ss  me  biogiaphj  drawn  up  by  Labey, 

and  natural  histoiy.  For  the  aecommidatieft  whieb  was  written  prior  to  most  of  the 

of  papils    ftom  a  distance,  m   boanUiig  odMsrs,  and  has  been  fxcdy  made  use  of  in 

aohoQl  has  lately  been  opened  in  die  Tidnitj  them.    It  has  lately  been  translated  into 

oflhelnsdtute.  Italian. 


MONTHLY  REGISTER. 


ABSTRACT  OF  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 

Gum  foreign  report  for  this  month  a  drciimstance  of  which  there  is  now 
is  alniosti  a  blank.  The  accounts  from  every  thing  to  induce  the  immediate 
the  Greek  and  Turkish  belligerents  expectation.  The  Emperor  Alex- 
are  ao  vague  and  contradicto^^  that  anoer^  whose  personal  aisbiclinatioa 
it  is  utterly  impossible  to  know  to  is  understood  to  have  formed  the 
which  to  attach  credit  In  proof  of  principal  obstacle  to  a  declaration  of 
this  we  may  instance  not  only  the  war,  aroused  by  the  increasing  cm- 
actual  life^  but  exceeding  good  health,  elties  of  the  Porte,  has  yielded,  it  is 
of  the  renowned  Aii  Pacha,  who  has  txdd,  to  the  unanhnous  decision  of 
been  so  often  unanimously  put  to  his  Senate  on  the  sul^ect.  A  mani- 
death  by  all  the  papers  in  Europe,  festo,  however,  on  the  part  of  Russia, 
It  seems  certain,  however,  that  Prince  is  spoken  of,  in  which  snc  formally  re- 
Ypsi!anti  has  left  his  army  in  disgust^  npunces  all  territorial  acquisition  m 
as  he  has  puhlished  a  manifesto  in  consequence  of  the  war,  and  exprcs- 
which  he  denies  to  them  even  the  sea  her  wish  to  act  solely  in  co>oi>c* 
name  of  soldiers,  and  denounces  their  ration  with  the  other  European  pow- 
cowardice  and  their  treachery  to  all  era.  The  Divan,  we  are  told,  alarmed 
I>osterity.  Affairs  will  probably  re«  by  these  indications,  has  accepted  tlic 
main  in  statu  quo  until  some  deciave  pn^ercd  mediation  of  England.  The 
iftvp  18  taken  bjr  tht*  Russian  CabioeVi  interchange  of  couriers  between  the 


1891.3  Ahsirad  &f  Saretgn  iKuA  ThmitHc  Otatmnua  Ht . 

Courtflof  St  Petersburg  and  Vienna  which  turned  Vmt  to  be  « liiflaiun»- 
has  certaiaJr  become  very  frequent,  tlon  in  the  bowels,  aaaumcd  an  ahum- 
and  even  France  is  again  assuming  ioff  appearance.     The  best  medical 
some  military  appearances.  We  slially  aid  which  Loudon  could  afibrd,  waa 
probably,  in  our  next,  be  enabled  to  immediately  procured,  but,  we  regret 
communicate  something  deciuve  on  to  say,  without  effect ;  after  a  week's 
the  subject,  but  it  is  impossible  not  suffering  during  one  period  of  which 
to  remark,  in  the  vacillation  and  un*  ,some  slight  hopes  were  entertained^* 
certainty  of  the  different  potentates,  nature  yidded  to  the  obstinate  se* 
the  striking  contrast  between   their  verity  of  the  complaint,  and  a  sup« 
pnlicy  and  Uiat  adopted  by  Napoleon:  plement  to  the  Gaxette  of  August  th»' 
while  a  legitimate  Cabinet  is  sitting  Bth,  announced  in  the  fdlowingterms« 
hi  council  on  the  phraseology  of  a  de-  the  fiital  event,  which  there  was  but: 
claration,  he  would  have  been  at  the  too  much  reason  to  anticipate, 
head  of  his  armies  on  the  hostile  firon*        Yettodsy  efenioo,  at  twenty-five  nd-, 
tier,  announcing  from  some  dnun-  nates  after  ten  o*dM,  «&  Qnecn  departed 
head  for  his  dedc,  the  extinction  of  this  life,  after  a  diort,  but  psinftd  iIlDe% 
a  dynasty !   Let  us  hope,  however,  *t  BtaDde&1inigh<4ioa4e,  Hammenmith. 
that  an  economy  of  human  blood  may       The  mournful  intelligence  was  ie«i 
be  the  result  of  these  continued  de-  oeived  in  London  with  very  ffenerd 
liberations.    The  Portuguese  Cortet  sympathy,  and  the  events  to  which  it 
and  their  King  have  been  exchanging  lias  given  rise  have  surrounded  it. 
great  civilities,  they  compUmentuig  it  with  a  still  more  melancholy  inte*; 
him  upon  his  constitutional  princf*  rest.    Whatever  may  have  been,  at* 
pics,  and  he,  with  equal  sincenty,  no  onetime,  tiie  hopes  of  the  Faculty,  it 
«loubt,  assuring  them  In  return,  thAt  appears  that   mm  the  very  com-, 
the  association  of  such  patriotic  ch»-  mencement  of  tiie  attack,  the  Queen. 
racters  for    the  preservation   of  lus  was  herself  impmsed  with  the  con-.' 
kingdom  has  alone  induced  him  again  viction  that  its  temdnation    would 
to  dignify  his  European  metropolis  by  prove  lataL  This  presentiment,  how- 
his  royal  residence !   Credai  JudaeuM  ever,  in  no  degree  depressed  a  spirit 
A/jella,     His  brother  of  Spain  liai  which,  in  the  many  trymg  eventa  of 
had  a  proof,  more  loud  than  deep,  of  her  various  life,  ao  often  proved  ita 
the  cncreasing  affection  of  his  aab*  singidar  strengtli  and  elastlcltv.'  (She 
Jects,  by  the  explosion  of  an  infernal  evinced  throughout  tiie  most  dignified 
machine  in  the  streets  of  Madrid  as  fortitude,  andthe  writer  of  this  heard 
he  was  passing  through  them.  one  of  her  physicians  declare,  that 
If  our  foreign  report  is  meagre,  our  ''often  as  he  had  attended  dyinff  per- 
chronicle    of  domestic    occurrencea  sons,  he  never  yet  saw  a  death  oed 
presents  a  different  character;  though  exhibit  so  many  striking  and  noble 
ive  confess  we  never  were  more  pUB-  qualities.'*      This    is   a   testimony, 
y led  than  to  know  under  what  head,  which,  authentic  as  it  is,  is  worth  a 
whether  of  the  Allegro  or  the  Pen-^  thousand  of  the  manufactured  m- 
«eroso,  to  classify  its  events.  Death,  mours  of  the  daily  press.   There  were 
JPestivity,  and  Inquest  should  form  the  some  very    affecting  incidents  con- 
titles  of  our  three  domestic  chapters,  nected  with  her  illness.    When  she 
But  our  readers  shall  have  the  diy  found  herself  becoming  alarmingly 
details,  unaccompanied,    as    is  our  enfeebled  she  sent  for  Mariette  Bmn, 
custom,  by  an  unnecessary  comment,  the  sister  of  Demont,  who  had  provecV 
Indeed  commentaries  are  sometimea  so  hostile  to- her  before  the  House  of 
dangerous.    In  the  first  place,  then.  Lords,    and  thus    addressed   her-^ 
the  Queen  of  England  is  no  more—  **  Mariette,  I  am  dying — ^your  sister 
her  final  earthly  trial  is  past,  and  she  has  wronged  me*-grievously  wrong- 
is  at  last  in  peace  in  the  tomb  of  her  ed  me«-1mt  tell  her  I  forgive  her  ;" 
ancestors.   Most  devoutiv  do  we  say,  and  then  after  a  pause  of  a  moment, 
in  pace  requiescat     In  the  beginning  dasping  her  hands  together,  she  re* 
of  the  month,  her  Majesty  him  com-  peated  emphidicall^ — *'  Yes,   I   do 
plaiiiefl  of  some  slight  indisposition  forgive  her.      It  wdl  be  seen  by  her 
at  Drury   Lane  theatre ;    she  was,  Minest/s  will,  that  she  beqneathed 
however,  able  to  sit  put  the  play,  to  Mariette  a  very  considerable  l<s 
biit  on  Iier  return  home  she  was  much  gacy.    It  is  said  that  in  a  long  con« 
worse,  and  tlie  next  day  her  disorder^  verSation  on  thfi  aubViSl  ^^  V^Ql  \]6a^» 


9tt                 AhilmH  (f  n^efgn  a^  DomuHi  Oeeurreneei.  !!3q>t. 

and  ks  cohsequenGefl,  ihtt  ezpresBed  Hsm  xajz8tt*s  will. 

Imraelfwith  much  fieeling  uixm  the  ^rhls  is  die  iMt  Will  tnd  Tetttticnt  of 

einptj  natura  of  the  triumph  it  had  me,  CudUne,  Qaem-CoiiMrt  of  the  United 

obtained  for  her— ''What?'  said  ihe^  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and  InUnd  s— 

"  niiat  has  popular  opinion  done  for  I  lavoke  aU  fbnner  Wills. 

meP— I  have  hidc«d  tne  vain  title  of  I  eonstitute  and  appoint  Staphoi  iMh. 

Qoeen,  but  none  of  its  privileges— I  ^^tfim^  JXictor  of  fews,    and   TlioiDaa 

an.  In  lealitj,   a  private  person."  ^ilde,  Esq.  Barrister  at  law,  tnistaeaand 

There  was,  however,    undoubtedly  ««"<«•  ^^  "JT  Will 

•  gfeat  iiortion  of  pubHc  sympathy.  Jl/^^  ^.^^S^^^aZ.^ 

b^e^^sedan^  SLdS-^^^B^^^^ 

BSPch  ofit  continued  even  to  the  last  p,^  ^^^^^  gj^  ^^^^  „^  bequeath  to 

Ih  proof  of  this  an  Occurrence  hap-  my  ^id  trustees,  aD  mj  riglit,  title,  and 

pened  on  the  verv  day  of  her  decease,  interest  under  the  said  Win,  andalso,  aU 

wUch  has  singularly  enough  escaped  the  test  of  my  property,  teal  and  personal, 

the  vigilance  of  the  daily  press.    In  debts  and  cfnMts,  of  whatsoerer  nature  or 

the  morning,  the  Richmond  steam-  loBd  soever,  and  wfaercaoever  situate,  upon 

boat  stopped  near  the  embankment  trust  to  receive  and  ooUect  the  same ;  and, 

of  the  lawn  at  Brandenburgh  House,  I'bso  collected^  eonvert  mlo  money,  and 

end  the  passengers  all  kneding  down  ^'^  •*  ^  Aar  discretion  m  the  funds  rf 

upon  the^edc,  sang  two  psalms-the  ^  ^?S?JW^'  "  athennse ;  and, 

G^een  heaid  the  ^ds,^  raising  T^  ^S^fV^  ^Yt^^.  ^"""^  ^ 

wwc»  u«<uu  IMC  M/iuiUA,  cuiu  1UOHI5  ^  whole  of  the  said  tniit  property  to 

lierself  up,    «iquU«d  Irom    whence  william  Austin,  who  has  been  long  under 

thfey  proceeded^she  was  told  it  was  ny  piotection,  on  his  attaining  the  age  of 

ftom  the  people  piwing  for  her,  and  si  years;  »d,  in  the  mean  time,  to  pay 

A  smile  of  pleasure  for  a  momeot  dls-  the  inteicst  and  proceeds  of  the  ssme,  or  so 

placed  the  expression  of  pain  upon  much  diereof  as  to  them  may  aeem  meet, 

ner  countenance.      In  the  evenmg,  towaids  the  maintenance  and  education  of 

when  the  same  boat  was  returning,  die  said  Wm.  Austin.    And  I  do  declare 

tiie  same  ceremony  took  place— but  tbst  my  said  trustees  and  executors  riiaU 

the  Queen  was  then  hisensible,  and  ^  be  cbwgeahle  m  respect  of  the  d^aidt 

the  sounds  feU  upon  the  ears  of  her  S^«^  ^'  "^Sif^^  T'l*  ^^^i^^ 

household  as  they  surrounded   her  ^TSL^e'l^^  ^ri,f^ 

«.^.i   «•       T^t^i.                 M.  cwn  renecaTe  receipts,  acts,  ano  wiinu 

death-bed.      It  is  not,  however,  to  aeftahs;   1  aLio  give  wd  bequeath  to  my 

he  denied,  that  by  Uie  advice  which  ^^  executes,  to  be  disposed  of  according 

^received,    and  followed  dunng  to  their  will  and  pleasure,  all  and  every  my 

the  last  months  of  her  life,  the  Queen  documents,  manusmipts,  papers,  writings 

Erienced  much  change  iii  the  po-  and  memoranda,  wheresoever  being  at  the 
r  sentiment  towards  her,  and  she  time  of  my  death, 
d  to  have  felt  its  force  with  bitter  Caeolixe,  R.  (SeaL) 
mortification  on  the  day  of  her  re-  8Hl^i«d,  sealed,  and  published,  this  3rd 
pulse  from  the  door  of  Westmfaistcr  ^7  <»f  Aupls^  in  the  year  1821,  at  Bran- 
Abbey.    If  we  were  to  express  any  ^burgh-house,  in  the  presence  of 
J^on  upon  what  led  chieAy  to  this  ?;,?i!rD/"s;AK, 
change,  we  would  say  it  was  her  Henry  Holland^  md. 
messa^  to  the  bouse  of  Commons,  Hood. 
dedanng   her    fixed    determination  tW.  i,  ,  ciodicU  to'  my  Will,  dated  this 
not  to  receive  any  pecuniary  grant,  M  day  of  August : 
imaccompanied  by  her  complete  re-  I  give  all  my  dothes,  here  and  in  Italy, 
cognition  as  Queen,    and  her  sub-  to  Marietta  Brun.    I  direct  that  a  parti- 
sequent  acceptance  of  the    money,  cnlar  box,  by  me  described,  be  sealed  with 
the  moment  tne  bill  passed  through  my  seal,  and  delivered  to  Mr.  Obidni,  of 
without  any  such  recognition.     It  is  Coleman-atreet,  merchant;  and  I  admow- 
remarirable  enough,  and  in  corrobora*  Wlge  that  I  owe  him  4,300/.    I  wish  that 
tlon  of  the  poignancy  with  which  she  Government  would  pay  the  16,(MKW.,  the 

felt  this  change,  that  she  has  not  even  ?T-  "^."^L^^^j"-  *^u         •  l"^?}!!!!: 
mentioned  the  name   of  Alderman  l  desne  to  be  buried  mBrimswuJc.  I  leave 
ixr.wwi    ;•*  kT.  wm    ^i:     ^          v  niy  coach  to  Stephen  L\i»hiiigton,  my  ex- 
Wood,  m  her  Will,  the  person  by  j;^       my  UndaSlet  to  John  Hicronymus. 
Whose  mstigation  she  is  said  to  have  '                    Carol  ike,  R. 
returned  to  En^and.    We  subjoin  Wimesses, 
tlus   interesthig  document  with   its  Hood,               T.  Dekmak, 
OodicilB.  H.  BmovGHAM,  H£wbtHollakp,md« 


1881.;]           Ahttraet  of  f^nigif  md  Ihmtdk  flpMyiwgg»t  M0 

Thii ii t  Coaicil to ny iMt  Wnit  lotte;  but  fiom the  fbtf  tluit  Marih- 

I  giTe  to  Jolui  HictoDTinus  and  Mttktti  ment  Would  Oppose  t&ii,  ehe  eat  Se* 

Bnm  .n  mybrf  and  t^  Umb,  «Udi  gired.  In  her  wiU,  that  her  remtffii 

iS"J^  T^":^' ^r  *"  ^  should  be  carried  to  her  femayumu- 

2^i^'lS^ul.;^*55^^  soleum,  at  Brunswkfc    We^lartent 

J^^^pSSiTStJS;"^^^  -^-"Jf*  to  add,  that,  after  mudi 

Siiiahterrto  tCciiidfaud  Alli«i.    The  ^tercadoo  between  the  ^ecuUrf^ 

bml^Joigch  pieum  of  myMlf,  to  JUdj  Ami  "^'"^  ^'  °^  household,  and  Us  Ifi.* 

HamfltoD.    I  gifo  tho  pktare  of  mvidf;  Jetty's  ndnbtera,  the  solenm  cereitt^* 

vhich  b  a  oopy  of  tfaot  glfoi  to  the  diy  of  malof  the  funeral  was  intetrupted  by 

Loodon,  to  my  cxecutorf  StcphttLodttig-  riot,  and  defiled  by  hJoodsheo.    MS* 

too.    lliareaietwopietiintreiinufaig,  of  nisters  directed  that  the  royal    nv 

wfaidi  I  beqne&di  to  the  Msraois  Antaldl  mains  should  be  conreyed  voiu  ibt 

that  wlnefa  he  rinU  choose,  nd  the  lemifai.  metropolis,  under  the  protection  of 

K^^'jr&tSf^* J  SSItS;  *  "^  escort,  by  a  suburbad 

ooec«mKe/l^£iiiTehim^»{iSi^  ^er,Jnsisfed   that  the   processhm 

opencarrii^    I  dedaK  that  my  itiimst  ^^  P^  throusfa  the  oty,   and 

under  my  mother*!  WiU  usiva  to  Winisin  i^cei^o    those   dtic  honours  whU| 

Aurtiii,  aaa  spedficlegaoy.  Ideaiiettd  the  corporation  had  voted  it  in  fhdr 

direct  that  my  body  be  not  optned,  end  common    ooundL      This    was    f]i0 

that  three  days  after  my  death  it  hocarrled  chief,  if  not  the  Mde  suljeci  of  &m* 

to  Bnioiwick  for  intcrmoit,  nd  dut  Ao  trbrersT.    Accordingly,  on  tiie  dMjf 

iniaription  upon  my  eoflm  be—**  H«e  li«  of  tiie  fimeral,  large  assemblages  tooH 

CarabiuofBnmswicfc,tibefaijandQiieM  pkm,  and,  after  sereral  altctcadoM 

,  .^f^  A.,^!!rr^i  ooT  tiiiued  from  seven  in  the  mondiiff  tSI 

J^CM^t^H^^'^  ^^"^  ^  ^«  afternoon,  the  ^o^Lb^ 


Igtreandbeq^athtoWiUiniAiiatfai,  weceeded  in  lea^  Ae  pfMCSriot 

an  my  plate  and  homeheld  ftmrftmo  at  Urfough   the  city.      The    triumph^ 

Bmndenba^bJumae,  and  tin  aU  nrassd  however,  was  not  a  bloodless  one-^ 

linen.  Ire  regret  to  say,  that  during  one  of 

I  direct  myexecnton  to  make  applic»-  the  ooHflicts,  which  took  place.netr 

tioB  to  hii  Majei^*!  QoTernroent  to  jtf  to  CumberUuid-gate,  in  Hyde  Park,  the 

them  such  aiim  of  money  at  at  the  nms  of  military  firei^   and  two  meU  wet«; 

my  decease  I  may  hoTo  paid,  or  wUehdiey  kiUed.     If  ever  there  was  a  place 

maybecalledt»povfi»rthepudiaseofmy  ^\^^^  human  pasdons  should  have 

housed  Scjjth  Aiiaky-SMt;  and  I gifo  gybslded,  and  CmiMrenmities  h|ive 

Aat  respert,  unto  theTmy^^  presjmw  of  Ihe  aii^  wlics  of  po* 

hi  trust  for  WiUiam  Austin,  acooiang  to  mortality.     ISven  In  the  course  « 

die  profisions  of  my  WiU:  such  uimto  be  the  journey  to  the  sea  coast,  there 

eonadered  a  spedllc  legacy.    And  in  erne  was  almost  a  scuffle  over  the  desd 

the  Goremment  shaU  revise  to  repay  radi  bodv  in.  a  church.  1 1    The  executors, 

sum,  I  direct  mj  ezeeutors  to  sdt  my  in.  in  the  course  of  the  night,  affixed  to 

terest  in  the  said  house,  and  also  the  rami,  the  lid  of  the  coffin  amate,  ^ntrribed 

ture  and  things  therein.    And  I  give  and  with  the  sentence   urected  in   the 

direct  the  proceeds  thoeof  to  bo  paid  and  Queen's  will— this  was  displaced  hf 

aprfied  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  saU  the  authorities,  after  a  strong  protest 

5;t^^Ti'?n^i!rSS^''^^^  from  the  former  genUemenVl^wmnt. 

^^S^j^n^^r^e^"^^  have  been  leceiVed  bf  the  arrival  of 

house, Ind  in  that  case,  the  p^ceeds  which  ^^^J  ^^  household,  in  the  roade 

may  be  realised  by  the  sale,  are  to  fall  mto  of  Cuxhaven.    Inquests  are  holdmg 

the  general  residue  of  my  estate.  Dated  7th  on  the  two  victims  to  this  unhap^ 

d^  of  August,  1821.  altercation ;  and  we  have  Just  heara, 

CAaoLiwv,  R.  that  the  verdict  of  one  of  the  juries 

Witness,  Uexey  U.  Thompsoit,  is,   wilful  murder   agidnst   a  life- 

l^tftmngum.  Ckiard's-man   unknown;    the  other 

It  is  understood,  that  during  her  inquest  is  still  sitting,  and  from  thtf 

confinement  she  expressed  a  wish  in  multitude  -  of  witnesses  to   be  exa« 

the  first  instance,   to   be  buried  at  mined,  is  likely  to  contiuuc  so  much 

Windsor  beside  the  Princess  Char-  longer. 


MO                Abttraei  tf  nnignmtd  Dom$tiie  Occurfeneu. '  C^pCL 

We  have  noir  to  turn  frem  tUs  bly  ia  Ireland,  caq.  have  any  idea  qt 

floene  of  woe«  to  one  of  Joy  and  fea-  wnlit  it  is.^ — Upon  his  Majesty  alight- 

tivity.  We  announced  long  dnce,  the  ing  from  his  carriage,  he  thns  nd- 

intention  of  the  sovereign  to  pay  his  dressed  his  convoyj  from  the  entrance 

Irish   metropolis   a   visit;  and  we  of  the  Lodge— 

cuted  that  intention.    He  landed  at  Ym^n!!-Jakm^wm 

Howth,  on  tiie  12th  of  Auguat,  be-  pSSSTl  fbd  at  thiwira  idldnd 

ing  his  birth-day,  and  intended  to  woepdoii  I  have  met  irith  on  this  day  of 

have  done  so  in  private^  in  conse-    mj  landmg  among  my  Irish  lubjccu. I 

quence  of  the  Queen's  decease.    But  am  obligdr  to  you  alL    I  am  particulariy 

piivttcy,  in  such  a  case,  was  impos-  oU%ed  by  your  eaoortiDg  me  to  my  very 

aible ;  the  entire  Irish  coast  was  one  doob    I  may  not  be  able  to  ezpveaa  my 

acene  of  incessant  observadon  from  Adingi  as  I  wish.    I  have  travdled  hat. 

ihe  moment  it  was  announced  that  ^Jl^  "°^  ,■  ^R  "^  voyage— besidai 

he  was  «  upon  the  seas,"  and  on  ^^  f?*^*^  aiamistaiicei  have  oc. 

which,  in  cowequence  ofunfavour.  ^^^  f  kave  it  to  dS»te  and^emoa 

aUe  vnnda,  he  tranribrred  himself  heaita  to  i4>piedate  my  fcdings.    ^^ 

from  the  yacht,  all  Dubhn  literally  xhis  is  me  of  thehrapi^daysofmy 

poured  forth  its  population  to  greet  Hfei    i  have  long  vish^to  visit  vou— my 

Him.    The  enthusiasm  of  the  people  heart  has  always  been  Irish.    From  the 

appears  to  have  amounted  almost  to  day  it  first  beat  I  have  loved  Ireland.  Thia 

madness,  and  the  King  himself  ap*  day  has  riiown  me,  that  I  am  bdored  by 

peers,  as  if  in&cted  by  the  occauon,  niy  Irish  subjects.  Rank,  station,  hoaonm, 

to  have  <<  doffed  "  the  Sovereign  al-  **^  nothing ;  but  to  fed  that  I  Uve  in  th» 

most  altogether.     He  shook  hands  ***"^ ^"2  Irish  sabjecta  is,  to  me,  the 


^^i  Be^«it«2.  we  2?r^jf^r.?^2:a^ 

certainly  §[ive  the  Kmg  full  credit  for  my  hcalUi  in  abumperi  IduUdrink  all 

the  sincerity  of  his  feelinga— it  waa  yom's— in  a  bmnper  of  good  Iiidi  whiskey. 
impossible,  when  the  heart  was  upon 

Che  l^M  of  100,000  people^  altogether  His  Migesty  delivered  this  speech 

to  have  abjur^  the  excitation.    On  with  admirable  grace,  and  with  ar- 

landing,  he  shook  hands  afiectionate-  dent  emotions  of  strong  feeling.  The 

ly   whh  Sir  fiex^jamin   Bloomfield,  last  few  words  were  jocularly  ad- 

mid  expressed  great  delight  at  the  dressed  to  some  of  the  lower  class, 

enthusiasm  of  his  reception.    On  en-  who  thronged  round  him  with  looks 

tering  his  carriage,  he  turned  round  and  expressions  of  the  strongest  loy« 

to  the  multitude,  and  holding  out  alty  and  affection, 

both  his  hands,  exclaimed,  in  the  After  this  his  Majesty  retired,  and 

moat  emphatic  manner — **  God  bless  the  multitude  dispersed.      He  has 

you — God    bless    you   alL"      The  since  made  his   public  entry  into 

whole  procession  iiuisted  on  attend-  Dublin.    The  scene  is  represented  aa 

ing  him  to  the  Phcenix  Paric,  a  dis*  havmg  been  magnificent  in  the  ex- 

tance  of  nine  miles,  and  there  an  in*  treme,  but  the  length  to  which  we 

atance  of  very  rare  delicacy,  on  the  have  already  gone  admonishes  us, 

part  of  such  an  assemblage,  ia  re-  that   any    adequate   description    of 

lated  to  have  occurred.    The  people,  these    singular    national    festivities 

on  arriving  at  the  entrance  to  what  would  be  impossible  within  the  li- 

might  have  been  considered  his  pri-  mits  which  we  prescribe  for  this  ar- 

vate  demesne,  suddenly  paused,  aa  tide. 

if  unwilling  to  intrude  any  further.  Before  we  conclude  this  notice,  we 

which  the  King  observing  exclaimed,  cannot  omit  a  fine  instance  of  prac- 

—^  Come  ou,  my  friends,  come  home  tic^  wisdom,  which  variegatect  the 

with  me — never   mind  the  grass —  mirth  of  an  Irish  gentleman  upon  the 

walk   wherever  you  like." — ^It  waa  occasion.    Perceiving  Lord  Londoii- 

quite  unnecessary  to  repeat  the  invi-  derry  in  the  crowd,  and  fancying*, 

tation ;   the  whole    assembly    went  from  tlie  characteristic  complacency 

'^  home "  with  him ;  and  those  only  of  his  smile,  that  he  nntst  bo  in 

who  have  witnessed  such  an  assem«  rather  a  facile  humour—he  dclibe* 


18210 


JBirtks^'Marriagei, 


asi 


rately  walked  up  to  biin«  and  thus 
addressed  him: — *' Well,  my  Lord 
Londonderry,  it  is  twenty  years 
since  you  have  set  foot  in  our  dty 
of  Dublin,— will  you  grant  me  one 
favour  for  it  now?"—"  What  is 
that  ?  " — **  Why,  repeal  the  window- 
tax  !  "— "  I  will,"  said  his  Lordship, 
*'  upon  inv  honour — if  it  be  in  my 
jiower,"  This  was  received  with  such 
bhouts,  that  we  should  suppose  ihe 
latter  part  of  the  senttnce  was  not 
very  cUstinctly  heard.  We  have  of« 
ton  had  occasion  to  admire  his  Lord- 
ship's  presence  of  mind,  but  never 


more  so  than   durh^   this  oocur- 
renee. 

We  have  now,  we  bdiev^  rather 
exceeded  our  usiial  bounds,  but,  foiw 
tunately  for  us,  there  is  no  other  very 
material  article  of  domestic  inteU^ 
gence,  if  we  except  the  melancho^ 
loss  of  the  Moira  packet,  between  LU 
vcrpool  and  Dublm.  The  details, 
however,  are  so  very  vague,  that  we 
should  rather  fear  to  mislead  the  i«i« 
latives  of  the  unfortunate  passengers, 
were  we,  at  preseut,  to  give  them  as 
authentic. 


BIRTHS. 

July  31.  At  Embmn-hdU  OzfoidiUra,  the  lady  of 

John  KustoD,  Eh4|.  a  Mm. 
tXt.  At  All«rton>park«  lady  StMrton.  a  daogbter. 
*J6.  AtUryDkcr,CacrDarT0ii*hire,the1ady  of  Jm. 

HuiOart,  ISm|-  High  Sheriff  of  that  county,  a 

sou* 
2V.  In  Seymoor-place,  Park-lane,  the  lady  of  the 

Hon.  Berkeley  OcUrios   Noel,  of  Moxhall- 

park,  Warwickshire,  a  eon  and  heir.      .  .     ^ 
a>.  At  Bcdfi}nl.place,  Rbcuell-tqnare,  the  lady  of 

Dr,T.B.Muuro.  adauRhler.  ^    .^   ^ 

Aur.  2.  At  M  alton-hall,  I  Jincashlre,  the  lady  or 

Henry  Hofrhtoa,  ICaq.  a  ton  and  heh:.      ,  ^   , 
X  At  Hieilffemouubonae,  Bedfordshire,  the  lady  of 

Thoe.  Potter  Macuneen, Em.  MP.  adaoghter. 

—  At  Hatton-hall,  the  lady  of  Col.  C.  Bniee»  • 
son. 

4.  At  Cumberland-hooM,  Wermooth,  the  Hon. 

Lady  Charlotte  Start,  a  danrhter. 
€.  At  Belton-tiouM,  Lincoln,  the  Connteia  Emm* 

low,  a  danshter.      ...       _        ,  ^, 
7.  The  laiiy  of  John  Mawdsley,  Esq.  of  Prineta- 

fttrert,  Hanover-vquare,  a  ion  and  nelr. 
H.  In  Park'iane,  the  lady  of  the  Hon.  W.Cml, 

MP.  a  ion.  ^         ...      .  -  ._ 

—  At  Sprowston-lodge,  Norfolk,  the  lady  or  John 
Stracey,  12ii«|.  a  non.  ^     .        ^ 

10.  At  rhorlton,  the  lady  of  W.  Swabey.  Etq. 
W.HA.  a  daughter. 

11.  At  Sidnioutli,  Deron.the  lady  of  Andrew  Vin- 
cent Corbet,  Keq.  eldest  son  of  Sir  Andrew 
Corbet,  iJart.  of  Acton  Ueynold-hall,  Shro^ 
«hlrc,  ttson.  .  ^    ,  .      , 

—  In  Chartoete-street,  Bloomsbnry,  Uie  iad?  of 
Maurice  .Swabcy,  Esq.  Jan.  of  Langley  Marhh, 
itucks.  a  son 

—  Hie  lady  of  Bicharl  Dalton,  Emi-  Glpplng^hall, 
Suffolk,  a  son.  ...        ^  .  «  ., 

12.  At  Kensington,  the  lady  of  Ueat.Xol.  8.  H. 
lierkelry,  a  son.  _ 

13.  At  Koehawpton,  Vicountesa  Dnncannoa,  a 
Kon. 

16.  In  Bmnswick^Miaare,  the  lady  of  Dr.  Darliuf, 
a  son. 

17.  AtMertou.  the  lady  of  John  W.SIuiw,  Biq. 

^*»'us.  ...     ... 

2|).  In  [Jpper-Cro»vfnor.street,  theladyorUevt.- 
Col.  Sir  Guy  Cunipbell,  BarL  a  dangfater. 

IV   SCOTLAXD. 
At  Cnstleeralf  ,  the  lady  of  the  Hon.  W.  J.  Naptor, 

*  •<*'».  ...        .. 

At  Parkif -house,  the  Isdyof  Sir  John  Hope,  Bart. 

of  Cniitrhall,  a  daoffhter. 
At  Stranrvar.  the  lady  of  Ml^|olvGen.  M*Nair, 

CH.  adauirhtrr. 
At  GInncnniy,  the  lady  of  Sir  Alex.  Lelth,  KCB. 

a  daughter. 

ABROAD. 
At  Co1o?ar,  near  Gentf\-a,  the  lady  of  Edward  Col- 
lii:)rwood,  Em|.  of  Diulogton-hAilf  NorihoBber* 
hind,  a  daughter. 


At  Berne,  in  Swttzeriand,  die  lady  of  Sir  Godflct 
Webster,  Bart,  a  aon.  — «*». 

At  noreace,  the  lady  of  R.  Boochler,  Esq.  a  aoa. 

BIABaiAOESb 

31.  At  Marylebone-chorcb,  the  Key.  iUgostaa  R. 
Hennlker,  Hector  of  Great  and  Little  1%onihaiii. 
BoflToIk,  to  nrances  Amelia,  daughter  of  J.  H. 
Stewart,  Esq.  of  Lower  Seyuioor^lreet,  and  of 
the  Oranc«.SoaCh  Ockenden,  Essex. 

25.  At  Bodteigh,  Bndlelgh  Salterton  Devon,  Joka 
Moore  Cave,  second  son  of  John  Cave,  £m.  of 
Breutry,  Gloucestershire,  to  Isabella  Lkngkr. 
youivest  daughter  of  Wm.  Ha\'eloek,  Esq,  aad 
araad-daughter  of  the  late  Sir  Thomas  I^aaglvy 

27.  At  Blarylebone^horeh,  bj  the  Dean  of  West, 
minster.  Lieut.-Col.  Sir  T.  Noel  Hill.  KCB. 
Grenadier  Goards.  to  the  Hon.  Anna  Maria 
Shore,  second  daoghter  of  Lord  Telgnmouth. 

—  Wm.  Tetlow  Hlbbeit,  eldest  son  of  Wm.  Hlb- 
bert.  Esq.  to  Caroline  Mary,  youngest  daughter 
of  the  lata  Capd  Cam.  Bu^.  of  Blake3mU» 
FiSiri 

28.  At  Brewood,  John  Wiottesley.  Em.  eUest  soa 
of  .Sir  John  Wrattesley,  Bart  of  Wrottesley,  In 
the  county  of  Staffoni,  to  Sophh^  tbiid  daughter 
of  Thos.  Glilbrd,  Esq.  of  Chlllinglon,  in  tho 
same  county. 

—  At  Kensingtont  Geoive  Retsoo  Jarris,  E^ 
of  the  Bombay  Establlshmeol,  to  HarrieSr 
daoghter  of  Ocoige  Brett,  Esq.  of  Onnre-hoase^ 
Old  l)rooH>tou. 

Auff-  !•  AtHt.  Geoi7re^,HanoTer-4qnarr,theHoa. 

Edward  Harvey  Hawke,   of  Womemly.Dark. 

Yorkshire.  eUeat  son  of  Lord  Hawke.  to  Ellaa- 

bech,  second  daughter  of  Sir  John  Ramsdeo. 

Bart,  of  Byram  in  the  same  coua^,  and  aleeo 

to  the  Marchioness  of  Uertfond. 
2.  The  Rev.  Edward  Luard,  of  Morley,  Party. 

shire,  to  Julia  D^Aranda,  yonnvett  daaglilar  of 

the  late  Edward  Coxe.Ksq.  of  Hampstesd-lieatlu 

—  At  SI.  Geoife*s,  Haaorer-squarr,  tlie  Rev. 
Rich,  noyce,  of  Little  Hadham,  Herts,  to  WlaU 
fred  Bemers,  fimrtli  daughter  of  tiie  late  Sir 
Thos.  Bernen  Plestow,  of  WatUngton-hall. 
Norfolk.  ' 

a.  At  Mar>'lcbono.chnreh,  Lieat.-Col.  Boorehler» 

to  Maria,  second  daughter  of  G.  Caawell,  Esq. 

of  Sacombe-parii.  Herts. 
4.  Capt.  Yonair,  S2d.  Hegt.  (brother  lo  Sir  Wm.- 

Yonng,  Bart.y  to  Mary,  yonngest  daaghler  of  tho 

late  J.  Harrison,  Esq.  of  that  town. 

—  At  Milton,  the  scat  of  Sir  DavM  Hanter  BItIr, 
Bart,  the  Rt.  Hon.  Viseonnt  Kelbnme,  to  MIs^ 
Hay  Mackenile.  yonngest  daughter  of  the  lata 
Edward  Hay  Mackenxie,  Esq.  of  NewhaU  aai 
Cromarty. 

6w  At  Marylebone-eharch,  Sir  R.  D.  Heaegaa, 
KCH.  KC.  to  Marianne  WoliT  Innes,  only 
daughter  of  the  late  Col.  James  Innes  of  Ma- 
dras. • 

7.  Sir  Frederick  WatMO,  KT8.  to  Sophia  Aaae, 
third  daughter  of  the  late  Wm.  Tbojts,  Esq.  of 
8othaiDitcad.hoiiM,  Bcrka. 


[Sept. 

Sfka,  Bui.  iirlwlLkiB.pvk.  Bnelu,  uHm.        Inaltw.    Hir  -  iivrl*  &w>.- ud  "Wmn 

kkU  nurlal  la  I77B :  In  ilu  lolloiifliir  yur  the 
IT  Stan.  <r>m  ihF  a. 


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W.r*rr,B!4.8sllcnor*tGniMr  tUrI  the  pablk 


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niMta,  Mm  doAtr  t  Mmtnt  EIr  C.  MiaMn  or  her  Uft,  with  AiiHdMei  of  her 

Ma.  Biit.  CMiMBptfailH  i  taL  AMe  luie  iluc  bHU  dc. 

—  Al  III.  llMHiX  RaMftf^uK,  ta  Dr.  Hod-  Itraywl,  in  eoui^Uiic*  wUb  liei  nn  podtln 

Ma,l>MilCtari(aSoiMnn,(ilidTMUTPMilrt,  ooniiwidi. 

AuiWcroflb*  liM,  Md  itatv  of  tbe  pnu(  —  AtBdnoal^CitliBliie  Aou.rdlct  afLlcoI.- 

EulRiiUci.  Oan.SlTGMin  fcontkBan. 

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.  u_l  ..J  i-h..!——^  i:__M..ii_.^  •Bdiin,la  hb Ultijrtiu',  t^e  Kl.  Hon.  Wliiiui 
UUelau  HubMd,  Suoa  SaOidd,  ofSaffield.  Is 
diD  reBM*  of  Nocfelk,  Lord  [.Icauaam  CuMa 

uiK.  Hatoloiwii,  ud  VI»  Admiral  af  Iba  uma 

U  AiYaik,lheR(r.J.I[tailek,MA.IoLM(lh,  CnaR.    ■■  ITK^  hh  Lordiblp  Bvricd  Cwo- 

tUntdaaaMtrorihcKaT.ti.  WallMaved  Hx,  hthm  oTlba  lata  Eari •( UaakliwhUB. 

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MI,  Um  KUorUie  BiH  ofCauini,  Cast.  Ualcd,  Hua.Edaruid  Harbsnl,  ■III',  he  SbaflnlMir,  in 

M  KcRl.  ar  flairdh  eldal  bb  of  itob.  Balid,  gawaqBaaac  ef  wboM  ckmllau  lo  Uk  pHrafc, 

Bia.  or  SrmaMe,  sod  ncphn  af  Sir  l>a>U  tbe  ku  roi  lUai  itennjli  wili  Im  naUtl. 

fiiSd,   Ban.  Ift  Udf  Arna   KisnedT.  ddeU  —  And  76,  Mn.  lUnlw  U'illtit  Adn,  okIt  nr- 

teAlHof  lln  Sari  ol  Vanilla.          '  ririniiMeroriha  late  J.  W.  WITlali.  Eh-  of 

UJffTaiibrito.ttaBnngtu1i)anCliaBMr,  HcrttJwnc  ta  Uh  Cooatr  of  Donet. 

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arNrAlarCitdMMriil>.F(n;itatntSriad  Raf.crui.  Bbrim.  VD.  l&ewrof  SI.  Pidl. 

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--BtSHalalU6aaactall>allaa.aiidlta>.lta^  —  AlBnUi.la  ii'r7Mb  vt>r.L><l>  ATtiun.»irii 

tamn  Ibi  banat  A  bli  Cnta  Iba  Dakl  of  of  Sir  f.  A.  A-Covrl.  Ban.  and  motlicr  of  [hr 

'  JlwttaiAulaBd,tlI.JaiMiVaqinra,nndcikT.  '  pmcni  Briilih  Enny  tj^iaontlnarr,  and  MI. 

aBHtr.Eat.  rMataoa  of  H«lor.<ica.  Ballar.  of  slittrFluilpoint'uTUt.itCoaii  of  Napla. 

'  Palrub  aad  Laartth,  la  Conwill,  to  Iks  Bt.  —  AI  bli  hovic.  In  Hoebuniinn.  In  bit  Mb  vtar. 

Has.  Ud>  Afna  Perer.  Jo«.  Alcock.  Eia.  UM  one  af  tlH  thief  Ctnk. 

_.             ..i~  .  at  Hli Hnjwiji TrnBorr. 
H  Balllk, 
la  Auiuu 


Uiialjl\< 

4  Al  ba  bmue.  la  Nonlinbaia^Ireet,  air4  74. 
Mn.  Cbolmilri,  bddI  of  Gir  M.  UHfiBeln, 
But.  of  EaHoD,  in  Itii  I'ddhIt  of  Lincoln. 

^ _.-        'AIS(.JaiDU^FilK(,Ra|>lilaKIIi.  nnbirtfrt, 

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•M,  RN.  „       ,      ,»     u  liaawUri,  i-irn  tara  InU  o(  Mij,  IjWfanJ 


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<be»M  lltftoHM,  10 dfainrtl,  tidnt  ]tnj,<:nrtt  IV.  lwwtioin>lie  badonc danib. 

'ofJ.Ncirblig|lns,E«|.KriaiarDock.  Ki,  ihr  Iup  HUmini  (  barionr,  of  Sale  Co- 

e,  bf  Hm  Kei.  D«.  Tntw,  Pnbendar'  -  "        -  ■ 

er.  Joha  Shair  MbbW,  Bh,  am  of  Vie 
jwaiini  Uanlr.  of  Bnulen,  Oilbrdihlrr,  lo  Ci 
Ihaiiiui  Emllli,  diaykirr  of  Sir  Wa.  cWloi 


of  Cheyerjoha  Majr  Jfaato^^am  of ^         and  Itl  day,^*^  ig.  wai  ooiean,!  «.™, 


niantui  Emilia,  oiayklrr  o>  au  Wa.  Clafloa,  4iit  Tnr.  Ibe  deo.  Mn.  Byde 

Hucaf  Haritib>d,B»In.  Bl.  Hon.  Bleb.  KyUer,  biwbi 

DEATHS.  _*iK"li^o 

Wt  18.  ClantallBa  Bluodtll,  4ao«liMr-and  an  hMh 

E'.itl'f'^K''""''*,^"'''"'"^'**"^''^  DwraprofM^homw*.  Ill  wtvivla, 

bf-hill.lB  IheCoaatt  af  Lsaraner.  ,f  the  lata  Ijird  Drlaval,  aud  annt  lo  Mr 


^  ultf  of  vim.  Lncai,  Eaq.  Blarl 


V.  la  Park^lrMCflnanDoi 


Anlet,  llan.  of  >lalloB  UaaMalile,  Nsifolk. 
10.  At  Hindi riiea-lodge.  Id  liLi  «3d  ym,  William 


—  AI  bla  neat,  Athley-part,  Soi 


,  y rj,  Mcond  dBBibtv  of     _  Ead  of  San 
Hieriaa  (3appe,  rrlW 


t,  Sarin,  aad  ef  Clca 
Aenrrtleteher,  Halt. 

1  111  bii  line  aad  a- 


ir,  BKand  nn  ef  Olmn]  Bo- 
r  I.awnB».  bnther  of  at. 


BcT.  Btiijiiiiila  U'lmberltf  Salmoo.OBeafbla 
Mi(l«n">  Clinnialni.  aiul  neaily  4U  jtin  Hecloc 
ort'ibler,  Inllwireontt. 
II.  Al  liir  lioDve.  In  CroaTeBsr^otiHh  Hie  Dmra- 


TBot.  ■■uniica,  Pmldnil  of  ite  Kanl  >™-        if  Ihf  Klncdoin  ofrrol.id 
dOBM  hapUlR  IS  Iba  Rml  Ho^ial  u Ha..     _  Al  Taiilirld^e  W-IV.  ajH 

*W*.'-  .■!*  !f'^  Baarlimr-btmiP,  Knrinctoii, 
Mr«  Ischhnid,  the  selebraird-nen-IM  anlTdn. 
■Btlsl.   The  ntnnr))  ^ndanlMiii  of  ibli  la.iy 


Orrau 

ktp.  rapt.  non?1i.  .Matter  of 

Unl.'CsT.'S'lhe  Iblid  tb^banilor  £! 


1891.3      Deaths-^Ecclesiastkai  Frefkhnink^AgrieuUural  JReport.  333 

IN  SCOTLAND.  bntkflf  to  Sir  R.  Rejaell,  But  aad  to  M^or 

thr  Hoyal  Bwik.  CooncU,  Bged  S6. 

IK   IBELAKD.  ABROAD. 

At  Cftstletown-honte.  Kildare,  ImAj  liOOliA  Co.  At  Parii.  M.  Murice  de  Droglio,  Bishop  of  Oheiil* 

Bolljr,  rrllctof  tlie  Ht.  Hon.Tho«.  ronollj.  Her  and  Piinee  of  the  Holy  Komao  Emigre. 

LaitvAlilp  waa  relatsd  totbe  Dukes  of  LeiMter,  At  Calcutta,  In  th«  Hon.  East  India  Company^ 

Welllagton,  and   Kichmond,  tu  the  latter  of  Civil  Servloe,  Edward,  younnat  ton  of  the  lata 

whom  the  woi  sistfr.   T:ie  floe  mansion  of  Geo.  Mlllett,  Esq.  East  India  Director,  In  hk 

Cantlrtowu,  the  lanrrKt  in  the  British  Empire,  30tb  year. 

devolves  to  Col.  Edward  Pakenham,  of  the  Do-  At  Gibraltar,  on  board  hU  Majesty's  Ship.  Spey. 

ncKal  Militia.  Edward  Palk,  Esq.  h«1  16^  fifth  son  of  the Wti 

At  Saodyl  Well,  Cork,  MiOor  Reynell,  of  the  HA.  Sir  Lawrenee  Palk. 


ECCLESIASTICAL  PREFERMENTS,  &c. 

The  Arehhbhop  of  Canterhnry  has  been  pleased  the  death  of  the  Rev.  A.  Dewncs,  realdeat  opta 

to  appoint  Jamca  Henry  Arnold,  LLD.  to  be  his  ttiat    benefice  npwvda  of  40  years.— The  Her. 

OraeeniVlcBr  Uenrral,  and  Maurice  Swabey,LLD.  Edward  Ballman,  Hector  of  Helmlughain,  and 

to  be  Commissary  of  the  City  and  Diocese  of  Can-  Pltanj^,  Suffolk,    appointed    ChMlaln  to  tko 

terbnry,  and  Dean  and  Commissary  of  the  Pfccu-  Countess  of  Dysart.— The  Kev.  D  e.  Pryee,  DD. 

liars  of  Sooth  Malllni?,  Pa?ham,  and  Terriair*  to  tlie  perprtnal  Cuncv  of  Ashfieid,  with  Thorpe^ 

which  offices  became  vaoint  hy  the  mlfnatkm  of  Suffolk.— The  Arehhtonop  of  Canterbury  has  bam 

the  lU^rht  Hon.  I^rd  Stowell.— The  Rev.  Mllllam  pleased  to  InsUtnte  the  U«v.  \Tm.  Home,  HA*  of 

Smvth,  to  the  Vicarage  of  Soutli  Elkington,  Liu-  liore  Court,  fomserly  Fellow  of  St.  Mary  Mifdn- 

eoliishhpe.— The  Rev.  Chos.  fipeucer,  Vicar  of  len  Colle:tt,  Oxford,  to  the  Rectory  of  Othaa,  !■ 

BIslKip  Stortfjrd,  to  be  Donienllc  (.^aplain  lo  the  Kent.~His  MiOwtT  !»>  presented  the  Rev. JMt. 

Martjucu  of  Aviesburv.— The  Rev.  J.  Scobell,  Crockett,  MA.  to  the  He<MiY  of  Nolsten,  irifaw 

BA.  of  Dallol  Col lef(c,' Oxford,  Instituted  to  the  Nayleston,  In  the  Coanty  ofLekester.  and Dlo- 

Rectory  of  All  Solntu,  Lewes,  bv  the  Bishop  of  ceseof  Lincoln,  vacant  by  the  death  oi-thn  Ber. 

Chlcheater.--^The  Rev.  John  Nelson  Clark,  AB.  Lambton  Lorrauie.^^lsotbo  Rev.  Ghaa.  Hkhoid 

Instltnted  to  tlie  Rectory  and  Parish  Church  of  Sumner,  MA.  to  the  Vlcarase  of  SL  Helta^  In 

WlntertOB,  with  the  Chapel  of  East  Sonierton,  Abingdon,  and  the  Cliapcls  of  Radley  and  Draj- 

Norfolk.—- The  Rev.  J.  JeiTenon,  Archdeacon  of  ton,  Bucks,  and  the  Dioceoe  of  Saltolniiy.  vnenni 

Colchester,  has  been  collated  by  the  Bishop  of  Lon-  by  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Lawrenco  GannilM.   ^ 
don,  to  the  Vtcange  of  WIthwn,  In  Essex,  void  by 


AGRICULTURAL  REPORT. 


Harvxst  if  actoanj  begun,  or  npidly  his  fknn,   to  inapect  die  piogrea  oi  bit 
approaching,  throughout  the  whole  or  the  experiments.    Hu  neighbour,  Dr.  Rigt^^ 
kingdom  ;  and  never,    perhaps,   did  the  has  also  brought  the  growth  of  ihtrmuf 
earth  bear  a  more  abuiulant  promise.    The  York  cabbage,  which  he  has  recommended 
wheat  crop  is  said  to  be  partially  affected  as  summer  food  for  cattle,    when  poln- 
by  the  red  rust ;  but  we  have  reason  to  rage  is  short,   in  the  very  interesting  M- 
think  this  disorder  is  neither  considerable  count,  lately  published,'  of  his  own  foim, 
in  its  effects,  nor  operating  over  any  ex-  called  Frauixoham,  to  great  perftdion. 
tensive  district.    Upon  the  heavy  soils  the  These  cabbages  have  been  reared  to  tfw 
crop  is  a  good  deal  down ;  but  no  season  enormomi  wei^e  of  ten  pounds,  dn^y 
was  ever  more  propitious   to   the   light  by  judicious  management,  and  afiiotd  aa 
lands,  where  the  appearance  in  every  way  admirable   addition  to   the  green  food  c^ 
is  most  boimtifuL     The  barley  is  au  im-  cattle,   particularly  cows.      The   uiuuiiap 
mense  croo ;  and  though  the  usual  amount  of  potatoes  is  also  so  immense,   tnat  the 
will  be  a  little  shortened,  by  the  increased  large  growers,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  me- 
breadth    of   Talavcra   wheat    sown    last  trupolis,  are  disposing  of  thebr  crops  whik 
spring,   there  is  yet   every  reason  to  be-  in  the  ground,   upon  terms  astonishingly 
lieve  that  the  supply  will  fiilly  meet  the  disadvantageous  to  themselves, 
demand.    The  rains  have  been  particu-        Mr.  Webb  Hall  has  transmitted  a  dr* 
larly  fovourable  to  the  tumi]^  ;  and  the  cular  letter  to  the  Chairman  of  the  •Aeri- 
improved  system   of  cultivation,  br  the  cultural  Associations,  dated  Aug.  !•    Hii 
adoption   of  the  Northumberland  ndges,  object  is,  to  exdte  the  landed  interest  to  bl- 
and the  use  of  the  horse-hoe,  has  added  creased  and  more  powerful  efforts  to  iMua 
indefinitely  to   the  increase.      Inhere  has  redress  from   Parliament.      Let  not  the 
been  a  good  deal  of  experimenting  with  tenantry  be  deceived ;  the  road  to  tbdir 
respect  to  the  distance  of  the  rows  ;  and  prosperity  lies  through  reduction  of  «u 
we  have  heard  of  one  instance  espedally,  pense,  not  through  devation  of  the  price 
Mr.  Clark,  of  Uergh  Apton,  in  Norfolk,  of  their  commodity.     The  Report  or  the 
who  has  planted  his  Swedes  at  the  appa-  Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
rently  immense  width  of  three  feet  and  a  however  inonndusive  upon  other  points,  is 
halfl     His  success,    however,   completely  quite  decisive  as  to  that  particular;  and 
bears  out  the  theory ;  and  so  vast  is  the  Mr.  Hall  is  merely  striving  to  keep  up  a 
size  of  the  plants,  that  many  hundreds  feverish  and  useless  ddusion. 
of  agriculturists  have  been    attracted  to        Aiir.  20,  1821. 
Vol.  IV:  9,  B 


334  Nmnendahtre  of  Clouds^  il^l>t 

NOMENCLATURE  OF  CL0UD6. 

That  general  naden  may  not  be  em-  from  three  to  ^ye  miles  above  die  earth*a 
bttRassed  by  the  technical  terms  of  the  surface.  It  is  generally  found  to  be  an 
ckuds,  in  their  perusal  of  the  daily  remarks  indication  of  wind.  MHien  formed  into 
«i  the  weather,  &c.  (nnder  the  meteoro-  horizontal  sheets,  with  streamers  pointing 
logical  tables)  in  whidi  ftequent  mention  upwards,  it  indicates  approaching  rain ; 
is  made  of  them,  with  a  view  to  point  out  with  depending  fringe-like  fibres,  it  is 
&e  particular  changes  which  the  lower  found  to  precede  fair  weather, 
medium  is'  undergoing  from  *its  alternate  The  Cumulus  is  generaUy  of  dense  struc- 
drynens,  humidity,  and  electric  state,  as  ture,  appearing  after  a  dear  morning,  in- 
caused  by  the  combined  influence,  and  at-  creasing  from  above,  where  its  surface  is 
tractive  forces  of  the  sun  and  moon  over  convex,  and  forming  at  its  greatest  magni- 
the  incumbent  atmosphere ;  we  shaU  here  tude,  a  pile  of  irregular  semicircular  clouds, 
insert,  as  a  general  reference,  concise  dvfi-  This  takes  place  about  the  time  of  the 
nUkms  of  the  respective  modifications  of  greatest  hoit  of  the  day,  and  gradually  di- 
douds,  which  were  first  invented  by  Luke  minishes  towards  evening,  when  it  some- 
Howard,  Esq.  and  published  in  the  Philo-  times  perceptibly  evaporates — in  this  case 
•0|>hical  Magazine,  and  which  have  been  it  is  an  indication  of  nne  weather. 
dDming  into  general  use  among  meteorolo-  The  Stratus  is  of  moderate  density,  and 
sbts  ever  since  they  were  published  month-  comprehends  those  creeping  mists  which 
&  fai  the  meteorological  tables  in  (kAd^s  rise  from  the  valleys  and  lakes  in  cahn 
Lmdon  Magadse.  They  are  as  follow :  evenings.  It  frequency  disappears  in  the 
'  I.  Cirrus.  A  doud  resembling  a  lock  morning,  and  is  then  an  inmcistion  of  the 
df  bur,  or  a  fiaather.    Parallel  fiezuous,  or  finest  weather. 

dhoging  fibres,  nnlimitwl  in  the  directoi        The  CIrro-cirfiiii7i/f  appears  to  befbnned 

of  flidr  increase.  ^  by  the  descent  i>f  the  Cirrus^  thei>bliqae 

8.  Cumulus.  .  A-  doud  which  increases  denser  tufb  of  the  latter  changing  into  the 

ftom  above,  in  denae,  convex,  or  conical  spherndal  fbrm,  when  the  doud  assumes 

hem.  the  appearance  of  a  ball  of  flax  with  one 

&  Stratus,    An  extended,  continuous,  end  left  flying  out.    The  Clrro-cumubis 

levd  dieet  of  doud,  increasing  from  be-  sometimes  consists  of  distinct  beds,  floating 

neath.  at  different  altitudes,  the  douds  appearing 

These  three,  Mr.  Howard  denominates  smaller  and  smaller,  till  they  are  lost  in 

limple  and  distinct  modifications,  oonsti-  the  blue  expanse.     It  is  most  frequent  in 

iBt^,  as  win  inmiediatdy  appear,  the  summer,  and,  when  permanent,  afibrds  one 

dements  of  every  other  variety.     The  two  of  die  surest  indications  of  an  increasing 

Bsxt  are  of  what  he  calls  an  intermediate  teinperature,-and  fine  weather, 
nature.  The  C\rr(hstratus  assumes  various  ap- 

4.  Cirro-cumulus,    A  connected  system  pearanccs,  from  its  being  frequendy  con- 

of  small  roundish  douds,  placed  in  dose  neeted  with  other  modifications.    By  itself 

onler,  or  contact  it  is  always  an  attenuated  sheet  or  patch,  of 

A.  CirrO'Stratus,    A  horizontal  slighdy  an  uniform  hazy  appearance,  when  viewed 

incfined .  sheet,  attenuated  at  its  circum-  over  head,  and  of  great  apparent  density 

ibrence,  concave  downwards,  or  undulated;  towards  the  horizon.    In  this  state,  it  gixTs 

groups  or  patches  having  these  characteis.  rise  to  thephntomcna  of  halos,  mock-suns, 

Lasdy,  says  Mr.  Howard,  there  are  two  &c.  and  indicates  a  depression  of  tempera- 
modifications,  which  exhibit  a  compound  ture,  wind  and  rain.  Mlien  it  alternates 
•tncture,  viz.  with    Cirro^umulus,    the    prognostic   is 

6L  Cumula-stratus.    A  doud  in  which  doubtfiiL     It  is  frequendy  seen  resting  on 

dw  structure  of  the  Cumulus  is  mixed  the  sumniit  of  high  hills ;   and,  in  this 

with  that  of  the  Cirro-stratus^  or  Cirro-  state,  has  been  long  regarded  as  fbreboding 

cumulus.     The  Cumulus  fiattened  at  top,  ndny  weather, 
and  overhanging  its  base.  The  Cumulostratus  is  that  fleecy  doud 

7.  Nimbus.    A  dense  doud,  spreading  which  is  sometimes  observed  to  settle  on 

out  into  «  crown  of  Cirrus^  and  passing  the  summit  of  a  Cumulus^  while  the  latter 

Iwneath  into  a  shower.     In   addition  to  is  increasing  from  beneath.    It  usually  pre- 

dMse  definitioDS,  the  following  is  an  a-  vbUs  in  an  overcast  sky,  and  apparently 

Mdgment  of  the  illustrations,  fhmi  How-  without  any  regard  to  temperature,  as  it  is 

Md's  Essay  on  the  Modifications  of  Clouds,  fbund  to  precede  dther  a  fall  of  snow,  or  a 

The  Cirrus  b  always  the  least  dense,  thunder-storm.  Before  a  storm,  it  b  fro- 
nd genenJly  the  most  elevated  modifica-  quently  to  be  seen  in  different  points  of  the 
tion,  sometimes  covering  the  whole  face  of  horizon,  rapidly  swelling  to  a  great  niagni- 
the  sky  with  a  thin  tnuwparcnt  veil,  and  tude.  Its  indication  b  doubtful,  and  must 
•t  other  times,  forming  itsidf  into  dbtinct  be  determined  by  the  prevalence  of  die 
ttroups  of  pandld  lines,  or  flexuous  fibres,  other  modifications  diat  accompany  it. 
Jjs  height,  according  to  Mr.  Dalton,  b        The  Nimbus  generally  appears  in  the 


i8M.l 

fmm  of  ft  denie  inverted  oooe  of  doad, 
ffie  upper  part  of  which  spreads  in  one 
cootinued  sheet  of  Cirrus  to  a  great  dis- 
tance from  where  the  shower  is  fidling. 
When  the  total  evaporation  of  the  cloud 
takes  place  after  the  shower,  it  is  reckoned 
a  prognostic  of  fair  weather.  When  the 
Nimbus  appears  by   itaelf,    it  geneially 


ObMrmUionM  on  the  Weather* 


385 


moves  with  the  wkkl  $  bat  when  formed  in 
the  midst  of  CumuR^  h  aometimes  movet 
in  a  contrary  direction.  This  is  often  the 
case  with  thunder  showers. 

Those  who  wish  for  f\urther  information 
upon  the  subject,  may  consult,  besidea  the 
work  already  referred  to.  Dr.  Fontflr*a 
Treatise  om  Atmospheric  Phenomeiuu 


OBSERVATIONS  ON  THE  WEATHER, 

FOR  JULY,  1821. 

Nawti  Academy^  GotporU 

OENERAL   REPOBT. 

The  greatest  jMirt  of  this  month  has  been  spheroidal  forms  was  observed  bete  on  die 

fine,  but  cold  nir  the  season,  particularly  4th  instant,  between  9  and  10  o'dock, 

the  first  eight  days  and  nights ;  in  one  of  p.  m.  about  W.  by  S.  11**  or  12^  abott 

the  latter  a  hoar-frost  occurred  without  the  the  horizon,  and  to  the  north  of  the  moon, 

town.    To  the  heavy  rain  fnm,  the  east-  which  was  hid  by  a  cuvudostratusy  lo  ■• 

ward  on  the  2d  instant  (being  upwards  of  only  to  show  small  portions  of  her  deq;»  n3 

an  inch  in  depth),  and  the  subsequent  N£.  crescent  at  intervals  throu^  the  apertuzei 

and  NW.  winds,  that  depression  of  tempo-  of  that  compound  doud.    These  geometrie 

rature  near  the  ground  may  be  justly  attri-  forms  wliich  it  aUematdy  assnmej,  and 

buted.    During  23  days  of  the  mondi,  which  were  seirated  about  the  edges*  ^■ 

not-^  of  an  inch  of  rain  fell;  but  in  the  divez]^(ing  pencil  rays  that  issued  theietaii, 

other  8  days  and  nights,  upwards  of  3}  both  m  horisontal  and  peipendicalar  dine- 

inches  fell  in  this  nei^bourhood,  mostly  in  tions;  the  surprising  contractiaDS  and  ex* 

the  first  and  last  quarters  of  the  moon.  pansions  it  repeated^  underwent  from  i^ 

Last  month  the  wind  prevailed  14  days  wards  of  1}**  to  a  mere  point,  and  then 

from  the  NE!.,  and  this  month  it  has  Uown  gradually  increasing  to  its  fonner  briUiangr 

10  days  from  the  opposite  point  of  the  and  extent,  were  occurrences  that  led  ua  to 

compass,  generally  in  brisk  gales.  determine  it  was  not  ft  paraselene^  tfaougli 

The  mean  temperature  of  the  aur  is  more  not  much  beyond  the  ordinary  distance  of 

than  2"  lower  than  the  mean  for  July,  in  one  finom  the  Moon,  but  an  electrical  l^dit 

1818,  1819,  1820,  and  1821 ;  but  rather  in  that  part  of  the  haze  which  waa  oTft 

fairer  than  the  average  heat  of  July,  1816  drrostrative  quality.      About  10  o^dock 

ai^  1817)  yet  the  thermometer  in  the  shade  ^e    above-mentioned    doud,    advancing 

has  not  risen  higher  than  70^  this  summer:  slowly  by  a  freshening  breeze,  came  up, 

therefore,  it  is  not  probable  that  the  sickle  and  gradually  obscured    this   interesting 

or  the  scythe  will  be  put  in  general  use  in  phenomenon,  which  had  been  oonqncnoiia 

the  low  and  level  corn-fields  before  Septcm-  m  a  variety  of  forms  and  colours  more  tiian 

ber.  half  an  hour,  to  the  gratification  of  maajr 

The  atmospheric  and  meteoric  phenO"  that  saw  it    Some  attributed  it  to  the 

metki  that  have  come  within  our  observa-  Moon  distorted,  on  account  of  its  deep  zed 

tion  this  month,  are  5  solar  halos,  18  me-  odour  and  curious  forms,  and  some  to  • 

teors,  2  of  them  caudatcd,  lightning,  widi  greatly  diffused  comet — ^whilst  others,  of  a 

distant  thunder,  in  the  evening  of  the  19th;  more  liberal  opinion,  thought  it  was  jm. 

and  9  gales  of  wind,  or  days  on  which  they  duced  by  some  uncommon  light  in  the  haw 

have  prevailed,  namely,  1  from  £.  1  &om  near  the  horizon,  it  having  once  or  twiea 

8£.  1  from  S.  and  6  mxn  S  W. — ^Also,  thrown  out  vivid  corruscations  not  onlikB 

A   Siitffular  Meteoric  Phenomenon.,^  I^uae  o£  tba  aurora  boreal, 
A  meteoric  appearance  of  to-^ngnl^y  and 


DAILY   REMARKS. 


July  1.  Cloudy  with  eumuU  and  low 
attenuated  cirrostratus^  and  a  moist  ^ : 
rain  by  night 

2.  Heavy  rain  throughout  the  day  and 
night,  with  a  strong  gale  from  the  E. 

3.  Overcast,  and  a  cold  N£.  breexe  i  a 
fine  nuht,  and  a  sli^t  hoar-frost  in  the 
grass-fields. 

4.  AM.  fair  with  cumuli:  PM.  plu- 
mose cirri  and  waved  cumuhstratus  at  in- 
tervals, through  which  the  crescent  of  the 
moon  appeared  of  a  fiery  colour. 


6.  Broken  cumulostratus  nearly  all 
day,  and  low  haze:  an  overcast  $ij  by 
night 

6.  AM.  overcast:  PM.Ii^tBhow«tof 
rain. 

7*  AM.  a  cold  northerly  wind,  and  a 
shrouded  sl^ :  linear  cirri  and  nimbifimn 
clouds,  with  sunshine  about  two  hours  in 
the  afitemoon;  afterwards  the  sky  became 
overcast  again. 

8.  Fair,  with  various  modifications  of 
douds :  a  lig^t  shower  of  rain  in  the  mgjht. 
8B8 


336                                ObserpaHans  on  the  Weather.                               [?^t 

9«  Ftir,  with  an  incrtaring  tempentore,  northern  crown— at  this  time  loose  patches 

and  a  light  breeze  ham  NW.,  ftom  which  of  cirroftrahit  were  observed  iq  different 

quarter   nimbiferous   clouds  came    about  parts  of  the  sky,  succeeded  by  heavy  nun 

noon :  overcast  after  sunset.  and  wind  in  the  night. 

10.  Faint  sunshine  through  an  overcast  22.  Fair,  with    plumose  and   ramified 

sky  in  the  morning :  &ir  in  the  afternoon,  cirrif  also  Hrrocumvliy  and  low  cumuH  i, 

aad  attenuated  cifrottratut  about  the  sky  the  latter,  gradually  evaporated  after  sniu 

al  nig^t,  with  a  light  fall  of  dew.  set,  and  a  copious  dew  followed.     Two 

1  i.  Fair,  with  a  whitish  mist  around  smaU  lofty  meteors  appeared  to  the  east- 

the  horizon,  which,  towards  noon,  trans-  ward  at  eleven  PM. 

fbrmed  into  nascent  cumuii:   PM.  fine,  23.  As  the  preceding   nearly,  but  the 

with  light  airs,  and  cirroeumuH  in  beds.  wind  much  stronger. 

12.  The  day  nearly  as  the  preceding,  24.  A  fine  morning,  and  a  faint  solar 

iridi  the  addition,  of  descending  cirriy  which,  halo :  a  shrouded  sky  in  the  afternoon,  fol- 

tttwaids  sucset,  passed  to  attenuated  cirro^  lowed  by  a  change  of  wind  to  the  south, 

HnUusy  in  which  there  was  a  trace  of  a  whence  a  very  strong  gale  sprung  up  with 

thUat  halo :  a  fine  night    At  a  quarter  rain. 

past  nine  PM.  a  light  red  meteor  of  a  laxse  25.  AM.  large  nimbi  and  showers  of 

Ae,  and  of  a  spheroid  shape,  appeared  m  rain :  PM.  a  strong  sale  firmn  8W.  and 

in  course firom  me  zenith  towards  tne  north:  low  scud  passed  widi  me  wmd  to  N£.,  fol- 

i^  path,  whidi  was  35°  in  loigth,  formed  lowed  bv  rain. 

■b  angle  with  the  horizon  of  about  60^,  26.  Fine,  with  a  mixture  of  ckuds,  and 

siSd  a  retardation  was  observed  in  its  motion  a  gale  from  SW.  with  a  velocity  tji  about 

jpst  befbic  it  disappeared.  seventy  miles  per  hour,  as  repeatedly  ascer- 

'*  13.  Fair,  with  fidit  airs  from  the  east-  tained  by  watdiing  the  weu-defined  sha- 

HWd.    A  strahu  m  considerable  density  dows  of  the  lofty  cumulut  clouds  pass,  in  a 

me  firom  the  fields  and  lakes  in  a  linear  given  time,  in  iht  direction  of  the  wixid  on 

ftm  in  the  evening,  and  soon  fbrmed  into  uvel  ground,  fWnn  one  object  to  anoAer, 

tkkk  horizontal  rirroilnifi.  whose  distance  was  previously  known. 

'  14.  A  fair  day :  in  the  evening  a  Urse  27*  As  the  preoeding  nearly,  but  calm 

nimUmt  passed  over,  and  let  fidl  a  lig^t  after  noon.    From  a  quarter  befbre  till  a 

shower :  a  fine  ni^it.  quarter  past  1 1  PM.  four  meteors  appear- 

15.  Heavy  rain  and  wind  in  the  day :  ed — die  lowest  and  largest  of  these,  at  five 
dia  night  as  the  preceding.  minutes  befbre  11  o*clock,  descended  in  a 

'  16.  A    fair   day,   with  brisk  variable  southerly  direction  immediately  under  the 

triads :  dondless  by  night,  and  much  dew.  constellation  Bootes :  b(>th  the  head  and 

Thn  is  the  first  day  tha  summer  on  which  train  were  red,  the  latter  about  15^  long, 

tile  maximum  temperature  of  the  air  in  the  accompanied  by  a  hissing,  like  a  sky-rocket 

■hade  has  been  76^9  or  summer  heat  in  its  ascension,  and  did  not  disappear  till 

17.  As  the  preceding  day  and  night,  ex-  a  second  of  time  after  the  complete  eztinc- 

OBpting  a  decrease  in  temperature.  tion  of  the  former — the  sky  at  the  same 

16.  Fair,  with  nascent  cumuliy  and  ex-  time  was  fflling  with  cirrwtratui^  and  soon 
tJBiiive  beds  of  plumose  cirri ;  die  former  became  overcast 

#tte  formed  by  the  rarefaction  of  a  low  28.  AM.  a  ttratui  under  a  shrouded 

ttitt  in  the  morning ;  and  the  latter  passed  sky,  and  a  solar  halo :  PM.  opposite  whids 

Id  eirroitrati ;  at  sunset,  ai^  being  tinged  fbr  some  time,  succeeded  by  an  inoscnla- 

With  a  very  deep  red  by  the  horizontal  rays  tion  of  cumuli  with  cirrottraH^  and  light 

cf  die  sun.    A  fine  night  rain.    At  half-past  10  PM.  a  small  meteor 

'  19.  Fair,  with  a  light  gale  fbom  S£.,  passed  under  Dubhe  in  Ursa  Major,  and 

■ad  firom  the  westwud  beds  of  cirrut^  left  a  white  train  behind  it  about  two  se- 

wiiich,   at  mid-day,  passed  to  attenuated  conds   after  the   body   had   disa]^peaied. 

eirrtntratHty  and  produced  a  fine  solar  halo.  From  that  time  till  12  o*clock,  ei^t  other 

whose  radius  was  22}^.    In  the  afternoon  smidi  meteors,  nearly  of  the  same  height, 

bri^t  and  dark  cumuli  and  cirroeumuH^  appeared  widiout  triuns,  viz.  two  under  the 

which  passed  to  thunder-clouds,  and  let  fall  northern  crown,  and  one  on  eadi  side  of  it, 

a  light  shower  of  rain  at  six  PM.  A  strong  one  over  Jupiter  and  Saturn,  one  near  the 

gale  tnm  SW.  through  the  night,  and  fre-  Pleiades,  and  two  in  die  brightest  part  of 

mient  flashes  of  red  lightning,  and  distant  the  milky-way  to  the  southward, 

ttnmder  from  the  clouds  to  the  N.  and  NE.  29.  AM.  sunshine  and  dense  clouds  in- 

20.  Fair,  with  a  stiff  breeze  firom  SW. :  creasing:  overcast  in   the  aft^noon;  land 

a  Ught  shower  of  rain  in  the  night  rain,  and  a  ffHe  from  SW.  after  sunset 

»       21.  The  day  nearly  as  the  preceedmg.  30.  Rain,    and  a  light  gale  firom  the 

Two  brilliant  meteors  appeared  between  same  quarter  in  the  day:  overcast  at  night 

tint  and  ten  PM.— one  indined  to  the  31.  A  veil  of  attenuated  cirrottralut, 

eastward  nearly  in  the  direction  of  the  wind,  irfiose  base  fre^uerUy  appeared  below  the 

the  other  was  opposed  to  it,  and  passed  be-  summit  of  the  adjacent  mils,  shrouded  the 

tween  the  star  Arctunis  and  the  first  in  the  sky  dmmghoot  die  day  and  nig^t 


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938                                      Ccmmarmal  Report.  L^P^* 

COMMERCIAL  REPOBT. 

{lAmdm^  Aug.  SI.) 

NoTBnro  bavkig  oeesned  wtdun  the  from  the  moehouaes,  indicated  that  exten- 

Ittt  month,  tending  materially  to  affect  mve  sales  had  been  made  priyatelj,  proba- 

our  foreign  trade,  we  shall  not  have  occa-  bly  at  low  prices ;  the  particulars  of  which 

■ion  for  any  particular  remarks,  beyond  did  not  transpire.    Theshowofnewsugam 

those  which  are  better  placed  under  the  being  extensive  in  the  first  week  of  August 

reapectivc  heads.    The  great  question  of  attracted    buyers,  and   considerable  pur- 

peace  or  war  in  the  east  of  Europe  still  re-  chases  were  made.    The  demand  for  good 

mains  undedded ;  yet  it  seems  probable,  and  fine  sugars  has  since  been  considerable, 

diat  peace  will  be  preserved  by  the  influ*  and  the  prices  fully  supported,  but  the  in- 

enoe  of  England,  France,  and  Austria,  forior  descriptions  exceedingly  heavy.   The 

whose  own  Interest  naturally  leads  them  to  refined  markethas  been  in  a  very  depressed 

avert  a  contest,   in  which,  if  the  event  state,  in  consequence  of  the  unfavourable 

should  be  succoaful,  Russia  must  be  the  accounts  from  the  Continental  markets  t 

chief  and  periii^  the  only  gainer.  and  a  considerable  decline  has  taken  place. 

CotUm. — On  a  review  of  the  fbur  last  Very  little  has  been  doing  in  foreign  sugars, 

weeks,  it  tippeKn  that  the  market  has  been  The  quantity  of  refined  sugar  exported  in 

on  the  whole  in  an  improving  state.    In  the  first  six  months  of  1821,  was  in  value, 

the  two  weeks  ending  August  7i  the  de-  1,328,0292:  of  which,  for  about  644^^^0L 

mand  fbr  Surats,  in  particular,  was  brisk  to  Hamburg ;  432,00OA  to  the  Mediterra- 

•pd  extenidve,  the  sales  being  about  6,300  nean ;  235,0002.  to  the  Baltic ;  40,000/.  to 

bags,  of  whidi  4,800  were  Surats.     The  Iieknd ;  37,0002.  to  Bremen,  &c. 

huyen  seem  to  have  been  chiefly  specu-  The  report  for  the  week  ending  to-day 

latoiB,  induced  to  purchase  on  account  of  (21st)  is  as  follows : 

the   un&vourable   intelligence   from    the  The  demand  for  good  and  fine  Musoo- 

United  States,  respecting  the  crops  of  cot-  vades  has  continued  steady ;   and  for  these 

lion,  which  are  stated  to  have  suffered  much  descriptions,  very  full  prices  were  realized  ; 

from  inundations,  so  that  the  supplies  will  the  wki  brown  sugars  arc  in  plentiful  sup- 

bemuchless  than  have  been  calculated  upon,  ply,  and  mi^t  be  purchased  at  very  low 

In  the  second  week  of  August,  the  pur-  rates. 

diascs  were  not  extensive,  being  ordy  1,200  There  are  no  new  supplies  of  sugar  at 

bao^  but  the  prices  wero  fully  supported.  market  this  forenoon,  owmg  to  the  coopers 

The  inquiry  has  rather  revived;  the  dc-  at  the  West-India  warehouses  having  struck 

mand  appears  principally  for  exportation  ;  work,  demanding  a  higher  rate  of  wagea ; 

the  sales  for  the  week  ending  yesterday  are  Ae  supply  at  market,  is,  however,  more 

1,000  bags,  but  it  is  probable,  that  the  re-  than  adequate  to  the  demand.   Muaoovades 

newed  inquiries  will  lead  to  extensive  pur-  may  be  stated  very  heavy  at  the  previous 

chases  during  the  wedc :  the  holders  are  mices ;    the  sales  to-day  do  not  exceed 

very  firm,  and  appear  confident  of  realizing  1,000  hogii^eads.     Two  public  sales  of 

higher  prices  than  the  present  market  cur-  Barbadoes    were    brought    forward,    241 

rcBcy.    The  particulars  of  the  1,600  bags  casks ;   the  whole  went  off  heavily,  at  a 

sold,  areas  follows:  viz.  in  bond,  300  Per-  further  reductioD  of  It.  particularly  the 

Dams,  12^.  a  l^^d. ;  420  Surats,  6i.  a  good  sugars ;    good   white,    69«.   ^d.    a 

Bid.  very  ordinary ;  a  few  very  good,  8d. ;  ^U.  6d. ;  the  others  62«.  a  68#. 

160  Madras,  6^^  good  fair ;  780  Bengals,  The  refined  market  was  heaivy  last  week, 

bid.  a  did.  fair ;  ^x>d,  6d.  and  a  fow  vtaj  yet  the  very  reduced  prices  prevented  the 

gffxU  6}<2. ;  100  Boweds,  f^d.  a  9id. ;  62  holders  horn  selling ;  large  lumps,  78#.  a 

Sea  Islands  foir,  I6d, ;  and  duty  paid ;  40  BO*,  were  with  difficulty  to  be  purchased, 

prime  Demeraras,  13d. ;  70  Berbice  gpod  as  a  very  general  opinion  prevailed  that  the 

fidr  Uid. ;  18  Paias  fair,  lOfJ. ;  50  Mi-  few  prices  would  attract  the  attention  of 

nas  Novas  good,  11^;  33  ditto  Oeras  the  exporters,  and  that  no  further  reduction 

good,  lOd.  and  15  cUtto  ordinary,  9^. ;  8  could  oe  anticipated ;  lumps,  82i.  a  84#. 

Cariacous,  lO^d.  a  lid.  were  taken  off  lor  crushing,  —^Molasses  arc 

At  liveipool,  the  market  has  been  ra-  steady, 

ther  dnU  for  these  three  weeks  past ;  and  In  foreign   sugars,  the  only  sale  last 

prices  have,  on  the  whole,  declmed.    The  week  was  about  200  chests  of  yellow  Ha- 

arrivals  in  the  four  weeks  ending  August  vannah,  30#.  a  32s. 

18,  were  52,677  bags;  the  sales  in  the  The  public  sale  of  Pemambuco    and 

Mme  period,  30,800  bags.  Bahia  this  forenoon  consisted  of  damaged 

Aji^.— In  die  last  week  of  July,  the  supurs,  sdS>rdiiig  no  criterion  of  the  market 

poUic  market  was  uninteresting ;  inferior  pnoes ;   the  whole  sold  exceedingly  low. 

Drowns  were  verr  low,  but  good  qualities  The  Havannah  sugars,  100  boxes,  sold  at 

were  scarce,  and  maintained  their  prices,  6#.  a  *J».  per  cwt.  lower  than  any  previous 

but  though  few  sales  were  reported,  the  de-  sale,  good  strong  white  realizing  only  45s. ; 

livery  of  4^400  hogsheads  of  Muaoovades  the  middling,  42f. 


1821  .J  Ctfmmerciai  Report,  339 

ATeragc  prices  of  raw  sugar  by  Ga-  month  there  was  a  oonaiderable  imprort* 

zettc:   July  28 S2«.  2^  ment  in  the  demand,  whidi,  however,  did 

Aug.    4 32r.  9^.  not  continue.   Brandy  and  Geneva  are  dull 

11 32i.  0//.  of  sale,  and  the  prices  nearly  nominal. 

18 32i.  l^d.  Oifs.^The accountsof  the  Davis  Stmits 

Cqffi-e, — We  regret  to  say  that  the  coffee-  and  Greenland  fisheries,  as  far  as  they  go, 

market  has  been  very  heavy  for  this  month  are  considered  to  be  very  favourable;  and 

past,   and    a  considerable    reduction  has  they  have  naturally  thrown  a  damp  on  the 

taken  place.    This  morning  the  market  market.    There  are  sellers  of  Greenland 

was  exceedingly  heavy  previous  to  the  pub-  oil  to  arrive,  at  23^ ;  and  some  buyers  of 

lie  sales,  and  a  great  decline  was  antid-  small  parcels  at  22/.    The  trade  have  not 

pated ;  and,  in  fact,  the  prices  have  expe-  yet  purchased,  and  at  present  decline  dcnng 

rienced  a  decided  reduction.  Jamaica  coffee  so.    Rape  oil  has  advanced  oonsiderablj, 

is  3«.  a  4r.  lower  than  the  previous  market  brown  40L      The  last  sales  of  old  GncD- 

prices ;  good  ordinary,  which  last  week  re«  land  whalebone  were  at  ^SL    It  is  now, 

alised  1<M^  and  108«.  sold  in  oonsidenble  we  understand,  offered  at  a  much  lowiv 

parceb  at  100a  6d.  1 02«.  and  102«.  6d, ;  fine  price. 

ordinary  lOOf.Otf.  and  107«.  which  last  week  Baltic  Produce, — ^The  reports  of  wtr 

sold  109^  a  llOt.  6d,    Foreign  ooflfee  may  between  Rusria  and  Turkey  nad  some  in- 

also  be  stated  It.  a  2t.  lower  t — 179  bags  fluenoe  at  the  end  of  July,  on  the  price  of 

good  ordinary  Havannah,  small  bcui,  sdl-  hemp  and  tallow.    The  holders  of  hemp 

mg  at  lO&r.  6J.,  109f.,  and  109».6tf. ;  160  demanded  an  advance  of  R  per  ton ;  and 

bi^  middling  Porto  Rico,    115i.  6<^    a  extensive  contracts  were  reported  at  this 

'  1 1 7«* ;    the  St.  Domingo  was  withdrawn  improvement.    The  warlike  reports  having 

without  being  put  up  to  sale.    The  Berbice  continued  to  subside,  the  prices  have  le- 

coffee  being  scarce,  supported    fully  the  ceded  in  consequence.    In  the  course  of 

previous  prices,  middling  selling  128«.  6^.,  last  week,  the  demand  for  tallow  being 

129#.,  and  129r.  6d,    The  quantity  of  cof-  very  languid,  the  holders  were  desirous  to 

'fee  brought  forward  to-day  was  7^2  bags  effect  sales  at  lower  rates,  by  which  buyers 

and  lie  casks;  and,  as  the  sales  a^Rvd  a  were  attracted,  and  several  purchases  aie 

criterion  of  the  market,  Jamaica  descrip-  reported  at  44«.    Hemp  was  in  more  re- 

tions  may  bo  stated  at  the  reduction  of  3r.  quest,  because  the  stocK  is  reduced.    Fba 

a  4i.  per  cwt ;  foreign  \g,a2s,  lower,  and  has  remained  at  the  same  nominal  price  as 

the  market  exceedingly  heavy  at  the  de-  before, 

dine.  Rice. — While  the  weather  continued  nn* 

Indigo, — There  is  little  doing  in  indigo ;  favourable  for  the  harvest,  rice  rose,  and  the 

3ret  the  holders  are  firm,  and  confidently  demand  increased,  with  an  advance  of  U. 

look  to  an  improvement  botli  in  the  demand  to  2«.  per  cwt;  but  ^  the  weather,  during 

•and  the  prices.    The  premium  on  the  last  the  last  week,   has  been  favourable,   the 

sale  is  nominally  about  'Sd.  per  lb.  demand  has  subsided,  and  purchases  xmjjtit 

Spirits.  —  Tne    rum-market  has  been  .  be  mode  on  lower  toms* 
heavy,  except  that  in  the  first  week  of  this 

Spices  at  the  East  India  Conipany*s  ssle,  August  ISth. 

Saltpetre,  1000  tons  Company*ii — ^passed,  no  offers  at  the  Company's  upset  price,  86»,- 

977  tons  Privilege — sold 24ff.  a  26s. 

a  few  lots 2Sf .  6d:  and  87Si 

Peper — Company*s  black,  2865  bags,  sold 7M*  o  ^^ 

Licensed — black,  9(^  bafls,  sold 6J<i.  o7|<2. 

Cinnamon — 1485  balcs--542  bides  1st  quality,  sold ; . .  ..^s.  Id.  a  ^s.  OdL 

807  2d      „       about  a  half  sdd  . .  .St.  1<2.  a  St.  8ri. 

136  Sd      „       allsold bs,  ^d,  a  bs,  IH 

Mace— 200  casks,  2d  quality— one  lot  6#.  li.  all  the  rest  out,  no  offers  at  the  Osm- 

pany*s  upset  price.  Of. 

Nutmegs — 500  packages — not  garbled ;  only  112  sold St.  ^dm 

Oil  of  Mace out 

Cassia  Lignea— 1002  chests— sold. 61.  5«.  a  St. 

984  chests 6I.5«.  a8^6f. 

Sago — Licensed,  352  packages bs.fUUa^s. 

and  20a.  a  Sftff. 

Ginger— licensed,  503  bundles 10#.  a  lOt.  6dL 

Cassia  Buds—lOO  chests 17^  5s.  a  17^1  lOt. 

142  chests 15/.  15jr.  a  181. 4f. 

Oilof  Ca.ssia — 7i^  canisters '.^d.  a8d,Tpetoz. 

There  is  little  variation  in  the  prices  since  the  aboVe  sale.  Company's  pepper  7iA  to 
7}^ ;  several  other  considerable  purchases  of  cassia  lignea  have  been  nwde  at  the  sale 
prices ;  casbia  buds  have  sold  at  a  considerable  advance. 


349                                      fSommtnial  lUpori.  d^ep^ 

Cormi    wbich  ezperieneed  an  advance  Bergen^  Norway^  July  14.— For  these 

wlifle  the  weather  was  tmsettled,  has  le-  nine  weeks  past  we  have  had  such  a  drought 

IxogiBded   since    the    weather   has    been  heie,thatit  is  difficult  to  procure  water  even 

warmer.  for  domestic  uses.  Add  to  this,  that  we  have 

The  harvest  in  the  southern  counties  is  had  the  whole  time  a  north  wind,  which 
fitf  advanced :  in  the  midhind  districts  it  is  still  continues,  attended  with  storms,  which 
general :  the  weather  has  been,  of  late,  ex-  hinders  the  arrival  of  ships ;  and  nmch 
ceedingly  warm,  and,  in  consequence,  the  ex-  injury^  is  done  to  vessels  laden  with  com 
pectation  ofa  good  crop  is  very  generally  en-  not  Idln-dricd,  because  the  cargoes  easily 
tertained.  Thoewas  agoodsupply  of  wheat  become  heated  at  tliis  season.  It  is  to  be 
at  yesterday's  market ;  the  trade  was  heavy  hoped,  that  we  shall  have  a  change  soon^ 
•t  the  decline  of  2«.  on  the  best  runs ;  there  for  in  these  parts  evciy  thing  is  burnt  up, 
wow  scarcely  any  enquiries  for  the  mid-  so  that  the  fanner  wUl  reap  little  or  no- 
dHoff  and  inferior  samples.  No  alteration  thing.  The  oldest  inhabitants  do  not  re- 
in tne  prices  of  barley ;  there  was,  how-  collect  such  a  season. 
ev«r,  litae  business  doing.— The  holders  Copenfiagen,  -rfw^wrt  7.— Our  com  trade 
of  oats  evinced  a  great  inclination  to  effect  continues  to  be  very  dull,  so  that  the 
Mies,  and  in  consequence  a  further  reduc-  prices  are  to  be  consldeied  as  merely 
tiOB  ctf  U  was  submitted  to..~The  few  nominal.  For  the  purpose  of  relieving 
pordiases  of  beans  reported  were  at  the  the  fermers  an  ordinance  has  been  issued, 
previons  currency,  but  a  great  proporti(m  aOowing  them  to  pay  a  certain  part  of 
rf  the  suimly  lemains  undisp<Mied  of.—  thdr  land-tax  in  com.  The  pnces  al. 
Giwr  tnd  white  peas  were  2*.  lower.— Lin-  lowed  are  very  favourable  to  the  fermer. 
■eed  advanced  1^  per  last,  in  consequence  We  have  received  luge  supjdies  of  su- 
ef  the  very  short  supply  at  market.  g^r.     Ten  vessels  witli  fuU  cargoes  have 

Impart  of  Foreign  Com — The  ports  arrived  within  this  week,  from  our  West 

cotitinue  shut  agamst  the  importation  of  all  India   possessions   alone.     For   the    en- 

findgn  gram,  except  buck  wheat,  which  couragement  of  our  sugar  refiners,  his  Ma- 

m  importable  at  a  permanent  duty  of  lOt.  jasty  has  granted  a  bounty  on  the  exporta- 

per  quarter.  tion  of  treacle,   viz.    13   rix   doUais    for 

Aggregate  avenge  of  the  twelve  mari-  looo  lb.  in    parcels  not  under  1000  lb. 

tiBie  districts  of  England  and  Wales,  for  nor  above  54,0001b. 

2l"^.'^K  ^"^^  *^?  15th  ofAu.  ^^^^       1 1  AHguMl.-^Cotton  appean 

SSltBri^     ^^"'^'^  likely  to  rii     Hitli^,  however,  nVSe 


Wheat  62#.  7<2. 
Rye  32#.  M. 
Barley  24/.  8^ 


f\^^    io    9J  ^^'^  taken  place,  except  in  the  American 

™    qT'S'  descriptions,  of  which  we  have  had  but  a 

S^  ?il '*  27  very  Aort  supply  this  year.— Co^  Our 

f  *"   ^*'-  ****•  prices,  which  were  aheady  bw,  were  stiU 

ftirther  depressed  by  the  arrival  of  conside- 
FoREiox  Commence.  ,able  supplies  during  the  course  of  last 
Jl^,  July  27->-F2aj?  keeps  up  at  the  nKXith.  A  little  has  been  doing  this  week 
following  prices.  Marienburg  cut,  38 r.;  at  rather  lower  prices;  but  there  are  no 
white  Thiesenhausen  and  Druiana  Raddt-  pnrchasers  for  large  parcels. — Dyeing' 
aer,  41  r.;  white  mixed  with  light  grey«  tpooj/  not  much  in  demand,  and  therefi»e 
aOi  to  40  r. ;  grey,  38}  to  30^  r.;  cut  rather  lower.  Tlie  high  price  cf  Peraam. 
B|!dstub,  36  r.;  Jlisten  Threeband,  SUjr.;  buoo  at  the  end  of  last  month  caused  a 
Tow,  14  to  13}  r. — Hemp :  the  inferior  greater  demand  for  other  redwoods,  such  as 
sorts  nuuntain  dieir  prices,  but  clean  is  Japan,  St.  Martinis,  &c. — Spiers.  The 
xathar  lower ;  in  general  but  little  is  doing,  finest  sort  maintain  their  prices,  though 
The  prices  may  be  noted  as  follows :-~  there  is  not  mudi  demand.  Pimento  re- 
Ukraine  dean,  109  to  108  r. ;  Polish  nuuns  unchanged.  Pepper  very  little  at 
ditto,  116  to  115  r.  Ukraine  outshot,  market,  and  prices  very  firm.  Ginger  is 
00  r.;  Polish  ditto,  91  to  90  r.  THcraine  radier  lower,  the  demand  being  small,  and 
pass,  72  r. ;  Polish  ditto,  78  to  79 '•  tnA  supplies  continuing  to  arrive. — Saii" 
Ukraine  torse,  49}  r.;  Polish,  ditto,  50  r.b.  pctre  is  without  demand,  as  well  for  (q>e- 
Hemp  Oil  may  be  had  for  90  r. ;  For  culation  as  for  exportation. —  Ttttniceo  of  all 
fine  PoHth  Patathet^  100  r.  b.  are  now  kinds  maintains  a  good  price,  yet  without 
asked.  Sced^  for  crushing  meet  with  more  any  great  demand. — Com.  As  our  stock 
purchasers  this  week.  The  following  prices  of  good  wheat  is  rapidly  diminishing,  and 
an  now  demanded :  for  remaining  sowing  the  supplies  are  very  inconsiderable,  the 
linseed,  4}  to5r.  Dmiania,  14  to  17  r.  b.  holders  ask,  and  have,  in  some  instances. 
Crashing  linseed  (of  110  to  112  lb.),  12  obtained  an  advance  of  from  5  to  15  rix 
to  15  r.  Hemp  seed  (of  90  to  94  lb.),  9\  to  dollars,  though  the  demand  is  limited  to 
9|  r.  Talloxo  is  offered  as  follows :  yellow  our  own  consumption.  A  couple  of  car- 
CKiwn  candle  taUow,  145  r. ;  white  ditto,  goes  wUdi  arrived  this  week  from  Dantzig 
140  r.    Soap  tallow,  135  r.  met  a  ready  sale  at  good  prices.    The  de- 


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mand  for  Rje  k  lev,  but  mfBdoit  to  keep  neoeBsaaly  have  im  view  the  gneml  inte- 
up  the  prices.  Barley  is  dull.  Oats  of  rest,  and  careftilly  dumua  more  local  i^- 
the  best  quality  have  met  a  ready  sale  this  tereets  from  their  oonsideratioD :  that 
week.  Old  Rape  Seed  in  without  demand,  there  is,  therefore,  one  only  object  to  be  al- 
and there  is  no  new  yet  at  market — Tea*  tained,  which  is  the  adoption  of  general 
The  state  of  the  market  is  favourable.  The  measures  for  the  purpose  of  relieving  tl^ 
100  quarter  chests  Imperial,  2(Mt  sixteenth  commerce  and  manufactures  of  the  South  qf 
chests  of  young  Hyson,  and  54  quarter  Germany  from  the  fetters  and  restricticiit 
chests  of  Fekoe,  lately  brought  from  under  which  they  have  so  long  languished* 
Nantes,  as  well  as  64  quarter  chests,  and  The  Conunissioneza  also  (meet  their  at- 
18  i  diests  of  Hyson  and  young  Hytaa  tention  to  tlie  finding  of  the  means  beifc 
from  Rio  Janeiro  are  already  sold. — Sugar,  calculated  to  make  good  the  financial  losses 
Hamburgh  refined  have  had  a  pretty  brisk  which  the  German  Governments  must  n^ 
demand ;  the  inferior  sorts,  however,  low  as  cessarily  experience  by  introducing  freedom 
the  prices  already  were,  sold  at  a  further  of  commerce  in  the  interior  of  the  Confa- 
reduction.  It  is  only  of  some  sorts  that  we  deration.  Lastly,  they  have  under  con4- 
can  state  tlie  prices  accurately,  vis.  strong  deration  a  common  system  of  import. and 
middle  lumps  0^ ;  fine  and  fine  middling  export  duties,  on  goods  passing  to  and  hem 
white  Havannw  12i.  to  \2^d^  ordinary  states,  not  members  of  this  commercial  0Q^« 
brown  ditto  &id»  brown  and  yellow  mixed  fiederation.  Hitherto  no  difference  has  been 
62(2.  middling  and  fine  71<^  to  7i<2.  The  observed  in  the  opinions  of  the  several  pla- 
prices  of  other  descriptions  are  the  more  to  nipotentiaries.  There  is  likewise  at  Dana* 
be  considered  as  nommal,  because  the  hold^  stadt  a  delegate  from  the  Society  for  th« 
ers  in  general,  ask  in  proportion  mudi  Encouragement  of  Trade.  It  is  Mr.  MiiU 
higher  prices  for  them.  ler,  a  merchant  of  Hmenstadt ;  but  he  hip 

SaioHi/y   Aug,   G. — \^liile  the  inhabi-  no  official  character, 

tants  of  Norway  are  afilicted  with  a  severe  Stockholm^  Aug,  7* — His  Miqesty  hat 

drought    which   threatens  to   destroy  aU  decreed  that  the  united  Swedish  and  Nor- 

hopes  of  harvest,  we  in  Saxony  are  com-  wegian  flag,  being  known  and  recognised 

plaining  of  the  continued  wet  rainy  wear  by  all  sea-faring  nations,  shall  alone     be 

ther,  which  hinders  the  com  already  cut  uUd  by  Swedish  and  Norwegian  merchant- 

from  drying,   so  that  the  grain  in  some  men  navigating  beyond  Cape  Finistenre  as 

instances  already  begins  to  grow.     Similar  well  in  the  Aledittcrranean,  as  in  the  M'etl 

comphunts  of  wet  weather  are  made  in  other  and  South  Atlantic,  and  Indian  Ocean* 

parts  of  Germany,  and  further  northward  The  captains  of  Swedish  ships  of  war  wiE 

up  to  St.  Petersburg.    The  eight  Powers,  be  ordned  to  afibrd  no  protection  to,  but 

through  whose  dominions  the  river  Elbe  to  detain  Swedish  and  Norw^an  vesfwla 

flows,  have,  after  four  years*  negodadons,  found  navigating  under  any  e&er  flag  in 

concluded  a  treaty  for  the  f^  navigation  these  sevenU  seas,  after  the  1st  of  July, 

of  that  river.     We  shall  give  the  particu-  1U22,  and  the  Swedish  consuls  in  the  sear 

lars  when  oflicially  published.  ports  of  the  Mediteranean,  and  other  seas 

Ratiadt^  Aug,  5. — We  have  detailed  in-  above  spedfied,  are  not  to  afibrd  any  pro- 
formation  on  which  we  can  rely,  and  by  tection  or  assistance  whatever  to  sudi  mer- 
which  we  learn  that  the  plenipotendaries  chantmen  as  use  any  other  flag  af^  As 
of  the  South  German  States,  from  the  com-  above-mentioned  time.  Swedi£  and  Nar» 
mcrcial  Congress  at  Darmstadt,  have  wegian  vessels  navigating  the  seas  nearer 
agreed  on  several  important  points.  It  has  home,  may  use  the  flags  of  their  respectift 
been  adopted  as  a  prmdple  uat  they  must  natiims. 


WORKS  PREPARING  FOR  PUBLICATION. 

The  yUlage  Minstrd,  and  other  Poems,  A  practical  Treatise  on  Diseases  of  lbs 

by  John  Clare,  the  Northamptonshire  Pea-  laver,  and  on  some  of  the  Afiectians  usu- 

sant,  with  a  fine  Portrait,  will  be  published  ally  denominated  Bilious  ;  comprising  an 

in  a  few  days.  impartial  Estimate  of  the  Merits  of  the 

A   New  Poem,  from  the  Pen  of  Mr.  Nitro-muriatic   Acid    Bath.    By-  Oeons 

Barry  Cornwall,  will  be  published  early  in  Darling,  31 D.  Member  of  the  Royal  CoU 

the  next  Season.  lege  of  Physicians  itf  London. 

A  Poem,  by  Mr.  Percy  Bysshe  Shelley,  Air.  Elmes's  Lectures  on  Architecture* 

in  honour  of  the  late  John  Keati,  thp  recently  delivered  at  the  Russell,  Surrey, 

Poet,  is  in  the  Press.  and  Birmingham  Institutions. 

A  Poetical  Essay  on  the  Character  of  A  New  Translation  of  Goethe's  Tra- 

Pope,  by  Charles  iJoyd.  gcdy  of  Faustus,  in  8vo.  with  a  Portrait 

Sir  George  Naylcr  is  preparing  for  Pub-  of  the  Author,  and  in  4to.  with  a  Series'  of 

lication,  by  Command  of  His  MiO^^Jv  &  Twenty-seven  Outlines,  to  illustrate  the 

full  Account  of  the  Ceremonies  observed  above-mentioned  Tragedy,  engraved  by  U. 

at  the  Coronation,  illustrated  by  Plates.  Aloses,  after  Retsch*s  Originau. 


3¥i                           WoHu  Frtparmgfir  PMieaHon.  \ficpV 

'    A  Series  of  ooloiixed  Bngravings,  ftom  Andcnt  Babylonia,  Ac  ftc  during  the 

et^Emal  Dzawings,  taken  on  the  8pot,  hj  Yean    1817,    1818,  1819,  1820,  by  Sir 

James  Wadien,  Esq.  illustratiTe  of  the  Robert  Ker  Porter,  &c.  &c.  Yd.  11.  4to. 

Island  of  St.  Helena ;   to  which  will  be  which  completes  the  Work, 

added.  Two  or  Three  yery  carious  Wood  Trareb  in  Palestine  in  1816.    By  S.  S. 

Cats,  rdatins  to  Buonaparte^  a  brief  His-  Backingham,  Esq.  4to.  with  Engravings, 

torical  Sket(£  fsi  the  Island,  and  a  hi^y  Memoirs  of  the  Protector  OHtct  Crom- 

ftiidied  Portrait  of  Mr.  Wathen.  well,  with  original  Letters,  &c.    by  the 

An   Introduction    to   Entomology ;   or  late  OUtct  Cromwell,  Esq.  a  Descendant 

Ekments  of  the  Natural  History  of  Insects,  of  the  Family. 

VoL  III.  by  William  Kirby,  MA.  FR.  The  Third  Part  of  ^e  Phyaognomical 

and  LS.  and  William  Spence,  Esq.  FLS.  Portraits,  will  be  published  on  the  Idtfa  of 

iDustrated  by  coloured  PUtes.  September. 

Sketches  of  Upper  Canada,   domestic,  Mr.  Olover,  Assistant  librarian  to  His 

load,    and  characteristic,   with    practical  Majesty,  is  preparing   a  Bibliographical 

Details,  for  the  Infiirmatian  of  Enoigrants,  Dictionary  of  Enghsh  literature,  firom  the 

by  John  Howison,  Esq.  Year  1700  to  the  End  of  the  Year  1820, 

-    The  private  and  ooimdential  Corre^Mm-  containing  the  Title  of  e?eiy    principal 

dence  of  Charles  Talbot,  Diikc  of  ^hrews-  Work  whidi  has  ap^wazed  in  (Jreat  Bri- 

Imry,  during  the  Reign  of  King  WilHam  tain  during  that  Period,  together  with  the 

III.   never   before    published,  illustrated  Date  of  Publication,   its  Price,  and  the 

with  historical  and  biographical  Narratives.  Publisher's  Name,  as  ftr  as  the^  can  pos- 

The  History  of  the  Literature  of  Spain  sibly  be  ascertained ;   alphabetically   ar. 

■ad  Portugal,  by  Frederidc   Bouterwek ;  ranged  under  the  Names  of  their  respective 

tnmslated  from  me  German.  AuUiors,  and  under  the  Subject  Matter  of 

.Travels  in  Georgia,  Persia,  Armenia,  eadi  anonymous  Publication. 


WORKS  LATELY  PUBLISHED. 

AiUiquiHes^  Architecture^  and  Fine  Arts,  Lexicon  adapted  to  ihe  work.    Compiled 

niustrations  of  Kenilworth,  a  Romance,  for  the  Use  of  Schools,  by  John  M^idker. 

liy  the  Author  of  ^^  Waverley,'*  &c.  en-  ISmo.  iU.  6d. 

E.ved  after  original  Designs  of  Charles  Tales  of  the  Academy.   2  Vols,  half- 

bert  Leslie.   Prints,  \(u.    Proofs,  1/.  4*.  bound.  Hs. 

India  Proofii,  1/.  lOt,  An  Introduction  to  Frendi  Grammar. 

The  Rabbit  on  the  Wall,  engraved  by  By  J.  B.  AfaUett  18ma  4#. 

Burnet  from  the  cdebrated  Picture  by  D.  A  New  Greek  and  English  Lezioon  to 

Wilkie,  RA.  la^  Inches  by  18}.     Prints,  die  New  Testament,  on  the  PUm  of  Daw- 

R  If.    Proofis  3/.  3«.  son's  Greek  and  Latin  Lexicon,  for  the  Use 

An  Historical  Account  of  Cumner,  with  of  Schools.     By  the  Rev.  H.  Laing,  LLD. 

Particulani  of  the  Traditions  respecting  the  8vo.  lOf.  6d, 

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jBerkshire  relative  to  that  Transaction,  and  Wilson,  &c  &c  written  by  himself  whOc 

Hhistrative  of  the  Romance  of  Kenilworth,  under  Sentence  of  Death.  4s. 

**;    ?y  .^-  T.  Usher,  Esq.  8vo.  7s.  Memoirs  of  Count    Boruwlaski ;   con- 

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Poetry  and  the  Drama,  Courts  of  Eurrae,  &c  &c.     Written  by 

The  Plays  and  Poems  of  William  Shak-  Himself.  8vo.  12r. 

qpeaie,  with  the  Corrections  and  lUustra-  Malay  Annals,  translated  tram  the  Ma- 

dObs  of  various  Commentators ;    compre-  lay  Language  by  the  late  Dr.  John  Ley- 

hending  a  life  of  the  Poet,  and  an  enlarged  den,  with  an  Introduction  by  Sir  Thomas 

History  of  the  Sta^    By  the  late  Edmond  Stamford  Raffles,  FRS.  8vo.  \0s,  6d. 

2H?^  JT'SL.'.^*^  Glossarial  Index.  Medicine,  Surgery,  and  Physiology. 

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M.  foolscap,  7t.  detyofLondon.  VoL  the  Eleventh,  Part  II. 

Rome,  a  Poem,  m  Two  Parts.  8vo.  6*.  gyo.  9* 

KcntiA  Poets ;  a  Seria  of  Writers  in  i-he  Principles   of  Forensic  Medicine, 

y*^^  S^'J"*^^^  ^K^'  residents  in  systematically  arranged  and  applied  to  Bri- 

Kent.    By  R.  Freeman.  2  Vols.  lbs.  ^    Practice.      By  J.  G.  Smith,  MD. 

Education.  8vo.  14*. 

Selections  from   Ludan,  with  a  Latin  A  Treadse  on  Indigestion  and  its  Con- 

Translation  and  English  Notes :  to  whidi  sequences,  Q^cd  Nervous  and  Bilious  Com- 

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MUceUaneout.  eount  of  their  Banks,  PaUk  Funds,  and 

oooBeqaenoeof  a  Passage  in  his  JLordsbip^s  Theolorv 

Memoirs  of  the  Rt  Hon.  W.  PUt  8va.  2#.  ,,  ^.  .      ^    .       ^'           ^   ^ 

Enchiridion,  or  a  Hand  for  the  One.  Medicina  Clenca,  or  Hmts  to  the  Clergy 

Handed.      By   Geoim    Webb  Derenzy.  for  the  healthful  and  comfortable  Discharge 

8vo,  5i.  ^  ^^  Ministerial  Duties.  In  a  Scries  of 

An  Analysis  of  the  Talents  and  Charac-  ^^^^; '^l         ,.                  ^ 

ter  of  NMK>leoo  Buonaparte.     ByaGene-  ,  ^Uvis  Aipostohca:  or  a  Key  to    the 

ral  OfficeTsvo.  0*.  Apostohc  Wntoigs;  bang  «w  Attempt  to 

R^  Heraldry.    The  Armorial  Insig-  «plam  the  Scheme  of  the  Ooepd,  and  the 

nU  of  the  Kings  and  Queens  of  EngUmd  pnocipal  Words  and  Phrases  used  by  the 

from  coeval  Authorities.  By  Thomas  WU-  Aposdes  in  descnbmg  it.     By  the  Rev. 

lemen^  Heraldic  Artist  to  the  King.  4la  Jo??*  M«ndham,  AM.     12mo.  5#.  W. 

2/.2*.  Large  paper,  4L  4f.  Dam  compwed  with  Chnstiamty,  l^ 

Letters  to  RiSard  Hebcr,  Esq.  contam-  ^  Epistolary  Comepondcncc,  oontaminff 

ing  Critical  Remarks  on  the  S^es  of  No-  ^,^?  prmci^  Objections  against  revealed 

veU  beginning  with  Waverley,  and  an  At-  5r«*5^^^  ™*  Answws  annatcd.    By 

tempt  to  ascertain  their  Author.  8vo.  7*.  ff ,       Chichester,  M.  A.    3  Vols.  afo. 

Advice  to  the  Young  Mother  in  the  Ma-  7'* ,       ■!»_••           j  Tk..A-.      ^ 

nagcmcnt  of  Herself  and  Infent.    By  a  A  shcnt  Exammation  and  D^ce  Of 

Memberof  the  Royal  CoUegeof  Surgeons,  ^f'*^  Expressions  m  the  Offiw  RnrBap. 

3,  ^                   ^           -o             D  mu,^  ,m^  jQ  ^^  Catechism  of  the  Church 

An  Irish  English  Dictionary,  with  CO-  l^jJ^AJ^h^^^S^^ 

pious  Quotations  from  the  most  esteemed  ™  D^culties,  Objections,  and  conscun. 

kndent  and  modem  Writers,  to  eluddate  ^.  Scruples,  which  are  prevalent  on  the 

the  Meaning  of  obscure  Words,  &o.  to  which  |"**J*^j  ^  '  Cleigyman  of  the  Church  of 

is  annexed  a  compendious  Irish  Grammar,  ^^'^glj"^  ^JS!L                 u            :.      ,  • 

By  Edward  O'RdUy.  4to.  21.  12i.  6rf.  ^  ViUage  Prayers,   or  short    and    plain 

The  Principles  and  Doctrine  of  Assur-  ^o"??  ?^  I>«votion,  for  the  Use  of  Fan^; 

ances.  Annuities  on  Lives,  and  contingent  *?  which  are  prefix«l  a  few  Hmts  on  ^ 

Revcnrions,    stated    and  expUdned.      By  Jjature  of  Prayer.    By  a  Clergyman  of  the 

WillUm  Morgan,  Esq.  FR^.  8vo.  I2#.  ^"JJ*  °JJ!?^,L^^**' "*'^^'  «"    t. 

The  Systen?  of  the  Veather  of  the  Brf-  ^'^C^*^  ^  %  conceimng  aH  who 

tish  Wands,  by  (ieorge  IVIackenzie,  8vo.  St.  ^  "^j!^^  ^/^?If  °f '  PV  ^^• 

Observatioiii  on  the  Calumnies  and  Mis-  !»«  of  the  Church  of  Enghmd.  Sewed,  id. 

representations  in   I^y   Morgan's  Italy,  S«ne  rraiarkable  parUcutos  concor^ 

respecting  the  British  Transa<^  in  thiit  the  Rapid  Cmhzation  of  the  N^^ 

Cointi77l814-i5.  U,Od.  Colony  ^  &erra  I^e,    West  Afria, 

Thr4  Enigmas.  1.  The  Import  of  the  T'^f^.  ^  ^^^  ^  *^«  ^^""^  »  »*°k- 

Twelve  Signs.    2.  The  Cause  of  Ovid's  »°«Iy  dispUyed.   8vo.  2*. 

Bani^aunenl    3.  The    Eleusinian  Secret.  ,^  ^*«  «>  ^  S^'jf*^  ^'^^ 

3^^  Q^  AM.    m    reply  to  ms  Remarks  on  toe 

Bishop  of  Peterborough's  87  Questions.  2i. 

Natural  History,  Botany,  j;c. 

Vegetable  Materia  Medica  of  the  United  ^^^S^h  Travels,  and  Topography. 

States,  or  Medical  Botany :  containing  a  A  System  of  Universal  Geography.  By 

Botanical,  General,  and  Medical  History  M.  Midte  Brun,  Editor  of  the  ^  Annales 

of  Medidnal    Plants    indigenous    to  the  des  Voyages,'  &c.    Parts   1  and  2,  each 

United  States.      lUustratra  by  coloured  *Jt.  6d, 

Engravings,  made  after  Original  Drawings  DanieU's  Voyage  round  Great  Britnn. 

from  Nature.    By  William  P.  C.  Barton,  VoL  V.  7t  10*. 

MD.  2  Vols.  4to.  6L  St.  History  of  Maddra,  with  27  coloured 

Barton's  Flora  of  North  America,  4to.  Engravings  of  the  Customs,  Manners,  and 

10  Numbers,  6s.  each.  Occupations  of  the  Inhabitants.  Imperial 

An  Illustration  of  the  Genus  Cinchona,  8vo.  2L  2s, . 
comprising  Descriptions  of  all  the  Officinal  New  Picture  of  Dublin,  forming  a  corn- 
Peruvian  Barks,  &c    By  A.  B.  Lambert,  plete  Guide  in  the  Irish  MetropoUs.  ^  By 
Esq.  FRS.  &c  4to.  U  10«.  6d.  Jdm  James  M'Gregor.  10«. 

Sketches  of  India,  by  a  Traveller,  for 

Political  Economy.  Kre-side  Traveflers  at  Home.  8vo.  10«.  Bd. 

The  Universal  Cambist  and  Commercial  Excursions   through    the    Province    of 

Instructor;    being  a   Full  and  Accurate  Leinster,   comprising  Topographical  and 

Treatise    on     the    Exchanges,    ^loneys.  Historical  Delineations  or  Dublin  and  its 
Weights,  and  Measures,  of  all  Trading    Environs,  &c      By  Thomas  CromwclL 

Nations  and  their  Cdonies;  with  an  Ac-  VoL  I.  and  II.  each,  lbs. 


NEW  PATENTS. 


CSapt. 


ft  Iha  gtnnd.  Mid.  Ihon  hoHoftn  awtRetcd  fcr  dM  pn. 

,  ..  „  .             rumat-mikka  {  fin  u  p«Mi  of  nangmliwi—^al/  l4dk 

fanpnnemcDt  bi  the  mmuhctiuc  of  miff-  CbMln  Ncwmiii,  of  Brighton,  Stmet, 

n. — Julj  Si.  Boachmmn  ;  fW  an  impcoraiuat  m  ths 

WUlum  Churdi,  (rf'ThradiHcdle-Mrat,  onMnictioti  of  (lu  bodj  and  caniig*  of  > 

lanodow,  gwrimiin;  fbr  an  impond  ap-  acaga  or  other  coacti,  hj  placing  a  evttia 

{■•latna  fiit  ptintiiig. — Julj  3d.  proportion  of  the  ounids  |nmiii|)i  ii  b  tba 

WiniuD  Cole*,   of   New-atnet^qiuie,  cMiire  of  the  cmitiags,  and  ■  ptiipuiljun  of 

TifP-V^i  medlanic;  Ibr  braca  or  inmru-  the  luggage    under  the  lame,  jnodudng 

aiMUa  Ibr  tha  idief  of  hernia  or  niptuna.  ihateb;  afetf  to  the  coach,  and  coovaii- 

—jvlj  Sth.  toce  Co  the  pamengen. — July  17th. 

Rob.  Dieklnaon,  of  OrcatJQaeen-Mttet,  Samuel  Cooper,  (ngmeer,  and  William 

UHdlfaei,  Eiq. ;  fin  cettain  huprorenunti  HUln,  ^Bitleman,  both  of  Haigate,  Rent  t 

In  the  cooatmctiao  of  Ttaieli  vr  cnfta  of  far  certain  impmaDetita  Ml  printing  m^ 

■mj  deaatptlan,   whereby  luch  TCMeli  or  rhintit      Jnlj  17tlk 
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K.  EMei-Miret.Slrvid.    C, 
Hearw,  J.  CballMa.  Gloneeiier,  llDca-drapcr. 

[Hard.Temalr.    C. 
Halt,  J.  Edotrdttoae.  Sofalk,  iBallHv.  ^Har. 

«rd.S,BHei.conrt. Temple.  C. 
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lilt.  fiUliolwiil'-Tltliln.   T. 
SinlEh,  J.  E>rl^.codrt.  BedivBidliie.  Woreeota, 

dealiilabon.    [Ulllhuni,  LiualavJaB.  C. 
Soamo,  T.Jan.  and  J.Scimxf,  Carllile,  Cam- 

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iBB.   C. 
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WUliuiu,  R.  UaeitcAi].  ADgleaea,  ti 


Honso.  W.  Yi 
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[FWier. -. 

T.andJ,  Prnloa,Tsn|naT,  DoToa.  BodJ.a. 

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Au.  7.  AlktBIM,  (1.  IHibop  Wtamonlh,  Dnr- 

bam.  dealer.  [Dlakliloa,  ^nga 

Keec£.  W. '  AiBilnitrr.  Dtton.  gt 

ISnar.  (!■  S,  Sonik-lriwD.  Soffolli,  hriok-maker. 

(ftaoelt,l,Nn.Bo.i.ellomin.  ,C. 
BedwartTC.  H.Ponwfc  H.nU,«:rt.rnM,    rMH. 

liui*,  BaplUl  Head^bimben,  rhaneeTT-lBM. 

1.  BrlMol,  menhaal.     [VlBrd,  M, 


1031.:]  Bmkn^dt—Siymilf^ioiv—nnigm  Baehatgt. 

Au.ll.  Bwe1cT.ILudT.Tn1a(,UU)«D«l|<     TH^ O. LonJoii.nll,  ■ 
Stokt-yma^Trent  Sufford,  ehla&iDiuiaktMt-         Buk-liilliUin.   T. 
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jw,    ri.turii.  Craichrt-Win.  T.         Lunnff,  W.  ClnnMl,tMnkuL  [DiKktmck, 

,  T.  WmIuob,  Nsniifhiin,  gmw.    [Haa-        Tuiolt.   C. 

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KT,  C.F.  Hlnti-rimt,  CMkhnni.  Soiwy,  iub.         fmltrick'i-Blmce, 

..._     ru_ .    .._...- -.i       PorthoUM.T.  WInoD,  Cn.iib4rl»iid,iJwr. 

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•table,  Snnond^ _. 

nobnto.M.MiuKbata',  gnw.    [NiktIl 

«rrn,  Bplfcrd-raie.    C, 
Sckmcek.A.  Bnn-coart.  St.  Mm  Axe.  nun 

[Tbomu,  r:(a.eiMrt,  Fenthortfi.i- — ■     ' 
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14,  St.  Denncn-pli 
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[MoThti. 

PulFi,  W.  RDnegni,Cbc 


,    Bcnbrop,  W.  hs.LIbi 


ibut.      [Bvrt, 


1.  York,  rmeii.    [Dlcklum. 
n,  tomlilll.    C. 

«-Ii«.i(rcii.DL[«llll«Dl.'Gray1.ioa-il2St'!T; 
'Flrn.E,  HaJdlffe-lillI,  Biiiud.Knwer.    [£»■•, 

lulman,  H^niliiM',  Knt,  Tlclulltr.    FHaaah 
field,  7.TlinigiBomn.nrtrt.    T 

SCOTCH  SEQVESTBATIONS. 

Gaxetit-July  21  to  Aug.  31. 


(rr  Stapii-liiD     c'  '  Adam.  IV.  an)  J.  Adam,  blm 

EeclliH.  f.  Birmiagbam,  majKr.  fBaitH.  GivV     g™- "' "'^jJ'-Mil?'^; 


NDblF,  J.  Sallbrd,  e 


Bdllbrd.niir. 
Plinl,  W.    RaUIIITt-hltihiraT,  gncer.     [Hfard, 
_ili»|Mi'w,  Uaiau.ititFl.OiiodiniB'i-ebhU.T. 


aiwlck.^ll, 
S(ap1e-lai.    (.'. 
d.  Kcou  Avne 
n.  Cbmcerr-la 


Tatlor.  R.  aea.  aad  hd,  man,  i 
Habfnwn,  J.  mnhanl.  ('lawm' 
Blackin,  T.and  A.  BlMUn.  •» 
Dow,  vf.  and  W.  Fcowick,  oient 


A.  coBUDerclal-anBI,  £dlBhit|h. 
I.  ncnlianl.  Pmb. 
:{.  and  S«ai.  niiinitactiiren,  Pabli] 
n.  A.  ihlr-anH.  WtM  Wta^iL 


COVBSES  OF  FOREIGN  EXCHANOB  AT 


OX 

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1JAb|. 

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Madrid... 
Oporto... 

ao-55 

182 

oil 

S58 
15-55 
48fi 

16-SS 

16-ao 

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371 
26 

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148 
148 
8H 

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421 
G9 
36 

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68 
106 
105 

10-8 
119 
149 

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100 

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Ditto  at  n^t 12-13.. ia-14 

KMhtdam,  3U 12-17.. lK-18 

Annreip ja-10..12-9 

Uwnbinsh,  S(  U 38-6  ..S8.8 

Altoiu,2jU 38-7  ..38-3 

Ftiit,  3d>;)'ugfat 25-S6.. 20-70 

l>itto.,3U   2d-6S..2«-0 

Bourdcuu    S6-Si..20-0 

FonkfononthcMun  I  ,.„ 

EX.M r '*« 


TiwHc  ditto 10.34. .  10-26 

M»liid,  eOectiTe 36      ..30t 

Cadii,  EfiktiTe 36}  ,.364 


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L^om 

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..344 
..30| 


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NaUt 

Ttitrnm,  peroi 

iMbOD 

Opoito 

lUoJuian)  ... 


AVSaJGS  PRICE  OP  CORK 

IWTHETTXLTE  MAttlTIHE  DtSTSICTI- 

Bt  the  Qunter  of  8  Windiener  Buabds, 
mm  iht  Bctonu  in  the  Wc^  eadiiiK 

I  July 

I    21 
WbaX  62  0 
Rye.  '33    0 
Bariey  M    2 
Osta     18  II 
Beui»  30  10  ....  ..  „.     „ 

Pen     31     4I3I      1  30  II 


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Com  uid  Puke  imported  into  the  Port  of 
Laadon  rrom  July  36,  to  Aug.  30. 

Iri»h      Forebm     Tola! 
1,410        "— 


flTiest 
Buley 
Oits 
gje 


2.1, 17!) 
3,630 
44,700 


30,809 

4,345 

61,700 

17 


PEICES  OF  BULLION. 
At  ptr  Ounce. 

£.  I.  d.  £.  I. 
Fanug>lg(dd,iiiccuiO  0  0  ..0  0 
FoTBicn gold, in bwi  3  17  IOJ..D  0 
New  doublooiu ....  3  13    6  .  .0    0 

NeirdoU>n 0    4  10  ..0    0    < 

SilTeT,inlMn,itaDd.O    4  11   ,.0    0    1 
The  ■bore  Tablet  contaio  the  higb 
aad  the  Io»ett  priecL 


o  lOiLdie 


ijnntem  Ioa£ 


Patatott  per  Cvt,  in  SpUa^|kld*. 

Wwe fO    3    0  to  0    3    0 

Middling*..., 0    1    6  to  0    0    0 

Ch«»« 0    0    0  to  0    0    0 

OiinimoDlled..O    0    0  to  0    0    0 


Price  of  Hopipu  tmLimthe  Bonmgh. 

Kwt,  New  b^B  . . ,»«.  lo  7(w. 

?unei,  ditto aot.  to  GOi. 

ISeeei.  ditto OOa.  to  00*. 

VeuUngBm OOi.  to  OOt 

Kent,  New  Pocket!  30>.  to  Sit. 

Suuei,  ditto 2Qf.(o  6S«^ 

£<Ki,ditto OOt.to  00«w 

Punhun,  dhto OOi.  to  OOi. 

YeuliogPocketi OOi.  to  00*^ 


Arenge  Price  per  Load  at 
Has-  Cbntr.  Siram. 

£.,.    £...  £,...£.,.£., 

>4  10. .3  I6106    0..1    4lol   I 
WliitnhaptL 


3  I0lo4    4..4    8to6 

St.  Jamti'i. 
3    0to4  10..3    3ta4  15. .1 


1  tol  10 


Mtat  bg  Carcaie,  per  Stent  of  80.  at 
Mwfiote.— Beef....2«.  6rf.  to  3*.  Si 
Mutton.. 2«.  Id.  io  it.  4A 
Ve»1....3».  Oif.  to  6f.  Oi«: 
Fo[k...,3(.  ad.  to  4>.  *i. 
I^mb.-.S!.  a.  to  it.  a. 
Le»denhan.~Bttt....2t.  U.  M  3*.  IM. 
MuttoD..3i.  4^  to  3t.  3d, 
Vfi....3i.  tOd.  to  4i.  IML 

FoA Si.    Si.  w  4i.    N. 

Lamb...3L    M.  to  it.    Od. 


Cattle  told  at  Smithfield  flvm  Jmly  K, 

to  Aog.  20,  hKA  ifwfMicf. 
Bean*.         Calret.         Sheep.         Pigi. 
7,7»7  2,667         106,460      1.790 

HIGHEST  A^a>  LOWEST  FKICES  OP  COALS  (IN  THE  POOL>, 
In  eaeh  Week,  from  July  30  to  Aug.  30. 
July  30.         Aug. «.  Aug.  13.  Aug.  20. 

I.   i.        t.    A.      ,.    ^  .J        .J.J        .J.J 

NeweaMle.. 


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COMFAXIEB,   INSTITVTtOHl,  ftC. 

Sj  j|ff»*ri.  WOLFE  aitd  EDMONDS,  No.  9,  'Chavgr-AUey,  ComhUt. 
(Aug.  SUt,  18S1.) 


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332*  7GJ     17fi     61 
23HI74,)  J17-li   3i 


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4  233  70j  ' 
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fuir 


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8CJ'  B3i' 1 ^HKHIOBjl ' '_ 

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4  2W  ■■  841    811' ■ '"'■''s  l"8il ' 1— 

7  232  j  B6ij  est ll)!Hl<fil 1 ^— 

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17'  —   I  051    A5 lflB|108J ' L- 

18  _  I  aeil  «5  I |i(i8i  lOBJI — ' — !— 


Pricf .  0/  the 

FRENCH  FUNDS, 

From  Julu  27, 

to  Aug.  18. 


Julj  fr.  f.  '  fr.       c, 

S7  85  So    lii25  - 

30  05  00    1522  50 

■"g-j 

sing  40'     . 

■llOU  3.1    1.130  — 

7  U7  CO    1340  - 

9  «7  no!   1345  — 

1187  BO    IMS  U 

14.88  30    1647  M 

18:88  25,   1548  7C 

Iff  88  20l   1540  - 


AMERICAN  FUNDS. 


Jul; 
97     31 


Aog. 


July 
10        17      21    '    10      14       17 


124       . 

i— '  1 


Shares 84     24     24      - 

cent ISI-J go     99     90     9. 

1813 W  JWi  ^91  J9! 

1814 'lOlllOllllOIJlOli  I014I illl    1 

IBIS 1103  ,t03  linS    H>3      lu;i  I 1  112    1 

ipgggit l;0i7O    |70   '70     170    I ^1  —  I 


By  J.  M.  Richardton.  Siock-lroker,  23,  Cornhill. 


THE 


LONDON    MAGAZINE 


No.  XXII. 


OCTOBER,  1821. 


Vol.  IV. 


CONTENTS. 


V|ye  lionV  l^eaik        351 


COX7E88IOK8     OF    AS     EVOLIBH 

Opiux-Eater,  Part  II. 

Pleasures  of  Opium 854 

Pains  of  Opium 362 

Estephania  de  Oantelmes,  a  Tale  of 

the  Middle  Ages 379 

Witches,    and    other    Night 

Fears,  by  Elia... 384 

Leisure  Hours,  No.  II. 

The  Battle  of  the  Frogt  and 
Mice,  in  a  new  Translation  . .  388 

Renew:— Madame  deStael 394 

Sonnet,  a  Reflection  on  Summer,  hy 
John  Clare 400 

Traditional  Literature,  No.  X. 

Placing  a  Scottish  Minister 401 

Song,  imitated  from  the  Italian  ....  411 
On  the  Songs  of  the  People  of  Gothic 

or  Teutonic  Race 412 

Sonnet,  The  Poet 417 

<r.  jDan  IDinfiboomi^,  W  ^00- 
matf  for  dilettanti,  No.  II. 

CHulio  Romano  418 

The  Hermit,  a  Fragment  from  an  un^ 
published  Poem 425 


The  DRASL4,  No.  XXI. 

Corent  Garden  Druiy  Lane— 
theCoionatioD— Geraldi  Duval 
—Five  Hundred  Pounds— 4he 
Cure  for  Coxcombs— Haymar- 
ket 42^—429 

Report  of  Music,  No.  XX 429 

Review :— The  Cook's  Orade 4S2 

Song 43Q 

Gleanivos  from  Foreiok  Jour. 

XALS. 

Laybach 440 

Literary  and  Scientific  In- 
telligence  441 


Abstract  of  Foreign  and  Domestic  Oc- 
currences   444 

Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths  447 — 449 

Ecclesiastical  J^efenuents 449 

Agricultural  Report 449 

Observations  on  the  Weather,  for  Aug.  461 
Meteorological  Journal,  for  Aug. ....  453 

Commercial  Rqxnrt 454 

Works  preparing  for  Publication 
and  lately  publuhed,  new  Patents, 
Bankruptaes,  Mareets,  Stocks, 
Sue 457—464 


LONDON : 


PRINTED  FOR  TAYLOR  AND  HESSEY. 


Q^n/erfrf  at  Staiimers'  HaUr} 


351 


THE  UON'S  HEAD. 


We  are  not  often  in  the  habit  of  eulogizing  our  own  work, — but  we  caiW' 
iiut  neglect  the  opportunity  which  the  following  explanatory  note  gives  us  of 
calling  the  attention  of  our  readers  to  the  deep,  eloquent,  and  masterly  paper 
which  stands  first  in  our  present  Number.  Such  Confessions,  so  powerfully 
littered,  cannot  fail  to  do  more  than  interest  the  reader.  We  give  the  fol«. 
lowing  chronological  explanation  in  the  author's  own  words,  and  at  his  re* 
quest, — 

Notice  to  the  reader: — The  incidents  recorded  in  the  Preliminary  Confessions 
already  published,  lie  within  a  period  of  which  the  earlier  extreme  is  now  rather  more,  and 
the  latter  extreme  less,  than  nineteen  years  ago :  consequently,  in  a  popular  way  of  com- 
puting dates,  many  of  the  incidents  might  be  indifierendy  referred  to  a  distance  of  eigh- 
teen or  of  nineteen  years ;  and,  as  the  notes  and  memoranda  for  this  narrative  were  drawn 
up  originally  about  last  Christmas,  it  seemed  most  natural  in  all  cases  to  prefer  the  former 
date.  In  tliC  hurry  of  composing  the  narrative,  though  some  months  had  then  elapsed, 
this  date  was  every  where  retained :  and,  in  many  ca»es,  perhaps,  it  leads  to  no  error,  or' 
to  none  of  importance.  But  in  one  instance,  viz.  where  the  author  speaks  of  his  own  birth- 
day, this  adoption  of  one  uniform  date  has  led  to  a  positive  inaccuracy  of  an  entire  year : 
ibr,  during  the  very  time  of  composition,  the  nimtccnth  year  £rom  the  earlier  term  of  the* 
whole  period  revolved  to  ittt  dose.  It  is,  therefore,  jud^o^  proper  to  mention,  that  the 
period  of  that  narrative  lies  between  the  early  part  of  July,  1002,  and  the  beginning  or 
middle  of  March,  180:i 


M^'e  are  still  prevented  from  giving  the  2d  Number  of  the  Lives  of  the 
!*oetii,  owing  to  the  absence  of  the  author,  who  is  at  present  on  the  Conti- 
iK'iit.  We  have  every  reason  to  expect  his  return  in  time  to  enable  us  to 
continue  this  interesting  Series  in  our  next  Number,  or  in  the  one  imme- 
diately succeeding. — In  the  meanwhile,  we  are  enabled  to  promise  a  Secoikd 
Letter  from  Mr.  Edward  Herbert,  on  Greenwich  Hospital,  with  the  prospect 
ot  olliers  (addressed  to  the  Family  of  the  Powells)  descriptive  of  Scenes  in 
London,  which  our  readers  nuiy  feel  interested  in  witnessing.  Mr.  Herbert 
ai)pears  to  be  a  country  gentleman  of  considerable  curiosity,  and  his  London 
llesearches  have  led  him  into  strange  places,  and  have  made  him  familiar 
with  strange  customs. 

The  Letters  of  T.  T.  T.  and  The  Theban  touch  the  Heart  of  Lion's  Head. 
The  feeling,  temperate,  and  sensible  spirit  in  which  they  are  written,  speaks 
elocpiently  for  the  minds  of  the  writers,  and  we  almost  grieve  at  the  severity 
whicli  marked  our  rejection  of  their  offers.  They  will,  we  are  sure,  proper- 
ly estimate  our  present  respect  for  their  gentlemanly  and  intelligent  acknow- 
ledgments of  the  justice  of  oui  rebukes. 


The  two  little  Poems  found  amongst  the  papers  of  a  deceased  young 
Lady,  could  never  have  been  intended  by  the  Authoress  for  publication* 
They  are  very  pretty  portfolio  reading ;  but  printing  would  destroy  them. 


•*.  -No. 


^  Sonnet  to  Autumn, — '*  Have  not  we  seen  that  line  before,  Mr.  Puff?  "— 
The  other  Sonnet  on  the  Anvil  may  as  well  not  be  hammered  into  shape. 
Venus  has  two  dimples. 


^2  The  Lion's  Head. 

The  writer  of  ^'  the  following  Lines  "  (which  do  not  follow)  has  sent  us 
his  '^  second  thoughts,"  which  rather  too  closely  resemble  the  first  thoughts  of 
some  other  Author.  The  verses  that  ''  are  lighter  "  are  sadly  heavy.  We 
should  conceive  from  this  specimen,  that  the  Author  had  more  power  over 
tears  than  smiles.    He  might  make  a  water-man ;  he  is  no  Ughier^man. 

We  are  compelled  to  announce  to  E.  R.  that  "'^  the  Storm  "  is  blown  over. 
The  Broken  Heart  should  certainly  have  a  place  in  our  pages,  if  we  thought 
it  would  give  pleasure  either  to  the  writer  or  to  the  pidblic  ;  but  we  are  quite 
sure  that  its  appearance  in  print  would  make  more  broken  hearts  than  one. 

We  do  not  see  any  vast  objection  to  the  Sonnet  of  J.  J.  W. ;  it  is  as  inno- 
J^cent  as  Sonnets  generally  are.  But  we  have  a  word  or  two  to  say  to  this 
'-  writer,  on  the  subject  of  his  *^  Russian  Flower  Girl,  a  simple  Tale."  Can 
tiie  Author  be  serious  in  his  wish  tliat  we  should  print  it  ?  A  more  pain^ 
and  immoral  rhapsody  we  never  remember  to  have  encountered  from  the 
most  bewildered  brain  of  the  most  bewildered  novelist.  J.  J.  W.  will  do 
well  to  write  decently,  if  he  cannot  write  ably. 

The  Stanzas  of  H.  D.  are  very  promising,  if  the  Author  be  really  young. 
But  if  he  has  reached  twenty,  we  recommend  him  to  cut  the  rhymes  from 
his  sonnets,  and  make  essays  of  them. 

The  Streamlet  is  beautifrdly  written.  We  were  tempted  to  exclaim  with 
Sir  Roger  de  Coverley,  **  What  a  remarkably  handsome  hand!"  By.  the 
bye,  Mr.  Carstairs  appears  to  have  been  drilling  our  contributors  of  late ;  the 
floul  of  Tomkins  is  abroad ! 


We  are  grieved  to  reject  the  last  lays  of  a  Poet,  who  chaunts  his  own 
.  elegy.    If  &  is  really  a  swan  ''  singing  as  he  dies,"  he 

WQl  not  want  beneath  lus  head 
A  downypiUow. 
Let  him 

Put  his  head  under  his  wing. 

Lion's  Head  cannot  see  its  way  through  L.  L.'s  *'  lines  called  NiffM." 
Were  the  Lion  to  put,  as  the  writer  requests,  his  ''  correcting  hand"  to  them, 
L.  L.  would  soon  oe  induced  to  cry  '* paws  off'!" 

Was  6.  asleep  during  the  performance  at  the  Haymarket  which  he  affects 
to  criticise  ?  If  not,  we  tUnk  he  might  as  well  have  been  so.  The  ability 
and  the  justice  of  Ms  criticism  are  about  upon  a  par. 

We  must  also  inform  him  that  we  breed  our  own  critics. 


There  is  another  G.  who  addresses  us,  (for  a  very  facetious  reason,) ''  Dear 
Sir."  Had  all  the  Imes  been  equal  to  the  first  one  of  his  "  Familiar  Epistle^" 
we  should  have  been  happy  to  avail  ourselves  of  his  contribution. 

We  are  compelled  to  decline  "  One  brief  Remembrance  of  the  Youthful 
Bard." 


The  papers  from  L  ,  and  from  Fitzroy  Square,  my  Uncle  John,  &c. 
are  received,  and  under  consideration.  The  Life,  by  a  Dublin  Correspond- 
ent, is  printed,  for  insertion. 

We  have  received  many  other  commimications  from  Correspondents  be- 
speaking or  requiring  our  special  lenity.  We  spare  them  accordingly,  and 
tnank  them  for  their  good  Intentions. 


THE 


lonlion  iWagajme. 


N^  XXII.  OCTOBER,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


CONFESSIONS    OP    AN    ENGLISH    OPIUM. EATER 

BEING  AN  EXTRACT  FROM  THE  LIFB  OP  A  SCHOLAR. 

Part  II. 

So  then^  Oxford-street^  stony-  were  met  with  a  fortitude  more  con« 
hearted  step-mother !  thou  that  list-  firmed^  with  the  resources  of  a  ma- 
enest  to  the  sighs  of  orphans^  and  turer  intellect,  and  with  alleviations 
drink  est  the  tears  of  children,  at  from  sympathising  aifcctiou — how 
length  I  was  dismissed  from  Uiee :  deep  and  tender ! 
the  time  was  come  at  last  that  I  Thus,  however,  with  whatsoever 
no  more  should  pace  hi  anguish  thy  alleviations,  years  that  were  far  a- 
never-ending  terraces;  no  more  should  sunder  were  bound  together  by  sub- 
dream,  and  wake  in  captivity  to  the  tie  links  of  suffering  derived  from  a 
pangs  of  hunger.  Successors,  too  many,  common  root.  And  herein  I  notice 
to  myself  and  Ann,  have,  doubtless,  an  histance  of  the  short-sightedness  of 
since  then,  trodden  in  our  footsteps  human  desires,  that  oftentimes  on 
^-inheritors  of  our  calamities :  other  moonlight  nights,  during  my  first 
orphans  than  Ann  have  sighed:  tears  moumml  abode  in  London,  my  con- 
have  been  shed  by  other  children:  solution  was  (if  such  it  coidd  be 
and  thou,  Oxford-street,  hast  since,  thought)  to  gaze  from  Oxford-street 
doubtiess,  echoed  to  the  groans  of  up  every  avenue  in  succession  which 
innumerable  hearts.  For-  myself,  pierces  through  the  heart  of  Maryle- 
however,  the  storm  which  I  had  bone  to  the  fields  and  the  woods; 
outlived  seemed  to  have  been  the  for  thai,  said  I,  travelling  with  my 
pledge  of  a  long  fair-weather ;  the  eyes  up  the  long  vistas  which  lay 
premature  sufferings  which  I  had  part  in  light  and  part  in  shade,  '^  thai 
paid  down,  to  have  been  accepted  as  is  the  road  to  the  North,  and  there- 

a  ransom  for  many  years  to  come,    fore  to  ,  and  if  I  had    tlie 

as  a  price  of  long  immunity  from  wines  of  a  dove,  that  way  I  would 
sorrow :  and  if  again  I  walked  in  fly  for  comfort."  Thns  I  said,  and 
London,  a  solitary  and  contempla-  thus  I  wished,  in  my  blindness ;  yet, 
tive  man  (as  oftentimes  I  did),  I  even  in  that  very  northern  region  h 
walked  for  the  most  part  in  sereni^  was,  even  in  that  very  valley,  nay,  in 
and  peace  of  mind.  And,  although  that  very  house  to  which  my  erro* 
It  is  true  that  the  calamities  of  my  neous  wishes  pointed,  that  this  ae- 
noviciate  in  London  had  struck  root  cond  birth  of  my  sufferings  began ; 
so  deeply  in  my  bodily  constitution  and  that  th^  again  threatened  to  be- 
that  afterwards  they  shot  up  and  siege  the  citadel  of  life  and  hope, 
flourished  afresh,  and  grew  into  a  There  it  was,  tiiat  for  years  I  was 
noxious  umbrage  that  has  oversha-  persecuted  by  visions  as  ugly,  and  as 
dowed  and  darkened  my  latter  years,  ghastly  phantoms  as  ever  haunted 
yet  these  second  assaults  of  sullcring  the  coucn  of   an  Orestes  •.  ^a\^  Vfe. 

Vol.  IV.  -i  1> 


8£4                       Conftssions  of  an  English  Opium^Eaier.  QOct. 

this  utihappier  than  he,  that  sleep.  But  these  troubles  are  past:  and 
which  comes  to  all  as  a  respite  thou  wilt  read  these  records  of  a  pe- 
and  a  restoration,  and  to  him  espe-  riod  so  dolorous  to  us  both  as  the 
cially,  as  a  blessed  *  balm  for  his  legend  of  some  hideous  dream  that 
wounded  heart  and  his  haunted  brain,  can  return  no  more.  Meantime,  I 
visited  me  as  my  bitterest  scourge,  am  again  in  London :  and  again  I 
Thus  blind  was  I  in  my  desires ;  yet,  pace  Uie  terraces  of  Oxford-street  by 
if  a  veil  interposes  between  the  dim-  night :  and  oftentimes,  when  I  am 
aightedness  of  man  and  his  future  oppressed  by  anxieties  that  demaiid 
calamities,  the  same  veil  hides  from  all  my  philosophy  and  the  comfort  of 
him  their  alleviations ;  and  a  grief  thy  presence  to  support,  and  yet  re- 
which  had  not  been  feared  is  met  by  member  that  I  am  separated  from 
consolations  which  had  not  been  thee  by  three  hundred  miles,  and 
hoiped.  I,  therefore,  who  participated,  the  length  of  three  dreaiy  months, — 
as  It  were*  in  the  troubles  of  Orestes  I  look  up  the  streets  that  nm  north- 
(excepting  only  in  his  agitated  con-  wards  from  Oxford-street,  upon 
science),  participated  no  less  in  all  moonlight  nights,  and  recollect  my 
his  supports:  my  Eumenides,  like  youthfid  ejaculation  of  anguish; — 
his,  were  at  mv  bed-feet,  and  stared  and  remembering  that  thou  art  sit- 
in  upon  me  through  the  curtains:  ting  alone  in  that  same  valley,  and 
but,  watching  by  my  pillow,  or  de-  mistress  of  that  very  house  to  which 
frauding  herself  of  sleep  to  bear  me  my  heart  turned  hi  its  blindness  nine- 
company  throng  the  heavy  watches  teen  years  ago,  I  think  that,  though 
of  the  night,  sate  my  Electra :  for  blind  indeed,  and  scattered  to  die 
thou,  beloved  M.,  dear  companion  winds  of  late,  the  promptings  of  my 
of  my  later  years,  thou  wast  my  heart  may  yet  have  had  reference  to 
Eiectra  !  and  neither  in  nobility  of  a  remoter  time,  and  may  be  justified 
mind  nor  in  long-suffering  affection,  if  read  in  another  meaning : — and,  if 
wouldst  permit  that  a  Grecian  sister  I  could  allow  myself  to  descend  a^ 
should  excel  an  English  wife.  For  gain  to  the  impotent  wishes  of  child- 
thbu  thoughtst  not  much  to  stoop  to  hood,  I  should  again  s^y  to  myself,  as 
humble  offices  of  kmdness^  and  to  1  look  to  the  north,  *'  Oh,  that  1  had 
servile  t  ministrations  of  tenderest  the  wings  of  a  dove — ^^  axid  with  how 
affection; — to  wipe  awayfor  years  the  just  a  confidence  in  thy  good  and 
unwholesome  dews  upon  the  fore-  gracious  nature  might  I  add  the  other 
head,  or  to  refresh  the  lips  when  half  of  my  early  ejaculation — ''  And 
parched  and^  baked  with  fever ;  nor,  thai  way  I  would  fly  for  comfort." 
even  when  thy  own  peaceful  slum-  the  pleasures  of  opium. 
bers  had  by  long  sympathy  become  It  is  so  long  since  I  first  took 
infected  with  the  spectacle  of  my  opium,  that  if  it  had  been  a  trifling 
dread  contest  with  phantoms  and  incident  in  my  life,  I  might  have 
shadowy  enemies  that  oftentimes  forgotten  its  date:  but  cardinal 
bade  me  "sleep  no  more!" — not  events  are  not  to  be  forgotten;  and 
even  then,  didst  thou  utter  a  com-  from  circumstances  connected  with 
plaint  or  any  murmur,  nor  withdraw  it,  I  remember  that  it  must  be  refer- 
thy  angelic  smiles,  nor  shrink  from  red  to  the  autumn  of  1804.  Diu-ing 
thy  service  of  love  more  than  Electra  that  season  I  was  in  London,  having 
^  of  old.  For  she  too,  though  she  come  thither  for  the  first  time  since 
yas  a  Grecian  woman,  and  the  my  entrance  at  college.  And  my 
daughter  of  the  kingi  of  men,  yet  introduction  to  opium  arose  in  the 
wept  sometimes,  and  aid  her  face§  following  way.  From  an  early  age  I 
in  her  robe*  had  been  accustomed  to  wash  my 


•^  ffiu  tn\n)ficii,     Eurip.  Oreif,  "^  &yoi^oa^(w>  *Aya/t*/«w». 

g  ift/ia  9ii(/  haw  ir«9rXa;».  The  scholar  will  know  that  throughout  this  panage  I  refer 
ta  the  early  scenes  of  the  Orestes ;  one  of  the  most  beautiful  exhibitions  of  the  domestic 
•flbctions  which  even  the  dramas  of  Euripides  can  furnish.  To  the  English  reader,  it 
nay  be  necessary  to  say,  that  the  situauon  at  the  opening  of  the  drama  is  that  of  a 
brother  attended  only  by  his  suster  during  the  demoniacal  possession  of  a  suffering  con- 
fidence (or,  in  the  mythology  of  the  play,  haunted  by  the  furies),  and  in  dicumstancea 
«f  immediate  danger  from  enemies,  and  oif  desertion  or  (jbld  regard  from  nominal  friends. 


1891.^  Confessions  of  an  Sngluh  OpiuiU'Eaier,  S^5 

head  In  cold  water  at  least  once  a  cd  to  be  real  copper  halfpence*  taken 

day :    being   suddenly    seized    with  out  of  a  real  wooden  drawer.  Never- 

tootb-ache^  I  attributed  it  to  some  re-  thelcss,  in  spite  of  such  indication^ 

laxation  caused  l>y  an  accidental  in-  of  humanity,  he  has  ever  since  exist* 

termission  of  that  practice ;  jumped  ed  in  my  mind  as  the  beatific  vision 

out  of  bed ;  plunged  my  head  into  a  of  an  immortal  druggist^  sent  down 

bason  of  cold  water ;  and  with  hair  to  earth  on  a  special  mission  to  my- 

tlms  wetted  went  to  sleep.    The  next  self.    And  it  confirms  me  in  this  way 

morning,  as  I  need  hardly  say>   I  of  considering  him,  that,  when  I  next 

awoke  with  excnidating  rheumatic  came  up  to  London^   I  sought  him 

pains  of  the    head  and  face,  from  near  the  stately  Pantheon,  and  found- 

which  I  had  hardly  any  respite  for  him  not :  and  tlius  to  me,  who  knew, 

about  twenty  days.    On  the  twenty-  not  his  name  (if  Indeed  he  had  oi|e) 

first  day,  I  think  it  was,  and  on  a  Sun-  he  seemed  rather  to  have  vanished 

day,  that  I  went  out  into  the  streets ;  from    Oxford-street    than    to    have 

rather  to  nm  away,  if  possible,  from  removed  in  any  bodily  fashion.    The 

my  torments,  than  with  any  distinct  reader  may  Choose  to  think  of  him  as, 

purpose.     By  accident  I  met  a  col-  possibly,  no  more  than  a  sublunaiT 

lege  acquaintance  who  recommended  druggist :  it  may  be  so :  but  my  faith 

opium.    Opium  !  dread  agent  of  un-  is   better :    I    believe   him  to  have 

imaginable  pleasure  and  pain !  I  had  evanesced,*  or  evaporated.    So  un<« 

heard  of  it  as  I  had  of  manna  or  of  wiUingly  would  I  connect  any  mortal 

Ambrosia,  but  no  Airther :  how  un-  remembrances  with   that  hour,  and 

meaning  a  sound  was  it  at  that  time !  place,  and  creature,  that  first  brought' 

what    solemn    chords    does  it  now  me    acquainted    with    the   celestial 

strike  upon  my  heart!  what  heart-  drug. 

quaking  vibrations  of  sad  and  happy        Arrived  at  my  lodgings,    it  may 

remembrances !  Reverting  for  a  mo-  be  supposed  that  I  lost  not  a  moment 

ment  to  these,  I  feel  a  mystic  import-  in  taking  the  quantity  prescribed.     I 

ance  attached  to   the  minutest  cir-  was  necessarily  ignorant  of  the  whole 

cumstances  connected  with  the  place  art  and  mystery  of  opium-takinar: 

and  the  time,  and  the  man  (if  man  and,  what  I  took,  I  took  under  every 

he  was)  that  first  laid  open  to  me  disadvantage.    But  I  took  it: — ana' 

the    Paradise  of  Opium-caters.     It  in  an  hour,  oh !    Heavens !  what  a 

was  a  Sunday  afternoon,    wet  and  revulsion  !  what  an  upheaving,  from 

cheerless :  and  a  duller  spectacle  this  its  lowest  depths,  of  tne  inner  spirit  I 

earth  of  ours  has  not  to  show  than  a  what  an  apocalypse    of  the   world 

rainy  Sunday  in  London.      My  road  within  me  !  That  my  pains  had  va- 

homewards     lay    through     Oxford-  nished,  was  now  a  trifie  in  my  eyes : 

street ;  and  near  "  the  statchf  Pan-  — this  negative  effect  was  swallowed 

thcon,'*    (as   Mr.   Wordsworth    has  up  m  the  immensity  of  those  positive 

obligingly  called  it)  1  saw  a  drug-  effects  which  had  opened  before  me 

gist's  shop.     The  nruffgist — uncon-  —in  the  abyss  of  divine  eiyoymcnt 

scions  minister  of  celestial  pleasures !  thus  suddenly  revealed.    Here  was 

—  as  if  m  sympathy  with  the  rainy  a  panacea — a  f  «^;u«x6y  ><jriv^if  for  all 

Sundify,  looked  dull  and  stupid,  just  human  woes:  here  was  the  secret  of 

as    any  mortal    dniggist    might  be  happiness,  about  which  philosophers 

expected  to  look  on  a  Simday :  aud^  had  disputed  for  so  many  ages,  tt 

when   1  asked  for  the    tincture    of  once   discovered:    happhiess    mighlf 

opium,  he  gave  it  to  me  as  any  other  now  be  bought  for  a  penny,  and  car-' 

man  might  do:  and  furthermore, out  of  ricd  in  the  waistcoat  pocket:  port- 

my  shilling,  returned  me  what  seem-  able  ecstacies  might  be  had  corked 


•  Evanetccd ; — tins  way  of  goinj;  off  the  stage  of  life  appears  to  have  been  well  known 
in  the  17th  century,  but  at  tliat  time  to  have  been  considered  a  peculiar  privily  of 
blood-royal,  and  by  no  means  to  he  allowed  to  druggists.  For  about  the  year  IGiUs  a 
poet  of  rather  uminouH  name  (and  who,  by  the  bye,  did  ample  jusdce  to  his  name),  vii. 
Mt.  FlaUman^  in  ft])(.-aking  of  the  death  uf  Charles  H.  expresses  his  surprise  that  any 
prince  should  commit  so  absurd  an  act  as  dying ;  because,  sajrs  he. 

Kings  should  dLsdoin  to  die,  and  only  disappear. 

They  should  abscond^  tliat  is,  into  the  other  world. 


ZS6                       OmfemoM  of  an  English  Opium^Eatcr,  [[Oct. 

up  in  a  pint  bottle :  and  peace  of  a  pound,  and  Turlcey  eight :  and, 
mind  could  be  sent  down  in  gallons  thirdly,  Uiat  if  you  eat  a  good  deal 
by  the  mail  coach.  But,  if  1  talk  in  of  it,  most  probably  you  must— — 
this  way,  the  reader  will  think  I  am  do  what  is  particularly  disagreeable 
laughing :  and  I  can  assure  him,  that  to  any  man  of  regular  habits,  viz. 
nobody  will  laugh  long  who  deals  die.*  These  weighty  propositions 
much  with  opium :  its  pleasures  eveu  are,  all  ami  singular,  true :  I  cannot 
arjB  of  a  grare  and  solemn  com-  giunsa^  them:  and  truth  ever  was, 
plexion ;  and  in  his  happiest  state,  and  will  be>  commendable.  But  in 
tiie  opiiun-«iter  caimot  present  him-  these  three  theorems,  I  believe  we  have 
self  m  the  character  of  VAUcgro :  exhausted  the  stock  of  knowledge  as 
e?en  then,  he  speaks  and  thinks  as  yet  accumulated  by  man  on  the  sub- 
WcMnes  //  Penscrato,  Nevertheless,  jcct  of  opium.  And  therefore,  wor- 
I  Bave  a  very  reprehensible  wav  of  thy  doctors,  as  there  seems  to  lie 
jesting  at  times  in  the  midst  or  my  room  for  -further  discoveries,  stand 
own  misery :  and,  unless  when  I  am  aside,  and  allow  me  to  come  forward 
checked  by  some  more  p(Averful  feel-  and  lecture  on  this  matter, 
ings,  I  Um  afraid  I  shall  be  guilty  of  First,  then,  it  is  not  so  much  offirm- 
this  indecent  practice  even  in  these  ed  as  taken  for  granted,  by  all  who 
aonals  of  suffering  or  enjoyment,  ever  fncntion  opium,  formally  or  in- 
The  reader  must  allow  a  little  to  my  ddentally,  that  it  does,  or  can,  pro- 
infirm  nature  in  Uiis  respect :  and  duce  intoxication.  Now,  reader,  as- 
with  a  few  indulgences  of  that  sort,  sure  yourself,  meo  pericuh,  that  no 
I  shall  endeavour  to  be  as  grave,  if  quantity  of  opium  ever  did,  or  could 
not  drowsy,  as  fits  a  theme  like  opium,  intoxicate.  As  to  the  tincture  of 
ao  and-mercurial  as  it  really  is,  and  opium  (cx>mmoii]y  colled  laudanum) 
80  dro^Vsy  as  it  is  fhlsely  reputed.  that  might  certainly  intoxicate  if  a 
-  And,  first,  one  word  with  respect  man  could  bear  to  take  enough  of  it ; 
to  its  bodily  elTects :  for  upon  all  that  but  why  ?  because  it  contains  so 
has  been  hitherto  written  on  the  sub-  miich  proof  spirit,  and  not  because  it 
ject  of  opium,  whether  by  travellers  contains  so  much  opium.  But  crude 
in  ^Furkey  (who  may  plead  their  pri-  opium,  I  affirm  peremptorily,  is  inca- 
▼ilege  of  lying  as  an  old  immemorial  pable  of  producing  any  state  of  body 
right),  or  by  professors  of  medicine,  at  all  resembling  tliat  which  is  pro- 
writing  ex  cathedra,"-^!  have  but  one  duced  by  alcohol ;  and  not  in  degrse 
emphatic  criticism  to  pronounce —  only  incapable,  but  even  in  kind: 
Lies  !  lies !  lies !  I  remenil)er  once,  it  is  not  in  the  quantity  of  its  effects 
in  passing  a  book-stall,  to  have  merely,  but  in  tlie  quality,  that  it 
caught  these  words  from  a  page  of  differs  altogether.  The  pleasure 
aome  satiric  author: — ^*  By  this  time  given  by  wine  is  always  mounting, 
I  became  convinced  that  the  London  and  tending  to  a  crisis,  after  which 
newspapers  spoke  truth  at  least  twice  it  declines:  that  from  opium,  when 
«  week,  viz.  on  Tuesday  and  Sa-  once  generated,  is  stationary  for 
tiurdayy  and  might  safely  be  depend-  eight  or  ten  hours :  tlie  first,  to  l>or- 
ed  upon  for  the  list  of  bank-  row  a  technical  distinction  from  me- 
rupts."  In  like  manner,  I  do  by  dicme,  is  acoseofacute — the  second, 
no  means  deny  that  some  truths  have  of  chronic  pleasure :  the  one  is  a 
been  delivered  to  the  world  hi  regard  fiame,  the  other  a  stcadv  and  equable 
tp  opium :  thus  it  has  been  repeated-  glow.  But  the  main  distinction  lies 
ly  affirmed  by  the  Icanied,  that  m  this,  that  whereas  wine  disorders 
opium  is  a  dusky  brown  in  colour ;  the  mental  faculties,  opium,  on  the 
ahd  this,  take  notice,  I  grant:  se-  c^mtrary  (if  taken  in  a  proper  man- 
oondly,  that  it  is  rather  dear ;  which  ner),  introduces  amongst  them  the 
also  I  grant :  for  in  my  time.  East-  most  exquisite  order,  legislation,  and 
India  opium  has  been  three  guineas  harmony.    Wine  robs  a  man  of  his 


*  Of  this,  however,  the  learned  appear  latterly  to  have  doubted :  for  in  a  pirated 
edition  of  Buchan*8  Domcttic  Medicine^  which  I  once  saw  in  the  hands  of  u  famicr*s 
wife  who  was  studying  it  for  the  benefit  of  her  health,  the  Doctor  was  made  to  say — ^  Bo 
pardcularly.  careful  never  to  take  above  five-and.twenty  ounces  ot  laudanum  at  once  ;  * 
ihe  true  reading  being  probably  five  and  twenty  drop*^  which  arc  held  equal  t«>  ili^iit  one 
^raia  of  crude  opium. 


1821  .J  Confesnons  of  itn  English  Opium^Eater,  85f 


self-possession :    opium    greatly   in«  brightened  and  intensified  the 

vigomtes   it.     Wine    unsettles    and  sciousness— and  gave  to  the  mind  a 

clouds  the  judpncnt^  and  gives  a  pre-  feclinc  of  being  *'  ponderibus  lifanta 

tematural    brightness,   and  a  vivid  suis:'   and  certainty  it  is  most  db- 

exaltation  to  the  contempts  and  the  surdly   said,    in  popular  languaM, 

admirations,  the  loves  and  the  ha-  of  any  man,  that  he  is  disguisedki 

trefls,   of  the  drinker  :     opium,   on  liquor :   for,  on  the  contrary,   mott 

the  contrary,  commuidcates  serenity  men  are  disguised  by  sobriety  ;  wad 

and  equipoise  to  all  the  faculties,  it  is  when  they  are  drinking  (as  MMne 

active  or  passive :  and  with  respect  old  gentleman  says  in  Athencus), 

to  the  temper  and  moral  feelings  in  that  men  \o(»l»f  t/nf  oo^M^fv  ernvif  tM>^ 

general,    it  gives   simply  that  sort  display  themselves  in  their  true  ooiii* 

of  vital  warmth  which  is  approved  plcxion  of  character ;  which  surdy 

by  the  judgpient,  and  which  woidd  is  not  disguising  themselves.    But 

probably  always  accompany  a  bodily  stiU,  wine  constantly  leads  a  mmt  ID 

constitution  of  primeval  or  antedilu-  the  brink  of  absurdity  and  eztrSMiN 

vian    health.      Thus,    for    instance,  prance ;  and,  beyond  a  certain  pckat, 

opium,  like  wine,    gives  an  expan-  it  is  sure  to  volatilize  and  to  dispenfc 

sinn  to  the  heart  and  the  benevolent  the  intellectual    energies :    whereu 

affections :    but  then,    with  this  re-  opium  always  seems  to  compose  what 

markable  dilfcrence,  that  in  the  sud-  had  been  agitated,,  and  to  concen- 

den  developement  of  kind-hearted-  trate  what  had  been*  distracted.    In 

ness  which  accompanies  inebriation,  short,  to  sum  up  all  in  one  word,  a 

there  is  always  more  or  less  of  a  man  who  is  inebriated,  or  tending 

maudlin  character,  which  exposes  it  to  inebriation,  is,  and  feels  that  he 

to  the  contempt  of  the  by-stander.  is,  in  a  condition  which  calls  up  into 

Men    shake    hands,    swear    eternal  supremacy  the  merely  human,    too 

friendship,  and  shed  tears— no  mor-  often  the  brutal,  part  of  his  nature : 

tal    knows    why:  and    the    sensual  but  the  opium-eater  (I  speak  of  bSm 

creature  is  clearly  uppermost    But  who  is  not  suffering  from  any  dit» 

the  expansion  of  the  benigner  feel-  ease,    or    other    remote    effects   of 

ings,  incident  to  opium,  is  no  febrile  opium)  feels  that  the  diviner  p|ut 

access,  but  a  healthy  restoration  to  of  his  nature  is  paramount ;  that  ii, 

that  state  which  the  mind    would  the  moral  affections  are  in  a  state  of 

naturally  recover  upon  the  removal  cloudless  serenity;  and  over  all  is  the 

of  any  deep-seated  irritation  of  pain  great  light  of  the  majestic  intellecL 
tliat  had  disturbed    and  quarrelled        This  is  the  doctrine  of  the  true 

with  the  impulses  of  a  heart  origin-  church  on  the  gubiect  of  opium  t  of 

ally   just  and  good.       True  it  is,  which  church  I  acknowledge  mysdf 

that  even  wine,  up  to  a  certain  point,  to  be  the  only  member—  the  alpha 

and  with  certain  men,  rather  tends  and  the  omega:  but  then  it  is  to  be 

to  exalt  and  to  steady  the  intellect :  recollected,  that  T  speak  from  tlie 

I  myself,  who  have  never  been  a  ground  of  a  large  and  profound  per* 

^reat  wine-drinker,  used  to  find  that  sonal  experience :  whereas  most  of 

half  a  dozen  glasses  of  wuie  advan-  the  unscientific  *  authors  who  have 

tagoously   affected    the   faculties—  at  all  treated  of  opium,  and  even  of 

*  Amongst  the  greftt  herd  of  tnvdlerB,  &c  who  show  sufRciently  by  their  stupl^y 
that  they  never  held  any  intercourse  with  opium,  I  must  caution  my  reader  spwiallj 
against  the  brilliant  author  of  *^  AniutaHus.**  TMs  gentleman,  whose  wit  would  IftA 
one  to  presume  him  an  opium-eater,  has  made  it  impossible  to  consider  him  in  Uiat 
character  from  the  grievous  misrepresoitation  which  he  gives  of  its  effects,  at  p.  215 
•~-17,  of  vol.  1. — Upon  consideration,  it  must  appear  suoi  to  the  author  himiielrt  Ibr, 
waiving  the  errors  I  have  insisted  on  in  the  text,  which  (and  others)  are  adopted  in  the 
fullest  manner,  he  will  hiniKclf  admit,  that  an  old  gentleman  *•''  with  a  snoif-while 
beard,"  who  eats  ^^  ample  do«cs  of  opium,**  and  is  yet  able  to  deliver  what  is  meant 
and  received  as  very  weighty  counsel  on  the  bad  effects  of  that  pracdce,  is  but  an  indif* 
fcrent  evidence  that  opium  either  kills  people  prematurely,  or  sends  tfiem  into  a  mad* 
house,  liut,  for  my  jiart,  I  see  into  tfiik  old  genUeman  and  his  motives  :  the  fSMt  is, 
he  was  enamoured  of  ^^  the  little  golden  receptacle  of  the  pernicious  drug**  which  Anar 
stasius  carric<l  about  liim  ;  and  no  way  of  obtaining  it  so  safe  and  so  feasible  oocarrBd, 
as  that  of  frightening  its  owner  out  of  his  wits  (which,  by  the  bye,  arc  none  of  the 
strongest).  This  commentary  tlirows  a  new  light  upon  the  case,  and  ^jrca^l  ViikVfiw*^ 
it  M  a  story  :  for  tlie  old  gcntleman*(s  speech,  con»dtxt&  m  «^  V«^t«  «^^^JJ^DBlaM:^^^k 
highly  abgurd:  but,  considered  as  a  hoax  on  AnuUHXii%^  ix  TwAak  giRy?^>wi  % 


858  Confessions  of  an  Ettglish  Opium-JSater.  L^^^* 

-those  who  have  written  expressly  on  on  a  logical  error  of  using  the  word 

the  materia  medica,  make  it  evident^  intoxication  with  too  great  latitude^ 

from  the  horror  they  express  of  it,  and  extending  it  generically  to  all 

-that  their  experimental    knowledge  modes  of  nervous  excitement,  instead 

of'its  action  is  none  at  all.     I  will,  of  restricting  it  as  the  expression  for 

however,  candidly  acknowledge  that  a  specific  sort   of  excitement,  con- 

I  have  met   with   one  person   who  nected     with     certain     diagnostics. 

bore    evidence    to    its    intoxicating  Some  people  have  maintained,  in  my 

Sower,  such  as  staggered  my  own  hearhig,  that  they  had  been  drunk 
icredullty :  for  he  was  a  surgeon,  upon  green  tea  :  and  a  medical  stu- 
and  had  himself  taken  opium  largely,  dent  in  London,  for  whose  know- 
-I  happened  to  say  to  dim,  that  his  led^e  in  his  profession  I  have  reason 
viemies  (as  I  had  heard)  charged  to  feel  great  respect,  assured  me,  the 
him  with  talking  nonsense  on  poli-  other  day,  that  a  patient,  in  recover- 
•tics,  and  that  his  friends  apologized  ing  from  an  illness,  hud  got  drunk 
-for  him,  by  suggesting  that  he  was  on  a  beef-steak, 
constantly  in  a .  state  of  intoxication  Having  dwelt  so  much  on  this 
from  opium.  Now  the  accusation,  first  and  leading  error,  in  res])ect  to 
■aid  I>  is  not  pnmd  facie,  andofne-  opium,  I  shall  notice  very  briefly  a 
oessity,  an  absurd  one:  but  the  defence  second  and  a  third ;  which  are,  that 
-is.  To  my  surprise,  however,  he  in-  the  elevation  of  spirits  produced  Ijy 
sistcd  that  both  his  enemies  and  his  opium  is  necessarily  followed  by  a 
friends  were  in  the  right :  "  I  will  proportionate  depression,  and  that 
maintain,"  said  he,  '^  that  I  do  talk  the  natural  and  even  immediate  con- 
nonsense  ;  and  secondly,  I  will  main-  sequence  of  opium  is  torpor  and 
tain  that  I  do  not  talk  nonsense  upon  stagnation,  animal  and  mental.     The 

gruiciple,  or  with  any  view  to  profit,  first  of  these  errors  1  shall  content 

ut  solely  and  simply,  said  he,  solely  myself  with  simply  denying ;  assur- 

and  simply, — solely  and  simply  (re-  ing  my  reader,  that  for  ten  years, 

rating  it  three  times  over),  because  during  which  1  took  opium  at  inter-* 

am  drunk  witli  opium ;  and  that  vals,  the  day  succeeding  to  tliat  on 

daily."     I   replied   that,    as    to  the  which  I  allowed  myself  this  hixury 

allegation  of  his  enemies,  as  it  seem-  was  always  a  day  of  unusuaUy  good 

ed  to  be  established  upon  such  re-  spirits. 

apcctable  testimony,  seeing  that  the        With  respect  to  the  torpor   sup- 

tnrce  parties  concenied  all  agreed  in  pose<l  to  follow,    or  rather  (if  we 

ity  it  did  not  become  me  to  question  were  to  credit  the  numerous  pictures 

it;   but  the  defence  set  up  I  must  of  Turkish  opium-eaters)  to  accom- 

demur  to.     He  proceeded  to  discuss  pany  the  practice  of  opium-eathig,  I 

the  matter,  and  to  lay  down  his  rca-  deny  that  also.     Certainly,  opiinn  is 

sons:  but  it  seemed  to  me  so  impo-  classed  under  tlie  head  of  narcotics; 

lite    to   pursue  an  argument  which  and  some  such  effect  it  may  proihice 

must  have  presumed  a  man  mistaken  in  the  end  :  but  the  primary  eflocts  of 

In  a  pouit  belonging  to  his  own  pro-  opium  are  always,  and  in  the  highest 

fession,  that  I  did  not  press  him  even  degree,  to  excite  and  stimulate  the 

when  his  course  of  argument  seemed  system  :  this  first  stage  of  its  action 

rn  to  objection:   not  to  mention  aJways  lasted  with  me,  durhig  my 

t  a  man  who  talks  nonsense,  even  noviciate,  for  upwards  of  eight  hours; 

though  '^  with  no  view  to  profit,"  so  that  it  must  be  the  fault  of  tlic 

is  not  altogether  the  most  agreeable  opium-eater  himself  if  he  does  not 

/{>artBer  in  a  dispute,  whether  as  op->  so  time  his  exhibition  of  the  dose  (to 

gonent    or    respondent     I    confess,  speak  medically)  as  that  the  whole 

owever,.   that    the  authority  of  a  weight  of  its  narcotic  influence  may 

surgeon,  and  one  who  was  reputed  descend   upon   his  sleep.      Turkish 

|i  good  one,  may  seem   a  weighty  opium-eaters,    it  seems,  are  absurd 

Qlie  to  my  prejudice :  but  still  I  must  enough  to  sit,  like  so  many  eques- 

plead   my    experience,    which    was  trian   statues,   on  logs  of  wood   as 

greater  than  his  greatest    by  7000  stupid  as  themselves.    But  that  the 

drops  a  day ;  and,  though  it  was  not  reader  may  judge  of  the  degree  in 

possible  to  suppose  a  medical  man  which  opium  is  likely  to  stupify  the 

uuacguainted  with  the  characteristic  faculties  of  an  Englishman,  1  sliall 

symptoms  of  viuous  intoxication,  it  (^by  way  of  treating  the  question  il- 

yet  struck  me  that  he  might  proceed  luaUa^^^^>  xoA^iis  V)K\axk  «x^tQk&\vU.« 


"  1821.]]                    Confisnom  of  an  Engluh  Opnm^Eat&ir.  35^ 

tively)  describe  the  way  in  which  I  teilude^  as  she  often  did>  and  poured 

myself  often  passed  an  opium  even-  forth  her  passionate  soul  as  Andro^ 

ing  in   London^    during  the  period  mache,  at  the  tomb  of  Hector,  &c. 

between    1804—1812.      It    will    be  I  -question  whether  any  Turk,  of  all 

seen,   that  at  least  opium  did  not  that  ever  entered  the  Paradise    of 

move  me  to  seek  solitude,  and  much  opiimi-eaters,  can  have  had  half  the 

less  to  seek  inactivity,  or  the  torpid  pleasure  I  had.     But,  indeed,  1  ho-' 

state  of  self-involution   ascribed  to  nour  the  Barbarians  too  much  by 

the  Turks.    I  give  this  accoinit  at  supposing  them  capable  of  any  plea-^ 

the  risk  of  being  pronounced  a  crazy  sures    approaching   to   the   hitellec- 

enthusiast  or  visionary:   but  I  re-  tual  ones  of  an  Englishman.     For' 

gard  thett  little :  I  must  desire  my  nnisic  is  an  intellectual  or  a  sensual 

reader  to  bear  in  mind,  that  I  was  pleasure,  according  to  the  temperai 

a  hard  student,  and  at  severe  studies  mcnt  of  him  who  hears  it.    And,  by' 

ibr  all  the  rest  of  my  time :  and  cer-  the  bye,  with  the  exception  of  the 

tainly  I  had  a  right  occasionally  to  fine  extravaganza  on  that  subject  hi' 

relaxations  as  well  as  other  people :  Twelfth  Night,  I  do  not  recollect 

these,  however,  I  allowed  myself  but  more  than  one  thing  said  adequately 

seldom.  on  the  subject  of  music  in  all  litera- 

The  late  Duke  of used  to  say,  ture :  it  is  a  passage  in  the  ReHgio 

*^  Next  Friday,  by  the  blesshig  of  Medici*   of    Sir    T.  Brown;    and. 

Heaven,  I  purpose  to  be  drunk : "  though    chiefly    remarkable    for  its 

and  in  like  manner  I  used  to  fix  be«  sublimity,  has  also  a  philosophic  va* 

forehand  how  often,  within  a  given  lue,   inasmuch    as   it  points   to  the 

time,  and  when,  I  would  commit  a  true  theory  of  musical  effects.    The 

debauch  of  opium.     This  was  seldom  mistake  of  most  people  is  to  sup* 

more  than  once  in  three  weeks :  for  pose  that  it  is  by  the  ear  they  com- 

at  that  time  I  could  not  have  ven-  municate  with  music,  and,  therefore, 

tured   to  call  every  day  (as  I  did  that  they  are  purely  passive  to  its 

afterwards)  for  " a  frlass  of  laudantim  effects.    But  this  is  not  so:  it  is  by 

negnsy  warm  y  and  without  sugar"  No:  the  re-action  of  the  mind  upon  the 

as  I  have  said,  I  seldom  drank  lau-  notices  of  the  ear,  (the  matter  com- 

danum,  at  that  time,  more  than  once  mg  by  the  senses,    the  form  from 

in  three  weeks :  this  was  usually  on  the  mind)  that  the  pleasure  is  con- 

a  Tuesday  or  a  Saturday  night ;  my  structcd :    and   therefore   it  is  that' 

reason  for  which  was  this.     In  those  people  of  equally  good  ear  differ  m 

days  Grassini  sang  at  the  Opera :  and  much  in  this  point  from  one  another, 

her  voice  was  delightful  to  me  be-  Now  opium,   by  greatly  increasing 

Yond  all  that  I  had  ever  heard.    I  the  activity  of  the  mind  generally, 

know  not  what  may  be  the  state  of  increases,  of  necessitv,  that  nartica« 

the  Opera-house  now,  hay^ig  never  lar  mode  of  its  activity  by  which  we 

been   within  its  walls  for  seven  or  are  able  to  construct  out  of  the  raw 

eight  years,  but  at  that  time  it  was  by  material  of  organic  sound  an  elabo- 

much  the   most  pleasant   place    of  rate  intellectual  pleasure.  But,  says  a 

public  resort  in  London  for  passing  friend,  a  succession  of  musical  sounds 

an  evening.     Five  shillings  aamitted  is  to  me  like  a  collection  of  Arabic 

one  to  the  gallery,  which  was  sub-  characters :  I  can  attach  no  ideas  to 

jcct  to  far  less  annoyance  dian  the  them.    Ideas !   my  good  sur  ?  there 

pit  of   the  theatres:    the  orchestra  is  no  occasion  for  them:    all  that 

was  distinguished  by  its  sweet  and  class  of  ideas,  which  can  be  arailaUe 

melodious  grandeur  urom  all  English  in  such  a  case,  has  a  languaae  of 

orchestras,  the  composition  of  which,  representative  feelings. ''  But  this  Js 

I  confess,  is  not  acceptable  to  my  a  subject  foreign  to  my  present  pur- 

ear,  from   the  predominance  of  the  poses:  it  is  sufficient  to  sar,  that  a 

clangorous  instruments,  and  the  ab-  chorus,  &c.  of  elaborate  narmohy, 

solute  tyranny  of  the  violin.     The  displayed  before  me,  as  in  a  piece 

choruses  were  divine  to  hear:  and  of  arras  work,  the  whole  of  my  past 

when  Grassini  appeared  in  some  in-  life — not,  as  if  recalled  by  an  act  of 

*  I  have  not  die  book  at  thb  moment  to  consult :  but  I  think  the  passage  begfais— 
*^  And  even  that  tavern  music,  which  makes  one  man  merry,  another  mad|  m  ait 

Ktrikia  a  dcq>  fit  of  dsvotiOD,*'  &c  ' 


360                        Confiisumg  of  an  Engtuk  Opiums  Eater.  [[Oct. 

memoTj,  but  as  if  present  and  incar-  {i^easnres  of  the  poor^  their  consola- 
natod  in  the  munc :  no  longer  pain-  tions  of  spirit,  and  their  reposes  from 
ful  to  dwell  upon :  but  the  detail  of  bodily  toil>  can  never  become  op- 
its  incidents  removed,  or  blended  in  pressive  to  contemplate.  Now  Sa- 
aome  hazy  abstraction ;  and  its  pas-  turday  night  is  the  season  for  the 
aions  exalted,  sfmitualized,  and  sub-  chief,  regular,  and  periodic  return 
fimed.  All  this  was  to  be  had  for  of  rest  to  the  poor:  in  this  point 
fire  shillings.  And  over  and  above  the  most  hostile  sects  unite,  and  ac- 
the  music  of  the  stage  and  the  or-  knowledge  a  common  link  of  bro- 
chestra, '  I  had  all  around  me,  in  therhood :  almost  all  Christendom 
the  intervals  of  the  performance,  the  rests  from  its  labours.  It  is  a  rest 
music  of  the  Italian  language  talked  introductory  to  another  rest :  and 
by  Italian  women:  for  the  gallery  was  divided  by  a  whde  day  and  two 
uauflJly  crowded  with  Ittdians :  and  nights  from  the  renewal  of  toil.  On 
I  listened  with  a  pleasure  such  as  that  this  account  I  feel  always,  on  a  Sa- 
with  which  Weld  the  traveller  lay  turday  nighty  as  though  I  also  were 
and  listened,  in  Canada,  to  the  sweet  released  from  some  yoke  of  labour, 
laughter  of  Indian  women;  for  the  had  some  wages  to  receive,  and  some 
leas  you  understand  of  a  -language,  luxury  of  repose  to  enjoy.  For  the 
the  more  sensible  you  are  to  the  sake,  therefore,  of  witnessing,  upon 
melody  or  harshness  of  its  soimds :  as  large  a  scale  as  possible,  a  spec-* 
for  such  a  purpose,  therefore,  it  was  taclc  with  which  my  sympathy  waai 
an  advantage  to.  me  that  I  was  a  so  entire,  I  used  otten,  on  Saturday 
poor  Italian  scholar,  reading  it  but  nights,  after  I  had  taken  opium,  to 
little,  and  not  speaking  it  at  all,  wander  forth,  without  much  regard- 
lior  understanding  a  tenth  part  of  ing  the  direction  or  the  distance,  to 
what  I  heard  spoken.  all  the  markets,  and  other  parts  of 
These  were  my  Opera  pleasures :  London,  to  which  the  poor  resort  ati 
but  another  pleasure  I  had  which,  a  Saturday  night,  for  layuig  out 
as  it  could  be  had  only  on  a  Sa-  their  wages.  Many  a  family  party, 
turday  night,  occasionally  struggled  consisting  of  a  man,  his  wife,  ainl 
with  my  love  of  the  Opera ;  for,  at  sometimes  one  or  two  of  liis  chil- 
that  time,  Tuesday  and  Saturday  dren,  have  I  listened  to,  as  they 
were  the  regular  Opera  nights.  On  stood  consulting  on  their  ways  and 
this  subject  I  am  afraid  I  shall  be  means,  or  the  strength  of  their  cx- 
rather  obscure,  but,  I  can  assure  chequer,  or  the  price  of  household 
the  reader,  not  at  all  more  so  than  articles.  Gradually  I  became  fami- 
Marinusinhislifeof  Proclus,  ormany  liar  with  their  wishes,  their  difficul- 
Qther  biographer^  and  auto-biogra-  ties,  and  their  opinions*  Sometunes 
phers  of  fair  reputation.  This  plea-  there  might  be  heard  murmurs  of 
sure,  I  have  said,  was  to  be  had  only  discontent:  but  far  oftener  expres- 
on  a  Saturday  night.  What  then  was  sions  on  the  countenance,  or  uttered 
Saturday  night  to  me  more  than  any  in  words,  of  patience,  hope,  and  tran- 
other  lUffht  r  I  had  no  labours  that  I  quillity.  Ana  taken  generally,  I  must 
retted  irom ;  no  wages  to  receive :  say,  that,  in  this  point  at  least,  tho 
what  needed  I  to  care  for  Saturday  poor  are  far  more  philosophic  than  the 
night,  more  than  as  it  was  a  sum-  rich — that  they  show  a  more  ready  and 
mona  to  hear  Grassini  ?  True,  most  cheerful  submission  to  what  they  con- 
logical  reader :  what  you  say  is  un-  sider  as  irremediable  evils,  or  ir  re- 
answerable*  And  yet  so  it  was  and  parable  losses.  Whenever  I  saw  oo* 
ity  that,  whereas  dinerent  men  throw  caston,  or  could  do  it  without  ap- 
their  feelings  into  different  channels,  pearing  to  be  intrusive,  I  joined  their 
and  most  are  apt  to  show  their  in-  parties ;  and  gave  my  opinion  upon 
terest  in  the  concerns  of  the  poor,  the  matter  in  discussion,  which,  if 
chiefly  by  sympathy,  expressed  in  not  always  judicious,  was  always 
•ome  shape  or  other,  with  their  dis-  received  indulgently.  If  wages  were 
treasea  and  sorrows,  I,  at  that  time,  a  little  higher,  or  expected  to  be  so, 
was  disposed  to  express  my  interest  or  the  quartern  loal  a  little  lower, 
by  sympathising  with  their  plea-  or  it  was  reported  that  onions  and 
sures.  The  pains  of  poverty  I  had  butter  were  expected  to  fail,  I  was 
lately  seen  too  much  of;  more  than  glad:  yet,  if  the  contrary  wore  true, 
J    iriabed   to   remember;   but    the  I  drew  from  opium  some  means  of 


1821.3  Confi$$ionM  of  an  English  Opium*EaUr..  361 

consoling  myself.    For  opium  (liko  aware  of  the  tendencies  of  mj  own 

the  hee,  that  extracts  its  materials  thoughts  to  do  all  I  could  to  counter* 

indisciiminately  from  roses  and  from  act  them. — I  was,  indeed,  like  a  per* 

the  soot  of  chimneys)  can  overrule  son  who,  according  to  the  old  legeod^ 

all  feelings  into  a  compliance  with  had  entered  the  cave  of  Trophoniut  s 

the  master  key.    Some  of  these  ram*  and  the  remedies  I  sought  were  to 

bles  led  me  to  great  distances :  for  force  myself  into  society,  and  to  keen 

an^  opium-eater  is  too  happy  to  ob-  my  understanding  in  continual  actU 

serve  the  motion  of  time.    And  some-  vity  upon  matters  of  science.    But 

times  in  my  attempts  to  steer  home-  for  these  remedies,  I  shoidd  certainly 

wards,  upon  nautical  principles,  by  have  become  hypochoudriacally  me* 

fixing  my  eye  on  the  pole-star,  and  lancholy.    In  after  years,  however^ 

seeking  ambitiously  for  a  north-west  when  my  cheerfulness  was  more  full j 

passage,  instead  of  circumnavigating  re-established,  I  yielded  to  my  natu« 

all  the  capes  and  head-lands  I  had  ral  inclination  for  a  solitary  life.  An^t 

doubled  in  my  outward  voyage,   I  at  that  time,  I  often  fell  into  these  re« 

came  suddenly    upon    such    knotty  verics  upon  taking  opium ;  and  more 

problems  of  alleys,  such  enigmatical  than  once  it  has  happened  to  me,  on  a 

entries,  and  such  sphynx's  riddles  of  summer-night,  when  I  have  been  at 

streets    without    thoroughfares,     as  an  open   window,    in  a  room  from 

must,  I   conceive,  baiilc  the  auda-  which  I  could  overlook  the  sea  at  a 

city  of  porters,    and  confound  the  mile  below  me,  and  could  command 

intellects   of  hackney-coachmen.     1  a  view  of  the  great  town  of  L ,  at 

could  almost  have  believed,  at  times^  about  the  same  distance,  that  I  have 

that  I  must  be  the  first  discoverer  sate, from  sun-set  to  sun-rise,  motion- 

of  some  of    these   terrip   incofptita,  less,  and  without  wishing  to  move, 
and  doubted,  whether  they  had  yet        I  shall  be  charged  with  mysticism, 

lieen  laid  down  in  the  modem  charts  Behmenism,  quietism,  &c.  but  that 

of  London.     For  all  this,  however,  shall  not  alarm  me.    Sir  H.  Vane,  the 

I  paid  a  heavy  price  in  distant  years,  younger,  was  one  of  our  wisest  men: 

when    the    human   face   tyranni2sed  and  let  my  readers  see  if  he,  in  hi« - 

over  my  dreams,  and  the  perplex!*  philosophical  works,  be  half  as  un» 

ties  of  my  steps  in   London  came  mystical  as  I  am. — I  sav,  then,  that 

back  and  haunted  my  sleep,  with  it  has  oflen  struck  me  that  the  8cen6. 

the  feeling  of  perplexities  moral  or  itself  was  somewhat  typical  of  what 

iiitcllectunl,  that  brought  confusion  took  place  in  such  a  reverie.    The 

to  the  reason,  or  anguish  and  remorse  town  of  L         represented  the  earthy 

to  the  conscience.  with  its  sorrows  and  its  graves  left 

Thus  I   have  shown  that  opium  behind,  yet  not  out  of  sight,    nor 

does  not,  of  necessity,  produce  mac-  wholly  forgotten.      The    ocean,   in 

tivity   or  torpor ;  but  that,  on    the  everlasting  but  gentle  agitation,  and 

contrary,  it  otten  led  me  into  markets  brooded  over  by  a  dove-like  calm^ 

and  theatres.  Yet,  in  candour,  I  will  might  not  unfitly  typify  the    mind 

mlmit  that  markets  and  theatres  are  and  the  mood  which  then  swayed  it* 

not  the  appropriate   haunts  of  the  For  it  scemecl  to  me  as  if  then  first 

opium-eater,    when  in  the  divinest  I  stood  at  a  distance,  and  aloof  from 

state  incident  to  his  eigoyment.     In  tlie  uproar  of  life;  as  if  the  tumuli, 

that  state,  crowds  become  an  oppres-  the  fever,  and  the  strife,  were  suiH 

sioii  to  him ;  music  even,  too  sensual  pended ;  a  rcs[Mte  granted  from  tlif 

and  gross.     He  naturally  seeks  soli-  secret  burthens  of  tne  heart ;  a  salfp 

tude  and  silence,   as    indispensable  bath  of  repose ;  a  resting  from  humap 

conditions  of  those  trances,  or  pro*  lal>ours.   Here  were  the  hope?  which 

foundest    reveries,    which    are    the  blossom  in  the  paths  of  life,  i^cooi- 

crown  and   consummation  of  what  ciled  with  the  peace  whicii  is  ia  tW 

opium  can  do  for  human  nature.    I,  grave;  motions  of  the  intellect  asuiw 
whose  disease  it  was  to  meditate  too    wearied  as  the  heavens,  yet  for  aU 

much,  and  to  observe  too  little,  and  anxieties  a   halcyon   calm :  a  train 

who,  upon  my  first  entrance  at  col-  quillity   that  seemed  no  product  of 

lege,  was  nearly  falling  into  a  deep  inertia,  but  a8ifresuldng^rommigh• 
^1clanchoIy,  from  brooding  too  much    ty  and  equal  antagonisms ;  infinite 
on  the  sufferings  which  I  had  wit-    activities,  infinite  repose, 
iicssod    in  London,  was  sufRcicntly        Oh !  just,  subtle,  and  mv^ViV^  o^v- 


562                       Omfiuhm  of  an  Engiiih  Opntm^Eaier.  [;Oct 

QDi !  that  to  the  hearts  of  poor  and  dies,  tea-pots^  tea-kettles^  &c.  have 

rich  alike^  for  the  wounds  that  will  departed  (not  to  speak  of  still  frailer 

never  heal,  and  for  "  the  pangs  that  yessels,  such  as  glasses,  decanters, 

tempt  the  spirit  to  rebel,"  bringest  an  bed-makers,   &c.)  which  occasional 

assuaging   balm ;    eloquent   opium  !  resemblances  ui  the  present  genera- 

that  with  thy  potent  rhetoric  steal-  tion  of  tea-cups,  &c.  remind  me  of 

eit  away  the  purposes  of  wrath ;  and  hayhig  once  possessed,  but  of  whose 

lo  the    guilty  man,  for    one    night  departure  and  final  fate  I,  in  copi- 

givest  back  the  hopes  of  his  youth,  mon  with  most  gownsmen  of  either 

and  hands  washed  pure  from  blood  ;  university,  could  give,  I  suspect,  but 

and  to  the  proud   man,  a  brief  obli-  an   obscure  and  conjectural  history, 

vion  for  The  persecutions  ol'  the  chapel-bell. 

Wrongs   unrcdrew'd,    and    Insults   una.  8?«»duig  its  unwelcome  summons  to 

vengcd*  ®'^   o  clock    matnis,    nitemipts    my 

that  summolicst  to  the  chancery  of  *>"«''.7*  '«>  •""»?" :  the  porter  who 

dreams,  for  the  triumphs  of  suffering  '?"»  "'  !'P""  ""'^"^  bcauUM  nose 

innocence,  false  witnesses ;  and  cont  i^"'"'':;  '"'»«^  ""h  ^"PP"^)  »  "^t?' 


Upon  me  oosom  oi  ,     ,  '        ,  .         ,  ^,  , -^ 

darkncss,out  of  the  fantastic  image-  ^''  f''^  ^^^'f  "^*"y  ^.^f."'  "^^ 

ry  of  th^  brain,  cities  and  temples,  ^^'''''^  "^\»f>  ^^^^      '  ^>"t'»"^^- 

fcyond  the  art  of  Phidias  and  Praxi^  ^"^  propensiUes,  have  now  agreed  to 

teles-beyond  the  splendour  of  Baby-  ^T^'^^^j!^  his  errors,   and   have  for- 

Ion  and  Hekatompvlos :  and  -  from  «^^^".  ^^™-   .^^'^»  ^'^^  ^\  *^"  ^  *"^ 

the  anarchy  of  dreannng  sleep,"  call-  "^7  "^  chanty:  it  nngs,  I  suppose, 

est  into  sunny  light  the  faces  of  long-  ^,  formerly,  thnce  a-day  :  and  cru- 

buried     beauties,    and    the    blessed  fUy  aimoys,  I  doubt  not,  many  wor- 

household    countenances,     cleansed  ^^    gentlemen,   and  disturbs  their 

from  the  <<  dishonours  of  the  grave."  J^^^^  ^^?"     ,  fv    *  "^X  '" 

Thou  only  givest  these  gifts  tS  man ;  ^»  ^^.^^  ^^^^{^  '^^J'}  its  treacher- 

and  thou  hMt  the  keys  of  Paradise  «"f,  \^»^,  no  longer  (treacherous    1 

^k  ;..of   o»K#i«   «.wi  i.;«u*«  r.«:„«,  I  call  it,  for,  by  some  refinement  of 

ph,just,8ubUe,  and  mighty  opium!  ^^.^^^^    ,^^>^^l^^  j^^    ^^   ^^^^  ^^^ 

iNTaoDUCTiON  TO  THE  silvcry  tones  as  if  it  had  been  invito 
FAINS  OF  OPIUM.  ing  one  to  a  party):  its  tones  have 
Courteous,  and,  I  hope,  indidgent  no  longer,  indeed,  power  to  reach 
reader  (for  all  my  readers  must  be  me,  let  the  wind  sit  as  favourable 
Indulgent  ones,  or  else,  I  fear,  1  shall  as  the  malice  of  the  bell  itself  could 
riiock  them  too  much  to  count  on  wish:  for  1  am  250  miles  away 
tiieir  courtesy),  havhig  accompanied  from  it,  and  buried  in  tlie  depth  of 
me  thus  far,  now  let  me  request  you  mountauis.  And  what  am  1  doing 
to  move  onwards,  for  about  eight  amongst  the  mountains?  Taking 
years;  that  is  to  say,  from  1804  opium.  Yes,  but  what  else ?  Why, 
^when  I  have  said  that  my  acquaint-  reader,  in  1812,  the  year  we  are  now 
ance  with  opium  first  began)  to  1819.  arrived  at,  as  well  as  for  some  years 
The  years  of  academic  life  are  now  previous,  1  have  been  chiefly  study- 
over  and  gone — almost  forgotten : —  m^  German  metaphysics,  in  the 
the  student's  cap  no  longer  presses  writings  of  Kant,  Fichte,  Schelling, 
my  temples ;  if  my  cap  exist  at  all,  &c.  And  how,  and  in  what  mau« 
it  presses  those  of  some  youthful  ner,  do  1  live?  in  short,  what  class 
scholar,  I  tni&t,  as  happy  as  myself,  or  description  of  men  do  I  belong 
wcA  as  passionate  a  lover  of  know-  to  ?  1  am  at  tliis  period,  viz.  in 
ledge.  My  gown  is,  by  this  tune,  1  1812,  living  in  a  cotUge ;  and  with 
dare  to  say,  in  the  same  coniiition  with  a  single  female  servant  (hoiii  soit 
inany  thousands  of  excelksit  books  qui  mal  y  pense),  who,  amongst  my 
in  the  Bodleian,  viz.  diligently  pe»  neighbours,  passes  by  the  name  of 
rused  by  certain  studious  moths  mv  '^  house-keeper."  And,  as  a 
and  worms :  or  departed,  however  scholar  and  a  man  of  learned  edu- 
( which  is  all  that  1  know  of  its  fate),  cation,  and  in  that  sense  a  gentle- 
to  ihaX  /^eat  reservoir  of  somewhere,  man,  1  may  presume  to  class  myself 
to  which  all  the  tea-cups,  tea-cad-  as  an  unworthy  member  of  that  in« 


]8S1.^  Confessions  of  an  English  Ojaum^Eaier*  3€S 

definite  body  called  frvntkvicn.  Part-  not   be    forgotten,    that  hitherto   I 

ly  on  the  ground  1  have  assigned,  have  been  only  a  dilettante  eater  of 

Ecrhaps ;  partly   because,   from  my  opium :    eight  years*  practice   even, 
aving  no  visible  calling  or  business,  with  the  single  precaution  of  allowing 
it  is  rightly  judged  tliat  I  must  be  sufficient  intervals  between  every  in- 
livhig  on  my  private  fortune;  I  am  dulgence,  has  not  been  sufficient  -  to 
so  classed  by  my  neighbours :  and,  make  opium  necessary  to  me  as  an 
by  the  courtesy  of  modem  England,  article  of  daily  diet.    But  now  comef 
1  am   usually  addressed  on  letters,  a  different  era.      Move  on,  if  yoa 
&c.   esijnim,   though  having,  I  fear,  please,  reader,  to  1813.     In  the  sum- 
in  the  rigorous  construction  of  he-  mer  of  the  year  we  have  just  quitted, 
raids,    but    slender    pretensions    to  I  had  suiibred  much  in  bodily  health 
that  distingtiished  honour :    yes,  in  from  distress  of  mind  connected  witk 
popular  estitnation,  I  am  X.  Y.  Z.,  a  very  melancholy  event.  This  event> 
esquire,  but  not  Justice  of  the  Peace,  being  no  ways  related  to  the  subject 
nor    Custos    Hotulorum.        Am    I  now  before  me,  further  than  through, 
married  ?     Not  yet.  And  I  still  take  the  bodily  illness  which  it  produced, 
opium  ?     On  Saturday  nights.    And,  I  need  not  more  particularly  notice, 
perhaps,  have  taken  it  unblushingly  Whether  this  illness  of  1812  had  any 
ever  since  "  the  rainy  Sunday,"  and  share  in  that  of  1813,  I  know  not: 
''  the  stately  Pantlieon,"   and  "  the  but  so  it  was,  that  in  the  latter  year, 
beatific  druggist  "of  1804? — Even  so.  I  was  attacked  by  a  most  appaUing 
And  how  do  I  find  my  health  after  irritation  of  the  stomach,  in  all  re- 
all  this  opium-eating  ?  in  short,  how  spects  the  same  as  that  which  had 
do  I  do  ?     Why,  ])retty  weD,  I  thank  caused    me  so    much    suffiirhig  in 
you,  reader :  in  the  phrase  of  ladies  youth,  and  accompanied  by  a  revival 
in  the  straw,    ''  as  well  as  can  be  of  all  the  old  dreams.    1  his  is  the 
expected."    In  fact,  if  I  dared  to^say  point  of  my  narrative  on  which,  as 
the  real  and  simple  truth,  though,  to  respects    my  own    self-justification, 
satisfy  the  theories  of  medical  men,  the  whole  of  what  follows  may  be 
1  ouffhi  to  be  ill,    1  never  was  better  said  to  hinge.     And  here  I  find  my- 
in    my  life   than   in   the   spring  of  self  in  a  perplexing  dilemma:— Either, 
1812 ;    and  I   hope  sincerely,    that  on  the  one  hand,  I  must  exhaust  the 
the  (juantity  of  claret,  port,  or  ^'  par-  reader's  patience,  by  such  a  detail  of 
ticular  Madeira,"  which,  in  all  pro-  my  malady,  and  of  my  struggles  with 
bability,    you,    good    reader,    nave  it,  as  might  suffice  to  establish  the 
taken,    and    design    to    take,     for  factofmy  inability  to  wrestle  any  lon- 
e*very  term  of  eight  years,   during  ger  with  irritation  and  constant  tuSm 
your  natural  life,  may  as  little  dis-  fering :   or,    on  the  other  hand,  by 
order  your  health  as  mine  was  dis-  passing  lightly  over  this  critical  part 
ordered  by  the  opium  I  had  taken  of  my  story,  I  must  forego  the  bene- 
for  the  eight  years,  between  1804  and  fit  of  a  stronger  impression  left  on 
1812.      Hence  you  may  see  ^ain  the  mind  of  the  reader,  and  must  lay 
the  danger  of  taking  any  medical  myself  open  to  the  misconstruction 
advice  from  Anastasius ;  in  divinity,  of  having  slipped  by  the  easy  and 
for  aught  I  know,  or  law,  he  may  gradual  steps  of  self-indulging  per- 
be  a  safe  counsellor ;  but  not  in  me-  sons,  from  the  first  to  the  final  stage  of 
dicine.     No :  it  is  far  better  to  con-  opium-eating  (a.  misconstruction  to 
suit  Dr.  Buchan ;   as  I  ^d :   for  I     which  there  wul  be  a  lurking  predb- 
never  forgot 'that  worthy  man's  ex-  position  in  most  readers,  n'om  my 
cellent  suggestion :  and  I  was  **  pan-  previous  acknowledgments.)      Th» 
ticularly  careful  not  to  take  above  is  the  dilemma:   the  first  horn  ft£ 
five«aud-twenty    oiuices    of    lauda-    which  would  be  sufficient  to  toss  and 
num."    To  this  moderation  and  tern-    gore  any  column  of  patient  readen, 
perate  use  of  the    article,    I  may    though  drawn  up  sixteen  deep  and 
ascribe  it,  I  suppose,  that  as  yet,    coustantiy  relieved    by  fresh   men: 
at  least,  {i.e.  in   1812,)    I  am  ig-    consequentiy  ^Ao/ is  not  to  be  thought 
iiorant    and  unsuspicious  of  the  a^-    of.     It  remains  then,  that  I  postuhie 
venging   terrors   which  opium    has    so  much  as  is  necessary  for  my  pur- 
in  store    for  those  who   abuse    its    pose.    And  let  me  take  as  full  credit 
lenity.    At  the  same  time,  it  muitt    lor  what  J  postulate  as  if  I  had  de« 


Mi                        Comfudom  of  an  EngiUh  Opium^EaUr.  [[OcC. 

monttrated  it,  good  reader^  at  the  they  inflict,  and  the  efforts  of  ahsti- 
cxpenae  of  jour  patience  and  my  nence  they  exact,  from  poor  rinners 
own.  Be  not  ao  un^^eneroua  sa  to  like  myself.  An  inhuman  moralist 
let  me  suffer  in  your  good  opinion  I  can  no  more  endure  in  my  nerrous 
ilirough  my  own  forbearance  and  re»  atate  thaa  opium  that  has  not  beeD 
gard  lor  your  comfort.  No :  believe  boiled.  At  any  rate,  he,  who  sum- 
all  that  I  ask  of  you,  viz.  that  I  could  mons  me  to  send  out  a  large  freight 
resist  bo  longer,  beliere  it  liberally,  of  sctf-deoial  and  mortification  upon 
and  as  an  act  of  grace:  or  else  in  any  cruising  voyage  of  moral  im- 
mere  pnidencc :  for,  if  not,  then  In  prorement,  must  make  it  clear  to  my 
the  next  edition  of  my  Opium  Con-  understanding  that  the  concern  is  a 
l»aions  revised  and  enlarged^  I  will  hopeful  one.  At  my  time  of  life  (six 
make  you  beliere  and  tremble ;  and  and  thirty  Tears  of  age)  it  cannot  be 
^  force  dtntmycTy  by  mere  dint  of  supposed  that  I  have  much  energy 
pandiculation  I  wiU  terrify  aD  r&id-  to  spare :  in  fact,  I  find  it  aB  little 
afs  of  mine  from  ever  again  question*  enough  for  the  intellectual  labours  I 
ing  any  postulate  that  J  shall  think  have  on  my  hands :  and,  therefore, 
fit  to  make.  let  no  man  expect  to  frighten  me  by 
This  then,  let  me  repeat,  I  postulate  a  few  hard  words  hito  embarking  any 
•—that,  at  the  time  1  began  to  take  part  of  it  upon  desperate  adveuturv» 
<^ium  daily,  I  could  not  have  done  nf  morality. 

otherwise.  Whether,  indeed,  af^-  Whether  desperate  or  not,  how- 
wards  I  vnight  not  have  succeeded  in  ever,  the  isstie  of  the  stniprcrlc  iu 
breaking  on  the  habit,  even  when  it  1913  was  what  1  have  mciitioiicd ; 
aeemed  to  me  that  all  efforts  wctuld  and  from  this  date,  the  reader  is  to 
be  unavailijig,  and  whether  many  of  consider  me  as  a  rcp^iilar  ant!  con- 
the  innumerable  efforts  which  I  did  firmed  opium-eater,  of  whom  to  ask 
make,  might  not  have  been  carried  whether  on  any  particular  day  he  had 
much  further,  and  my  gradual  re*  or  had  not  taken  opium,  would  bo  to 
conquests  of  ground  lost  might  not  ask  whether  his  huigs  had  performed 
Imve  l>een  followed  up  much  more  respiration,  or  the  ficart  fiilfilled  its 
energetically — these  are  questions  functions.  —  You  understand  now, 
which  I  must  decline.  Perhaps  I  reader,  what  I  am :  and  yon  are  by 
might  make  out  a  case  of  palliation;  this  time  aware,  that  no  old  gentle- 
but,  shall  I  speak  ingenuously  ?  I  man,  *'  with  a  snow-white  beard," 
confess  it,  as  a  besetting  infirmity  of  trill  have  any  chance  of  persuading 
mine,  that  I  am  too  much  of  an  Eu-  me  to  surrender  ^<  the  little  golden 
dsmonist :  I  hanker  too  much  after  receptacle  of  the  pernicious  drug.'* 
a  state  of  happiness,  both  for  myself  No:  I  give  notice  to  all,  whether 
and  others :  I  cannot  face  misery,  moralists  or  surgeons,  that,  whatever 
whether  my  own  or  not,  with  an  eye  be  their  pretensions  and  skill  in  their 
of  iufficient  firmness :  and  am  little  respective  fines  of  practice,  they  must 
capable  of  encountering  present  pain  not  hope  for  any  countenance  from 
Inrtbesake  of  any  reversionary  benefit,  me,  if  they  think  to  begin  by  any 
On  some  other  matters,  1  can  agree  savage  proposition  for  a  Lent  or  Ka- 
with  the  gentlemen  in  the  cotton*  madan  of  abstinence  from  opium, 
trade*  at  Manchester  in  affecting  This  then  being  all  fully  understood 
the  Stoic  i^Uosophy :  but  not  in  this,  between  us,  we  shall  in  future  sail 
Here  I  take  the  liberty  of  an  Eclcc-  before  the  wind.  Now  then,  reader, 
tic  philoflopher,  and  J  look  out  for  from  1813,  where  all  this  time  we 
Bome  courteous  and  considerate  sect  have  been  sitting  down  and  loitering 
that  will  condescend  more  to  the  in-  — rise  up,  if  you  please,  and  walk  for- 
firm  condition  of  an  opium-eater ;  ward  about  three  years  more.  Now 
that  are  'sweet  men,'  as  Chaucer  draw  up  the  curtain,  and  you  shall  see 
•ays,  '  to  give  absolution,'  and  will  me  in  a  new  character. 
•how  some  conscicuce  hi  the  penances  If  any  man,  poor  or  rich,  were  to 

•  A  handsome  ncws-room,  of  wliich  I  was  very  politely  made  free  in  pouing  tliroiigh 
ManchcKUir  l)y  ncvcrol  gcntlcinen  of  Umt  ('lace,  w  called,  I  tliink,  The  Porch :  whence 
I,  wlio  aiii  u  Htrauger  in  Maiiche8UT,  inferred  that  the  Hubscribers  mount  to  proA-hH  thciu- 
M;lvut»  tulluwciB  of  Zuuo.    But  I  have  bum  aiuce  awmicd  that  \XvLi  is  u  uiiAiakc. 


li)21.]]                   Confassionf  of  am  Enfflijfh  Opiunt'Eaier.  S6S 

say  that  he  would  toll  us  what  had  ever  before :  I  read  Kant  again  ;  and 

boen  the  happiest  day  in  his  life,  and  again  I  understood  him,  or  fancied 

the  why,  and  the  wherefore,  I  sup*  that  I   did.     Again  my  fceKngs  of 

pose  that  we  shoidd  all  cry  out— Hear  pleasure  expanded  theniselves  to  all 

him!  Hear  him  !— As  to  the  happiest  around    me:   and  if  any  man  from 

t!aif,  that  must  be  very  difiicult  for  Dxford  or  Cumbrid^e,  or  from  neither 

any  wise  man  to  name :  because  any  had  been  annoiuicea  to  me  inYny  un« 

event,  that  coiild  occupy  so  (tistin-  pretendhig  cottage,    I  should  hare 

guished  a  place  in  a  man  s  retrospect  welcomed  him  with  as  sumptuous  a 

of  his  life,  or  be  entitled  to  have  shed  reception  as  so  poor  a  man  coidd  offer, 

a    special  felicity  on  any  one  <lay.  Whatever  else  was  wanting  to  a  wise 

ought  to  be  of  such  an   enduring  man's   happiness, — of    laudanum  I 

character,  as  that  (accidents  apart)  it  woukl  have  given  him  as  much  as  he 

should    have  continued  to  sncd  the  wished,  and  in  a  golden  cup.    AikL 

same  felicity,  or  one  not  distinguish-  by  the  wav,  now  that  I  speak  al 

ably  less,   on  many  years  together,  giving  laudanum  away,  I  remember. 

To  the  happiest  tustrutn,  however,  or  about    this    time,  a  little  incident, 

even  to  the  happient  year,  it  may  be  which  I  mention,  because,  trifling  as 

allowed  to  any  man  to  ^)oint  without  it  was,  the  reader  will  soon  meet  it 

discountenance  from  wisdom.    This  again  in  my  dreams,  which  it  inilu- 

yo'ir,  in  my  case,  reader,  was  the  one  enced  more  fearfully  than  could  be 

which  we  nave  now  reached;  though  imagined.     One  day  a  Malay  knodc- 

it  stood,  I  confess,  as  a  parcTithesi?  ed  at  my  door.      >Vliat  business  a 

i>etween  years  of  a  gloomier  charac-  Malay  could  Iiave  to  transact  amongst 

ter.     It  was  a  year  of  brilliant  water  English  mountahis,  I  cannot  coijao- 

(to  speak  after  the  manner  of  jewel-  ture :  but  possibly  he  was  on  his  road 

lers),  set  as  it  were,  and  insulated,  in  to  a  sea-port  about  forty  miles  dis« 

the  ^KKn  and  cloudy  melanclyDlv  ot  tant. 

opium.    Strange  as  it  may  sound,  I  The  servant  who  opened  the  door 

liad  a  little  before  this  time  descend-  to  hhn  was  a  young  girl  bom  and 

ed  suddenly,  and  without  any  coiisi-  bred  amongst  the  mountains,  who  had 

derablc  effort,  from  320    grains    of  never  seen  an  Asiatic  dress  of  any 

opium  (i.  c.  eight  *  thousand  drops  sort :  his  turban,  tlierefore,  confound- 

of  laudanum)    |>er    day,     to    forty  ed  her  not  a  little :  and,  as  it  turned 

grains,  or  one  eighth  part      Instan-  out,  that  his  attaiimients  in  Englidi 

taneously,  and  as  if  by  magic,  the  were  exactly  of  the  same  extent  as 

cloud    of    profoundest    melancholy  hers  in  the  Malay,  there  seemed  to 

which    rested   upon  my  brain,  like  be  an  impassable  gulph  fixed  between 

some    Mack  vapours    that    I    have  all  communication  of  ideas,  if  eith^ 

seen  roll  away  from  the  summits  of  party  had  happened  to  possess  any. 

mountahis,    drew    off   in   one    day  In  tliis  dilemma,  the  girl,  recollecting 

(vu^^iiyuif^y);  passetl  oil*  with  its  murky  the  reputed  learnhijg  of  her  master 

banners  as  sunidtaneously  as  a  ship  (and,  doubtless,  giving  me  credit  fior 

that  has  l)een  stranded,  and  is  floated  a  knowledge  of  all  the  languages  of 

off  by  a  spring  tide —  the  earUi,  besides,  perhaps,  a  lew  of 


That  nioYcth  altogether,  if  it  move  at  dL  the  ^mmr  0"os),  came  and  gave  nie  to 

°  understand  tliat  tliere  was  a  sort  of 

Now,  then,  I  was  again  happy :  I  demon  below,  whom  she  clearly  una- 

now  took  only  10()0  drops  or  lau-  fined   tliat   my  art  could    exorcise 

daiium  per  day :  and  what  was  that?  from  the  house.     I  did  not  immc- 

A  latter  spring  had  come  to  close  up  diately  go  down:  but,  when  I  did, 

the  season  of  youth :  my  brain  per-  the    group  which  presented    itsdf^ 

formed  its  functions  as  healthily  as  arranged    as    it  was    by  accident^ 


*  I  here  reckon  twenty-five  drops  of  laudanum  oa  equivalent- to  one  grain  of  ojuuin, 
which,  I  believe,  Ls  the  common  estimate.  However,  m  botli  may  be  coniddered  variable 
quantities  (the  crude  opium  varying  much  in  strength,  and  the  tincture  utill  more),  I 
bupposc  tliat  no  infinitesimul  accuracy  can  be  had  in  such  a  calculation.  Tca-spoona  vary 
an  much  in  size  as  opium  in  strength.  Small  oneit  hold  a1>out  100  dropsi:  ku  that  8000 
dtopi  are  about  eighty  timL-n  a  tta-spooniul.  The  reader  scci  how  much  I  kept  within 
Dr.  J3uchun*>  indulgeat  allowaiirc. 


S66                      Cnnfcsskms  of  an  En^isk  Opmrn-Eaier.  [|Oct. 

though  not  FC17  elaborate,  took  hold  tude,  came  gcognnphicalJy  nearest  to 

of  my  fancy  and  my  eye  in  a  way  an  Oriental  one.     lie  worshipped  me 

that  none  of  the  statuesque  attitudes  in  a  most  devout  manner,  and  replied 

exhibited  in  the  baUets  at  the  Opera  in  what  I  suppose  was  Malay.     In 

House,  though  so  ostentatiously  com-  this  way  I  saved  my  reputation  with 

plex,  had  ever  done.     In  a  cottage  my  neighbours :  for  the  Malay  had 

xitchen>    but  panelled  on  the  wall  no  means  of  betraying  the  secret.  He 

with  dark  wood  that  from  age  and  lay  down  upon  the  floor  for  about  an 

rubbing  resembled  oak,  and  looking  hour,  and  tlicn  pursued  his  journey. 

more  like  a  rustic  hall  of  entrance  On  his  departure,  I  presented  him 

than  a  kitchen,  stood  the  Malay — his  with  a  piece  of  opium.     To  him,  as 

turban  and  loose  trowsers  of  dingy  an    Orientalist,     1    concluded    that 

white  relieved  upon  the  dark  panel-  opium  must  be  familiar :  and  tlie  ex- 

liug :  he  had  placed  himself  nearer  to  pression  of  his  face  convinced  me  that 

the  girl  than  she  seemed  to  relish ;  it  was.    Nevertheless,  I  was  struck 

though  her  native  spirit  of  mountain  with  some  little  consternation  when 

intrepidity  contended  with  the  feeUng  I  saw  him  suddenly  raise  his  hand  to 

of  simple  awe  which  her  countenance  his  mouth,  and  (in   tlie  school-boy 

expressed    as  she    gazed  upon   the  phrase)  bolt  the  whole,  divided  into 

tiger-cat    before  her.    And    a  more  three  pieces,  at  one  mouthful.    The 

striking  picture  there  could  not  be  quantity  was  enough  to  kill  three 

imagined,  than  the  beautiful  £nglish  ctragoons  and  their  horses :  and  I  felt 

face  of  the  girl,  and  its  exquisitelair-  some  alarm  for.  the  poor  creature : 

ness,  together  with  her  erect  and  in-  but  what  could  be  done?  I  had  given 

dependent  attitude,  contrasted  with  him  the  opium  in  compassion  for  his 

the  sallow  and  bilious  skin  of  the  solitary  me,  on  recollecting  that  if  he 

Malay,  enamelled  or  veneered  with  had  travelled  on  foot  from  London,  it 

mahogany,  by  marine  air,  his  small,  must  be  nearly  tliree  weeks  since  he 

fierce,  restless  eyes,  thin  lips,  slavish  could  have  exchanged  a  thought  witli 

gestures  and  adorations.    Half-hid-  any  human  lieing.  1  could  not  think  of 

en  by  the  ferocious  looking  Malay,  violating  the  laws  of  hospitality,  by 

was  a  little  child  from  a  neighbour-  having  him  seized  and  drenched  with 

ing  cottage  who  had  crept  in  after  an  emetic,  and  thus  frightening  him 

him,  and  was  now  in  the  act  of  re-  into  a  notion  that  we  were  going  to  sa- 

▼erting  its  head,  and  gazing  upwards  crifice  him  to  some  English  idol.  No: 

at  the  turban  and  the  fiery  eyes  l)e-  there  was  clearly  no  help  for  it : — ho 

iicath  it,   whilst  with  one  hand  he  took  his  leave :  and  for  some  days  f 

caught  at  the  dress  of  the  voung  wo-  felt  anxious:  but  as  I  never  heard  of 

man  for  protection.     My  knowledge  any  Malay  being  found  dead,  I  bc- 

of  the  Oriental  tongues  is  not  remark-  came  convinced  that  he  was  used*  to 

ably  extensive,  being  indeed  confined  opium :  and  that  I  must  have  done 

to  two  words- tlic  Arabic  word  for  him  tlie  service  I  designed,  by  giving 

barley,  and   the  Turkish  for  opium  him  one  night  of  respite  from  the 

fmac^oon),  which  1  have  learnt  from  pains  of  wandering. 

Anastasius.    And,  as  I  had  neither  a  This  incident  1  have  dii^rcssetl  to 

Malay  dictionary,  nor  even  Adelung's  mention,  because  tlus  Malay  (partly 

JlithriJafes,  which  might  have  helped  from  the  picturesque   cxhil)ition   he 

me  to  a  few  words,  1  addressed  him  assisted   to  frame,  partly   from  the 

in  some  lines  from  the  Iliad ;  consi-  anxiety  I  connected  with  his  image 

dering  that,  of  such  languages  as  I  for  some  days)  fastened  afterwards 

possessed,  Greek,  In  point  of  longi-  upon  my  dreams,  and  brought  other 


•  This,  however,  is  not  a  necessary  conclusion :  the  varieties  of  effect  pwHluccd  by 
opium  on  different  constitutions  are  infiAite.  A  lionaon  Magistrate  (Harriott's  Strui:- 
fflet  Utrouffft  Lijl.,  voL  iii.  p.  Tif)!,  Tliird  Edition),  has  rccortlcd  tliat,  on  the  first  oi-- 
carion  of  his  trying  Liudanuni  (or  the  gout,  he  took  forit/  drops,  tlie  next  night  ft'u  lit^ 
and  on  the  fifth  m^Xttghlijs  without  any  eftcct  whatever:  and  this  at  an  advanced  ago. 
I  have  an  anecdote  fnmi  a  countrj'  surgeon* however,  wliich  sinks  Mr.  Marriott's  ca>it  into 
a  trifle;  and  in  my  projecu'd  medical  treatise  on  opium,  whicli  I  will  publish,  providt-d 
the  C<iUq^  of  Surgeons  will  pjiy  me  for  enlightening  their  benighted  undcr>tiindii'^;s  ujjon 
this  subject,  I  will  relate  it :  but  it  is  far  too  good  a  story  to  be  jmbluihed  gnuis. 


1891.^  Confeukms  of  an  EngHth  Opium^aier.  367 

Malays  with  him  worse  than  himself,  be  real  mountains^   between  3  and 

that  ran   "  a^muck "  *  at  me,   and  4000  feet  high ;  and  the  cottage,  a 

led  me  into  a  world  of  troubles. —  real  cottage ;  not  (as  a  witty  author 

But  to  quit  this    episode,    and  to  has  it)    ''a  cottage  with  a  double 

return  to  my  intercalary  year  of  hap-  coach-house : "  let  it  be,  in  fact  (for 

piness.   I  have  said  already,  that  on  I  must  abide  by  the  actual  scene)> 

a  subject  so  important  to  us  all  as  a   white  cottaee,   embowered   with 

happiness,    we    should    listen    with  flowering  shrubs,   so  chosen  as  ttf 

pleasure  to  any  man's  experience  or  unfold  a  succession  of  llowcrs  uporit 

experiments,  even  though  he  were  the  walls,  and  clustering  round  the 

but  a  plough-boy,   who  cannot  be  windows  through  all  the  months  of 

supposed  to  have  ploughed  very  deep  spring,    summer,    and  autumn — be*' 

Lito  such  an  intractable  soil  as  that  ginnhig,   in  fact,    with  May  roses; 

of  human  pains  and  pleasures,  or  to  and  ending  with  jasmine.    Let  itj 

have  conducted  his  researches  upon  however,  not  be  spring,  nor  summer^ ' 

any  very  enlightened  principles.   But  nor    autumn — but    winter,     in    hb* 

I,  who  have  taken  happiness,  both  sternest  shape.    This  is  a  most  iin« 

in  a  solid  and  a  liquid  shape,  both  portant  point  in  the  science  of  happi<if ' 

boiled  and  unboiled,  lioth  East  India  ness.    And  I  am  surprised  to  see 

and  Tiurkey — who  have  conducted  people  overlook  it,  and  think  it  mat- 

my  experiments  upon  this  interest-  ter  of  congratulation  that  winter  la 

ing  subject  with  a  sort  of  galvanic  going;  or,  if  coming,  is  not  likely  to 

battery — and  have,  for  the  general  be  a  severe  one.    On  the  contrary,  I 

benefit  of  the  world,  inoculated  my«  put  up  a  petition  annually,  for  a« 

self,  as  it  were,  with  the  poison  of  much  snow,  hail,  frost,  or  storm,  of 

8000  drops   of  laudanum   per   day  one  kind  or  other,  as  the  skies  can 

ijust,  for  the   same    reason,    as  a  possibly    afford   us.     Surely    every 

«>ench  surgeon    inoculated   himself  oody  is  aware  of  the  divine  pleasures 

lately  with  cancer— an  English  one,  which    attend    a    winter    fire-side : 

twenty  years  ago,  with  plague — and  candles  at  four  o'clock,  warm  hearth- 

a  third,  I  know  not  of  what  nation,  rugs,  tea,  a  fair  tea-maker,  shutters 

with  hydrophobia),—/  (it   will  be  closed,    curtains    flowing   in  ample 

admitted)   must  surely  know  what  draperies   on    the  floor,    whilst   the 

happiness  is,  if  any  body  does.    And,  wind  and  rain  dre  raging  audibly 

therefore,  I  will  here  lay  down  an  without, 

analysis  of  happiness ;    and  as  the  And  at  the  doors  and  windows  seem  to  call, 

most  interesting  mode  of  communis  As  heaven  and  earth  they  would  together 
eating  it,  I  will  give  it,  not  didacti-  mell ; 

cally,  but  wrapt  up  and  involved  in  Yet  the  least  entrance  find  they  none  at  all; 

a  picture  of  one  evening,  as  I  spent  Whence  sweeter  grows  our  rest  secure  in 
every  eveniitg  during  the  hitercalary  massy  hffi — Castle  oflndokncc. 

year  when  laudanum,  though  taken        All  these  are  items  in  the  descrip* 

daily,  was  to  me  no  more  than  the  tion  of  a  winter  evening,  which  mutt 

elixir  of  pleasure.    This  done,  I  shall  surely  be  familiar    to    every    body 

quit  the  subject  of  happhiess  altoge-  bom  in  a  high  latitude.    And  it  is 

ther,  and  pass  to  a  very  dififerent  evident,  that  most  of  these  delica* 

one — the  pains  of  opium.  cies,  like  ice-cream,  require  a  very 

Let  there  be  a  cottage,  standing  low  temperature  of  the  atmosphere 

in  a  valley,  18  miles  from  any  town —  to  produce  them:    they  are  fruits 

no  spacious  valley,   but  about  two  which    cannot   be  ripened    without 

miles  long,  by  three  quarters  of  a  weathet  stormy  or  inclement,  ni  some 

mile  in  average   width ;  the  benefit  way  or  other.     I  am  not  ^'  partial'* 

of  which  provision  is,  that   all  the  lar"  as  people  say,   whether  it  l^e 

families  resident  within   its   circuit  snow,    or  black  frost,   or  wind   »o 

will  compose,  as  it  were,  one  larger  strong,  that  (as  Mr. says)  "you 

household  personally  familiar  to  your  may  lean  your  back  against  it  like 

.  eye,  dnd  more  or  less  interesting  to  a  post.''  I  can  put  up  even  with  rain, 

your  afiections.     Let  the  mountahis  provided  it  rains  cats  and  dogs :  but 


*  See  the  common  accounts  in  any  Eastern  traveller  or  voyager  of  the  frantic  cxcenes 
committed  by  Malays  who  have  taken  opium,  or  are  reduc^  to  desperation  by  ill 
luck  at  gambluig. 


368  Confessions  of  an  EHffliiJiOjfium^iSiiifr,  Ci^^'t. 

something  of  the  sort  I  must  have :  lous  with  books :  and,  furthermore, 
and,  if  1  hare  it  not,  1  thiiik  myself  paint  me  a  good  fire ;  and'fiimiture, 
in  a  manner  ill-used :  for  why  am  I  plain  and  modest,  befitting  the  un- 
called on  to  pay  so  heavily  for  win-  pretending  cotta^  of  a  scholar.  And, 
teTj  in  coals,  and  caudles,  and  va-  near  the  fire,  pamt  me  a  tca-tablc ; 
rious    privations    that    will    occur  and  (as  it  is  clear  that  no  creature 
even  to  gentlemen,  if  I  am  not  to  can  come  to  see  one  such  a  stormy 
have   the  article  good  of  its  kind?  night>)  place  only  two  cups  and  sa?- 
No :    a   Canadian  winter    for    my  cars  on  the  tea-tray :    and,  if  you 
money :   or  a  Russian  one,   where  know  how  to  paint  such  a  thfng  sym- 
'  every  man  is  but  a  co-proprietor  with  bolicallyy « or*otherwisc,  paint  me  an 
"the  north  wind  in  the  fee-simply  of  eternal  tea-pot — etcmtil  d  parte  antt, 
.'hb  b%'n  ears.    Indeed,  so  great  an  and  d  parte  mst ;  for  I  usualhr  dririk 
''i^icure  am  I  in  this  matter,  that  I  tea  from  eight  o'clock  ftt  night  to 
cannot  relish  a  winter  night  fidiy  if  four  o'clock  in  the  morning.    Ahd^  as 
it  be  much  past  St.  Thomas's  day,  it  is  very  unpleasant  to  make  tea,  6r 
,imd  have  degenerated  into  disgust-  to  pour  it  out  for  oneself,  pdhit  itie  a 
ing  tendencies  to  vernal  appearances :  lovely  yoimg  woman,  sitting  at  the 
no:  it  must  be  divided  by  a  thick  table.    Paint  her  arms  like  Aurora's, 
wall  of  dark  niehts  from  all  return  and  her  smiles  like  Hebe's : — But  no« 
of  light  and  sunshine. — From  the  lat-  dear  M.,   not  even  in  jest   let   me 
ter  weeks  of  October  to  Christma»-  insinuate  that  thy  power  to  ilium i- 
eve,  therefore,  is  the  period  during  nate  my  cottage  rests  upon  a  tenure 
Which  happiness  is  in  season,  which,  so  perishable  as  mere  personal  beaii- 
In  rny  juagment,   enters  the  room  fy ;  or  that  tlie  witchcraft  of  angelic 
with  the  tea-tray :  for  tea,  though  smiles  lies  witliin  the  empire  of  any 
ridiculed  by  those  who  are  naturally  earthly  pencil.     Pass,  then,  my  socSa 
bf  coarse  nerves,  or  are  become  so  painter,  to  something  more  \vithin  iliy 
from    wine-drinking,    and    arc    not  power :  and  the  next  article  brought 
susceptible  of  influence  from  so  re-  forward  should  naturaJly  be  myself — 
lined  a  stimulant,    will  always  be  a  picture  of  the  Opium-eater,  with 
the  favourite  beverage  of  the  hitel-  his  **  little  golden   rcceptncle  of  the 
lectual :  and,  for  my  part,  I  would  peruicious  clnig,''    lying  beside  him 
have  joined  Dr.  Jdluison  ui  a  Mlum  on  the  tal)le.     As  to  the  opium,  T 
iniemecinum  against  Jonas  Hanway,  have  no  objection  to  sec  a  picture  of 
or  anv  other  mipious  person,    who  thai,  though  I  would  rather  sec  the 
should  presume  to   disparage  it»-  original;  you  may  pniTit  it,  if  you 
But  here,  to  save  myself  the  trou-  choose ;  but  I  apprize  yon,   that  no 
ble  of  too  much  verbal  description,  "little"  receptacle  would,    even  in 
I  win  introduce  a  painter ;  and  give  1816,  answer  my  purpose,  who  was 
him  directions  for  the  rest  of  the  at  a  distance  from  the  *'  stately  Pnn- 
picture.    Painters  do  not  like  white  theon,"  and  all  dniggists  (mortal  or 
cottages,  unless  a  cood  deal  wcather<»  otherwise).     No  :  you  may  ns  well 
stained :  but  as  the  reader  npw  un-  paint  the  real  receptacle,  which  was 
derstands  that  it  is  a  winter  night,  not  of  gold,  but  of  glass,  and  ns  much 
hb  services  will  not  be  required,  ex-  like  a  wine-decanter  as  XK)Ssib]c.  Into 
ccpt  for  the  inside  of  the  house.  this  you  may  put  a  quart  nf  ruby-*  ^ 
Faint  me,  then,  a  room  seventeen  coloured  laudamim :  that,  tmd  o  book ' 
feet  by  twelve,  and  not  more  than  of  Gennan  metaphysics  placed  by  its 
seven  and  a  half  feet  high.    Tliis,  side,  will  sufficiently  attest  my  bdng 
reader,     is    somewhat    aml)itiously  in  the  neighbourhood ;  but,  as  to  my- 
styled,  in  my  family,   the  drawings  solf^r^-there  I  demur.    1  admit  that, 
room :  but,  beuig  contrived  "  a  don-  naturally,  1  ought  to  occupy  the  fore- 
ble  debt  to  pay,'  it  is  also,  and  more  groimd  of  the  picture  ;    that  behig 
justly,    termed    tlie  library;    for  it  the  hero  of  the   piece,   or  (if  you 
happens  that  books  are  the  only  arti-  choose^  the  criminal  at  the  bar,  my 
cle  of  property  in  whicli  I  am  richer  body  should  be  had  into  court.    Thi.< 
than  my  neighbours.     Of  these,    I  seems  reasonable:  but  wliy  should  I 
have  about  live  thousand,  collected  coni'esa,  on  this  point,  to  a  p^iintir  ? 
gradually  smcc  my  eightecntli.  .year.,  or  why  confess  at  all  ?     If  thcpiiMii* 
Therefore,paintcr,piit  us  many  as  you /f  riiito  wliose  private  ear  1  am  co^ili- 
can  into  this  room.     Make  it  pupu^n  dcutially  whi^poiiiiL'  un*  ci'i.tcs^lon^. 


and  not  into  any  painter's)  should  hd^  from  my  mind.  Muclr  liatf  beeft 
chance  to  have  framed  some  ame-  omitted.  I  conld  not,  without  effort, 
able  picture  for  itself,  of  the  Opium-  constrain  myself  to  the  task  of  either 
eater^  exterior, — should  have  ascrib-  recalling,  or  constructing  into  a  re- 
ed to  him,  romantically,  an  elegant  gular  narrative,  the  whole  burthen  of 
person,  or  a  handsome  face,  why  horrors  which  lies  upon  my  brain, 
should  I  barbarously  tear  from  it  so  This  feeling  partly  I  plead  in  excuse, 
pleasing  a  delusion — pleasing  both  to  and  partly  that  I  am  now  in  Lon- 
the  public  and  to  me  ?  No :  paint  don,  and  am  a  helpless  sort  of  person, 
me,  if  at  all,  according  to  your  own  who  cannot  even  arrange  his  own 
fancy :  and,  as  a  painter's  fancy  papers  without  assistance ;  and  I  am 
should  teem  with  beautiful  creations,  separated  from  the  hands  which  are 
I  cannot  £ail,  in  that  way,  to  be  a  wont  to  perform  for  me  the  offices  of 
gainer.  And  now,  reader,  we  have  an  amanuensis, 
run  through  all  the  ten  categories  of  S.  You  will  think,  perhaps,  that  I 
my  condition,  as  it  stood  about  1816  am  too  confidential  and  communica^ 
—17 :  up  to  the  middle  of  which  lat-  Uve  of  my  own  private  history.  It 
ter  year  I  judge  myself  to  have  been  may  be  so.  But  my  way  of  writing 
a  happy  man :  and  the  elements  of  is  rather  to  think  aloud,  and  follow 
that  nappiness  I  have  endeavoured  to  my  own  humours,  than  much  to 
place  before  you,  in  the  above  consider  who  is  listening  to  me ;  and,, 
sketch  of  the  interior  of  a  scholar's  lif-  if  1  stop  to  consider  what  is  proper 
brary,  in  a  cottage  among  the  moun-  to  be  said  to  this  or  that  person,  I 
tains,  on  a  stormy  winter  evening.  shall  soon  come  to  doubt  whether 
But  now  farewell — a  long  farewell  any  part  at  all  is  pr<^r.  The  fact 
to  happiness — winter  or  summer !  is,  I  place  myselt  at  a  distance  of 
farewell  to  smiles  and  laughter  I  fare-  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ahead  of  thia 
well  to  peace  of  mind  1  farewell  to  time,  and  suppose  myself  writing  to 
hope  and  to  tranquil  dreams,  and  to  those  who  will  be  interested  about 
the  blessed  consolations  of  sleep!  me  hereafter;  and  wishing  to  hava 
for  more  than  three  years  and  a  half  some  record  of  a  time,  the  entire  his- 
I  am  summoned  away  from  these :  I  tonrof  which  no  one  can  know  but  my- 
am  now  arrived  at  an  Iliad  of  woes :  self,  I  do  it  as  fully  as  I  am  able  with 
ibr  1  have  now  to  record  the  efforts   I  am   now   capable    <^ 

THE    PAIK8    OF    OPIUM.  'P'^'^'S'  '*^*»«t.  ^  k""",  "?'  ^^*^ 

I  can  ever  nnd  time  to  do  it  again, 

-as  when  some  great  painter  dips  3.  It   will   occur  to  you  often   to 


Hu  pencil  in  the  gkmm  of  earthquake  and  ask,  why   did   I  not  release  myself 

edipse.        ShcOey't  Revolt  oflsiam.  from  the  horrors  of  opium,  by  leav- 

Reader,  who  have  thus  far  accom-  ing  it  off,  or  diminishing  it  ?  To  this 

panied  me,  I  must  request  your  at-  I  must  answer  briefly :  it  might  be 

tention  to  a  brief  explanatory  note  supposed  that  I  yielded  to  the  fasd- 

ou  three  points :  nations  of  opium  too  easily ;  it  cau- 

1.  For  several  reasons,  I  have  not  not  be  supposed  that  any  man  ca^  be 

been  able  to  compose  the  notes  for  charmed  by  its  terrors.    The  reader 

this  part  of  my  narrative  into  any  may  be  sure,  therefore,  that  I  made 

regular  and  connected  shape.     I  give  attempts  hinumerable  to  reduce  the 

the  notes  diigointed  as  I  find  them,  quantity.   I  add,  that  those  who  wit- 

or  have  now  drawn  them  up  from  nessed  the  agonies  of  those  attempts, 

memory.     Some  of  them   point  to  and  not  myself,  were  the  first  to  beg 

their  own  date ;  some  I  have  dated ;  me  to  desist.    But  could  not  I  have 

and  some  are  undated.     Whenever  reduced  it  a  drop  a  day,  or  by  adding 

it  could  answer  my  purpose  to  trans-  water,  have  bisected  or  trisected  a 

plant  them  from  the  natural  or  chro-  drop  ?    A    thousand  drops  bisected 

nological  order,  I  have  not  scrupled  would  thus   have  taken    nearly  six 

to  do  so.     Sometimes  I  speak  in  the  years  to  reduce ;  and  that  way  would 

present,  sometimes  in  the  past  tense,  certaiidy  not  have  answered.     But 

Few  of  the  notes,  perhaps,  were  writ^  this  is  a  common  mistake  of  those 

ten  exactly  at  the  period  of  time  to  who  know  nothing  of  opium  experi- 

which  they  relate ;  but  this  can  little  mentally ;  I  appeal  to  tnose  who  do* 

affect  their  accuracy ;  as  the  impre»-  whether  it  is  not  always  found  that 

sions  were  such  that  they  can  never  down  to  a  ccrtaui  point  it  can  be  re« 

Vol .  IV.  2E 


STO'                      CokfuHont  of  <m  SngUsh  Opkm^Saier.  \Vci. 

dueed  with  ea§e  and  even  pleasure^  who  coidd  read  his  own  Terses :  often 

but  that,  after  that  point,  further  re*  indeed  he  reads  admirably.) 

duction  causes  intense  suffering.  Yes,  For  nearly  two  yeais  I  believe  that 

say  many  thoughtless  persons,  who  I  read  no  book  hut  one :  and  I  owe 

know  not  what  they  are  talking  of^  it  to  the  author,  in  discharge  of  a 

you  will  suffer  a  little  low  spirits  and  great  debt  of  gratitude,  to  mention 

d^ectiou  for  a  few  days.     I  answer,  what  that  was.    The  sublimer  and 

no ;  there  is  nothing  like  low  spirits ;  more  passiotmte  x>oct8  I  still  read,  as 

on  the  contrary,  the  mere  animal  spi-  I  have  snid,  by  snatches,  and  occa« 

rits    are    uncommonly    raised:    the  sionally.     But  my  proper  vocation, 

Sulsc    is  improved:    the  health    is  as  I  well  knew,  was  the  exercise  of 

etter.     It  is  not  there  that  the  suf-  the  analytic   understpnding.      Now, 

fering  lies.1     It  has  no  resemblance  to  for  the  most  part,  analytic  studies 

the  sufferings  caused  by  renouncing  are  continuous,  and  not  to  be  pur* 

wine.    It  is  a  state  of  unutterable  sued  by  fits  and  starts,  or  fragmen* 

irritation  of  stomach  (which  surely  tary  efforts.     Mathematics,  for  in- 

ia  not  much  like  dejection),  accom*  stance,  intellectnal  philosophy,   fltc. 

panied  by  intense  i>erspirations,  and  were  all    become    insupportable  to 

miings  such  as  I  shall  not  attempt  mo ;    I   shrunk  from    them   with  a 

to  describe  without  more  space  at  sense  of  powerless  and  infantine  fee- 

my  command.  bleness  tnat  gave  me  an  anguish  the 

I  shall  now  enter  "  in  medias  res,"  greater  from  remembering  the  time 

and   shall    anticipate,  from  a  time  when  I  erappled  with  them  to  my  own 

when  my  opium  pains  might  be  said  hourly  aelignt ;  and  for  this  further 

to  be  at  tneir  acmt,  an  account  of  reason,  because  I  had  devoted  the  la* 

their  palsying  effects  on  the  intellec-  hour  of  my  whole  life,  and  had  dedi* 

tual  faculties.  cated  my  intellect,  blossom  s  and  fruits, 

—  to  the  slow  and  elaborate  toil  of  con- 

My  studies  have  now  been  long  in-  structmg  one  single  work,  to  which  I 

temipted.     I  cannot  read  to  myself  had  presumed  to  give  the  title  of  an 

with  any  pleasure,  hardly  with  a  mo-  unfinished   work  of  Spinosa's ;   viz. 

ment's  enaurance.    Yet  I  read  aloud  De   emendatione    humani    intcVcctus. 

•ometimes  for  the  pleasure  of  others;  This  was  now  lying  locked  up,  as  by 

because,  reading  is  an  accomplish-  frost,  like  any  Spanish  bridge  or  a- 

ment  of  mine ;  and,  in  the  slang  use  queduct,   bcgiui  upon  too   great    a 

of  the  word  accofnplishment  as  a  su-  scale  for  the  resources  of  the  archi- 

perficial  and  ornamental  attainment,  tect;  and,  instead  of  surviving^  me 

almost  the  onlv  one  I  possess :  and  as  a  monument  of  wishes  at  least, 

formerly,  if  I  had  any  vanity  at  all  and  aspirations,  and  a  life  of  labour 

connected  with  any  endowment  or  dedicated  to  the  exaltation  of  human 

attainment  of  mine,  it  was  with  this ;  nature  in  that  way    in  which  (5od 

for  I  had  observed  that  no  accom-  had  best   fitted   me  to  promote  so 

plishment  was  so  rare.     Players  are  great  an  object,    it    was    likely    to 

the  worst  readers  of  all: reads  stand  a  memorial   to  my  children  of 

vilely :  and  Mrs.         ,  who  is  so  ce-  hopes  defeated,  of  baffled  efforts,  of 

lebrated,  can  read  nothing  well  but  materials  uselessly   accumulated,  of 

dramatic  compositions:    Milton   she  foundations  laid  that  were  never  to 

cannot  read  sufferably.      People  in  support    a    superstructure, — of    the 

general  either  read  poetry  without  gnef  and  the  ruin  of  the  architect.  In 

any  passion  at  all,  or  else  overstep  the  this  state  of  imbecility,  I  had,  for  n- 

modesty  of  nature,  and  read  not  like  musement,  turned  my  attention  to  po- 

•cholars.    Of  late,    if  I    have    felt  litical  economy;  my  understanding, 

moved  by  any  thin^  ui  books,  it  has  which  formerly  had  been  as  active 

been  by  the  grand  lamentations  of  and  restless  as  a  hyena,  could  not,  I 

Sampson  Agonistes,  or  the  great  har-  suppose  (so  long  as  I  lived  at  all) 

monies    of   the   Satanic  speeches  in  shik  into  utter  lethargy  ;  and  political 

Paradise  Regained,  when  read  aloud  economy  oflers  this  ailvantage  to  a 

by  myself.    A  voung  ladv  sometimes  person  in  my  state,  that  though  it  is 

comes  and  drinlcs  tea  with  us :  at  her  eminently    an    organic    science  (no 

request  and  M.'s  I  now  and  then  read  part,  that  is  to  say,  but  what  acts  on 

W— — 's  poems  to  them.     (W.  by  the  whole,  as  the  whole  again  re-acts 

the  bye,  is  the  only  poet  I  ever  met  on  each  part),  yet  the  several  parts 


l9StiQ                 Omftidcm  oj  an  EngtUh  Opiwm^  SMtr^  S71 

may  be  detached  and  contemplated  ga?e  a  rav  of  light  into  the  unwieldy 

singly.    Great  as  was  the  prostration  chaos   of  materials^   and   had  con* 

of  my  powers  at  this  time,  yet  I  structcd  what  had  been  but  a  collec-. 

could  not  forget  my  knowledge;  and  tion  of  tentative  discussions  into  a 

my  understanding  had  been  for  too  science  of  regular  proportions,  now. 

many   years    intimate    with    seirere  first  standing  on  an  eternal  basis, 

thinkers,  with  logic,  and  the  great  Thus  did  one  single  work  of  a. 

roasters  of  knowledsfe,  not  to  be  a-  profound  understanding  avail  to  gi?e 

ware  of  the  utter  feebleness  of  the  me  a  pleasure  and  an  activity  which  I 

main  herd  of  modem  economists.   I  had  not  known  for  years :—  it  roused, 

had  been  led  in  ISII  to  look  into  me  even  to  write,  or,  at  least,  to  dio- 

loads  of  books  and   pamphlets    on  tate,  what    M.    wrote  for   me.    It 

many  branches   of  economy ;    and,  seemed  to  me,  that  some  important', 

at   my  desire,    M.  sometimes  read  truths  had  escaped  even  ''  the  inevit* 

to    me  chapters   from   more  recent  able  eye "  of  Mr.  Ricardo :  and,  as 

works,  or  ports  of  parliamentary  de-  these  were,  for  the  most  part,  of  such, 

bates.    I  saw  that  these  were  gene-  a  nature  that  I  could  express  or  ll«. 

rally  the  very  dregs  and  rinsings  of  lustrate  them  more  briefly  and  ele-, 

the  human  intellect;  and  that  any  gantly  by  algebraic  symbols  than  in, 

man  of  sound  head,  and  practised  in  the  usual  clumsy  and  loitering  dkv. 

wielding  logic  with  a  scholastic  a-  tion  of  economists,  the  whole  would 

droitness,  might  take  up  tlie  whole  not  have  fiUed  a  pocket-book ;  and 

academy  of  nio<leni  economists,  and  being  so  brief,  with  M.  for  my  ami^ 

throttle  them   between   heaven   and  nuensis,  even  at  this  time,  uicapahle. 

earth  with  his  finger  and  thumb,  or  as  I  was  of  all  general   exertion^  I 


bray  their  fui)gu:<  heads  to  powder    drew  up  my  Prolegomena  to  aUfuiurm 
with   a  lady's  fan.      At  length,  in    Systems    of  Political  Economy,      I 


nation  of  the  advent  of  some  legis-,  opiate, 
later  for  this  science,  I  said,  before  I  This  exertion,  however,  was  Imt  a 
had  finished  the  first  chapter,  **  Thou  temporary  flash;  as  the  sequel  show- 
art  the  man  ! "  Wonder  and  curiosity  ed — for  I  designed  to  publish  my 
were  emotions  that  had  long  been  work :  arrangements  were  made  at  a 
dead  in  me.  Yet  I  wondered  once  provincial  press,  about  eighteen  miles 
more :  I  wondered  at  myself  that  I  distant,  for  printing  it.  An  additi* 
could  once  agaui  be  stimulated  to  onal  compositor  was  retained,  fac 
the  efifort  of  reading :  and  much  more  some  days,  on  this  account.  The 
I  wondered  at  the  book.  Had  this  work  was  even  twice  advertised :  and 
profound  work  been  reaUy  written  in  I  was,  in  a  manner,  pledged  to  tho 
England  during  the  nuieteenth  cen-*  fulfilment  of  my  intention.  But  I  had 
tury  ?  Was  it  possil)le  ?  I  supposed  a  preface  to  write ;  and  a  dedication^ 
thinking*  had  ocen  extinct  in  £ng«  wnich  I  wished  to  make  a  splendid 
land.  Could  it  be  that  an  English-*  one,  to  Mr.  Ricardo.  I  found  myself 
man,  and  he  not  in  academic  bowers,  Quite  unable  to  accomplish  all  this, 
but  oppressed  by  mercantile  and  se-  ihe  arrangements  were  counter- 
natonal  cares,  had  accoin])lighcd  manded :  the  compositor  dismissed : 
what  all  the  universities  of  Europe,  and  my  *'  Prolegomena  "  rested 
and  a  century  of  thought,  had  failed  peacefully  by  the  side  of  its  elder  and 
even  to  advance  by  one  nair's  breadth?  more  dignified  brother. 
All  other  writers  had  been  crushed  I  have  thus  described  and  illustrate 
and  overlaid  by  the  enonnous  weight  my  intellectual  torpor,  in  termR  that 
of  facts  and  documents ;  Mr.  Ki-  apply,  more  or  less,  to  every  part  of 
cardo  had  deduced,  a  priori,  from  the  the  four  years  during  which  I  was 
miderstanding  itself,  laws  which  first  under  the  Circean  spells  of  opium. 

*  The  reader  must  remember  what  I  here  mean  by  thivking  :  because,  else  this  would 
be  a  very  presumptuous  expression.  England,  of  late,  has  been  rich  to  excess  in  fine 
diinkers,  in  the  departments  of  creative  and  combining  thought ;  but  there  ii  a  sad  dearth 
of  mascidine  thinkers  in  any  analytic  patli.  A  Scotchman  of  eminent  name  has  lately 
told  us,  that  he  is  obliged  to  quit  even  mathematics,  for  want  of  cnooun^^ement 

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S7d                      Confimom  of  an  Engiish  Opium»'Eater4  CPcU 

But  for  misery  and  sufiering,  I  mighty  many  children^  perhaps  most,  have  s 

indeed^  be  said  to  have  existed  m  a  power  of  painting,  as  it  were,  upon 

dormant  state*  ■  I  seldom  <^uld  pre-  the  darkness,  all  sorts  of  phantoms  ; 

vail  on  myself  to  write  a  letter;  an  in  sonic,  that  power  is  simply  a  me- 

ans^rer  oi  a  few  words,  to  any  that  1  chauic  affvction  of  i\\e  eye ;  others 

received,  was  the  utmost  that  I  could  have  a  voluntary,  or  a  semi-voluntary 

accomplish ;  and  oi'ten  that  not  until  power  to  dismiss  or  to  summon  them  ; 

the  letter  had  lain  weeks,  or  even  or,  as  a  child  once  said  to  me  when 

months,  on  my  writing  table.    With-  I  questioned  him  on  this  matter,  '*  I 

out    the    aid   of  M.  all   records  of  can  tell  them  to  go,  and  they  go  ; 

bills  paid>  or  to  be  paid,  must  have  but  sometimes  they  come,   when  I 

perished :  and  my  whole    domestic  don't  tell  tliem  to  come."  Whereupon 

economy,  whatever  became  of  Poll-  I  told  him  that  he  had  almost  as  un- 

tical  Economy,  must  have  gone  into  limited  a  command  over  apparitions, 

ilXetrievable  confusion. — I  shall  not  as  a  lloman  centurion  over  his  sol- 

ailerwards  allude  to  this  part  of  the  diers.— In    the   middle    of   1817,    I 

case :  it  is  one,  however,  which  the  think  it  was,  that  this  faculty  became 

opium-eater  will  find,  in  the  end,  as  positively  distressing  to  me :  at  night, 

oppressive  and  tormenting    as    any  when  I  lay  awake  in  bed,  vast  pro- 

Otner,  from  the  sense  of  mcapacity  cessions    passed  along  in   mournful 

and  feebleness,  from  the  direct  em-  pomp ;   friezes  of  never-enduig  sto- 

barrassments   incident   to  the  neg-  ries,  that  to  my  feelings  were  as  sad 

lect  or  procrastination  of  each  day  s  and  solemn  as  if  they  were  stories 

Appropriate  duties,  and  from  the  re-  drawn  from  times  before  CEdipus  or 

ihorse  which  must  often  exasperate  Priam — ^before   Tyre— before   Meni- 

t;he  stings  of  these  evils  to  a  reflective  phis.    And,  at  the  same  time,  a  cor- 

Und  conscientious  mind.  The  opium-  responding  change  took  place  in  my 

eater  loses  none  of  his  moral  sensibili-  dreams  ;  a  theatre  seemed  suddeuly 

ties,  or  aspirations:  he  wishes  and  opened  and  lighted   up  within  my 

longs,  as  earnestly  as  ever,  to  realize  brain,  which  presented  nightly  spec- 

what  he  believes  possible,  and  feels  tacles  of  more  than  earthly  splen- 

to  be  exacted  by  duty ;  but  his  intel-  dour.    And  the  four  following  facts 

lectual  apprehension  of  what  is  possi-  may  be  mentioned,  as  noticeable  at 

ble  infinitely  outruns  his  power,  not  this  time : 

of  execution  only,  but  even  of  power  1.  That,  as  the  creative  state  of 
to  attempt.  lie  lies  under  the  weight  the  eye  increased,  a  sympathy  seem- 
of(  incubus  and  night-mare :  he  Res  ed  to  arise  between  the  waking  and 
in  sight  of  all  that  he  would  fain  per-  the  dreaming  states  of  the  brnin  in 
form,  just  as  a  man  forcibly  con-  one  point — that  whatsoever  I  hap- 
&ied  to  his  bed  by  the  mortal  Ian-  pened  to  call  up  and  to  trace  by  a 
guor  of  a  relaxing  disease,  who  is  voluntary  act  upon  the  darkness  was 
compelled  to  witness  uijury  or  out-  very  apt  to  transfer  itself  to  my 
r^e  offered  to  some  object  of  his  dreams ;  so  that  I  feared  to  exercise 
t^nderest  love :  —he  curses  the  spells  this  faculty  ;  for,  as  Midas  turned  all 
which  chain  him  down  from  motion :  things  to  gold,  that  yet  bafiled  his 
— he  would  lay  down  his  life  if  he  hopes  and  defrauded  his  human  de- 
might  but  get  up  and  walk  ;  but  he  sires,  so  whatsoever  things  capable 
is  powerless  as  an  infant,  and  cannot  of  being  visually  represented  1  did 
even  attempt  to  rise.  but  think  of  hi  the  darkness,  imme- 

I  now  pass  to  what  is  the  main  diately  shaped  themselves  into  phan- 

sulject  of  these  latter  confessions,  to  toms  of  the  eye  ;  and,  by  a  process 

the  history  and  journal  of  what  took  apparently  no  less  inevitable,  when 

place  in  my  dreams ;  for  these  were  thus  once  traced  in  faint  and  visionary 

tlie  immediate  and  proximate  cause  colours,  like  writings  m  sympathetic 

of  my  acutest  suffering.  ink,  they  were  drawn   out  by  the 

The  first  notice  I  had  of  any  im-  fierce  chemistry  of  my  dreams,  into 

portant  change  going  on  in  this  part  insufferable    splendour  that    fretted 

of  my  physical  economy,  was  irom  my  heart. 

the  re-awakening  of  a  state  of  eye  2.  For  this,  and  all  other  changes 

generally  incident  to  childhood,  or  in  my  dreams,    were   accompanied 

exalted  states  of  irritability.     I  know  by  deep-seated  anxiety  and  gloomy 

not  whether  my  reader  is  aware  that  melancholy,  such  as  are  wholly  in- 


1891.;]  Confessions  of  an  Engiish  Oyiun^Eqier.  iSSTS 

oammimidEible  by  wonls.     I  seemed  this  at  leaRt,  I  feel  assured^  that  there 

every   nij^bt  to  descend^  not  meta-  is  no  such  thing  m  forgcttinff  pofr- 

phorically,  but  literally  to  descend^  sible  to  the  inMd ;  a  thousand  acci- 

into  chasms   and    sunless    abys^tcs,  dents  may,  and  will  interpose  a  veil 

depths  below  depths,  from  which  it  between  our   present   coniftciousness 

seemed  hopeless  that  I  could  ever  and  the  secret  inscriptions  on   the 

re-ascend.     Nor  did  I^  by  waking-,  mind;    accidents  of  the  same  sort 

feel  that  I  had  re-ascended.    This  I  will  also  rend  away  this  veil ;  but 

do  not  dwell  upon ;  because  the  state  alike,  whether  veiled  or  unveiled,  thd 

of  gloom  which  attended  these  gor-  inscription  remains  for  ever ;  just  a^ 

geous  spectacles,  amounting  at  last  the  stars  seem  to  withdraw  bdfore 

to  utter  darkness,  as  of  some  suicidal  the  conunon  light  of  day^  whereais, 

despondency,  catmot  be  approached  in  fact,  we  all  know  that  it  is  the 

by  words.  light  which  is  drawn  over  them  as  a 

S.  The  sense  of  space,  and  in  the  veil—and  that  they  are  waiting  to  be 

end,  the  sense  of  time,  were   both  revealed  when  the   obscuring  ddjr- 

powerfully  affected.   Buildings,  land-  light  shall  have  withdrawn.  ^ 

scapes,  &c.  were  exhibited  hi  pro-        Having  noticed  these  four  focts  as 

portions  so  vast  as  the  bodily  eye  is  memorably  distinguishing  my  dreams 

not  fitteii  to  receive.    Space  swelled,  from  those  of  health,  I  shall  now  cite 

and  was  amplified  to  an  extent  of  un-  a  case  illustrative  of  the  first  fact ; 

uttcrable  infinity.      This,  however^  and  shall  then  cite  any  others  that  I 

did  not  disturb  me  so  much  as  the  remember,  either  in  their  chronolo-^ 

vast  expansion  of  time ;  J  sometimes  gical  order,  or  any  other  that  may 

seemed  to  have  lived  for  70  or  100  give  them  more  enect  as  pictures  to 

years  in  one  night ;  nay,  sometimes  Uie  reader. 

had  feelings  representative  of  a  mil-  I  had  been  in  youth,  and  even 
leniuin  passed  in  that  time,  or,  how-  since,  for  occasional  amusement,  a 
ever,  of  a  duration  far  beyond  the  great  reader  of  Livy,  whom,  I  con- 
limits  of  any  human  experience.  less,  that  I  prefer,  both  for  style  and 

4.  The  minutest  incidents  of  child-  matter,  to  any  other  of  the  Roman 
hood,  or  forgotten  scenes  of  later  historians:  and  I  had  often  felt  as 
years,  were  often  revived:  I  could  most  solemn  and  appalling  soundsy 
not  be  said  to  recollect  them ;  for  if  and  most  emphatically  representative 
I  had  been  told  of  them  when  wak-  of  the  migcsty  of  the  Roman  people, 
ing,  1  should  not  have  been  able  to  the  two  words  so  often  occurring 
acknowledge  them  as  parts  of  my  in  liivj— Consul  Romamis ;  espe- 
past  experience.  But  placed  as  they  cially  when  the  consul  is  introduced 
were  l)efore  me,  in  dreams  like  in-  in  his  military  character.  I  mean 
tuitions,  and  clothed  in  all  their  eva«  to  say,  that  the  words  king  -  sultan 
ncscent  circumstances  and  accnm-  —regent,  &c.  or  any  other  titles  of 
paiiying  feelings.  I  recognisct!  them  those  who  embwly  in  their  own  per- 
insUintaneously.  I  was  once  told  by  sons  the  collective  majesty  of  a  great 
a  near  relative  of  mine,  that  having  people,  had  less  power  over  my  re- 
in her  childhood  fallen  into  a  river,  verential  feelings.  I  had  also,  though 
and  being  on  the  very  verge  of  death  no  great  reader  of  history,  made  my- 
but  for  the  critical  assistance  which  self  minutely  and  critically  familiar 
reached  her,  she  saw  in  a  moment  with  one  period  of  English  history, 
her  whole  life,  in  its  minutest  inci-  viz.  the  period  of  the  l^liamentarv 
dents,  arrayed  before  her  simulta^  War,  having  been  attracted  by  the 
neously  as  in  a  mirror ;  and  she  had  moral  grandeur  of  some  who  'figured 
a  faculty  developed  as  suddenly  for  in  that  day,  and  by  the  many  Ita- 
comprehending  tne  whole  and  every  teresting  memoirs  which  surVjve 
part  This,  from  some  opium  expe-  those  uiuiuiet  times.  Both  ^tMese 
riences  of  mine,  1  can  oelicve ;  I  parts  of  my  lighter  reading*,  havitjjf 
have,  indeed,  seen  the  same  thing  as-  nirnished  me  often  with  matter  Of 
serted  twice  in  modem  books,  and  reflection,  now  furnished  me  with 
accompanied  by  a  remark  which  I  matter  for  my  dreams.  Often  I  used 
am  convinced  is  true ;  viz.  tliat  the  to  see,  after  palntuig  upon  the  blank 
<}road  book  of  account,  which  the  darkness  a  sort  of  rehearsal  whilA 
Scriptures  s|K>ak  of,  is,  in  fact,  the  waking,  a  crowd  of  lactiea^  aud^^wt- 
inlnd  itself  of  each  indi? iduai.    Of  haps  a  fe«^^^)  «sj^  ^jng««%.     Kb*^ 


If  4  Coi^e§rions  of  an  English  Opium^Eater.  C^ct. 

•  I  beBrd  it  sdd^  or  I  amd  to  myself^  'standing  on  the  rery  brink  of  the 
'  ^'  these  are  English  ladies  from  the  -abyss.  Agidn  elevate  your  eye^,  and 
'  unhimpy  times  of  Charles  I.  These  a  still  more  aerial  flight  of  stairs  is 
\  are  the  wives  and  the  daughters  of  beheld :  and  again  is  poor  Piranesi 

those  who  met  in  peace^  and  sate  busy  on  his  aspiring  lahoiuv:  and 

at  the   same   tables^  and  were  al-  so  on,   imtil    the   unfinished   stairs 

lied  by  marriage  or  by  blood;  and  and  Rranesi   both  are  lost  in  the 

yety  idler  a  certain  day  in  August,  upper  gloom  of  the  hall. — With  the 

•  1643,  never  smiled  upon  each  other  same  power  of  endless  growth  and 
:  again^  nor  met  but  in  the  field  of  self-reproduction    did   my  architeo- 

battle;   and  at  Marstnn    Moor,    at  ture  proceed    in    dreams.      In    the 

Newbury^  or  at  Naseby,  cut  asun-  early  stage  of  my  malady,  the  splen- 

•  der  all  ties  of  love  by  the  cruel  dours  of  my  dreams  were  indeed  chief- 
sabre,  and  washed  away  in  blood  ly  architectural:  and  I  beheld  such 
the  memory  of  ancient  fnendship." —  pomp  of  cities  and  palaces  as  was 

-The  ladies  danced,  and  looked  as  never  yet    beheld    by   the  waking 

lovely  as  the  court  of  Greorge  IV.  eye,    imless  in  the  clouds.      From 

Yet  I  knew,  even   in    my  dream,  a  great  modem  poet  I  cite  part  of 

-that  they  had  been  in  the  grave  for  a  passage  whicn   describes,    as  an 

nearly  two  centuries. — This  pageant  appearance   actually  beheld  in  the 

-would  suddenly  dissolve:  and,  at  a  clouds,  what  in  many  of  its  circum- 

clapping  of  hands,  would  be  heard  stances  I  saw  frequently  in  sleep : 

the  heart-quaking  sound  of  Consul  rphe  impearanee,  instantaneouiay  disclowd, 

'Bomanus:    and    immediately   came  Was  ofa  mighty  city— boldly  say 

««  sweeping  by, "  in  gorgeous  palu-  a  wildcmew  of  buUding,  sinking  far 

daments,    Paulus    or    Marius,    girt  And  self-withdrawn  into  a  wonditms  depth, 

round  by  a  company  of  centurions.  Far  sinking  into  splendor-- widiout  end  1 

with  the  crimson  tunic  hoisted  on  a  Fabric  it  seemM  of  diamond,  and  of  gold, 

.apear,  and  followed  by  the  aMagmos  With  alabaster  domes,  and  silver  spires, 

of  the  Roman  legions.  And  blazing  terrace  upon  terrace,  high 

Many  years  ago,  when  I  was  look-  Uplifted ;  here,  soene  paviLons  bn^t 

ing    over    Piraifesi's    Antiquities  of  J^.t^T^^^^'^PT^i*^"!!^^^^ 

.Rime,  Mr.  Coleridge,  who  was  stmid-  ^**  ^^^^  ^^ 

ing  by,  described  to  nie  a  set  of  plates  ^^^  stars-illununadon  of  all  gems ! 

by  tlmt  artist,  called  his  Z>r£fflm J,  and  gy  earthly  nature   had    the  effect  been 

•  which  record  the  scenery  of  his  own  wrought 

visions  during  the  delirium  of  a  fe-  Upon  the  dark  materials  of  the  storm 

ver.     Some  of  them  (I  describe  only  Now  pacified ;  on  them,  and  on  Uie  covet, 

firom    memory    of    Mr.   Coleridge  is  And  mountain-steeps  and  summits,  where- 
account)     represented   vast   Gothic  unto 

halls :  on   the  floor  of  which  stood  The  vapours  had  receded,— taking  there 

mil  sorts  of  engines  and  machinery,  Their  station  under  a  cerulean  sky.  &c&c 
wheels,  cables,  pulleys,   levers,  ca^        The  sublime  circumstance — *'  bat- 

.  tapults,  &c.  &c.  expressive  of  enor-  tlements  that  on  their  restless  fronts 

moiis  power  put  fortn,  and  resistance  bore  stars," — might  have  been  copied 

overcome.    Creeping  along  the  sides  from  my  architectural  dreams,    for 

of  the  walls,  you  perceived  a  stair-  it  often  occurred. — We  hear  it  rc- 

case;  and  upon  it,  groping  his  way  ported  of  Dryden,  and  of  Fusel!  in 

upwards,  was  Piranesi  himself:  fol-  modem   times,    that   they   thought 

low  the  stairs  a  little  further,  and  proper  to  eat  raw  meat  for  the  sake 

you    perceive  it  come  to  a  sudden  of  obtaining  splendid  dreams:  how 

abrupt  termination,  without  any  ba^  much  better  for  such  a  purpose  to 

lustrade,  and  allowing  no  step  on-  have  eaten  opium,  which  yet  I  do  not 

wards  to  him  who  had  reached  the  remember  that  any  poet  is  recorded 

extremity,    except   into  the  depths  to  have  done,  except  the  dramatist 

below.    Whatever  is  to  become  of  Shadwell :  and  in  ancient  days,  Ho- 

poor  IMranesi,  you  suppose,  at  least,  mer  is,  1  tlunk,  rightly  reputed  to 

that  his  labours  must  in  some  way  have  known  the  virtues  of  opium, 
terminate  here.    But  raise  your  eyes.        To    my    architecture    succeeded 

and  behdd  a  second  flight  of  stairs  dreams  of  lakes— and    silvery    ex- 

atiU  hilgher:  on  which  again  Pira-  pauses  of  water:— these  haunted  me 

mtf   19  percmei,    but  tlua  6in&  to  irack,  that  I  feared  (though  po0> 


1621.2                   Cunfhiioiu  of  an  En^ish  Ojnum^Eater.  375 

slbly  it  will  appear  hulicrous  to  a  of  life  and  scenery,  I  should  go  mad. 
medical  man)  tluit  some  dropsical  The  causes  of  my  horror  lie  deep; 
state  or  tendcucy  of  the  brain  might  and  some  of  them  must  be  comfhon  to 
thus  be  making  its^'lf  (to  use  a  nie-  others.  Southern  Asia^  in  general^  ia 
taphysical  woril)  olijectlvc  ;  and  the  the  seat  of  awful  images  and  associa* 
sentient  organ  pnjvct  itself  as  its  tiuns.  As  the  cradle  of  the  human 
owu  object. —For  two  months  I  suf-  racc^  it  would  alone  have  a  dim  and 
fered  greatly  in  my  heail, — a  part  reverential  feeling  connected  with  it. 
of  my  bodily  structure  which  had  But  there  arc  other  reasons.  No 
hitherto  been  so  clear  from  all  touch  man  can  pretend  that  the  wilil,  bar- 
or  taint  of  weakness  (physically,  1  barous,  and  capricious  superstitions 
mean),  that  I  used  to  say  of  it^  as  of  Africa,  or  of  savage  tribes  else- 
the  last  Lord  Orford  said  of  Ids  where,  affect  him  in  the  way  that  he 
stomach,  that  it  seemed  likely  to  is  affected  by  the  ancient,  monument- 
survive  die  rest  of  my  person. — Till  al,  cruel,  and  elal>oratc  religions  of 
now  I  had  never  felt  a  head-ach  Indostan,  &c.  The  mere  antiquity 
even,  or  any  the  slightest  pain,  ex-  of  Asiatic  things,  of  their  nistitutions, 
cept  rheumatic  pains  caused  by  my  histories,  modes  of  faith,  &c.  is  so  im- 
own  folly.  However,  I  got  over  prcssivc,  that  to  me  the  vast  age  of 
this  attack,  though  it  must  have  the  race  and  name  overpowers  the 
been  verging  on  something  very  dan-  sense  of  youth  in  the  individual.  A 
gerous.  youn^  Chinese  seems  to  me  an  ante- 

The  waters  now  changed  their  diluvion  man  renewed.  Even  £ng- 
character, — from  translucent  lakes,  lishmen,  thought  not  bred  in  any 
shining  like  mirrors,  they  now  be-  knowledge  of  such  institutions,  can- 
came  seas  and  oceans.  And  now  not  but  shudder  at  the  mystic  subli- 
came  a  tremeiulous  change,  which,  mi ty  of  cai^j  that  have  flowed  apart, 
unfolding  itself  slowly  like  a  scroll,  and  refused  to  mix,through  such  imme- 
throu^'h  many  months,  promised  morial  tracts  of  time ;  nor  can  any 
an  abiding  torment ;  and,  in  fact,  man  fail  to  be  awed  by  the  names  of 
it  never  left  me  until  the  whid-  the  Ganges,  or  the  Euphrates.  It 
ing  up  of  my  case.  Hitherto  the  contributes  much  to  these  feclmgs, 
human  face  had  mixed  often  in  that  southern  Asia  is,  and  has  been 
my  dreams,  but  not  despotically,  for  thousands  of  years,  the  part  of  the 
nor  with  any  Apecial  power  of  tor-  earth  most  swarming  with  human 
men  tin  i;.  ])ut  now  that  which  I  life ;  the  great  ^fficina  gentium,  Man 
have  culled  the  tynmny  of  the  hu-  is  a  weed  in  those  regions.  The  vast 
man  lace  began  to  imfold  itself,  empires  also,  into  which  the  enor- 
Terhaps  some  part  of  my  London  mous  population  of  Asia  has  always 
lite  might  be  answerable  for  this,  been  cast,  give  a  furtlier  sublimity 
Be  that  as  it  may,  now  it  was  that  to  the  feelings  associated  with  all  on- 
upon  the  rocking  waters  of  the  ocean  cntal  names  or  images.  In  China, 
the  human  face  began  to  appear :  the  over  and  a]>ovc  what  it  has  in  com- 
sea  ap[)eared  paved  with  innumer-  mon  with  the  rest  of  southern  Asia, 
able  faces,  upturned  to  the  heavens :  I  am  terrified  by  the  modes  of  life, 
faces,  imploring,  wrathful,  despair-  ]>y  the  manners,  and  the  barrier  of 
ing,  surged  upwards  by  thousands,  utter  abhorrence,  and  want  of  sym- 
by  myriads,  by  generations,  by  cen-  pathy,  placed  between  us  by  feclmgt 
turies :  my  agitation  was  infinite,—  dee])er  than  I  can  analyze.  I  could 
my  mind  tossed — and  surged  with  sooner  live  with  lunatics,  or  brute 
the  ocean.  animals.    All  this,  and  much  mdre 

than  I  can  say,  or  have  time  to  say. 

May,  1818.  the  reader  must  enter  into  before  he 

The  Malay  has  been  a  fearful  cue-  can  comprehend   the  imimaj^able 

my  for  months.     I  have  been  every  horror  which  these  dreams  oi  orSen- 

night,  through  his  means,  transported  tal   imagery,  and  mythological  tor- 

into   Asiatic    scenes.     1   know    not  turcs,  impressed   upon  roe.      Under 

whe tiler  others  share  in  my  feelings  the  connecting   feeling    of   tropical 

on  thispoint;  buti  have  oflen  thought  heat  and  vertical  sun-lights,  I  brought 

that  if^  I  were  compelled  to  forego  together  all  creatures,  birds,  beasts^ 

England,  and  to  live  in  Chuia,  and  reptiles,  all  trees  and  plants,  usages 

among  Chinese  manntrs  and  modes  and  appearances,  that  are  found  In 


376  Confsnum  of  an  EngliA  Opmm'Baier.  [[Oct. 

ajX  tit^ical  reffions,  and  assembled  And  so  often  did  this  liideous  reptUe 
mem  together  m  China  or  Indostan.  haunt  my  dreams,  that  many  times. 
'From  kindred  feelings,  I  soon  brought  the  very  same  dream  was  broken  up 
Egypt  and  all  her  gods  under  the  in  the  very  same  way :  I  heard  gen- 
same  law.  I  was  stared  at,  hooted  tie  voices  speaking  to  me  (I  hear 
at^  grinned  at,  chattered  at,  by  mon-  every  thing  when  I  am  sleeping) ; 
keyzk,  by  paroqnets,  by  cockatoos.  I  and  instanUy  I  awoke :  it  was  broad 
ran  into  pagodas :  and  was  fixed,  i^pon  ;  and  my  children  were  slandr 
fbr  centuries,  at  the  summit,  or  in  se-  log,  hand  in  hand,  at  my  bed-side  ; 
cret  rooms ;  I  was  the  idol ;  I  was  come  to  show  me  their  coloured 
the  priest ;  I  was  worshipped ;  I  was  shoes,  or  new  frocks,  or  to  let  me  see 
iacnficed.  I  fled  from  the  wrath  of  them  dressed  for  going  out.  I  pror 
Brama  through  all  the  forests  of  test  that  so  awfid  was  the  transition 
A^a :  Vishnu  hated  me :  Seeva  laid  from  the  damned  crocodile,  and  the 
wait  for  me.  I  came  suddenly  upon  otlier  unutterably  monsters  and  abor* 
Isis  and  Osiris :  I  had  done  a  deed,  tions  of  my  dreams,  to  the  sight  of 
they  said,  which  the  ibis  and  the  innocent  hvman  natures  and  of  in.^ 
crocodile  trembled  at.  I  was  buried,  fancy,  that,  in  the  mighty  and  sud« 
for  a  thousand  years,  in  stone  coffins,  den  revulsion  of  mind,  I  wept,  and 
with  mummies  and  sphynxes,  in  could  not  forbear  it,  as  I  kissed  their 
.^row  chambers  at  the  heart  of  fJEioes. 
eiNnal  pyramids.  I  was  kissed^  ■ 
with  cancerous  kisses,  by  crocodiles ;  June,  1819. 
and  laid,  confounded  with  all  un«  I  have  had  occasion  to  remark,  at 
iitterable  slimy  things^  amongst  reeds  various  periods  of  my  life,  that  the ' 
and  Nilotic  mud.  deaths  of  those  whom  we  love,  and 
1  thus  give  the  reader  some  sUght  indeed  the  contemplation  of  death 
9A)8traction  of  my  oriental  dreams,  generally,  is  {cteieris  paribus)  more 
which  always  filled  me  with  such  affecting  hi  summer  than  in  any  other 
amazement  at  the  monstrous  sceneryj  season  of  the  year.  And  the  reasons 
that  horror^  seemed  absorbed,  for  ai  are  these  three,  I  think :  first,  that  the 
while,  in  sheer  astonishment  Sooner  visible  heavens  in  summer  appear 
or  later,  came  a  reflux  of  feeling  that  far  higher,  more  distant,  and  (it  such 
awallowed  up  the  astonishment,  and  a  solecism  may  be  excused^  more  in- 
left  me,  not  so  much  in  terror,  as  in  finite ;  the  clouds,  by  which  chiefly 
hatred  and  abomination  of  what  1  the  eye  expounds  the  distance  of  the 
saw.  Over  every  form,  and  threat,  blue  pavilion  stretched  over  our 
and  punishment,  and  dim  sightless  heads,  are  in  summer  more  volurai- 
incarceration,  brooded  a  sense  of  eter-  nous,  massed,  and  accumulated  in  far 
nity  and  bifinity  that  drove  me  into  grander  and  more  towering  piles : 
an  oppression  as  of  madness.  Into  secondly,  the  light  and  the  appear- 
these  dreams  only,  it  was,  with  one  ances  of  the  dedining  and  the  setting 
or  two  slight  exceptions,  that  any  sun  are  much  more  fitted  to  be  types 
circumstances  of  physical  horror  en-  and  characters  of  the  Infinite :  and, 
tered.  All  before  had  been  moral  thirdly,  (which  is  the  main  reason) 
and  spiritual  terrors.  But  here  the  the  exuberant  and  riotous  prodigality 
main  agents  were  ugly  birds,  or  of  life  naturally  forces  the  mind  more 
siuikes,  or  crocodiles ;  especially  the  powerfully  upon  the  antagonist 
last.  The  cursed  crocodile  became  thought  of  death,  and  the  wintry  ste* 
to  me  the  oliject  of  more  horror  than  rility  of  the  grave.  For  it  may  be 
almost  all  the  rest.  I  was  compelled  observed,  generally,  that  wherever 
to  live  with  him;  and  (as  was  al-  twp  thoughts  stand  related  to  each 
ways  the  case  almost  in  my  dreams)  other  by  a  law  of  antagonism,  and 
£>r  centuries.  I  escaped  sometimes,  exist,  as  it  were,  by  mutual  repul- 
ai[id  found  myself  hi  Chinese  houses,  sion,  they  are  apt  to  suggest  each 
jrith  cane  tables.  Sec.  All  the  feet  other.  On  these  accounts  it  is  that 
f^  the  tables,  sophas,  &c.  soon  be-  I  find  it  impossible  to  banish  the 
came  instinct  with  life :  the  abomi-  thought  of  death  when  I  am  walk- 
oable  head  of  the  crocodile,  and  his  ing  alone  in  the  endless  days  of  sum- 
leering  eyes,  looked  out  at  mc,  multi-  mer ;  and  any  particular  death,  if 
plied  mto  a  thousand  repetitions:  not  more  affecting,  at  least  haunts 
Aod  J  stood  ioathiDg  and  fiiscinated.  my-  min4  more  obstinately  and  be« 


1891.]]  Omfe$dons  cf  an  English  Ophm^Eater.  ST7 

siegingly  in  that  seaBon.     Perhaps    the  domes  and  cupolas  of  a  great 
this   cause^    and   a    slight   incident    city — an  image  or  faint  abstraction, 
which  I  omit^  might  have  been  the    canghl   perhaps  in  childhood  from 
immediate  occasions  of  the  following    some  picture    of  Jenisalem.      And 
dream;  to  which^  however^  a  pre-    not  a  bow-shot  from   me^  upon  a 
disposition  must  always  have  exist-    stone,  and  shaded  by  Judean  palms^ 
ed  in  my  mind ;   but  having  been    there  sat  a  woman ;  and  I  looked ; 
once  roused,  it  never  left  me,  and    and  it  was— Ann !  She  fixed  her  eves 
split  into  a  thousand  fantastic  va-    upon  me  earnestly ;  and  I  said  to  her 
neties,    which    often    suddenly   re-    at  length :  ''  So  then  I  have  foui^ 
united^  and  composed  again  the  ori-    you  at  last"    I  waited :  but  she  an- 
ginal dream.  swered  me  not  a  word.    Her  fa<;e 
1  thouE^ht  that  it  was  a  Sunday    was  the  same  as  when  I  saw  it  last^ 
morning  m  May^  that  it  was  Easter    and  yet  again  how  different !  Seven- 
Sunday,  and  as  yet  very  early  in  the    teen  years  ago,  when  the  lamp-liffht 
morning.     I  was  standing,  as  it  seem-    fell  upon  her  face,  as  for  the  last  time 
ed  to  me,  at  the  door  of  my  own  cot-    I  kissed  her  lips  (lips,  Ann,  that  to 
tage.    Right  before  me  lay  the  very    me  were  not  polluted),  her  eyes  were 
scene  which  could  really  be  command-    streaming  with  tears :  the  tears  were 
ed  from  that  situation,  but  exalted,    now  wiped  away ;  she  seemed  more 
as  was  usual,  and  solemnized  by  the    beautiful  than  she  was  at  tliat  time, 
power  of  dreams.     There  were  the    but  in  all  other  points  the  same,  and 
same  mountains,  and  the  same  lovely    not  older.    Her  looks  were  traTiquil, 
valley  at  their  feet ;  but  the  moun-    Imt  with  unusual  solemnity  of  ez« 
tains  were  raised  to  more  than  Al-    pression ;  and  I  now  gazed  upon  her 
pine  height,  and  there  was  interspace    with   some   awe,  but  suddenly  her 
far  larger  between  them  of  meadows    countenance  ^rew  dim,  and,  turning 
and  forest  lawns ;  the  hedges  were    to  the  mountains,  I  perceived  vapours 
rich  with  white  roses ;  and  no  living    rolling  between  us ;  in  a  moment,  all 
creature  was  to  be  seen,  excepting    had  vanished;  thick  darkness  came 
that  in  the  green  church-yard  there    on ;  and,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye, 
were  cattle  tranquilly  reposing  upon    I  was  far  away  from  mountains,  and 
the  verdant  graves,  and  particularly    by  lamp-light  in  Oxford-street,  walk- 
round  about  the  grave  of  a  child    ing   again   with   Ann— just   as    we 
whom  1  had  tenderlv  loved,  just  as    walked  seventeen  years  before,  when 
I  had  really  beheld  them,  a  little  be-    we  were  both  children, 
fore  sun-rise  in  the  same  summer.        As  a  final  specimen,  I  cite  one  of  a 
when  that  child  died.     I  gazed  upon    different  character,  from  1 820. 
the  well-known  scene,  and  I  said  a-        The  dream    commenced   with    a 
loud  (as  I  thought)  to  myself,  ''  it    music  which  now  I  often  heard  hi 
yet  wants  much  of  sun-rise;  and  it    dreams — a  music  of  preparation  and 
is  Easter  Sunday ;   and  that  is  the    of  awakening    suspense ;    a  music 
day  on  which  they  celebrate  the  first    like  the  opening  of  the  Coronation 
fniits  of  resurrection.     I  will  walk    Anthem,  and  which,  like  that,  gave 
fihroad ;  old  griefs  shall  be  forgotten    the  feeling  of  a  vast  march— of  mfi- 
to-day ;  for  the  air  Is  cool  and  still,    nite  cavdcades   filing   oflf— and  the 
and  tlie  hills  are  high,  and  stretch    tread  of  innumerable  armies.     The 
away  to  Heaven ;   and  the  forest-    morning  was  come  of  a  mighty  day 
glades  are  as  quiet  as  the  church-    — a  day  of  crisis  and  of  final  hope  for 
yard ;  and,  with  the  dew,  1  can  wash    human  nature,  then  suflfering  some 
the  fever  from  my  forehead,  and  then    mysterious  eclipse,  and  labouring  in 
I  shall  be  imhappy  no  longer."    And    some  dread  extremity.    Somewhere, 
I  turned,  as  if^  to  open  my  garden    I    knew    not  where— somehow,    I 
gate;  and  immediately  I  saw  upon    knew  not  how — bv  some  beinffs,  1 
the  lefl  a  scene  far  different ;   but    knew  not  whom — a  battle,  a  strife,  an 
which  yet  the  power  of  dreams  had    agony,  was  conducting, — was  evolr^ 
teconcued   into    harmony    with  the    ing  like  a  great  drama,  or  piece  kH 
other.     The  scene  was  an  oriental    music;  with  which  my  svmpathy  was 
one;   and  there  also  it  was  Easter    the    more  insupi>ortable    from   rttf 
Sunday,  and  very  early  in  the  mom-    confusion  as  to  its  place,  its  cause,  m 
ing.    And  at  a  vast  distance  were    nature,  and  its  possible  issue.    I, 
irinble,  as  a  stahi  upon  (he  horizon,    is  usual  in  dreams  (where^  <iC 


378                        On^esiioM  o/*  on  Engliih  Oputm'Eaier.  QOct. 

•ity,  we  make  ourselves  central  to  by  any  such  unaffecting  details^  the 
every  movement^  had  the  power^  Impression  of  the  history  Itself,  as  an 
and  yet  hail  not  tne  power,  to  decide  appeal  to  the  prudence  and  the  con- 
it.  I  Iiad  the  power,  if  I  could  r^se  science  of  the  yet  unconfirmed  opium- 
myself,  to  will  it ;  and  yet  again  had  eater — or  even  (though  a  very  infe- 
not  the  power,  for  the  weight  of  rior  consideration)  to  injure  its  cfTect 
twenty  Atlantic^  was  upon  me,  or  as  a  composition.  The  interest  of 
the  oppression  of  inexpiable  guilt,  the  judicious  reader  will  not  attach 
'*  Deeper  than  ever  plummet  sound-  itself  chiefly  to  the  subject  of  the  fas- 
eii,"  I  lay  inactive.  Then,  like  a  cinating  spells,  but  to  the  fascinating 
chorus,  the  passion  deepened.  Some  power.  Not  the  opium>cater,  but 
greater  interest  was  at  stake ;  some  the  opium,  is  the  true  hero  of  the 
mightier  cause  than  ever  yet  the  tale;  and  the  legitimate  centre  on 
sword  had  pleaded,  or  tnimpet  had  which  the  interest  revolves.  The  ob-> 
prodaimed.  Then  came  sudden  ject  was  to  display  the  marvellous 
alarms :  hurryings  to  and  fro :  trepi-  agency  of  opium,  whether  fot  plea- 
dations  of  innumerable  fugitives,  I  sure  or  for  pain  .*  if  that  is  done,  the 
knew  not  whether  from  the  good  action  of  the  piece  has  closed, 
cause  or  the  bad :  darkness  and  However,  as  some  people,  in  spite 
lights:  tempest  and  human  faces;  and  of  all  laws  to  the  contrary,  will  per- 
at  last,  with  the  sense  that  all  was  sist  in  asking  what  became  of  the 
lost,  female  forms,  and  the  featiu*es  opium-cater,  an<l  in  what  state  he 
that  were  worth  all  the  world  to  me,  now  is,  I  answer  for  hini  thus :  The 
and  but  a  moment  allowed, — and  reader  is  aware  that  opium  had  long 
clasped  hands,  and  heart-breaking  ceased  to  found  its  empire  on  spells 
partings,  and  then — everlasting  of  pleasure;  it  was  solely  by  the  tor- 
mrewells !  and  with  a  sigh,  such  as  tures  connected  with  the  attempt  to 
the  caves  of  hell  sighed  when  the  in-  abjure  it,  that  it  kept  its  hold.  Yet, 
cestuous  mother  uttered  the  abhorred  as  other  tortures,  no  less  it  may  be 
name  of  death,  the  sound  was  rever-  thought,  attended  the  non-abjuration 
berated— everlasting  farewells !  and  of  such  a  tyrant,  a  choice  only  of 
again,  and  yet  again  reverberated —  evils  was  left ;  and  thai  might  as  well 
everlasting  farewells !  have  been  adopted,  which,  however 

And   I   awoke    in    stniggles,  and  terrific  in  itself,  held  out  a  prospect 

cried  aloud — **  1  will  sleep  no  more ! "  of   final    restoration    to    happiness. 

But  I  am  now  called  upon  to  wind  This  appears  true ;  but  gooci  logic 
up  a  narrative  which  has  already  ex-  gave  the  author  no  strength  to  act 
tended  to  an  unreasonable  length,  upon  it.  However,  a  crisis  arrived  for 
Within  more  spacious  limits,  the  ma-  the  author's  life,  and  a  crisis  for  other 
terials  which  X  have  used  might  have  objects  still  dearer  to  him — and  which 
been  better  unfolded ;  and  much  wUl  always  be  far  dearer  to  him  than 
which  I  have  not  used  might  have  his  life,  even  now  that  it  is  again  a 
been  added  with  effect.  Perhaps,  happy  one. — I  saw  that  I  must  die 
however,  enough  has  been  given.  It  if  I  continued  the  o}iium :  I  deter- 
now  remains  that  I  should  say  some-  mined,  therefore,  if  that  should  be 
thing  of  the  way  in  which  this  con-  required,  to  die  ui  throwhig  it  off, 
flict  of  horrors  was  finally  brought  to  How  much  I  was  at  that  time  taking 
its  crisis.  The  reader  is  already  I  cannot  say ;  for  the  opium  which  1 
aware  (from  a  passage  near  the  be-  used  had  been  purchased  for  me  by  a 
ginning  of  the  introduction  to  the  friend  who  afterwards  refused  to  let 
first  part)  that  the  opium-eater  has,  me  pay  him  ;  so  that  I  could  not  as- 
in  some  way  or  other, ''  unwound,  al-  certain  even  what  quantity  1  had 
most  to  its  final  links,  the  accursed  used  withui  the  year.  I  apprehend, 
chain  which  bound  him."  By  what  however,  that  1  took  it  very  irregu- 
meant  ?  To  have  narrated  this,  ac-  larly :  and  that  I  varied  from  about 
.cording  to  the  original  intention,  fifty  or  sixty  grains,  to  150  a-day. 
would  have  far  exceeded  the  space  My  first  task  was  to  reduce  it  to 
which  can  now  be  allowed.  It  is  forty,  to  thirty,  and,  as  fast  as  I  could, 
fortunate,  as  such  a  cogent  reason  to  twelve  grains, 
exists  for  abrid^g  it,  that  I  should,  I  triumphed  :  but  think  not,  read- 
on  a  maturer  view  of  the  case,  have  er,  that  therefore  my  sufferings 
.beea  ezceediuglj  unwilling  to  injure,  were  ended ;  nor  think  of  me  as  of 


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one  sitting  in  a  dejected  ftate.  Think  efforts  of  other  men  by  my  own :  I 
of  me  as  of  one,  eren  when  four  heartily  wish  him  more  energy:  I  wish 
months  had  passed,  still  agitated,  him  the  same  success.  Nevertheless, 
writhing,  throbbing,  palpitating,  I  had  motives  external  to  myself 
shattered;  and  much«  perhaps,  m  which  he  may  unfortunateljr  want: 
the  situation  of  him  who  has  been  and  these  supplied  me  with  con- 
racked,  as  I  collect  the  torments  of  scientious  supports  which  mere  per- 
that  state  from  the  affecting  account  sonal  interests  might  fail  to  supply 
of  them  left  by  a  most  innocent  suf-  to  a  mind  debilitated  by  opium, 
fcrer*  (of  the  times  of  James  L).  Jeremy  Taylor  conjectures  that  it 
Meantime,  I  derived  no  benefit  from  may  be  as  painful  to  be  bom  as  to 
any  medicine,  except  one  prescribed  die :  I  think  it  probable:  and,  during 
to  me  by  an  Edinburgh  surgeon  of  the  whole  period  of  diminishing  the 
great  eminence,  viz.  ammoniated  opium,  I  had  the  torments  of  a  man 
tincture  of  Valerian.  Medical  ao-  passing  out  of  one  mode  of  existence 
count,  therefore,  of  my  emancipation  mto  another.  The  issue  was  not 
I  have  not  much  to  give:  and  even  death,  but  a  sort  of  physical  regeiie* 
that  littie,  as  managed  by  a  man  so  ration :  and  I  may  add,  that  ever 
ignorant  of  medicine  as  myself,  wonld  since,  at  intervals,  I  have  had  a  res* 
probably  tend  only  to  mislead.  At  toration  of  more  than  youthful  spirits, 
all  events,  it  would  be  misplaced  in  though  under  the  pressure  of  difficul- 
this  situation.  The  moral  of  the  ties,  which,  in  a  less  happy  state  of 
narrative  is  addressed  to  the  opium-  mind,  I  should  have  caiied  mii^- 
oater;    and   therefore,  of  necessity,  tunes. 

limited  in  its  application.    If  he  is  -  One  memorial  of  my  former  condi- 

taught  to  fear  and  tremble,  enough  tion  still  remains :  my  dreams  are  not 

has  been  effected.    But  he  may  say,  yet  perfectiy  calm :  the  dread  swell 

that  the  issue  of  my  case  is  at  least  and  agitation  of  the  storm  have  not 

a  proof  that  opium,  after  a  seventeen  wholly  subsided :   the   legions   that 

years'  use,  and  an  eiffht  years'  abuse  encamped  in  them  are  drawing  ofi^ 

of  its  powers,  may  still  be  renounced:  but  not  all  departed:    my  sleep  is 

and  that  he  may  chance  to  brine  to  still  tumultuous,  and,  like  the  gates 

the  task  greater  energy  than  I  did,  or  of  Paradise  to  our  first  parents  when 

that  with    a    stronger   constitution  looking  back  from  afar,  it  is  still  (in 

than  mine  he  may  obtain  the  same  re-  the  tremendous  line  of  Milton)— 

suits  with  less.     This  may  be   true :  With  dreadful  faoes  thrang'd  and  fiery 

I  would  not  presume  to  measiu-e  the  am». 


ESTEPHANIA  DE  GANTELMES,  A  TALE  OF  THE  MIDDLE  AGES. 

Among  the  extraordinary  institu-  able  was  that  of  ^^  the  Courts  of 
tions  which  took  their  rise  from  the  Love."t  These  tribunals  were  com- 
modes of  thinking  prevalent  in  the  posed  of  females,  distinguished  by 
middle  ages,  not  the  least  remark-  their  rank  and  character,  to  whom 

*  William  Lithgow  t  his  book  (Travds,  &c.)  is  ill  and  pedantically  written  s  but  the 
account  of  his  own  miilbrings  on  the  rack  at  Malaga  is  overpoweringly  affecting. 

•f*  These  courts  (on  the  existence  of  which  some  doubts  had  been  cast  by  the  incredulity 
of  niodem  writers)  have  latdy  ezdted  the  curiosity  of  the  learned*  Some  light  haa 
been  gained  from  the  examination  of  a  work  written  by  one  Andrew,  chaplain  at  the 
Court  of  the  King  of  France,  whom  Fabridus  supposes  to  have  lived  about  1 170.  It  is 
in  MS.  in  the  king's  library  at  Paris,  8758  ;  and  there  have  been  three  impressions  of 
it.  Tlic  first  is  witliout  date ;  but  attributed  to  a  time  little  subsequent  to  the  inventioB 
of  printing.  The  second  is  entitled  Erotica  seu  Amatoria  Andrea;  CapeUani  Regii,  ve- 
tustissimi  scriptoris  ad  vencrandum  suum  amicum  Gualterum  scripts,  nunquam  antchac 
edita,  sed  saipius  a  multis  desiderata ;  nunc  tandem  fide  divenomm  MSS>  codicuinin 
publicum  emissa  a  Dethmaro  MuUero,  Dononundc,  typis  Westhovianis.  1610.  The 
third  edidon  is  dated  ^*  Tremonise,  tyyiB  Westhovianis,  anno  1614." 

The  librarian  of  Munich,  M.  Aretm,  has  availed  himself  of  the  information  derived 
fVom  Andrew's  book;  and  he  has  been  fiiUowed  by  M.  Reynouazd,  to  whoM  entertaining 
remarkson  the  subjeet  I  refer  my  reader.  They  are  oontauied  in  the  second  vdume  ai 
his  vahiable  w«icfc,  entitled,  Eztnits  dcs  TronUdom^  &«•  vam  ^UaihaaB%  tdeRSL  ^^m^ 
prmofDidoL 


98a            JistqihaiA  dt  Ckniebnes,  a  Tak  (f  the  Middle  Aget.  Z^d* 

the  most  tuce  and  difficult  questions  that  if  Thomas  of  Aquirtum  or  Al» 
relating  to  engagements  between  the  bertus  Magnus  could  have  been  sup- 
sexes  (of  course^  honourable  ones  posed  capable  of  entertaining  such  a 
only)  were  referred.  The  decisions  sentiment  for  an  enrthly  ol>ject,  he 
to  which  they  came  on  particular  need  scarcely  have  blushed  to  avow 
cases,  appear  to  have  been  diligently  it.  But,  above  aU  the  rest,  Amaud 
recorded,  and  a  code  of  laws  to  have  Daniel  was  her  favourite.  There  was 
been  filmed  upon  them,  which  served  in  his  writuigs  a  depth  and  mystoy 
to  regulate  the  intercourse  between  into  which  the  further  she  pene^ 
the  sexes  on  principles  so  extrava-  trated  the  more  there  appearcnl  re^ 
gantly  refined^  that  they  were  per-  maining  for  her  understanding  and 
haps  in  some  danger  oi  falling  mto  imagination  to  develope ;  and  sove- 
their  opposite  extreme.  To  these  reign  was  her  contempt  of  those  who 
enactments,  the  force  of  opinion^  to*  prdierred  to  him  the  melodious,  but 

£>ther  with  a  due  deference  to  the  comparatively  slight  and  snperficla}^ 

ir   legislators,  gave  as   much,  or  minstrel  of  liimoges.    One  of  those^ 

even  greater  authority  than  if  they  who  had  succeeded  these  illustrioui 

had  been  enforced  by  the  rude  arm  men,  and  even  imitated  them  with 

of  secular  power.    Queens  and  prin-  some  success,   Bertrand  d'  AUama^ 

cesses  had  sometimes  the  superin-  nor,  was  her  professed  admirer.   But 

tendence  over  these  seats  of  judica-  whatever  proficiency  he  had  made  in 

ture,  whose  frowns  were  a  sufficient  the  art,  he  was  very  unequal  in  this 

punishment  for  the  grossest  offiinces,  respect  to  Estephania  herself;  who, 

as  their  smUcs  were  an  adequate  re-  as  the  Monk  of  the  Golden  Ides  has 

ward  for  the  most  implicit  submis-  recorded  of  her,  whenever  she  was 

sion.   In  the  remoter  provinces,  how-  composing  in  Uie  strains  of  her  na* 

cver,  the  important  office  of  deter-  tive  language,  appeared  to  be  under 

mining  the  law  on  these  occasions,  the  influence  of  a  divine  fury  or  in« 

Of  of  providing  a  new  statute  when-  spiration. 

ever  a  case  to  render  it  necessary  oc-  Although  past  the  prime  of  life, 

curred,  was  not  un frequently  devolv-  Estephania  still  retained  much  of  her 

ed  on  females  of  a  station  somewhat  personal  charms.    In  one  instance, 

less  exalted.  mdeed,  time  had  even  added  to  their 

Estephania  de  Gantelmes  was  one  attractiveness,  inasmuch  as  there  was 

of  the  few  so  pre-eminent  in  the  best  in  her  eyes  ^that  rolled  like  the  two 

gifts  of  nature  and  fortune,  as  to  be  suns   at  which   '^  Persia  stands  at 

considered  worthy  of  presiding  over  gaze  ")  a  vivacity  and  splendour  that 

a  court  of  this  description,  composed  might    have  been    excessive,   when 

of  those  ladies   of  Provence,    who  united  to  the  tenderness  and  delicacy 

approached  nearest  to  her  in  birth  of  youth,  but  which  combined  well 

and  accomplishments.    In  her  retire-  with  the  mature  graces  of  more  ad- 

ment  at  the  Castle  of-  Romanin,  of  vanced  life.    There  was  one,  the  al- 

which    she    was    the  sole  and  un-  most  constant  companion  of  her  rc^ 

wedded  heiress,    she  had   long  dc-  treat  at  Romanin,  whose  beauty  was 

voted  her  attention  to  stu^s  that  still  in  the  freshness  of  it's  blossom, 

peculiarly  fitted  her  for  the  execution  Laura  de  Sades ; — l)ut  it  is  lumeces- 

of  her  important  and  arduous  duty,  sary,  as  it  woidd  be  vain,  to  attempt 

Not  only  the  long  and  intricate  talcs  a  description  of  the  Laura  whose 

of  Arthur  and  his  court,  in  the  Lin-  name  has  since  past  current  for  what- 

gua  d'oil,  or  French  language,   not  ever  is  most  lovely,  virtuous,  and 

only  the  historians,  fabulous  or  true,  dignified  in  woman.    Except  by  this 

who  had  recorded  in  Latin  the  ex-  favoured  beinff,  the  solitude  of  Este- 

Eloits  of  Charlemagne  and  his  peers,  phania  was  seldom  broken  hi  upon, 

ut  the  far  more  refined  and  subtle  save  by  a  learned  monk    from  the 

learning  to  be  derived  from  the  bards  neighbouring  convent,  to  whom  she 

of  her  own  country  (whom  she  held  wimngly  listened  while  he  was  dis- 

to  be  much  superior  to  their  recent  cussing  some  abstruse  question  out 

imitators  in  Italy)  were  perfectly  fa-  of  th^  schoolmen ;  or  by  some  youth- 

miKar  to  her.    These  last,  (the  poets  ful  troubadour,  whose  rising  talents 

of  her  own  land)  both  in  their  theory  she  delighted  to  encourage,  and  who 

and  practice,  as  she  tliought,  had  so  was  always  a  welcome  guest. 

MpinUiaHized   the    passion   of  love.  It  was  op   au  cvcnmg   towards 


1991.^        Bitephania  de  Oanidmes,  tf  Tak  tfiheMiddk  Aget.  SSI 

the  close  of  summer^  when  the  ejeB  her  befaig  dtappointed  of  the  afl^ 
of  Estephania  had    for  an   histant  ticns  of  her  other  lover ;  for  that,  fai 
wandered  from  a  copy  of  Amand  that  case,  she  would  certainly  bestow 
Daniel,  .spleTidhlly   illuminated    by  her  love  on  the  knight.    In  a  litde 
Oderi^i,  tnat  usually  lay  open  on  a  while    the  before-mentioned  lady  is 
table  in  the  long  gallery  of  the  cae-  married  to  her  favoured  lover.  There- 
tie,  that  her  notice  was  caught  by  upon,  the  knight  aforesaid  demands 
the  sight  of  two  men  on  horseback,  the  fidfilmcnt  of  the  hope  that  had 
in  the  garb  of  troubadours,  riding  been  given  him.    But,  on  the  other 
together  along  the  road  through  the  hand,  the  lady  as  strenuously  refuses 
olive  grounds  at  the  bottom  of  the  it,  asserting  that  she  had  not  been 
hill,  which  descended  rather  abrupt-  disappointed  of  the  affections  of  her 
ly  trom  the  castle  towards  the  town  lover. '*  Estephania  immediately  saw 
6£  St.  Remy.    They  seemed  by  their  the  magnitude  and  difficulty  of  the 
gestures  to  be  engaged  in  a  conver-  quesdon ;  and,  with  her  usual  cour- 
sation    that    was    maintained    with  tesy,  promised  to  summon  the  court 
much  warmth  on  both  sides ;  and,  in  with  all    speed  to  decide  upon  it. 
a  few  minutes,  as  they  drew  nearer.  She  did  not  attempt  to  detain  Lan- 
and  were  beginnhig  to  enter  the  vine-  franc  and  Perceval  under  her  roof  till 
yards  that  clothed  the  skirts  of  the  the  day  of  its  meeting ;  for  it  watf 
declivity,  she  discovered  the  persons  evident,  that  they  were  too  much  ir- 
of   Laiifranc  Cigalla,  and  Perceval  ritated  against  each  other  by  their 
Doria,  two  young  proven^als,  whom  diflference  to  remain  together  on  the 
she  respected  equally  for  their  pro-  footing  of  friends.      It  was  there- 
ficiency  in  the  tuneful  lore.     It  was  fore  settled,  that  they  should  return 
not  long  before  they  had  delivered  when  the  fair  synod  was  convened  to 
their  steeds  to  the  groom,  mounted  hear  and  to  determine  the  cause.  For 
the  flight  of  stairs  that  led  to  the  this  purpose,  letters  were  immediate- 
gallery,  and,  after  saluting  their  hos-  ly  issued  to  the  several  ladies  who 
tcss  and  her  niece,  declared  the  cause  composed  it ;  and,  in  the  mean  timcj 
of  their  visit.  the  mistress  of   Romanin  prepared 
It  ought  to  have  been  mentioned,  herself  carefiilly,  both  by  meditating 
that  in  the  courts  spoken  of  above,  on  the  merits  of  the  question  pro- 
not  only  disputes  arising  from  actual  posed,  and  by  searching  into  Hwvh 
embarrassments    were    settled,   but  precedents  and  authorities  as  would 
even  hypothetical  cases  were  solved,  in  any  way  tend  to  a  satisfactory  so- 
so  as  to  prevent,  as  much  as  possible,  lution  of  it.    On  the  evening  which 
all  doubt  for  the  future.    It  was  on  preceded  the  trial,  she  explained  to 
a  point  of  this  latter  kind,  that  the  Laura,  whose  youth  and  inexperience 
solemn  dccbion  of  Estcphania  and  had  kept  her  still  unacquainted  with 
her    assessors    was    now    earnestly  the  proceedings  of  the  tribunal,  both 
implored    by    the    two    proven^als.  the  nature  and  advantages  of  the  in« 
When  I  inform  my  readers  what  the  stitution.     ''  As  for  it  s  antiquity," 
subject   of  the  edtercation  between  said  she,    "  my  dear  niece,  it  may 
the  disputants  was,  he  will  probably  be  sufficient  to  tell  you  that  it  traces 
think  that  it  might  have  been  more  its  origin  as  far  back  as  the  days  of 
easily  terminated ;    but  nearly  five  King  Arthur.    A  knight  of  Brctapie 
hundred  years   have  since  elapsed,  having  plunged  into  a  forest,  in  tlie 
and  have  made  many  changes  in  the  hopes  of  meeting  with  that  prince, 
opinions  of  mankind.    The  question  chanced  upon  a  young  damsel,  who 
then   was  this :    <'  A  knight  being  addressed  nim  in  these  words.     '*  I 
captivated  by  a  certain  lady,  whose  know  what  it  is  thou  art  in  quest  of. 
affections    are  engaged  to   another.  Without  my  help  thou  wilt  seek  for 
obtains  from  her  a  hope  of  his  pas-  it  in  vain.    Thou  hast  demanded  the 
sion  being  returned,  in  the  event  of  love  of  a  lady  of  Bretagne,  and  she 


*  The  qnestion  is  thus  stated  in  the  original  Latin.  Dum  miles  quidam  muEcris  en- 
jusdam  li^iretur  amore,  quas  amore  altcrius  erat  obligata,  taster  ab  A  spcm  cat  oocueoii- 
tus  amoris,  quod  si  aliquando  contingeret  cam  sui  ooamantis  amore  frustiari,  tune 

Ers&to  militi  sine  dubio  suum  largiretor  amorem.  Post  roodid  autem  teropmja 
tpum,  mulier  jam  dicta  in  iixorcm  se  prsfuit  amatoru  Miles  vero  prafalu»  fs^ 
sibi  largitffi  fructum  po«tulat  exhibcri.  Mulier  autem  penitus  contradidt  asserens  w  sui 
coamantifl  non  esse  amore  firustratam. 


reffiiiree  of  thee  that  thou  bring  unto  it  then  possible,  that  by  acceptiBg  of 
her  the  famous  falcon  which  rests  on  him  as  a  husband  she  was  for  ever 
a  perch  in  Arthur's  court.  In  order  to  lose  him  as  a  lover  ?  The  thought 
to  make  thyself  master  of  this  bird,  was  too  painful  to  be  endured,  and 
thou  must  prove  by  thy  success  in  had  not  the  virgin  seemed  to  smile 
single  combat,  that  the  lady  is  more  upon  her  as  she  turned  up  her  beau- 
beautiful  than  any  of  those  of  whom  tiful  eyes  to  tlie  image  that  hung  at 
the  kniffhts  in  tliis  court  are  ena*  the  foot  of  her  bed,  she  would  pro* 
moured.  After  many  perilous  ad-  bably  have  found  some  difficulty  in 
ventures,  such  as  it  was  usual  to  en-  composing  them  to  rest.  It  was  not 
counter  in  those  days,  he  came  where  till  a  late  hour  that  the  lady  of  Ro^ 
the  falcon  was  seated  on  a  golden  maniii  closed  hers ;  so  intently  were 
perch  at  the  entrance  of  the  palace,  her  thoughts  employed  on  the  bu« 
and  immediately  laid  hands  on  it.  A  siness  that  awdited  her.  She  arose 
little  chain  of  gold  suspended  from  early,  and  having  repeated  her  devo- 
the  perch  a  written  paper.  It  was  tions  to  the  virgin,  dispatched  Laura 
the  code  of  love,  which  the  knight  to  collect  such  flowers  as  the  ad- 
was  to  take,  and  promulgate,  as  by  vanced  season  of  the  year  still  sup- 
the  king's  authority,  if  he  wished  to  plied,  for  decorating  the  hall  of  the 
retain  peaceable  possession  of  the  castle,  in  which  the  council  was  to 
bird.  The  code,  consisting  of  thirty-  be  held.  Amongst  the  reliques  of 
one  articles,  was  accordingly  pub-  the  summer,  she  did  not  neglect  to 
lished,  and  made  known  to  those  intersperse  those  precious  imitations 
whom  it  concerned,  in  all  parts  of  the  of  the  violet  and  the  eglantine  that 
world.  But  as  cases  have  since  been  had  been  adjudged  to  her  as  prizes 
continually  occurring,  which  require  for  her  skill  in  the  Gaya  Cieucia,  at 
either  a  proper  explanation  of  the  Toulouse. 

statutes  already  existing,  so  as  to  "VVlien  the  time  appointed  arrived, 
apply  them  to  tlie  point  in  debate,  or  the  ladies  who  constituted  the  Court 
else  the  enactment  of  some  new  one,  Plenary  were  successively  ushered  in. 
it  has  been  found  expedient  to  ap-  First  came  the  lovely  and  graccfiU 
point  courts  invested  with  due  now-  Marchioness  ofMalaspina,  now  un- 
era  for  this  purpose.  Of  one  of  these,  disturbed  mistress  of  that  family^ 
as  thou  well  knowest,  niece,  I  am  which  had  before  suffered  so  severely 
the  unworthy,  though  not  unwilling  in  the  struggles  between  the  Em- 
directress.  And  I  beseech  thee  most  peror  and  the  church.  The  JVfar- 
eamestly  to  join  with  me  in  imploring  chioness  of  Saluzzo  followed,  no  un- 
for  us  the  illuminating  aid  of  the  worthy  possessor  of  the  coronet  that 
Blessed  Virgin,  to  assist  us  in  per-  had  not  long  since  been  worn  by  the 
forming  the  duty  which  awaits  us  to-  much-enduring  Griselda.  Though 
morrow;  for  thou  knowest  I  am  used  with  less  pretensions,  yet  with  more 
ever  to  acknowledge,  in  the  words  of  haughty  mien,  came  the  comely  Ur- 
Amaud,  that  without  such  help  sine  des  Ursieres,  from  Montpelier. 

Nadi  contra  subcma—  ^^^   ^^^   ^«  reserved  and   tunid 

...       .    ,  ,       .  J  Laurette,   of  Sainct   Laurens;    and 

I  sad  against  the  wind.  ^g„  ^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^  ^,j^j^  ^^^  p^^^ 

Laura  expressed  her  readiness  to  sident,  made  up  the  stated  number  of 
join  heartily  in  the  supplication,  but  twelve.  They  had  no  sooner  taken 
without  assigning  the  reason  for  her  their  seats,  and  heard  an  explanation 
promptness.  The  truth  was,  that  of  the  business  on  which  they  were 
she  was  herself  more  interested  in  convoked,  than  Cigalla  and  Doria, 
its  success  than  she  would  have  been  who  had  been  some  time  waiting  in 
willing  to  own.  For  on  the  result  separate  apartments,  were  sunnnon- 
depended  the  most  important  mea-  ed  to  maintaui  their  respective  sides 
sure  of  her  own  life.  In  the  pre-  of  the  question  with  tlie  best  arL'u- 
ceding  spring,  young  Francesco  Pe-  ments  they  could.  This  tliey  did  in 
trarca  had  declared  his  passion  for  the  form  of  a  ienson,  a  species  of 
her,  and  urged  it,  though  not  in  the  poem  tliat  took  its  name  from  hciui; 
ttrains  of  her  own  country,  yet  irt  a  used  in  such  contentions.  One  party 
language  which  sounded  to  her  even  advanced  his  opinion,  in  a  set  mini- 
more  persuasive,  and  with  such  fcr-  ber  of  verses,  to  which  tlie  other  re- 
vour  as  left  her  in  as  little  doubt  of  joined  at  equal  length ;  and  this 
his  sincerity  as  of  his  genius.     Was  mode  of  attack  and  defence  was  con- 


iMl.tl        EitephankLd€Gm^idmia,aTakqfMJKUdUAgt$.  aM- 

tinued,  tillthe  subject^ortheoombat*  narrata  tnolter  pollicitum  prestet 
ants,  were  exhausted.  In  the  present  amorem."  **  We  oare  not  contravene 
instance,  the  contest  was  carried  on  the  sentence  of  the  Countess  of  Cham* 
with  an  earnestness  that  bordered  on  pagne,*  who  has  given  a  defini- 
acrimony:  reason  and  ridicule  were  tive  judgment  that  love  cannot 
pressed  into  the  service  of  the  disput-  exert  his  power  between  married  per- 
ants  by  turns ;  and  the  matter  sons ;  and,  therefore,  we  are  of  opi- 
seemed  to  hang  in  so  e<ptal  a  1)alance  nion  that  the  before-mentioned  lady 
that  it  was  doubted,  by  all  present,  is  bound  to  acquit  herself  of  the  pro-  . 
which  way  the  scale  would  tum^  mise  she  hath  made."  What  impres- 
when  Hugomie  de  Sabran,  daughter  sion  this  sentence  made  on  the  rest 
of  the  Count  of  Forcalquier,  who  had  of  the  assembly  is  very  immaterial 
for  some  time  been  occupied  in  look-  when  compared  with  the  effect  it  pr«^. 
ingfor  precedents  in  alarge  tome  of  an-  duced  on  poor  Laura.  In  her  bKast 
cient  statutes>  suddenly  raised  herself^  it  occasioned  a  revulsion  of  the  most 
and  whispered  something  in  the  ear  painfid  kind.  The  fond  hopes  she 
of  Estephania.  The  communication  had  lately  cherished  of  a  happy 
was  important  enough  to  cause  an  union  with  the  enamoured  Frances- 
immediate  suspension  of  the  debate^  co  were  for  ever  vanished.  ^'  Love 
and  an  order  for  all,  except  those  cannot  extend  its  power  between 
who  constituted  the  court,  to  with-  married  persons."  There  was  but 
draw.  In  a  little  more  than  half  an  one  course  left  for  her.  It  was,  not 
hour,  the  doors  were  again  opened ;  to  accept  the  hand  of  Petrarca,  and 
and  of  those  who  entered,  there  was  by  this  means  to  secure  to  herself  the 
not  one  (I  do  not  except  the  rivals  perpetual  possession  of  his  heart, 
themselves)  that  awaited  the  sen-  This  resolution,  however,  could  not 
tence  in  such  trembling  expectation  be  formed  without  a  severe  struggle, 
as  Laura  de  Sades.  As  soon  as  order  And,  while  the  numerous  guests  were 
had  been  re-established,  a  short  still  sharing  the  festivities  of  the  cas- 
pause  of  anxious  silence  ensued  ;  tie,  and  even  the  two  Proven9a]s,  for- 
when  the  lady  of  Romanin  solemnly  getting  their  animositv,  listened  to 
rose,  and,  holding  up  her  white  arm  the  high  discourse  of  its  mistress  on 
to  screen  her  eyes  from  the  light  the  sul^ect  of  their  common  art, 
shed  directly  on  them  through  the  Laura  had  stolen  away  unjicrceived 
gorgeous  hues  of  a  painted  window  to  her  couch,  and  sought  ui  sleep  an 
on  the  opposite  side  of  the  hall>  with  oblivion  of  what  had  past  It  is  an 
a  distinct  and  authoritative  voice  error  to  suppose  that  when  the  mind 
delivered  the  following  sentence,  is  under  the  pressure  of  very  severe 
which,  according  to  custom,  was  sorrow  it  is  not  disposed  to  seek  re- 
couched  in  the  language  of  ancient  lief  in  the  composition  of  verse.  The 
Rome :  "  Comitissa?  Campani©  ob-  contrary  is  much  oftener  the  case ; 
viarc  scntentite  non  audemus,  qtise  and  her  restless  spirits  turned,  as  it 
firmo  judicio  diffinivit  non  posse  in-  were  instinctively,  to  this  source  of 
ter  conjugatos  amorem  suas  exten-  consolation,  when  she  thus  gave  vent 
dere  vires,  ideoque  laudamus  ut  pre-  to  her  feelings : 

Come,  gentle  sleep,  come  to  these  eyes. 
And  wrap  them  up  in  rest ; 
And  let  tnis  heart,  that  inly  mourns. 
In  dreams,  at  least,  be  blest. 

But,  like  to  nothing  on  this  earth 
Let  the  sweet  vision  be ; 
Or  else  it  must  remembrance  bring 
Of  something  sad  to  me. 


*  The  judgment  of  the  Countess  of  Champagne,  here  referred  to,  was  as^^ollows : 
^^  Utruni  iutcr  conjugatob  amor  poseit  habere  locum  ?  Didmus  cnim  et  stabilito  tenore 
Hrmonius  amorem  non  posse  inter  duos  jugales  suas  extendere  vires,  nam  amantes  iSbi 
invicem  gratis  omnia  largiuntur,  nullius  necessitatis  ratione  cogcntc ;  jugales  vcro  mntuii 
tencntur  ex  debito  voluntatibua  obcdire  et  in  nullo  seipsof?  sibi  ad  invicem  dcnegare.  Hoc 
igitur  nostrum  judicium,  cum  nimia  moderatione  prolatum,  et  aliarum  quamplurimnm 
dominarum  consilio  roboratum,  pro  indubitabiu  vobis  sit  ac  vcritate  constantL  Ab 
anno  M.GLXXIV.  tertio  Kalend.  Maii,  indictione  VII. 


aOUUr,  mitfktr  Ki^fian^  QObLi 


Aiid  erery  string  that  chimed  beibrC) 
With  dlKonl  &ighta  me  itow. 
Then,  like  lo  nothing  on  this  earth 
Let  the  sweet  vision  be ; 
Or  else  it  must  remembrance  bring 
Of  Bomething  sad  to  ine. 

Scarce]  J  had  the  words  passed  her  pog»M»ion  of  her,  as  she  fancied  herJ 

SM  when  she   fell  into  the   desired  self  identified  with  the  lovely  female^ 

unil>er,  and,   at  the  wings  of  the  form  that  stood  before  her ;  and  her 

drowsy  god,  "  the  fairy  portraiture"  own  name,  mingling  with  the  sounds 

tim  had  asked  him  for  was   quickly  she  had  heard,   was  echoed  on  from 

displayed.     She  seemed  to  herself  to  spirit  to  spirit,  circulating  throughout 

be   led    on,  "  soft    sliding    without  the  planet  without  end. 

wLepi"  till   she   arrived  in   the  third  When     morning     came,       Laura 

heaven;    and   there  sounds  of  more  reflected   on    her   dream,    and    wna, 

eKquisite  sweetness  than  liad  ever  comforted.    She  retumeil  to  listen, 

berare  met  her  ear,  appeared  to  wel-  with  more  complBcenc-y  than  ever,  t9 

aome  her.     A  maiden,  m  a  violet-em-  the  praiiea  of  Amaud  Daniel.    WTiat 

brmdered  robe,  the  very  reflei  of  her  he   now    is,    thought   she,  my  own 

own  image,  was  receiving  a  branch  Francesco  Petrarca  will  one  day  be  ; 

of  laurel  fromthehands  of  astripling,  and,  perhaps,   thus  to  live  for   ever 

in  whose   features  she  discerned    a  with  him  as  his  Laura,  will  be  bctttf 

resemblance     of    Francesco's,     but  than  any  happiness  we  could  enjoy 

heightened  to  an  expression  of  sera*  together  in  that  state  "  over  which 

pbic  beauty.  love  cannot  eiert  its  power." 

__-,.,.                      _!_       .    .         .  Reader,  if  thou  couldst  ussLgn  any 

Ouwu Olio  cerCO  e  noD  rrtrovo  m  terrm :  •  ,..  \                        i_     x 

'  mitten   her  lover  to  sign   on  to  ths. 

with  many  other  fragments  of  songs,  last,    I  should   be  cmuenti'd  to  own 

to  the  same  import,   were  breathing  that  my  tale  was  in  port,  tliough  not 

from  his  lips.    A  giddy  rapture  took  wholly,  a  fiction. 


WITCHES,  AND  OTHER  NIQHT-PEABS. 

Wb  are  too  hasty  when  we  set  and  cattle  lamed — that  whirlwiuAa 

down  onr  ancestors  m  the  gross  for  uptore  in  diabolic  revelry  llu-  otibs  of 

fools,  for  the  monstrous  incunsisten-  the  forest — or   that  spit^  and  kettles 

ciei  (as  they  seem  to  us)  involved  in  only  danced  a  fearful -iunoceut  vuga-k 

their  creed  of  witchcraft.     In  the  re-  ry  about  some  rustic's  kitchen  when  ■' 

lations  of  this  visible  world  we  find  no  wind  was  stirring — werealleqitai*'- 

them  to  have  been  as  riitioiKil,  iuid  ly  prubabli:  wlaTr  no  law  of  iigcncv'* 

shrewd  to  detect  an  bisturic  unomaly,  was  uiuierslood.    That  the  princi 

as  onrselves.     But  when  once  tlie  the  powers  of  darkness,  passuij 

inviffible  world   was  supposed  to  be  the  Uower  and  pomp  of  the  e_, 

opened,  and  the  lawlesd  agency  of  should  lay  preposierotis  siege'tod 

bad  spirits  BiEumed,  what  measiires  weak   fantasy   of   indigent  eHJ^ 

of  probability,  of  decency,  of  fitness,  neither  likelihood   nor    «""■ 

or  proportion— of  that  wlikh  djstin-  a  priori  to  uh,  who  have  n 

guisfaes  the  likely  from  the  palpable  to  guess  at  hij  policy,  or  sL 

absurd— could  they  have   to  guide  estimate  what  rate  those  » 

them  in  the  rejection  or  admission  of  may  fetch  in  the  devil's  mar. . 

any  particular    testimony  ?  —  That  when  the  willed  are  exprMdv  ■! 

m^ens  pineil  away,  wasting  inward-  bolized  by  a  goht,  i —  ^  —  i-^-i 

ly  ai  thnr  waxen  images  consumed  dcrcdatsomui^h,  th 
hetart  a  fire— that  com  was  lodged, 

*  She  whom  1  KL-k,  bihI  find  not,  <u 
1 More  lovvly,  vul  leu  proud. 


1881.3  WUekei,  »nd  o&ir  NigU-fiart.  SSi 

his  meUphor.— That  the  intercoiirae  manage,  from  tho  Bkiution  whlcl 
waa  opened  at  all  between  boUi  the;  occupied  irpon  an  upper  sheliL 
worlds  wa<  perhaps  the  mlitakt—  I  I^tc  not  met  with  the  work  from 
but  that  onre  assumed,  I  see  no  rea-  thnt  time  to  this,  l>iit  I  rcmeml)er  it 
•on  for  dishulieviiig  one  attc^sted  story  consisted  of  Old  Testament  stories, 
of  this  nature  more  than  nnotiier  on  orderly  set  down,  with  the  ohJcctioK 
the  score  of  absurdity.  Thure  iti  no  appended  to  each  story,  and  the  *►- 
laiv  to  judg«  of  the  lawless,  or  canon  lution  of  the  objection  regularly  tack- 
by  which  a  dream  may  he  criticised.  ed  to  that.  The  nZ/jrvtim  was  a  sum- 
I  hare  Humetimeii  thouf;ht  that  I  mary  of  whaterer  difficulties  h«d 
could  not  have  existed  in  the  days  of  I>een  opposed  to  tlic  credibility  of  the 
received  witchcraft ;  that  I  could  not  history,  liy  the  ahrcwdiieas  of  ancient 
have  slept  in  a  Tillage  wlierc  one  of  or  moileru  infidelity,  drawn  up  with 
those  reputed  hags  dwelt.  Our  an-  an  almost  complimentary  excess  of 
cestor^  were  bolder  or  more  obtuse,  candour.  The  ivlutinn  was  brief. 
Amidst  the  universal  belief  that  these  modest,  auil  satisfactory.  The  bane 
wretches  were  in  league  with  the  au-  and  antidote  were  both  before  tou. 
thor  of  all  evil,  hoUlinR-  hcil  tributary  To  dnulite  so  put,  and  so  quashed^ 
to  their  muttering,  no  simple  Justice  there  seemed  to  lie  an  cikI  lor  ever. 
of  the  Peace  seems  to  have  scrupled  The  dra^ron  lay  dead,  for  the  foot  of 
issuing,  or  silly  Ileadborough  serving,  the  veriest  babe  to  trample  on.  But 
a  warrant  upon  tliem~as  if  they  — like  as  was  ratlier  feared  thaii 
should  subptena  Satan  ! — Prospero  realized  from  that  slain  monster  in 
in  his  boat,  with  his  books  and  wand  Spenser — from  the  womb  of  those 
about  him,  suffers  himself  to  be  con-  crushed  errors,  young  dragoncls 
veyed  away  at  the  mercy  of  his  ene-  would  creep,  eiceedhig  the  prowcM 
mies  to  au  unknown  island.  He  of  so  tender  a  Suint  George  as  myself 
might  have  raised  a  storm  or  two,  tnvainiuish.  The  habit  of  expecting 
we  thnik,  on  the  passage.  His  ac-  objections  to  every  possa^,  set  nie 
(luiesccncc  is  in  exact  analogy  to  the  upon  starting  more  ot^JL-ctions,  ftf 
tinn-resistaiicc  of  witches  to  the  con-  the  glory  of  finding  s  solution  of  mf 
Rtttuted  powers — Mtiat  stops  the  own  for  them.  J  became  staggered 
Fiend  in  Spenxer  from  tearing;  (iuyon  and  perplexed,  a  scepdc  in  bng  coatl. 
to  pieces -or  who  had  mnde  it  a  con-  The  pretty  IHlde  stories  wliidi  I 
ditioii  of  his  prey,  that  ( iuyini  must  hod  read,  or  heard  read  in  church, 
take  Oiisay  oi  the  glorious  Iwit — we  lost  their  purity  and  siiiccriiy  of  im> 
have  no  guess.  We  do  not  know  die  prusMon,  and  were  tunied  into  so 
laws  of  that  country.  many  historic  or  chronologic  thetea 
From  my  childiiood  I  was  ex-  to  be  defended  against  wtiatever  iiD< 
tremely  inijuisitivc  almut  witclies  and  pugners.  I  was  not  to  distielleve 
witch-stories.  Aly  maid,  and  more  them,  but~  the  next  tiling  to  tlut — I 
legendary  aimt,  supplied  me  witii  was  to  lie  quite  sure  that  some  one 
good  store.  But  I  snail  mention  the  or  other  wouhl,  or  bod  disbeJiered 
accident  which  directed  my  curiosity  tliem.  Next  to  Tnaking  a  cbiid  an 
originally  into  this  chanuel.  In  my  infidel,  is  the  leClinr  bim  know  that 
father's  boak-ckndt,  the  BUMJIhlkBii  we  infidets  at  So.  Crcdulitr  k 
the  lUbte.  \a  ffliiUM^^i^^^^^^BhiiVr  mfihuw  but  ibe  cfaild's 

If  tvuiiil  Scri)^ 

'-  moulb  iif  ti 

•boulil  buve 

?.  iukI  iiiiv(> 
such  uj,|i( 
"ffljriied. 


'SM                              imdiet,  and  other  NxghUfean.  [tkt. 

last  windows  next  the  steerage  in  to  my  drenim— if  dreams  they  were 

■that  tmique  piece  of  naval  architeo  —'for  tlie  scene  of  them  was  invari»> 

ture.      Staclutousc    was   henceforth  Uy  the  room  in  wliich  I  lay.    Had  I 

locked  up,  and  liccame  an  interdicted  never  met  with  the  picture,  the  feara 

treasure.    With  the  boolc,  the  ohjec-  would   have   come   self-pictured  in 

tuMu  and  tubitions  gradually  cleared  some  shape  or  other*— 

out  of  my  head,  and  have  seldom  re-  Headless  baff,  bUck-man,  or  ape— 

tumea  since  m  any  force  to  trouble  .   ^       .^                       .    ..       ^    •_ 

me.— But  there  wm  one  impression  ^"^  »» »*  wm,  my  imagmations  took 

•:>i»1iich  I  had  imbibed  from  Stack-  that  form.— It  u  not  book,  or  picture, 

house,  which  no  lock  or  bar  could  «..*'«  «*»"«»    "^ .  *»«1^  "ITS"*^ 

■shut  out,  and  winch  was  destined  to  "S^^  *"****  these terrorsm  chUdren. 

try  my  childish  nerves  rather  more  Th«y.«»  '^J^}^^rr^l^  ^^ t 

'fcrkmiy.-That  detestable  picture !  ^l^^-    P««f  '*"'*  ^-  ?:  *'"' .  ^ 

^    I  wai  dreadfiiUy  alive  to  nervous  «?  children  has  been  brought  up  with 

■terrors.      The  night-time   soUtnde,  *^   "°.*   "jrupulous   exclusion   of 

«nd  the  dait,  wm  my  helL    The  wcry  twnt  of  supersunon— who  waa 

.  Mfiering*  I  endui«d  in  this  nature  nwer.«llowed  to  hear  of  gobhn  or 

*  would  justify  the  expresrion.  I  never  appant»<»>.  «  scarcely  to  be  told  of 
laid  my  head  on  my  pillow,  I  sup-  5?.  '"*•"'  '^.  '"  '*I^J°^^T•*'^  ^5 
pose,  from  the  fourth  to  die  aevenS  '*J?V*""!?  '^'^T^^  "?  ^  ^"^ 
or  eighth  year  of  my  llfe-W)  fiir  as  *^  f^'  ''?"\  which  he  has  been  so 
neir^  serves  in  things  so  long  ago  fW^*?  excluded  oA  extra,  m  lus  own 
— irithout  an  assuranw,  whic?i«a.  l- '^-«^"?  .'f'^f  '     and  from 

!.  Ixed  its  own  prophecy,  of  seeingsome  '^,^'1*  midnight  pdlow,  this  nutse- 

frightfal  spectra    Be  old  BtacBiouse  ^  *^  opUmism  wdl  start  at  shapes, 

-  then  acquitted  in  part,  if  I  say  thAt  «nb»"»wed  of  tradiUon,  m  sweats  to 

•«•  his  THcture  of  the  Witch  raisW  up  ^^  *^  ^V*^  "^^  ceU-damned 

8anm«i-(0  that  old  man^covlreS  ««>«J^«  ««=  trannuilbty. 

with    a  mantle !)    I  owe-not  my  GofgO"**  «^  ^y%^>  «"*  Chi- 

oittidni^t  terrow,  the  hell  of  my  in-  ""'S  ^"^^"^  «f  Celicno  and 

offimcy^ut  the  shape  and  mamiw  of  ^  Harpieji-may  reproduce  thcm- 

,o|heir  visitation.      It    was  he    who  f'j'^K"'  *!»«  bram  of  superstition— 

«4li«ssed  up  for  me  a  hag  that  nightly  ^^  ^"^  'T^'*  *^  ***°'^-    ^  ^^ 

•ate  upon  my  pUlowla  suwW-  ^  transcripts,    types-the    arche- 

"Jittow   when  my  aunt  or  mr  maid  'TP**  ***  "•  "*»  and  eternal.    How 

-•■IMS  &r  from  i^.     An  «W  long,  *^  rfwuld  the  recitd  of  that,  which 

^  while  the  book  was  permitted  me,  I  7?             "^Z*  "^"^  f^ff  *"  ^ 

dreamed  waking  ov^^  delmeatiin,  ***'  **"*  "  '^^  "*  »*  *•'  ^-^' 

and  at 'Aiglit  (if  I  may  use  so  bold  an  '—— Names,  lAoae  senie  we  see  not, 

exprearion)  awoke  mto   sleep,  and  FMy  ns  with  things  that  be  not  ? 

*'"**.^ir^°"  ,f^    ^  ^'•"*  "?*•  I«  it  that  w«  naturally  conceive  ter- 

*  *r"  C.     K^  t*?^  *"**.  u"***  ^^^  ««•  finin  auch  objects,  considcted  in 

*  S^Jr'  ^Tl J  "TP^  irithout  my  their  capacity  of  betag  able  to  inflict 
2**  ^IT^j  u  '^•"^OTT'  "^??*'y  upon  us  bocUly  injurv  ?— O,  least  of 
fc»M  the  bed  whwemy  witch-iidden  aB!     These    terrors'  are   of  older 

ESr!^i.''**ir2lT2  ^^  "•*  *^^  standing.    They  date  beyond  body— 

whrt  they  do  when  they  leave  tender  or,  wiSout  the  body,   they  wotild 

55?  ta^e^x  *"u*"  ^•*P  ?.  **  !»«»«  been  the  same.    AU  the  crocl, 

dait.    fhe  fe^  about  for  »fri«id.to,nicnting,  defined  devils  in  Dante— 

'^L^Zr*  i?*"*  C*  •  ^"P'Uar  tearing,  mangling,  choking,  stifling,  , 

■  *T*~r™"  ^  ^"v*  ««•«*»?-  scorching  demon*-are  they  one  h5f 

!^M  Tl?**  "P^  theitt-.n4at  ao  fearfiS  to  the  spirit  of  a  man,  as  the 

***««  ™r "?»  ". »  *«  tbeir  poor  ^^ple  idea  of  a  spirit  unembodJed 

"HT^L  ^*  '^P^S^iJ'T  ."P  *^  following  hun- 

uidmght,  through  candle-light  and  ,  -i.         .u  .         i             _^ 

the  unwholesome  houw,  as  Siey  are  Jdj^"*,.*"*?"  *  ^f?^!^  "^ 

.*«il«j      .»^.Li    ¥ -.-^     '-.%  j^-  Doth  walk  in  few  and  dnaul, 

^S~^^  '•  "  satisfied,  in  a  And  having  co»  tum'd  xonnd,  walks  on, 

nedicalpoiiit  «J  Tiew,  prove  the  bet-  And  turnTno  more  hU  h«id ; 

tcr   4»iitioib— Ihat  detestable    pic-  Bccanac  he  kntnro  a  frightfid  fiend 

ture,  as  I  hare  laidy  gare  the  &^on  Dbth  da»e  bdand  him  tread  « 


imn.2  WUehesy  and  other  Nighi-fean.  38r 

That  the  kind  of  fear  here  treated  to  solace  hi8  night  soUtude^— when 

of  is  purely  spuitual-s-that  it  ifl  strong  I  cannot  muster  a  fiddle.     Banj 

in  proportion  as  it  is  objectless  upon  Cornwall    has   his   tritons  and  his 

earth — that  it  predominates  in  the  nereids  gamboling  before  him  in  noc- 

period  of  sinless  infancy — are  diffi-  tumal  visions^  and  proclaiming  sons 

culties^  the  solution  of  whidi  might  bom  to  Neptune — when  my  stretch 

afford  some  probable  insight  into  our  of  ima^auTe  -activity  can  hardly, 

ante-mundane  condition,  and  a  peep  in  the  night  season,  raise  up  the  ghost 

at  least  into  the  shadow-land  of  pre-  of  a  fish-wife.    To  set  my  fiiilures  In 

existence.  somewhat  a  mortifying  light — it  was 

My  night-fancies  have  long  ceased  after  reading  the  noble  Dream  of 
to  be  afmctive.  I  confess  an  occa-  this  poet,  that  my  Hwcy  ran  stroog 
sional  night-mare ;  but  I  do  not,  as  upon  these  marine  Spectra ;  and  the 
in  early  youth,  keep  a  stud  of  them,  poor  plastic  power,  such  .as  it  i0> 
Fiendish  faces,  with  the  extinguished  within  me  set  to  work,  to  humour 
taper,  wiD  come  and  look  at  me  ;  my  folly  in  a  sort  of  dream  that  very 
but  I  know  them  for  mockeries,  even  night.  Methought  I  was  upon  the 
while  I  cannot  elude  their  presence,  ocean  billows  at  some  sea  uuptiak, 
and  I  fight  and  jsrapple  with  them,  riding  and  mounted  high,  with  the 
For  the  credit  of  mv  imaguiation,  I  customary  tr^  sounding  thdr  concha 
am  almost  ashamed  to  say  how  before  me,  (I  myself  you  may  be 
tame  and  prosuc  my  dreams  are  sure,  the  leading  god,)  and  jollily  we 
grown.  They  are  never  romantic,-—  went  careering  over  the  main,  till 
seldom  even  ruraL  They  are  of  Just  where  Ino  Leucothea  should 
architecture  and  of  buildings— cities  nave  greeted  me  (I  think  it  was  Ino) 
abroad,  which  I  have  never  seen,  with  a  white  embrace,  the  billows 
and  hardly  have  hope  to  see.  I  have  gradually  subsidmg,  fell  from  a  sea^ 
traversed,  for  the  seeming  lengdi  of  roughness  to  a  seancalm,  and  thenoe 
a  natural  day,  Rome,  Amsterdam,  to  a  riven-motion,  and  that  river  (as 
,  Paris,  Lisbon — ^their  churches,  pa-  happens  In  the  familiarization  .of 
laces,  squares,  market-places,  shops,  dreams)  was  no  other  than  the  gentle 
suburbs,  ruins,  with  an  inexpres*  Thames,  which  landed  me,  m  the 
sible  sense  of  delight-— a  map-like  wafture  of  a  placid  wave  or  two^ 
distinctness  of  trace — and  a  day-  safe  and  inglorious  somewhere  at  the 
light  vividness  of  vision,  that  was  all  foot  of  Lambeth  palace, 
but  being  aw£^.  I  have  travelled  The  degree  of  the  soul's  creative- 
among  tne  Westmoreland  fells — ^my  ness  in  slee^  might  furnish  no  whim- 
highest  Alps, — ^but  they  were  objects  sical  critonon  of  the  c^uantum  of 
too  mighty  for  thie  grasp  of  my  poetical  faculty  resident  m  the  same 
dreamhig  recognition ;  and  I  have  soul  waking.  An  old  geutienian,  a 
again  and  again  awolro  with  inefiec-  friend  of  mine,  'and  a  humourist, 
,tual  struggl&i  of  the  ^'  inner  eye,"  used  to  carry  this  notion  so  far,  that 
to  make  out  a  shape  in  any  way  when  he  saw  an^  stripline  of  his  ae« 
whatever,  of  Helvellyn.  Methought  quaintance  ambitious  of  becoming  a 
I  was  in  Uiat  country,  but  the  moun-  poet,  his  first  question  would  bey- 
tains  were  gone.  The  poverty  of  *'  Young  man,  what  sort  of  dreama 
my  dreams  mortifies  me.  There  is  have  you  ?  "  I  have  so  much  faith 
C  ■  ■,  at  his  will  can  conjure  up  icy  iu  my  old  friend's  theory,  that  when 
domes,  and  pleasure-houses  for  luibla  1  feel  that  idle  vein  returning  upon 
Khan,  and  Abyssinian  maids,  and  me,  I  presendy  subside  into  mv  pro- 
songs  of  Abara,  and  caverns,  per  element  of  prose,  remembering 

„^      ^ ,  ,     ,  ^  .  those  eluduig  nereids,  and  that  iomis« 

Where  Alph^  the  sacred  wrery  nms,  |Hcious  inland  laudmg. 


'2V^ 


9m  Ldiurf  ffowr§.  [[Otf. 

LBISURS  HOURa 
No.  XI. 

THB  BATTL9  OF  THB  FE0G8  AMD  MICK^ 

In  a  new  Ttwulatkm. 

•  Thx  iite'>Mite  of  mmue  nndfrog 
Is  told,  betide  a  plash  j.  bog. 

An  inyitation  from  the  latter 
Is  treated  as  a  serioos  matter. 
The  mouse  declares  hhnself  not  able 
To  dme  at  sub-aquadc  table: 

•  Then,  in  di^ssion,  cracks  of  scars. 
And  sonethmg  learnt  when  in  the  wars: 
But  still,  the  burden  of  his  ballad 

Is  his  antipathy  to  sallad. 

The  Jrog,  with  something  of  a  sneer. 

Talks  more  of  sights,  and  less  of  dieerr 

Persuades  him  mount  on  pick-a-back. 

Then  frighted,  throws  him  like  a  sack. 

The  mouse,  thus  soused  amidst  Uie  gutters, 

A  proi^ecj,  as  usual,  gutters : 

The  mice  put  out  a  manifesto. 

And  follow  with  their  army  presto. 

The  Gods  debate  above  the  sky. 

But  TVoy  experience  makes  them  shy. 

The  Poet,  with  Dan -Homer  vying. 

Excels  in  anatomic  dying. 

The  islanders  in  sedges  lurk ; 

The  land-folks  march  to  play  the  Turk: 

When  Jupiter  sends  down  fifom  high 

A  sort  of  Muscovite  ally : 

The  mi»,  though  each  se  bene  gerens. 

Respect  the  holy  interference. 


Eas  I  begin,  I  imrocate,  as  meet. 
The  Muses ;  all  ye  Nine  at  once  retreat 
From  Helicon,  and  make  my  breast  your  seat. 
For  my  song's  sake,  on  knee-propp'd  tablets  penn'd. 
War's  stirring  deeds,  and  strife  without  an  end. 
Wide  to  all  mranan  ears  would  I  convey 
How  mice,  by  frogs  confronted,  fought  away : 
Rivals  of  those^  in  legends  known  of  man. 
Giants  earth-bom  ^— ih'  adventure  thus  began. 

A  mouse,  but  lust  eaeuped  the -jeopardy 
Of  a  fleet  weazel  s  gripe,  now  hot  and  dry, 
Stoop'd'to  a  neighbouring  pool  his  velvet  chin. 
And  suck'd  the  honied  water  gladly  in.^ 
A  merry  marsh-man  spiedium,  and  with  croak 
Of  many  tongues,  inquintively  spoke : 
"  Strange  Sir  I  who  are  you  ?  whence  ?  your  birth  and  state? 
Speak  the  whole  truth,  nor^yet  prevaricate : 
And  if  I  find  you  urorth  my  friendship,  come — 
You  are  my  guest,  and  yoil  shall  feast  at  home. 


f9^l.'2  BsHle  of  Mtf  Frogt  tmd  Mi€9. 

Puff-cheeh  am  I^  sole  monarch  of  these  bog^*^ 

Supreme  o'er  all  the  commonwealth  of  frogs : 

To  Lvrk'tJi'inud,  my  sibe^  my  birttt  I  owe^ 

With  Marsh'-queen  wedding  on  the  banks  of  Po : 

And  you^  too^  seem  a  gallant  without  peers ; 

Some  scepter'd  autocrat,  or  chief  of  spears : 

Name  then  your  race ;  impatient  I  attend." 

The  mouse  replied,  ''  3ut  why  this  question,  friend  ? 

Known  is  my  line  to  men  and  gods  on  high. 

Nor  less  to  birds  that  wing  around  the  sky. 

Crumlh-caicher  I ;  from  NMle-^rust  I  spring 

And  Lick'ineal,  daughter  she  of  Biie^ai-heel  the  king : 

She  bore  me  in  a  cottage  ;  fed  me  there 

With  figs  and  nuts ;  variety  of  fare; 

Can  we  be  friends,  in  instinct  so  unlike  ? 

You  live,  good  friend,  and  diet,  in  a  dike. 

On  food  which  men  are  fed  upon  I've  fed ; 

No  basket  'scapes  me,  piled  with  twice-baked  bread  ; 

No  cheese*cake«,  coated  thick,  and  stuff 'd  with  spice ; 

No  liver  napkin- wrapp'd,  or  gammon  sHce ; 

Cheese  newly  prest  from  cream,  or  honied  piiute. 

Which  ev'n  the  gods  are  languishing  to  taste : 

All  that  ibr  men  the  ciHmmg  cook  invents. 

His  dish'd-up  kick-shaws  and  nice  condiments. 

Yet  not  for  tnis  to  fight  I  turn  my  back,  ^ 

But  in  the  van  push  foremost  to  th'  attack : 

Fearless  of  man,  all  giant  though  he  be. 

His  bed  invading,  when  he  nought  can  see, 

I  gnaw  his  finffer,  nibble  at  his  heel ; 

So  sound  his  steep,  no  torment  can  he  feeL  - 

Of  all  on  earth,  with  candour  be  it  said. 

Two  only  live  my  sorrow  and  my  dread  ; 

Weazel  and  hawk :  and  ah !  die  treacherous  gin. 

The  bait  without,  and  groans  and  death  within : 

But  worst  the  weazel ;  formidablest  found ; 

Whose  clutch  pursues  and  ferrets  under  ground. 

This  let  me  waive ;  but,  for  your  bowd^  1  fee 

Gourd,  radish,  colewor^  is  na  dish  for  me : 

Parsley  and  leek,  your  dainties,  are  not  mine ; 

But  thus  you  citizens  of  marshes  dine." 

Then  answcr'd  Puff'-^heek,  laughing  in  his  sleeve;, 
'*  Strange  Sir,  this  lielly-glory  1  conceive 
Is  over-nice :  but  we  can  feast  your  eves 
On  marsh  and  land  with  store  df  rarities. 
Jove,  to  us  frogs  a  twi-lived  forase  gave ; 
We  hop  on  land,  or  skulk  beneath  the  wave. 
And  lodge  on  ground,  in  water,  as  we  please ;  ^ 

Make  but  the  trial ;  'twill  be  made  witn  ease; 
Mount  on  mv  back ;  but  lest  you  slip,  hold  fast; 
And  safe  and  sound  you'U  reach  my  home  at  last*** 
He  lent  his  back  ;  the  mouse  adroitly  leapt 
Into  the  saddle^seat,  and  olhiging  kept 
Hold  of  his  satin  neck;  then  bHthe  away  J 
With  passing  proroeot  of  each  neighbouring  bay*: 
Pleased  with  tne  plying  frog^s  still  mernr  stroke 
At  first— -But  soon  the  dun  waves  o'er  him  broke: 
With  brim-full  eyes,  repenting  him  too  late. 
He  pluck'd  his  hair,  and  grieved  disconsolate  ; 
Close  to  his  belly  drew  hli  hinder  feet. 
And  felt  the  heart  withhi  fafan  bound  and  beat ; 
With  novel  fear  insisted  for  the  shore. 
And  fetch'd  a  sigh  that  shiver'd  bun  all  o'er. 


no.  BaHU  tf  thg  Frogi  and  Biiix.  C^cU 

Sudden  a  waternniake,  a  fight  of  dread 
To  bothy  abore  the  waters  rear'd  his  head : 
Straight  at  that  sk^t  dived  Pt^^^heek,  and  foigot 
He  left  hia  comrade  to  a  shipwrecked  lot: 
Sunk  to  the  bottom  of  the  pool  he  lay, 
Skulk'd  from  the  dinnal  death,  and  dodged  away. 
Th'  abandoned  mouse  fell  flat  upon  the  stream. 
His  paws  he  wrung,  and  utter'a  many  a  scream  ; 
Once  and  a^^ain  he  Dobb'd  beneath  the  tide. 
Again  his  tmy  heels  ememng  plied; 
But  'twas  not  hb  to  daft  ms  death  aside. 
Yet  stiff  with  oar-like  tail  he  stemm'd  the  surge. 
And  prajr'd  the  Gods  to  reach  some  haven's  verge  ; 
About  him  the  dun  waters  splash'd  and  broke ; 
And,  much  exdainunff,  open-mouth'd  he  spoke : 
"  Not  so  the  bull  love  s  gentle  burthen  bore. 
Wafting  Europa  to  the  Cretan  shore. 
As  this  false  firog  has  feign'd  to  bear  me  home, 
Hispale  paunch  floating  on  the  whitenine  foam." 

Then,  as  the  watery  weight  his  drench  d  hairs  drew, 
''  Thy  deed  of  mischief  Jn^jff^heelc  I  thou  shalt  rue  ! 
Me  hast  thou  wreck'd,  as  dash'd  frt>m  off  a  rock : 
On  shore,  thou  vile  one !  I  had  braved  thy  mock : 
Thy  match  in  running,  wrestling,  boxing  I, 
But  thou  hast  lured  me  'midst  tne  deeps  to  die. 
Jove  has  a  vengeful  eye,  and  shall  repay : 
The  army  of  the  mice  is  on  its  way. 
Nor  shalt  thou  aca:pe  "—then  sank  beneath  the  tide. 
Him  Uch-diih  from  the  bank's  soft  mire  espied  ; 
Swift  messenger  of  death,  with  piteous  wau 
He  ran,  he  sought  the  mice,  he  told  the  tale. 
The  death  once  Imown,  grate  anger  seized  on  all ; 
The  herald-summon'd  coundl  throng'd  the  hall 
Of  Nibble-^ruit,  by  day-break's  earliest  ray ; 
Sire  of  the  mouse  who  in  the  marshes  lay. 
Not  nigh  the  banks,  unhappy  I  now;  was  he 
Stretcad  fla^  and  floating  m  that  midmost  sea. 
At  dawn  thej  haste  ;  when  NibbU'crvst  first  broke 
The  silence,  for  his  son  incensed,  and  spoke : 
'^  Oh  fiiends !  though  singly  I  these  injuries  bear. 
The  fit>gs  for  all  a  common  death  prepare. 
But  a  peculiar  wretchedness  to  me 
Is  dealt  by  frite,  who  mourn  the  loss  of  three. 
The  first  an  odious  weazel  snatch'd  away. 
Who  just  without  the  hole  in  ambush  lay : 
A  second  ruthless  man  to  death  betray'd. 
For  ^dth  new  arts  a  wooden  snare  he  laid, 
Tclep'd  a  trap,  to  mice  destructive  found : 
The  third,  his  mother^s  darling,  Puff^-cheek  drown'd. 
Come — ^let  us  arm  ;  the  camp  of  irosn  assail. 
And  sheathe  our  bodies  in  compacted  mail." 

He  spoke,  and  all  were  moved  to  arm,  and  Mars 
Marshall'd  the  host,  whose  mind  is  in  the  wars. 
Their  legs  in  daftly  fiurbish'd  maves  were  dight. 
Of  splitted  beiui-pods^  nibbled  yesternight ; 
Their  coat  of  road  a  weazjU's  strand-braced  hide ; 
A  lamp's  mid-boss  their  oval  shield  supplied ; 
Their  lance  a  needle,  lengthened  out  to  wound, 
A  walnut-shell  the  helm,  that  dasp'd  their  temples  round. 
So  were  they  arm'd :  advised,  the  marshy  state 
Emerge,  and,  met  in  martial  high  debate^ 


18SI.3  BaUle  of  ilu  Frogt  md  Mice.,  3$l 

Deliberate  whcnoe  the  threat'iiing  moremeiit  grew; 
"When  near^  his  staff  ih  hand,  a  herald  drew : 
Cheue^scraper  he ;  great  Pipkith-creeper's  son  ; 
HI  harbinger  of  war,  he  thus  begun : 

"  O  frogs !'  the  mice  have  sent  me  to  defy 
Your  host ;  arm,  arm  for  fight ;  their  power  is  nigh* 
For  they  have  seen  Crumlh^atcher't  floating  corse. 
Whom  your  king  Pujff'^heek  murder'd  satu  remorse : 
But  fightr— whatever  frogs  of  fame  ye  boast. 
The  war  will  task  the  bravest  of  your  host." 

His  errand  told,  the  doughty  frogs  with  fear 
Quaked,  that  the  news  haa  reach'd  the  mouse's  ear: 
Blame  murm'ring  ran  around ;  when  Puff'-cheek  rose : 
"  Not  I,  my  friends,  contrived  the  waves  to  close 
Above  the  mouse,  nor  I  beheld  him  sink : 
Doubtless  he  ventured  from  the  marsh's  brink 
To  swini  in  frog-like  sport,  and  perish'd  spent; 
These  vile-ones  now  accuse  me  mnocent 
But  time  now  presses — better  we  debate 
How  these  disloyal  mice  t'  exterminate : 
What  to  my  thought  seems  fitting  let  me  say : 
Take  we  our  weapons,  and  our  ranks  array 
Close  on  the  borders  of  the  lake,  where  steep 
The  craggy  bank  impends  above  the  deep. 
Stand  we  their  charge ;  then,  grappled  by  the  cone. 
Helm,  mouse,  and  sA  in  the  swamp  headlong  thrown 
Must  sink  or  swim :  but  novices  in  water. 
They  needs  must  drown;  then  ioy!— a  trophy  of  mouse-slaughter." 

He  said,  and  arm'd  them  all :  of  mallows'  leaves 
They  fitted  to  their  legs  the  casing  greaves : 
The  broad  green  beet  to  each  a  corslet  vields  ; 
The  cabbage  leaf  accomplishes  their  shields ; 
£ach  for  his  lance  a  shaipen'd  bulrush  wields : 
With  cockle-shells  they  fenced  their  brows,  and  stood 
Shaking  their  spears  in  ^een  above  the  hjgh-bank'd  flood. 

Jove  to  his  starry  court  convened  eadi  Crod> 
And  show'd  the  hosts;  how  stout  the  warriors  trod: 
Many  and  huge,  and  each  wiUi  lengdieidng  lance^ 
As  centaurs  'gainst  the  giant  ranks  adraiiee. 
With  gentle  smile,  ''  now  what  immortals  aid 
The  froffs,  and  what  the  mice?"  then  to  the  blue-eyed  maid  ; 
*'  Ho !  daughter !  is  the  mice's  quarrel  thine. 
Who  scour  thy  temple-floor,  and  sniff  thy  fuming  shrine  ?  " 
Thus  question'd  Jove^  and  thus  Mfaierva  said : 
**  Father !  not  I — howe'er  the  mice  have  sped — 
Shall  lend  my  succour :  mischief  on  their  moil ! 
They  ^paw  my  chaplets,  filch  my  lamps  of  <nl ; 
But  this  thehr  deed  most  grieves  me  to  the  heart,    ' 
Fretting  a  robe  in  holeSj  just  wov'n  with  all  my  art. 
The  weaver  duns  me  for  the  vam  he  lent : 
I  wove  on  tick ;  and  now,  this  ugly  rent 
Marring  my  work,  he  claims  arrears ;  nor  yet       *■ 
Can  I  ms  clamour  satidy,  or  debt.  ' 
But  neither  with  the  fro^  I  mean  to  side  ; 
Still  booby-pated,  imd  their  wits  Betide : 
Ketuminff  weary  from  the  toils  of  flffht, 
Longinff  for  sleep,  their  hubbub  crou  in  spite '' 
AUow'd  me  not  a  wink ;  I  wakeful  lay 
AVith  head-ache,  till  the  cock-crow  brought  the  day. 
Enough — but  let  not  us^ye  Gods !  be  found 
Mix'd  in  the  fray,  lest  some  untoward  wound 


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M  BaHit  of  the  Frog$  and  Mice.  C^t. 

From  their  sharp  weapons  reach  us  for  our  pains^ 
Lance  in  the  breast,  or  falchion  in  the  reins : 
Though  Gods  should  interfere,  they  charge  pell-mell. 
And  all  from  Heaven  can  sec  the  fight  as  weU." 

She  said  ;  and  all  the  Gods  persuaded  went 
To  one  safe  spot  above  the  iinoiameiit. 
Forth  strode  the  heralds  with  the  battle-sign  ; 
Gnat-trumpeters  from  either  hostile  line 
Soimded  the  clang  of  war,  and  Jove  on  high 
In  thunder  gave  the  signal  from  the  sky. 

First  Shriil-crtMih  wounded  Lick^gjni  in  the  van ; 
Sheer  throuffh  the  stomadi,  thwart  the  liver,  ran 
The  pofaited  lance ;  he  fell  and  soil'd  his  locks  ; 
His  annour  ringing  with  the  sudden  knocks. 
Then  Cranny-Creeper  put  his  spear  in  rest. 
And  firmlv  planted  it  in  Mttd^urk's  breast ; 
Death  with  black  shadows  featens  o'er  his  eyes: 
The  fluttering  soul  from  out  the  body  flies. 
Beet'Caier  sudden  Pipkin-creeper  slew  ; 
Clean  through  the  heart  the  griding  weapon  flew : 
But  Gnatu-Joaf  emote  on  Croak-itmgue's  paunch :  reclined 
He  dropp'd  ;  the  spirit  left  the  limbs  behind. 
When  JHUhe-hi-pool  saw  Croak^iongnet  faH,  he  threw 
At  Cramnif^creep  a  mill-stone'^smote  in  two 
His  neck  ;  and  darkness  o'er  lus  eyeballs  grew. 
Then  Lick-board  levelling  his  spear  of  flame 
The  liver  pierc'd,  nor  wandereu  from  his  aim. 
This  soon  as  Cabbage^ropper  saw,  he  plimged 
Down  from  the  bank ;  but  his  pursuer  lunged 
A  stroke  and  reach'd  him,  ere  he  dived,  with  death; 
Smitten  he  dropp'd  and  gasp'd  away  his  breath : 
The  marsh  was  purpled  with  his  clotted  blood ; 
fie  lay  outstretciied  upon  the  shory  mud. 
The  glossy  entrails  gushing  from  his  flank  : 
But  Haunt'pool  slew  Cheene^ratper  on  the  bank. 
Then  iHin^HMler,  who  Gnaw^tke^'heel  espied. 
Sprang  in  the  marsh,  and  cast  his  riiiela  aside. 
But  Waier-biklk  mole  Bite^at-heel  the  kmg 
Full  on  the  frosty  with  stone  as  from  a  sling : 
The  brain  forth  spattering  through  the  nostrils  gush'd  ; 
With  the  splash'd  gore  the  dabl&d  greensward  blush'd. 
Lick-platter  next  brave  Mnd^leeper  assail'd 
With  thrusting  sword:  his  eres  a  darkneas  veil'd. 
This  Garliek'UUer  tpied,  «aa  ffunt-the^eam 
Foot-draufd,  neck-chitch'd,  plunged  stifling  in  the  stream. 
To  right  ms  comrades  Cmml^tnaieher  advanced. 
And  Garlic-eaier  through  his  liver  lanced : 
Before  him  instant  at  his  feet  he  feU  ; 
The  disembodied  spnit  rush'd  to  hell. 
Mud-treader  saw :  k  grasp  of  mire  he  threw. 
His  forehead  smirch'd  and  darkened  half  his  view. 
Wroth  was  the  mouse ;  and  stooping  strong  to  wield 
A  cumbrous  stone,  whose  weight  o'erlaid  the  field. 
Smote  Mud-treader  beneath  the  knee  :  he  sank. 
The  right  leg  fractured,  on  the  dusty  bank. 
But  Hoarse-croak  came,  avenger  pf  the  deed. 
And  through  hu  bellv  thrust  ms  sharpen'd  reed : 
Clean  pass  d  the  buned  shaft,  and  when  drawn  out 
The  entrails  gush'd  upon  the  earth  about 
This  Corn-munch  from  th^flrer-bank  espied. 
And  limped  from  out  the  fight,  sore-terrifiwl. 
And  Icap'd  iuto  a  ditch,  where  safe  he  might  abide. 


18S1.;]  Bank  of  the  Ff9gi  4md  Mice.  999 

Loaf-rasper  then  the  toe  of  Pvff-ckeek  smote  ; 

Smarting  he  fled,  and  flounder  d  In  the  moat. 

Loaf-ratper  saw  him  prostrate,  rasping  lie. 

And  for  the  death-wound  press'd  exultmg  nigh. 

Ilim  too  thus  prostrate-ffasping  Garlie^fid 

Saw,  gain'd  the  Tan,  his  hulnisn  javelin  sped. 

But  broke  not  Loaf -rasp's  shield;  which  caught  the  ^ary  liead* 

Then  Manoram-cropperi  like  the  Qod  of  war. 

Smote  on  his  helm,  strait  aiming  from  afar  ; 

Who  fought  unmatch'd  in  all  the  line  of  frogs. 

But,  charged  by  hero  mice,  retreated  to  the  bog8« 

One  youth  there  was,  no  other  mouse  his  peer, 

Loaf-watehers  *)n,  who  do^d  with  shorten'd  spear; 

Scrap-snatch  the  brave ;  a  Mars,  not  mouse,  was  he; 

Unmatch'd  in  all  the  whisker'd  chivalry. 

He  stood  with  lofty  threat  beside  the  bogs. 

And  swore  t'  exterminate  the  race  of  frogs : 

And  he  had  kept  his  vow  ;  shice  great  his  might ; 

But  that  the  sire  of  gods  and  men  that  sight 

Endured  not;  pitying  the  doom'd  frogs  he  spoke : 

Shook  first  his  head,  and  then  the  silence  broke : 

'^  Grods !  what  a  thing  I  see !  hear  Scrtp^snatch  boast, 

Souching  me  near)  to  crush  the  froggy  host, 
ick,  send  we  Mars,  and  Pallas,  wiu  her  shout, 
I'o  turn  him  back,  howe'er  a  warrior  stout" 
Jove  said — *'  O  Saturn's  son !"  thus  Mars  replied, 
**  My  own,  Muierva's  force  were  vainly  tried. 
From  the  frog-ranks  to  turn  the  ruin  back ; 
Nay — ^let  us  all  auziliar  stem  th'  attack : 
Shfdce  thou  the  Titan-murde!ring  weapon  dread 
That  flash'd  o'er  Capaneufl'  audacious  head 
And  quail'd  the  giant  brood :  shake,  shake  the  brand. 
And  let  the  most  herdc  feel  thy  hand." 

He  spoke ;  Jove  huri'd  the  blazing  lightning  down : 
But  first  his  thunder  shook  Olympus'  crown : 
Then,  as  the  peals  their  **  dreadful  pudder,"  kept. 
From  the  long's  hand  the  whirling  flashes  swept : 
Darting  the  1^1 1,  he  seem'd  to  thiiliduu4trike 
Both  mice  and  frogs,  and  both  he'scaufsd  alike : 
Yet,  not  for  this  the  mice  retreated  firom  the  dike. 
But  hotlier  press'd  t'  extirpate  from  the  bog 
The  generation  of  the  warrior  firog. 
Jove  with  compassion  looking  from  his  skies. 
Quick  interposed,  and  sent  the  frogs  allies. 
On  they  came  sudden :  anvU-back  d,  hook-daw'd, 
Step-sidlinff,  pincer^mouth'd,  loins  brawny  and  broad. 
Shell-hided,  eye*distorCcd,  looking  out 
Under  their  breasts,  with  legs  (Jiat  twist  about. 
And  stretching,  griping  hands :  their  feet  divide 
In  two  quaternion  rolvson  either  side : 
Their  shoulders  bumish'd,  flesh  and  substance  bone : 
With  donble  heads  and  tangible  by  none. 
Crabs  was  their  name :  with  clippers  they  assail 
Of  many  a  mouse,  the  fore-foot,  nind-foot,  tail ; 
The  spears  wcr^  tum'd  against  their  shelly  mail. 
The  hapless  mice  were  seized  with  panic  night. 
Nor  longer  stood,  but  tum'd  themselves  to  flight. 
Now  dropp'd  the  setting  sun  ;-— his  down wara  ray 
Closed  the  campaign;  the  Iliad  of  a  day. 


^94                                       Madam  Ik  SiaaL  \Xk:t. 

MADAME  DB  8TAEU 

We  may  posnUy  give  oreat  of^  selves  dead  dninkj  while  the  ladies 

fence  to  EdinDurgh  phuotopnersy  hut  reason^  in  the  drawing  room  as  ta 

it  does  appear  to  us  thi^  th^  £iifl^ish  the  possibility  of  the  kettle  boilhig;, 

Sid)lie  have  had  almost  enoMgn  of  was  recognized  with  delighted  h«- 

fadame  de  StaeL  It  is  nojt  our.wbh,*  xjiijity,  as  a  correct  Ukeness  of  Eiur* 

cad  we  have,  we  hope,  a  Uttla  more  li^h  male  morals,  and  English  female 

taste  than  to  deny  that  much  rcmaina  conversational  powers.    The  LuciUas 

to  this  lady  of  well-deserved  and  so-  of  London  blushed^  and  sighed  to  be 

£dly  grounded  celebrity ;  but  much  Corinnes.  Dtlpkine  slipped  into  green 

baa  necessarily  dropped  away  with  morocco,  and  was  seen  peephig  from 

ihs  disappearance  of  extrinsic  and  under  the  sofa  cushion  of  our  mar- 

accidentd  causes  of  popular  interest  ried  ladies ;  and  the  blue  and  brim* 

imd  admiration.    Bonaparte  is  dead,  stone-covered   Journal    des    Smfan* 

Toe  cord  of  sympathy  is  snapped  a-  obtained  implicit  acquiescence,  when 

aunder  that  bound  the  Baroness  with  some  dangler  at  the  levees  of  Ma* 

th^  circle  of  political  fashion  in  Lon-  dame  de  Stael,  who  thought  less  of 

ipo.    Madame .  de  StaSl  had  praised  her   anti-Bonapartism  than  of   her 

TOeEi^lish  (or,  at  least,  theu*  con-  fine  eyes  and  fine  compliments,  placed 

athutioo,   which  she  probably  had  her  at  once  at  the  head  of  all  the  fe-' 

■tndied  in  die  flimsy  theoretic  deda-  male  writers  of  Europe, 

nation  of  De  Lolnie,^  and  the  Eng-  Bonaparte  is,  however,  under  his 

Qah  could  do  no  less  than  j^raise  Ma-  willows  ;  as  safe  as  free  stone,  ce- 

Anne  de  StaSL    The  fact  is,  she  saw  ment,  and  cramp-iron,  superintended 

fill  the  English  the  enemies  of  Bona*  b^  that  prince  oi  gaolers.  Sir  Hudson 

parte.     Tne  feeling  and  motive  of  Lowe,  can  make  him.   Poor  Madame 

tUa  ''  eternal  friendship  "  were  Tt^i'  de  Stael  is  also  at  rest,  even  from  the, 

procaL    The  English  esteemed  Ma-  disturbing  forces  of  her  own  imagi- 

aame  de  Stael  as  a  good  hater  of  nation.    Her   *'  magnificent   eves*^ 

Bonaparte.  She  made  common  cause  can  no  longer  enlist  retmlers  of  im* 

with^A^m.  After  stretching  her  arms  mortality,  nor  her  Jleureilet  effect  a 

for  succour  to  the  south  and  the  east,  thaw  in  the  temperament  of  a  Scotch 

she  set  her  foot  on  this  ultima  Tkule,  professor.    There  is  now  less  risque 

as  the  surest  refuge  from  ODjiression ;  of  a  partial  judgment, 

and  rose  immediately  in  British  es-  Madame  de  Sta^'l  was  precisely  the 

Umation  as  a  person  of  eztraoidinarv  sort  of  writer  to  captivate  and  astor 

discemment  and  magnanimity.     It  nish  Frenchmen,  and  perhaps  Scotch^* 

was  not  merely  that  she  fled  from  op*  men.     She  was  brilliant,    and    shq 

pressioD,  but  that  she  fled  from  tne  was,  as  the  French  say,  imposing^ 

oppression  of  the  man,  who,  with  a  She  made  light  of  the  profouudest 

liaste  something  premature,  it  must  speculaUons.     Hpmance  and  philo* 

be  allowed,  had  bes^n  to  erect  a  co-  sophy  were  equally  within  her  reach. 

lumn  on  Uie  heignts  of  Boulogne^  She   decided  on  every  things  ana* 

conraiemorative  of  his  conquest  of  Ivzed  every  thing,  and  discussed  and 

England.    It  was  the  hundred-hand-  aogmatized  with  the  air  of  intuition, 

ed   grasp    of   Napoleon    that  had  She  alike  regulated  the  disnutes  of 

snatchea  at  her  fl^t ;  and  the,  tramp  me^physics,  and  corrected  the  theo* 

of  French  armies,  set  in  motifon,  no  lies  of  Christianity.  The  assumption 

doubt,   less  for  the  destruction    of  of  profoundness  and  comprehension 

Muscovy,  than .  to  overtake  the  au-  stood  her  in  stead  no  Jess  taan  if  she 

thoress  of."  Germany/'  which  out-  thoroughly    possessed    these    quali- 

echoed  the  creakings  of  her  cabriolet  ties.     W^ith  many  persons,  especially 

Her  £eimc  preceded  her  to  the  land  of  Frenchmeo^  the  announcing  any  thing 

ft^  and  tea.    The  novel  portrait  of  with  a  peremptory  tone,  and,  above 

English  gentlemen  drinkmg   them-  all,    with    antithetical    expression^ 

*  Tea  Yean*  Exile,  or  Memoin  of  that  intocstuig  period  of  the  liife  of  the  Baroncxs 
de  Stael  lioltttein,  written  by  herself,  during  Ae  yean  ISIO,  lail,  1812,  and  WAX  and 

now  fc'nt  publihhed  froui  the  original  ^LS.  hy  her  bou.    Trooslatcd  from  tlifi  French. 
Ticuttd  and  Wurtz,  1821. 


serves  to  estabfiflh  the  Udiig  enim-  trayed  her  into '  oooadonal  turgld- 

ciated  as  a  ''  grandeTerit^      Ma-  ness:    this,  howerer,  would  be  no 

dame  de  BtaSl  understood  this:   or  disparagement  in  the   eyes  of  her 

more  probably   she   imposed   upon  oountrymen ;  wlio>  by  a  strange  ca^ 

herself  by  this  vivacity  of  induction  price  of  taste,  are  indulgent  to  a 

and  confidence    of  assertion.     Her'  certain  vicioas   bombast   in  prose, 

method  of  treating  tevery  thing  an»-'  while  from  their  poetry,  distinguish^ 

lytically,  and  expressing  herself  with  Od  chiefly  by  a  finical  syllabic  me* 

the  superior  sententious  tone  of  one  dianism,  theyjealously  exclude  what* 

who  announces  some  original  disco-  ever  rises  above  the  level  of  a  jejune 

very,  gained  her  credit  with  sum-  and  naked  phraseology.     Again,  to 

mary   thinkers  for    great   reach   of  the  French,  obscurity  will  of&n  seem 

thought  and  subtlety  of  penetration,  pardonable,  or  rather  impressive ;  be- 

Her  oracular  manner  was  assisted  by  cause  it  passes  muster,  as  implying 

the  apothegmatic  terseness  of  phrase  sometlung  of  the  profound ;  and  ra- 

which  she  afiected,  and  in  which  she  pidity  in  the  details  is  loved  for  its 

excelled.    That  ftunlity,  which  is  the  own  sake.    Had  Madame  de  Stael 

result  of  practice.  Is  observable  no  been  a  diffuse  and  prolix  writer,  she 

less  in  mental,  than  in  corporeal  pro-  might  possibly  have  betrayed  the  po- 

cesses;  and  Madame  de  otael,  by  a  verty  of  her  resources,  as  compared 

sort  of  knack,  often  hit  upon  a  prin-  with  their  ostensible  richness  and  va- 

ciple,  which,  in  the  form  at  least  of  riety ;  but,  at  least,  we  should  have 

its  definition,  and  the  luminous  and  heard  nothing  of  the  "  prostrating 

emphatic  terms  in  which  it  was  de-  force  of  her  reasoning,"  {force  ier^ 

veloped,  struck  with  the  force  of  no-  rassante)  or  the  ''  feeihig  eloquence 

velty.    She  had,  on  some  topics  of  which  is  exclusively  her  own.      Her 

morals,  and  in  certain  relations  of  discipline    in   the  tactic  of  foreign 

political  justice,  as  connected  with  conversation,  in  sallies  and  repartees^ 

religious  and  civil  liberty,  consider-  preserved  her  f^om  this,  the  greatest 

able  clearness  and  justness  of  views ;  miaginable   fkult   in     the    eyes    of 

but  she  had  that  sort  of  intellectual  Frenchmen  or  Frenchwomen.     She 

dexterity,  improved  by  habit,  and  ac-  skimmed  the  siuiace ;  she  declaimed 

quired  probably  in  the  first  instance  in  axioms  ;  she  was  brief,  lively,  and   . 

by  early  exercise  in  the  gladiatorial  presumptuous,  and  she  suoceeded  to 

rhetoric  of  ambitious  conversation,  a  miracle. 

which  sometimes  carried  her  success-  What  she  did  not  penetrate  to  the 
fully  through  subjects,  that  in  their  bottom;  the  had  the  art  of  appearing 
extent  and  combination  were  equally  to  bringdown  to  the  level  of^ popular 
beyond  the  grasp  of  her  talent,  and  intelligence.  ''  The  perspicuity,  ob- 
the  sphere  of  her  knowledge.  Her  serves  Madame  Necker,  *<  .and  I 
dogmatic  and  antithetical  style  serv-  may  say  the  grace,  with  which  Ma- 
ed  her  to  arrange  imposingly  the  dame  de  Stael  goes  into  the  detail  of 
fragments  collected  from  the  infbr-  all  these  systems,"  (the  theories  of 
mation  personally  afforded  her  by  perception)  ''  is  something  very  as- 
critJcs  or  metaphysicians;  and  shie  tonishing.  In  her  there  was  not  a 
had  the  ingenuity  to  make  it  appear  trace  of  pedantrv.  Avoi^g,  as 
that  she  knew  more  than  she  had  much  as  she  could,  scientific  terms, 
leisure,  or  than  came  within  the  she  says  no  more,  nor  indeed  docs 
scope  of  her  design,  to  unfold.  The  she  pretend  to  know  more,  than  just 
superficiality  of  her  knowledge  es-  what  is  necessary  to  appreciate  the 
caped  detection  in  the  sketchy  te-  moral  influence  of  these  doctrines." 
merity  of  her  specious  and  vduble  But,  in  order  to  appreciate  the  mo- 
disquisitions.  WhsLt  her  admirers  ral  influence  of  anv  set  of  doctrines, 
mistook  for  singidar  strength  and  a  previous  step  (s  necessary;  the 
depth  of  understanding  was,  in  rea^  comprehending  accurately  the  nature 
lity,  the  tact  of  genius.  Aiming  per-  of  the  doctrines  themselves.  There 
petually  at  point  and  effect,  her  ideas  is  nothing  to  astonish  in  a  femaJe 
were  sometimes  obscured  by  the  con-  writer  expressing  herself  with  ffrace 
ciseness  with  which  she  explained  and  clearness,  or  avoiding  pedantic 
them  ;  and  that  poetry  of  expression  forms  ;  the  astonishment  should  be 
on  which  she  piqued  herself,  and  to  reserved  for  a  thorough  compreheii- 
which  she  frequently  attained,  he^  sloii    of    the    systems    themselves: 


396                                        Maiam  Dt  SitOL  X[^^ 

which,    howe^ery  she  contemplates  the  conthniity  of  the  mental  exiat- 

througfa  the  medium  of  imaghiation,.  enoe  be  serered  by  the  diasolution  of- 

and  which  she  judges  by  the  iStand*  the  body^  can  we  conceive  the  pos»  - 

anl  of  feeling.   What  Madame  Neck-  sible  resuscitation  or  re-organization 

ec  admits^  in  refereoce  to  the  exptri-  of  the  same  individual  mind ;   but 

ipeotal  method  of  phiioaophy,  that  common  candour  obliges  us  to  repel 

Madame  de    Stael   nad    **  unfortu-  tha  vulgar    accusation    of  godless 

nately  never  turned  her  eagle  glance  scepticism   and   immoral  ^rossness^* 

Son  these  matters,"  must  equally  levelled  indiscriminately  against  those 
ect  her  hasty  decisions  on  that  who  maintain  the  principles  of  Spino^ 
question  of  metaphysics  which  em-  sism,  and  those  who  support  their 
braces  the  correspondence  of  the  theory  of  the  homogeneity  of  the 
thinking  principle  with  the  material  human  being  by  the  Christian  doc- 
world.  Madame  Necker's  defence  of  trine  of  a  resurrection. 
the  inductive  method  of  philoso-  The  fondness  of  Madame  de  Stacl 
phizing,  which  she  represents  M»-  for  distinguishing  and  deciding 
dame  de  Stael  as  undervaluing,  is  a  misled  her,  as  might  have  been  an- 
litile  at  variance  with  her  unouidified  tidpated,  into  crude  assumptions 
praise  of  the  latter  for  rashly  rest-  and  imfounded  assertions.  She  as- 
ng  the  cause  of  religion,  and  incon-  cribed  the  genius  for  the  gloomy  and 
aequently  suspending  the  interests  (^  melancholy  sublime,  wmch  she  re- 
morals,  on  the  truth  or  falsehood  of  cognised  in  Milton  (than  whom  no 
tiie  material  philosophy.  A  more  poet  contains  more  gay  and  amiable 
oofitemptible  syllogism  has  scarcely  pictures)  to  the  study  and  admiration 
ever  been  devised,  than  the  one  which  of  Ossian  :  she  forgot  that  the  famous 
affirms  that,  because  atheists  have  epic  poem  of  Fingal  was  not  dcltrri 
been  materialists,  therefore  material-  tul  *^  the  Georgian  age ; "  and  seems 
ists  must  be  athdsts.  The  ^*  active  to  have  devoutly  believed  that  the 
inteliigence  in  the  bosom  of  man,"  frittered  English  hexameters  of  Mac- 
which  Madame  Necker  justly  con-  pherson's  bastard  prose  were  fami- 
nects  as  a  correspondent  idea  with  a  liarised  to*  the  daughters  of  Croni- 
**  God  in  the  universe/'  is  no  less  a  welfs  secretary.  In  her  ''  Essay  on 
part  of  that  system  which  supposes  the  Spirit  of  Translations,"  she 
the  thinking  faculty  to  be  the  resuh  says,  *'  the  English,  whose  language 
of  organization,  than  of  that  which  ai^hnits  of  inversions,  and  whose  ver- 
anpposes  it  to  be  a  distinct  and  inde-  sification  is  subjected  to  much  less 
pendent  principle.  If  man  be  a  ma-  severe  ndes  than  that  of  the  French; 
ohine  **  breathing  theughtftd  breath,"  had  it  in  their  power  to  enrich  their- 
it  18  difficult  to  conceive  why  his  literatiu^  with  translations,  at  once 
frame  is  a  less  wonderful  contrivance,  exact  and  natural ;  but  their  groat 
or  why  there  is  less  necessity  of  an  authors  have  not  undertaken  this  la- 
all-wise  contriver  and  almighty  me-  hour:  and  Pope,  the  single  author 
chanist,  than  if  he  consist  of  two  in-  of  that  description  who  hss  devoted 
dependent  principles.  Madame  Neck-  himself  to  it,  has  constructed  two 
ernerself,  while  confessing  that  the  fine  poems  out  of  the  Iliad  and  O- 
German  philosophers  have  been  im-  dysscy,  but  he  has  not  preserved 
polled  towards  idealism,  absolutely  that  antique  simplicity  which  makes 
acquits  the  advocates  of  man's  ho-  us  sensible  in  what  consists  the  secret 
mogeneous  nature  of  the  imputed  of  Homer^s  superiority."  We  have 
immoral  results  of  their  opinions,  by  here  this  prodigy  of  female  lumurfs 
alleging  that  **  they  also  have  jt/m-  gravely  confessirg  her  ignorance, 
ritualized  matter  more  than  they  have  either  that  Drydcti  and  Cowper  were 
ntateriali2fd  mind."  We  are,  our-  translators,  or  tliatDryden  and  ('ow- 
aelves,  of  opinion,  that  the  connexion  per  were  great  authors  ;  and  ad- 
established  by  the  Creator  between  vancing  a  proposition,  of  which  t)ie 
the  impressions  made  by  external  direct  converse  is  true.  She  talks 
objects  on  our  senses,  and  our  per-  equally  at  random  (in  her '^TenYears 
ception  of  those  objects,  furnishes  no  Exile ")  of  the  Russian  poets :  and 
evidence  tliat,  in  tlie  language  of  affit)nts  the  fame  of  Derxharin,  the 
Dr.  Reid,  *'  those  impressions  are  Klopstock  of  Russia,  by  taking  upon 
the  proper  efficient  causes  of  the  her  to  asr^^rt,  while  remark iiic^  on 
coire/fpoiidiiifT  perception;"   uor,   if  the  foiKluess  of  the  Russians  for  tlie 


1881.3  Madamt  De  SmL  MT 

gorgeousnen  of  Asiatic  ornament,  which,   if  aHowcd,    wotM  have  ft 

that  theLr  "  imagination  has  iK'ither  tendency  liOurloin  to  the  interests  ^ 

manifested  itself  in  the  fine    arU,  true  religion,  should  at  once  i^id  fiv 

nor  ta  poesff*"     Her  passion  for  a  ever  l>e  withstood, 
foppish  display  of  antithesis  seduces        We  are  told,  in  lan^age  redolent 

her  into  an  absurd  depreciation 'of  of  the  French  subfitmty  to  windi 

the  Greeks,  in  comparison  with  the  we  hare  already  adrerted,  that  "  a 

Romans.    The  Greeks,  we  are  ai^  raiius  similar  to  that  of  Madame  die 

aured,  bad  not  *^  that  sentiment,  that  StaSl  is  the  sole  missionary  available 

considerate  will,  that  national  spirit,  in  a  knowing  and  reasoning,  a  frivol* 

that  patriotic  devotion,  which  dis-  ous  and  scomfiil  world.     Without 

tinguished  the  Romans.    The  Greeks  entering  into  the  temple  itself,  she 

were  to  give  the  momentum  to  lite-  has  placed  herself  in  the  porch  aiid^ 

rature  and  the  fine  arts.    The  Ro-  preluded  to  the  sacred  choirs  before 

mans    have    communicated    to    the  that  paffan-hcarted  multitude,  which 

work!  the  impression   of  their  ge-  bums    mcense    to  the  miu^s,    and 

nius."    And  after  this,  not  very  clear  stones  the  prophets : "  the  climax  b 

distinction,    she  babbles  about  the  still  behind :  "  she  has  said  to  tender 

*'  history  of  Sallusi,  calling  up  re-  and  enthusiastic  souls,   '  Whom  ye 

collections  all-powerful  in  their  mas-  ignorantly  worship,   him  declare  t 

tery  over  die  thoughts :  "  about  the  unto  you  * !  I !"  Notice---(EuvreM  Ini^ 

**  force    of  soul    relt    through    the  dites,  1—317. 
beauty  of  style : "  about  the  **  man        We  touch  the  su!\]ect  with  hesita- 

in  the  writer:"  the  '' nation  in  this  tion — ^but  the  tips  which  preach  ft 

man,"  and  the  **  miiverse  at  the  feet  God  of  purity  must  themselves  be 

of  this  nation:"  she  would  make  us  pure.     The  deriod  fop  who,  in  ft 

believe,  by  this  jmgle  of  prettinesses,  northern  journal,  elegantly  compared 

that  Greece  has  nothing  to  show  but  the  Methodtstt  to  vermin,  which  it 

sculptors  and  poets,  and  that  Zhmot"  was  necessary  to  extirpate  by  dint  of 

thenet  and  Xeno})hon  never  existed.  soap  and  combs,  artlessly  protested 

What  she  really  understood,  and  that   he    always    thought   that    he 

in  what  she  consequenUy  surpassed  *'  breathed   in    a   Christian  land :  ** 

herself,   was  narrative   or  memoir,  but,  at  whatever  risk  of  disturbing  the 

nad  romance.     Her  opportunities  of  serenity  of  this  smug  and  comfortable 

personal  experience  and  observation,  priest,  we  must  declare,  that  writnig 

and  the  peculiar  beauty  of  her  stvle,  oneself  down   Christian  conveys  to 

(its  resemblance  to  oral,  rather  than  us  no  proof  of  Christian  charactiT. 

written,  eloquence)     fitted    her   to  Without  tids,  the  officiousness  of  pro- 

excel  in  the  former ;  while  her  ima-  selytism  can  produce  no  effects  but 

giiiation,  and  the  sort  of  hectic  sen-  wliat,  in  our  judgment,  are  utteriy 

sibility,  in  which  she  respired,  found  worthless :  namefy,  the  inducing  a 

scope  and  expression  in  the  latter,  set  of    worldly-minded   persons   to 

She  drew  from  herself,  and  iniUsed  condescend  to  patronise  religion,  and 

in  fictitious  pages  her  actual  sensa-  to  iafk  of  the  beauty  of  Christian 

uons.  "  Co Riif  HI,"  a  work  unique  in  morals.     It  is  confessed,  and  with 

itself,  and  at  once  lyrical,  dramatic,  some  complacency,  inconsistent  as  it 

and  historical,   will  always  remain  may  seem,  that  Delphine  was  the 

a  inonument,  not  merely  of  her  taste  reality,    Corinne  the  ideal,  of  Ma- 

and  intelligence,  but  of  her  pathetic  dame  de  Stall's  own  character.    Is 

power.  it  in  such  characters  that  the  Chris- 

Of  the  moral  and  rdigious  merits  tian  principle  or  life  is  exemplified? 

of  Madame  de  Stael  we  should  be  Such  a  kind  of  religion  may  suit  tf)e 
loth  to  speak,  were  she  not  forced    *'  tender    and    enthusiastic    souls " 
into  a  broad  light  by  the  indiscreet,    whom  Madame  de  Stael  addresses 
however  amiable,  enthusiasm  of  her    and  the  phraseology  explains  the  itN 

biographer,  Madame  Necker  de  ligion.  But  there  is  no  use  (there  is, 
Saussure.     The  office  is  an  ungrate-    indeed,  mischief)  in  cheating  peopfe 

ful  one :  but  the  interests  of  society  into  something  which  is  not  reiigioh, 
are  paramount  to  the  motives  of  by  way  of  making  them  religious, 
compassion  or  forbearance  towards  The  apostle,  with  whom  Madame 
female  weakness.  It  is  time  that  tie  Stael  is  so  thcmfh/  compared, 
the  confideut  uiid  pompous  clamis,    s^nke  out.     Without  dcU^c^vcv^^^scck. 


BM                                       Madame  De  StaHl.  CPct. 

'tlie  glorious  attribute  of  mercy  in  that  she  cut  out  figures  in  paper^ 

'Ihe  Fath^  of  his  creatures^  '^  by  the  and  acted  dramas  with  them  of  her 

SeHtmr  of  the  Lord   he  persuaded  own  oomposmg.    The  dramas  were 

men."  extemporaneous.    In  time  they  crept 

Pious  men  have  done  incalcuUble  into    manuscript.       The   first    that 

mischief  by  clothing  religious  8enti«  showed  itself  was    ''  SojJiy,  or  Se~ 

ments  in  Uie  language  of  the  rolup-  eret  StntimenU"    Sophv  is  a  young 

iuary.      **  Religion  never  was  de-  female  orphan^  **  who  has  conceiwd 

signed  to  make  our  pleasureg  less,"  for   her    tutor,    the  husband  of  her 

Is  the  close  of  a  hymn,  either  of  Watts  friend^    a  passion  wiiich   she   does 

or  Doddridge,    The  sentiment  **  to  not  suspect."    The  Mographer  adds, 

er\joy  is  to  obey"  may  be  consistent  with  naivete,  *^  the  excuse  of  the  he- 

with  virtue  in  the  practice  of  a  man  rdne,  the  ignorance  of  the  sentiment 

'  of  confirmed  religious   habits,    but  wliich  she  expresses,  might  seem,  in 

serves  as  a  convenient  cloak  for  the  severe  eyes,  not  to  extend  to  the  au« 

slave  to  sensuslity,  and  the  talker  thor."    Of  this  tnuning  up  for  a  wit, 

on  Christian  ethics.    A  man  who  has  and  a  genius,    and  an  imaginative 

Vtlie  power  of  religion  certainly  sees,  idealist,  Sophy  was  the  blossomy  and 

In  the  arts  that  embeUish  life  and  JDelphine  the  fruit.    She  observes  of 

Hkb  refined  gratifications  of  social  in-  a  tragedy  of  M.  Guihert,  whose  ^  Bh- 

tercourse,  me  goodness  of  a  paternal  logium  "she  composed,  that  it  b  ''con- 

'  Creator :  bat  we  have  no  sympathy  secrated  entire  to  hve."  The  tragedy 

with  the   flimsy  and  self-nattering  is  Anne  Boleyn :  and  a  cold  Bnglbh 

'  )utifice    of  that    illusory    devotion  reader  will  probably  feel  his  ears 

*-which,  instead  of  mixing  religion  with  tingle  with  shame  when   he  leatns 

''  our  enjoyments,  makes  religion  con-  that  the  subject  of  the  tragedv,  thus 

*  rist  in  them:   which  pampers  our  ^' consecrated"  to  exclusive  love,  is 
i  frailties,  and  cheats  our  consciences  the  incestuous  passion  of  a  brother 

Into  a  false  iiecurity,  by  setting  up  and  sister.    The  ingenious  French- 

bertain  impulses  of  good  nature,  and  man    treats    that   abominable    oa- 

•  a  vague  credulity  in  the  divine  love,  lumny  of  the  infamous  and  peijured 
^accompanied  possibly  with  an  eager  strumpet,  the  Lady  Rochefort,  as  an 

zeal    agmnst   vices   which   neither  historical  reality,  favourable  to  the 

fidl  in   our  way  nor  suit  our  hu-  excitement  of  tender  and  pathetic 

mours,  as  compensations  for  the  un-  emotions. 

restricted  self-allowance  of  a  darling  ''Ah!"  ejaculates  the  instructor 
frailty.  of  "  tender  and  enthusiastic"  souls. 
We  can  scarcely  imagine  any  dr-  "  how  deeply  does  this  piece  excite 
eamstances  less  favourable  to  the  our  emotions,  when,  in  the  fifth  act, 
fomiation  of  a  consistent  religious  Anne  Boleyn  and  her  brother  Roche- 
character  than  those  of  Madame  de  fort  are  about  to  lose  their  lives ! 
Stag's  early  youth.  By  way  of  Anne  wishes  to  reclaim  her  brother 
eounteracting  the  seductions  of  the  to  that  religion,  of  which  the  sublime 
material  philosophy,  Madame  Neck-  succours  console  and  strengthen  her. 
er,  we  are  told,  made  it  her  per-  The  infidelity  of  her  broUier  repels 
petual  business  to  stock  her  daugnter  all  her  arguments:  on  the  point  of 
with  ideas.  '  At  deven  years  old  she  losing  her  last  hope,  she  ventures  to 
was  accordinsly  placed  on  a  high  invoke  a  culpable  love :  she  ventures 
stool,  to  receive  the  homage  of  vi-  to  ouestion  the  heart  of  her  /over, 
sitors,  who  took  a  pleasure  in  attack-  '  Wnat !  says  she  to  him,  wilt  thou 
ing  and  embarrassing  her,  and  ex-  renounce  for  ever  the  hope  which 
dting  "  that  little  brilliant  imagina-  remauis  to  us,  that  we  shall  one  day 
tion  of  her's : ''  every  one  approached  see  each  other  again  ? '  At  these  words 
with  a  compliment^  or  a  piece  of  her  brother  falls  on  his  knees  and  ex- 
pleasantry,  and  to  all  and  every  claims,  ^I  believe  in  God!'  What 
thing  she  replied  with  ease  and  trasedy  contains  a  stroke  more  encr- 
grace:  while  the  Abb^  Raynal,  in  getic  or  tender?  how  many  senti- 
"  a  little  round  peruque,'' was  accus- '- ments  expressed  at  once!  hotv  many 
tomed  to  take  her  hands  between  souls  converted  together  with  that  of 
his,  and  "hold  them  a  long  time,  and-  Rochefort !" 

engage  her  in  conversation,  as  if  she  The  person,  whose  mind  was  so 

weie  five  and  twenty."    Wc  leani  constituted    asi  to  sicc   nothing   but 


1891.3                                 Mmiam  Jk  SM.  ^ 

tragic  tendemess  and  pious  conrloi*  eyes,"  «f  we  are  assured  by  her  fidr 

tion  in  this  aiMurd  and  indecent  rant^  cousin ;  naqy  qiilglitlT  c^tavadoni^ 

mii^ht  have  assured  herself  that  Ae  and  many  reaBy  amiable  and  gen^ 

at   least  was  not  precisely  qualified  rous  natural  qualities:    but  neither 

for  the  conversion  of  touts*  her  own  laboured  defence   of   the 

We  are  informed^  however^  that  '^  moral  design  of  DeMune,"  nor  her 

when  consoling  others  she  ''  soared  expressed  intention  or  writing  a  bo<^ 

into  such  immensity^  that  bliss  and  with  the  title  of  '^  The  Education  of 

woe,  the  past  and  present,  the  destiny  the  Heart  by  the  Life,"   althoiwh 

t)fa//audofyottr3e//'Tani8hedaway:  Madame  Necker  argues^    that  the 

that    *^  one   solemn  sentiment  dis-  mere  project  of  composing  such  a 

placed  every  other,  and  you  seemed  boolc  demonstrates  tnat  s^  fiU  the 

to  be  present  at  the  most  august  of  seniimeni  of  continual  amelioradoD, 

all  spectacles,  that  of  the  mvinity  willconrince  us  that  the  sentiment 

accomplishing  his  work  of  regenera^  was  anything  more  timnfeh,  or  that 

tion  ou  the  creature,  by  the  terrible,  the  interests  of  religion  could  safUj 

and  yet  salutary,  means  of  grieC"  Jn  be  entrusted  to  her  hands, 

charity,  we  would  desire  to  belieTe  We  need  not  discuss  the  merits  cf 

that  Madame  de  Stael,  who  could  ber  persecution  by  Bonaparte.    Xhe 

disctas  these  subjects  eloouently,  and  despotism  of  a  new  government  fib* 

Jeel  them  vividly,  carried  the  theory  ceeolng  an  interregnum  of  fhctibus 

*in  her  own  instance  into  practical  anarchy  is  not  the  least  defensible  of 

^ect:  but  though  she  harangued  on  despotisms.     "  They  pretend,"  said 

religion,  and  f<^t  the  poetry  of  reli-  Napoleon,  ''  that  she  talks  neitho'  of 

fion,  we  require  some  oetier  proof  of  me  nor  of  politics :  but  I  don't  know 

er  submission  to  its  power,  of  ber  how  it  happens,  they  who  have  seen 

surrendering  up  the  whole  heart  to  her  like  me  less.    She  turns  people's 

that  Being  who  will  not  be  satisfied  heads  {eUe  monie  les  iHes)  in  a  way 

with  less.    We  have  little  respect  for  that  does  not  suit  me."    If  this  livdj 

that  crazy  piety  which  may  possi*  lady  was  busy  and  loquacious  in  tlie 

bly  pass  current  in  the  boudoirs  of  tidclish  crisis  of  a  new  dynasty,  her 

Parisian  devotees.     For  sound  and  exile  was  only  the  natural  effect  of 

jiractical  views,  rational  plans,  and  a  plausible  state  poKcy. 

.  scriptural  motives,  we  have  a  weak.  The  "  Ten  Years'  ExUe"  is  an  unfi- 

creaulous  superstition;  a. pampered  mshed  work,  and,  in  fact,  embraces 

morbidness  of  enthunasm ;  anii  the  only  the  penodof  xn^ea  years.  There 

lack-a-daisical  Vacillations  of  an  by s-  is  an  interval  of  six  years  between 

terical  gentlewoman.    She  prays  to  the  two  parts  of  the  nairative,  winch 

the  departed  spirit  of  lier  father  M.  commences  in   1800^  and  abruptly 

Necker:  she  makes  of  him  a  sort  of  terminates  at  Madame  de  Stag's  ar« 

mediatorial  ahost,  through  whose  in-  rival  in  Sweden,  in  1816.    With  the 

tenrention  sne  may  extort  blesrings  circumstances     personal  to   herself 

from  the  Deity:  if  any  thing  befals  she  incorporates  reflections  on  some 

her,  which  she  deems  fortunate,,  she  of  the  characters  that  fiaured  io  the 

«xclaims,  "  My  father  has  obtained  French   government,   ue    state  <^ 

this  for  me  :**  said  we  hear  of  si^s,  France,  ue  poKcv  and  di^ositioo^of 

of  exclamations,  of  pious  iuvopaUons  Bonaparte,  and  the  manners  and  jn- 

{as  of  the  d-devant  finance-minister,  stitutions  of  the  countries  which  she 

we  suppose)  and  of  brcdken  sentoices  travecses,  particularly  Russia.  Th^se 

escaping  from,  her,  of  the  following  are  marked  by  some  cleverness,  and 

xatioual  and  edifying   description:  some  haste.                                 ,.ii 

*^  poor  kumuai  nature!  alas !  what  are  Of  the  translation,  we  can  #n]y 

wef  ah!  this  life,  tlds  life!"  How  say  with  Dangle  in  the  -.Critic,  that 

worthy  this  of  the  precentor  oi  the  the  '^  Interpreter  isthsimore  dhficult 

Christian  priesthood  1  to  be  understood  of  the  two."    Afler 

We  cheerfully  accord  to  Madame  just  havering  over  the  "  System  of 

de  StaSl  a  certain  adroit  penetration  of  fusios^  adopted  by  Bonaparte,"  in  the 

men  and  things,  a  nervous,  flowing,  titular  contents  of  the  third  chapter, 

and  sometimes   afiecting  elocution;  (by   which  we  coi^ecture  is  meant 

a  lively  genius  for  politics;   liberal  ama/^a7;itf/io}t)  we  must  beg  to  pounce 

political  views;  great  taleiits  for  con-  on  a  passage  in  pages  SO,  81  ^age 

vcrsatiou — ''  a  rare  magnificence  of  16  m  the  ^cnch.}    "  The  public,  at 


too  Somui^i^JphACIdirtf  {;Oel. 

Um  end  oiii  eettain  doM,  appears  to  magnanimoiig  Alexander,  and  we  de« 

jne  alwa^  e^taUe:  a^f-loye  must  tect  the  satire  of  an  ill-used  woman 

jiccustam  itself  to  da  credit  to  praUe  :  in  tlie  "  still-begimung  never-ending^ 

ttfit  in  due  time,  we  obtain  as  niucli  railing  on  Bonaparte.  The  little  man 

idr  that  as  we  deserve."    But  foire  iKas  grown  taller  In  esteem  since  the 

ittedU   d  la  kmange    is    ''  to  allow  field  has  been  left  clear  for  the  Ugi^ 

jpcaise  a  long  cremt :"  she  is  sure  to  timaie  despots,  who  put  down  popu- 

jBoy  us  in  ^tut  end.  lar  liberty^  in  states  independent  of 

.    In  the  eighth  chapter  we  are  told^  their  jurisdiction,  from  sheer  piety, 

in  some  observations  reflecting    on  and   who   "  do  not    want    learned 

the  maonera  of   the    new  Imperial  men^"  but  passive  sub^jects.     Yet  it 

£ourty  ''  Bonaparte  himself  is  em-  must  be  admitted   that   she  had  a 

barrassed  oh  occasiofu  of  repruenia^  shrewd  insight  into  many  parts  of  bis 

Xuw."    What  this  possibly  can  mean  character.    Of  the  style,  the  follow- 

we  may  defy  any  one  to  discover,  till  jng  strikes  us  as  a  pleasing  specimen, 

lie    turns  to  the   original,   "  Bona-  and  characteristic  of  the  writer.   We 

parte  lui  meme  ade  I'embarras  quand  recognise  something  of  that  poetical 

U  iagU  de  representationJ'     He  be-  energy  which  we  had  felt  and  admit- 

Arays  embarrassment  when  figure  or  ed  in  Corinne. 

jDAanner  is  wanting.  '^  I  walked  about  with  deep  melan- 

.    This  is  quite  enough.    We  think  choly  in  that  beautiful  city  of  Peters- 

any  garreteering  wight,  ^*  who  turns  burg,  which  might  become  the  prey 

a  Persian   tale  for  half  a  crown,"  of  £e  conqueror.    AVhen  I  returned 

mi^t  have  avoided  a  rap  on  the  .in  the  evenmg  from  the  islands,  and 

Imuckles  fi>r  such  school-boy  slips  as  saw  the  gilded  point  of  the  citadel, 

these.  ,  which  seemed  to  spout  out  in  the  air 

The  book,  which  forms  a  part  of  the  like  a  ray  of  fire,  while  the  Neva  re- 

^'  (Euvres  InSdite*"  has  by  this  time  fleeted  the  marble  quays  and  palaces 

Jost  much  of  its  interest :  and  that  which  surrounded  it,  I  represented  to 

interest,  from  its  comparatively  U-  .myself  all  these  wonders  faded  by 

nuted  and  personal  nature,  is  inferior  the  arrogance  of  a  man,  who  would 

to  that  of  her  '*  Conuderations  on  the  come  to  say,  like  Satan  on  the  top  of 

French  Revolution."    We  are  some-  the  *  mountain,  ''  The  kingdoms  of 

what  sickened  by  the  flatteries  of  the  the  earth  are  mine." 


*  The  translator  has  it^  >*  a  moantain  ;^*  by  which  he  has  ingeniouiUy  oontrired  to 
lose  the  alhiaion.  Did  he  nefsr  meet  with  the  scenical  vision  of  the  teniptatkm  in  the 
wilderncH  ? 


SONNET. 

A    B£PL£CTION    ON    SUMMER. 


We  well  may  wonder  o'er  the  change  of  scene, 

Now  Summer's  contrast  through  the  land  is  spread. 

And  turn  us  back,  where  Winter's  tempest  fled. 
And  left  nought  living  but  the  ivy's  green. 

The  then  bare  woods,  that  trembled  over  head 
Like  Spectres,  'mid  the  storm,  of  what  had  been. 

And  wrecks  of  beauty  ne'er  to  bloom  agahi, — 
Are  now  all  glory.    Nature  smiles  as  free. 

As  the  last  Summer  had  compienced  its  reign. 
And  she  Were  blooming  in  Eternity. 

So  in  this  life,  when  future  thoughts  beguile. 
And  from  past  cares  our  spirits  get  relieved, 

Hope  cheers  us  onward  with  as  sweet  a  smile 
As  if,  before,  she  never  had  deceived. 

John  Clare. 


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TRADITIONAL   LITERATURE. 
No.  X. 

rLACING    A    SCOTTISH    HIKISTKR. 

Lang  patronage  wi*  rod  of  aim, 

lias  shored  the  kirk*s  undoin, 
As  lately  Fenwick,  fair  forfaim, 

Has  proven  to  its  ruin ; 
Our  patron,  honest  man !  Olencaim, 

He  saw  misdiief  was  brewin ; 
And,  like  a  godly  elect  bairn, 

He*s  waled  us  out  a  true  ane. 

And  sound  this  day.  Burnt, 


■  1. 


■'« 


The  pleasantest  hour^  perhaps^  of  and>  spreading  out  all  the  articles  I- 
human  Hfe>  is  when  a  inan>  becoming  had  to  offer  for  sale  before  me,  I  in- 
master  of  his  own  actions,  and  with  dulged,  unconsciously,  in  the  foUow- 
his  first  earned  money  in  his  hand>  ing  audible  speculation: — ^'Aplea-c 
gazes  along  the  opening  rista  of  ex-  sant  story  and  a  merry  look  will  da 
istence,  and  sees,  in  silent  specula-  much  among  the  young;  and  a  sedate 
tion,  the  objects  of  his  ambition  ap-  face  and  a  grave  tale  will  win  me  a 
peariug  before  him  in  their  shadowy  lodging  from  the  staid  and  devout, 
succession  of  peace^  and  enjoyment.  For  the  bonnie  lass  and  the  merry  lad/ 
and  glory.  Out  of  a  few  hard- won  have  I  not  the  choicest  ballads  and  i 
shillings,  the  peasant  frames  visions  songs?  For  the  wise  and  the  grave>-i 
of  rustic  wealth,  whitens  the  moun«  do  I  lack  works  of  solenm  import, 
tains  with  his  flocks,  and  covers  the  from  the  Prophecies  of  Peden,  and 
plam  with  clover  and  com.  The  the  Crumb  of  Comfort,  up  to  Salva- 
seaman  ci|^ts  his  future  anchor  on  a  tion's  Vantage-Ground,  or  a  Louping^ 
coast  of  silver,  and  gold,  and  pre-  on-Stone  for  Heavy  Believers  ?  Then 
cious  stoQes ;  and  sees  his  going  imd  for  those  who  are  neither  lax  on  the 
returning  saib  waftinff  luxury  and  one  hand,  nor  devout  on  the  other^ 
riches.  The  poet,  in  his  first  verse>  but  stand  as  a  stone  in  the  wall,  * 
feels  a  thrill  of  unbounded  joy  he  is  neither  in  the  kirk  nor  out  of  it^ 
never  to  experience  again ;  ne  hears  have  I  not  books  of  as  motley  a 
Fame  sounding  her  tnimpet  at  his  nature  as  they  ?  And  look  at  these 
approach,  and  imagines  his  songs  de-  golden  laces,  toese  silken  snoods,  and 
scending  through  the  most  delightful  these  ivory  bosom-busks, — though  I 
of  all  modes  of  publication — ^the  sweet  will  not  deny  that  a  well-faured  lass 
lips  of  millions  of  fair  maidens,  now  ban  a  chance  to  wheedle  me  out  of 
and  for  evermore.  It  was  with  feelings  a  lace,  or  a  ribbon,  with  no  other 
of  this  kind  that  I  arranged  the  pur-  money  than  a  current  kiss,  and  re- 
chases  my  first  wealth  made,  m  a  duce  my  profit, — yet  I  must  even 
handsome  pack  secured  with  bolt  lav  it  Uie  heavier  on  new-married 
and  lock  ;  and  proceeded  to  follow  wives,  rosy  young  widows,  and  lasses 
the  gainful  and  healthful  calling  of  a  with  fee  and  bounty  in  their  laps, 
packman  among  the  dales  of  Uum-  It  would  be  a  sad  thing  if  love  for  a 
frieshire  and  the  green  hills  of  6al-  sonsie  lass  should  make  me  a  loser." 
loway.  On  the  first  morning  of  my  An  old  dame  in  a  gray  linsey-woolsey 
trade,  I  halted  in  every  green  lane,  Rown,  a  black  silk  riding  hood  pinned 
spread  out  the  motley  contents  of  my  beneath  her  chin,  with  a  large  calf- 
box  in  orderly  array  before  me,  then  skin-covered  Bible  under  her  arm, 
placed  them  again  in  the  box,  and  had  approached  me  unseen.  She 
recommenced  my  march,  amid  busy  fell  upon  me  like  a  whirlwind : — '^  O ! 
calculation  of  the  probable  proceed  thou  oeardless  trickster,  thou  sevep- 
of  my  industry.  teen  year    old  scant-o'-grace,    wi)t 

A  little  before  noon,  on  a  sweet  thou  sit  planning  among  God's  day- 
morning  of  summer,  I  had  seated  light  how  to  overreach  thy  neighs 
myself  on  the  summit  of  a  little  hour  ?  My  sooth  lad,  but  thou  art 
green  fairy  hill  which  overlooks  the  a  gleg  one.  I  question  if  William 
ancient   abbey  of   Bleeding-Heart ;  Mackfen  himself,   who  has  cheated 

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my  goodman  and  me  these  twenty-  laughter,  came  towards  me  through 

seven  summers,  is  half  such  a  wily  the  green  avenue  of  a  neighbouring 

loon  as  thyself.    A  night's  lodging  wood.      A  bevy  of  lads  and  lasses 

ye    need   never  ask  at  Aimaumrie.  in  holiday  clothes,   with    books    of 

And  yet  it  would  be  a  sore  matter  to  devotion  in  their  hands,    soon    ap- 

my  conscience  to  turn  out  a  face  so  peared ;  and  they  were  not  slack  in 

youn^  and  so  well    faured,  to  the  mdulging    themselves   in    week-dav 

benscl  of  the  midnight  blast."    And  merriment.  "A pretty  whi^, indeed! ' 

away  the  old  lady  walked,  and  lefl  said  a  handsome    ffirl   with  brown 

me  to  arrange  the  treasures  of  my  locks,  and  coats  kuted  half-way  up 

pack    at    my  leisure.      Her  words  a  pair  of  very  white  legs ;  ^'  a  pretty 

were  still  ringing  in  my  ears,  when  whig,    indeed  ! — I'll  tell  thee,    lad, 

an  old  man,  dressed  in  the  antique  thou'lt  never  be  the  shining  star  in 

Scottish  fashion — a  gray  plaid  wound  the  firmament   thy  aunt  speaks  of 

about  his  bosom,  a  broad  westland  when  she  prays.     I  have  seen  a  lad 

bonnet  on  his  head,  which  shaded,  with  as  much  grace  in  his  eye  as  thy- 

but  did  not  conceal,  a  few  shining  self,  endure  a  sore  sermon  by  himself 

white  hdrs,  and  with  a  long  white  when  the  kirk  should  have  scaled." 

Staff  in  his  hand,  came  up,  and  ad-  "  And  I   have  seen,"   retorted    the 

dressed  me : — <'  Gather  up  thy  books  swain,  *'  as  great  a  marvel  as  a  pair 

and  thy  baubles,  young  man ;  this  is  of  white  legs,  rosie  lips,   and  mis- 

not  the  time  to  spread   out    these  chievous  eyes,    making    as  wise  a 

worldly  toys  to  the  eyes  of  human  man  as  myself  pay  dear  for  an  hour's 

infirmity.  Gather  them  together,  and  daffin."    *'  Damn,"  said  the  maiden, 

cast  them  into  that  brook,  and  follow  laughing  till  the  woods  rung  again  ; 

me.    Alas!"  said  the  old  man,  touch-  '^  dafiin  will  be  scant  when  a  lass 

ing  my  treasures  with  the  end  of  his  seeks  for't  with  such  a  long  black 

staff,  '^  here  are  gauds  for  our  young  world's  wonder  as  thee.    It  sets  thy 

and    our    rosie   madams,  —  bosom-  mother's  oldest  son  well  to  speak  of 

busks,    brow-snoods,    and    shining  daffin."    '^  1  have  climbed  a  higher 

brooches  for  ensnaring  the  eyes  of  tree,  and  harried  a  richer  nest,"  mur- 

youth.    I  tell  thee,  younr  man,  wo-  mured  the  plowman :  "  but  what,  in 

man  will  fall  soon  enou^  from  her  the  name  of  patronage,  have  we  here  ? 

bright    station    by  her    own    infir-  Here's  an  abstract  personification,  as 

mities,  without  thy  helping  hand  to  somebody  called    John  Gondie    the 

pluck  her  down.    Much  do  I  fear  Cameronian,  of  old  Willie  Mackfen 

thou  hast  been  disposing  of  sundry  of  the  pedlai^-^in  the  davs  of  his  youth." 

thy  snares  to  the  vain  old  dame  of  So  saying,  a  crowd  of  lads  and  lasses 

Airnaunuie.    She  is  hidf  saint  and  surrounded  my  pack  and  me,  and 

half  sinner;  and  the  thoughts  of  her  proceeded  to  examine  and  comment 

£*ddy  youth  are  still  too  strong  for  on  my  commodities,  with  an  absence 

T  gray  hairs :  seest  thou  not  that  of  ceremony  which  would  have  vexed 

she  carries  the  book  of  redemption  in  even  a  veteran  traveller.      "  As   I 

her  hand,  when  she  should  bear  it  in  shall  answer  for  it,"  said  one  youth, 

her  head  ?      But    she  gleaned    her  "  here's  the  very  snood  Jenny  Birk- 

scanty  knowledge    on    an  £rastian  whistle  lost    amang  Andrew    Lor- 

field  among  the  E^ptian  stubble,  ranee's  broom."     "  And  I  protest," 

Ah !  had  she  been  tightly  targed  by  retorted  the  maiden,  justly  offended 

a  sound  professor  on  the  Proof  Ca-  at  this  allusion  to  the  emblem  of 

techism,   she  had  not  needed   that  maidenhood,  *'l  protest,  here's  the 

Srinted    auxiliary    under    her    arm.  wisest  of   all   printed  things — even 

•ut  I  waste  precious  time  on    an  A  Groat's  Worth  of  Wit  for  a  Penny, 

unprofiting  youth.     I  hasten  whither  which  thy  mother  longed  to  read  ere 

I  am  called, — for  patronage,  with  its  she  was  lightened  of  Gowk  Gabriel, 

armed  hand,  will  give  Sie  kirk  of  Thy  father  has  much  to  answer  for, 

Galloway  a  sad    stroke    to-dav,   if  when  a  penny  would  have  made  a 

there  be  no  blessed  interposition."  wiseman  of   his  haveral."    A  loud 

And^  my  male   followed  my  female  laufl^h  told  that  truth  was  mingled 

monitor,  leaving  me  to  wonder  what  with  the  ready  wit  of  the  maiden, 

all  this  religious  bustle  and  prepara-  Utter  ruin  seemed  to  wait    on  my 

tion  might  mean.     I  was  about  to  affairs,  when  a  woman,  with  a  sour 

IbDow,  when  loud  talk,  aud  louder  sharp  visage,  and  a  tongue  that  rang 


Igdl.;]  TradUidnal  LitenUurg.  403 

like  a  steel  hammer  on  a  smith's  house  had  its  garden  behind^  and  a 
anvil,  came  up,  and  interposed.  '^  Ye  bare-headed  progeny  running  wild  a- 
utterly  castaway  and  graceless  crea-  bout  the  banks  of  the  rivulet ;  be- 
lures,  are  ye  making  godless  mirth  side  which,  many  old  men  and  ma- 
on  a  green  hill  side  ? "  said  she,  trons,  seated  according  to  their  con- 
stretching  forth  her  hands,  garnished  venience,  eigoyed  the  light  of  the 
with  lonff  finger-nails,  over  the  sun,  and  the  sweetness  of  the  sum*- 
crowd — ^like  a  hawk  over  a  brood  of  mer  air.  At  the  eastern  extremity  of 
chickens,  "  is  not  this  the  day  when  the  village,  a  noble  religious  ruin,  in 
patronage  seeks  to  be  mighty,  and  the  purest  style  of  the  Saxons,  raised 
will  prevail.  Put  yourselves,  there-  its  snattered  towers  and  minarets  far 
fore,  in  array.  The  preaching  man  above  all  other  buildings ;  while  the 
of  Belial,  with  his  red  drains,  wall-flowers,  shooting  forth  in  the 
even  now  approaches  the  afflicted  spring  at  every  joint  and  crevioei 
kirk  of  Bleedine-Heart.  Have  ye  perfumed  the  air  for  several  roods 
not  h«u^  how  they  threaten  to  cast  around.  The  buttresses,  and  exte- 
the  cope-stone  of  the  kirk  into  the  rior  auxiliary  walls,  were  covered 
deep  sink,  where  our  forefathers  of  with  a  thick  tapestry  of  ivy ;  whidi^ 
yore  threw  the  lady  of  Babylon,  and  with  its  close-clinginff  and  smooth 
her  painted  and  mitred  minions  ?  shining  leaf,  resembled  a  covering  of 
But  it  is  ever  this  wav.  Ye  would  velvet.  One  bell,  which  tradition 
barter  the  soul's  wei£Euie  for  the  declares  to  be  of  pure  silver,  re- 
body's  folly.  Ah!  what  would  He-  mained  on  the  top  of  one  of  the  high- 
zekiahGraneaway,thy  devout  grand-  est  turrets,  beyond  the  reach  c^man. 
father,  say,  were  he  to  see  his  de-  It  is  never  rung,  save  by  a  violent 
scendant,  on  a  day  of  trial  like  this,  storm ;  and  its  rinffinff  is  reckoned 
standing  making  mouths  at  a  poor  omuious— deaths  at  land^  and  drown- 
packman-lad,  with  a  bevy  of  pet-  ings  at  sea,  follow  the  sound  of  the 
ticoated  temptresses  around  him  ?  silver  beU  of  Bleeding-Heart  Abbey. 
Get  along,  I  say,  lest  I  tear  these  Innumerable  swarms  of  pigeons  and 
curled  love-locks  from  thy  temples,  daws  shared  the  upper  region  of  the 
And  as  for  thee,  thou  young  money-  ruin  among  them,  and  built  and 
changer  —  thou  dealer  in  maiden  brought  forth  their  young  in  the  de- 
trickery  and  idle  gauds,  knowest  serted  niches  of  saints,  and  the  holes 
thou  not  that  this  is  Ordination  from  which  corbals  of  carved  wood 
DAY— so  buckle  up  thy  merchandize,  had  supported  the  painted  ceilin^^. 
and  follow.  Verily,  none  can  teU  At  the  vcery  Jbot  of  this  majestic  edi- 
from  whose  hand  the  blow  shall  come  fice,  stooo  the  parish  kirk,  built  in 
this  day,  that  will  save  us  from  the  utter  contempt  of  the  beautiful  pnn 
sinful  compliance  with  that  offspring  portions  of  Us  ancient  neighbour ; 
of  old  Mahoun,  even  patronage."  I  and  for  the  purpose,  perhaps,  of  prov<* 
was  glad  of  any  pretext  for  with-  ing  in  how  mean  a  sanctuary  the 
drawing  mv  goods  from  the  hands  pure  and  stem  devotion  of  the  Pres- 
of  ray  unwelcome  visitors ;  so  I  hud-  oyterians  could  humble  itself.  Men 
died  them  together,  secured  them  thrash  their  grain,  stall  their  horses, 
with  the  lock,  and  followed  the  zea-  house  their  cattle,  and  even  lodge 
lous  dame,  who,  with  a  proud  look,  themselves,  in  houses  dry  and  corn- 
walked  down  the  hill,  to  unite  her-  fortable — ^but,  for  religion,  they  erect 
self  to  a  multitude  of  aU  ranks  and  edifices  which  resemole  the  grave : 
sexes,  which  the  placing  of  the  pa-  the  moist  clay  of  the  floor,  the  damp- 
rish  minister  had  collected  together.  ness,  and  frequent  droppings  of  water 
The  place  where  this  multitude  of  from  the  walls,  are  prime  matters  of 
motley  beliefs  and  feelings  had  as-  satisfaction  to  the  parish  grave-dig- 
sembled,  was  one  of  singular  beauty,  ger,  and  preserve  his  spade  ihmi 
At  the  bottom  of  a  woody  glen,  the  rust. 

margin  of  a  beautiful  lake,  and  the        Into  this  ancient  abbey,  and  the 

foot  of  a  high  green  mountain,  with  beautiful  region  around  it,  the  whole 

the  sea  of  Solwav  seen  rolling  and  population  of  the  parish  appeared  to 

sparkling  in  the  distance,  stood  a  po-  nave  poured  itself,  for  the  purpose  of 

pulous  and  straggling  village,  through  witnessing,  and  perhaps  resisting  the 

which  a  clear  stream,  and  a  paved  ordination  of  a  new  and  obnoxious 

road,    winded   side  by  side.    Each  pastor,    whom  patrona^  had  ^^co^ 

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404                                      I^ruditional  Literaiure,  QOct. 

Tided  for  their  instruction.    Youths^  say^  else  I  shall  brain  thee  with  this 

more  eager  for  a  pleasant  sight  than  precious  book."    And  she  shook  the 

religious  controversy^  had  ascended  religious  missile  at  the  descendant  of 

into  the  abbey  towers ; — the  thick-  old  Gomorrha^   who  carried  off  the 

piled  grave-stones  of  the  kirk-yard —  stone ;  and  no  farther  attempt  was 

each  ruined  buttress— the  broken  al-  made^  after  this    ominous    circum- 

tar  stone,  and  the  tops  of  the  trees,  stance,  to  augment  the  rampart, 

were  filled  with  aged  or  with  youth-  Amid  all  this  stir  and  preparaUon, 

ful  spectators.     Presbyterians  of  the  I  had  obtained    but    an    indistinct 

established    kirk.     Burghers,    Anti-  knowledge  of  the  cause  which  called 

burghers,  Cameronians,  and  seceders  into  action  all  the  grave,  impatient, 

of   all   denominations,  paraded    the  and  turbulent  spirits  of  the  district, 

long  crooked  street  of  the  village.  This  was  partly  divulged  in  a  con- 

uidwhiled  away  the  heavy  time,  and  versation   between  two  persons,   to 

amused  their  fancy,  and  soothed  their  which    there    were  many    auditors, 

conscience,   by    splitting  anew    the  One  was  the  male  broad-bonnetted 

straws  scattered  about  by  the  idle  disciplinarian,  who  rebuked  me  for 

wind  of  controversy.    Something  like  displaying  the  contents  of  my  pack  ; 

an  attempt  to  obstruct  the  entrance  and  the  other  was  the  sour-visaged, 

to  Che  kirk  appeared  to  have  been  shrill-tongued    dame,    who  rescued 

made.    The  spuit  of  opposition  had  my  pack  from  the  peril  of  pillage 

hewn  down  some  stately  trees  which  on  tne  road,  and  with  the  true  an- 

shaded  the  kirk-yard,  and  these,  with  tique  spirit  of  the  reformed  church, 

broken  ploughs  and  carts,  were  cast  lent    her    voice    to   swell    the   cla- 

into  the  road — the  kirk  door  itself  mour  of  controversy.     Their    faces 

had  been  nailed  up,  and  the  bell  si-  were  inflamed,  and  their  voices  ez- 

lenced  by  the  removal  of  the  rope,  sited,  by  the  rancour  of  mutual  con« 

The  silver  bell  on  the  abbey  alone,  tradiction :  and  it  was  thus  1  heard 

swept  by  a  sudden  wind,  gave  one  the  male  stickler  for  the  kirk's  free- 

{ gentle  toll;  and,  at  that  moment,  a  dom  of  election  express  himself:  ''  I 
oud  outcry,  from  end  to  end  of  the  tcJl  thee  once,  woman,  and  I  tell  thee 
▼illage,  announced  the  approach  of  again,  that  the  kirk  of  Bleeding- 
the  future  pastor.  The  peasants  Heart  there,  where  it  stands  so  proud 
thickened  round  on  aU  sides;  and  and  so  bonnieby  thesideofthatauld 
some  proceeded  to  waU  up  the  door  carcase  of  the  woman  of  Rome, — 
of  the  kirk  with  a  rampart  of  loose  I  tell  thee  it  shall  stand  empty  and 
stones.  ^'  Let  Dagon  defipd  Dagon,"  deserted,  shall  send  forth  on  Sunday 
said  one  rustic,  misnipMng  the  a  dumb  silence,  and  the  harmony  of 
Scripture  he  quoted,  while  he  threw  her  voice  be  heard  no  more  in  the 
the  remauis  of  the  abbey  altar-stone  land,  —  rather  than  she  shall  take 
into  the  path.  "  And  here  is  the  like  a  bridegroom  to  her  bosom,  that 
through-stone  of  the  last  abbot,  Wil-  sapless  slip  of  the  soul-misleading 
lie  Bell.  It  makes  a  capital  cope-  and  Latin-quoting  University.  In- 
stone  to  the  defences-^I  kenn'd  it  by  stead  of  drinking  from  the  pure  and 
the  drinking  cup  aside  the  death's  fresh  well-head,  we  shall  have  to 
nead-^he  liked  to  do  penance  with  a  drink  from  the  muddy  ditch  which 
stoup  of  wine  at  his  elbow,"  said  men  have  dug  for  themselves  with 
another  boor,  adding  the  broken  the  spades  and  shovels  of  learning, 
stone  to  the  other  incumbrances.  Instead  of  the  down-pouring  of  the 
"  A  drinking  cup !  ye  coof,"  said  an  frank  and  heaven-communicated  spi- 
dld  man,  pressing  through  the  crowd,  rit,  we  shall  have  the  earthly  spirit — 
"  it  is  a  sand-dass-— and  cut  too  on  the  the  gross  invention  and  fancy  of  man 
head-stone  of  thy  own  grandfather  —  — a  long,  dull,  down-come  of  a  read 
black  will  be  thy  end  for  this."  The  sermon,  which  falls  as  seed  on  the 
boor  turned  away  with  a  shudder ;  ocean,  and  chaff  on  the  furrowed 
while  the  dame  of  Aimaumrie,  with  land.  Besides  all  this,  is  not  this 
the  black  hood,  and  large  Bible,  ex-  youth— this  Joel  Kirkpatrick,  a  slip 
claimed,  ^'  Take  away  that  foul  me-  or  scion  from  the  poisonous  tree  of 
morial  of  old  Gomorrha  Gunson.  patronage,  that  last  legacy  from  the 
The  cause  can  never  prosper  that  scarlet  lady  of  Rome  ?  *' 1  say  no 
borrows  defence  from  that  never^io-  to  that — the  back  of  my  hand  to 
good's  grave.    Remove  the  stone,  I  that,"  interrupted  the  woman,  in  red 


18S1.;]  TradUinmai  lAteraJtwre.  405 

and  visible  wrath ;  "I  have  heard  The  women  and  the  children^  gather^ 
him  preachy  and  I  have  profited  by  ing  the  summer  dust  in  their  hands^ 
his  prayers ;  he  is  a  precious  youths  showered  it  as  thick  and  as  blinding 
and  has  a  happy  gift  at  unravelling  as  winter-drift  on  the  persons  of  the 
the   puzzled  skein    of  controversy,  troopers.    The  anger  of  the  people 
He   will  be  a  fixed  and  a  splendid  did  not  rest  here ;  pebbles  began  to 
star^  and  that  ye  will  soon  see.    And  be  thrown^  and  symptoms  of  fiercer 
here  he  comes,   blessings  upon  his  hostility  began    to  manifest   them- 
head ;  ye  shall  hear  a  sermon  soon^  selves ;    for    many  of   the  peasants 
such  as  has  not  been  heard  in  the  were  armed,  and  seemed  to  threaten 
land,  since  that  chosen  youth,  John  to  dispute  the  entrance  to  the  kirk. 
Rutherford,   preached   on  the  text.  In    the    midst    of  all    this  tumult, 
^  I  shall  kiss  thee  with  kisses  of  my  mounted  on  a  little  white  horse,  and 
mouth.'  "    ^'  Woman,  woman,"  said  dressed  in  black,  rode  a  young  man, 
her  antagonist,    thou  art  the  slip-  around  whom  the  dust  ascended  and 
periest  of  thy  kmd ;  and  opposition  descended  as  if  agitated  by  a  whirl- 
and    controversy  turn    thee  round,  wind.    This  was  the  minister.    He 
even  as  the  bush  bends  to  the  blast,  passed  on,  nor  looked  to  the  right 
To-day  hast  thou  stood  for  the  kiric  or  left,  but  with  singular  meekness, 
in  its  ancient  purity ;  and  lo !  now  and  a  look  of  sorrow  and  resignation, 
thou  wilt  take  her  defiled  by  patron-  endured  the  tumultuous  scorn  of  the 
age,  because  of  that  goodly  youth  crowd.    Long  before  he  reached  the 
Joel    Kirkpatrick."      '^  Silence,  ye  limit  of  the  village,  he  seemed  more 
fule-fowk,'   said  a  voung  plowman  a  pillar  of  dust  tnan  a  human  being, 
at  their  side,  *^  ye'll  no  let  me  hear  *'  Is  the  kirk  a  dog,  that  thou  comest 
the    sound  of  the   soldiers'  bugle  :  against  her  with  staves  ?  "  said  one : 
I  hey  are  coming  to  plant  the  gospd  ''Or  is  she  a  besieged  city,  that  thou 
with  spear  and  with  sword.     I  have  bringest  against  her    thy  horsemen 
seen  many  a    priest  placed,    some  and  thy  chariots?"  cried  a  second: 
with  pith  of  the  tongue,  and  some  ''  Or  comest   thou    to   slav,  whom 
with  the  pith  of  malt :  Black  Ned,  thou  canst  not  convince  ? '   shouted 
of  the  parish  of  Slokendrouth,  was  a  third :    ''  Or  dost  thou    come  to 
placed  in  his  pulpit  by  the  aid  of  the  wash  thy  garments  in  the  blood  of 
brown  spirit  of  malt ;  and  there  the  saints  ?  "  bawled  a  fourth :  ''  Or  to 
same  spirit  supports  him  stilL    But,  teach  thy  flock  the  exercise  of  the 
on  my  conscience,  I  never  saw  a  par-  sword  rather  than  the  exercise  of  de- 
son  guarded  to  the  pulpit  with  cold  votion  ?  "  veUed  a  fifth :  ''  Or  come 
steel  before.    It's  a  sight  worth  see-  ve,"  exdauned  a  sixth — at  the  very 
ing."     A  stir  and  a  movement  was  limit  of  the  human  voice,  *'  to  mix 
now  observed  at  the  extremity  of  the  sound  of  the  psalm  with  that  of 
the  village ;   and  presently  the  hel-  the  trumpet,  and  to  hear  how  dividity 
mets,  and  plumes,  and  drawn  swords,  and  slaughter  will  sound  together  ? 
of  two  hundred  horsemen,  appeared.  Others  expressed  their  anger  in  hiss- 
shining  and  waving  above  the  crowd,  ings  and    hootings ;    while    an   old 
This  unusual  accompaniment  of  the  mendicant  ballad-singer  paraded,  step 
ministerial    fimctions    was    greeted  by  step  with  the  minister,  throu^ 
with  hissings  and  hootings :  and  the  the^rowd,  and  sung  to  a  licentious 
sconi  and  anger  of  the    multitude  tune  the  following  rustic  lampoon  >— 
burst  at  once  into   one    loud  yell. 

FLACINO   THS   FAESON. 
1. 

Come  hasten,  and  see,  for  the  kirk,  like  a  bride. 

Is  array'd  for  her  spouse  in  sedateness  and  pride. 

Comes  he  in  meek  mood,  with  his  hands,  clasp'd,  and  sighing 

For  the  godless  and  doom'd,  with  his  hope  >9et  ea  Zion  ? 

Comes  he  with  the  grave,  the  austere,  and  the  sage, — 

A  warfare  with  those  who  scoff  Scripture  to  wage  ? 

He  comes — ^hark !  the  reins  of  his  war-steeds  are  ringing  ; 

His  trumpet— but  'tis  not  God's  trumpet^  is  singing. 


40d  Traditkmat  Liierdiure.  {!Pc^ 

9. 
Clap  ymir  hands^  all  ye  graceless ;  S&g  loud,  aiid  rejoice. 
Ye  young  men  of  Rimmon ;  and  lift  up  your  voice 
All  ye  w^o  love  wantonness,  wassail,  and  sinning 
Wili  the  dame  deck'd  in  scarlet  and  fine- twined  linen. 
Scoff  louder,  thou  scoffer ;  scorn  on,  thou  proud  scomer ; 
Satan  comes  to  build  kirks,  and  has  laid  the  first  comer. 
The  Babylon  dame,  from  perdition's  deep  pool. 
Sings  and  cradles  her  babes  in  the  kirk's  cuttle  stool. 

3. 
He  comes !  of  all  parsons  the  swatch  and  the  pattern. 
Shaped  out  to  save  souls  by  the  shears  of  his  patron. 
He  comes  steep'd  in  learning's  dark  puddle,  and  chatters 
Greek  words,  and  tears  all  Calvin's  creed  into  tatters. 
And  vows  the  hot  pit  shall  shut  up  its  grim  portals. 
Nor  devour  to  a  tithe  the  sum-total  of  mortals  ; 
Talks  of  works,  tod  morality's  WiD-o'-Wisp  glimmer. 
And  showers  reason's  frost  on  our  spiritual  simmer. 

He  comes !  lo !  behind  on  their  war-horses  ranking. 

Ride  his  bands  of  the  faithful,  their  steel  weapons  clanking ; 

Proud  hour  for  religion,  when  God's  chosen  word 

Is  proclaim'd  by  the  trump,  and  confirm'd  by  the  sword. 

Proud  hour,  when  with  bayonet,  and  banner,  and  brand. 

The  kirk  spreads  her  sway  o'er  old  Galloway's  land. 

Where  of  yore,  Sandie  Peden  look'd  down  on  the  vales. 

Crying — Clap  me  hell's  flame  to  their  heathenish  tails. 

Over  this  minstrel  discordance,  a  pebbles  and  staves,  stood  ready  to 
far  louder  din  now  prevailed ;  though  succour,  with  hand  and  with  voice, 
the  mendicant  raised  his  voice  to  its  the  maintainers  of  kirk  purity. — 
loftiest  pitch,  and  all  those  who  pur-  The  casting  of  dust — the  showerinr 
diased  his  ballad,  sweUed  the  noise  of  gravel  and  stones,  and  the  loud 
with  their  utmost  strength.  A  grove  outcry  of  the  multitude,  every  mo- 
of  elm  and  oak,  old  and  stately,  ment  •  augmented.  John  Cargill,  a 
whose  broad  green  branches  had  gifted  Cameronian  weaver,  from  one 
shaded  the  splendid  processions  of  of  the  wildest  Galloway  mountains, 
the  hierarchy  of  the  church  of  brandished  an  oaken  treddle  with 
Rome,  when  in  the  height  of  ita  which  he  had  armed  himself,  like  a 
glory,  presented  a  short  avenue  from  quarter-staff,  and  cried,  "  Down 
ue  end  of  the  village  to  the  door  of  with  the  men  of  Moab."  Tom  Gun- 
the  parish  kirk.  Here  the  peasantry  son,  a  smuggler,  shouted  till  he  was 
posted  themselves  in  great  numbers ;  heard  a  mile  distant,  "  Down  with 
and  here  the  horsemen  halted  to  them,  my  handy  chaps,  and  we'll 
form  for  the  charge,  which  they  ex-  drink  the  auld  kirk's  health  out  of 
pected  to  make  before  they  could  the  troopers'  helmets ;"  and  to  crown 
obtain  access  to  the  church.  Nor  their  audacitv,  111  Will  Tennan,  the 
did  this  promise  to  be  an  easy  task,  poacher,  halloed,  ^  Ise  shoot  the 
Many  of  the  peasants  were  well-  whole  troop  at  a  gray  groat  the  pair, 
armed ;  and  boat-poles,  pitchforks,  and  give  ye  the  raven  priest  to  the 
fish-spears,  and  hedging-bills  —  all  mends — who  strikes  the  bargain?" 
excellent  weapons  for  resistance  and  Open  hostility  seemed  almost  una- 
annoyance — began  to  thicken  near  voidable,  when  an  old  farmer,  throw- 
the  bosoms  of  the  horses ;  while  ing  his  hat  aside,  advanced  suddenly 
behind,  fowling-pieces,  and  pistols,  from  the  crowd  to  the  side  of  the  rai- 
and  swords,  appeared  prepared  in  nister,  and  said,  '^  Did  I  ev^r  think 
hands  that  knew  well  how  to  use  I  should  behold  the  son  of  my  sooth- 
them.  In  a  remoter  line  still,  the  fast  firiend,  Hebron  Kirkpatrick,  go- 
women,   their  aprons  charged  with  ing  to  glorify  God's  name  at  the  head 


1891.11                                 TradUional  LUcraiure.  407 

of  a  band  of  daily  brawlers  and  paid  but  he  will  be  sweeter  than  the  ho- 
stabbers — ^his  horse's  feet  shall  pass  ney-corab."  '^  Absolve  thee/'  said 
over  this  frail  body  first ; "  ana  he  one  old  man^  the  garrulity  of  age 
bent  himself  down  at  the  feet  of  the  making  a  speech  out  of  what  he 
minister's  horse,  with  his  gray  locks  meant  for  an  exclamation,  "  Ab- 
nearly  touching  the  dust.  At  this  solve  thee  of  the  foul  guilt,  the  bum- 
unexpected  address,  and  remarkable  ing  sin,  and  the  black  shame  of  that 
action,  Joel  Kirkpatrick  wakened  as  bane  and  wormwood  of  Grod's  kirk, 
from  a  reverie  of  despondency,  and  even  patronage ;  and  come  unto  us, 
light\ng  from  his  horse,  took  the  old  — not  with  the  array  of  horsemen  and 
man  in  his  arms  with  looks  of  con-  the  affeir  of  war ;  but  come  with  the 
cem  and  affection.  The  multitude  humility  of  tears,  and  the  contrition 
was  hushed  while  the  minister  of  si^hs,  and  we  shall  put  thee  in  the 
said,  "  May  my  head  be  borne  by  pulpit ;  for  we  know  thou  art  a  gifted 
tlie  scofier  to  the  grave,  and  my  youth."  Another  old  man  with  a 
name  serve  for  a  proverb  of  shame  bonnet  and  plaid,  and  bearing  a  staff 
and  reproach,  if  1  step  another  step  to  reinforce  nis  lack  of  argument,  an- 
this  day  other  than  thou  wiliest,  swered  the  enemy  of  patronage. 
Thou  hast  long  been  an  exemplar  and  "  Who  wishes  for  the  choice  of  the 
a  guide  to  me,  John  Halberson;  and,  foolish  many,  in  preference  to  the 
though  God's  appointed  preacher,  and  election  of  the  one-wise  ?  The  choice 
called  to  the  tending  of  his  flock,  be  of  oiu*  pastor  will  be  as  foolishness  for 
assured  1  will  have  thy  sanction,  our  hearts  and  a  stumbling-block  to 
else  my  ministry  may  be  barren  of  our  feet  When  did  ignorance  lift  up 
fruit."  The  venerable  old  man  gazed  its  voice  as  a  judge,  and  the  sick  heart 
on  the  young  preacher  with  the  light  become  its  own  physician  ?  We  are 
of  gladness  in  his  eyes,  and  takinff  his  as  men  who  know  nothings— each  ex- 
hand,  said,  "  Joel  Kirkpatrick,  heed  pounding  scripture  as  seemeth  wise 
my  words ;  1  question  not  the  autho-  m  vain  eyes  ;  and  yet  shall  we  ffo  to 
rity  of  the  voice  permitted  by  Him  say  this  man,  and  no  other,  hath  the 
whom  we  serve  to  call  thee  to  this  wisdom  to  teach  and  instruct  us  ? " 
ministry.  The  word  of  the  multi-  "  Well  spoken  and  wisely,  laird  of 
tude  is  not  always  with  the  wisest,  Birkenloan,"  shouted  a  plowman 
nor  the  cry  of  the  people  with  the  from  the  summit  of  the  old  abbey ; 
sound  divine  and  the  gined  preacher.  '^  more  by  token,  our  nearest  neigh- 
1  push  thee  not  forward,  neither  do  hours,  in  their  love  for  the  lad  who 
I  pluck  thee  back ;  but  surely,  surely^  could  preach  a  sappy  spiritual  sermon, 
young  man  of  God,  he  never  ordained  elected  to  the  ministry  a  sworn  and 
the  ^ory  of  his  blessed  kirk  to  be  ordained  bender  of  the  bicker,  whose 
sustained  by  the  sword,  and  that  he  pulpit,  instead  of  the  odour  of  sane* 
whom  he  called  should  come  blow-  tity,  sends  forth  the  odour  of  smugu 
ing  the  trumpet  against  it.  Much  do  gled  gin." — ^A  loud  burst  of  laughter 
1  fear  for  the  honour  of  that  nunis-  from  the  multitude  acknowledged 
try  which  is  entered  upon  with  ban-  the  truth  of  the  plowman's  sarcasm  ; 
ner  and  brand."  As  John  Halberson  while  Jock  Gillock,  one  of  the  moet 
spoke,  a  sudden  light  seemed  to  break  noted  smugglers  of  the  coast  of  Sol- 
upon  the  preacher — ^he  motioned  the  way,  shook  his  hand  in  defiance  at 
soldiers  back;  and  taking  off  his  hat,  the  rustic  advocate  of  patronage, 
advanced  firmly  and  meekly  down  and  said,  "  If  I  don't  make  ye  m& 
the  avenue  towards  the  kirk-door,  best  thrashed  Robson  ever  stept  in 
one  time  busied  in  silent  prayer,  an-  black  leather  shoon,  may  I  be  foun- 
other  time  endeavouring  to  address  dered  in  half  a  fathom  of  fresh  water.** 
the  multitude.  *'  Hear  him  not,"  said  "  And  if  ye  fail  to  know  the  smcdl  of 
one  matron ;  '^  for  he  comes  schooled  a  plowman's  hand  from  this  day  forth** 
from  the  university  of  guile  and  de-  with,  compared  to  that  of  all  meaner 
ceit;  and  his  words,  sweet  as  honey  in  men's,"  cried  the  undaunted  agricul- 
the  mouth,  may  prove  bitter  In  the  turist,  "  I  shall  flhre  ye  leave  to  chop 
belly,  even  as  wormwood."  ''  1  say  me  into  ballast  wr  your  smuggling 
hear  him,  hear  him,"  said  another  ma-  cutter:"  and  he  descended  to  the 
tron,  shsJdng  her  Bible  at  her  neigh-  ground  with  the  agility  of  a  cat, 
hour's  head,  to  enforce  submission —  while  the  mariner  hastened  to  en- 
"  ye  thmk  him  bitterer  than  the  gourd,  counter  him ;  and  aU  the  impetuous 


408  Traditumal  LUertOmre.  {!pc^ 

and  intractable  spirits  on  botli  sides  youth  and  the  pride  of  fife;  for  the 

ft^lowed  to  witness  the  battle.     "  80  follies  of  the  land  multiply  ex<xediiig<- 

now,"  said  an  old  peasant,  '*  doth  not  ly."     From  him  the  divine  turned 

the  veicked  slacken  their  array?  Doth  away  in  displeasure ;  but  recenred  m 

not  the  demon  of  secession,  who  hath  the  other  ear  the  cross-fire  of  an  old 

so  long  laid  waste  our  kirk,  draw  off  woman,  whose  nose  and  chin  could 

his  forces  of  his  own  free  will  ?  Let  have  held  a  hazel  nut,  and  almost 

us  fight  the  fight  of  righteousness,  cracked  it  between  their  extremities ; 

while  the  workers  of  wickedness  fight  and  whose  upper  lip  was  gamiahed 

their  own  battles.    Let  us  open  the  with  a  beard,  matching  in  length  and 

kirk  portals,  blocked  up  and  barrica-  strength    the    whiskers    of    a    cat. 

doed  by  the  Shimeis  of  the  land."  Se-  "  And  O,  Sir,  he's  in  a  state  of  single- 

veral  times  the  young  preacher  at-  innocence  and  sore  temptation  even 

tempted  to  address  the  crowd,  who  had  now— warn  him,  I  beseech  thee;  warn 

conceived  a  sudden  affection  for  him  him  of  the  pit  into  which  that  singu- 

since  the  salutary  dismissal  of  the  lar  and  pious  man  fell  in  the  hour  of 

dragoons — ^but  his  flock  were  far  too  evil— even  him   whom    the  scofiTers 

clamorous,  impatient,  and  elated,  to  call  sleepy  Samuel.    Bid  him  beware 

heed  what  he  had  to  say.    They  were  of  painted  flesh  and  languishing  eyes 

unaccustomed  to  be  addressed,  save  — of  which  there  be  enough  in  this 

from    the    pulpit ;    and    the    wisest  wicked  parish.    Tell  him  to  beware 

speech  from  a  minister  without  the  of  one  whose  love-locks  and  whose 

imposing  accompaniments  of  pulpit  lures  will  soon  pluck  him  down  from 

and  pews,   and  ranks  of  douce  un-  his  high  calling,  even  the  fair  daugh- 

bonnetted  listeners,  is  sure  to  fail  in  ter  of  the  old  dour  trunk  of  the  tree  of 

making  a  forcible  impression.  It  was  papistry,  bonnie  Bess  Glendinning^." 

wise,  perhaps,  in  the  minister  to  fol-  Here  her  words  were  drowned   in 

low  the  counsel  of  grave  John  Hal-  the  more  audible  counsel  of  another 

bersori,  and  let  the  multitude  work  of  the  burning  and  shining  lights  of 

their  own  way.     They  lifted    him  the  parish,  from  whose  lips  escaped^ 

from  the  ground ;   and,  borne  along  in  a  tone  resembling  a  voice  from  a 

by  a  crowd  of  old  and  young,  he  ap-  cavern,  the  alarming  words,  '*  Soci- 

proached    the   kirk  —  the  obstacles  nians,  Arminians,  Dioclesians,  Eras* 

which  impeded    the  way    vanished  tians,  Arians,  and  Episcopalians." — 

before  the  activity  of   a    thousand  '^  Episcopalians ! "  ejaculated  an  old 

willing  hands.     The  kirk-door,  fast-  woman  in  dismay  and  astonishment^ 

ened  with  iron  spikes  by  a  band  of  who  mistook,  perhaps,  this  curtailed 

smugglers  on  the  preceding  evening,  catalogue  of  schismatics  for  some  tre* 

was  next  assailed,  and  burst  against  mendous    anathema  or    exorcism — 

the  wall  with  a  clang  that  made  the  **  Episcopalians !    God  protect  me, 

old  ruin  ring  again,  and  in  rushed  a  what's  that  ?  " 

multitude  of  heads,  fiUin^  every  seat,         I  have  no  wish  to  attempt  to  de- 

as  water  fills  a  vessel,  from  one  end  scribe  the  effects  which  a  very  happy, 

of  the  building  to  the  other.     The  pithy,  and  fervent  inauguration  ser- 

preacher  was  borne  aloft  by  this  liv-  mon  had  on  the  multitude.    The  to- 

ing  tide  to  the  door  of  the  pulpit ;  pics  of  election,  redemption,  predes* 

while  the  divine,  to  whom  was  de-  tination,   and  the  duties   which  he 

puted  the  honour  of  ordaining  and  called  his  brother  to  perform,  with  a 

placing  him  in  his  ministry,  was  wel-  judicious  mind,  a  christian  feeling, 

comed  by  a  free  passage,  though  he  and  an  ardent  but  temperate  spirit, 

had  to  listen  to  many  admonitions  as  were  handled,  perilous  as  the  topics 

he  passed.    '*  O  admonish  him  to  were,  with  singular  tact,  and  discri- 

preach  in  the  ancient  spirit  of  the  mination,  and  delicacy.    The  happy 

reformed  kirk— in  a  spint  that  was  mixture  of  active  morality  and  spi- 

wonderful  to  hear  and  awful  to  un-  ritual  belief,  of  work-day-world  prac- 

derstand,"  said  one  old  man,  shaking  tice,  and  elegant  theory,  which  this 

a  head  of  grey  Ijiaix  as  he  spoke,  address  contained,  deserves  a  lasting 

"  And  O,"  said  another  peasant  as  remembrance. 

the  divine  tiuiied  his  head,  unwiUing        The  summary  of  the   preacher's 

thus  to  be  schooled  in  his  calling —  duties,  and  the  description  of  the  im- 

'^  targe  him  tightly  anent  chamber-  pctuous  and  mistempcrcd  spirits  of 

ing   and  wantonness,   the  glory  of  Uie   parish,    and   the  contradictory 


1881.;]  Tradiihmd  LUtrahu^.  409 

creeds  which  he  had  to  soothe  and  of  tongues  and  opfanons  in  which  the 
to  solder,  form  still  a  traditionary  district  ^uger  figured,  a  nddnigte 
treasure  to  the   parish.    To  roinds  importation   of  choice  Geneva^  the 
Younff   and  gidd^  as   mine>    these  rapid  consumption  of  which  was  hae« 
healthy  and  solacmg  things  were  not  tened  by  the  burning  spark  of  coB« 
so  attractive  as  the  follies  and  out-  troversy  which  raged  unquenchably 
rages  of  a  disappointed  crowd ;  and  in  their  throats.    Many  retired  sub- 
let not  an  old  nian^  without  reflecting  lenly  homeward^  lamenting  that  s 
that  he  too  was  once  eighteen,  con-  concourse  of  men  of  hostile  opinions 
demn  me  for  forsaking  the  presence  could  collect,  controvert,  and  quarrd, 
and  precepts  of  the  preacher,  for  the  and   then   coolly    separate   without 
less  spiritual  and  less  moral,  but  no  blows  and  bloodshea,    cursing   the 
less  instructive  drama  which  was  act-  monotony  of  human  existence  now^ 
ing  in  the  open  air.  compared  with  the  stirring  times  of 
The  dragoons  were  still  on  their  l>oraer    forays    and    covenant-raide. 
saddles,  but  had  retired  to  the  ex-  A    moiety  nearly    of  the    seceding 
tremity  of  the  village,  where  they  crowd  remained  in  clumps  on  the 
emptied  bottles  of  ale,  and  sung  £n-  village-green.  They  were  men  chiefly 
glish  ballads,  with  a  gaiety  and  a  life  of  that  glowing  zeal,  to  whom  mere 
which  obtained  the  notice  of  sundry  charity  and  the  silent  operations  of 
of  the  younff  maidens ;  who  are  ob-  religious  feeling  seem  cold  and  un- 
served to  feel  a  regard  for  scarlet  and  fruitful ;  those  pure  and  fortunate  be* 
lace,  which  I  leave  to  those  who  love  ings  who  find  nothing  praise- worthT, 
not  their  pleasant  company  to  ex-  or  meriting  the  hope  of  salvation,  in 
plaui.     As    they    beffan    to  gather  the  actions  of  mere  men ;  who  disco- 
rounds  not  unobserved  of  the  sons  of  ver  new  interpretations  of  scripture. 
Mars,  some  of  the  village  matrons  and  rend  anew  the  party-coloured 
proceeded  to  remonstrate.  "  Where-  and  patched  garments  of  sect  and 
ibre  gaze  ye  on  the  men  with  whis-  schism  every  time  they  meet,  when 
kers,  pruned  and  landercd,  and  with  the  liquor  is  abundant.    Their  hope 
coats  of  scarlet,  and  with  lace  laid  on  of  the  complete  reform  in  the  disci- 
the    skirts   thereof,"    said    one   old  pline  of  the  parish  kirk,  or  the  crea- 
woman,  pulling  at  the  same  time  her  tion  of  a  new  meeting-house  to  enjoy 
reluctant  niece  by  the  hand,   while  the  eloquence    of  a    preacher,    the 
her  eyes,  notwithstanding  her  retro-  choice  of  their  own  wisdom,  seemed 
grade  motion,  were  fixed  on  a  brawny  now  nearly  blasted ;  and  they  uttered 
trooper.  ''And,  Deborah,"  said  a  mo-  their  discontent  at  the  result,  while 
ther  to  her  daughter,   whose  White  they  praised  the  dexterity  or  cunning 
hand  and  whiter  neck,  shaded  with  witli  which  they  opposed  the  ordina^ 
tresses  of  glossy  auburn,  the  hands  of  tion  of  that  protege  of  patronage,  Joel 
another  trooper  had  invaded,  '^  what  Kirkpatrick.      ''  The    kirk  session 
wouldst  thou  do  with  him  who  wears  may  buy  a  new  bell-rope,"  said  a 
the  helmet  of  brass  upon  his  head —  Cameronian    weaver,    *'  for    I    cut 
he  is  an  able-bodied  man,  but  a  great  away  the  tow  from    their  tinkling 
covenant-breaker,    and    he    putteth  brass  yestreen;  more  by  token,  it  now 
tnist  in  the  spear  and  in  the  sword."  tethers  my  hummel  cow  on  the  un« 
The  maiden  struggled  with  that  ear-  mowed  side  of  John  Allan's  park— he 
nestness  with  which  a  virgin  of  eigh-  had  no  business  to  set  himself  up  a- 
teen  strives  to  escape  from  the  kind-  gainst  the  will  of  the  parish  ana  the 
ness  of  a  handsome  man;  and  kiss    word  of  Qod."    Gilbert  Glass,  the 
succeeding  Idss  told  what    penalty  village    glazier,    found   a    topic    of 
she  incurred  in  delaying  to  follow  her    worldly  consolation    amid    the  spi* 
mother.    Of  the  dissenting  portion  of    ritual  misfortunes  of  the  day :  **  The 
the  multitude,  some  disposed  of  them-  kirk  windows  will  cost  them  a  fine 
selves  in    the    readiest    ale-houses;    penny  to  repair;  some  one,  whom  111 
where  the  themes  of  patronage,  free-  not  name,  left  not  a  single  pane  whole 
will,     and    predestination,    emptied    — and  each  pane  will  cost  the  heri* 
many  barrels;  and  the  clouds  of  mys-    tors  a  silver  riipence — that's  work 
tery  and  doubt  darkened  down  with    my  way.   It  is  an  evil  wind,  Saunders 
the  progress  of  the  tankard.   Others,    Bazeley,  that  blows  nobody  good ;  a 
of  a  more  flexible  system  of  morality,    profitable  proverb  to  you." — "  All 
weut  to  arrange,  far  from  the  tumult    that  1  know  of  the  proverb,"  re^^tied, 


410                                   Tradiiitmal  LiUrahare.  [[Oet. 

Saunden  the  slater^  "  ii  that  it  wiU  from  the  bosom  of  my  doop  the  Bon- 
be  thejiweet  licking  of  a  creamv  finger  nie  Nelly  Lawson  there^  where  she 
to  thee — but  alake !  what  will  I  get  lies  coade  among  Caimhowrie  birka, 
out  of  the  pain  of  riding  stride-1^  and  the  guager  nerer  the  wiser."  A 
over  the  clouted  roof  of  tne  old  kirl,  flood  of  sectarians  inundated  the  par^ 
patching  a  few  broken  slates  ?  I  have  lour  of  the  Thistle  and  Hand»Hain- 
Leard  of  many  a  wind  blowing  for  mer^  and  a  noise^  rivalling  the  de- 
one's  Kood^  but  I  never  heard  of  a  scent  of  a  Galloway  stream  down  one 
wind  that  imcovered  a  kirk  yet."  To  of  its  wildest  glens^  issued  ring^ig  far 
all  this>  answered  Micah  Meen,  a  sec*  and  wide  from  the  change-house, 
tarian  mason;  ''  Plague  on't !  I  wish  *'  Subscribe ! "  said  Gilpin  Johnstone, 
there  were  not  a  slate  on  its  roof^  or  a  fanner  of  Annandale  descent^  'f  I 
one  stone  of  its  wall  above  another,  would  not  give  seven  placks>  and 
This  old  kirk^  built  out  of  the  spare  these  are  but  small  coins^  for  the  fair- 
atones  of  the  old  abbey^  is  but  a  has-  est  kirk  that  ever  bore  a  roof  above 
Card-bairn  of  the  old  lady  of  Rome,  the  walls.  There's  the  goodman 
and  deserves  no  good  to  come  on't.  of  Hoshenfoot,  a  full  farmer,  who 
Lpdc  ye  to  the  upshot  of  my  words,  hopes  to  be  saved  in  his  own  way,  he 
Seventeen  year  have  I  been  kirk-  may  subscribe.  No  but  that  I  am 
mason,  and  am  still  as  poor  as  one  willing  to  come  and  listen  if  the  pe  w- 
of  its  mice.  But  bide  ye,  let  us  lay  rates  be  moderate."  "  Me  sub- 
our  heads  together,  and  build  a  brent  scribe,"  said  he  of  the  Hoshenfoot, 
new  meeting-house.  I  will  build  the  buttoning  his  pockets  as  he  spoke,  to 
walls,  and  no  be  too  hard  about  the  fortify  his  resolution,  '*  where  in  the 
siller,  if  I  have  the  letting  of  the  seats,  wide  world,  think  ye,  have  I  got  gold 
And  we  will  have  a  preacher  to  our  to  build  into  kiik-walls.  Besides, 
own  liking,  one  who  shall  not  preach  I  have  been  a  follower  of  that  ancient 
a  word  save  sound  doctrine,  else  let  poetical  mode  of  worship,  preaching 
me  never  bed  a  stone  in  mortar  more."  on  the  mountain  side ;  and  if  ye  wiU 
^'  £h  man,  but  ye  speak  soundly,"  give  me  a  day  or  two's  reaping  in  the 
said  Charlie  Goudge,  the  village  car-  throng  of  harvest,  I  will  lend  ye  the 
penter,  ^' in  all,  save  the  article  of  kirk-  green  hill  of  Knockhoolie  to  preach 
seats,  which  being  of  timber,  pertain  an  hour's  sound  doctrine  on  any  time  ; 
more  to  my  calling.  Whomsomever,  save,  I  should  have  said,  when  the 
I  would  put  a  roof  of  red  Norwav  peas  are  in  the  pod ;  and  then  deil 
fir  over  your  heads,  and  erect  ye  such  have  me  if  I  would  trust  a  hungry 
seats  as  no  man  sits  in  who  lends  his  congregation  near  them."  Similar 
ears  to  a  read  sermon."  *^  And  as  evasions  came  from  the  lips  of  seve- 
for  we  two,"  said  the  slater  and  the  ral  more  of  the  wealthy  seceders;  and 
glazier,  dubbing  their  callings  to-  one  by  one,  they  dissented  and  dis- 
gether,  for  the  sue  of  making  a  more  persed :  not  without  a  severe  contest 
serious  impression,  '*  we  would  coun-  with  the  landlord,  whether  they  were 
•el  ye  to  cover  your  kirk  with  blue  responsible  for  all  the  liquor  they  had 
Lancashire  slate,  instead  of  that  consumed,  seeing  it  was  for  the  spi- 
tpungy  stone  from  Locherbri^hill,  ritual  welfare  of  the  parish, 
which  besides,  coming  from  a  hill  of  If  the  entry  of  the  minister  into  his 
witch  and  devil-trysting,  is  fit  for  ministry  was  stormy  and  troubled, 
nought,  save  laying  above  a  dead  ample  reparation  was  made  by  the 
man  s  dwelling,  who  never  complains  mass  of  the  parishioners,  who,  after 
of  a  bad  roof;  and  farther,  put  none  the  ordination,  escorted  him  home  to 
of  your  dull  green  glass  in  the  win-  the  Manse,  giving  frequent  testimo- 
dows,  but  clear  pure  glass,  through  ny  of  that  sedate  joy  and  tranquil 
which  a  half-blind  body  might  see  satisfaction  which  the  people  of  Scot- 
to  expound  the  word."  *'  And  I  land  are  remarkable  tor  expressing. 
would  counsel  ye  to  begin  a  sub-  "  Reverend  Sir,  you  have  had  but  a 
scription  incontinent,"  said  the  keener  cold  and  a  wintry  welcome  to  your 
of  a  neighbouring  ale-house ;  "  and  if  ministry,"  said  an  old  and  substantial 
ye  will  come  mto  my  home,  we  can  dame,  ''  and  if  ye  will  oblige  me  by 
commence  the  business  with  moisten-  accepting  of  such  a  hansel,  I  shah 
ed  throats;  and,"  continued  mine  host  send  ye  what  will  make  a  gallant 
in  an  under  tone,  '^  I  can  kittle  up  house-heating."  "  And  ye  mauna 
jour  MpixitB  with  some  rare  Geneva  have  aU  the  joy  of  giving  gifts  to 


18S1.;]  Song  imiiaUd  Jrom  the  liaium*  411 

yourself^  goodwife^"  said  an  old  man  head.    Trust  not  thy  gifts  alone  for 
with  a  broad  bonnet,  and  stooping  working  deliverance  among  the  peo- 
over  a  staff,  "  for  I  shall  send  our  pie.    Tnou  must  know  each  man  and 
ain  Joel  Kirkpatrick  such  a  present  woman  by  face  and  by  name :  pass 
as  no  minister  o'  Bleeding-Heart  ever  into  their  abodes,   acquaint  thysdf 
received  since  Mirk-Monday,  and  all  with  their  feelings  and  their  failhifft, 
too  little  to  atone  for  the  din  that  my  and  move  them,  and  win  them,  to  Uie 
old    and    graceless    tongue    raised  paths  of  holiness,  as  a  young  man 
against  Grod's    gifted    servant   this  woos  his  bride.    Thou  must  dandle 
blessed  morning.      "  And  talking  of  their  yoimg  ones  on  thy  knees,  for 
atonements,"  interrupted  an  old  wo«  thy  Master  loved  little  children,  and 
man,  whose  hands  were  yet  unwashen  it  is  a  seemly  thing  to  be  beloved  of 
from  the  dust  which  she  had  thrown  babes.    Should  youth  go  astray.  In 
on  the  minister  in  the  morning,  '^  I  the  way  in  which  youth  is  prone^ 
have  an  atoning  ofiferinj^  to  make  for  take  it  gentlv  and  tenderly  to  task*- 
having  wickedlv  testined  against  a  severity  maketh  the  kirk  rancorouf 
minister  of  Grod  s  kirk  this  morning,  enemies,  and  persecution  tumeth  love 
1  shall  send  him  a  stone  wc^^t  of  into  deadly  hate;  humanity  and  kind* 
ewe-milk  cheese   to-morrow.      But  ness  are  the  leading  strings  of  the 
no  one  of  the  multitude  seemed  more  human   heart    One   counsel  more, 
delighted,  or  stood  his/her  in  general  and  I  have  done— take   unto   thee 
favour,  than  John  HalDerson,uie  wise  a    wife.      Ministers    are    not    too 
and  venerable  man  who  had  fiven  the  good  for  such  a  sweet  company  aa 
first  check  to  the  fiery  spuit   that  woman's,  neither  are  theytoo  stead* 
blazed  so  fiercely  in  the  morning.  He  fast  not  to  fear  a  fall.    Wed,  saith 
walked  by  the  minister's  side,  his  head  the  Scripture,  and  replenish  the  earthy 
uncovered,  and  his  remaining  white  — and  1  wish  not  the  good,  the  brave> 
hairs  glittering  in  the  descenduig  sun.  and  ancient  name  of  Kirkpatrick  to 
His  words  were  not  many;  but  they  pass  from  among  us.    Peace  be  with 
were  laid  up  in  the  heart,  and  prac-  thee,  and  many  days."    By  following 
tised  in  the  future  life  of  the  excel-  the  wise  counsel  of  his  venerable  pa- 
lent  person  to  whom  they  were  ad-  rishioner,  Joel  Kirkpatrick  became 
dressed.      "  Young  man  and  reve-    one  of  die  most  popular  pastors  of 
rend,  thy  lot  is  cast  in  a  stormy  sea-    the  Presbytery,  and  one  of  the  chief 
son,  and  in  a  stony  land.    There  be    luminaries  of  the  ancient  province  of 
days  for  sowing,  and  days  for  reap-    Galloway.  His  eloquence,  his  kindli- 
ing^  and  days  for  gathering  into  the    ness  of  heart,  and  the  active  charity 
gamer.      Thou  hast  a  mind  gifted    of  his  nature,  will  be  proverbial  6k 
with  natural  wisdom,  and  stored  with    parish  tradition,  while  eloquence,  and 
written  knowledge ;  a  tongue  fluent    kindness,  and  charity,  are  reverenced 
and  sweet  in  utterance,    and   thou    on  eartii. 
hast  drunk  of  the  word  at  the  well-        Latmnerlea,  Cumberland, 


SONO,  IMITATED  FROM  THE  ITALIAN. 

Yield  to  the  spheres  that  witching  strain 

That  from  their  orbs  has  roU'd ; 
To  eastern  climes  return  again 

Thdr  fragrance,  pearls,  and  gold. 

Be  to  the  sun  that  lustre  given. 

Thou  borrow'st  firom  his  flame : 
And  render  back  thy  smile  to  heaven 

From  whence  its  sweetness  came. 

Owe  to  the  mom  that  blush  no  more^ 

That  from  her  cheek  has  flown ; 
To  seraph  bands  their  truth  restore^         j^. 

Her  chasteness  to  the  moon. 

What  then  shall  of  the  charms  remain. 

Which  thou  dost  call  thine  own. 
Except  the  anger  and  disdain. 

That  turn  thy  slave  to  stone  ? 


41S  On  tkt  Soi^  of  tk€  People  of  Chikic  Saee.  CX>cU 

ON  THE  80NOS  OF  THE  PEOPLE  OF  GOTHIC  OR  TEUTONIC  RACS. 

All  the  low  Gennan  tribes  were  liam  the  Conqueror,  who  gave  £d^ 
early  distiiiguiahed  for  maritime  en-  land  a  new  constitution.    The  Nor* 
terprize,  but  the  Danes  and  Scandi-  men,    who  with    almost   incredible 
navians,  who  all  passed  by  the  name  fortune  and  courage  wrested    from 
of  Northmen,  or  Normen,  were  by  the  Arabs,  Apulia,  Calabria,  ^cily, 
far  the  most  remarkable  for  bold  ad-  and  for  a  time,  Jerusalem  and  An- 
▼entujre  in  the  middle  ages.    Num-  tioch,   were    adventiu^rs    from    the 
berless  are   the  names   of  the  sea  Duchy  founded  by  Rolf;  and  Tan- 
kuigs  and  heroes,  whose  deeds  are  cred,  whose  descendants  at  last  wore 
related  in  the  histories  'and  sagas  of    the  crown  of  Sicily  and  Apulia,  de* 
the  north.    It  is  impossible  not  to  be  soended  from  him.     If  we  were  to 
astonished  at  the  wide  extent  of  the  relate  all  the  bold  deeds  which  in 
space  traversed  by  them.     To  the  pilgrimages,  in  the  service  of  Coo- 
eastward,  Rorik,  (Roderick)  with  his  stantinople,  and    in  expeditions   in 
brothers,  founded  a  kingdom  in  No-  almost  every  land  and  sea,  even  to 
vogorod,  and  thereby  laid  the  foun-  Greenland  and  America,  were  achiev- 
dation  of  the  state  of  Russia.    Os-  ed  by  the  Normen,  the  relation  would 
kold  and   Dir    founded    a  state  in  seem  a  romance. 
Kiew,  which  united  with  that  of  No-        A  country,  for  the  most  part  ste- 
▼ogorod.    Ragnwald,  who  settled  at  rile  and  mountainous,  with  a  stem  di- 
Polotzk,  on  the  Dwina,  was  the  an-  mate,  possessing  on  one  side  an  extent 
cestor  of  the  grand  Dukes  of  Lithu-  of  coast  from  the  £lbe  to  Lapland,  of 
ania.       Northwards,    Naddod    was  not  less  than  1,400  miles  in  length, 
thrown  in  a  storm  on  Iceland,  which  could  hardly  fail  to  be  a  nursery  of 
became  the  asylum  of  the  noblest  maritime  adventurers.    It  was  ruled 
races  of  Norway.     Westwards  the  byanumber  of  petty  kings,  whose  au- 
Feroe,  Orkney,  Shetland,  and  Wes-  thority  depended  on  their  success  in 
tern  Islands  were  often  visited,  and  their  expeditions.    Besides  the  terri- 
partly  peopled  by  the  Normen ;  and  toriai  chiefs,  there  were  sovereigns, 
on  several  of  them  Northern  Jarls  who  possessed   neither  country   nor 
(pronounce  YarU)  long  ruled,  so  that  regular  subjects ;   the  sea  kings,  as 
the  harassed  Gads  were  not  secure,  they    were    called,    who,    wim  .no 
even  in  their  remotest  comers,  from  wealth  but  their  ships,  no  force  but 
German  nations.      In  Ireland  they  their  crews,  and  no  hope  but  from 
settled  as  early  as  the  times  of  Char-  their     swords,    swarmed    iu    every 
lemain,   when  Dublin  fell  to  Olof,  ocean,   and  plundered  every   coast, 
Waterford  to  Sitirk,  and  Limerick  to  and  whose  boast   it  was,  that  they 
Ywar.      In    England,    they    made  never  slept  under  a  smoky  roof,  and 
themselves  dreaded  under  the  name  never  quaffed  the  social  cup  over  a 
of  Danes ;  they  not  only  possessed  hearth.    The  youth  roved  about  in 
Northumberland   in    common    with  search  of  booty  for  the  bride  he  left 
Saxon  earls,    partly  independently,  at  home;  the  father,  for  his  wife  and 
and  partly  in  nefs,  but  all  England  children.    The  Normen  were  true  to 
was  subject  to  them  under  Canute,  one  another,  and  virtuous  men  in  dieir 
Harold,  and  Hardicanute.   From  the  own  eyes;  for  in  human  nature  there  is 
sixth  century,    they    disturbed  the  generally  a  wonderful  spirit  of  accom- 
coasts  of  France ;  and  the  fear  of  modation  in  our  principles  to  our  con- 
Charlemain,  that  much  danger  im-  venience.    The  plundering  Normen 
pended  over  his  country  from  them,  held  murder,  in  the  acquisition  of  their 
was   but    too  aniply  justified   soon  booty,  no  crime;  though  they  piqued 
after  his  death.     The  devastations  themselves  on  their  esteem  for  wo- 
which  they  committed,  not  merely  men,  and  were  the  chief  founders  of 
along  the  coasts,  but  far  up  the  ri-  chivalry ;  just  as  the  Roman  murder- 
yers,    and  in    Uie  middle  of  both  ers  and  robbers  of  the  present  day 
France  and  Germai^i  are  hardly  to  pique  themselves  on  their  orthodoxy, 
be  credited.     Rolf,  in  baptism  called  and  the  fervour  of  their  attachment 
Robert,  the  first  Duke  of^Normandy,  to  their  church.    We  doubt  if  Chris- 
became  the  founder  of  several  dy-  tianity  made  the  Normen  more  scni- 
nastles.    From  him  descended  Wil-  pulous,  with  regard  to  the  property 


1881.^  On  the  S(mg9  of  the  People  rf  Gotkifi  Maee.  ilS 

of  others,  than  it  did  our  Scotch  and  What  is 't  to  nsthat  Regan  Lodbrok  oon* 
English  borderers,  who  received  ab«  quer*d 

solution  one  day,  and  stole  cattle  the  The  ™c  Britannia,  that  BU>m  Ironside 

^^^^  EkclatmM  with  Hasting,  when  they  over^jmo 

The  Normen   setUed  the   matter  Proud  France,  and  Paris  burned, 'Now  kt 

with  their  conscience,  on  the  terms  of  rp^  uJf'^'l^^  „«  ^n  ^««„«,.  ♦*,««  .. 

^i.x>ii*ir^  1  *-0  Ivonie,  and  we  will  conquer  tnere  as 

the  folio wmg  low  German  adage :  y^^^^  P ,  ^ 

Ruten,  roten  dat  en  is  ghein  Schandc  That  Rolf  has  founded  Normandy ;  that, 

Dat  doynt  die  besten  van  dem  Lande,  Biorn 

which  means  that  robbing  and  dt-  Constantinople's  suburbs  fired  ?  What  is 't 

vastaOng   were  no  shame,  as  they  That  m  Ita^  Luna  was  uncon^ner  d, 

wpre  nractised   bv  the   beat  in  thfi  And  that  the  proudest  Spanish  aties  oft 

were  pracused   Dy  uie   Desi  m  tne  ^^^  ^^  plundered  ?  that  Orvarodd 

«•    .1.       ..  .1  With  Danish  warriors  founded  RuMia't 

But  these  times  are  gone ;  the  seas  might  ? 

are  now  covered  by  a  yery  different  That  even  in  distant  Africa  the  negro 

sort    of  vessels    from    the    Snekkes  Has  blenched  with  fear,  when  swords  of 
which    issued  from    the  friths  and  Northmen  duig'd  ? 

bays  of  Norway  and  Denmark:  and        o         ^u       j      ^  i.        * 

we  have,  in  our  Ume,  seen  Denmark        ^''0°'  *^«*  adventurous  charadar 

in  turn  plundered  by  the  descend-  «>  long  possessed  by  the  Northmeil, 

ants  of  tibose  who  were  among  the  ^^  ^ight  naturally  e«ect  to  find 

greatest  sufferers  from  her  devasta-  copious  recoUections  of  their  deedi 

tions.    The  old  Normen  might  ex.  among  Uieir  descendants.    From  the. 

claim  with    Pahiatoke,   in  Dehlen-  ujimixed  character  too  of  the  popula. 

schlager  •  ^^^'  which  is  the  most  purely  Teu- 

^    '  tonic    of  any  in  Europe,    we   are 

^     — On  our  power  at  fa  warranted  in  expecting  to  find  here. 

Our  real  strength  is  founded ;  fbrthe  Dane  ^        ^^ere,  the  genuine  songs,  mu- 

Is  truly  like  a  sea-fowl ;  Aegir*  is  .^   •„  .  „„   '..^54,;°    „  ,^^„i:„.  *^  -.i.^ 

Hi8  kiid  divinity,  and  Ocean's  daughters  S.'^'  f"4  8"Pe«^ Jons  pecuhar  to  the 

On  foam-dad  baiows  sweeUy  sing  ]^  praise  J^"^;!*^  ""^^^  ^^^i^^^ly^  ^.^  ^^ 

On  every  strand.    This  is  the  destiny  "»at  Denmark  and  Scandmavia  are 

MTiich  God  allotted  hun,  and  as  imperish-  not  only  richer  than  any  of  the  other 

able  Germanic  countries,  in  ballads  of  ad-* 

As  nature's  self  is  the  proud  gift,  received  venture  of  all  descriptions,  from  the 

By  him  from  the  Almighty.    What,  al-  vague  traditions  of  a  dark  antiquity, 

though  to  the  achievements'  of  the  chivu<- 

His  Snekkes  may  now  and  then  be  stolen  jous  ages,  and  even  to  those  of  the 

from  him,  comparatively  recent  age  of  Charles 

Or  burnt?  the  oak  grows  m  his  woods,  and  ^^  twelfth ;  but  that  the  supem»- 

OleamsThismountains:  andhisarmand  ^^^  ^""^   ^^  ^""^  forefathers,   by 

j^^g  whom  every  sea,  every  stream^  every 

Can  always  build  him  more.  Our  isles  are  fountain,  hill,  and  forest,  were  peo- 
cast  pled,  exist  only  here  m  all  the  pu- 
By  the  Eternal's  hand  within  the  depth  rity  and  definitiveness  of  their  attri- 
Of  ocean,  that  the  keel  may  always  find  butes,  occup3ring  a  place  in  song 
Its  element  with  ease.  proportioned  to  their  importance  ; 
But  the  event  to  which  we  have  ^^  that  the  genuine  music  of  the 
alluded  was  calculated  to  suggest  «■*??>  ^'"^'^  «***«,  been  alniost  ex- 
much  less  consolatory  reflections.  P^P^^  ^o"*  ScoUand  by  the  more 
WeU  might  the  same  poet,  contrast-  ^5^**^^  f "^  heart-rendmff  strams 

ing  the  ancient  consequence  with  the  o^,  ^^  P^^}^'.    ^I  .        i.  ^^f5 

recent  humiliation  of  his  native  coun*  on  7  exist  m  England,  m  a  few  old 

try,  exclaim :  ^a^lad    au-s,    fortunately  preserved 

Though  every  where  J^^*"  oblivion,^yet  hves  m   all   iti 

By  Danish  heroeT  Euro^^'s  thrones  are  freshness   among   the    peasantry   of 

filled  •  Scandinavia.— These  circumstances 

Yet  now  must  Denmark  tremble  for  her-  will,  we  hope,  justify  us  in  entering 

self.  at  some  length  into  an  account  oi 


*  Aegir,  in  the  northern  mytludogy,  the  husband  of  Ran,  one  of  the  names  for  the 
ocean. 


the  ballads  of  Denmark  and  Scan-  claasy  called  the  Tournament,  biing* 

dinavia.  together  most    of  the   peraooaMs 

The  first  dasB,  to  which  the  title  who  figure  in  the  series^   and   de- 

fbrmerly  aiven  to  the  earliest  pub-  scribes  the  bearings  on  their  ihiekkij 

lication  or  Danish  ballads^  namely,  an  important  matter  in  former  times, 

KuBtnpe"  FUtr  (ballads  of  grants  and  to  whicfa  reference  is  often  afterwards 

warriors  )>  ought  properly  to  be  coo-  made.    The  following  extract  from 

fined,  comprehends  Wuiia  relating  the   commencement  of  this  ballad, 

to  the  ancient  mytlucal  times.    Of  which  is  of  great  length,  may  aenre 

this  class,  the  Danes  have  several,  to  give  some  idea  of  its  nature : 
the  Swed^  have  only  one,  the  ballad 

oiQrimborg.    The  subjects  of  them  ThCTewCTBacven  and  seven  tuneetwiaty, 

«  Uie  coifbat.  and  •dvntures  of  aJ^^^S^^^  riSS^^ 
giants    or  heroes   of   extraordinary        ^^   .^^ ^     theirtent/^^ 

strength  and  courage.    Moat  of  these  j^  thunden  'neath  ^eir  honet  as  the  D»^ 
heroes  either  belonged  to  the  court  nuh  wanion  ride, 

of  the  celebrated  Dlderic  or  Theo-  -r-     *»n  j       v      ^^      w 

doric,  Kmg  of  the  Ostrogoths,  or  '^^r^^:^ttf:^,:^ 

were  m  some  maimer  connected  with  «*  ^    ,,^1^  ^^  ^^„  ^^  U^^  ^ 
it.     Hts  residence  is  called   Bern,  cheap, 

(suppoeed  Verona).    The  splendour        That  diey  long  my  strength  to  bide  ?  »• 
of  this  court,  in  the  represenUtions  It  thunders  *neath  their  horses  &c. 
of  ^  nortijern  bards,  hardly  yields  Hear  thou  Sivard  Snarenswend 
to  that  of  Chariemain  and  his  twelve       Thou  hast  rorcd  far  and  wide, 
peers,  or  of  King  Arthur  and  his  Thou  shalt  see  these  warriors' bearing^ 
round  table.    This  class  has  all  the        To  the  tent  go  quickly  ride. 
marks  of  a  very  remote  age.    The  j^  ^„  gj^,^  Snarenswend 
style  18  not  merdy  sunple,  it  may        To  the  tent  he  hied  amain ; 
be  called  rude.     There  is  a  great  You  are  welcome  here,  my  noble  Sirt, 
confiision  throughout  with  respect  to        Ye  King  of  Danes*s  men. 
places  and  tunes ;  and  a  number  of  i  p„y  you  take  it  not  amiss, 
famous  heroes,  who  lived  fai  very        Nor  angry  be  with  me- 
different  ages,  are  often  brought  to-  But  if  with  you  the  combat  we  try, 
gether  without  much  ceremony.  Your  bearings  I  first  must  see. 
AU   traces   of  the    traditions   re-  Upon  the  first  shield  doth  appear 
spectong  these  diaracters  are  nearly       ^Xu^^  ^.^  ^d  strong- 
lost  m  England.    One  of  the  most  with  a  cron^  also  of  yellow  gdd, 
important  of  them,  however,  is  said        To  Kmg  Diderick  it  dodi  belong. 

^   ^  "^^  "?I'^/^   ^k'^T-u'^'  Upon  the  second  shield  appear, 
on  the  Withon^  of  Gough,  stdl  to       *^  ^.^^^r  Uirge  and  ^ 

hve  in  the  traditions  of  Berkshu*,  it  jg  borne  by  Vidrick  Veriandson, 
namely  Weyland,  the  smith,  to  whom        who  quarter  giveth  none, 

the  great  novelist  has  assi^ed   so  Upon  the  thud  shield  doth  appear 
promment  a  part  The  same  MTey  W       ^  ^^  ^  „     Id-  ^^ 

^^^^.  !  r^^.  ^^^'  ^^  Maiden  n  i,  borne  by  the  Hero  Hogen 
Rimenild,     in  Ritson  s  Ancient  Ro-        Who  is  a  warrior  bold, 

aiances,  iii.  895.  jj^^  ^^  ^^^^^^  ^^^  ^^  ^p^ 

Then  sche  let  forth  bring  ,  An  eagle,  and  it  is  red, 

A  swerd  hongand  H  a^  It  w  borne  by  01g«,  the  Dane, 

To  Horn  sche  it  WtaughtT  ^^**  ***^»  '7®  ^"  foemen  dead. 

(W  2uw^<^tlilLir  ^*"*^^*  ^^  ^<^   rudeness  of  this 
And  Weland  it  wioudit).  ^^"^^  ^^  ballads,  they  often  display 
^    ^^  much  energy  and  greatness  of  con- 
In  the  minstrelsy  of  the  Scotch  ception.    Take  as  an  uistance  a  pas- 
border,  and  Mr.  Ellis's  specimens  of  sage  in  the  Danish  ballad  of  Bemer 
early  English  Romances,  may  also  be  the  giant,  and   Orm    Ungerswend, 
found  some  account  of  him ;  and  the  where  a  youth  goes  to  his  father's 
latter  has  a  curious  Latin  quotation  grave,  to  wake  him  from  the  dead, 
on  the  subject,  from  Geoffrey's  Vita  in  order  to  obtain  his  sword  from  him 
MerUni.  to  combat  the  giant;   who,  in  the 
The  first    Danish  baUad  of  this  outset,  is  thus  described : 


1891.3 


On  the  SkmgM  of  the  PtopU  of  CkMcBaee. 


415 


It  was  Bemer  the  great  giant, 
He  roae  OTer  waUs  the  meet  high ; 

He  was  so  mad  and  furious 
No  man  durst  come  him  nigh. 

But  the  wood  it  standeth  all  in  flower. 

He  was  so  mad  and  furious 

No  man  durst  to  him  go. 
Had  he  been  long  in  Denmark 

He  would  have  worked  much  woe. 
But  the  wood  &c. 

Orm  Ungerswend^  stimulated  by 
the  promise  of  the  daughter  of  the 
King  of  Denmark^  ch^enged  this 
monster^ 

Bemer,  the  high  giant, 

Who  looked  over  his  shoulder  to  see : 
^'  Whence  cometh  then  this  little  mouse. 

Who  dare  speak  such  words  to  me  ?" 

Orm  Ungerswend  proceeds  with- 
out delay  to  the  hill^  in  which  he 
says  ''  his  father  dwells  with  all." 

It  was  late  in  the  evening. 

The  Sim  it  goeth  low. 
Then  longeth  Orm  Ungerswend 

To  his  father  to  go. 

It  was  late  in  the  evening  tide, 
When  swains  to  water  horses  take. 

Then  longeth  Orm  Ungerswend 
His  father  from  sleep  to  wake. 

It  was  Orm  Ungerswend, 
He  struck  so  hard  on  the  hill. 

It  was,  indeed,  great  wonder 
That  falling  it  did  not  him  kilL 

It  was  Orm  Ungerswend, 
He  struck  the  hill  with  >uch  art. 

That  it  opened  with  the  walls  and  marble 
stones. 
Which  were  in  its  lowest  part. 

Orm  Ungerswend^s  father  then  came  forth 
In  the  hill  there  where  he  lay, 

'^  Who  calls  me  from  my  dark  abode 
Unto  the  light  of  day  ? 

^^  Who  waketh  me  so  early 

And  makes  me  so  to  moan. 
Why  can  I  not  remain  in  peace 

Ail  under  the  hard  stone  ? 

*^  \llio  dareth  thus  my  hill  to  break. 
Who  dares  to  face  mine  eye  ? 

Truly  I  must  tell  to  him. 
He  shall  by  Birting  die.*' 

'^  I  am  Orm  Ungerswend, 

Thy  youngest  son,  fisther  dear  ! 

I  come  to  thee  now  in  my  need. 
Full  wen  thou  knowest  my  prayer. 

^^  If  thou  beest  Orm  Ungerswend, 

A  warrior  keen  and  brave, 
I  gave  thee  silver  and  gold  before 

As  much  as  thou  would'st  have.** 


»» 


<'  Thou  silver  and  gold  did*st  give  to  rae» 

I  esteem  it  of  no  worth. 
But  I  will  have  Birting, 

It  is  so  good  a  sword.*' 

^'  Thou  shalt  not  get  from  me  Birting^ 

To  win  so  £ur  a  maid. 
Till  thou  hast  been  in  Ireland 

To  revenge  thy  father's  death." 

'^  Come,  quickly  give  me  Birting  up, 

'T  will  be  full  well  with  me. 
Or  else  in  a  thousand  pieces  I  break 

The  hill  which  is  over  thee." 

*'  Then  reach  thou  down  thy  right  hand 
here. 

Take  Birting  from  my  side ; 
But  break'st  thou  the  hm  which  is  over  mei 

Grief  and  sorrow  shall  thee  betide.** 

It  was  common  in  the  norths  that 
the  things  which  in  life  were  held  l^ 
a  man  in  the  hiffhest  estimatioii, 
should  accompany  mm  to  the  tomb. 
The  sort  of  visit  which  Orm  Unger- 
swend here  pay»  is  a  frequent  oe* 
eurrence  in  the  sagas;  and  erery 
reader  must  remember  the  simflar 
dialogue  between  Henror  and  An« 
gantyr^  derived  by  Blr«  Gray  frtim 
the  Norse  poetry. 

The  recommendation  of  the  fol« 
lowing  ballad^  called  "  The  Death 
of  Sivard  Snarenswend,"  is  its  bre« 
vity^  which  allows  us,  without,  we 
hope',  drawing  too  much  on  the  pad- 
ence  of  our  readers,  to  give  it  entire: 

Sivard,  he  slew  his  step-father 

All  for  his  mother's  sake. 
And  now  he  longs  to  court  to  ride. 

To  try  his  fortune  to  make. 
So  cunningly  runs  Qnyman  under  Sivaid* 

It  was  Sivaid  Snarenswend, 
He  went  to  his  mother  to  know 

Whether  he  should  ride  from  her. 
Or  whether  on  foot  he  should  go. 

So  cunningly,  &c 

'^  Thou  shalt  not  go  on  foot  from  me. 
If  the  horse  only  bear  thee  can, 

I  shall  to  thee  give  the  good  horse. 
The  courtiers  call  Oreyman." 

So  cunningly  runs,  &c 

They  led  Oreyman  firom  the  stable  out. 

All  gilt  his  bridle  shone ; 
His  eyes  they  gleam'd  like  sparkling  st»8» 

And  the  me  flew  from  his  mane. 

Sivaid  then  his  gloves  threw  off. 
His  hands  they  were  so  white. 

Himself  he  girded  his  good  horse. 
His  Squire  he  durst  not  trust. 

It  was  Sivaid's  dear  mother. 

She  was  dad  in  Kirtle  red ; 
*^  Sivaid  I  it  b  my  strongest  fear 

That  the  hone  will  be  thy  deda."  . 


416 


On  Me  Songs  of  the  People  of  Qoikk  Race. 


COcU 


*\ 


And  she  fbUowed  him  long  as  out  he  went. 

For  hi^  her  ftar  now  rose ; 
*^  And  O  take  care  of  Qrt^ man,  thy  hotte 

So  many  tricks  he  knows."  :.  T 

<*  Now  hear  je  then,  my  mother  dear,    '' 

Ye  need  not  be  so  aftaid, 
In  me  you  have  a  nimble  son 

Who  well  his  ht^rae.canijdde**'  < 

Oreyman,  he  started  from  ^e  gate,         ' : 
And  spnmg  o*er  bridge  hnd  flood. 

And  howerer  firm  in  the  saddle  he  sat. 
His  boots  were  ^ed  with  hlood. 

The  horse  he  ran  ibroagh  the' wide  Downs, 
Where  the  people  were  met  inking,* 

The  people  in  Ting  astoiinddi  stood. 
To  see  a  horse  so  spring. ' 

For  fifteen  days  and  fifteen  nights, 

Over  hill  and  dale  he  ran, 
Till  he  came  before  a  lofty  house. 

The  doors  were  lock'd  each  one. 

King  I>an  he  stood  on  the  highest  tower, 
Where  he  sees  both  far  and  wide, 

**  Here  see  I  a  drunken  courtier. 
Who  well  his  horse  can  ride. 

*'  It  is  either  a  drunken  courtier 

Who  weU  can  ride  I  ween ; 
Or  it  is  Sivard,  my  sister's  son. 

And  in  combat  he  has  been.** 

Chreyman,  he  took  the  bitsin  his  teeth, 

0*er  ths  outer  wall  he  fiew ; 
The  ladies  and  maidens  were  sore  dismayed 

Who  happened  this  leap  to  view. 

ilfui  ladies  and  beautiful  maidens  look*d 
pale, 
AH  under  their  scarlet  eo  fine  s 
King  Dan  he  ooes  so  gladly 

To  welcome  ms  sister*s  son  in. 

•  ^i<  '- 

Andit  was  the  King  of  the  Danes, 

And  straightway  then  he  said, 
*^  (}o  tell  ftom  me  tbtt  aichan  good 
%iTbega«e  to  open  wide.'.' 

It  was  Sivard  Snarenswend, 
He  rode  in  with  all  his  might ; 

And  thirteen  of  t^e  wuting  maids. 
They  fainted  at  the  sight. 

The  King,  he  said  unto  his  men, 
*'  Treat  Sivard  I  pray  with  care,      , 

For  I  must  franklv  tell  to  you 
No  jesting  wUl  he  beatr»*'t  :fili-i  ;••*■. 

It  was  Sivard  Snarenswend,' * ' 

He  allowed  his  horse  to  spring 
Full  fifteen  eOs  o'er  the  highest  wall, 

And  so  he  came  to  his  end. 

Sivard  was  cut  by  the  sad^  bowj 
And  Gre3m[ian*8  back  in  twahi ; 

And  all  in  die  palace,  who  saW  him,  cried, 
And  none  were  glad  or  fkinV     ' 

So  sorrowfully  ran  Greyman  ufkder  Sivard. 


The  ballads  of  this  class  are  some* 
times  varied  in  a  whimncal  enough 
maiiaer>.by  the  propounding  and  an- 
swering of  ridoles,  an  exercbe  of 
ingenuity  in  which  our  forefathers 
took  ereat  delight^  and  which  ha» 
also  found  its  way  into  their  songs. 
In  a  large  volume  of  ballads,  in 
black  letter,  of  the  latte^r  part  of 
Charles  the  Second's  reign^  preserved 
in  the  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford, 
there  is  one  called  ''  the  Noble  Rid- 
dle wisely  expounded,  or  the  Maid's 
Answer  to  the  Knights  their  Q^^s- 
tions/*  beginning,  '  .^ 

There  was  a  lady  of  the  north  oountry,  ■   ^* 
Lay  the  bent  to  the  bonny  bitMxn ; 

And  she  had  lovely  daughters  three. 
Fa  la  la  la,  fa  la  la  la,  ra  re.  [^ 

One  of  the  daughters,  iifter'  sitmi^ 
endearments  had  passed  between  bet- 
and  a  young  knight,  isks  him  t& 
marry  her  i* 

The  brave  young  Knight  to  her  replied,  &^ 
''  Thy  suit,  Mr  maid,  shall  not  be  denMl^ 
&C.  i 

If  thou  can*st  answer  me  questions  three,* ' 
This  very  day  will  I  marry  thee." 
**•  Kind  Sir,  in  love,  O  then  quoth  she,      •  i 
Tell  me  what  your  questions  be  ?  "        ^  . 

^'  O  what  is  longer  than  the  way  ? 

Or  what  is  deeper  than  the  sea  ? 

Or  what  is  louder  than  the  horn  ?  '**' 

Or  what  is  sharper  than  a  thorn  ? 

Or  what  is  greener  than  the  grass  ?         '  '  T 

Or.  what  is  worse  than  a  woman  was  P^  ,  <.  > 

«<  O  love  is  longer  dian  the  way. 

And  hell  is  dec^  than  the  sea ; 

And  thunder  is  louder  than  the  horn. 

And  hunger  is  sharper  than  a  thorn  ;  .     .  ^ 

And  poison  is  greener  than  the  grassi 

And  the  devil  is  worse  than  woman  was.** 

When  she  these  questions  answered  had. 
The  Knight  became  exceeding  glad. 

The  following  passage  from  the 
Danish  ballad  of  Child  Bonved,  is 

Suite  in  the    style    of  the    above, 
liough  less  polished : 

Child  Bonved  binds  his  sword  by  his  side, 

Sdn  longmg  ftirther  on  to  ride. 

And  he  rode  till  he  came  to  a  mountain 

high, 
MHiere  a  shepherd  with  his  sheep  came  by. 

*'  Now  hear  thee  shepherd,  tell  to  me, 
M'hose  are  the  sheep  thou  hast  with  thee  ? 
Mliat  is  than  a  wheel  more  round  ? 
And  where  is  the  best  yool-drink  to  be 
found? 


/ 


*  Ting^  a  court  or  assembly,  as  StoT'Tinff  (great  court),  the  name  vi  the  parliament 
of  Norway. 


1891-3  Tke  Foet.  41T 

Wha«  does  the  fish  stand  in  the  flood  F  And  on  over  hill  and  dale  lode  h^ 

Where  t^  the  hitd  red  P  But  nevera  m^oouldhehearoraee. 

Where  b  m^hiff  wine  heat  iind««lood»  ,j.jjj  ^  ^^  j^^  ^^^^  ^  ^  ^y^^  ^j^^ 

J^l^  '''^  Where  sat  a  shepherd  with  yellow  lodt; 

K^'^^  ^'Uearthougoodman  with  thy  sheep,  IpniFi 

The  shepherd  hesat^andallcalmly did  take,  And  give  certain  answers  to  what  I  «f^ 

Sf  '^^^  **  "^?^^*  T^"^  "S^^  ^  What  is  rounder  than  a  wheel  ? 

The  Child  he  gave  him  so  h^^/ blow  And  where  is  there  drunk  thenobleat  yoolf 

That  Uvcr  and  lungs  they  out  did  go.  Where  does  the  sun  go  to  take  a  seat? 

To  another  flock  he  straightway  came.  And  where  remain  the  dead  man*s  feet  ? 

And  a  shepherd  ^  ww^jth  the  »aine %  y^^.^  't  diat  fills  up  every  dale ? 

"  Hfear  thou,  good  sh^herf,  and  tell  to  me  ^^^  ^^^^^  best  in  ^  royal  hall  ? 

Whose  are  theshecp  thou  hast  with  Aee?  Whatcallsoutloudcr  than  a  crane? 

'^  This  way  there  lies  both  Burg  and  Fort,  And  what  is  whiter  than  a  swan  ? 

Where  warriors  always  do  r«ort ;  ^,rho  on  their  backa  their  beards  do  wear  F 

There  dweUs  a  man,  call^  ^y^^^^S^.'  MTio  »neath  his  chin  his  nose  does  bear  ? 

And  twelve  sons  he  has  stoutand  bold.  y^^^  j^  bLwJter  than  a  sloe  ? 

^*  Hear  thou,  my  dearest  shepherd  good.  And  what  is  fleeter  than  a  roe  ? 

TeUTycho-Nold  to  hasten  out;-  Which  isthe  biid«  with  the  bioad«tip«if 

Fnwnhispockethe^wagold.rmffforA  which  is  the  u^  thmg  like  a  man  ? 

Andhegavetheshepherdthurmgofworth.  where  does  th?r«id  that  is  highest  run ? 

And  as  Child  Bonved  nearer  came.  And  whence  does  the  drink  dukt  is  coldeat 
They  parted  his  plunder  among  them,  come  ?  *' 

Some  would  have  his  sword  so  keen,  «  rphe  sun  is  wmnder  than  a  wheel } 

And  some  his  horse  and  harness  so  fine.  j^  Heaven  there  is  held  the  noblest  yool ; 

Child  Bonved  he  welcomed  himself  alone.  To  the  west  the  sun  ones  to  his  seat ; 

He  wished  to  give  his  good  horse  to  none  {  To  the  east  remain  the  dead  man*s  feet ; 

His  steed  and  sword  he  wished  not  to  lose,  fj^  ^^^  j^  gjl^^jj  ^^  j^^^ 

He  would  sooner  with  them  in  battle  dose.  And  man  is  fairest  drcst  in  the  hall; 

*"*•  Though  thou  had*st  twelve  sons  to  thy  Thunder  calls  louder  than  a  crane  i 

twelve.  Angels  are  whiter  than  a  swan. 

And  stood  between  them  dl  thyself.  Women  their  beard  on  their  neck  do  wear. 

Thou  shouldst  sooner   ftom  steel  pure  And  warlocks  'neath  thdr  chin  their  noMi 

watei*  wnng,  y^^^ . 

Than  tak»from  me  the  smallest  thing."  gj^j  j,  Slacker  than  a  sloe. 

Child  Bonved  he  dapt  the  spur  to  his  horse.  And  thought  is  fleeter  than  a  roe. 

And  sprung  o'er  gates  and  walls  inth  force ;  ice  i,  the  bridge  with  the  broadest  span. 

And  so  he  conquered  Sir  Tycho-Ndd,  ^^   ^j^g    ^  ^^  xi^iaX  thing  like  ft 
And  also  his  twelve  sons  so  bold.  m^u . 

And  so  he  turned  his  horse  about.  The  highest  road  to  Paradise  runs. 

Child  Bonved  tht  warrior  so  brave  and  And    &e  coldest   drink    is  beneath  Ui» 
stout ;  ground.** 

For  the  fonner  part  of  this  Essay,  see  page  41  of  the  present  Volume. 


THB  POET. 


At  mom^  at  noon^  at  ere,  and  middle  nighty 
He  passes  forth  into  the  charmed  alr^ 
With  Talisman  to  call  up  Spirits  rare 
From  flower,  tree,  heath,  and  fountain.    To  his  sight 
The  husk  of  natural  objects  opens  quite 
To  the  core^  and  every  secret  essence  there 
Reveals  the  elements  of  good  and  fair. 
Making  him  wise  where  Learning  lacketh  light. 
The  Poet's  sympathies  ire  not  confined 
To  kindred,  country,  climate,  class,  or  kind. 
And  yet  they  glow  intense.— Oh  !  were  he  wise. 
Duly  to  commune  with  his  destined  skies, 
llien,  as  of  old,  might  inspiration  shed 
A  visible  glory  round  his  hallowed  head.  t^ 

Vol.  IV.  "^  %YL 


4f  i  C.  Fan  Vinkboomsy  hit  Dogmas  for  Dilettanti.  C^>eU 

C.  QSmt  StniAoom^,  ^  ISXtsmo^  foe  jSDikttantt 

No.  n. 

GIULIO    ROMANO. 

X  like  the  green  plush  which  yimr  mesdows  weaie, 

I  praise  your  pregnant  fields,  which  duly  beare 

Their  wealthy  burthen  to  th*  industrious  booie. 

Nor  do  I  disiJlow,  that 'who  are  poore 

In  minde  or  fortune,  thither  should  retire : 

But  hate  that  he,  who's  warme  with  holy  fire 

Of  any  knowledge,  and  'mong  us  may  feast 

On  nectared  wit,  should  tume  himselfe  t*  a  beast. 

And  graze  i*  the  country.  Halnngton, 

A  wise  man  should  never  resdve  upon  any  thing  «•••«•.    a  man  •   ^ 

must  doaooor^ng  to  accidents  and  emergencies.    SeldctCt  Tabk'Talk.  , 

He  w^  po88e8sing>  an  active  mind    speares^  overlaid  with  blacky    staid 
it  ret  deflc&nt  in  variety  and  origi-    wisdom's  hue :    crumbled  id  tinder 
nautv  of  ideas  to  feed  it  with,  cannot    are  those  pictorial  bed-curtaiiis>  vi- 
subsist  long  without  books.      This    sible  lectures  on  ornithology  and  bo- 
we  felt  so  sensibly  in  our  late  exr    tany — ^^  all,   all  are  gone,    the  old 
cursioh,  that  we  were  forced  to  re-    familiar  faces,"    and  with  them  i« 
Biiquish,  for  a  time,  our  resolution  of    flown  half  the  enjoyment  I  took  in 
Tiaiting  »»••»»  (which  would  of    enacting  the  Tartar.    I  am  certainlj- 
oodrse  have  suggested  very  pastoral    an  amiable  creature ;  every  action  ^ 
and  marine  articles),  and  to  return    my  life  emanates  from   a  wish  (q 
to  London,  and  our  indispensable  au-    please.    I  left  the  valley  of  *  *  *^  "^ 
thors  and  painters.    *'  In  height  of    last  spring  to  please  the  painters  witk, 
^ring-tide,  when  heaven's  lights  are    my  eulogies.     I  left  the  sea- weed* 
Itmg,     we   may   contrive    to    drag    tangled  beach  of  *  *  *  *  *,  *'  hiddk^ 
tlhltiugh  the  day  bookless  not  amiss,    the  thickening  waves  go  loam  for 
Before  break&st,   for  instance,  one    other  eyes,"  to  please  myself.    Aod 
may  take  a  view^-if  one  can ;  at    this  morning,  I  left  my  most  apra* 
noon,  a  saU — if  near  the  sea ;  and  in    sian  bed  to  please  the  Editor,  \>w 
die  evening,  a  stroll  amid  the  i^esh    penning   No.  IL    of  my  <l^lightfeii 
ffagrant   breath   of  the  furse    and    Dogmas. 

heath — ^if  not  tired ;  repeating  Col-        But  in  the  first  place,  I  must  set' 
IIp^^ lovely  ode — ^if  ever  learnt,  and    what  there  is  in  tiiis  roll.  Ah!  Mr* 
a^  retained.    By  this  time  it  draws    Richard  Cook,  are  you  here  at  mj, 
towards  ten  o'clock,  and  a  truss  of    call? — The  Death  of  Acis,  folio  size*- 
fine  blanched  lettuce,  a  good  dig  of    This  very  striking   spirited   design 
fidlton,  or  a  slice  of  ham,  and  a  hand-    proves  that  the  painter  of  Polypjit^'^ 
iOme   glass   of  bottled-porttr, — all    mua  gToping  for  the  Ithacans  at  tjh^ 
weU-eamed  by  exercise,— carry  you     Moutn  of  nis  Cave   (engraved  for 
comfortably  to  your  white-curtained    Sharp's  elegant  edition  of  the  potti^)r 
bed.    But  as  the  days  begin  to  draw    and  Douglas  grimly  louring  on  the 
in,   and  when  the  mystical  R.  ren*    glittering  train  of  James  IV.,  has  not 
dm  oysters  eatable,  and  candles  ne-    Fallen  off  either  in  animation  or  xer. 
cessary,  solitude  at  an  mn  becomes    finement.     The  action  of  Galatea's 
iW^lerable ;  especially  since  the  dls-     hands  has  great  truth  and  simplicity  ; 
1IM  of  coloured   prints,    samplers,    but    the   lower    limbs    want'  tnore 
aoreens,  maps,&c  They  have  no  little    en^i^gy,   or  more  helplessness ;    the 
china  pastondities   on   the  mantle-    latter,  indeed,  would  accord  bett^* 
diBhresnow, — no  piping  shepherdsaii^    with  the  convulsive   shrink    of  the 
daret-coloured   teats     and    cocked    arms ;  a  frightened  Amor,  it  is  true, 
hats, — no  fidlow-deer  coucMng  their    appears  to  urge  forward  the  '^  faire 
white  breasts  among  pure  lilies,  and    marine,"  indicating  very  plainly  her 
ideally  green  herbage, — no  Falstaffs,    reluctance  or  incapacity  needing  such 
acfumd  lad  and  yellow^—nor  Shak-    incitement;  but  the  white  Imees  them* 


1891.3              C.  Van  Vinkboofiu,  ku  Oogmoifor  XXUHaniu                    4l0 

•elres  have  none  of  the  hefliiadoA  the  refinement,  suavitVj  iuid  iphKe- 

and   uncertainty  of  terror  arrested  ful  delicate  chastity  of  this  portrait, 

by  pity ;    of  love  combating   telf-  fomi  its  eMiitltd  bars  to  popularity, 

hood;    they    do    not    start    wildly  With  respect  to  the  copy,  or  transla- 

away,    nor  bend    and    knock    witn  tlon,  by  Af r.  Golding,  it  is  decidedly 

joint-loosening"  dread,  nor  stliTen  ri-  biferior  to  no  line  engraring  of  the 

gidly,  as  if  struck  into  marble— but  present  English   school.      The  first 

they  are    graceful,    composed,    and  essential  of  a  print  is  implicit  fidelity 

elastic.    Perhaps  this  is  hyper-criti-  to  the  original,*  (which  of  course  we 

cism.    About  the  Acis  I  feel  more  suppose  worthy  of  multiplication); 

confident,  —  he  is  carefully  drawn,  where  the  want  of  this  is  acknow- 

every  muscle  and  bone   have  their  ledged    the    real    connoisseur    will 

rights  well-acknowledged,    and   the  reject   the    misrepresentation    with 

expression  of  his  i'ace  is  far  from  contempt.     Therefore,    the    posses- 

tame;  but  precise  markhif^  is  of  little  sion  of  this  qualification  should^  of 

avail  when  the  outline  is  pmched  and  itself,  render    the  present  plate  va- 

without  style.    Extraordinary  genius  luable  to  all  admirers  of  Lawrence  ; 

may  merge  the  accidental  pettiness  if  Golduig   had   not    also   fiatteied 

of  parts  in  the  overpowering  gran-  the  eye  of   the  print  collector  by 

deur  of  the  whole ;  but  an  inferior  the    most  varied    and    appropriate 

talent,  out- balanced   by  mediocrity,  workmanship,  firm,  delicate^    sdli^ 

will  certainly  be  smothered  as  in  a  airy,  clear,  rich,  and  brilliant.    The 

ouicksand.    Mr.  Cook  then  may  be  a  pathetic  tenderness  of  the  eyes,  the 

httlc  proud,  that  not  he  himself  has  great  attraction  of  the  large  drawbg 

been  able  to  ruin  his  own  composi-  (formerly  alluded  to),  is  not  so  per- 

tion,  even  by  such  a  prominent  dis-  ceptible  in  the  plate ;  but  its  omif* 

figurement    He  has  lately  been  very  sion  is  rather  the  graver's  misfortune 

ime,  but  I  trust  we  shall  meet  him  than  its  fault  The  expression,  thou^ 

again  on  the  high  places,  raising  his  true,  was  too  subtle  and  ethereal  to 

ears  at  the  loud  twang  of  Homer's  bear  the  touch  of  steeL— 'But  who )% 

phorminx,  and  giving  chase  to  the  the  author  of  this  laive  Dentatii%,[ 

thick-thrilling  sounds.    This  print  is  from  Mr.  Haydon's  well-known  pio^ 

etched  with  artist-like  feeling,  by  the  ture?    I  am  quite  isnorant  of  hl^ 

firm  hand  of  WUliam  Taylor,  a  young  style-^where  is  my  glass  ?  **  jyamL 

man  struggling  for  feme  under  great  and  engraved  on  wc^  by  Harvey  1*^ 

disadvantages,  and  whose  execution  On  wood  I  So  it  is  by  Jupiter  |  Tnilj 

does  honour  to  Mr.  Cbok's  selecttoo.  this  is  the  most  efiecdvely  dabante 

--^ !  here  is  Mr.  GKilding'a  long  ex*  performance  that  I  ever  met  whk ; 

pected  Princess  Charlotte,  after  Sir  and  can  it  be  the  work  of  the  yeiy 

Thomas.    I  have  mentioned  this  pic-  young  man  I  have  had  pointed  ouf 

ture  in  terms  of  the  warmest  adfihi-  to  me  as  the  co-pupil  or  the  Landi^ 

ration  (see  account  of  the  last  Exhi**  seers  and  young  Bewick  ?    His  ar^ 

bition)  and  am  not  the  least  inclined  dour  for  excellence,  and  un weariest 

to  retract,  though  my  opinion  has  perseverance  under  the  most  han^aflt^ 

been    strongly  opposed    by  several  mg  privations,  were  not  unknown  ttr 

who  ought  to  know  better  than  my«  me ;  but  who  could  suppose  that  raw 

self;  and  when  1  consider  how  little  twenty-one  should  thus  shame  experl^ 

Sir  Thomas's  favourites,  the  old  Ita«  enced  fifty,  and  create  a  new  era  fa 

Han  masters,   and  the  antioue,  are  xylography?    Up  to  this  day,  our  Ut^ 

appreciated    among   our  artists  and  torical  wood-cutters  have  thought  if 

connoisseurs,  I  feel  quite  satisfied  that  much  to  follow  in  some  fashion  thoie 


•  I  have  heanl  some  people  say,  diat  the  engraTer  has  been  imikidiful  to  sudi  hM^ 
Midi  a  part  only  to  improve  it :— giaatinff  the  poeribility  of  that  occaning,  whidr  I  am 
prepared  to  Hay  never  occurred  yet,  stiu,  when  I  would  purchase  a  Leonardo's  IjmS 
Supper,  or  a  Uafla«Uo*fl  Transngura^,  I  shall  be  raucti  dianpmnted,  and  (unktt. 
previously  taught  better)  much  damaged  in  my  taste,  if,  instead  of  the  severe  intelliijent 
lines,  and  the  fordble  shadows  of  the  Florentine  and  the  Roman,  I  am  presented  widi 
a  wooUv,  metally,  indecisive,  tame  imprtfvenwnt,  by  that  mannered  petty  toolsman* 
Raffaeue  Aforghcn— the  admiration  of  fallen,  immasculate  luly,  and  noso-lod,  wcQ. 
meaning  England;  whoso  copies  bear  about  the  same  relation  to  the  pictures,  as  does 
the  polUied  bgrnbuit  of  Pope  s  Iliad  to  the  downright  passion  of  UomerV 

9H2 


480                   a  Fan  Finkbooms,  his  Dogmas  fit  DileHimti.  U>ct. 

lines  ready  pencilled  by  the  inventor  pursue  his  studies  with  more  atten- 
on  the  blocks ;  but  here  a  good-for-  tion  to  a  delicate  constitution ;  which, 
nothing  fellow,  taking  H  into  his  head  secondly,  I    take  it  will  give  you 
to  break  througti  all  the  established  some  very    comfortable  sensations ; 
customs  of  the  craft,  copies  a  picture,  and,  thirdly,  your  portfolio  or  boii- 
and  a  complex  one  too,  on  an  out-of-  doir'will  be  enriched  with  nearly  the 
the- way  sized   piece    of  box  ;  with  largest,  and  certainly  the  most  asto- 
flkill  in  drawing,  knowledge  of  ana-  nishingly     tooled     wood    engraving 
tomy,  fire  of  expression,  character  of  that  England   has   ever   produced : 
touch,  and  general  feeling,  beseeming  and,  whoever  does  me  the  honour  to 
much    rather    a   practised  inventor  find  my  judgment  amiss,  I  beg  leave 
dum  an  inexperienced  engraver  ! —  to  inform  him  that  my  name  is  Vaii 
What  is  not  to  be  apprehended  to  Vinkbooms,  and  that  I  carry  a  pen ! 
modem   art,   if  such  an   innovating  I   have  nothing  more  to  say  just 
and  radical  example  is  to  be  spread  now  about  recent  publications,  ex- 
over  all  the  print  windows  in  town?  cept  to  recommend  the  new  volume 
I  see  only  one  way,  which  is  for  all  (5th)  of  Mr.  Daniers  Coasting  Tour, 
reform-hating  loyal  people  to  follow  as  niUy  equal    ui    interest    to    the 
my  example,  and  unite  in  buying  up  fourth.      Also,    an    excellent    large 
his   whole  edition;   and,  no  doubt,  folio  etching  of  Windsor,  from  the 
this  will  be  so  discouraging  to  Mr.  forest,  by  Mr.  Delamotte,  whose  Stu- 
Harvey,  as  to    induce    him    {more  dies  from   Nature   about  Sandhurst 
Dibdinf)  to  shatter  his  block.     Se-  (2  Nos.  4to.)  are  the  most  genuine 
riously,  you  to  whom  a  guinea  is  a  things  of  the  kind  ever  published  in 
mite  not  missed,   think,  if  ye  can  this  country,  though  a  little  too  pain- 
think,  of  the  super- wretched  situation  ter-like  for  beginners.     From  Ger^ 
of  the  yoimg  artist ;    who,  in  that  many  I  believe   nothing  has  arrived 
trying    season    when    uncertain    of  lately,  but  Mr.  Bohte  has  sent- me 
either  future  fame,  or  even  the  means  some  outline  compositions  from  the 
of  a  miserable  subsistence,  devotes  Eleusinian     Mysteries    which    have 
all  his  energies  to  preparatory  study  much  spirit  and  elegance.    The  claa- 
by  day,  wnile  his  dim  lamp  burns  sical  scholar  will  be  highly  pleased 
tul  four  in  the  morning,  that  the  few  with  them,  and  their  price  is  mode- 
shillings  afforded  by  an  obscure  pub-  rate.     In  a  pocket  book  edited  by 
lisher  for  some  little  designs,   may  La  Motte  Fouque,  are  inserted  ten  or 
procure  him  the  means  of  appearing  twelve  prints  illustrative  of  Uiniine^ 
among  his  companions  with  decency.  Hieron3niius    Von    Stauf,    &c.   very 
Exhausted  in  mind,  chilled  with  cold  characteristic  of  the  German  school, 
and  hunger,  he  throws  his  weak  fe-  From  the  former  most  bewitching  of 
vered  limbs  on  a  hard  old  fiock-bed,  tales,  C.  F.  Schultze  has  made  four- 
firom  which  he  awakes  to  act  anew  teen  designs  in  outline,  which  I  shall 
that  most  pitiable  of  all  characters,  notice  some  time  or  other ;  though 
the  poor  gentleman !  I  am  very  far  perhaps  more  for  the  delight  of  re- 
from  wishing  the  public  to  take  up  curring  to    their  ever-fresh    source 
every  man  who    chooses    to   fancy  than  on  their  own  account.     Still, 
himself  a  painter ;  but  when  there  is  though  by  no  means  equal  to  Retsch, 
real  and  great  merit  suffering  under  the  decorator  of  Goethe's  wonderfiil 
sickness  of  heart  and  body,  shall  we  dramatic  poem,  Schultze  has  in  se- 
refuse  ourselves  a  hundred  pounds  veral  instances  risen  far  above  mc- 
worth  of  pleasant  feelings  for  the  diocritv*    Take,  for  example,  the  in- 
sake  of  a  guinea,   which  a  glass  of  imitabfe  stunted  Gnome,  m  plate  6  ; 
Madeira  the  less  for  a  day  or  two  and  Kuhlcborh  among  the  reeds  of 
will  amply  make  unto  us?  Recollect  the  Black  Valley,  plate  12;  two  fi- 
tlns  you,   who  ligntly  salving  your  gures  proncmnced   unimprovable  by 
cdHscfences  by  the  plea  of  necessary  a  judgment  wliich  1  have  found  in- 
economy,  refuse  a  snilling  or  two  to-  fallible. 

wards  a  poor  femily's  dinner,  and  yet  The   present  tendency  of  British 

tliat  very  cvenuig  will  carouse  deep  art  is  towards  mean,  haJd  matter  of 

in  '*  rich-glowing  cups."    In  the  pre-  fact ;  which  is  just  coming  round  a- 

sent  instance,  I  can  furnish  you  with  gain  to  the  first  state  of  painting, 

three  incitements;    Ist  You  will  en-  when  simple  undiscriminative  tmiAi- 

able  a  most  desenring  aspirant  to  Im  was  the  sole  ol:gect;  if  the  eye 


I881.J  C.  Vdn  Vinkboomt,  his  Dogmas  fir  Diktianti.  481 

was  dazzled  and  deceived,  no  care  and  ridicule,  on  account  of  some  su* 
was  taken  for  the  Batisfaction  of  the  perficial  eccentricides.  I  mean  Giu- 
mind,*  This  tendency,  far  from  de-  lio  Pippi^  surnamed  Romano,  the  fa^ 
pressing,  fills  me  witn  great  hopes,  vourite  disciple,  and,  in  mythic  sub- 
when  I  consider  that  Michael  An-  jects,  the  successful  rival  of  D'Ur- 
gelo,  and  Raffaelloj  rose  from  the  bino;  and  also  the  head  of  a  se- 
ruins  of  sunilar  barbarity.  Art  is  parate  school^  honoured  by  the  names 
grown  bid  and  imbecile  a  second  of  Francesco  Primaticcio,  Teodoro 
time,  and  must,  like  the  phoenix,  de-*  Ghisi,  Rjualdo  Mantovano,  Battista 
vote  its  crazy  shell  to  the  re-produc-  Bertano,  and  Oiulio  Campi,  tlie  Cre- 
tion  of  one  stronger  and  better  able  monese.  The  pictures  occasionally 
to  exhibit  its  in-dwelling,  never-dying  exhibited  in  England  as  the  workf 
llame.  This  is  the  course  of  nature,  of  this  master,  will  certauily  not  bear 
where  life  ever  springs  from  death ;  me  out  in  the  following  observations 
a  trutli  beautifully  shadowed  forth  in  on  his  style ;  neither  will  the  frescos 
the  fable  of  Medea,  who,  unable  to  executed  in  the  Vatican,  firom  th« 
re-invigorate  the  ruin  of  what  once  cartoons  of  Raffaello;  but  if  ypu 
was  iEson,  was  forced  to  decompose,  will  turn  over  the  folios  of  Messrs. 
reduce  to  its  original  atoms,  and,  as  Woo<lbume,  Molteno,  and  Colnaghl^ 
it  were,  create  anew.  Though  in  I  think  we  shall  not  materially  disa^ 
England  the  pruiciple  of  life  is  still  gree.  Poussin  is  vulgarly  considered 
inert,  and  does  not  yet  feel  the  in-  the  most  eminent  in  Grecian  fable  :— 
fluence  of  the  regenerative  fermen-  the  visitors  to  Mantua  know  other- 
tation  now  working  so  perceptibly  in  wise,  and  that  the  agility,  untram« 
Germany,  I  do  not  deem  it  alto-  melled  motions,  vigour,  and  eamest- 
gether  impertuient  to  endeavour  to  ness  of  Giidio's  actors,  show  a  far 
prcpjire  a  few  minds  to  receive  pa-  deeper  penetration  into  the  spirit  of 
tiently  and  unpetulantly,  tlie  tender  the  traaitional  days,— of  the  a^e  of 
shoots  which  will,  I  trust,  spring  up  the  demi-gods, — than  the  pamted 
in  the  good  time.  There  are  many  statuary  oi  the  Frenchman,  classical, 
reasons  why  the  modems  can  never  and  "  high-thouffht8-creatin|^ "  as  it 
succeed  in  the  pure  classical  execu-  is.  '^  We  must  lorm  our  estimate  of 
tion  of  any  given  subject,  except  at  Giidio's  powers,"  says  Fuseli,  (Sd 
second  hand;  and,  as  the  expected  lecture)  ''  less  from  his  tutored 
outbreak  will  be  necessarily  some-  works  at  Rome,  than  from  the  colos« 
what  wild  and  licentious,  I  think  it  sal  conceptions^  the  pathetic  or  sub- 
better  to  dispose  the  public  to  indul-  lime  allegories,  and  the  voluptuous 
gence,  by  accustoming  them  to  the  reveries,  which  enchant  in  toe  Pa- 
lllghts  of  the  romantic  masters,  than  lazzo  del  T.  near  Mantua.  Whatever 
to  narden  their  hearts  and  judgments  be  the  cUmension,  the  subject,  or  the 
by  insisting  on  extreme  correctness,  scenery,  minute  or  colossal,  simple, 
and  nice  propriety.  Widi  such  in-  or  complex,  terrible,  or  pleasing ;  we 
tention,  I  endeavoured  to  call  more  trace  a  mind  bent  to  surprise,  or  to 
real  and  general  notice  towards  the  dazzle  by  poetic  splendour.  But, 
suavity,  amorous  languor,  and  ser-  sure  to  strike  by  the  originirtity  of 
]KMitinc  grace  of  Correggio,  most  his  conception,  he  often  neglects  pro- 
commonly  obtained  by  the  sacrifice  pricty  in  the  conduct  of  his  subjects, 
of  drawing  and  truth  (once or  twice  considered  as  a  series;  and^  in  the 
even  of  appropriateness  and  com-  arrangement,  or  choice  of  the  con- 
inon  sense);  ana,  in  furtherance  of  it,  necting  parts,  hurried  into  extremes 
I  shall  try  to  reconcile  the  vUendenti  by  the  torrent  of  a  fancy  more  lyrie 
to  the  somewhat  repelling  inventions  than  epic,  he  disdains  to  fill  the  in- 
of  a  painter  apparently  far  more  ex*  termeoiate  chasms,  and  .,  too  often 
travagant,  though,  in  reality,  mpre  leaves  the  task  of  connexion  .te  the 
correct  and  legitimate ;  not  with  any  spectator."  If  the  embellishments 
wish  to  hold  up  these  derelictions  for  of  this  palace  testify  Uie  inexhausti* 
imitation  or  praise,  but  merely  to  billty  of^his  fancy,  and  the  universality 
prevent  sterling  genius  £rom  neglect  of  his  pencil,  his  diversified  att^« 

*  To  simplify  and  be  pcrspicuaiu  it  is  neceaiary  to  mmke  this  bio«d  oppotitkMi  sC 
tt'ims)  though  it  is  neither  sufficiently  delicate,  nor  indeed  stricdy  j^ukMophicsL. 


^fl  Ct  Vat^  Vkt^kboomiM  ^U  Dogmas  for  Dildianth  CP^^ 

iqepti  are  displairad  ia  tlie  erecdoDj  are  Btarved  by  the  adust  rigiditj^  «f 

apy  netices  911  the  beautiea  of  which  tiiq  execution*    Such  are  the  jariiqg' 

I  Bhail  leave  to  more  able  judges,  elements    of  this    master  s   worka» 

The    outrageous    contradii^dons    of  whose    characteristic  is  an  erudite 

Giulio's  tastes  and  style  make  it  dif-  universality, 

fioult  to  arrest  and  stomp  him  ^th  ^^^,^  ^  ^^             ^^ 

any  unmistakpable  mark.     He  has        That  ftwn  a^emoSntoin  flows ; 
more  arand  and  poeUcal  concepUous        ^^pj^^  ^^  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^  ,^  ,^^ 

Ih^n  Raftaello,  and   commits  more  M'^hosefoice  no  limit  knows. 
^ii^pyrtiiy»Tydga  than  Paolo  Veronese. 

Sual    in  simplicity    to    Fra.   Bar-  He  was  a  decided  imitotor  of  the  ao« 
[>meo,  he  dislocates   more   limbs  tique ;  but  it  was  of  the  kernel^  not 
^h^U    Bandinelli,  or  Goltzius.      No  of  the  shell,  like  the  modem  Freoch 
9P0  ever  understood  the  mechanism  schooL    He  thought  in  their  spirit^ 
^  the  human  frame  betterj  and  no-  instead  of  copying    their    remains, 
body  ever  placed  such  tricks  with  it.  Thus  he  was  always  oriffinal  and 
mU  composition^  is  as  compact  and  racy.     The  vigorous  vitality  of  his 
united  as  his  chiaroscuro  is  unprin-  own  mind  runs  throuffh  all  his  cons- 
oled and  frittered.    It  is  difficult  positions,    and^  as  the  Faery   wine 
to  conceive  any  thing  warmer^  more  tingles,  like  youths  along  the  veins  of 
f  ttractive^  more    in  harmony   with  grey  Sherasmin^t  so  does  his  breath 
Tasso's  chorus,  O  beUd  etd  del  oro,  infuse  life  into  a  caput  mortuum,    9e 
tiian  his  amorous  groups  or  Bacchic  drags  forth  some  musty  mythologic 
icenery;  or  more  repellant  than  his  Cable,  re-models  it,  and,  placing  it 
*  upgeiual  tone  and  opaque  coloiur  wiUi  heforc  our  eyes  in  all  its  primeval 
^  its  red-bricky  lights,  violet  demi-  bloom,  commands  and  obtains  our 
^pts,  apd  black  shadows."      From  sympathies.    He  will  five  you  an  ap- 
Vs  mode  of  treating  them,  the  most  petite  for  any  dbh  which  Ovid  has 
JSuniliar  attitudes  assume  an  import-  sickened  you  with,  and,  like  Mae^s, 
^ce  and  noveltv,  while  impossible  and  Othello,  shall  tell  you  his  stonr 
twbts  wear  without    detection   the  over  and  over  again,  while  you  shaU 
prerogatives  of  suppleness.    Though  listen    like   Dido    and    Desderaomu 
tfiproughly  imbued  with  the  gran-  Even  his  numerous  and  offensive  ex« 
4eur  of  Homer,  and  the  purity  and  travagancies   serve   his   purpose    of 
beauty  of  the  antique,  he  had  an  in-  striking  and  rivetting  his  works  In 
cessant  itoh  for  grotesque  defonnity  :  the  mind.     Like  Fuseli,  he  may  be  ill 
a  master  of  expression,  he  preferred  apprehended,  but    never  despised ; 
the  grimaij^s  of  an  Italian  mounte-  you  mav  hate,  but  cannot  forget : 
1^1^ :  with  a  mind  capable  of  con-  this  is  the  prerogative  of  only  true 
<2^iving,   and  a  hand  of  executing  and  very  high  genius.    You  shall  be 
^very  ^ng  joyous^  gentle^  elegant,  placed  before  Carlo  Marratti,  and  be- 
and  sublime,   he  revelled  in  brutal  £orc  Guido,  before  Ann.  Caracci,  Al- 
YUlgarity,  depressing  meanness,  and  bano,  Domenichiuo,   Lanfrauco,  and 

Siabolical  torture,  and  he  drops  from  Mignard,  and  stand  neuter  on   the 

lie  heaven  of  sanctity  into  the  abo-  question  of  their  merits ;  but  M.  An- 

minations  of  Caprea.*    In  his  choice  gelo's  Brazen  Serpent,  Giuliu's  Rape 

of  attitudes  he  is  at  once  endlessly  of  Hylas,  Rembrandt's  Crucifixion, 

various,  and  mannered;  in  folds  and  or  Fuseli's  Hero  and  Leander,  shall 

flying  curlsj  apparently  natural,  yet  compel  you  perforce  to  an  election ! 

i^rbitrarv;  in  the  luxurious  head-dress-  It  is  peace  or  war^— intense  love  or 

es  of   his    females,    at-  once    antic  intense  detestation!  and  that  mere 

axvd    modern^    classical   and  fantos-  wildness  will  never  have  this  effect 

^c;   andj   to  crown  the  whole,  his  ia  fully  evidenced  >by  Rosso,  Spran- 

ideas,  young,  lusty,  and  full  of  sap,  ger^  Van  Maiuler,   and   Ilemskirk. 

•  In  allusioa  to  the  lost  Aietino  prints.  Fuscli  says,  "  some  have  objected  to  the 
dififaaer  of  his  phjtiognomies  as  more  si^lacious  than  enamouxed,  less  simple  than  vtiU 
^ur,  and  often  dismal  and  horrid,  without  being  tenible. 

-f*  See  Wieland*s  Oberon,  a  beautiful  romance,  much  in  need  of  congenial  translation. 
iBthanetn  time,  I  advise  you  to  reirf  Mr.  Sotbeby^s,  if  you  have  not  already. 


1821.;]  €.  Ptm  rhdthooms,  his  Dogmas  Jitr  DikttOiUu  4Sl 

Perhaps  this  last  obiervation  onl J  ap-  tnent.  We  hare  nearly  the  B«aUi 
plies  to  those  already  initiated  in  tne  images  in  both.  Fdr  ekfaer  victllh 
theory  of  the  art,  inasmuch  as  it  tii^  high  grores  and  forest  dells  mur« 
•iinposes  the  exercise  of  critical  mnr ;  the  flo^brs  exhale  sad  perfhme 
juagment;  and  judgment  in  painting,  "from  their  buds;  the  nigntingale 
as  well  as  in  poetry^  "  is  an  acquired  mourns  'oh  the  craggy  lands,  and  ihe 
talent  which  can  only  be  produced  swallow  in  the  long-whidmg  Valet, 
by  deep  thought,  and  a  long  conti-  '^  The  satyrs  tQO,  and  fhuna  daik- 
nued  intercourse  with  the  best  models  veiled  groan,"  and  the  fbuntahi 
of  composition !  "  This  unanswer-  nymphs,  within  the  woods,  nfelt  int6 
able  truth  should  temper  the  rashness  tearnil  waters.  The  sheep  and  gdats 
of  decision,  and  suggest,  "  that  if  leave  their  pasture ;  and  oreadi^ 
painting  be  a  subject  on  which  much  '^  who  love  to  scale  the  most  inaccti^ 
time  has  not  been  bestowed^  the  sible  tops  of  all  uprightest  rockf,** 
judgment  may  be  erroneous ;  and  hunr  down  from  the  song  of  thdf 
in  many  cases  must  be  so."  The  wind-courting  pines ;  while  the  dry- 
proceedings  and  notions  of  people  who  ads  bend  from  the  branches  of  tna 
regard  poetry  and  painting  aa  mat-  meeting  trees,  and  the  river  moans 
ters  of  amusement  are  immaterial ;  for  white  Procris  ^'  with  many*trob« 
but  those  who  wish  to  form  their  bing  streams," 
taste,  and  elevate  their  imagination,  HUing  the  far-seen  ocean  with  a  voice, 
must  begin  by  submitting  themselves  Leigh  J7«af. 
Irumbly  to  the  acknowledged  mas-  Jhe  golden  bees  are  silent  on  the 
ters,  imputing  all  Vant  of  relish  to  thymy  Hymettus;  and  the  kneflhi^ 
their  own  immature  or  distorted  vi-  hom  of  Aurora's  love  no  morfe  shaU 
sion,  and  taking  especial  care  never  scatter  away  the  cold  twilight  on  {he 
to  risque  a  criticism,  until  fuUy  satis-  top  of  Pelion !— The  foreground  or 
fied  that  thevOTter  into,  and compre-  our  subject  is  a  grassy  sun-burnt 
hend,  the  principles  and  ami  of  the  bank,  broken  into  swells  and  hoUowa 
Object  of  tiieh-  study.  This  will  adc  like  waves  (a  sort  of  land-breakers)  ; 
some  pains.  The  novsteries  of  Eleusis  rendered  more  uneven  by  many  foot- 
were  not  penetrated  by  the  aspbrants  tripping  roots,  and  stumps  of  trefes 
In  a  day :  many  remamed  in  the  por-  gtocked  untimely  by  tiic  axe,  which 
ches.  *'  Non  uti  Dasdakam  licet  om^  are  agaui  throwing  out  light  green 
nilnu  ire Corinihum:'  ''Every man's  ghoots.  This  bank  rises  ratiier  Sud- 
nose  will  not  make  a  shoeing  hom.  denly  on  the  right  to  a  clustering 
It  happen^  not  to  every  one  to  have  grove,  penetrable  to  no  star,  at  the 
brains  of  sealmg-wax,  ready  to  melt  entrance  of  which  sits  the  stunned 
m  the  Muse's  flame,  and  take  the  Thessalian  king,  holdmg,  between 
signet  of  ApoUo.  One  Udng,  hoV-  hjg  jmees,  tiiat  ivory-bright  body 
ever,  is  certain :  viz.  tiiat  he  who  ^hjch  was,  but  an  instant  agone, 
never  sets  out  will  never  amve  at  parting  the  rough  boughs  with  her 
his  journey's  end.  smooS  forehead,  and  treading  alike 
Can  we  get  in  ea^y  ?  ^^  ^o™8  ^^  flowers  witii  je^ousy- 
Old  Woman,  The  Greeks  got  Troy  by  ^^H^fiT  «wj/  "ow  helpless,  heavy, 
trying  for't,  sweet  wemi!  void  of  all  motion,  save  when  the 
All's  got  by  trying.       EUwCt  Theocritus,  breeze  lifts  her  thick  hall  in  mockery: 

I  shall  now  endeavour  to  entice  ^^  ^^* J^  does  not  ona  short  hw 

ymi  on  by  a  slight  descriptive  sketch  of  an^JSesI  Sdll  overflows  the  cop 

of  one  or  two  of  Giulio  s  mventions :  ^  ^'^^  »^         ^  ^  ^^"^ 
and  first  for  the  Cephahis  and  Pro-  gethcr 

crls  ;  a  composition  of  seventeen  ani-  ^nd  li^  than  the  ihadow  of  a  ieadier. 
mated  figures,   which,  as  a   whole,  ChapmanU  Epkcdium. 
bears  us  to  the  age  when  honey  still-  ^        ,               .      ,      i       .  . . 
ed  from  oaks,  and  when  no  storms  or  Fro™  between  the  ck)sely  neighbour- 
frosts  stripped  tiie  green  roofs  from  ^    *>o*f  ^  astonished  nymphs  press 
the    '  wons  •  of  tiie  sylvans.     We  forward  with  loud  cries ; 
should  read  Moschus's  Lament   for  ^nd  deer-skin-vested  satyw,  oownM  with 
Bion,   the    sweet   Shepherd,  before               ivy  twists,  advance; 
lookbig  at  the  picture;  or  study  the  And  put  strange  pity  in  their  homed  ooan- 
picture  as  a  preparation  for  the  La-               tenance. 


4%                   C  To*  finkboomi,  kk  Dogmas  for  DiUtfantu  (Xklt. 

Jtakuffi^  Bef  beneathy  -  9^d  flhows  by  theirpen  and  ink  sketchee,  wUh  the 
nh  panting  tlie  rapid  pace  of  death,  viridness  and  intelligibility  of  the 
On  tne  other  side  of  the  groupe,  vir-  composition^  general  character,  bar- 
tuoua  love^  with  '^  vans  dejected^''  mony  of  lines^  &c.  without  attending 
holds  forth  the  arrow  to  an  approach-  to  the  details. 
ii^  troop  of  Sylvan  peo]^>  fanns^  And  now^  most  pleasant  of  read- 
rams^  £(oats,  satyrs,  and  satyr-mo-  ers^  I  must  take  oft'  my  bat  to  you. 
therSj  pressing  their  children  tighter  I  had  fully  purposed,  hi  this  article, 
with  tneir  feiu^  hands,  who  hurrv  to  have  lectured  amply  on  Giulio ; 
^ng,  fron^  the  left,  in  a  sunken  path  and  then  touching  lightly,  for  the 
between  the  foreground  and  a  rocky  present,  on  Primaticcio,  to  have  en- 
wall,  on  whose  lowest  ridge  a  brook-  joyed  myself  among  the  elegant 
guardian  pours  from  her  urn  her  s^roups  of  the  seduchig  Parmegiaiio ; 
grief-telling  waters.  Above,  and  but  tnis  has  not  been  vouchsafed  unto 
more  remote  than  the  Ephidryad,  me  to  do.  My  fixed  limits  are  filled 
another  female,  rending  her  locks,  ap*  with  most  uuiutentional  other  fuesa 
pears  among  the  vine-festooned  pd-  stuff;  and  the  application  ot  my 
lars  of  an  unshorn  grove.  The  centre  prose  motto,  from  '<  The  learned 
of  the  picture  is  filled  by  shady  mea-  Maister  Seldeu,"  is  as  clear  as — thia 
do ws,  sinking  down  to  a  river-mouth:  glass  of  Sherris.  However,  the 
^"beyond  is  *'  the  vast  strength  of  the  printer  must  contrive  to  edge  in  my 
ocean-stream,"  from  whose  floor  the  little  list  below.  Val£T£. 
extinguisher  of  stars,  rosy  Aurora^ 

drives  furiously  up  her  brine-waahed  Prints  from  Giulio  Romano. 

ateeds,  to  behold  the  death-pan^  of  The  Death  of  Piocria ;  inscribed  at  bot- 

faerrivaL  I  am  not  aware  that  Giulio  torn,   ^''Julius    Romanua^    im^utor^** 

fsver  painted  The  Lament  for  Procru,  and  the  chifiie  of  the  engraver,  G.Mau-. 

The  print  before  me  (oy  Giorgio  twtMo  (GAid),  about  XL    Us,  ad,   or 

Ghisi)  b  plainly  made  from  a  drawing,  ^  2».  Orf.  according  to  the  brillinncy  of 

or  paper  sketch ;  a  custom  among  the  ^«  fanprejiion.    Retouched  by  Thvvtui- 

old  Italian  engravers,  easily  proved  ^'V""'  "J?  bearing  h«  name,    bs,  or  6*. 

by  M.  Antonio's  celebrated  StCeciiia  ^^^  rt^tf^^^^Son'rf  tTm  " 

with  the  black  Collar  (a  very  fine  im-  ^^^  (including  d^r^  de«iTable^ 

pression  of  it  is  worth  Jrom  twenty  to  ;j  characteristic^  ofhia  genuine  style. 

thirty  e^ineas  /)  after  a  design  of  Kaf-  ^g^tnte  Bartott.)    6*.  or  6*.  perhaps  not 

i^ello,  differing  much  from  the  pie-  m  much. 

ture  engraved  oy  Bonosone,  Strange,  The  Houn  leading  out  the  Hones  of  the 

Massard,  &c. ;     by    his   Parnassus,  6uq  ;  in  a  very  high  taste  of  poetry :  fa. 

Judgment  of  Paris,  The  Virgin  with  moua  by  the  critidam  of  Sir  Joshua. 

ike  long  Thigh,  &c.  &c.   Also  by  this  WUto.)  2s.  Ci.  or  3*. 

very  Uhisi's  Angles  of  the   Sistuie  J«P**«f  wickled  by  the  Goat  Amalthea, 

Chapel,  after  M.  Agnolo ;  by  Carag-  V^J^  ^^  Honey  by  the  Nymphs. 

Bo's  Loves  of  the  Gods,  The  Labours  ^P^"^)  f*)^  ^'    1/ y«"  <^  "P^V" 

of  Hercules:  ^h^f  Rosso  (le  maitre  "^^1^  IZT^    1  ^^'^''' \ 

%^),.p^'Th.Marriage\fiHe  Fir.  ffia'i^W^  ST'    ^^.  rJ 


uo\ 


;,  W.U  ^  «c  juaiTja^  uj  mc  r  ir-         ^^^  imagine,  ftom  a  drawing  :  you 

and  not  to  multiply  examples,        will  find  U  either  at  Woodbume'a  or 

om  Parmegiano  s    Vuican  throwing        Colnaghi'a,  to  a  certainty,  for  I/.  1  is,  Gd. 


ihe  Net,  by  Gaspar  Reverdmus,  and  or  22.  2r.  Oi.  N.  B.  It  is  not  one  of  J«- 

the  same  master's  Mars  and  Venus,  ho  Bo's  (as  he  signs  himself  sometimes) 

with  Vulcan  at  the  Forge  (in  its  first  best  things,  by  any  means ;  but  it  has 

atate),  by  iBneas  Vicus,  in   which  ten  times  the  fceling  and  ^ase  of  Uar- 

kst  EXTaEMELY  BARE  platc  this  fact  *oh'»  etching. 

is  very  apparent     I  notice  this,  to  ^'^fi^l  ^  Jupiter;    totaXlj  diffbrent 

account  for  the  thick,  coarse,  careless  ^"1  ^  «  ^"^^^  :  ^^f  '"f  *''*^ 

Aiifli.ioa  rxf  «rto..»  ^\A  «v*:»*.    ««  .««!!  by  PataMy  m  the  Palais  Rovalc.    5/. 

:'^'^t''^l^  ^J^U\Ll?^^J  r.  I!"  Th/Dimee  of  Apollo  and  the'Muses  ;  fron. 


a.  for  the  want  of  beauty  in  the  fea.  ^'Se^^^iSJu^^^a  ver^^h^l^^^^^ 

lures;  which  proceeded  not  from  m-  prfnt,   by  Raphael    lW    AIa«»ard. 

<!ompetency,   but  fi-o«i  o^lect :  the  jm.  2#.  oi  o»  1/.  JU.  ed, 

old  masters  satisfying  themselves,  in  Tk^  Triumph  of  Veapasiaii ;  large  folio 

•  Ovid  says  that  he  waa  tronsfoiyncd  into  a  itonc  bclurc  the  present  event ;  but  | 
iloa't  clnufe  to  believe  hinv 


IWIO 


TkiBermU. 


48ft 


nae,  cDgnted,  In  Ae  CtottA  Ckdledlpiiy 
by  L.  DoqEdMBB.  lOf.  or  7«*  6d.  Thara 
are  likewise  two  other  prints  of  this  ;oiie 
in  the  Mus^  Fran^it^  and  .  the  other, 
in  the  little  Galerie  de  FithoL 
From  TepdofO  GhisL 
Venus  withhdding  A4anis  from  the  Chase; 
a  very  rich  npri^t;  most  elaboratdy 
finiahed  by  O.  Mantuano.  IL  U.Od.m 
2L2t.0d.    I  picked  up  a  beautiftil  hn- 


nrcHlon  of  this  HUTioe  pkift)  at  Mr.  Trip* 
nook's,  the  bookseDer,.  three  or  foar 
years  ago,  and  never  met  with  its  feUoir 
tintheoUherday,  atMr.Ckdnagfai's.  It 
j^Dw  hides  ita  dimimshed  head. 
Mr.  Triphof^  haa  now  the  finest  SL  Hmm 
herty  jby  Albert  Durer,  I  suppose,  that 
can  be  produead.  It  is  a  match  fbr  mj 
friend  Weathercock's  M«  AnUmk^i  te 
far-fiuned  St.  CecQia. 


f , 


i«.= 


THE  HERMIT. 

A  FRAGMENT   FKOM   AN   UNPUBLUHJED   FO£M* 

Thek^  spent  with  weary  wandering,  on  the  bank 

AU  tissued  with  sweet  flowers,  I  flung  my  side ; 
And  bathed  my  forehead  in  the  herbage  dank 

That  sprouted  toot  beneath  the  widows  wide : 
There  was  the  spot  where  broken  hearts  mi^t  faide> 

So  thought  I^  from  the  world  of  evil  men ; 
Gazing  for  ever  on  the  silver  dde^ 

Or  listening  to  th^  murmurs  of  the  ^en. 
Or  echo  sweet  mat  woke  its  hollow  sounds  again. 

How  lovely  were  it  thu8>  from  day  to  day. 

To  glide  through  life,  from  all  it's  troubles  clear^ 
To  leave  at  mom  my  rushy  couch  to  pray. 

Then  forth  and  walk,  companion'd  b^  the  deer^ 
And  timorous  hare,  and  wood-dove  cooing  near^ 

The  frietid  of  every  innocent  wild  thing 
That  winff'd  or  grazed  beside  me  without  fear> 

All  in  those  secret  arbours  worshipping. 
As  once  in  paradise,  their  lonely  pilgrim  king. 

And  what  were  wealth  to  me  ?  those  little  flowers^ 

Were  they  not  richer  than  the  gems  of  Inde  ? 
What  kinffly  tapestry  like  those  waving  bowers  ? 

What  throne  so  glorious  as  that  wild  rock  lined 
With  golden  moss,  with  love-sick  rose  entwined  ? 

What  were  the  banquet  of  the  proud  saloon 
To  the  young  almond's  pulp,  the  citron's  rind 

That  scoop'd  the  stream,  when  the  pure  feast  was  done? 
Those  are  the  Hermit's  joys,  to  kings  and  courts  unknown. 

And  when  the  twilight  sent  her  pearly  star 

To. tell  me  that  me  hour  of  rest  was  come. 
My  music  be  the  waterfall  afar. 

The  hunter's  mellow  comet  winding  home. 
The  bleat  of  distant  folds,  the  wild  bee's  hum. 

Like  evening's  anthem  rising  to  the  skies,— 
Then  turn  to  sleep  within  that  rushy  room 

Where  slumber  .never  from  the  Hermit  flies. 
Till  mom  looks  smiling  ni,  and  breathes  upon  his  eyes. 

So  mused  I,in  a  dim,  delicious  trance. 

Till  dreams  upon  my  sinking  eyelids  clung.  .  '' ' 

A  shout  awoke  me,  swift  and  strong  the  lance  "  ."  '  * 

That  through  the  thicket  O'er  my  forehead  Aing. 
Half  blind  and  dizzy  to  my  steed  I  sprtmg,- ' ' 

Beside  his  shrinking  hoof  a  knight  lay  slain. 
Fierce  fight  was  round  me,  spear  and  mace,  high  swung. 

Through  proud  helms  crash'd  their  way ;  blood  ^sh'd  like  rahi, 
And  allwas  tnimpct-burstn,  and  yells  of  mortal  pain.       X1to$. 


V 

J 


490                                             l%e  DnmUL  COcL 

THE  DRAMA. 

No.  XXI. 

A  rmiBND  of  ouri  once  intended  ft.  The  red  Demon  of  the  ffartz  Foretty 

to  favour  the  world  with  an  essay  on  or  the  three  CharooAl  Burners ! ! 
the   subject    of   the   titfa^pages    of       ^-  ^^^  ^^^  '**  Gamester^  the  Seducery 

books.      We    think  that   the  titles  ^  Murderer,  and  the  TfUefi  t  /— 

which  dramatic  authors  adopts  for  NB.  Tliis  last^  in  the  play-bills,  is 

the  purpose  of  hrritatfaig  their  produc-  also  distin^isbed  by  the  title  of  a 

tions  into   notoriety,    would    aflford  "  domestic  tale!" — 

even  a  more  fertile  theme.    The  ya-  We  are  almost  ashamed  of  descend- 

riety  which  is  to  be  seen  ui  and  about  ing  from  such  a  magnificent  enume- 

London  is  ^as  Mr.  Sampson  would  ration  to  common  every-day  matters : 

say)  ''prodigious!"  There  are  some  but  we  must  not  omit  to  mention 

of  all  sorts —  that  the  Cobourg    dramatists  have 

From  grave  to  gmy,fiomUveIy  to  severe,  ventured    upon    another   sutject   of 

from  Sebastian  the  Fourth,  to  Loy-  «»»«  interest;  which,  inasmuch  aa 

«lty,  or   the   King    hi    Dublm,    as  **  "*l  challenge  a  comparison  with 

may  be  learned  from  a  careftil  pe-  «» .  rf  then-  predecessors  who  has 

nisal    of  those   flags  of  invitation  f  "amed  a  certain    portion  of  ce- 

which  are  daUy  issued  from  the  Co-  ^^!*y>  ?«  "^^  ^"^^^^7  desUtute  of 

bourg  or  Astley's  printing  presses :—  P«"H,  ^e  play,  or  "  piece,    to  which 

We  have  also  "  the  Cure  for  Cox-  ^®  Biiude,  is  called  "  The  Leab  of 

combs,"  a  light  and  "  h'veh"  affair  at  F^^  f^«  '>"  «?^  ^^r>  ^  ^  ^^^}^^ 

the  Lyceum;  and  the Geraldi  Duval  adapted   for  private   representetion 

ofDruryLanemay,  bythehelpof  a  "^*»  ^®'  pubHc    The  person  who 

MtUe  imagination,  pass  for  something  "^wers  to  the  Cordelia  of   Shak- 

that  is  even  «  severe."  We  hope  that    '^^  "^^  V^^J^  ^y  *  ^?'»? T"' 

these  satirical  authors  of  Old  Drury  T**<^«?    ^^  never  saw    before  (nor 

thrivein  the  sunshine  of  themanage/s  «°^)>  ^^  ^"l'  ^^"7  Kemble,  the 

&vour.  vounffest  and  last  of  an  illustrious 

m     -^  ««n      ^ «      1  brood,  it  was,  we  believe,  who  enact- 

Quo.  ID^  A.giX  i^ben.  ^7^^  *>{  »*'«,'?«'*  detennined  placi- 

Pnipano  biUt  ore  neetar.  ditj.    A  child  mu*t  touch  him  (as 

It  is  not  unlikely  that  the  remem-  *^  J"*^'  f  "^  "^  {he  lions),  he  is  so 

bnmce  of   boyish  Impressions   per-  f^*^-    I«».  truth,  he  is  not  a  man  to 

mades  our  niimufactiireni   of   me-  *f"i.^^  to  tatters,  or  to  over- 

lodrame  tato  the  adoption  of  cer-  '^  ^  ^'**  "^  *«  *^«*«'»*  7'«- 

taln  tides  for  their  places.     Other-  ""S*    W^?.«»Jd  indulge  our  spleen 

wise,  how  can  we  lUlbly  account  »  ^*"f  "^  *^  '^^i'"'^'  J,"'  a«,?'^S««=e 

Ibr  the  eztraordfaia^munM  which  *".    ™!«V*   T^*  .?""i       'i    "^ 

the  Beamnont>  and  lletcher>  »f  the  J?  ^.»f  ^«'««i  *t^  *^  1""^*  *»' 

Cobourg  theatre  hold  out  to  allure  H'"-  ^"^^^  the  greater  Kem- 

the  simple  of  both  sues  within  their  "*»i  •**>""  v**,  P^":?,'""*  1°  "''•*'" 

doors.      We  will  venture  to  tnm-  ''^"^^  «".?  '^^*^'  ^  ""'^^  *=«»" 

aeribe  a  few  of  their  alarming  titles:  <"  "»*  ^^^^  *^- 

first  begging   our  &ir  readm  and  «. ,      covent-oarmn. 

nervous  friends  (if  we  have  any)  to  ™«  *^T^  "  "»*  ^21«'  Septem- 

pass  over  the  ter^ble  array,  and  meet  'l'"\t'^"*  *"  "P^^    ^^"^^  "'^T" 

(iT^natthenextpani^ph.   Ob-  «f    that  some  changes  have  taken 

seryl  how  the  catalogue iw5l8,  from  P'»«f  f  ^""^  '"^^  **^  jPofTTt' .    * 

a  poor  common  assaiOt  into  an  abso-  ^  ^T  **»**  ™"«  "^  *"  bright  clus- 

lute  agglomeration  of  horrors!  !f '  .*'(r*'°'Sf^""%"^  fT,'  'rf  '^ 

,   T7f    .      t  „      ,•  .    .               .  that  Mr.  Macready  and  Mr.  Cliarles 

1.  8el»«t»n  Uie  Fourth,  in  the  conne  of  kemble  wiU  remain,  not  withstanding 

l^:;t:S7L^^I'^^'^^'^  the  addiUon  of  Mr.  Young      ThU 

3.  Trial  by  Battfc,  with  a  dcverate  am.  gcutlemwi  is  the  most  important  ac- 
lot  tul  cession  tliat  we  are  aware  oi  to  the 

8.  One  o'clock,  or  The  bkedtnfr  ATkb  /  winter  corps.     Mr.  Young  is  a  popu- 

4.  The  Crif  qf  JUoad,  or  the  Juror  h>r  actor  and  an  elegant  ni:ui.     lie 
Mutdtrer!  f  i^,.  perhaps,  the  finest  dcdaiinvr  on 


1821.;]  Tht  Drama,  407 

the  stage :  surpassing  Mr.  Kcmble^  seem  to  us  lair  play  for  Mr.  Elliston 
Mr.  Macready^    and  Mr.  Kean^  in  to  break  in  upon  old  established  cus- 
that  respect ;  Uiough  he  is  less  ori-  tom>  where  the  infraction  tends  to 
ginal  than   those   gentlemen  in  his  benefit  himself  and  to  do  injurv  to 
style  of  actings  and  rather  follows  the  other  people.    There  is  ''  something 
line  of  the  elder  Kemble  than  strikes  rotten  in  the  state  of  Denmark." 
out  one  for  himself.    His  excellence        With  regard  to  the    Coronation,' 
lies  more  particularly  in  such  cha-  we  beg  to  obsen^e^  that  Mr.  ElHs- 
racters    as    Pierre^    Chamont^    and  ton's  red-letter  intimation  is  not  true: 
Colonna   (in    Mr.    Shiel's   play  of  overflowing  audiences  do  not  attend 
Evadde)^  where  there  is  a  dash  of  to  recognise  either  one  thing  or  ano- 
bluntness  mixed  with  the  passion  of  ther ;  but^  on  the  contrary^  audieneet 
the  parts ;  and  in  some  of  the  mu-  of  a  very  moderate^  and  sometimM 
sicai    or    high-sounding    lines     of  meagre  amount^  meet  at  Drury  Lane 
Shakspeare  his  voice  has  frequently  to    witness    the    ''  fantastic  tricks'* 
great  power.    We  do  not  like  his  co-  which  are  there  played  off>  and  to  sse 
medy  so  well  as  his  tragedy^  though  Mr.  Elliston  himself  in  a  crown  and 
his  manners  are  really  those  of  a  gen-  royal  robes,  and  bowing  and  aweing 
tleman.     His  style  of  speaking  has  the    candle-snufTers    and    call-boys^ 
well  been  called  '' oriental:"   it  is  who  gaze  in  dumb  and  profound  ad- 
gorgeous,   sweepings   sonorous^  and  miration  at  every  movement  and  ex- 
musical,    with   less    attention  than  pression  which   their  nuuiter  thinks 
many  others  bestow  on  minute  points,  proper  to  commit  Mr.  Charles  Ksm- 
but  exceedingly  imposing  in  its  ge*  ole  (whose  grace  on  ordinary  occi^ 
neral  effect.    As  we  shafi  frequently  sions  few  people  will  dispute)  makes 
have  occasion  to  notice  Mr.  Young,  the  king  somewhat  too  lonv;  and  Mr. 
we  forbear  troublmg  our  readers  with  Elliston  is  not  lofty  enough,  nor  has 
more  on  the  sul^ect  at  present.  he  that  eveimess  of  manner  whidi 
DRuaY  LANE.  becomos  a  monarch.     In  other  le* 
**  Overflowing  and  delighted  au-  spects  his  Coronation  is  worth  sea- 
dlences  nightly   recognise   and    ai>  ing:  his  trumpeters  are  important, 
knowledge   the   Coronation    as  the  and  his  bishops  are  awful :  the  lords 
most  correct  and  splendid  exhibition  and  ladies  are — so  so,  but  the  cham- 
ever  produced  on  the  British  stage,"  pion  is  a  host  in  himself.  His  plumea 
are  the  words  of  Mr.  Elliston,  who  are  as  higii  as  those  in  the  Castle  of 
invades  the  old  privilege  of  die  sum-  Otranto,  and  look  altogether  asr  fUil 
mer  theatres  by  keeping  open  his  of  periL    We  wonder  how  Messnw 
huge  playhouse,  when  it  would  have  Carberry  and  Co.  the   plumassiars 
been   much  more  liberal   to   dose  (for  Mr.  Elliston  ^ves  us  the  namta 
the  doors.    We  hate  all  the  puffing  of  his  tradesmen  and'' artists/' down 
and   red-letter   ostentation    of  this  to  the  makers  of  the  btass-wire^  go»^ 
theatre ;  but  we  dislike  much  more  trived  to  fix  together  upon  one  simnfo 
that  Mr.  Elliston  ( who^  when  he  was  head  such  a  towering  forest  of  ostrich 
lessee  of  the  Circus,  talked  stoutly  plumes — but  so  it  is:  Mr.  Collet! 
about  the  great  theatres  and  their  (for  he  has  declared  himself  to  our 
illiberality)    should    be  allowed   to  Lion's  Head)  rides  over  the  pit,  in 
*^  lord  it  o'er  his  betters:" — ^for  so,  at  steel  and  feathers,  with  an  av  that 
present,  the  Lyceum  and  the  Hay-  would  have  been  thought  iroposiag 
market  are — and  to  show  a  grasp-  even  in  the  fields  of  Cressy. 
ing  dispositiou,  to  the  detriment  of  his        Before  we  dismiss  this  subject  wa 
rivals.    It  has  always  been  custom-  may  remark,  that  the  play-bills  in- 
ary  for  Covent  Garden  and    Drury  form  us  that  'f  everjpenon  engaged 
Lane  to  close  their  doors  during  a  in  the  preparations  for  the  19th  of 
certain  period  of  the  year ;  and  with-  July"  has  given  his  advice  on  the 
in  that  period  other  smaller  theatres  subject  of  the  **  splendid  exhibition'* 
exercised  their  art.    Last  year,  Mr.  at  Dirury  Lane.     This  means,    we 
Elliston,    under    some   pretence    or  presume,  that  Lord  Gwydir  afld  Mr. 
other,  kept  Drurv  Lane  open  during  Fellowes,  and  the  rest  of  the  noble 
a  great  part  of  the  recess ;  and  now  exhibitors,  have  given  their  opinions 
he  keeps  it  open  during  the  whole  re-  on  the  Brydge»-street  pageant ;  and 
cess  without  any  excuse  at  all.    We  hence  it  is,  of  course,  that  its  ex-* 
confess  that  we  do  not  like  this.    Wc  ceeding  correctness  has  arisen, 
admire  <<  fair  play ;"  audit  does  not        GeraUU  DhwU-,  i^  Bn^dsX  ^$  Bm^ 


iSB  I%€  Drama.  [[Oct. 

Armto^— After  what  we  hare  felt  tains  some  exceedingly  pretty  mmgs 
oundres  compelled  to  lay  touching  which  Miss  Povey  executes  delight- 
the  manager  or  Drury  Lane>  it  would  fully.  We  do  not  think  that  this 
hare  given  us  pleasure  to  hare  told  young  lady  has  received  her  fiill 
our  readers  that  this  '^  new  dramatic  share  of  admiration.  Her  Toice  is 
piece "  was  wofthy  their  attention ;  very  fine  and  rich.  Madame  Mara^ 
but  it  is  not.  The  drama,  although  we  understand,  said  that  it  was  the 
ibmided  on  a  tale-  of  Mrs.  Opie,  finest  voice  which  she  had  heard  in 
which  has  its  foundation  in  a  fact,  is  England ;  and  her  experience  and 
tortured  by  tiie  dramatist  so  as  to  taste  are  entitled  to  some  attention, 
appear  h<Mrrid  and  improbable.  Ge-  The  young  lady  who  played  Phcrbe 
laldi  Duval,  the  hero  of  the  piece  simg  her  songs  very  agreeably ;  and 
and  of  the  story,  is  spoiled  in  his  in-  Knight, 
fimcy ;  and  by  the  time  he  arrives  Ever  meny,  ever  young, 
'at  the  age  o/^ sixteen  or  seventeen,  made  an  excellent  William.  His 
he  is  a  fine  flourishing  instance  <^  quarrel  scene  was  admirably  hit  off; 
what  mismanagement  is  able  to  pro-  his  little  jealous  stmt  is  qiute  a  copy 
duce.  His  prepossessioiis  and  his  for  an  artist,  and  the  box  on  the  ear 
prejudices  are  strong  and  unopposed ;  sends  him  spinning  round  like  a  tee- 
and  his  pride  thrives  in  proportion  totum,  to  the  exceeding  amusement 
as  his  insolence  is  encouraged,  or,  of  the  wicked  Phoebe,  and  of  our 
which  is  the  same  thing,  unchecked,  laughing  friends  in  both  the  galleries. 
He  fancies  various  things,  and  ob-  Mr.  Cooke  acted  Belville,  but  not  to 
tains  them ;  and,  amongst  othars,  he  our  taste ;  and  a  man  of  the  name  of 
has  a  fancy  for  a  young  lady  of  rank,  Meredith  (we  believe),  dressed  like 
whose  inclinations,  however,  do  not  a  brewer's  drayman,  spoiled  the  Irish 
lie  towards  M.  l>uval;  on  the  con-  rustic  with  great  effect.  Connor 
trary,  she  has  a  penchant  for  some  used  to  act  this  part  in  a  fine  style 
other  gentleman.  This  induces  her  at  the  Haymarket,  last  year ;  but  not 
to  slight  Geraldi,  who,  on  his  part,  so  acteth  Mr.  Meredith.  We  wish 
resolves  to  wash  away  the  offence  that  we  coiUd  say  a  few  words  in  fa- 
with  her  blood.  He  in  fact  makes  vour  of  Mr.  Barnard's  Captdin  Bel- 
an  attempt  upon  her  life,  which  fails ;  ville.  He  seems  a  good-natured 
and  (instead  of  being  hanged  as  he  man,  and  fills  all  his  parts  respect- 
deserves)  he  is  sentenced  to  prison  ably ;  but  the  gay,  the  gallant,  is  not 
for  a  long  period  of  time.  From  this  for  him  ;  he  is  nearer  Horatio*  than 
Imprisonment  he  escapes;  and  though  Lothario.  He  is  fitter  to  give  a  turn 
years  have  dapsed,  he  pursues  his  to  a  precept  than  to  instruct  us  by 
victim  a^n  and  again,  with  all  the  his  example.  Yet  we  have  seen  him 
*'  old  original "  vengeance  that  fiirst  play  a  waiter,  or  a  bustling  landlord^ 
stimulated  him  to  murder.  After  se-  much  to  our  satisfaction ;  and  on 
veral  other  attempts  in  vain,  he  is  the  whole,  with  the  exception,  per- 
agun  seised,  and  suffers  death.  The  haps,  of  Cooper,  he  is  the  brightest 
ori^al  Geraldi  Duval  is  still,  we  star  of  the  company  which  Mr.  £l]is- 
bekeve,  in  prison,  spinning  out  his  ton  has  enlisted  for  our  summer's  im- 

EunbhmenL     When  he  was  appre-  provement  and  delight, 
ended,  he  is  reported  to  have  said,        ^'r^  Hundred  Pounds  is  a  slight 

«7(ef  tt  rttrouverai  u»  jour,  and  Mrs.  farce,  in   which  NonpluSy  a   spend.* 

Opie,  and  the  Drury  Lane  dramatist  thrift,  gets  into  debt  and  difiiculty, 

acting  upon  this  hint,  have  imaginea  and,  in  order  to  extricate  himself,  de- 

a  variety  of  new  atrocities,  which,  if  termines  to  alarm  his  uncle.  Subtle, 

ever  the  culprit  survives  his  incar-  out  of  the  money  which  he  wants, 

ceration,  he  may  be  perhaps  tempted  In  the  prosecution  of  this  laudable 

to  justify  or  exceed.    The  author  of  scheme  he  disembodies  himself^  and 

the  play  is  said  to  be  a  Westminster  takes  upon  him  the  functions  of  a 

scholar ;    this  is  enough  to  bespeak  ghost.    Subtle,  who  is  averse  to  spi- 

oiur  uftlidgence ;  though  we    would  rits  (at  least  of  the  impalpable  kind), 

rather  that  his  taste  should  have  led  makes  a  precipitate  retreat  on    the 

him,  like  his  school-fellow  Mr.  ^Val-  appearance   of  his  ghostly  nephew, 

ker,  to  take  the  higher  ground  of  the  and    in  his  hurry  drops  Ids   pocket 

drama.  book,  which  contahis  the  sum   that 

Hvjma  is,  as  our  readers  know,  a  Nonplus  has  occasion  for !  There  is 

plvasHut  shnple  afierpieccj  and  gou->  a  W3L>f  >  ^wi  «o>s\m  l^vu,  ^ivieraddcd  lu 


1891.3  B^port  of  Mtuic.  469 

this  fraSl  outline ;  but  wc  will  not  led  the  hero  of  the  piece  into  hit  di« 

trouble  the  reader  with  either  the  one  lemma  ;  and  hence,  the  title  of  The 

or  the  other.   We  may  observe^  how-  C'ure  for  Coxcombs.   Wrench  played 

erer,    that  the  gentlemen  who  write  exceedingly  gaily  and  deli^tfii&r : 

farces  think  it  incumbent  on  them  to  somemaythmlc  helstoo '^slip-shoa 

make  Uieir  heroes  as  little  like  gei^>  at  times,  eren  for  farce :   we  thbik 

tleraen  as  possible.    They  are  gene-  not 
rally  successful  in  their  amours ;  and  hatharket. 

are  rewarded  at  the  end  of  the  piece,         Venice  Preserved. — ^A  young  debut* 

although  they  may  hare  committed,  ante,  of  the  name  of  firudcnell,  has 

in  the  course  of  representation,  half  made  her  appearance  at  this  theatre, 

a  dozen  actions  that  would  have  sen-  in  the  character  of  Belvidera.    She 

tcnced  them  to  a  last  look  at  St  Se-  is  lady-like  and  gentle,  and  expresses 

pulchre's.  the  softer  emotions  agreeably;  but 

THE  ENGLISH  OPERA  HOUSE.  shc    IS  uot  adapted  to  the   higher 

This  lively  little  theatre  goes  on  walks  of  tragedy ;  and  she  would  be 

merrily.    Miss  Kelly  is  the  soid  of  lost  in  a  conflict  of  the  stormier  nas-* 

tlic  place;    and    the    fluttering   of  sions.      There  must  be  something 

Wrench,  and  the  strong  rugged  hu-  greatly  marked  in  a  countenance  tp 

moiir  and  pathos  of  Emery,  never  give  us  truly  all  the  fluctuations  of 

come  amiss  to  us.  V^^^'  ^^^  ^?  ^^   ^^  story  of  pro- 

The  CiireJ'or  Cojrcombs  is  a  didac-  found  despair ;  there  must  be  a  poirer 

tic    afterpiece.      Wrench,    who  is  of  eye,  and  a  depth  of  voice,  and  a 

gentleman,  coxcomb,  and  soi-disant  dignity  of  gait,  beyond  the  ordinary 

artistj  incited  more  by  the  beautv  of  graces  of  women,  to  strike  us  on  (He 

Mrs.  <— — ,  than  the  hope  of  rivaUing  stage.    Miss  BrudeneU  has  few  of 

either  Rafiaelle  or  Correggio,  intro-  these  requisites.    She  is,  if  we  may 

duces  himself  to  her  presence,  with  venture  the  word,  too  feminine ;  for, 

an  agreeable  conficlence  that  is  pecu-  though  it  is  desirable  for  an  actress 

liar  to  himself.     Here  he  prevads  on  to  picture  all  the  gentle  movements 

her  to  sit  for  her  portrait ;  and  while  of  the  spirit  in  tones  and  looks  as 

he  is  daubing  it  with  all  the  effect  gentle,  she  must,  nevertheless,  have 

and  self-satisfaction  of  an  empiric,  he  some  sterner  mialifications   for  the 

mingles  with  the  strokes  of  his  pen-  tragic  chair.     Mr.  Conway  played 

cil  those  pleasanter  touches  of  com-  his  old  character  of  Jaffier  very  re» 

plhnent  which  are  so  weU  known  to  spectably,  and  in  some  parts  very 

relieve  the  tedium  of  sitting,  while  well ;  and  Mr.  Terry  acted  Heire 

they  diversify  the  toils  of  the  artist  with  that  decided  good  sense  and 

At '  last,  the  pahiter's    compliments  spirit  which  he  shows  in  every  thing, 

deepen  iato   a  declaration  of  love ;  If  there  was  any  thing  to  object  to, 

and  then  it  is  that  the  lady,  who  it  was  that  he  was  too  bitter  almost 

waits  for  her  husband's  return  home,  for  the  part  of  Pierre ;   ho  did  not 

inflicts  upon  the  unhappv  penciller  '^  round  it  off "  outte  enough, 
that  sort  of  admonition  whion  no  one        There  is  a  clever  little  comedy 

but  he  who  hns  deserved  it  can  ap-  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Kenny,  called 

prcciate.    It  effects,  however,  a  cure  Match  Breakuig ;  but  we  must  speak 

of  that  tendency  to  gallantry  which  of  it  hereafter. 


REPORT  OF  MUSIC. 
No.  XX. 


'^  All  the  world  is  out  of  town,"  the  progression  in  art  that  is  to  be 

and,  therefore,  so  is  music  also ;  and  drawn  from  the  hearing  of  flne  mu« 

it  is  well  for  the  provinces  that  the  sical  performances.    For  though  fai« 

metrojpolis,  sometimes,  is  thus  evacu-  dividuals  do  continually  visit  Lon* 

ated^by  those  who  demand  the  grati-  don,  and  do  there  attend  the  beit 

fjcatious  afforded  by  high  science ;  concerts,  such  single  and  isolated  ad* 

since  this  demand  would  otherwise  vantages  could  never  have  half  the 

go  near  to  deprive  the  residents  of  the  effect  of  a  grand  county  meethig.   A 

body  of  the  empire  of  all  chance  of  whole  town,  and  not  oidy  a  towo—A 


4M  Rtpott  tf  Muik.  [[Oct 

dihint^^  find  perhaps  cten  more  than  sbook   hands  with    LhHllcfy  at  the 

one  county,  receire  from  such^    to  conclusion^     with    such    irresistible 

them  rare  assemblages  of  talent,  a  glee,  that   he  was    dismissed    with 

simultaneous  sthnnlus    to  iniptove*  thunders  of  applause.     The  sacred 

tnanty  which  interest,  example,  con-  perfbrmanceB    were    received    with 

tenacioa,     tnd    a    thousand    other  less  boisterous,  but  not  less  heartfelt 

nameless  motives,  bring  int6  the  full-  approbation.    Vaughan  was  a  parti- 

est  play.    The  rays  are  thus  concen-  cular  favourite.      Mr.    Card,    from 

ttftted  mto  a  focus,  from  which  their  Norwich,    played    a  fhite  concerto 

collected  heat  is  thrown  with  a  de^  with  considerable  success.    Lindler 

gree  of  force  that  accomplishes  far  was,  as  usual,  wonderful,  delightfiil, 

■fore  than  could  be  done  by  any  other  and  supreme,  as  an  instrumentalist. 
contrivance.      Thus    the    love    and         The  Ninth  Number  of  ihe  QuadrUle 

practice  of  music  are  mainly  propa-  Rondos. — This  series  of  lessons  hao 

gated  in  smaller  circles,  and  produce  been  very  well  sustained;  and  the num-^ 

not  only  individual  solace  and  social  her  before  us,  although  not  equal  to 

oiQOyment,  but  many  advantages  to  those  which  have  preceded  it,  has 

trade,  to  charity^  and  to  science,  at  a  yet  a  title  to  many  of  their  excellen- 

Mnparatively  trifling  expence.     A  cies.    It  has,  apparently,  been  the 

htlle '  patronage  from   a  few  great  intention  of  the  composers  who  have 

Bomes  is,  perhaps,  almost  the  only  been  engaged  in  these  publications, 

Ihiag  necessary :  mid  the  subiect  is  to  give  them  sufficient  elegance  ana 

well  worthy  the  attention  of  those  brilliancy    to   satisfy  penormers  of 

who  watch  over  and  promote  the  some  attainment,  and  yet  to  place 

progress  of  civilization,  not  less  than  them  within  the  reach  of  more  mode* 

of  wiose  interested  more  particulariy  rat^  powers.  This  has  certainly  been 

in  the  cultivation  of  music.  effected ;  far,  in    the    one    respect. 

These  introductory   remarics  are  ther  cannot  fail  to  afford  amusement, 

drvim  from  us  by  the  succession  of  and,  in  the  other,  improvement    In 

eowBty  meetings  which  are  just  be-  the  present  rage  for  quadrilles  their 

gimsng.     SBditbury,    this   year,  has  very  title  will  attract  and  recommend 

teken  uie  lead  ;  and  is  to  be  foHowed  them  to  notice.    Mr.  Kiallmark,  in 

by  Worcester  and  Chester.    A  festi-  number  nine,  has  chosen  a  subject  of 

Tal  meditated  in  Norfolk  has  been  which  we  confess  ourselves  weary, 

¥Venup  /or  umnt  of  public  support,  namely,   the    Barcarolle;    but    we 

he  SausDury  meeting  was  wdl  at-  know  this  is  not  the  case  with  the 

tended.      Madame  Camporese  and  rest  of  the  world*     It  has  always 

Mm.  Salmon,  Ambrogetti,  Vanghan,  b^sn  a  favourite ;  and  it  will  not  be 

W.  Kn3nrett,  and  BeUiuny,  were  the  leaf  relished  in  its    present  shape, 

prlncqial  singers ;  and  it  is  a  curious  It  la  fight,   pretty,  and  extremely 

met,  for  it  shows  the  diffusion  &t  easy. 

knguageaswellasofmunc,  that  the        Heart  beoting,  a  favourite  air  by 

Itanans  bore  away  the  greatest  share  Giordaid,  arranged  as  a  rondo  for 

of  the  potmlmr  applause.     That  the  the  pianoforte  by  T.  Cooke.     TMa 

•tyle  of  Camporese,  wherever  style  is  lesson  is  intended  for  learners;  and 

bk  the  slightest  degree  understood,  has  greater  merit  than  we  usuaUy 

should  attract  admirers  is  no  matter  find    in    this  class  of  compositions.  * 

of  wonder,  particularly  when  she  is  The  subject  is  good;  and  is  arranged 

compared  with  such  a  singer  as  Mrs.  in   a  spirited  style.    The  passages, 

Salmon,    who,    however,    ^nerally  thourii  extremely  simple,  are  calcu- 

wins  all  ears  by  her  beautiful  tone,  lated  to  afford  beneficial  practice. 
and  her  exquisite,  delicious  facility.        Tht  PsycheanH  JTa/^z,  with  varia- 

But  every  note  from  Camporese  goes  tions,  by  Klose,  is  of  the  same  de- 

*y  the  heart,  in  spite  of  an  mtractable  scriptiou,  though  inferior.    The  va- 

TOice  which  is  a  little  passSe,    We  riatiotis  are  upon  an  unmeaninfi'  sub- 

eoni^,  we  like  to  know  that  soul  ject,  and  are  common-place.    Varia- 

g«to  the  better  of  solfeggi.    The  hu-  tion  five   will    give    good  exercise 

mour  of  Ambrogetti  completely  re-  to  a  young  hand;  and  perhaps  the 

bated  the^  minds  of  his  audiences  i  whole  piece  is  sufficiently  pretty  to 

and,  in  his  Presto,  Presto,   Signori,  attract  the  performers  for  whom  it  is 

on  the  last  night,  he  danced  about  intended. 

ibe  orchestra,  sccHded  tiie  band,  and        Mr.  Rolfo   lias  published   twelve 
6 


1891.;]                                        iZcpofI  ef  Hivtc.  431 

progressive  pieces  for  the  pianoforte,  this  early  application  of  his  talents  to 

They  are  of  the  easiest  description.  musical  compositions. 

Mr.  Kiallmark's  Divertimento  for  We  now  turn  to  a  Sestetto  for  the 

the  harp  and  pianoforte  is  a  very  pianoforte^  two  violins,  viola,  vioMiH 

agreeable  duet.     It  is  adapted    to  cello,  and  bass,  by  Mr.  Kalkbremier 

very  small  acquirements.    There  is  himself.    It  partakes  of  the  leadfaw 

no  great  choice  of  easy  duets  for  characteristics  of  Mr.  KalkbrennerS 

these  instruments ;  and  as  such  it  style ;  strength  combined  with  grace 

\will  be  found  useful.  and  originality.    We  seldom  find  iq 

Fanituia  on  the  favourite  air  Di  this  gentleman's  compositions  a  com^. 

jmacer,  hy  Pio  Cianchettini.    There  is  mon-place  passage.     His  manner  b 

one  iault  which  pervades  the  whole  peculiar ;  perhaps  more  so  than  that 

of   this  fantasia — an    over-indulged  of  any  other  modem  writer.    We 

imagination.      It  is    impossible   to  have  always  thought  it  requires  a 

follow  Mr.  Cianchettini  through  his  general  acauaintance  with  this  com.*  . 

flights  of  fancy :  the  ear   finds    no  poser's  style  before  it  can  be  reall j  • 

resting   place ;  and  although   there  understood  and  enjoyed ;  and  we  at- 

are  many  sweet  and  beautiful  pas«  tribute  it  to  the  fact  that  it  standa  -^ 

sages,  they  cloy  from  their  constant  alone.    We  are  also  convinced  that 

recurrence,  and  fatigue  from  want  of  the  more  it  is  studied  the  more  highly 

connexion.     None  but  the  composer  it  will  be  appreciated.     In  the  pre- 

himself,  we  are  well  aware,  could  do  sent  work  we   particularly  admire 

it  justice.    We  have  seen  many  me-  the  minuet,  trio,  and  adagio.    The 

ritorious  works  from  the  hand  of  Mr.  latter  is  very  expressive.     Indeed^ 

Cianchettini ;  and  as  his  composition  we    consider    the    whole   piece    as 

now  suiSers  merely  from  a  redun-  amongst     Mr.    Kalkbrenner's    best 

dancy  of  images,  time,  there  is  little  productions. 

doub^  will  cool  the  ardour  of  his  Amongst  the    selections    of   tliie 

fancy,  and  render  him  eminent  month  are  a  third  duet,  by  Watts^ 

Mr.  Burrowes  has  published  the  from  II  Barbiere  di  Siviglia ;  the  se* 

twelfth  number  of  his   Caledonian  cond  book  of  Mr.  Latour's  arrange-i 

airs,  which  completes  the  set.    It  is  ments  from  the  same  opera,    both 

an  agreeable  conclusion  to  a  very  with  a  flute  accompaniment,  ad  lib. 

nice  collection  of  pianoforte  lessons,  and  the  second  book  of  airs,  from  H  • 

They  are  all  in  the  form  of  airs  with  7\treo  in  Italia,  by  Mr.   R.  Lacy^ 

variations ;  and,  consequently,  a  test  also  with  a  flute  accompaniment,  ad 

of  the  composei^s  power  of  invention  Hbb 

and  imagination.     Scotch  music  is  The  vocal  pieces  are  few,  and  of 

always  a  favourite ;  and  amongst  the  little  interest;  the  heat  of  them  la 

airs  Mr.  Purrowes  has  selected  will  Father,  accept  the  humble  praise,  an 

be  found  many  old  friends  of  tried  arranged  sacred  song,    by    Mr.    T- 

exc^ence.  Cooke,  who,  by  the  way,  has  also 

Fantasia  for  the  Pianrforte,  on  Afo-  published  his  music  to  the  Corona* 

juirfsAirllamoreun  laJronceUo^byJ.  tion  spectacle  at  Drury-lane.     The 

H.Qriesbaclu  This  gentleman  is  a  pu«  same  ceremony  has  also  called  forth 

pil  of  Mr.  Kalkbrenner,  and  a  young  tributary  stanzas,  and  music,  fhim 

conposer,  the  piece  before  ns  being  other  hands.    Mr.  Danneley,  of  Ipff« 

only  Op.  2.     It  18,  however,  a  highly  wich,  has  printed  a  bravura  and  cho* 

creditable  composition,  and  would  do  rus.  Hail  to  our  King;  and  Mr.  Har-i 

honour  to  an  older  master.  The  selec«  ris,  a  sort  of  cantata.  Bright  Star  of 

tion   of  the  subject  is  a  proof  of  an  Brunswick's  royal   Line,    of   whidl 

elegant  mind,  and  Mr.  Griesbach  has  theit  overflowhig  loyalty  is  the  prii^ 

adorned  bis  work  with  many  grace-  cipal  recommendation  ;  and  this  has 

^1  and  melodious  passages.      The  been  found  sometimes  a  good  saleable 

solo  for  the  bass,  at  page  9,  is  ex*  commodity  enough, 

tremely  good ;  and  we  distinctly  trace  J7te  Laburnum  Tree,  a  song,  by 

the  school  in  which    he   has  been  Mr.  Harris,  was  made,  we  presume^ 

trained  in  this  and  many  other  in-  for  Vauxhidl ;  since  it  is  by  no  means 

stances.   We  are  happy  to  congratu-  equal  to  his  duets,  and  other  pro« 

late  Mr.  Griesbach  on  his  success  in  ductions  we  have  sees  of  that  cast. 


7%€  Cook's  Oracle.  [;Oct. 

THB  0OOK*S  ORACLE.* 

Ds.  KiTCHEKE&has  matly  recog-  of  the  picturesque ;  or  leaped  double 

nised  the  ffenhis  of   mg  name  by  sentences^  and  waded  throi^h  meta- 

taking  boUUy  the  path  to  which  it  phors,  in  a  grammatical  atceplerchac^e 

Sinta ;  disregarding  all  the  usual  se-  with  Colonel  Thornton ;  or  turned  li- 

ctions  of  Kfe^  he  has  kept  his  eye  terary  cuckoo^  and  gone  suddug  the 

ateadily  on  the  larder^  the  Mecca  of  eggs  of  other  people's  books^  and 

Ilia  appetite ;  and  has  unravelled  all  making  the  woods  of  the  world  Mho 

the  mysteries  and  intricacies  of  celery  with  one  solitary^  complainbig^  re» 

Ikmp,  and  beef  haricot,  to  the  eyes  of  viewing'  note."    Such  might  be  the 

a  reading  public.    He  has  taken  an  Doctor's  notion  of  a  reply^  to  which 

'extensive  kitchen  range  over  the  whole  we  fancy  we  see  him  simmtfring  with 

-  world  of  stews^  and  broils,  and  roasts,  delight,  and  saying,  *'  No,  Sir!    I 
and  comes  home  to  the  fireside  (from  have  not  meddled  either    with  the 

-  which,  indeed,  his  body  has  never  curry  of  poetry,  or  the  cold  meat  of 
departed)  bmling  over  with  know*  prose.    I  have  not  wasted  over  the 

*  ledge — stored  with  ciuriosities  of  bone  slpw  fire  of  the  metaphysics,  or  cut 

and  sinew — a  made-up  human  dish  up  the  mathematics  into  thin  slices— 

of  cloves,  mace,  curry,  catsup,  cay-  I  nave  not  lost  myself  amongst  the 

enne,  and  the  like.    He  has  sailed  kickshaws  of  fine  scenery,  or  pam- 

orer  all  the  soups ;  has  touched  at  pered  myself  on  the  mock-turtle  of 

all  the  quarters  of  the  Iamb ;    has  metaphors.    Neither  have  I  dined  at 

been,  in  short,  round  the  stomach  the  table  and  the  expense  of  other 

.  world,  and  returns  a  second  Captain  men's  minds  !  No,  Sir.    I  have  writ- 

Coakl  Dr.  Kitchener  has  written  a  ten  on   cookery,  on  the  kitchen,  on 

book;  and  if  he,  good  easy  man,  the  solids,    '  the  substantials.     Sir 

■houM  think  to  surprise  any  friend  Giles,  the  substantials !' " 

or    acquaintance    by   slily    asking,  Ifit  were  not  that  critics  are  pro- 

<<  What  book  have  I  written  ? "  he  verbial  for   having  no   bowels,  we 

would  be  sure  to  be  astounded  with  should  hesitate  at  entering  the  para- 

a  successful    reply,    ''  a    book   on  dise  of  pies  and  puddings  which  Dr. 

Cookery."     His  name  is  above  all  Eatchener  has  opened  to  us ;  for  the 

disguises.    In  the  same  way,  a  wor-  steam  of  his  rich  sentetices  rises  a- 

thy  old  gentieman  of  our  acquaint-  bout  our  senses  like  the  odours   of 

ance,  who  was  wont  to  lead  his  vi-  flowers  around  the  imagination  of  a 

■itors    around^  his    kitchen  gjuden  poet ;  and  larded  beef  goes  nigh  to 

(the  Doctor  will  prick  up  his  ears  at  lord  it  over  our  bewildered  appetites, 

this),   which  he   had  carefully  and  But  being  steady  men,  of  sober  and 

cunningly    obscured  with  a   laurel  temperate  habits,  and  used  to  priva« 

hedge,  and  who  always  said,  with  tions  in  the  way  of  food,  we  shall 

an  exultinfi^  tone,  ^^  Now,  you  would  not  scruple  at  looking  a  leg  of  mut- 

be  puzzled  to  say  where  the  kitchen  ton  in  the  face,  or  shaking  hands 

garden   was   situated ; "   once   met  with  a  shoulder  of  veal.    **  Minced 

with  a  stony-hearted  man,  who  re-  coUops  "  nothing  daunt  us ;  we  brace 

morselessly  answered^  "  Not  I !  over  our  nerves,  and  are  not  overwhelmed 

tiiat  hedge,  to  be  sure."  The  Doctor  with  **  cockle  catsup !"  When  Baya 

might  expect  you,  in  answer  to  his  asks  his  friend, ''How  do  you  do  when 

query,  to  say  ;  *'  A  book.  Sir !  Whv,  you  write?  "  it  would  seem  that  he  had 

perhaps  you  have  plunged  your  whole  the  Cook's  Oracle  in  his  eye — ^for  to 

•oul  into  the  ocean  of  an  epic ;  or  men  of  any  mastication,  never  waa 

lolied  your  mind,  with  the  success  of  there    a   book   that   reauired   nore 

a  Sisyphus,  up  the  hiU  of  metaphy-  training  for  a  quiet  and  usefiil  pe« 

lies ;  or  played  the  sedate  game  of  rusal.     Cod's-head  rises  before  you 

the  mathematics,  that  Clunese  ^z-  in  all  its  glory !  while  the  oysters  re-« 

sle  to  English  minds !    or   gone  a  volve  around  it,  in  their  firmament 

tour>  with  Dugald  Stuart,  in  search  of  melted  butter,  like  its  weU-or^ 


*  The  Cook's  Onde :  containing  Receipts  fbr  plsia  Cookery,  &e.  the  whole  being  the 
Remit  of  actual  EzpenmaitS)  insdUited  in  itm  Kxtcfaen  of  a  Physician.  Iiondon.  Coa<« 
Mabb  aad  Co.  1821. 

S 


1881.;]                                   7%e  (Met  Oracle^  48S 

dered  satellites !  Moorgame^  macka-  stands  much  upon  the  order  of  his 
rel>  muscles,  fowls,  eggs,  and  force-  f oing.  &ut  now,  to  avoid  sinking 
meat-balls,  start  up  in  all  directions,  mto  the  same  tricky  we  wiU  proocsd 
and  dance  the  hays  in  the  ima^ia-  without  further  preface  to  conduct 
tion.  We  should  recommend  those  our  readers  through  the  max<e  of 
readers  with  whom  dinner  is  a  habit,  pots,  gridirons,  and  frying  pantf 
not  to  venture  on  the  Doctor's  pages,  which  Dr.  Kitchener  has  rendered  n 
without  seeuig  that  their  hunger,  very  poetical,  or  we  should  say^  a 
Bke  a  ferocious  house-doff,  is  care-  vcij  palatable  amusement. 
fuUv  tied  up.  To  read  four  pages  The  Jirsi  preface  tells  us,  imUr 
with  an  unchained  appetite,  would  alia,  that  he  has  worked  all  the  ciui- 
bring  on  dreadful  dreams  of  being  nary  problems  which  his  book  cop- 
destroyed  with  spits,  or  drowned  in  tains,  in  his  own  kitchen ;  and  that, 
muUagatawny  soup,  or  of  having  after  this  warm  experience,  he  did 
your  tongue  neatly  smothered  in  your  not  venture  to  print  a  sauce,  or  a 
own  brains,  and,  as  Matthews  says,  stew.  Until  he  had  read  '^  two  hiin- 
a  lemon  stuck  in  your  mouth.  We  dred  cookery  books,"  which,  as  he 
cannot  but  conceive  that  such  read-  says,  "  he  patiently  pioneered 
ing,  in  such  unprepared  minds,  would  through,  before  he  set  about  record* 
have  strange  influences;  and  that  ing  the  results  of  his  own  experl« 
the  dreams  of  persons  would  be  ments ! "  We  scarcely  thought  there 
dished  up  to  suit  the  various  palates,  had  been  so  many  volumes  written 
The  school-g^l  would,  like  the  on  the  Dutch  oven. 
French  goose,  ''  be  persuaded  to  The^n^  introduction  begins  thui : 
roast  itself."  The  indolent  man  »«  ^  fi,n«ws««  ^-..^.f  -«.  ««*  *  m*». 
would  '<  steep  a  fortnight  "and  even  J!^.^:^l^T^V^. 
then  not  be  fit  for  use.  The  lover  es,  andcuttiiig8,andpi»dng8;-butr4iiiA 
would  dream  that  his  heart  was  ^  register  of  practical  facts,-«ccumii. 
overdone.  ^  The  author  would  be  LUed  by  a  peisevennoe  not  to  be  subdued, 
roasted  alive  in  his  own  quills,  and  or  evaporated,  by  the  igniferous .  trrton  of 
basted  with  cold  ink.  It  were  an  a  roasting 'fire  in  the  dog-days, — in.d^- 
endless  task  to  follow  this  specula-  ai^ce  of  the  odoriferous  and  calefadent  re* 
tion;  and,  indeed,  we  are  keeping  pdlcnts,  of  roasting, — boiUng, — frying, 
our  readers  too  long  without  the  ^-a°d  broiling :— moreover,  the  author  has 
meal  to  which  we  have  taken  the  ~^««?  ^  •  labour  no  preceding  CodL- 
liberty  of  inviUng  them.  The  din-  ^  Book-maker,  fwrhaps,  ever  attemgri 
««..  */t>«ii  5««u^«»»  ..«  ^  J  to  encounter — havuig  eaten  each  receipt, 
ner  «beU  invites  us-we  go,  and  befawhe.etitdowninh5.book.  *^ 
It  IS  done. 

The  book,  the  Cook's  Oracle,  opens  We  should  like  to  see  the  Doctor, 

with  a  preface,  as  other  books  occa-  we  confess,  after  this  extraordinarr 

sionall^  do ;  but  ''  there  the  likeness  statement.     To  have  superintended 

ends;     for  it  contmues  with  a  whole  the  agitations  of  the  pot, — to  have 

bunch  of  introductions,    treating  of  huny  affectionately  over  a  revolving 

cooks,    and    invitations    to    dinner,  calf  s  heart, — to  have  patiently  wit- 

and  refusals,  and  '^  friendly  advice,"  nessed  the  noisy  marriage  of  bubble 

and  weights  and  measures,  and  then  and  stjueak, — to  have  coolly  inves- 

we  getfiirly  launched  on  the  sea  of  tigated  the  mystery  of  a  haricoty*- 

boiling,  broiling,  roasting,  stewing,  appears  within  the  compass  of  any 

4nd  again  return    and  cast,  anchor  fiveii  old  lady  or  gentleman,  whose 

among  the  vegetables.     It  is  impos«  nrame  could  stand  the  fire,  and  whose 

sible  to  say  where  the  book  begms;  soul  could  rule  the  roast.     But.  to 

it  iSi  a  heap  of  initiatory  chapters— a  have  eaten  the  substantiaU  of  440 

parcel  of  graces  before  meat — a  bunch  closely  pnnted  pacres,  is  "  a  thing  to 

ofheads,— the  asparagus  of  literature,  read  of,  not  to  tcU."    It  calls  for  a 

You  are  not  troubled  with  "  more  man  of  iron  interior,  a  man  "  aliaai 

last  words  of  Mr.  Baxter,"  but  are  appetens,  sui  profusus."    It  demands 

delighted,    and    re-delighted,    with  the  rival  of  time;  an  edax  terumi 

more  first  words  of  Dr.  Kitchener.  The  Doctor  does  not  tell  us  how  he 

He  makes  several  starts,  like  a  rest-  travelled  from  gridiron  to  frying-pan 

less  race-horse,  before  he  fairly  ffets  — from  frying-pan  to  Duch    oven — 

upon  the  second  course;  or  rather,  from  Dutch  oven  to  spit— from  spit 

like  Lady  Macbeth's  dinner  party,  he  to  pot— from  pot  to  fork  \  \iR  \s(»:«^^ 

Vol.  IV.  ^\ 


484                                       J%e  Cook's  OracU.  [[OcC 

ns  to  guess  at  his  progress.     We    ^  fire  that  ttq»  her  way  out,  the  unvca- 

presume  he  ate  his   way,  page  by  ried  goose  is  kept  in  ;•  she  will  fall  to  drink 

page,  through  fish,  flesh,  fowl,  and  ^  ^»*«  ^  quendi  her  thirst,  and  cool 

TCgetable  ;    he   woidd   have  left  vs  ^  ^^":|j  and  all  her  body,  and  the  apple 

d^  among  the  soups  and  gravies.  ^^"^  '"•^^  her  dung,  and  dcansc  and 

.  Had  a  w^le  am^  Jf  martfrs  ac-  Z^-\J^;Xl^  T^^H^a^ 

companied  him  on  this  Russian  re-  ^^  heart  with  a  wet  sponge;  and  when 

treat  of  the  appetite,  we  should  have  you  see  her  giddy  with  running,  and  begin 

found  them  strewing  the  way;  and  to  stumble,  her  heart  wanu  moisture,  and 

Mm  alone,  the  Napoleon  of  the  task,  she  is  roasted  enough.    Take  her  up,  set 

living  and  fattening  at  the  end  of  the  her  before  your  guests,  and  she  will  cry  as 

journey.    The  introduction  goes  on  yon  cut  off  any  part  fi^m  her,  and  will  be 

very     learnedly,     descanting    upon  almost  eaten  up  before  she  be  dead  :  it  ia 

Shakspeare,  Descartes,  Dr.  Johnson,  mighty  pleasant  to  behold ! !  rSeeJVecker's 

Mrs.  Glasse,  Professor  Bradley,  Py»  ^<»^'  of  Nature^  m  foho,  London,  1660, 

thagoras.   Miss  Seward,  and   other  PP- 148>  309. 

persons  equally  illustrious.  The  Doc-  The  next  chapter,  or  introduction, 

tor's  chief  aim  is  to  prove,  we  he*  (for  we  are  not  within  forty  spits' 

Mere,  that  cookery  is  the  most  laud*  length  of  the  cookery  directions  yet ! ) 

able    pursuit,    and  the  most  plea-  is  entitled  *^  Invitations  to  Dinner ; 

Stirable  amusement  of  life.     Much  and  commences  thus : 

tics;  for  we  are  told,  that  "itis  a  strictest  punctuality  is  mdispensablcj-Uie 

good  maxim  to  select  ^servants  not  gastronomer  ought  to  be  as  accurate  an  ob- 

younger  than   thirty.       Is  it  so?  gerver  of  time,  as  the  astronomer.    The 

Youth  '<  thou  art  shamed  !   This  first  kast  delay  produces  fatal  and  irreparable 

introduction  concludes  with  a  long  misfortunes. 

•jdogy  up«i  the  Doctor's  "laborious  j^  appearing,  therefore,  that  delay 

itovework;     and  upon  the  snurit,  is  dangerous,  is  mammas  say  to  their 

temper,  and  abihty,  wiA  whicb  he  daughters  on  certain  occasions,  the 

^  '^'*/''*v^-^'^^'    P^  ^^^'  l>octor   directs    that    "the  dining- 

SP^'^n^^c/^J^,'"^*'*'''"?  ?  ^'^/'P"  room  should  be  furnished  witha  good- 

tercaUed^CuhnaryCunosities,    m  going  clock."     He  then    speaks   of 

which  he  gives  the  foUowmg  recipe  g^^c  ^ell  done,  when  it  is  done," 

i/»  P^""^^"*«^  *  fi^^?^  ^°  '•?^^  *^-  which  leads  to  certain  learned  sen- 

adf.       We  must  say  it  out-horrors  tences  upon  indigestion.     The   sad 

all  the  horrors  we  ever  read  o£  disregard  of  dmner-hours  generally 

itrn^x!^  ^  ^^*^  *"*^  ^^'  *  ^^^^^  ^'"^^* —  observed  meets  with  his  most  serious 

«Take  a  goose,  or  a  duck,  or  some  such  dif^easure  and  rebuke;  but   to   re- 

Bvelv  creature,  (but  a  goose  u  beit  of  all  ftig©  an  invitation  to  dinner  is  the  ca^ 

«iw^.^2?'^'/""  f  'V'Z^'^'^'  Pital  crime,  for  which  there  is  appa- 

only  the  head  and  neck  must  be  spared :  tl«#i«  ^^  /<.,^:f  oi  r^..«5ei,r«««* 

then  make  a  fire  round  about  her,  Sottoo  '^"^^  no  capital  punishment. 

dose  to  her,  that  the  smoke  do  not  choke  Nothing  can  be  more  disobliging  than  a 

her,  and  that  the  fire  may  not  bum  her  too  refusal  which  is  not  grounded  on  some  very 

aooo ;  nor  too  far  off,  that  she  may  not  cs-  strong  and  imuvoidablc  ciiusc,  except  not 

cape  free ;  within  the  circle  of  the  fire  let  coming  at  the  appointed  ]iour ;  according  to 

there  be  set  small  cups  and  pots  full  of  the  laws  of  conviviality,  a  certificate  from 

water,  wherein  salt  and  boney  are  mingled ;  a  sherifPs  ofiiccr,  a  doctor,  or  an  under- 

and  let  there  be  set  also  chai^gers  fiUl  of  taker,  are  the  only  pleas  which  arc  admis- 

sodden  apples,  cut  into  small  pieces  in  the  sible.  llie  duties  which  invitation  iniposes, 

dish.     The  goose  must-  be  all  larded,  and  do  not  £aU  only  on  the  penions  invited,  but 

baated  over  with  butter,  to  make  her  the  like  all  other  social  duties,  are  rcciprocaL 

more  fit  to  be  eaten,  and  may  roast  the  _.          ,,,,       r       /..        .i 

better :  put  dien  fire  about  her,  but  do  not  l^jou  should,  therefore,  fortmiatcly 

make  too  much  haste,  when  as  you  see  her  hapnen  to  be  arrested,  or  have  had  the 

begin  to  roast ;  for  by  walking  about,  and  good  luck  to  fracture  a  limb  ;  or  if, 

flying  here  and  there,  being  cooped  in  by  better  than  all,  you  should  have  taken 

•  This  cook  of  a  goose,  or  goose  of  a  cook,  which  ever  it  may  be,  strangely  reminds 
OS  of  the  Doctor*s  own  intense  and  enthusiastie  bustle  among  the  butter-boats.     M'c  fan- 
cy we  see  him,  and  not  the  goose,  "  walking  about,  and  fiyiiig  here  and  there,  bdn|; 
cooped  in  by  the  fire.*'    By  this  time,  we  shouU  suppose,  fa«  must  be  about  ^'  reacted 
enough.'* 


18«1.;]  Tie  Cook's  OraeU.  4SS 

a  box  in  that  awful  theatre  at  which  following^  to  be  sure^  is  a  little  bus- 

all  must   be    present  once  and  for  plcious.    ^'  Enter  into  all  their  plans 

erer ;  you  may  be  pardoned  refiising  of  economy,  and  endeavour  to  make 

the  invitation  of  some  tiresome  friend  the  most  of  every  thing,  as  well  fot 

to  take  a  chop :  but  there  is  no  other  your  own  honour  as  your  mastei^i 

excuse,   no  other  available  excuse,  profit"  This,  without  the  note,  wonla 

for  afaisentiDg    yourself;  no  mental  be  unexceptionable ;  but  the  Doctof 

inaptitude    will    save    you.      Late  quotes  from  Dr.  Trusler  (all  the  Doc^ 

comers  are  thus  rebuked :  tors   are  redolent   of  servants !)   ai 

there  are  wne,  who  seldom  keep  an  ap-  Allows :-"  I  am  persuaded,  that  BO 

pomtmentj-^Sein  assure  them  theyU  servant  ever  wrurf   hej  m^ter  six- 

seldom  "  'scape  without  whipping"— and  P«"ce.  but  she  found  it  m  the  end  in 

exciting  those  murmurs  which  inevitably  her  own  jHxket.  — "  Have  the  duH 

proceed  from  the  best  regulated  stomachs,  removed,     says  Dr.  Kitchener,  "  re- 

— when  they  are  empty  and  impatient  to  be  gularly    every    fortnight  I "  —  What 

filled.  dust? — Not  that,   we  trust,  which 

r^      •      •   *i,    ««•♦  «,.k:^«*  r^f  ♦i.^  people  are  often  entreated  to  "  come 

Carvmg  IS  the  next  subje^^^^^^  ^^J^    with."  ~- The    accumulation 

Doctor  s  care ;  but  he  resolutely,  and  ^^  ^^^  ^^  .^^  ^^  ^^^    ^^^  ,, 

somewhat    veheiuenUy,   protests  »•  „„^ ,  ^4„„^„  K«trn  hi^r^\n^n\^sJ\    ^ 


own  :  thus  tor  ever  excluding  an  au-    ^^^„^^i„  X^i,*o  ♦»,«  ^^^^*^^  ^«u  a*Jk 

thor  from  the  luxuries  of  tabfe  anato-    P.Xi'^'  P*^!!.  *?*  ^^t^P^nln^ 
.  A.       •  •  T*  ijive    notice   to    your    employers 


»» 


the  Doctor  wanders  into  anecdote,  y^.    .  i^j^gji  Wg  should  be  irWI 

and  becomes  faceUousafterthefoUow.  toherwhen  our  cellars  had  mcreLed 

mg  recipe.  ^^  ^.^  ^^^^  ^j^^^  -^  ^^  j^^p^  ^j^  H^^ 

I  once  heard  a  gende  hint  on  this  sub-  those  chamber-gentlemen  who  fritter 

jcct  given  to  a  blue-mould  fiuider,  who,  by  away  their  lives  by  sack  or  bushel  1 

looking  too  long  at  a  Stilton  cheese,  was  at  Dr.  Kitchener  is  rather  abstruse  and 

last  completely  ovCTComc  by  his  eye  cxciu  particular  in  another  of  his   direo- 


he  began  to  piA  out  m  no  small  ^rtions^  ^^'^^"  ^This  is  a  good 

the  primest  parts  his  eye  could  select  ftom  fleet :— but,  is  there  no  luxury  m  a 

the  centre  of  the  cheese.  baker  s  billr    Are  butchers    reckon- 

The  good-natured  founder  of  the  feast,  ings  nothing  ?  Is  there  no  virtue  in 

highly  amused  at  the  ecstades  each  morsel  a  milk-tally  ?  We  cannot  help  think- 

created  in  its  passage  over  the  palate  of  the  ing  that  ilck  was  a  great  invention^ 

enraptured  Gourmand^  thus  encouraged  the  and  gives  many  a  man  a  dinner  that 

perseverance  of  his  guest—"  Cut  away,  my  would  Otherwise  go  unfed, 

dear  sir,  cut  away,  use  no  cercmonv,  I  The  chapter  on  weights  and  mea* 

pray.-I  hope  you  wUl  pick  out  aUdie  g^^^^  j^  ^j^^^,  but  deeply  mterestmg 

host  of  my  cheese— die  nnd  and  the  rotten  ,    intensp      There   is   an   enisodl 

will  do  very  well  for  my  wife  and  famUy!!"  *^"^    intense,     incre  is  an   episode 

■^                '                       '  upon     trough    nutmeg^frraters     that 

There  is  something  so  serene  and  would  do  the  water-grucl  generation 

simple  in  the  above  Httle  story,  that  good  to  hear. 

we  recommL'iid  it  to  persons  after  And  now  the  book  begins  to  boil, 

dinner,  in  preference  to  those  highly  The  reader  is  told  that  meat  takes. 

seasoned  arul  spicy  jests,  which  Mr.  twenty  minutes  to  the   pound;  and' 

Joseph  sillier  has  potted  for  the  use  that  block-tin  saucepans  are  the  best, 

of  posterity.  We  can  fish  out  little  else,  except  a 

The   next    introduction    contains  long  and  rather  skilful  calculation  of 

"  Friendly  Advice  to  Cooks  and  other  the   manner  in  which  meat  jockeys 

Servants ;"  but  we  cannot  help  think-  itself,  and  reduces  its  weight  in  the' 

ing  that  Dr.  Swift  has  in  some  degree  cooking.    Buckle  and  Sam  Chiffner 

forestalled  our  own  good  Doctor  in  are  nothing  to '^  a  leg  of  mutton  with- 

this    department  of   literature ;   al-  the  shank  bone  taken  out ;"  and  it 

though,  perhaps.  Dr.   Kitchener  is  perhaps  might  not   be  amiss  if  the 

the  most  sober  of  counsellors.    The  Newmatket  i^tofew^CRv  "««t^  Vsi  ««^!- 


iS«  The  0»k'$  OracU.  [[OcU 


sider  how  fiu^t  would  be  practicable  then  make  it  warm  tod  wipe  it  out 

io    substitute    the    cauldron  for  the  clean  dodi. 

^nkef,  and  thus  reduce  by  sieanu  Broiling  follows.    We  really  begin 

We  should  suppose  a  young  gentle-  to  be  enacting  this  sort  of  cookery 

nan,    with  half  an  hour's  boiling,  ourselves,  from  the  vigour  and  spirit 

tfould  ride  somewhere  about  feather-  with  which  we  have  rushed  along 

weight.  in  the  company  of  Dr.   Kitchener. 

Baking  is  dismissed  in  a  page  and  Broiling  is  the    poetry  of  cooking, 

a,  half.     We  are  sorry  to  find  that  The  Ivre-like  shape  of  the  instrument 

tome  joints,  when  fallen  into  poverty  on  which  it  is  performed,  and   the 

andF  decay,  are  quite  imworthy  of  brisk  and  pleasant  sounds  that  arise 

credit :  ^'  When  baking  a  joint  of  momentarily,    are    rather     musical 

poor  meat,  before  it  has  been  half  than  culinarv.    We  arc  transported 

baked,  I  have  seen  it  (what?)  start  ft  the  thought  to  that  golden  gridiron 

from  the  bone,  and  shrivel  up  scarcely  in  the  beet-steak  club,  which  seems 

to  be  believed."  to  confine  the  white  cook  in  his  bum- 

RiMutin^  is  the  next  object  of  Dr.  ing  cage,  which  generates  wit,  whim. 

Kitchener  s  anxious  care ;  and  if  this  ^nd   song,  for  hours  together,    and 

chapter  be  generally  read,  we  shall  pleasantly  blends    the  fancifid  and 

not  be  surprised  to  see  people  m  fii-  the  substantial  in  one  laughing  and 

turc  roastinff  their  meat  before  their  robust  harmonj. 

doors,  and  in  their  areas ;  for  the  The  Doctor  is  profound  on  the  sub« 

Poctor  says —  ject  of  vegetables.    And  wlien  we 

^      ,            .        •          ^             ,  consider  the  importance  of  it,  we  are 

Koatting  ihould  he  done  in  the  open  airy  j^^  surprised  to  hear  him  earnestly 

to  ToitiUte  the  meat  from  it.  own  fumes,  exclaim,  '*  I  should  as  soon  think  of 

and  by  the  radiant  heat,  of  a  dear  elowmg     ^  -.    '  •_  i    »•       ^i-u^n: 

ih«,-Uerwi»e  it  iThi  fact  bakS-th!  roaittng  an  animal  alttr,  bb^^^^^^ 

madiines  the  economical  grate-makers  caU  *  vegetable  after  tt  u  dead.      No  one 

iMBlen,  are  in  plain  English,  oven..  will  question  that  the  one  is  qiute  as 

pardonable  as  the  other.  Our  readers 

The  Doctor  then  proceeds,  not  be-  cannot  be  too  particular  in  looking 

iDg  content  with  telling  you  how  to  to  their  brocoli  and  potatoes. 

cook  your  victuals,  to  advise  care-  mi .    .       ,      -       , 

fuUy  as  io  the  best  method  of  cook-  ^  ^"^"^  ^^^  ««^^'  ^""^  ^ 

Ing  the  fire.    "  The  fire  that  is  but  «»»)  ^igdant  attention. 

"*.       ife  :    ^  ^             .        *u          V.1  If  vegeUble.  are  a  mmute  or  (wo  too 

just  sufficient  to  receive  the   noble  long  ovct  die  fire,-theyloi»e  all  their  beau- 

sirlom,  will  parch  up  a  lighter  joint ;  ^^^  flavour. 

which  is  plainly  a  translation  into  the  if  not  thoroughly  boQed  tender,  they  are 

cook's   own    particular  language   of  tremendously  indigestible,  and  much  more 

''  temper  the  wind  to  the  shorn  lamb."  tioublcmme  during  their  reridence  in  the 

The  cnapter  does  not  conclude  with-  stomach,  than  under-done  meat& 

out   observing    that    '*  every  body  ^„                       .1.         j.        ^       ^ 

knows  the  advantage  of  slow  boiliti  ^  ^e  pass  over  the  rudiments  of 

•slow  roasting  is^ually  important/'  ^^"^  ^^'  ^"*^  «^  con.poundmg 

This  is  an  axSm.  ^^^^?  «"^  f  "Pf'  ^\^^P^  V^,  7- 

Frying\s  a  very  graceful  and  lively  ™^^>"f '  ^\  I  ^'''^f  'i  ^^^ /«  ^ 

species  of  cookingT  though  yielding  Jf  J^""  ¥.  "^^  ^^I"^  ^f  ^'  *"^  ^'»^«^ 

pWhaps,  in  its  vivicity  and  music,  to  /  ^^**VT^.^*>^1'  T,!^^"'  ""^  "^^^^ 

^iVing— but  of  this  more  anon.    We  form  the  Wo/ ^^oM. 

are  so^y  to  find  the  Doctor  endea-  Gravies  and  sauces  are  not  neglect- 

vouring  to  take  away  from  the  origin-.  *^-    ^^  ^^*^^  writes— 

alitv   of  frying,  classing  it  unkindly  However  ''  les  pompcascs  Bagatelle,  dc 

with  the  inferior  sorts  of  boiling —  la  Cuisne  Masquee**  may  tickle  the  fancy 

calling  it,  in  fact,  the  mere  corpulence  ^  demi^onnohscvrs^  who  lea>'ing  the  sub- 

of  boiling.  rtance,  to  pursue  the  sluidow, — prefer  won- 
derful and  whimsical  metamorphoses,  and 

A    firyingpan    should    be    about    four  things    extravagantly  expensive  to    those 

iaches  deep,  with  a  |)erfectly  flat  and  thick  which  are  intrinsicalhr  excellent,—  in  whose 

bottom,  twelve  inches  long,  and  nine  brood  mouth — mutton  can  hardly  hope  for  a  wd- 

^-with  perpendicular  sides,  and  must  be  come,    unless    accompanied    by    VeniM>n 

half  filled  with  fat:  good  frying  is  in  fact  sauoe — or  a  rabbit  any  chance  for  a  race 

— bcuHng  in  fiit.  To  make  sure  that  the  pan  down  the  red  lane,  widiout  assuming  the 

iigofeedeiiif  nibalitde  Ux  ons  h.  wnd  fQDnofaliogora8|iider;-^pork9  wid^. 


l«2l.;]                                 The  Cook's  Oracle.  4ST 

vut  bdng  eliher  ^'  gooBtfied,'*  or  '<  Iambi-  The  Poctor  hlmflelf^  however,  .in 

fied,"  and  game  and  poultry  in  the  shape  gpi^  of  His  correction  of  the  cooks,  if 

of  crawfish  or  hedgehogs ;  not  entirely  free  from  the  fancifiiL 

Th«etravc«tia  rather  show  the  patitaja  When  you  have  opened  a  bottle  of 

?^t\^^^^^J^':^\   J^  eatsup,   he  says,  '*  use  only  the  be3 

taste  of  those  who  prefer  sudi  baby  tncks  ^,^^Si'      <...t..1/^«„^   ««^i/- '^     ^l^:- 

4o  old  £ng]i8h  nourishing  and  sutetantial  f^perfine  t,e?i;ef  toj,er   corks.       7}^ 

pkin  c50okeiy.  ^^  drawing  a  cork  with  the  hand  of  a, 

JVe  covld  have  made  Uiis  the  biggest  poet* 

book  with  half  the  trouble  it  has  taken  me  .    And  now,  will  the  readier  believe 

to  make  it  the  best;— concentration  and  it?  the    work    commences    afresh! 

perspicuity  have  hem  my  aim.  After  all  our  labour, — after  all  our 

We  do  not  know  what  the  Doctor  travelling  through  boiling,  broiling^ 

understands  as  "a  big  book;"  but  coasting,  &c.  we  find  that  we  have 

to  our  notions  (and  we  are  experi-  ^®  whole  to  go  over  again.    To  our 

enced  in  the  weights  and  measures  "^ter  dismay,  page  142  begins  anew 

of  printed  works),  the  Cook's  Oracle  with— AoiYit^  /    It  is  little  comfort  to 

is  a  tolerably  huge  and  Gog-like  pro-  ^  ^^^  ^^  joints  and  cuttings  come 

duction.    We  should  have  been  glad  ^^  ^^  ^"r  distmct  treatment:   we 

to  have  had  a  calculation  of  what  the  seem  to  have  made  no  way ;  and  si^ 

MS.  lost  in  the  printing.    In  truth,  a  down  vnth    as  much    despair  as  a 

comparative  scale  of  the  wasting  of  young  school-girl  who,   after  three 

meat  and  prose  during  the  cooking,  quarters  of  a  year's  dancmg,  is  nut 

would  be  no  uninteresting  perform-  ^^ck  to    the  Scotch  step.    Beef  has 

ance.     For  our  parts,  we  can  only  ^^c"  spoken  of  before ;  but  we  have 

remark,  from  experience,  that  these  "ot  at  all  made  up  our  minds   on 

our  articles  in  the  London  Magazine  ^e  following  subject : 

boU    up  like  spinage.     We   fancy,  06«.— -In  Mrs.  Mason's  Ladies*  Assistant 

when  written,  that  we  have  -a  heap  this  joint  is  called  haunch-bone ;  in  Hen- 

of  leaves  fit  to  feed  thirty  colunms  ;  derson's  Cookery,  edge-bone ;  in  Domestic 

and  they  absolutely  and  alarmingly  Management,   aitch-bone ;  in   Reynolds* 

shrink   up  to  a  page   or  two  when  Cookery,    ische-bone;    in   Mrs.    Lydia 

dressed  by  the  compositor.  S**Cj.?™1^i^r'^'^[^  ft^°^  'J" 

The  romantic  fancv  of  cooks  is  thus  ^"-  M'lver's  Cookery,  hook-bone.    W« 

f  «^  ^f?*""^  ^*"^y  °^  ^^^^  ^  "^"*  have  also  seen  it  spelt  each-bone,  andridge- 

restrameo .  ,^^  ^^  ^  j^^^^  ^^  j^^^  .^  ^^^ 

The  imagination  of  most  cooks,  is  so  in-  natch-bone. 

cewandy  on  the  himt  for  a  reliA,-tlmt  Qf  «  half  a  calfs-head,"  Dr.  Kit- 

they  seem  to  think,  they  can  not  make  ,                        T^   o-.*^««,     ^^i    *..*v- 

sauce  suffidendy  savoury,  without  putting  f.^^"?''  /fP>  ^"^J  enough,  "  If  you 

into  i^  eve7  thing  that  ever  was  eaten;—  "^e  it  full-dressed,  score  it  superJU^ 

and  Kupposmg  every  addition  must  be  an  «%  /  neat  up    the  yolk  of  an  eg^, 

improvement,    they  firequendy  overpower  and  rub   it  over  the  head  with  afea^' 

the  natural  flavour  of  their  plain  sauces,  by  ther;  powder  it,"  &c.     Such  a  cairs- 

ovedoading them  with  salt  and  n»ces, /fee.:  head  as  this,  so  fiill-dressed,  might 

— but,  remember,  these  will  be  deteriorated  be  company  for  the  best  nobleman's 

by  any  addition,  save  onlv  just  salt  enough  ditto  in  the  land. 

to  awaken  the  palate-the  lover  of  "pi-  j^  jg  ^^^^  impossible  for  US  to  ac- 

quance,    and  compound  flavours,  may  have  company    Dr.    Kitchener    regularly 

recourse  to      the  Magazine  of  Taste."  ^^^^{^j^^  ,,  ^^^^^^    ^^^^  ^^^ 

Agam—  tables,"  &c.  as  we  are  by  no  means. 

Why  have  dove  and  a]lipice,^^ir  mace  siire  that  our  readers  woidd  sanction 


and  nutmeg  in  the  same  sauce, — or  marjo-  the  encore.     We  shall  pick  a  bit  here 

ram, — thyme, — and  savory; — or  onions, —  and  a  bit  there,  from  the  Doctor's' 

Iccks, — cshallotfl — and  garliek :    one  will  dainty    larder;    and    take    care    16 

vcTv  well  supply  the  place  of  the  other,—  choose,  as  the  English    do   with    a 

and  the  friij^al  awk  may  save  something  French  bill  of  fare,   from  those  nice, 

considerable  by  attending  to  this,  to  the  ^^^^  .^jji^h  ^^0  novelties, 

advantage  of  her  employers,  and  her  own  ,,  a     •    ».  oK-prygg  fkg  Doctor  ,  bm 

time  and  trouble.— \'(m  might  as  weU,  to  ,,      \P^^'     ODserves  ine  JJOCtor,,  as 

make  soup,  order  one  quart  of  water  from  ^«"ff^   ,^^  T^fF^    speakmg  of    miy 

the  ThamcH,  another  from  the  New  River,  o^^^^r  duU  obstinate  personage,  «  is 

a  third  from  Hampstead,  and  a  fourth  from  a  very  troublesome  subject  to  roast. 

(Chelsea,  with  a  certain  portion  of  spring.  Most  persons  have  them  baked;  send 

and  rain  water.  a  quarter  of  a  pound  of  butter^  and 


iSd                                           The  Cook* $OracU.  [[Oct. 

be^  the  baker  to  baste  it  wel}/'    The  to    be  thus    surprised^    to  be  thus 

iimowing  occurs  to  us  to  be  as  diffi-  pleasingly    ejected    from    its    tene- 

cult  a  mrection  to  fulfil  as  any  of  ment    of  mother    of   pearly— to    be 

jSir  Thomas  Parkins's  wrestling  in-  thus  tickled  to  death  r    When   we 

Stnictions :    ^'  X^ay  your  pig  back  to  are  placed  in  our  shell,  we  should 

hack  in  the  dish^  with  one  naif  of  the  have  no  objection  to    be   astonished 

head  on  each  side>  and  the  ears  one  with  a  similar  delicate  and  titillating 

at  each  end>  which  you  must  take  opening ! 

care  to  make  nice  and  crisp,  or  you  Giblet  soup  requires  to  be  eaten 

will  get  scolded^   as  the  good  man  with    the    fingers.      We    were   not 

iras  who  bought  his  wife  a  pig  with  aware  that  these  handy  instruments 

one  ear."  The  point  at  the  end  is  like  could  be  used  successfully  in  the  dc- 

the  point  of  a  spit.     Again :   '*  A  vouring^of  gravies  and  soups, 

mickmg  pig,  like  a  young  child,  must  n.  B.  Jhis  is  rather  a  famfly  dish  than 

not  be  left  for  an  instant ! "     Never  a  company  one, — the  bones  cannot  be  well 

was  such  afiection  manifested  before  {ucked,  without  the  help  of  alive  pincers. 

for  this  little  interesting  and  perse-  Since    Tom  Coryat  introduced   furk% 

/Cuted  tribe.  A.  D.  1642,  it  has  not  been  the  fashion  to 

If  Isaac  Walton  be  the  greatest  of  P^t  "  pickers  and  stealers  "  into  soup. 
writers  on  the  catching  of  fish.  Dr.  After  giving  a  most  elaborate  re- 
Kitchener    is,    beyond    doubt,    tri-  cipe  for  mock  turtle  soup,   he  pro- 
lunphant  over  all  who  have  written  ceeds — 

upon  the  dressing  of    them.       The  This  soup  was  eaten  by  the  committee  of 

Doctor  dwells   upon  «  the  fine  pale  taste  with  unanimous  applause,  and  they 

red  rose  colour  "  of  pickled  salmon,  pronounced  it  a  very  satisfactory  substitute 

till  you  doubt  whether  he  is  not  ad-  ror   ^  the  far  fctcht  and  dear  bought  ** 

muing  a  carnation.     "  Cod's  skuU  "  turtle ;  which  itaelf  is  indebted  for  its  title 

becomes  flowery  and  attractive;  and  o^  **  sovereign  of  savourincss/'  to  the  ridi 

fine   *'  silver  eels,"  when    "  stewed  "^'"P  ^^  ^'"^^  »'  ^  Kurrcmmled ;  without 

Wiggy's  way,"    swim  in  beauty  as  j?  PB^phemalia    of   double    relislies,    a 

wdlas  butter.     The  Doctor  points  "  "f^^^,  ^"'^'a"  ^!!l^^T?^»^^"^ 

out  the  best  method  of  kUling  this  t^F^htyUian  a"  fatted  calf. 

perversely    living     fish,    observing.  And  a  litlle  further  on  he  observes— 

Tery  justly,  "  that  the  humane  exe-  Ot^.—This  is  a  delicious  soup,  widiin 

cutioner  does  certain    criminals  the  the  reach  of  those  wlio  "  eat  te live; '•  but 

favour  to  Aang- them,  before  he  breaks  »{  »^  ^^^  ^  composed   expressly  for 

♦k.*«,  ^«  ♦u^  Zu^^^  *'  those  who  only  "  live  to  eat,"  I   do  not 


^  ..    .  •,  ..  P^  ?^  ^^      ..^  ^^  every  inch  of  it  palate.' 

fattest.       "  If  you  have  any  left,  nut         r\  j  -n  *    *     u 

itintoanve^ish  andcoverit"&c  •        ^"^   readers    will    pant    to  have 

^^A\f3^^\Ty^\  "Mr-    Michael     Kelly's    sauce    for 

the  direction  is  conditional  we  per-  »    •!   i  ^  •  ir  i      i  i     i »» 

««:„«      i> u       *.        1  boiled  tnpe,  cr.lf-hcacl,  or  cow-heel. 

ceive.     liemember    to    choose  your  x*  • ,  *>,• 

lobsters  «  heavy  and  livchr     *'  Mo-  ^^!^  ,  \^  *   .  ,  . 

tion,"  says  Uie*  Doctor,  "  is  the  in-        G*rlick    nncgar,    a  tal)lcspoonful,-of 

dex  of  their  freshness."  mustard    brown  sugar,  and  black  pt-pper,  a 

WT  .  ^\       tr'L  \  •  tearawonful  each ;  stirred  mto  Iialt   a  pmt 

Upon  oysters,    l)r.   Ivitcheiier    la  of  oiled  mdtca  butter.  ' 

eloquent  indeed.     He  is,  aa  it  were, 

"  native   here,  and  to    the    manner       Gad  'a  mercy,  what  a  pillet  must  be 

bom."  in   the  possession    of  Mr.    Michael 

The  true  lover  of  an  oyster,  will  have         }}J  *   ,  .  ,      ,      -  „      .  , 

some  regard  for  die  feelings  of  his  Uttlc         *^  ^  thmk  the  following  almost  a 

favourite,  and  will  never  abandon  it  to  the  superfluous     direction    to    cooks  :— 

mercy  oi  a   bungling  operator,— but  will  '*  Take  your  chops  out  of  the  fryiiig- 

open  it  himself,  and  contrive  to  detach  tlie  pan,"  p.  324;  but  then  he  tells  you, 

fisli  from  the  sImJI  so  dexterously,  that^tlie  in    another    place,    "  to    put    your 

ojrster  is  hardly  conscious  he    has    been  tongue  into   plenty  of  cold  water ; " 

qected  from  his  lodging,  tiU  he  feels  die  «  155.  which  makes  all  even  again, 
te^  of  the  piscivorous  gourmand  UckUng        ^ft^r  giving  ample  directions  for 

mm  to  death.  ^^   making  of  essence  of   anchovy. 

Who   would   uot   be    aa   oyster,  the  Doctor  rather  danip^  our  ardour 


IWQ                                              Song.  488 

for  entering  upon  it  by  the  following  Bo  mire  the    (Vyingpan  u  quite  clean; 

observation :     **  3ft'nu     You    cannot  when  the  lat  is  hot,  break  two  or  thive 

make  essence  of  anchovy  half  so  cheap  ®Kg»  ^^  >' »  ^o  "o^  t"™  *hein,  but,  while 

as  you  can  buy  it"  ^^J  "«  fty"»g»  l^P  pouring  some  of  die 

the   foUowing    passage  is  rather  ^»*„  °7"  ^"^  ^J^  t  T^  ''if^T^ 

too  close  an  iniitation  of  one  of  the  70"^  ju»^»»^°8  to  look  wliite,  whidi  It  win 

puff-direcUons  in  the  CriUc :  ScS'!  Jhe^^.tte^'nT "l^S  ^  IS 

To  a  pint  of  the  cleanest  and  strongest  trani^arency,  but  the  yolk  be  seen  bluthtng 

rectified  spirit,  (sold  by  Kickards,  Picca-  through  it :— if  they  are  done  nicely,  tbej 

dilly,)  add  two  drachms  and  a  half  of  the  will  look  as  white  and  delicate  as  if  tb^ 

sweet  oil  of  orange  peel,  (sold  by  Stewart,  had  been  poadied,  take  them  up  with  a  tin 

No.  11,  Old  Broad  Street,  near  the  Bank,)  slice,  dram  the  fat  from  them,  trun  them 

shake  it  up,  &c  neatly,  and  send  them  up  with  the  baeoa 

06#.— We  do  not  offer  this  receipt  as  a  round  them, 

rival  to  Mr.  Johnson^s  cura<;na — it  is  only  The  beauty  of  a  poached  egg,  is  fbr  Ae 

proposed  as  an  humbk  substitute  for  that  yolk  to  be  seen  ft/i«Aiii^  through  the  whiter 

mcomparablc  liqueur.  —which  should  only  be  just  sufficiently 

The  Doctor  proceeds  to  luxuriate  hardened,  to  form  a  transparent  veil  for  tibe 

upon  made  dishes^  &c. ;  in  the  course  %fi>* 

of  which  he  says, — "  The  sirloin  of  So   much  for  the  Cook's  Oracle* 

beef  I  divide  into  three  parts ;  1  first  The  style  is  a  piquant  sauce  to  the 

have  it  nicely  boned!  "  This  is  rather  solid  food  of  the  instructions ;  and 

a  suspicious  way  of  having  it  at  all*  we    never   recollect    reading    eeii« 

Mrs.  Phillips's  Irish  stew  nas  all  the  tences    that    relished   so    savourfly* 

fascination    of  her  country-women.  The  Doctor  appears  to  have  writtett 

In  treating  of  shin  of  beef^  the  Doc-  his  work  upon  the  back  of  a  dripping 

tor  gives    us    a  proverb  which  we  psm,  with  the  point  of  his  spit, — so 

never  remember  to  have  heard  be-  very  cook-like  does  he  dish  up  his 

fore :  remarks.  If  we  were  to  be  cast  away 

Of  all  the  fowls  of  the  air,  commend  me  "P®"  *  desert  island,  and  could  only 

to  die  shin  of  beef,— lor  there's  manow  for  carry  one  book    ashore,  we  should 

the  master,  meat  for  the  mistress,  gristles  take  care  to  secure  the  Cook's  Oracle; 

for  the  servants,  and  bones  for  the  dogs.  for,  let  victuals  be   ever  so   scarce^ 

On  pounded  cheese,    the  Doctor  ^^^^  ^^  V^»  mi  that  erudite  book 

writes-"  The  piguance  of  this  but-  ^»*  ^J^'  as  Congreve  s  Jeremy  My% 

/erv-f/weoiw  relisV  &c.    Is  not  this  '' a   feast   for    an  emperor.      Wlw 

a  litUe    over-done?     The  passage,  ^^^^  «^e.  ^»th  such  a  larder  of 

however,  on  the  frying  of  eggs,  makes  ^a^ff » 
up  for  all. 


SONG. 

There  may  be  some  who  loved,  like  me, 
Thouprh  reason,  fcelmg,  pride,  reproved  ; 
Loved  with  aching  constancy — 
Hopelessly  loved. 

Some,  who  to  words  but  half  sincere 
That  should  have  been  but  half  believed. 
Lent,  like  me,  a  willing  ear. 
And  were  deceived. 

Sufiering  like  me,  perhaps  they  found 
One  struggling  wrench,  one  wild  endeavour. 
Break  the  tie  that  else  had  bound 
Their  souls  for  ever ! 

And  they  were  freed — and  yet  I  pine 
With  secret  pangs,  with  griefs  unspoken : 
No— their  hearts  were  not  like  mine. 

Else  they  had  broken !  Y. 


440                               Crttanings  from  Foreign  Jowmah.  QOct. 

OLEANINtFS  FROM  FOREIGN  JOURNALS. 

LATBACR. 

• 

Laybach,  a  dty  whose  name  has  ex-  of  this  people  does  not  record  a  single  revo- 
dted  so  much  interest  to  all  Europe,  is  the  lution  or  political  storm,  not  even  a  tern- 
a^tal  of  Camiola,  and  is  situated  in  the  porary  interruption  of  the  public  tran- 
imqient  Vinddician  lUyria,  where  it  wap  a  quility  :  to  them,  therefore,  Voltaire*s  re- 
place of  considerable  importance.  The  mark  applies  in  its  full  force,  ^^  Hcureux 
^ndeols,  who  attributed  its  foundation  to  le  peuple  dont  l*histoire  est  ennuyeuse  !  ** 
Jason,  called  it  Armona,  the  Austrians  It  is,  perhaps,  more  remarkable,  that  per- 
|Aybach>  and  the  Italians  Lubiana ;  which  sons  who  have  resided  several  years  at 
ilaiDes  have  been  also  given  to  the  river  Laybach  do  not  remember  to  have  heard 
that  runs  thitnigh  this  tatj  in  a  longitudinal  <^  a  single  criminaL  Even  the  language 
direction,  and  divides  it  into  two  nearly  itself  has  no  earprcssions  for  many  of  those 
iDoual  parts.  Across  it  are  three  bridges,  crimes  which  are  so  frequent  in  other  parts 
id  of  them  remarkable  on  account  of  the  of  Europe.  In  1812,  fifly  vears  had 
numerous  images  of  saints,  and  their  pious  elapsed  since  there  had  been  an  mstance  of 
symbols;  and  always  crowded  with  persons  apubUc  execution;  nor  were  the  people 
nbo  resort  to  them  to  pay  their  devotions,  acquainted  with  even  so  much  as  the  forms 
^Aybach  contains,  at  the  utmost,  not  more  of  the  various  instruments  elsewhere  em- 
tihtfi  20,000  inhabitants,  who  speak  a  di-  plcrred  for  the  purposes  of  punishment. 
alaot  differing  but  little  from  the  Croatian  Owing  to  its  situation,  Laybach  holds 
•nd  the  real  JUyrian ;  but  there  are  few  of  regular  intercourse  with  Vienna,  Venice, 
ihem  who  are  not  also  acquaintdl  with  and  Constantinople,  with  all  of  which  it 
(pther  German,  Italian,  or  Romaic, — and  has  numerous  connexions.  The  nearest 
.not  unfiequcntly  with  all  these  tongues.  Olyrian  cities  are — Adelsberg,  celebrated 
,The  long  residence  of  the  French  among  for  the  Zirknitz  lake,  whose  waters  are  aa 
them,  has  rendered  them  very  fainiliar  productive  of  fish,  as  its  banks  are  of  game 
likewise  with  that  language,  so  that  the  and  com ; — Idria,  known  for  its  mines ; — 
paopleareinfsftpolyglotts:  even  the  lower  Kndnburg,  whose  fine  situation  recals  to 
.  sUwirn  possess  those  elements  of  informs-  mind  the  most  impressive  features  of  Swiss 
tkm  which  are  not  always  to  be  found  in  landscape;  —  the  beautiful  Trieste,  that 
the  universities  and  aaidemies  of  other  once  rivalled  Genoa  in  its  palaces,  and  was 
countries,  since,  in  addition  to  these  dif-  not  inferior  to  any  port  of  Uie  main  land;— 
ftient  idioms,  and  the  various  Sdavonian  lastly,  the  smiling  Gonizza,  that  com- 
jdialects,  a  knowledge  of  both  Greek  and  mands  the  course  of  the  delightful  Isons>, 
JjtLtin  is  more  general  here^  among  all  ranks,  and  whose  more  remote  fields  are  irrigated 
than  among  people  of  education  elsewho*.  by  the  waters  of  the  Trinaro.    This  is  a 

The  streets  of  Laybach  are  broad,  well-  country  replete  with  the  reminiscences  of 

built,  and  extremely  dean.    Several  of  the  heroic  history :  it  preserves  the  memory  of 

public  buildings  are  worthy  the  attention  of  Castor  and  Pollux,  the  first  who  are  said 

the  traveller,  on  account  of  their  graceful  to  have  navigated  the  Save ;  of  the  con. 

amplidty ;  nor  will  the  extensive  provin-  querpr  of  the  Golden  Fleece,  who  here 

dal  library  fail  to  exdte  his  curiosity.  rounded  dties   during   his    progress ;    of 

The  Camiolians  are  of   large  stature,  lapis,  their  first  legislator;  of  Diomede, 

Siwerfiil,   and  rather  inclined  to  stoop ;  the  fint  king  of  Tergeste  (Trieste) ;  and  of 

ey  have  mild,    noble,    and   expressive  Antenor,  who  penetrated  farther,  and  set- 

countenances ;    and  the  females   are    re-  tied  on  the  banks  of  the  Brenla,  where  he 

markable  for  their  delicacy  of  skin  and  fbunded  Padua. 

fresh  complexions ;  but  thdr  mouths  are  Laybach  is  overlooked  by  a  ca-stle  situ- 

fiff  fVom  beautiful,  being  but  poorly  fur-  ated  upon  a  beautiful  hill,  covered  with  the 

nished  with  teeth, — the  want  of  which  is  finest  plants,  and  commanding  the  dty : 

Fery  general  among  the  inhabitants  of  the  the  country  around  is  enriched  with  noble 

iub-alpine  plains,  and  is  attributed  by  them  woods  of  beech  and  fir ;  and  about  three 

to  the  quahty  of  the  water  they  drink,  quarters    o£  a  mile  from  the  dty  flows 

They  possess  an  extraordinary  attachment  we  Save,  upon  which  river,  accordinff  to 

to  finery,  and  a  passion  equally  atroM  for  tradition,  the  Argoiuiuts  first  launched  tneir 

dancing  and  theatrical  amusements.   Their  vesseL 

nationid  costume  is  really  charming.  With  No  country  surpasses  Camiola  in  natural 

xegped  to  thdr  moral  qualities,  it  is  almost  treasures.     It  is  impossible  to  form  an  idea 

impossible  to  find  any  people  more  amiable  of  the  vast  variety  of  its  insects,  and  of  its 

or  perfect:  sober,  devout,  hospitable,  and  vegetable  productions,  from  the  Flora  and 

UKiderate  in  all  his  inclinations,  the  Cami-  the  Fauna  Camiola;  for  although  two  va- 

olian  has  the  reputation,  among  the  East-  luable  works,  they  are  very  imperfect  with 

niyrian  provinces,  of  bdnff  crafty,  merdy  regard  to  modem  discoveries.     The  skins 

ifeimm  be  ia  more  OTiliMcL    The  history  of  the  fos«  and  bears  of  this  district  are 


1091.3  Literary  and  Scientific  JnteUigende,  Sfc.  Hi 

hig^y  esteemed  in  oommerce  for  their  ex-  their  beds  resemble  oo6bi8  in  shape  and  dl- 

treroe  beauty ;  game  of  every  description  mensions.    Wotwithstandtng  their  vicinity 

is  abundant ;  and  the  market  of  Lav  bach  to,  and  their  intercourse  wiUi,  Venice,  thej 

is  supplied,  even  to  excess,  with  both  salt  are  unoontaminated  by  any  of  its  disiipft. 

and  frcsh-water  fish.    Here  are  caught  the  tions,  and  particularly  gambling;  although 

largest  crabs  in  Europe,  or  perhaps  in  thef  the  French  have  now  instructed  them  in 

world,   being  flrom  ten  to  fifteen  indies  some  games  of  hazard.    The  promenadat 

long ;    and  these,   with  a  kind  of  land  at  Ijaybach  are  not  remarkable  for  beso^i 

tortoise,  are  highly  esteemed,  and  reckoned  but  the  fine  scenery  of  the  environs  rendnt 

great  dainties.     The  annals  of   ancient  these  less  neceMary  than  in  other  plaoafc 

epicurism  inform  us,   that  LucuHus  had  The  noble  woods  of  LeopoldVRune'oB 

the  delicate  snails  served  up  at  his  tables  about  a  quarter  of  a  league  from  the  dtf$ 

sent  from  Illyria ;  and  even  at  present,  the  and  a  vanetjr  of  other  en^anting  rural  spoti 

lumache  IlHriche   constitute   a   favourite  render  the  vicinity  pre-eminently  delightibL 

dish  of  the  Venetian  and  Neapolitan  gouz^  Rebell,  a  landscape-painter  from  Rome,  it 

mands.  now  employed  in  taking  views  of  mai^  of 

In  proportion  as  the  Camiolians  are  fiu  the  most  picturesque  and  striking  of  aise 

voured  by  nature,  do  they  seem  to  neglect  scenes. 

the  conveniences  and  the  luxuries  of  art.        This  dty  has  produced  some  eminent 

When  the  French  armies  arrived  here,  they  sdiohus  and  learned  men : — the  natoralisti 

were  oblieed  to  order  furniture  from  other  Soopoli,  Fabridus,  Panzer,   and  PaiknO, 

places,    for   the    inhabitants   were  nnae-  were  bom  here ;  as  were  also  Baron  Zoii, 

quainted    with   most   of  the  commonest  one  of  the  greatest  mineralogists  of  tha 

artides.      The  walls  of  their  rooms  are  present  day;  Pezncig{*cr,  the  transliOflr  of 

only  white-washed,  or  at  most,  are  oma-  several  of  the  Greek  poets ;  Wodnik,  Ade- 

mentcd  with  some  pattern,  which  is  formed  lung,  and  Ortotz,  the  two  latter  of  whom 

b^  means  of  the  figure  being  cut  out  in  a  were  very  eminent  philologists ;   and  Kft- 

piece  of  wood :  this  is  placed  to  the  sur*  lister,  the  present  Ubrarian  at  Laybacb,  ft 

face  of  the  wall,  and  the  colour  then  ap-  man  whose  talents  and  information  deaenra 

plied.    Even  what  artides  of  furniture  they  a  wider  Add  for  their  excition. 
have,  are  ndther  d^ant  nor  convenient : 


LITERARY  AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE ,  &c 

Population  qf  Naples, — Cavalier  Luca  materially  from  the  Pantograph,  an  instm- 
di  Samudi  Cagnazzi,  the  Author  of  an  Es-  ment  hitherto  used  for  that  purpose ;  he  hat, 
say  upon  Population,  states  that  in  1451,  therefore,  distinguished  it  by  the  name  of 
under  Alphonso  I,  the  population  of  Na-  ^  Apograph.*  The  drawings  may  be  copied 
pies  was  1,5979376,  and  went  on  increasing  upon  paper,  copper,  or  any  other  sob- 
progressively  while  the  kingdom  was  under  stance ;  and  may  be  made  dther  to  the 
the  Arragonian  government,  till  the  year  same  scale  as  the  original,  or  magnified,  or 
1505.    Under  the  Austrian  dominion  its  reduced. 

numbers  fcU  oflf*,  but  they  increased  again,         Rutsia,  The  Academy  of  the  Sdences  at 

and  the  population  was  gradually  enlamd.  St  Petersburgh  has  held  a  conference  for 

In  I76O,  during  the  rdgn  of  Charles  III,  the  purpose  of  inquiring  what  has  been 

the  inhabitants  amounted  to   3,953,098;  done  since  1815,  towards  investigating  the 

in  1775,  they  were  increased  to  4,249,430,  history  of  the  Sclavonic  nations,  particular- 

in   1791,  to  4,925,381,  and  in  1804  to  ly  during  the  interval  between  the  sixth 

4,974,659.    In  his  work  this  writer  often  and  deventh  centuries ;  and  to  ascertain 

corrects  the  errors  and  mis-statementa  of  what  steps  had  been  taken  for  discovering 

Malthus  and  other  cdebrated  authors  on  thdr  remains  and  monuments,  whether  of 

the  sdence  of  political  economy.  remote  antiquity  or  of  the  middle  ages, 

Copenhagen, — The  Museum  of  Northern  A.  C.   lidurberg^s  Researches  into  the  an- 

Antiquities  which  was  established  at  Co-  dent  History  of  Russia,  pubE^ed  by  the 

penhagen  no  longer  ago  than  1809,  has  so  Academy  in  1816,  was  allowed  to  be  tfie 

increased  since  that  period,  that  it    now  most  sohd  and  satisfactory  historical  work 

contains  upwards  of  6,000  artides,  and  is  on  the  subject  that  has  appeared.    It  has 

i)ccome  one  of  the  most  extensive  and  va-  been  faithfolly  translated  mto  Russian,  by 

luable  collections  of  the  sort,  in  Europe.  D.  Jazykow,  at  the  expence  of  the  Chan- 

The  discovery  of  pieces  of  antiquihr  is  an-  cdlor.   Count  Romanzow,    and    enriched 

nounced,  and  the  artides  themselves  are  with  an  index,   and  Iiehrberg*s  map  of 

described,  in  the  Antiquarian  Annals,  a  Russia  in  the  year  1462.    Many  excdknt 

publication  destined  to  this  purpose.  historical  papers  are  to  be  found  in  die 

Apograph,  —  Mr.  Andrew    Smith,    a  dificrent  journals  published  in  this  country, 

young  man  at  the  Ayr  Stone  manufoctory,  that  deserve  to  be  given  to  the  world  in  e 

has  invented  a  machine  for  making  copies  separate  and  less  fugitive  form, 
of  dralrings,    difiering  in  many  respects        7^  3fe<H£linirif.— ThA^bdit  ^<b». 


448  Literary  and  Scieniijk  I/UeUigenee,  <^c.  [[Oct. 

maf^nifioent  and  celebrated  coUectiim  be-  nean  armies— the  capture  of  the  British 
loDging  to  Count  MeIzi,of  JUUan,  has  been  army  at  York-town— -hu  resignation  of  all 
lately  purchased  by  Frank  liall  Standisii,  his  public  tnisttt — and  lastly,  his  retire- 
Esq.  and  will  speedily  be  removed  to  this  ment  from  public  to  private  life  and  agri- 
country.  Among  other  rarities  of  the  tif-  cultural  occupations.  This  is  acknowledged 
teenth  century,  is  the  livii  Histoiia,  8pirae  •  by  all  connoisseurs  who  have  seen  it,  to  be 
1470,  printed  upon  vellum,  with  capitals  one  of  the  most  felicitous  productions  of 
most   exquisitely  ilhiminatwl,  ■  -the    only    Canora^s  chiseL 

nsfcct  copy  known  to  exist;  another  is  the  Italian  LUeraiure. —  The  fashion  of 
Lucretius  Brescise,  FerrandL  3Ir.  Dibdin  publishing  books  annually  under  the  title 
enumerates  in  the  third  volume  of  his  Dc-  of  almanacks,  so  long  and  so  extensively 
Cameron,  the  valuable  books  printed  upon  prevalent  in  Germany,  is  now  much  in 
;peUum  bdonging  to  this  collection.  vogue  in  Italy,    where  there  now  appear 

Modem  Greek, — M.  Jules  David,  son  a  great  variety  of  these  pocket-books,  each 
of  the  celebrated  Frendi  painter,  after  di-  devoted  to  some  particular  subject.  Many 
Kgently  studying  the  modem  language  of  of  these  relate  to  the  Theatre  and  Drama, 
Ckeece,  during  hb  residence  in  that  coun-  and  give  an  account  of  the  new  pieces  that 
try,  has  published  the  results  of  four  years*  are  brought  out  on  the  Stage.  One  of  these. 
Implication  and  observation,  in  a  treatise,  the  AitHanacco  Tcatraie  has  undertaken  a 
entitled,  Parall^  des  Languct  Grecqtttis^  series  of  descriptions  and  views  of  the  va- 
Anctenne  et  Modernc  in  which  he  la-  nous  theatres  in  Italy,  which  it  has  com- 
hours  to  prove  that  an  acquaintance  with  menced  with  the  celebrated  La  Scala,  at 
the  modem  idiom  is  indispensable  to  those  i^Iilan,  altiigetlier  perhaps  superior  to  any  of 
who  would  fully  ocrnprehend  all  the  force  its  numerous  rivals.  —  The  pocket-hook 
and  beauty  of  Uomcr  and  the  other  ancient  publi&hed  by  Vill&rdi,  of  Milan,  under  the 
writers.  He  has  compared  the  ancient  and  title  of  VApc  ddk  Dumc^  is  a  species  of 
modem  idiom  in  a  very  ingenious  manner,  compendium  of  natural  history  illustrated 
and  elucidates  many  things  in  the  former  with  very  elegant  plates.  —  La  Tcrstcorc 
that  Iiad  before  been  very  negligently  and  Milanefv^  anotlitT  almanack  by  the  same 
superficially  treated  of,  or  even  not  at  all  publisher,  contains  coloured  plates  of  the 
noticed.  Among  these  are,  the  theory  of  principal  female-dancers  at  the  theatre  La 
the  Synidie  and  the  ParaiasU^  the  coUo-  8cala  —Hut  an  nlmanr.ck  hx  superior  to 
cation  of  words,  and  the  structure  of  liy-  any  of  its  competitors,  in  taste,  in  the  style 
potheticol  sentences ;  on  all  winch  ques-  and  variety  of  its  contents,  and  in  its  cx- 
tions  he  has  succeeded  in  throwing  consi-  temal  elegance,  is  a  collection  of  anecdotes, 
derable  light  narratives,  &c   entitled,  VUomo  in  Con^ 

Antique  Ghtf. — A  cabinet  has  been  versazhncosfhi  una  linraflia  di  Narcllrite^ 
cpened  at  the  Studij  at  Naples,  containing  Facezic^  MoUi^  ^-c — Alolini,  of  Florence, 
a  collection  of  various  specimens  of  this  ma-  has  begun  to  pubHsh  a  small  edition  of  the 
toial  foimd  amoxig  the  ruins  of  Pompeii  most  classical  and  popular  writers  of  Italy, 
and  Ilerculancum.  This  valuable  asscm-  in  the  economical  and  convenient  form  of 
blage  of  articles  exhibits  the  greatest  v»-  Walkcr^s  classics,  and  siuiilarly  cnibellish- 
riety  both  in  forms  and  a>lours,  r.i'd  proves  ed  with  frontispieces  and  vignettes.  Tlie 
in  the  most  sati^tfactory  manner  that  tlic  first  of  this  scries  is  tlie  Decameron,  a  most 
ancients  were  as  well  acquainted  as  our.  di^^t  specimen  of  tyj>ogTaphy,  for  the 
■dves  witli  tlic  manufiunory  of  this  cmteri:d,  text  of  wliich  the  mi'st  wrrcct  and  esteemed 
whether  for  articles  of  use  or  tho.sc  of  mere  editions  have  been  followeil.  —  Lconi,  who 
decoration  and  luxury.  There  arc  a  great  has  been  so  successful  in  his  versions  from 
number  of  very  curious  cinerary  urns,  ni(>st  many  of  our  best  English  authors,  has  now 
of  which  are  inclosed  in  vessels  of  lead.  completed  mx  volumes  of  his  trantJation  of 

Cam)v(i*s  Siolttf  of  }Vasi'th:i:ion. — The  8hak.specrc.  Pompco  Ferrario  lias  been 
artist  has  representee!  \rasliiri';ton  as  wiit-  less  forturiatc  in  liis  attaupt  to  bring 
ing  his  farewell  address,  l.'^c  is  se?.ted  in  his  countrymen  acquainted  widi  tlie  ii^hak- 
an  ancient  Roman  chair,  with  his  rij^ht  l'.*[5  rpcare  of  (iermany,  the  ]K>wcrful 
drawn  up  and  his  left  carelessly  extci'.ded  ;  Schiller,  for  he  has  not  only  tronsJated 
holding  in  one  hand  a  ]>cn  and  in  the  other  him  in  pres?,  but  in  many  iiiijtances  has 
a  scroll ;  at  his  feet  lie  tlie  baton  of  a  Field  given  the  scrsc  of  tlic  original  vciy  vr^gife- 
Marshol,  and  a  sword  like  the  ancient  Ilo-  ly  and  inadequately,  or  else  has  totally 
manfnulchion.  The  costume  is  also  Koman,  mistalcen  it.— Sorzogno,  of  ."Milan,  has  an- 
thc  head  and  ntTk  bare,  a  close  vest  and  nounccd  a  miwt  extensive  and  voluminous 
braccic,  with  a  girdle  round  the  waist,  upon  undertaking  in  a  scries  of  die  Auto- 
whkh  are  di^p*.aycd  Medusa's  licad  and  biographies  «»f  eminent  men  of  every  age 
other  classical  emblems.  The  statue  is  of  and  nation,  fromtlavius  Joscphus  dowTi  to 
white  marble  of  the  finest  kind,  as  is  like-  Goethe  ;  and  such  was  the  zeal  with  which 
wise  the  pedestal,  upon  the  sides  of  which  he  descant'.^  upon  the  usefulness  of  such  a 
arc  four  bas-reliefs,  conmicmorating  the  publication,  and  tlic  success  it  must 
following  inqwrtant  circumstances  in  the  neccsKirily  meet  with  from  a  dis- 
Jiib  ofUi  hero,  viz,  his  taking  of  the  Ame.    eeming    public,    that    Bettoni,    another 


1881.3  laUrary  and  Seieniifie  ItUeiligane,  ^c.  443 

celebrated  Milanese  publisher,  unmcdiately  skip  over  moral    reflecrioos   as   unpalat- 
aimounced  a  similar  project,  to  which  he  able    and   impertinent.  —  Of   other    n- 
lajs  a  prior  claim,  having  notified  his  in-  cent    productions,  tlie  principal  ones  are 
tention  to  commcuce  such  a  work  two  years  political  pamj^lets,  but  none  of  these  an 
ago  at  Padua. — Professor  Giovanni  Ghcrar-  distinguished  by  that  depth  of  thou^t, 
<Uni,    already  known  by  his  vendon  of  vigour  of  expresaon,  and  comprebeottve 
Darwin^H  poem  on  the  Loves  of  tlie  Plants,  acquaintance  with  the  subject,  necessary  to 
and  of  Schlegel^s  Lectures  on  the  Drama,  secure  them  an  attention  beyond  that  of  the 
has  now  tran^tcd  Sismondi*s  interesting  passing  day.     Most  of  the  journals  are 
and  elegant  work  imdcr  the  title  of  LittC'  continued,  with  the  exception  of  the  Co»> 
rittura  Hallana  idal  Sccolo  dcc'uno  quarto  stiiufional,  the  editor  of  which  has  bem 
Jino  al  Sccolo  dccimo  nono. — The  study  of  taken  care  of  by  the  Constitutional  GoTom- 
the  German  language  increases  very  fast  in  roent,  into  whose  views  he  does  not  ap- 
the  North  of  Italy.    In  the  two  universities  pear  to  have  entered.    The  paper  contaia- 
of  the  I/ombord  Venetian  Kingdom,  and  in  ing  a  greater  variety  of  intbrmation  than 
its  Lyceums  and  Gymnasiums,  lectureships  any  other  is  theUniversal ;  yet  its  long  the»- 
have  been  instituted  for  this  purpose^  and  trical  critiques  are  very  prolix  and  insipid. 
the  students  luive  gratuitous  access  to  the  Among  the  monthly  periodicals,  the  Re* 
lectures  there  delivered  on  the  language  and  viior  J'olilico  y  LiUrariOy  edited  by  Don 
literature  of  (i«rmany.  At  iMilan  there  are  Manuel   3Ion80  de  Viado,  displays    the 
about  .'lOO  German  students,  20<)  in  the  two  talent  by  wliich  that  writer  has  distingukb- 
liyccuuiK,  and  300  elsewhere;  but  the  ool.  cd  himsclfl     Viado,  who  is  a  native  of  Aa- 
lecdveamountof  the  individuals  in  that  dcy  turia,  was  educated  at  the  University  of 
who  are  acquainted  with  German,  and  able  Oviedo,  where  he  was  preparing  himself 
to  converse  in,  or  read  it,  is  not  less  than  for  the  profession  of  the  law,  when  the  war 
5,000.  breaking  out  against  the  French  Republic 
Spanish  Literature, —  Don  Joan  de  Dies  determined  him  to  prefer  that  of  arms.    In 
Gil  de  Lara,  an  officer  in  the  Artillery,  has  12U)o  he  was  appointed  administrator  gene- 
translated  ]\lolicre'K  comedy  of  VAvure^  ral  of  the  crown  tithes  in  the  kingdom  of 
which  he  has  illustrated  with  explanatory  Granada ;  and  on    the    invasion    of   the 
notes,  but  he  has  been  by  no  means  success-  French  the  Junta  of  that  province  sent  him 
full  in  preserving  the  ease,  spirit,  and  co-  as  their  deputy  to  Seville.   By  Joseph  Buo- 
uiic  force  of  the  origiuaL — Dun  Antonio  napartc  he  was  appointed  a«imiiiistrator  of 
Suvinon  has  been  fur  happier    in  his  ver-  the  estates  of  tlie  crown  in  Jaen.     lie  aver- 
sion of  Legouvc's  interesting  jwcm  La  3for^  wards    crossed    the     Pyrenees    with    the 
tTAbcI-,  viiich  he  has  rendfrctl  with  both  French,  and  remained  some  time  in  France, 
dcgapcc  ai:t!  fidelity. — Another  work  on  the  Among  the  numerous  works  which  he  has 
Uat  of  translations  from   tlie  French,   is  published,  the  most  imiwrtant  one  is  a 
I^mvct's    notorious   production,   FanblaSy  translation  of  Robertson's  America,  with 
which  D.  S.  A.  Llorento  has  selected  as  critical  and  historical  notes. — Tliis  year  the 
one  worthy  of  being  communicated  to  his  list  of  journals  has  l)cen  increased  by  two 
countrj-men.     The  reasoning  by  which  he  new  ones — Et-  Christiano  en  la  Socicdad, 
attctiipts  to  defend  his  choice  of  this  work  ind^Lut  Dccadus  Alcdico  i^ittrutfricait  ^e 
is  su spinous  and  unsatisfactory :  he  asserts,  objects  of  the  latter  are:  1.  To  inform  both 
th.'it  the  iK)pularity  it  has  accjuired  among  a  professional  men  and  the  public  in  geoe- 
naiion  so  wise  (sabia)  as  the  French  arc,  is  ral  of  all  discoveries,  and  of  every  thing 
a  suillcicnt  proof  of  its  sterling  jnerit;  and  relative  to  medicine  and  surgery,  whether 
would  fain  prove  that  the  work  contains  in  Spain  or  elsewhere.     2.  To  give  on  im- 
v-'ithiii  itself  an  antidote  against  the  immora-  partial  account  of  opposite  theories,  dis- 
lity  it  nj>tiiars  to  inculcate,  in  tlie  moral  re-  cussions,  &c.     3.  To  convey  intelligence 
flections  that  are  interspcrsctl  through  it. —  respecting  all  endemic  diicases ;  or,  4.  cx- 
Ihit,  unfortunately,  moral  reflections    arc  traordinary  cures.    6.  Lastly,  to  coiniimm- 
not  likely  to   make  any  great  impression  cate  miscellantous   queries    and  ohscrva- 
uix^n    tlic    reader    of  u    volupuious  nar-  tions,  and  to  give  lists  and  analyses  of  all 
rativc,  and  at  tlie  same  time  the  shock-  medical  publications  appearing  in  Spain, 
ing    catastrophe     is     so    highly    impro-  and  tlie  more  unportant  foreign  ones. — The 
hable,    tliat    any  one   may  justly  flatter  Deaf  and   Dumb  Institution  at  Madrid, 
Iiiinsclf  with  being  able  to  couiuiit  sunilor  which  is  under  the  direction  of  Dun  Tibur- 
irrcgiilaritics,  and  indulge  in  the  same  vices,  zio  Hernandez  and  the  (Economical  8o- 
without  it^cuirin^  the  like  consequences,  cicty,  lias  had  a  public  examination  of  its 
The  tone  and  colouring  of  the  work  is  not  pupik,  which  proved  very  satisfactory,  and 
thatof  a  mondist,  who  wo\iM  dissuade  from  excited  much  interest;  yet  the  establish- 
vice,  which  the  autlior  paints  as  cluirming,  meat  itself  is  not  in  a  very  flourishing  oon- 
and  seems  only  to  regret  that  it  should  be  dition,    in  consequence  of  the  exhausted 
itHfortHuaie,     In  short,  the  moral  rcflec-  state  of  its  funds,   and   the  want  of  due 
tions  would  Ik;  attended  to  only  by  such  sup^iort  from  the  public     It  requires  aLiO 
persons  as  would  not  rcoii  Faubhis,  and  a  building  better  adapted  to  the  ]»urpoKC, 
Faublaa  will  be  read  only  by  thotfc  wlio  and  moic  qMioous  than  the  ^ceseniL ' 


4M  Ahtiraei  rf  JBoriq^  and  Domestic  OocMrrencts*  C^^ 

El  RofMneero  de  Riego^  ftar  Dan  Benito  hs  offisring  vicdenoe  to  the  vfctim  of  his 

Perez^  wOl  be  grate^Sy  penued  by  eyery  gaQty  passion,   she  stabbed  him  with  a 

admirer  of  an  individual,  who  has  recently  knife. — El  Remedio  de  la  Melancholia,  o 

become  so  celebrated*     In  these  poems  the  Mtf  Coleccion  de  Recreaciones  Jocotas  p 

author  has  imitated  the  lofty  tone  of  the  InsfrucHvety  por  />.  Anfrutiin  T^ragosa 

dd  romances  in  a  Tery  skilftil  and  success-  Godinez,  is  a  coDecthm  of  anecdotes  and 

Ibl  manner.— The  stoiy  of  the  unfortunate  fiieetisB,  resembling  the  generality  of  com- 

Cornelia  Bororqnia,  which  is  well  known  pUatkms  of  diis  nature. — Juiciot  Aladas  y 

la  the  readers  of  Liuig^e*s  Travels  through  Peruarmentot  sueUoe,  o  juguete  de  Imagi^ 

Spain,  b  given  to  the  public  in  an  heroie  nacum  em  joco-teruu  Verms,  Romances^  j 

epislle,  entitled,  Epistola  de  Cornelia  Bo~  Letrilles,  por  Don  Apolinar   ErciUoy  ia 

ror^ma^    a  mu  Amante   Vargas,    escrita  another  work  professing  to  be  amusing  and 

iesde  el  Santo  Qficio  de  Scvilla,     The  fiicetious,  but  is  destitute  of  the  requisite 

-rfartiioas  and  beautiful  Comeha  was  the  spirit  and  wit — The  celebrated  orator  of 

daughter  of  the  Marquis  of    Bororouia,  the  Cortes,  D.  Frandsoo  Martinez  de  la 

Qovemor  of  Valencia,  and  was  pumidy  Rosa,  has  published  a  pamphlet,  in  which 

Imnt  at  Seville.    Her  only  crime  was  that  he  animadverts,    with    extreme   severity, 

of  refufdng  the  dishonourable  ofieis  of  a  upon  the  pdicy  adopted  by  the  northern 

powerful,    but  abandoned  suitor.      This  courts. — Bignon's  work  on  the  Congress  at 

wretch,  when  he  perceived  that  it  was  in  Troppau,  and  Drunon*s  ^  Essai  sur  les  Ga- 

vam  to  expect  to  overcome  her  aversion,  ranties    individuelles   que  reclame  TEtat 

carried  her  away,  and  had  her  thrown  into  actuel  de  la  Sod^t^^'  have  each  been  trans* 

die  dungeons  of  the  inquisition ;  wliere,  on  lated  into  the  Spanish  language. 


MONTHLY  REGISTER. 


ABSTRACT  OF  FOREION  AND  DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 

Notwithstanding    the    critical  mongers  in  the   public  streets.    A 
position  which  Kussia  and  Turkey  mob  immediately  assembled^  and  it 
hold  to  each  other,  the  great  point  was  with  difficulty  the  interposition 
of  foreign  political  interest  at  present  of  the  soldiery  saved  his  life.    The 
18  Spain.    Every  movement  m  that  nomination    of  a    new    minister  of 
country  is  ofthe  most  ominous  import,  war,   in  the  person  of  Don  Rodri- 
The  departure  of  the  king  from  Ma-  guez^  was  very  near  bringing  on  a 
drid,  in  order  to  take  the  benefit  of  crisis.    On  the  4th  of  September  the 
some  mineral  waters  for  his  healthy  f>eople  assembled  m  immense  mul- 
seems  to  have  been  the  signal  for  the  titudes  in  the  Puerta  del  Sol^   and 
explosion  of  the  popular  discontent,  demanded  the  instant  return  of  the 
Of  this  the  club  Fontana,  assembled  king  to  Madrid^  the  immediate  dis- 
at  Madrid,  seems  to  be  the  focus ;  missal  of    the  French  ambassador^ 
and  a  conspiracy,  detected  at  Sara-  the  convention  of  the  Cortes,  and 
cossa,  is  said  to  have  originated  in  the  removal  of  every  suspected  in- 
its  machinations.      General    lUego,  dividual  from  the  king's  person.     In 
was  at  the  head  of  this  conspiracy^  the  mean  time  the  king  lias  trans- 
has    been    deprived    of   his    com-  mittcd  two  answers  to  the  capital^ 
mand^  and  sent  to  retirement  at  Le-  replying  to  addresses  sent  to  hmi  in 
rida.     General   Morillo^   who    was,  consequence  of  the   tumidU  of  the 
it  may  be  recollected,    the  General  4th.     The  first  of  these  is  to  the 
selected  by  the  king  to  stem  the  re-  permanent  deputation  of  the  Cortes, 
volutionary  torrent  in   South  Ame-  m   which    he   expresses  his    regret 
rica,  from  which  country  he  has  but  that  any    discontent    sliould  follow 
lately  returned,    after    having    dis-  the  selection  of   his  ministers;    as- 
played    powers   which    amply   sus-  sures  them  tliat  he  feels  all  the  ui- 
tained  the  high  military  character  he  conveniences   which    emanr.tt'    from 
had  previously  obtained  in  the  pe-  any   error  in   the    choice   of  public 
ninsuiar    campaigns,   has,  however,  functionaries,  and  that  the  good  di- 
been  obliged  to  resign,  in  consequence  rcction  of  affairs,  and  even  the  cre- 
of  an  universal  outcry  raised  against  dit  of  the  government,  depend  upon 
him,  because  he  attempted  to  repress  tliat  choice;  he  goes  on  to  t>ay,  thiit 
the  seditiom  aoug»  of  some  baUad*  if  his  success  has  not  hcen  always 


lBStU2  Ahtirad  of  F6nign  €md  Domniic  Oeeurreneei  4id 

commenstlrate  with  his  desires^  which  time  a  great  concession  from  a  go« 
cannot  fail  to  be  sometimes  the  case  vemment  nerer  very  remarkable  for 
in  so  difficult  an  exercise  of  the  its  tolerant  principles^  camiot  be 
judgment^  he  has  always  had  in  looked  upon^  at  the  present  crisis, 
riew  to  select  men  the  most  con-  in  any  other  light  than  as  a  most  pa^ 
spicuous  for  their  merit  and  their  dfic  overture. — There  is  nothing  new 
talents,  because  the  consolidation  of  on  the  part  of  the  Greeks, 
the  Constitutional  system  depended  The  United  States  of  America 
upon  the  selection,  as  well  as  his  own  hare  at  length  received  what  ^ej 
glory,  which  he  considers  as  iden-  were  so  long  struggling  for, — the 
tified  ynth  the  happiness  of  the  mo-  actual  cession  of  the  Floridas  from 
narchy,  and  the  honour  of  the  Span  Spain.  Bv  a  proclamation  from  Ge- 
nish  name.  In  answer  to  the  mu-  neral  Jackson,  dated  the  17th  July, 
nicipal  body,  he  assures  them  that  he  1831,  those  provinces  are  declared 
will  meet  their  desires  by  returning  to  be  under  the  American  dominioiiy 
to  Madrid  as  soon  as  his  health  will  to  be  exercised,  pro  tempore,  in  his 
permit.  person.  He  says  tnat  the  inhabitants 

The  negociations  between  Russia  shall  be  incorporated  in  the  union  of 
and  the  Porte  have  not  assumed  any  the  United  States,  as  soon  as  m^  be 
new  character.  Immense  Russian  consistent  with  the  principles  of  the 
armies  arc  assembled  on  the  fron-  federal  constitution,  and  admitted  to 
tiers,  preparing,  it  is  said,  to  pass  the  enjoyment  of  all  the  rights,  privi* 
at  the  word  of  command  into  Mol-  leges,  and  immunities,  of  tne  citizens 
davia  and  Wallachia.  An  imposing  of  the  United  States ;  that,  in  tfie 
Turkish  force  is  stationed  on  the  mean  time,  .they  shall  be  protected  in 
banks  of  the  Pruth,  ready  to  act  on  the  free  enjoyment  of  their  liberty, 
the  least  hostile  indication.  The  property,  and  the  religion  they  pro- 
Emperor  has  set  out  on  an  excursion  fess ;  and  that  all  laws  and  munici- 
through  his  provinces,  and,  it  is  said,  pal  regulations,  which  were  in  ex- 
will,  after  inspecting  the  Cossacks  istence  at  the  cessation  of  the  late 
of  the  Don,  repair  to  the  head  quar-  government,  shall  remain  in  full  force, 
ters  of  Greneral  Wittgenstein,  where  The  General  concludes  by  ei^joining 
the  great  question  of  peace  or  war  an  obedience  to  this  change  of  go- 
will  be  finally  decided.  In  the  mean-  vemment,  which  will  not  be  very 
time,  a  letter  of  his  to  the  Emperor  much  disputed,  unless  the  people  of 
of  Austria,  upon  this  subject,  has  the  Flondas  held  the  Spanisn  ffo- 
been  put  into  active  circulation, — ^its  vemment  in  better  odour  than  eitner 
concluding  sentence  is  as  follows: —  those  of  Venezuela  or  Madrid  seem 
^'  My  mother  is  for  war,  my  brothers  to  do.  This  cession  was  the  conse- 
are  for  war,  my  cabinet  is  for  war,  quence  of  protracted,  and,  at  times, 
— but — I  am  for  peace,  and  I  will  ratiier  angry  discussions ;  and  Ame- 
prove  that  I  am  Emperor."-— There  rica  seems  very  fully  to  estimate  its 
are  some  pacific  manifestations  also    importance. 

shown  on  the  part  of  the  Ottoman  The  return  of  the  Queen's  suite  has 
government ;  the  free  passage  of  the  brought  us  the  details  of  her  M^jes- 
Dardanelles  was  again  allowed  to  ty's  mterment  at  Bnniswick.  The 
vessels  laden  with  com,  and,  if  they  procession  seems  to  have  been  re- 
chose  to  unload  at  Constantinople,  ccived  with  marked  respect  in  all  the 
the  govemment  price  was  8|  piastres,  continental  towns  through  which  it 
which  had  been  formeriy  9.  The  passed.  The  Qiieen's  remains  were 
Grand  Seignior  has  also  issued  a  deposited  in  the  royal  vault  at 
very  important  proclamation  to  all  Bnmswick,  by  the  side  of  her  gallant 
the  Turkish  civil  and  military  autho-  father ;  and  at  the  foot  of  the  grave 
ritics.  He  expresses  great  regret,  is  the  coffin  of  the  late  Duke,  her 
that  in  consequence  of  the  recent  brother.  There  was  no  funeral  ser- 
insurrection,  the  popular  indignation  vice ;  but  a  very  beautiful  prayer 
has  not  sufficientiy  discriminated  was  pronoimced,  at  the  burial-place, 
between  the  innocent  and  the  guilty ;  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Woolff,  the  offi<« 
and  orders,  not  only  forbearance  in  elating  minister  of  the  place.  \Vlien 
future,  but  even  protection  to  be  her  Majestv  was  deposited  in  the 
extended  to  all  the  Greeks  not  ac-  tomb,  one  hundred  young  ladies,  of 
tually   implicated.      This,    at   any    the  fiwt  fttSX^voA  Vbw  '\aK>sc«wv^%  -^-^ 


44f                Ahstrad  of  Fiireign  tmd  DomesNe  Oceurreneer.  t^^ 

vanced  and  strewed  the  plaec  with  during  the  last  month  at  the  Bonk  of 
^wers ;  after  which  ceremony,  they  England,  the  chairman  made  a  very 
jknelt  down  upon  the  spot  and,  after  important  commwiication  vrith  re. 
a  short  prayer,  departed.  Thus  ends  spect  to  the  metallic  currency.  It 
the  eTeutful  history  of  Queen  Caro-  was,  that  the  issue  of  specie  was  by- 
line !  no  means  confined  to  the  payment  c^ 
His  Majesty  has  arrired  in  town,  either  one  or  two  pound'  notes;  but 
in  high  health  and  spirits,  from  his  that  the  holder  of  a  note  to  any 
Irish  excursion;  and  by  the  time  amount,  however  large,  might  get, 
this  nu^ts  the  eye  of  the  reader,  he  upon  application,  its  frill  value  in  the 
will,  in  all  probability,  have  met  the  current  coin  of  the  realm.  We  are 
welcome  of  his  German  subjects,  sotrfy  to  say,  however,  that  he  also 
His  protracted  stay  m  Ireland  seems  announced  the  total  failure  of  the 
not  at  all  to  have  exhausted  either  long  cherished  and  humane  project 
the  hospitality  or  the  enthusiasm  of  of  producing  a  bank  note,  uicapable 
the  people  of  that  country.  A  series  of  being  imitated  except  at  such  an 
of  bolls  and  banquets  enlivened  his  expence  as  to  deter  from  the  attempt, 
sojournment ;  and  his  departure  has  Toe  Bank  failed,  a  few  days  ago,  in 
hien  followed  by  a  subscription,  al-  the  prosecuUou  of  one  of  their  clerks, 
ready  amounting  to  10,00o2.  in  order  Mr.  Turner,  accused  of  having  dc- 
to  commemorate  his  gracious  visit  frauded  them  of  no  less  a  sum  tlian 
by  some  national  testimouial.  A  10,000/.  The  fraud,  as  alleged, 
grand  triumphal  arch  and  an  emerald  was  one  of  extreme  ingenuity.  Upon 
crown  are  at  present  spoken  of.  the  acquittal  of  Mr.  Turner  on  the 
The  King  departed  from  the  town  of  ^$t  charge,  the  Bank  voluntarily 
Dunleary,  which  he  desired  might  be  abandoned  three  other  bills  of  hidict- 
henceforth  called  Iving's  Town,  and  ment  which  had  been  found  against 
its  adjacent  harbour,  the  Harbour  of  him. 

George  the  Fourth.  As  the  King  was  The     inquest     on      Honey    has 

about  to  embark,  a  deputation  from  ended  in  a  general  verdict,  imputing 

Dublin  presented  him  with  an  address,  manslaughter    to   the   persons  who 

accompanied  by  a  crown  of  laureL  acted.  In  fact,  the  verdict  is  of  such 

His   Majesty    appeared    highly  de-  a  nature  that  no  person  can  be  ar» 

lighted ;  and  thus  emphatically  an-  raigncd  on  it.    A  subscription   was 

swered  the  deputation :  —  "  Gentle^  entered  into,  at  the  suggestion  of  a 

men,  I  approached  your  shores  with  ministerial  paper,  for   such    of  the 

pleasure — I  leave  them  with  regret —  life-guards  as  were  injured  in  this  un- 

may  God  Almighty  bless  you  all."— <  fortunate  conflict,  which  a  committee 

He  then  embarked ;  and  so  strong,  of  the  regiment  very  constitutionally 

we  had  almost    said  fiery,  was  the  and  properly  refiised.    Its   amount 

loyalty  of  some,  that  foiu*  gentlemen  was  but  trifling ;   and  its   progress 

actually  plunged  into  the  water,  and  and  its  issue  show  that  both  the  pub«i 

swam   after   the   boat   in   order  to  lie  and  the  military  concurred  in  its 

shake  hands  with  him,  which  they  condemnation. 

did.  It  has  been  said  that  these  gen^  The  Queen's  funeral  has  had  a 
tlemen  expected  to  l>e  made  Knights  very  serious  issue,  with  respect  both 
oftheBiUh,  Upon  the  King's  depar-  tc  Sir  Robert  Baker  and  Sir  Robert 
ture.  Lord  Sidmouth  wrote  a  letter  to  Wilson.  The  first  of  these  gentle- 
the  Lord  Lieutenant,  thanking  him,  men  has  been  obliged  to  give  in  his 
in  his  Majesty's  name,  for  his  atten-  resignation  as  chief  mjigistrate  of  po- 
tion, and  recommending  unanimity  lice,  which  office  is  held  by  Mr., 
and  oblivion  of  all  party  differences  now  Sir  Richard  Binnc ;  and  Sir  Ro- 
aniongst  the  people  in  future.  A  bert  Wilson  has  been  erased  from  the 
highly  desirable  consummation,  if  list  of  the  anny ;  he  held  the  rank  of 
it  be  attainable.  The  King  experi-  M^jor-General.  Sir  Robert  Wilson, 
enced  much  stormy  weather  on  his  who  is  at  present  in  Paris,  has  ad- 
homeward  voyage,  by  which  he  was  dressed  a  letter  to  the  Commander- 
at  last  forced,  contrary  to  his  previ-  m-Chief,  demanding  a  public  uiquiry 
ous  arrangement,  to  put  into  Mil-  into  liis  conduct, 
ford  Haven.  Parliament  has  been  frirther  pro- 
At  a  Court  of  Proprietors,   held  rogued  to  the  29th  of  November. 


1881.3 


Birthi'^MmTiagn' 


H% 


BIRTHS. 


Aw.  18.  la  Upper  Drook-fttreet,  Udy  EJlzaWfb 

.Ntrelf,  a  (ton. 

—  At  Oakfitrld.loJjCC*  MortUner,  Berks,  the  lady  of 
Hrnrv  Kicti,  Em.  a  toa. 

2H.  At  Oarlton-half,  Northamptonshire,  the  Hon. 
I^y  l*iilincr»  a  daaghter. 

—  At  Ijatcouibe,  the  hwly  of  Sir  Locins  Cartis, 
Uart.  a  m>ii. 

:M.  At  HriichluB,  the  lady  of  Charles  Craren,  £»!« 
a  daughter. 

—  At  noyle-fiirm.  Lady  Marv  Stanley,  a  dantfhter. 
.11.  AtstMk-kNi^i'.  Kmcx,  the  ladyofThoa.  Eaat- 

u-ood,  K8<i.  aduUKlitcr. 
Stt)t.  1.  At  Ikitley-huoth,  Kent,  the  lady  of  Captain 
Svdiicy  Cottou,'  aduui^htcr. 

—  At  ht-r  f.ithfrti  houHP  in  Cliarles-slrert,  Herfce- 
)c>-<«|uun>,  tbe  Marcliiouc«»dc  Niulailluc,  aao;i. 

3.  At  Margate,   the  Coantens  Alfred    Walsh,    a 

d.ia^uti  r. 
5.  Till-  l.'ily  of  John  Truzer,  Esq.  Domard-street, 

Htj  ni'lUbiiuarc,  afon. 

—  'I.Ik;  liuiy  of  Jauioit  Kicardo,  Ksq.  of  the  South 
I^awii,  Lonilif'th,  a  fton. 

—  The  lady  of  the  Huii.  anl  Rev.  L.  Dundas,  a 
son. 

C.  At  Warwick,  the  lady  of  C.  Wake,  MD.  a 
daii-lit'T, 

—  At  lMarki!own-lK)U!»c,SnBS«')t,  tbeladyof  Jainea 
Couaii,  K»<].  of  lAiM'.U-n.ahOti  and  Uuir. 

10.  At  ilii*  Kccton-.  Newinplou  l»utr»,  the  h-uly  of 
tin-  Kcv.  A;tlnir  <.'\rlll  Onslow,  ft duuwlitcr. 

13.  Ar  r.arl  siK-nrcr's,  Winibleton-park,  Lady 
Snnih  Lvttlotoii,  adnuL'Iitcr. 

—  Ill  C'uiii!ierluud-strc<-t,  the  lady  of  tlie  Her. 
Thoiii.-ts  <'lu\tu-ii  (ilyn,  a  sou. 

—  'I  li"  Hiiih't  Hon.  I.aly  Mary  Bolfonr,  a 
iI;i;u'hlvT. 

•J(».  Ill   Ik'jkelcy-sqnarc,  I^ly  Mary  Fiuroy,   a 

KOU. 

IN"    SCOTLAND. 
At  I.onrniiMry-lirtii-.**,  Mrs.  OrN'Sitole,  a  son. 
At  Lainin^foii-house,  the  laJy  of  IVttr  Itose,  Esq. 

adaiu'hler. 
At  Ncwtuii,  luvernc4m.»hire,  the  lady  of  M^jor  L. 

Strvvart,  2hli  nvt.  a  son. 
Ill  Hi>f»r.&trri't,  K.liul>iirfrh,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Peter 

iiiunsey,  u  Mtn. 
At  I  lupcs  EaMt  Lulliiao.lhe  la/Jy  of  Win.  Hay,  Esq. 

a  sun. 

IN    IRRLAND. 
The  hulyof  ('.  1>.  (>.  Jephson,  E«q.  of  Mdlloir- 

ciuitle,'in  the  county  of  Cork,  a  9ou  and  heir. 

ARIIOAD. 

AtNeemnrh,  rast-hulii's,  tlie  lady  of  Lleut.-Col. 

J.LuiUow.  V\i.  a  son. 
In  the  IslaiMl  of  St.  ('hri«tarhrr,  the  1a>ly  of  the 

late  ('liar!<<i  M-nnilU)!!  .MilU,  (;«n.  a  son. 
At  ()uii>taiitiu«.]>io,  l.aiv  Stran.Klunl,  a  %on. 
At   Hoiue,  the  la-lv  uf  Th(-iii>on  Uooar,  Esq.  of 

Cuuidcu-placc.  Rent,  udaiK'hter. 

IMARRIAOES. 

An-'.  23.  At  West  Wrattiii/.  Hit^hard  Creaves 
Tuwiilcy,  K-J'i  Jtin.  eMrst -on  of  Rich.  <ireaves 
Towiiley,  of  Fitii-onie,  in  th.'»  caanly  of  Cam- 
hri'iirc.  UM'ccil,  Ki-roiid  ihiu-jhter  uf  Sir  Charli'd 
Watson,  Karl,  ot  Wrattiug-park,  in  the  vaiuc 
cuuniv. 

27.  AlCoiiwav.  Nortli  Wa!e(i.  Sir  David  Rrskine, 
IJart.  i»t('aiiil»<.,  •'itoslilr*',  /nnil^on  of  the  Earl 
ot  Kfl'iir,  tr  .■;.'».•  Sii*iir»",  only  <1au'jrhter  of  the 
lat«'  lliu'li  WilliijiiiN,  Ks.i.  of  toiivi-av. 

29.  At  I'uiii.'v,  hv  il<^  II'.  Uev.tlie  Lonl  r.i*hop  of 
NovnSrA>tia.  i»i  •  Hw.  W.  ('.  rranl,  of  I'lithey- 
heulh,  to  l>a!i(-'Ia  Anii''.  "<iun^'">t  dau-.rhtcr  of 
the  lilt.'  K  v.  (  fo.  \\'r\  rht.'ot  IJaill'ax.  N.S. 

IM»  At  Marylrl»oni'-r.hiirrl»,  Major  Sir  Urn.  Floyd. 
Hart,  ot"  Mh  I  i^hl  I )r.v-'ooii»;,  V)  Marv,  eldeiiC 
dR'iL'hler  of  Win.  Murray.  Fmj.  of  iiryan»tone- 
H<|uar<*,  and  of  tti'*  l-j:!!).]  of  .laniaica. 

—  .\t  .VjtU'V,  in  th<>  t  uitiitv  oi  W^.^L•t■^ter,  llobert 
Holtun  Wal'Iroii,  F.!.).  of  F>''-keiihaiii,  to  Lary, 
vouiiv'est  t'airjhter  ot  l'i.unia«  ShKiH'ley  Vernon, 
r.-iij.  of  th."  former  pliice. 

Sept.  3.  At  l-ini»M'th,  by  Special  Li^-e'iiie.  Iv.  h-s 
tii»r«»  the  .Archbishop  of  Canterbarv,  the  "Uev. 
Frederick  Manners  Sotlou,  eldeht  son  of  John 


Manners  Sutton*  Km.  of  KUham,  Notts,  to  Hen- 
rietta Jtarbara,  tldnl  daughter  of  the  Hon.  4mi 
Hev.  Jolm  Lumley  Saville,  of  iSdmondxtovr,  hi 
the  same  count V. 

4.  At  St.  James'iuchnrch,  Ceonje  Hole,  Esq.  of 
Chuwlcijrb,  mrandMio  of  the  late  l>r.  Home,  Bl- 
iihup  of  Norwich,  to  Jane,  youii;?cKt  danf^hter  of 
U.  II.  Crew,  Esq.  Secretary  to  the  Hon.  Board 
of  Ordnance. 

5.  (i(*<ir^c  Dalutry,  Esq.  eldest  son  of  John  SnUflr 
I):Uutrv,  Em.  or  Kodea  liunk.  In  the  county  of 
Cheiitei:«  to  Cllzabcth,  eldest  dau;:htcr  uf  John 
Hest,  ¥.*,<].  of  llestorinel-park,  rornw.all. 

—  At  St.  I'uiicrus,  Joseph  Kirkpatrick,  Est).  Jnn^ 
I^nnker,  Newport,  l«le  of  Wi-rht,  to  Maria  litt- 
br'lhi,  only  daughter  of  John  Kirkpulrick,  £•%» 
of  l^nrHi. 

0.  At  Worth,  Snsser,  by  the  Rev.  Snmnel  LetratV 
Chnplainoif  the  Fwceit,  Horaiio  l<riratt,  £<(|.  of 
the  Ho>al  Terrace.  Adelphi,  to  Anna  Marin, 
second  dauzhter  or  the  llev.  (ieo.  Maxiinilhni 
Bethnne,  LLI>.  of  Worth  llectory. 

—  At  St.  (JeorpeS,  Hanuver-iiqnnrp,  the  Rev.  Rd. 
Dareh,  vicar  of  Milverton  with  Ixin^ord,  in  the 
conuty  of  Soinen^ct,  to  IsaMla  Ann,  eldnC 
dauKhterof  the  late  Captain  Eiphustone,  KN. 
of  Briair,  near  PiyiHOOtb. 

—  John  tiott,  K«(|.  e'dcRt  i/ton  of  1k>njainin  (lOtty 
Ks<i.  of  Arinley-hou*e,  to  Mary  Anne,  dnuirhter 
of  reward  ljrook»E><i.  of  Chupel  Allcrtuii,  botk 
near  Lee.Is. 

8.  .At  Atiiuger,  in  Surry,  John  CauipMI.  Etta,  of 
LincoliiN-inn,  U;irrister  id  Law,  to  Mary  Ellsa- 
heth,  eldest  daughter  of  James  Scatlett,  £«q. 
Ml*,  for  IVterlKirouirh. 

13.  At  Derby,  CapU  l*Htty,  of  the  1st  or  Cirenadier 
re^'t.  of  (luards,  to  Joanna  M:uriii,  eldt^t  dau.ch- 
ter  uf  John  Barrow,  Esi].  Secretary  to  the  Adini* 
ralty. 

—  At  Miurylehone-chureh,  (/apt.  Georce  Di^hjr, 
RN.  to  Kliinbeth,  onlv  dniiiihter  of  Sir  John 
Walsh.  Bart.ofWarfieid,  in  the  county  ufUerfcu. 

—  At  Caniberwell-churcli,  E«lwanl  I^dire  0);\f, 
Esq.  to  Elizabeth  FraneeH,  eldest  dairj^hter.  of 
the  late  J.  M.  \V'oodyear,  Esq.  of  )hc  Island  cf 
St.  Christopher. 

—  At  St.  (ieopfeN,  Hsnover-Siiuare,  William 
Muney,  E-q.  of  Hanover-street,  Hauover-square, 
to  Jane,  oiiiy  daui;hter  of  Thos.  Lane,  Esq.  of 
Lineolii's-inn. 

1.').  At  Knaresborouirh,  by  tbe  Rev.  E.  Dawkloi, 
Feiluw  of  All  Soul's,  Oxfonl,  Lient.-(  o1.  I>iiw- 
kins.  Ml*.  Coldiitream  GuurdH,  to  Emma,  eldest: 
dau'/hter  of  Tho*.  Doucouibe,  Ei^q.  of  Cuisgrove, 
in  the  com  at  v  of  Yvrk. 

—  At  t/ls'obaston,  Warwirkshire,  William  Jessec 
Stnrch,  eldest  son  of  W.  Sturch,  E>q.  of  Mon- 
ta<nie>istrcet.  Iluit-iel-square,  to  Curuline,  thin! 
diiiitrhter  uf  Timothy  Smith,  E^q.  uf  Ickncild- 
boufte,  near  liinninirham. 

—  At  St.  (; force's,  Hanover-wpiare,  Lieut..CoL 
Fenron,  31  «t  r.';it.  t.)  .Miss  I'aluuT. 

—  At  Brorido.'.ircr,  Suscnt,  Sir  Thoina*  Heiiketh, 
Bart,  of  Kuiiord,  i  Inll,  in  the  county  uf  I>anr.as- 
ter,  to  MlftH  I.uiiiti^i  Allamand. 

—  At  F.I inv'- cottage,  Hants,  the  seat  of  Snmnel 
Eliot.  i:.;q.  V.  in.  Stewart.  Es{.  of  the  Royal 
Ani!IiT.',  to  Marv,  onlv  dauph'^r  of  Richard 
l-e!fly<:hc,  IJsj.  of  Burri'u};tonhulI,  Cauibridge- 
sl'.ire. 

17.  Al  Wakot-churrh,  Enlh,  Arthur  Male,  Esq. 
of  I/'ncoliiV-iiin,  Brtrritiler  nt  Law,  to  Charlotte, 
ilau/liler  of  the  late  Robert  More,  Esq.  and 
Histtrt')  Uobert  I'lriil/inaaMor;*,  Esq.  ofLinley- 
hall,  liii-hopV-c.-uille.  Shropshir>\ 

IH.  Joliii  IKiwbiwyllarvey,  E-q.  of  Wiveliscoinhe. 
ill  the  C'.'uaty  of  Somerset,  to  Fanny,  second 
dun;r!itcr  of  the  late  Wm.  Djne,  Esq.  of  LU- 
colii'a.iuu-Helds. 

TN"    SCOTLAND. 

At  DnnnVhcn,  Forfar«'iire,  the  Earl  of  Kintore, 
to  I^uisa.  voiini;ei(t  i':iMU-htcr  of  Fmncis  Haw- 
ki:i4,  Kfi((.  St>iii»r  .'iiil^eof  (*:mut  and  .Appeal 
at  I'arcilly,  in  the  Iioii.  Eaiit  India  Company*! 
»-'rvlo«'. 

At  Menlon-'h  castle.  Cart.  Tho!«.  MiiUins.  7th  Fta- 
sileers.  vrnndsonlotli**  Jit.  Hon.l/Onl  Ven'ry,  to 
Eii7a:>e:h  Theodore,  ihinirhter  ol  bir  John  Blake, 
liarr. 

At  s<Mon-lion«e,  Dr.  John  Fleteher,  of  F.dinb«rfh, 
to  Ajjiics,  second  daughter  ot  J4iu.vek^\»>>a^<»^v\r 


iif  nSLAirib 


OuUa  dm,  RN.  «  or  t 
En.  o(  Hupanun.  Is 
fad,  tM  C«i«Id  w  Uit  E_  . 
JIMB,  ml  of  the  lUi  Ktehird  S>IIt,  E«i.  of 
Ysrk-sbct,  PgnBU-dmuc,  Lmidira,  ud 
pifiinghtor  of  Sir  F»aerle  Flood.  "— 


Htari  D-Etlcr 


S^SS: 


lUlphSinTtli.EM.  1 


k^.^h" 


>Mudu«lituaftlicH<iu.J.T.Uiii<li 

*'^^^''^^?^     ,   <i..   t.    II         * 

At  Piri>,M  Ar  rhifirl  ofbli  fixnllrnoT  Lb 


eBrltbh 
..Frederia 
:*I»lRf«t. 


dbplir.    n 
.   jlrlGrcluil 

- <iih)«t  hp  lately  prodKnl  I 

piini)ili1rt  TindkUinE  «•  ntilllr  iml  111  ndvui 


—  At  Cbulloo-haa 
irih  jar.  (.'vol 
Thonua  klu^n  ^ 


ir  LordNi 


.»fEB- 


IXAthbti^ 
EtFlTB  Anil 


■on  or  Chiria,  tbe  moid  Duke 

t  In  SMb  AndlfT-Knet.  Colon 
iwn.  illllir  bioIhcrroCLulH  Ai 
HI.  LDnt  Vu-bDivicli.  He  InaiTii 
HfltD.  JobnlUn,  dHKliIcrof  U 
r  ud  Ladj  Cecilia  HeuMia  Johi 


—  At  Bamiiinilt.  SavhU.  Ihe  wile  sT  Charlt 

MacklDDOD,  (*q.  o^Caindcn.bill,  Ktulniton. 
"  tax  itFilonlj_oiilTcr»llr  rrfrencd,  I}eDDl 


ilTcnallr  rrfTtned,  i 
Rntlaid-plaix,  a(cd  W, 


Aia.  Hiltn*.  In  thf  Kf».  Mr.  iior«.  aen.  Ctap- 
Uln  U  Uit  Hull.  CompaBT,  Ueoi^  WatHB.  ^. 

Bscliaal  fu  that  lilasd. 

DEATHS. 
Au.  11.  At  Fttcriuad,  Jaoe,  eMat  laofbta  of 

Ac  Hlibt  Rrf .  Blabop  Tcnr. 
B.   |g  Oi  TUth  nar.  the  Hrr.  Jooalbaa  Wl^ 

bwn  Makrr,  wbin  he  bad  bean  dlal^  wllb  Uh 

Bbbgii  M  BiMcr. 
H.  Al  FalnoalO.  mn  K,  Mr.   K.   BarnlHit. 

NoIvUbUaodlDg  Ibe  adrasHd  tf  "  "bleb  tbH 

■■dlrMul  amlaML  be  li  hM  orrer  to  hare  ei- 

Bnlenerd  emi  anhairbcnr*!  Isdbpiallkni  du- 

Ih  the  whole  oTbli  low  life, 
a.  Hr.  Baiteloiil,  Nn  of  tlw  late  eniBcnt  n- 
.  nnerof  Uiat  nUBr,  Bud  of  coniMcnbli  rrjiq- 

EMki^linH-iriii  IMnne  |inbarf».  ajnd  (U. 
V.  At  Okkiraod,  n«r  CblcbeUR,  In  ber;!3J  «rar, 

Idslaa,  Ihird  daubUt  of  Sii  GeoiK  Hllan 

Bartow,  but.  ccfT. 

—  At  BrWnon,  wd  n.  ChiL  H.  CueiwTr.  eu. 
X.lBF«lUBd-plaH,  aftrralmfiDdKreR  lll- 

■HL  t aIv  <«nhuii,  wife  ofRlr  Jamea  Cirabam, 
ban.  Mt.  Ibr  tbt  eiiy  of  Caillile. 
m  Hr.  Edntaid  HUl,|raanieM  aoD  of  Rlr  Jobo 

—  Hill,  ban.  of  HawlMoiie,  gtaflbrdihlif :  and 
8^8.  bbbfptlier.  tbeKeT.  HIclunI  Hill. 

—  Al  Lufler,  Bucn,  In  hii  TGth  tear,  the  Her. 
GIlDanUall,  Rctoi  of  I<tt  Vvniaa,  TlnnoB, 
Devonthln. 

X.  And  62,  JaaiH  ReblnxHi  SeMt.  FRSB.  FI.S. 
IWr  Hnlor  ueaMeBI  al  tbe  Hoy.  Ucd.  Sodely, 
EdlBbargta.  iMtarcroo  Botany,  ItC 

Sept.  I.  Wui.  Klnnbiid,  w].  MBlor  majlatnle  of 


-  Al  Cotlace-iplace,  C 
Camilla  HoMiuod,  • 

.  In  bin  onii  jrai.  thr  Rfv.  GroneCope,  l>II. 

Canou  KnldiulaiT  of  Ihc  ['atbcdnl  of  Hrrerord. 
,  In  bli  Ml  jm.  Edward  Cbarln  Howrll  Slicp- 

berd.fjn,  of  l>rvonrtlnjilii»t.  I'onland.plicf. 

-  AlTantirMiie,  atibr  honir  of  litcioa,  IbeKer. 
Tb».  Knoi,  UK  Hrr.  VIcnlBiiu  Kni>i,  Ul>.  reb 
•M  of  KDimll  Bkd  Kamdea  Cran.  Ekh,  ai td 
M.  Dr.Knai  liuloB^bKB  knoiniaaaiirte. 
■Ml  wrlut  aad  ntonpllilKd  (dudar.  HIi 
"  Eaais,"  whicb  llnl  appnrrd  abuni  -N  jrara 
■»,  arc  dtMrTTdlynlHDKd (bribe  rierllriin 
ofthrltati^r.  Ibr  (bt  pnro  ud  unnd  moialiiy 
tbi-T  lni-urrair.  and  Ibr  tlie  conrcl  cfltlad  luie 
asd  vcholanblp  if ' '  '   " 


ILAlUrnQenw-. 

Ukharl  AtblnuB,  eai 

'-  AtTmro,  Id  bJiadrrv 

Su- U  M^or  GeBcnl^i 
U.  Al  bit  houe,  la  Hit  Sn_... 
Palace.  In  UaCMbyrar,  Hudt Frrderlck (iia. 
beoker,  E«q,  luun;  yean  Hat  e^t »  ber  Ma. 

i£ai  bl>  hoaie.  In  Hanoirr-«rHL  Uaoover- 

aqnart,  Lcrenio  Srable,  eio.  afedlw. 
17r)la/y  Aane.  the  irtfeof  Obarlct  Uareb,  tan. 

of  l>nm-«ren,  Wcendilly. 
tOBfciilj— Allhe  homeof.Mr.  Cartaer.af  B«o- 

ly  of  Klckandiewi'.  (red  liM  yean,  vba  dirj. 
afterafthon  IndUpoalUoa-aad  In  fnll  rntttrirlnn 
of  ber  hen  Ida. 
Ulcly.  al  MnnnUe,  and  if,,  Abnfaui  Mendei 
Fundo,  nq.    belKr  knmn  by  tbe  name  of 


AiM'ley.  fii  17  ll>lmtb^  Jamti  VHi,  "The 

weCclied  i  itooe ;  hli  rlrth  mnnd  Ihe  nek  ni 
U  Incbn ;  brea>t  31 ;  belly  IB  -,  Iliiib  W-» ;  and 

of  Cambwidban,  enonR  of  Lanark. 
Al  Edlnbor^tb.  a^rd  71,  J«rph  Dale,  CXI.    ioag 


ibarfb,  aced  79. 
rcllel  BlOttifc 

,  dnuibtcrofibe 

Uuur. 

ijb,  ibeI.adior 

p.  RovneUli,  lDhlj23dye 


aid,  aecond  bd  nfC^pi.  Campbell. 
Dborih,  Jnar,  e1d#i  dDuitiier  of  Ihe  Iw« 
uuu  VvUanan,  riq.  and  Lady  SopbiaWbar- 
wBi'ld-hDOV.  neii  Unsbar.  Mrf.  Unmet, 
^e  uoie  plau,' her  ^ler/lSui'lJciiiMa 
Te  conllRUDDt  pnrjthe#  th  Ibc  county  of 

and  Joha  Tinip  ior>,  all^partleqlaM^^llie 

iearly''tlHtlnir"ort 
■h  sir  KeaiKirr.  y 
li  renenble  wonnl 

hmTttf  ly  ittrdln  Prtthsbir 
tlie  tame  afp,  Ibr  liManc 

fcldy,  vho  both  died  al  Ibe  i 


,  „.^ iTijenlnwil  In  llwBiSlak 

araiy.   H«  wu  GoTcnn  of  Lofo*  ud  Fim, 


1881.;]      Deatht^-BceUsiaHkal  PttJktmMU  'JgrnmHw^  Report.  449 

ud  till  18U^  of  the  kingdom  of  Algwre,  la  Dotaet,  wm  tbe  flm  tedMdMa  who  offered  Ms 
Fortngil.  feirioei  to  the  London  Miwlonary  Socletyi  and 

At  Klnnton,  In  Upper  Canada,  In  htf  26th  year,  his  labours  for  twenty  year«  among  the  Innabl- 
CUode  Soott  Bfovm,  esq.  aaslstiuit  eommlsaary  tants  of  the  Sonth  Sea  Islapds  were  attended 
general.  wUhcreatfaoeeM.  _ 

At  Otahelte,  the  Re7.  Henry  Blcknell.  This  At  Boutofne.  Edward  John  Holland,  esq.  of  De- 
fentleman,  who  was  a  native  of  Over  Compton,        fonshire'piace,  in  his  71st  year. 


ECCLESIASTICAL  PREFERMENTS,  ftc  , 

The  Archbishop  of  Canterbary  has  presented  at  Bodmin.— The  Rer.  John  Jacob  to  the  Head 

the  Ijlvlnir  of  AnmlesfODe,  in  Pembrokeshire,  to  Mastership  of  the  I>ock  Claxsical  and  Mathemati- 

the  Her.  D.  H.  Sanndera.— The  Rev.ThoA.  D*Eye  cal  School,  at  Plyiuonth  Dock.— The  ArchbUhop 

Betts,  Clerk,  BA.  Instituted  to  the  Rectory  and  of  Canterbury  lias  collated  the  Rev.  Ceoryre  Kan- 

Parish  church  of  Colney*  Norfolk,  on  the  presen-  dale^  MA.  and  Student  of  Christ  (!hurcb,  OTford, 

tutfon  of  Jeboshaphat  Postle,  esq.  of  Colney-hall.  to  the  Vicarage  ofiSastry  with  Worth,  near  Sand- 

—The  Rev.  Robert  (*rockett,  MA.  of  Braseuaose  wich,  Kent.— The  Rev.  John  Latev,  to  the  Rec- 

Collece,  Oxford,  to  the  Keotorr  of  Nallston  com  tory  of  Rede,  Suffolk.— The  Rev.  Henry  De  Foe 

Nommnton,    Leleestenhire.— The    Rev.  James  Baker,  MA.  to  the  Vicarage  of  (ireetham.   In  the 

Edwards,  to  the  Rectory  of  LAamadoe,  GUunor-  oonnty  of  liuthmd.!— The  Lord  Chancellor  has  pre- 

ganshlre.— The  Rev.  Thomas  Mills,  AB.  of  Christ  seated  the  Rev.  John  Singleton  to  the  Rectory  of 

Church.  Oiford,  to  the  Rectory  of  Stntton,  Suffolk.  Sotterby,  near  Spilsey,  IJncolnsbired— The  ilev. 

—The  Rev.  Edward  Combe,  to  the  Rectories  of  Wm.  Vemor  to  succeed  to  the  Prebend  of  North 

Bamshlll  and  Donyatt,  Somerset.— The  Rev.  L.  J.  Newbald,  in  the  oounty  of  York,  vacant  by  the 

Boor,  to  be  Master  of  the  FYefr  Grammar  School,  death  of  the  Rer.  C.  Wheeler. 


AGRICULTURAL  REPORT. 

The  prominent  pointi  for  oonsideratkm  Mt  wbetber  the  fttengM  will  rise  hifjti 

this  month  are  the  bulk  and  the  ooodition  of  enough  to  0|wn  the  ports.    We  we  in- 

Ihe  crop.    The  harvest  occnpiei  so  consi-  dined  to  the  opinioD  tiist  they  will   not 

derable  s  portion  of  time  in  aJl  wpsaons,  mount  to  the  importation  rate,  unless  the 

and  in  uncertain  or  wet  weather  it  is  so  weather  oootinue  unfitTOUiaUe.     In  the 

much   protractedf  that  even  in  the  best  meanwhile,  however,  the  temporarj  effect 

years  there  must  be  some    variatkm  in  of  the  wet  upon  the  markets  omnot  but  be 

the  quality  of  the  com ;  in  moderate,  this  injurious  to  the  seoeral  interests  both  of 

difference  is  still  more  considerable,  and  in  agiiculture,  andof  the  community  at  large ; 

those  decidedly  bad,  a  great  portion  of  the  ftr  the  landlord  will  be  led  to  consider  that 

ffTowth  becomes  absolutely  unfit  for  use.  there  is  an  actoial  benefit  to  the  tenant,  both 

if  the  harvest,  in  those  counties  which  are  from  price  and  quantity,  and  therefore  he 

earliest,   begins    unpropitiously,    it  com-  will  be  the  less  disposed  to  bend  to  the  ne- 

monly  happens,  that  the  later  are  thrown  cesaty  of  abatements.      The  clergyman 

into  a  period  more  unprominng,  and  thua  will  rallow  the  rule  of  the  landowner,  and 

a  delayed  becomes  a  bad  harvest.    The  the  miller  will  certainly  take  some  advan- 

whole  of  the  la»t  spring  and  summer  was  tage  of  the  hi^  price  of  the  best  qualities, 

of  a  kind  to  indicate  that  the  com  would  ttid  advance  the  manufactured  artide  above 

ripen  late.    The  nain  had,  at  no  one  pe-  its  true  value.    Such,  indeed,  have  already 

nod,  been  as  much  forwarded  and  harden-  been  the  effects  of  the  deiaved  season ;  and 

cd  as  usual  by  the  solar  heat,  and  the  wet-  it  is  yet  to  be  seen  whether  these  effects 

ncsA  of  the  harvest  has  increased  the  eviL  will    be    counteracted    by   the  increased 

It  is  therefore  probable,  that  an  import-  quantity-  which  there  is  every  reason  to 

ant  proportion  of  the  crop,  either  from  the  suppose  must  sooner  or  later  come  into  the 

natural  acddents  of  the  year,  or  from  an  mart.       The    fluctuation,    which  is    die 

eager  desire  to  house  or  stack  it  with  all  drcnmstanoe  most  fiUally  injurious  to  the 

possible  dupatch,  will  be  found  to  oonnst  interest  of  all  parties,  is  likely  again  to  be 

of  what  is  generally  colled  soft  com,  and    die  prevailing  phenomenon  of  the  market 

will  need  artifidal  means  of  drying  before    for  some  time  to  come,  at  least  till  the  ac- 

it  can  be  ground,  or  will  require  to  be     tual  quantity  and  condition  of  the  crop  be 

mixed  with  old  wheats,  or  those  in  the  best    ascertained. 

condition,  in  larger  bulks  than  ordinary.  The  barley  crop  is,  perhaps,  even  more 
This  will  constitute  the  capital  variation  almndant  than  the  wheat,  because  the 
between  the  sound  and  the  unsound  grain,  growth  is  prindpally  upon  the  light  lands, 
though  in  every  part  of  the  kingdom  the  to  which  the  rains  have  been  highly  ia- 
sample  is  very  much  mixed  and  dcteri-  vourable  during  die  summer,  but  it  is  yet 
orated  by  nhrivellcd  and  valueless  kernels,  only  partially  housed,  particularly  in  the 
To  compensate  these  defects  comes  in  the  northern  and  eastern  districts.  It  may  also 
quantity,  and  we  believe  that  there  never  be,  and  it  undoubtedly  is,  a  littie  short- 
was  a  more  abundant  produce  horn  the  ened  by  tiic  substitution  of  Talavera  wheat, 
earth.  From  these  premises,  it  will  follow  in  the  eastern  counties  especially.  But 
that  there  will  be  immense  difierences  in  there  is  a  large  stock  in  hand,  and  the  new 
the  value  of  wheats ;  that  the  old  wDl  be  in  growth  has,  in  the  gooeral,  taken  littie  in- 
demand,  and  much  of  the  new  cxcesuvdy  jury  at  present,  for  mudi  remains  to  be 
depreciated ;  but  it  is  extremely  question-  cut  From  die  sauw  cbnm.^  «»  \n3»:;^  ^- 
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feeted  the  wbeatt  the  anopk  »  not  quite  eter,  and  tht  trade  %ar  lambe  was  rather 
as  fine  as  in  the  best  jcais,  but  bulk  must  bmker  at  some  fain,  but  the  prices  (12i.  ov 
again  be  regarded  as  compensating  this  de-  14«.  a  head)  cannot  remunerate  the  grower, 
ficiency  in  quality.  Some  premature  ef-  Shearlings  are  to  be  bought  for  leas  money 
ftcts  of  opinion  have,  however,  appeared  in  than  they  sdd  for  as  lambs  laiit  year, 
the  late  transfers  of  this  grain,  as  in  the  At  the  various  fairs  the  demand  for  cat- 
aales  of  wheat,  though  to  a  less  extent.  tie  was  every  where  exceedingly  slack- 
Oats  are,  perhaps,  scarcdy  an  avemgt  Carlisle  was  the  worst  ever  remarked.  No- 
ettm^  Upon  the  rich  soils  they  are  unu-  thing  scarcely  was  done.  Ninety  thcummd 
sui&y  good,  but  on  inferior  light  or  dry  sheep  and  lambs  were  penned  at  Wilton, 
lands  deficient  boUi  in  quantity  and  qua-  and  the  prices  they  fetched  were  nearly 
litj.  Notwith((tan^g  the  large  impOTta-  8*.  a  head  helow  those  of  last  year.  £wes 
lions  it  is  believed  the  stock  on  huid  is  were  sold  from  8«.  to  23«. ;  lambs  from  A#. 
not  great.  to  18*. ;  an  immense  number  were  left  un- 
Beans  and  peas  (the  former  especially)  sold.  At  Stockwith  fur,  black  colts,  which 
are  an  abundant  growth.  The  quantity  dT  a  dioirt  time  since  would  have  brought  40/. 
old  on  hand  is  also  very  large.  with  difficulty  reached  15^ 

Turnips  are  gener^y   very  excellent  At  St  Oilers  Hill  fair,  Winchester,  the 

The  Swedes,  which,  during  the  short  pe-  supply  of  cheese  was  unusuaDy  small,  vet 

riod  of  hot  weather,  droops  and  declined,  sales  were  heavy,  and  a  great  part  of  what 

were  wonderfully  impruvcil  by  the  rains;  was  pitdicd   was  not  £sposed  of.     The 

and  where  the  ridge  system  has  been  a-  Pnces  were,  best  old  Somerset,  70#. ;  new 

dopted  they  are  astonishingly  fine.     The  Wilts,  from  40  to  46«. ;  seconds,  28  to 

crop  of  Mr.  Gbik,  sown  at  3^  feet,  which  32*. ;  skim,  18  to  22«. 

we  mentioned  in  our  last  report,  has  gone  Wool  has  sunk  in  price :  long  wool  is 

ft  great  way  towards  establisning  the  sape>  worth  from  13«.  6J.  to  15#.  per  stone  of 

riority  of  Uiat  method  cf  culture,  and  par-  16^    In  Cornwall,  the  depression  is  attri- 

tkul^y  at  very  wide  intervals.    Of  the  buted  to  their  manufacturers  being  this  year 

multitudes  of  furmers  who  have  inspected  thrown  out  of  the  India  trade, 

this  field,  there  is  not  one  but  admires  the  The  produce  of  hops  will  be  large, 

prodigious  aixe  of  the  bulbs,  the  unde-  tfaoodii  tne  mould  has  in  some  groonds  af* 

viating  regularity  of  their  growth,  and  the  fectca  them. 

luxuriance  of  the  tops :  a  speotator  at  the  At  the  late  meetings  of  the  loncolnshire 
distance  of  a  few  yards  can  scarcely  per-  and  of  the  Glamorganshire  agricultural  so- 
cdve  that  they  are  sown  in  ridges ;  so  deties,  premiums  were  distributed  for  the 
completely  is  die  whole  piece  over-shaded  best  stock  exhibited ;  for  superior  farm- 
with  green.  Dr.  Rigby*s  turnips,  sown  at  ing ;  and  to  shepherds  and  Jabourers  fbr 
80  inches,  are  such  as  almost  to  vie  with  good  conduct :  and  one  to  Mr.  Whitwortib, 
Mr.  Clark*s,  and  we  look  upon  these  agri.  of  Acre  House  (by  the  Lincolndiire)  for 
CDhnrists*  experiments  to  be  hi^y  im-  his  trouble  in  experiments,  to  ascertain  ^e 
portant  to  the  culture  of  this  valuable  ar-  beat  quality  of  ray  grass, 
tide  of  good  husbandry.  Comphdnts  of  The  Glamorganshire  sodety  awarded 
&e  injury  fimners  have  toffined  from  da-  its  prixes  for  the  best  bull,  and  the  best 
roaged  and  spurious  seed  are  very  rife  and  boar,  to  the  Misses  BassetU  These  ladies, 
heavy,  particularly  in  LeioestershiTe  and  by  thdr  attention  to  good  hreedingy  have 
Lmcolnahire ;  indeed,  after  the  tricks  prac-  established  a  more  than  ordinaiy  title  to 
tised  in  the  pepoiation  of  the  various  seeds  the  rewards  of  husbandry. 
by  chemical  operations,  latdy  exposed,  it  As  the  season  fbr  wheat  sowing  is  ra- 
il impossible  to  guard  purdunen  too  nSdlyapproadung,itmaybeu8ef\iltohaveit 
strongly  as  to  the  character  of  the  mer-  known  that  recent  experiments  have  proved 
chant  with  whom  they  have  dealings.  diat  the  sulphate  of  copper,  which  has  been 
The  hay  is  conddCTed  now  to  be  scarcdy  used  as  a  pickle  fbr  seed  wheat,  possesses  the 
an  average  crop.  Pastures  have  been  pro-  property  of  destroying  any  sbras  of  cockle 
ducdve,  and  the  stock  in  grazing  counties  which  may  by  chance  be  mixed  with  it 
has  thriven  to  the  fullest  expectatioQ  of  At  the  same  time,  it  should  appear,  that  a 
the  proprietors.  great  proportion  of  the  wheat  itself  is  liable 
Cattle  are  sdling  ruinoudy  low,  scarcdy  to  injury  from  the  action  of  the  pickle,  so 
obtaining  in  some  instancfai  the  price  they  that  this  preparation  requires  great  caution 
cost  a  year  ago.    Lean  beasts  have  there-  in  using. 

fore  declined.  Scots  are,  at  present,  20  per  The  evidence  taken  by  the  Committee 

eent  lower  than  last  autumn,  thondli  the  of  the  House  of  Commons,  to  inquire  into 

supply  is  scanty.    Fat  stock  is  not  likdy  to  the  agricultural  petitions,  is  printed,  and  ia 

be  over  nlenrifUl,  since  it  is  natnially  to  be  very  voluminous.     Every  engine  is  em- 

tnpposcd  that  the  agricultural  depresdon  ph^ed  to  rouse  the  landed  interest  to  eet 

has  operated  against  the  providon  of  any  up  a  new  and  stronger  set  of  petidons  rar 

large  quandty  during  last  season.  protection,  as  numeroudy  signed  as  pos* 

Sheep  are  certainly  more'liumeioiis  dian  sible. 


i89t.^  Ohervaiions  on  the  Weathrr.  4S> 


OBSKRVATIONS  ON  THE  \r£ATU£R, 

FOS  AUGUST,  1821. 

Naval  Academy^  GmpoH^ 

GENERAL  KEPOST. 

The  mesn  temperature  of  the  air  for  meteoric  phenomtna  that  have  come  wiiha 

thii  month,  is  4^  higher  than  in  August,  our  observation  this  month  are,  2  colouicd 

1820 ;  and  tlie  mean  temperature  of  spring  parhelia^  1  sokr  halo,  2  nunbows,  74  bm- 

watcr  at  8  o'clock  AM.  is  53*30,  tliat  is  teors  of  various  sixes  in  the  evenings  (manj 

ip  higher  than  in  the  preceding  month,  of  them  with  trains)  which  have  uniformly 

So  sttltnr  were  the  nights  of  the  22d,  23Bd,  presaged  wind  and  rain ;  lightning  in  tbt 

and  24tfa,  that  the  self-registering  theiwo-  evenings  of  the  5th,  8th,  and  24th ;  and  6 

meter  did  not  sink  below  63^  in  an  eiqposed  strong  gales  of  wind,  or  days  on  whidi 

place,  and  on  eafh  (rf*  those  days  it  rose  to  they  have  prevailed,  namely,  2  from  the  S. 

SQO  in  the  ihadr^  The  atmospheric  and  I  from  8\v .  and  3  from  the  W. 

DAILT  REMARKS. 

August  1.  An  ovevcait  sky  and  a  damp  the  northern  ^oint  of  the  horizon,  ftau^ 

air,  except  in  the  afternoon,  when  plumose  behind  which  xt  ISf^tned  at  alow  intervals 

cirri  and  cirrocumulut  appeared  in  flocks  for  three  hours.     From  9  till  12  P3I.  12 

and  in  beds  above  nascent  cumuli.  meteors  appeared,  five  of  them  had  Iim^ 

2.  Much  dew  at  sunrise,  and  a  lllachace  trains — the  largest  of  these  at  20  miaittei 
around  the  horixon,  surmounted  by  orange  before  1 1  o*clod:,  was  of  the  apparent  siM 
and  ^lemon  colours ;  a  fair  morning  with  and  colour  of  the  planet  Jupiter,  and  pyi* 
cirri  and  cumuU^  and  gentle  crossing  ed  through  a  space  of  about  26^,  vis.  fto^ 
winds :  a  waved  sky  in  the  aftcmoon^  imd  between  the  star  a  and  x  in  Draco,  thence 
rain  in  the  night.  under  Alioth  in  Ursa  Major  to  Cor.  (^ 

3.  AM.  light  rain,  and  calm :  a  fine  af-  roli — its  train  was  about  20^  long,  and 
temoon,  and  2  coburcd  parhelia^  one  on  threw  off  inflanunaUe  sparks  a  short  tim* 
each  iiide  of  the  sun,  in  cirrostrative  clouds,  after  the  body  had  disapj>cared. 

at  0  PM.  From  9  till  half  past  10,  5  me-  0.  Chiefly  overcast  with  a  mixture  of 

teors  shot  in  different  directions,  two  of  douds,  wluch  let  fall  light  showers  in  the 

them  had  long  sparkling  trains  which  dis-  afternoon :  a  doudy  ni^t    At  a  quaitfv 

appeared  with  the  meteors,  the  largest  of  before  9  PM.  a  brilliant  meteor  descended 

these,  liaving   been   fonned  in  the  lower  almost  perpendicularly,  and  witliin  IJ*  S 

atmosphere  to  the  southward,  cast  a  whit-  the  moon*s  northern  limb.    This  was  the 

Ish  light  on  the  ground,    ^^'hilst  these  me-  nearest  meteor  to  the  moon  that  we  have 

teors  appeared,  a  pretty  white  level  sinftus  hitherto  seen  after  her  first  quarter,  mul 

rose  from  the  grass-fields  and  lakes,  and  when  shining  in  an  unclouded  space, 

was  followed  by  a  dense  fog  throughout  the  7*  At  6  AM.  a  perfect  rainbow,  follow* 

night.  ed  in  the  morning  by  compound  doodsy 

4.  AM.  generally  overcast  with  cirroMm  and  some  drops  <^  rain  at  mtervalss  the 
tratus :  in  the  afternoon,  fair,  with  nascent  afternoon  fine,  with  a  brisk  N  W.  }iimA,  \ 
cumM/iand  plumose  cirriy  some  of  thelat-  overcast  with  Cirroitratut  ham.  the  weiU 
ter  transformed  into  eirroctimuH  in  small  ward  at  night. 

zound  flocks  of  a  sUvery  colonr;  a  eelm  8.  Rain,  and  a  strong  gale  from  the 

and  doudless  night.    From  0  till  12  PM.  SW.,  with  but  little  variation  in  the  tenu 

16  small  and  middle-suEcd  meteors  appear^  perature  of  the  air  during  die  last  24  houra, 

ed  in  various  parts  of  the  sky ;  six  of  these  Some  flashes  of  lightning  fVom  the  pasiinif 

had  very  long  luminous  trains,  and  some  of  douds  in  the  night, 

them  continued  to  issue  sparks  after  tlie  9.  A  stormy  dav,  with  Nimbi  and  heavy 

bodies  had  disappeared:  they  were  of  va-  showers,  but  of  short  duration.    From  10 

lious  colours,  as  white,  light  rod,  and  a  till  12  PM.  10  meteors  appeared,  while  iht 

mixed  fight  blue  and  red ;  4  of  the  caudated  moon  shone  bri^t  in  the  middle  of  her  ae> 

meteors  were  thus  traced  in  their  fUg^t  cond  quarter ;  so  that  at  that  age  her  light 

between  10  and  11  o*clock ;  1  through  the  was  not  sufficient  to  obscure  the  sma^t 

northern  crown,  1  under  Sagittarius,  1  be-  and  Img^test  of  thesci  of  which  one  ex- 

twcen  Alioth    and    Benetnasch    in  Ursa  hibited  a  long  train,  and  passed  between 

Major,  and  1  between  Saturn  and  Jupiter,  the  constdlations  Pisces  and  Pegasus,  et  a 

notwithstanding  the  light  which  the  latter  quarter   before    twdve    o*dock — the   i-ky 

afforded.  was  apparently  dear,  but  there  was  hise 

5.  Fair,  with  hot  sunshine,  and  a  plea-  around  the  horixon,  and  a  bri^nk  gale  fn  m 
sant  breeze :  a  dear  sky  by  night,  except  the  westward,  at  the  time  of  thdr  appear- 
a  few  patches  of  dnostrative  doud  fiear  ance. 

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469                                 ObiervoHom  tm  the  Weaihen.  [[Oct. 

10.  Sunshine,  and  •  brisk  westerly  gale,  19.  A  fine  day,  and  a  clear,  calm,  dewy 
with  a  prevailing  mixture  of  douds,  and  a  night.  The  sun  rose  and  set  fiery  red. 
auiesoent  barometer  throu^out  the  day.  20.  A  slight  Stratus  early,  and  a  doud- 
Four  small  meteors  appeared  in  the  course  less  day :  a  fine  calm  dewy  night,  with 
of  the  evening,  three  of  these  to  the  north-  Cirrus  from  the  southward.  Two  small 
ward.  meteors  appeared  at  a  quarter  before  9  PM. 

11.  Sunshine  between  the  showers,  and  one  on  each  side  of  the  northern  crown. 

a  brisk  westerly  gale  in  the  day,  and  one  21 .  AM.  as  the  preceding :  the  after- 

ninbow  in  the  evening.   Two  brilliant  me-  noon  fair,   with  plumose  and  horisontal 

teors  appeared  about  10  PM.,  the  first,  bands  of  Cirrus^  which  in  the  evening 

iriiidi  inclined  to  the  south,  had  a  very  quick  passed  off*  to  dark   CirrostratuSy  and  to 

notion,  and  was  even  seen  passing  with  great  i^ipearance  divided  the  sun^s  disc  in  two 

ydodty  behind  an  attenuated  doud:  the  semidrdes  just  before  it  set   Adearni^t. 

other,  whidi  inclined  towards  the  nortb,  Fiom  9  till  12  PAI.  9  small  meteors  ap- 

•dvanced  eomparativdy  sbw,  almost  in  a  pived  in  various  directbns,  in  an  appa- 

horiaontal  dirMtion,  and  left  a  short  spark-  rendy  dear  sky,  (me  of  which  had  a  train 

ling  train  behind  it.     A  cakn  and  dry  behind  it. 

night.  22.  A  hot  doudless  day  and  night,  with 

12.  A  low  and  levd  Stratus  appeared  in  the  ezoq>tion  of  a  Stratus  in  the  evening, 
tiie  fields  till  after  sunrise,  and  m  its  as-  and  a  few  small  Cumuli  at  mid-day.  Be- 
eent  formed  into  nascent  CumuR.  A  fine  tween  10  and  1 1  PM.  3  small  meteors  ap- 
day,  and  a  beauttfol  skv  of  passing  Cirro-  peared  to  the  westward. 

emmuH  at  ni^t,  enli^tened  by  the  ftiU  23.  The  day  and  night  nearly  as  the 

■icon.  preceding,  but  the  wind  came  round  to  die 

IS.  AM.  sunshine,  and  an  inoaeulation  8£.  in  a  refreshing  breeze  at  mid-day,  and 

of  various  modifications  of  douds :  an  o-  in  the  evening  veered  to  the  east.    About 

Tcrcast  sky  in  die  afternoon,  and  rain  and  9  PM.  a  large  and  brilliant  meteor,  with  a 

wind  by  night.  long  coloured  train,  appeared  several  se-' 

14.  AM.  rain  and  wind :  PM.  fine  be-  oonds  in  descending  obliqody  from  near 
tween  die  showers.  the  zenith  towards  die  N  vT.,  7  other  me* 

15.  A  fair  day,  with  prevailing  drra^  teors  also  appeared  in  various  parts  of  the 
eumulus :  overcast  and  sultry  at  night,  and  *^  between  9  and  12  o*dock,  without  any 
two  winds,  the  lower  one  from  the  W.  the  other  characteristic  than  that  of  being 
npper  one  from  NW.  nnall,  at  a  great  aldtude,  and  having  a 

16  and  17*  Calm  and  overcast,  and  ra-  great  vdodty. 

dier  humid  bebw,  except  in  the  afternoons,  24.  A  frur  day,  with   CirroeummH  in 

ndiidi  were  fine — the  nights  very  sultry.  ligjit  flocks,  and  a  large   Cumulostratu* 

18.  Overcast,  with  Cumulostratus  of  an  uood  overhanging    its  base  towards  the 

electric  wpearance,  through  the  drrostra-  north,  in  which  duecdon  some  low  flashes 

dve  part  or  which  the  sun*s  disc  was  well-  of  lirfitning  were  observed  in  die  evening, 

defined,  and  pleasant  to  look  at  with  the  Mim£  gossamer  about  for  some  days  past, 

naked  eye  nearly  all  day,  and  not  unlike  From  10  till  12  PM.  4  small  meteors  ap- 

die  silvery  colour  of  the  full  moon  in  a  peered,  two  under  the  constdladon  Uer- 

dear  winter*s  night     He  sun  having  had  cules,  one  under  Ursa  Major,  and  one  un- 

a  similar  appearance  the  two  preceding  der  Georgium  Sidus. 

mornings,  and  seversl  spectators  deeming  25.  The  sky  overcast  by  a  dense  and 

it  an  uncommon  phenomenon,  and  wishing  humid  drrostradve  haze,  fi:om  which  some 

to  know  the  cause,  it  may  be  nfcessarj  just  light  drops  of  rain  fdl  towards  the  evening, 

to  say  that  it  arose  from  the  intervention  of  26.  As  the  preceding  day  and  night,  ex- 

an  attenuated  doud,  of  such  an  uniform  oepdng  two  hours  in  the  evening,  when 

density  as  just  to  bar  the  passage  of  the  so-  drrocitmulus  in  light  flocks  appeared  a- 

lar  rays.     At  10  minutes  before  10  PM.  a  bove  Cumulostratus. 

coloured  meteor  nassed  from  the  star  s  in  27.  An  overcast  sky  and  a  strong  gale- 

Aquila  to  a  in  die  head  of  Hercules,  a  from  the  east,  with  some  light  rain,  except 

space  of  26°,  the  train  was  of  a  light  red  in  the  afternoon,  which  was  fine, 

colour,  and  about  \(P  long;  and  a  dense  26.  Rain  and  a  moderate  gale  from  die 

doud  had  not  long  before  moved  off,  from  same  quarter  most  of  the  day  and  night 

that  part  in  a  westerly  direction.    At  35  29.  Uncommonly  heavy  rain  from  6  till 

minutes  past  10  o*dock,  a  bright  meteor  11  o'clock  AM. :  PM.  foggy. 

nipeared  widiout  a  tnun,  about  \29  above  30.  AM.   a  fog,  through  which  some 

the  western  point  of  the  horizon,  and  de-  light  rain  fell  at  intervals  :  PM.  showery, 

ecaided  obliqudy  towards  the  SW.  A  fine  31.  Showery  in  die  day ;  and  a  doudy 

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iS4                                      C^mmitxial  BspoH.  ^Oct. 

COMMERCIAL  REPORT. 
{London^  SepU  22.) 

Sixes  ^  date  of  our  last  repotiihe  tkms  wheat  0Of.,   lye  ftSc,  bailey  40r., 

moat  interesting  subject  of  mercantile  at-  oats  27'm  beans  dSr.,  peas  53<. — Prices  at 

tention  has   bMn  the  extraordinary  rise  which  com  from  the  British  settlements  in 

In  the  price  of  com,  as  it  has  had  a  great  Canada  is  admitted :  wheat  07'.,  rye  44«., 

influence  on  the  general  market.    Many  bailey  3S«.,  oats  22^.,  beans  44«.,  peas 

speculations  have  been  made  on  the  pro-  44«. — The  aggregate  averages  for  the  we^ 

bability  of  the  ports  being  opened  for  die  ending  8th  instant,  which  regulate  foreign 

admission  of  foreign  grain.    It  is  now,  wc  importation  :  wheat  55i.  8^.,  rye  26s.  Oa., 

bdieve,  above  a  twelvemonth  since  we  ex-  baney  25«.  IIJ.,  oats  19«.  M.,  beans  27'* 

Mcased  it  as  our  opinion,  that  even  should  Si.,  peas  30f.  bd.    For  several  wecics  pre- 

flie  harvest  of  1821  move  unfavourable,  ceding,  the  avenges  were,  of  course,  a 

the  average  pric?  would  hardly  rise,  so  as  stande  lower.    Bcmg  now  upon  the  subject, 

to   allow  of  the  inmortation  of   foreign  iMj^Nrill,  contrary  to  our  usual  custom, 

wheat  before  the  innng  of  1822 ;  and  we  odtamenoe  our  monthly  rmrt  with — 

think,  we  may  stul  venture  to  maintain  Com, — ^Without  going  mto  long  details, 

the  same  opinion.    There  have  been,  it  ia  we  will  merdy  give  me  gradual  advance  on 

tm^  many  vague  reports  in  circulation,  the  prices  of  one  deacrtption  of  grain,  in 

teomng  to  excite  a  behef  of  the  probability  oansequenoe  c^  the  unnvourable  weadier 

of  the  ports  opening  for  the  importation  during  the  last  four  weeks,  and  we  sdcet 

of  foreiign  grain.    These  rumours  are,  we  for  this  purpose  Essex  and  Suffolk  wheat  s 

believe,  chiefly  sptead  for  the  purpose  of  Per  quarter, 

nfibcdng  the  fonds,    as  the  exaggerated  Red             White. 

tb^ements  uodustrfously  drculatea  of  an        Aug.  27 40«.  54f ASt.  6s2#. 

fxpected  failure  of  the  harvest,  in  oonse-        Sept.    3 4&t,  00«.....64#.  70t. 

quence  of  the  very  unfavourable  weather,  10 54j.  78f..  • .  .60s,  82a;. 

are  calculated  to  excite  an  alarm,  and  pro-  17 64s,  76s,. , .  .60f.  82r. 

moto  the  viewsof  the  holders  of  ford^  grain.  This  rise  having  naturally  held  out  great 

by  getting  ihe  average  price  to  rise  above  temptation  to  the  fanner,  immense  quan- 

Wh.  for  a  moment    Rut  if  the  new  wheat  tities,  about  20,000  quarters,  have  been 

should  turn  out  to  be,  in  genersl,  of  a  very  pressed  into  the  market  since  Monday,  die 

Inferior  quality,  it  must  be  scdd  at  a  pro-  effects  of  which  were  felt  yesterday,  the 

nortionably  low  price,    which  will   keep  holders  having  been  very  eaeer  to  sell  at 

down  the  average,  and  the  more  according  prices  ftom  2f .  to  4s.  lower  than  on  Mon- 

as  the  quantity  spoiled  is  large.    Nor  let  day,  but  without  tempting  buyers.    Some 

it  be  thought,  that  the  rise  in  the  price  of  sales  of  barley,   beans,   peas,   and   oats 

good  wheat  must  be  so  great  as  to  make  were  effected  nearly  on  the  same  terms  as 

up  the  difference ;  for,  we  think,  we  have  on  Blonday,  but  diese  sales  were  very  in- 

rather  better  grounds  than  mere  conjecture  considerable,  and  the  market  was  in  a  state 

for  saying,  that  if  this  yearns  crop  could  be  of  great  stagnation. 

|»n)ved  to  have  entirely  failed,   there  is  The  rajnd  advance  in  die  price  of  com 

efficient  old  wheat  in  the  Unitod  King-  excited  last  week  great  interest  in  the  oolo. 

dom    for    twelve    months*    consumption,  nial  market :  in  two  weeks  wheat  had  ad- 

%Vlien  we  speak,  however,  of  our  opinions  vanced  about  20<.  per  quarter,  other  de- 

on  this  subject,  we  do  not  mean  to  ex-  scriptions  of  grain  had  also  risen  materi- 

dude  die  probability  of  the  average  rising  ally  :  in  consequence  of  this  advance,  the 

suffidcndy  h^  to  allow  of  the  imports-  oondnuance  of  bad  weather,  the  appearance 

tion  of  grain  from  Canada;  if  we  consider  of  a  bad  harvest,  and  the  reportea  jnoba- 

the  resources  of  the  Canadas,  we  may  re^t  bility  of  the  opening  of  the  ports  for  foreign 

assured,  diat  they  will  be  able  to  supply  com,  there  were  extensive  speculadons  in 

us    with    more   than    sufficient  to   keep  rioe,  which  advanced  from   12«.  to   I5s, 

down  the  averages  bdow  60s.  unless  die  and  lbs.  6 J. — Large  purdiaaes  of  mm, 

same  nefarious  practices  that  succeeded  last  which  was  fully  Id.  per  gallon  higher.— 

year,  in  dduging  the  country  with  foreign  Speculators   made   great   inquiries    after 

oats,  should  be  again  resorted  to  with  the  '  coffee,    refined  and  foreign  sugars,    and 

same  success ;  should  the  averages  rise  so  every  artide  of  general  export,  which  they 

for  as  to  admit  the  produce  of  the  Osnadas,  antkipated  woidd  rise  with  great  rapidity 

we  can  hardly  gmdge  this  advantage  to  on  die  prospect  of  the  opening  of  the  ports, 

our  fdlow  subjects  beyond  the  Atlantic,  tlic  return  of  fine  weather,  and  the  fall  of 

condemned  by  the  strictoess  of  our  com-  the  oom  market,  has  again  thrown  a  gloom 

merdal  system    from   disposing  of  dieir  upon  trade,  and  though  the  advance   in 

superfluous  produce  to  any  but  the  mother  many  arddes  is  still  maintained,  yet  sales 

country.     Having  thus  stated  our  views  of  cannot  be  made  in  the  present  dull  state  of 

this  important  subject,  we  TOhjote  the  fol-  the  markets. 

lowing^  prices,  at  whidi  com  from  foreign  The  prescrN'adon  of  peace  between  Russia 

eoimtnea  is  auiuitled  foe  boioe-coQ&amp-  and  Turkey  appctrs  to  be  less  doubtful  than 


18910                                   Cumm^rcuil  Mejntt.  455 

it  was  a  month  iNidu    Letters  from  OdesM  pweeto  at  theae  ittei.  A  public  sole  of  9S4 

of  August  27f  state,  that  the  Kussiaii  go-  chests  was  afterwards  brou(>:lit  forward,  but 

Vemment  there  has   publicly  announced,  the  ptkes  oflRsred  for  the  fix»t  lot  being  ex- 

that  Russian  ships  inll  no  longer  be  de-  ceedingly  low,  the  iHiole  was  immediately 

taioed  in  the  Bosphorus  by  the  Turks,  and  withdrawn. 

that  trade  in  general  is  not  subject  to  any  The  very  low  prices  of  Havamiah  and 

impediments.    This  was  considered  as  a  Brazil  sugars  attracted  the  attention  of  the 

proof  t^  war  was  not  probable.  buyers ;  two  parcels  were  brought  fbrward 

Cotton, — The  prices  of  cotton  have,  on  to  public  sale ;  229  chests  were  nearly  all 

the  whole,  improved  during  the  last  month,  taken  in,  27«*  «  28#.  for  good  yellow ;  the 

though  the  accounts  from  Liverpool  were  at  second  sale,  140  diests,  sold  rather  f^re^, 

first  not  favourable ;  the  demand  for  exporta-  27s.  6d,  and  28«.  for  good  yellow,  26«.  and 

tion  was  considerable  here  at  the  beginning  of  26«.  for  good  brown,  which  may  be  stated 

this  month,  and  low  Bcngab  in  particular  at  If.  a  2t,hisha  than  the  previous  prioea  ; 

were  in  great  request ;  even  afier  tb|uk-  75  packages  Brazil  sold  at  nearly  the  same 

mand  for  esportation  had,  in  some  Ana-  advance,   middling  white   34«.,  ordinaiy 

sure,  subsidea,  they  maintained  their  price.  2$|r<  Od.  a  3U.  63. ;  yellow  22«. ;  brown 

The  demand  continued  good,  and  the  mar-  18f*  a  20s. 

ket  waa  evidently  improving  till  the  13th  There  ia  Httle  alteration  in  the  prioea  of 
of  this  month,  wnen  the  East  India  Com-  Mnscovades  this  week ;  the  sales  are  more 
pany  declared  an  extensive  sale  lor  the  9th  limited ;  the  fine  sugars  foBj  support  the 
of  October ;  whidi,  of  course,  tended  ra-  previous  prices,  and  in  some  instances  are  a 
ther  to  keep  down  the  prices.  The  present  ahade  higher ;  the  inferior  browna  atiU 
state  of  the  market  is  as  fbllows  :^— The  hang  heavily  on  hand, 
purchases  of  cotton,  for  the  last  week,  con-  There  have  been  considerable  puvcfaaaaa 
sist  of  310  Bengal,  5^^.  a  6ieL  in  bond ;  this  week  of  lumps  andloaves ;  therefinen 
250  Surat,  6id,  a8tL;  90  Madras,  Id.  a  in  eonseqaence  are  very  firm,  and  in  sevcnl 
7^.;  160  Uphnd,  9ji2.:  90  Pemam-  instances  prioea  have  been  realised  which 
buco,  12^^.  were  not  before  attainable:  the  stocks  of 
The  arrivals,  from  the  14th  to  the  20th  goods  on  hand  are  very  much  reduced,  and 
inat.  inclusive: — Caloitta*  819;  Madna,  many  houses  have  worxed  out. 
60 ;  Jamaica,  207 ;  Hio  Janeiro,  79. .  The  holdera  of  Foreign  sugars  are  not 
The  acoounta  from  Livenod  are  very  indined  to  accept  the  present  low  prices  of 
frivourable ;  the  sales  for  me  first  three  the  market ;  the  purchases  by  private  con- 
days  this  week  average  2,000  baga  per  day.  tract  are  in  oonaequenoe  quite  inconaider- 
The  prices  of  cotton  here  are  little  varied ;  able. 

notwithstanding  the  extensive  sale  declared  By  public  sale  yesterday  forenoon,  09 

by  the  East  Ii^  Company,  there  are  no  chests  Braail  sugars  were  brought  forward  t 

sdlers  at  any  reduction ;  the  particulan  of  grey  sold  26».  a  28«.,  yeUow  21i.  a  22*.  GiL, 

the  quantity  at  present  declared  ^—  brown  18s.  and  18s.  &f. 

Bei^^ 4 9648  Average  prices  of  raw  sugar  by  On- 

8urau   5975  sette: 

Madraa ,.     676  Aug.  25 S2f.  thd, 

Bourbon    233  Sept.     1 31'.  9|^ 

8 32*.  lyu 

16,332  15 31s.  bid. 

The  arrivals  at  Liverpool,  for  the  fbnr  22 Sli.  ^d. 

weeks,  ending  16th  of  September,  were  Cqffbe. — The  maiket  was  very  heavy  ftr 

30,000  bags,  and  the  sales  23,000.  neariy  a  fortnight,  subseauent  to  our  hat 

Sitffar. — The  market  baa  not  presented  report,  when  ttic  demand  improved,  and 

nnj  remarkable  fluctoation  this  month:  the  prices  rose  a  little ;  but  this  appearance  of 

Cices  of  Musoovades  have  been  in  gena«l  revived  demand  tempting  the  holders,  dicy 

w.    Accounts  having  been  received  firom  declared  extensive  sales,  and  an  improve- 

Jamaaca,  at  tlie  beginning  of  September,  ment  of  Is.  to  2«.  per  cwt.  was,  in  net,  at 

which  stated  that  die  weather  had  been  very  first  oibtained,   but  the  quantity  brought 

unfavourable  to  the  crops,  an  improvement  forward  being  very  large,  naturally  caused 

in  the  demand  took  place,  but  without  a  denreasion,  which  still  oontinnea. 

much  influenoe  on  the  prioea.    Foreign  an-  The  quantity  brought  finrward  this  wedt 

gars  have  been  unoomnionly  low,  as  the  £oL  has  been  very  extensive ;  on  Thursday,  in 

mwing  account  of  a  ssle  in  the  beginning  of  one  sale,  687  casks  and  602  bags;  and,  aa 

thia  wed  will  show;  321  dieata  Uavan-  ihe  greater  proportion  consisted  of  ordi* 

nah-;  the  white  sold  6s.  <i  8f.,  yellow  3«.  a  nary,  good,  and  fine  ordinarvr  Jamaica,  a 

4t.  lower ;  good  white  40s.  and  40s.  6d.,  further  depression  of  Ss.  in  tne  prices  may 

good  yeQow  26f.  Od.  and  26f. ;  a  good  po«  be  stated  ainoe  Tuesday,  and  since  Friday 

portion  of  the  latter  was  takoi  in  at  these  last  the  market  has  dcmntd  6<.  per  cwt.  in 

prices.      Brazil   augaia ;    brown    17'*    ^  the  ordinary  deaoriptions ;  the  nner  quali- 

10«.  6^.,  yellow  24s.  a  26«.,  low  iriiite  ties  are  also  lower,  but  no  considerable  de* 

29«.  6d^  a  31f.  fUL^  adDng  in  comidanUe  pieaaion  haa  taken  ^^Uoa.    lU?i«NMkkOiU 


4^  C&immrtkd  lUport.  [[OdU 

fte  hw  £dkn  tUs  week  8ff.  a  4t.  per  ewt. ;  r. ;  ^Htto,  ditto,  dsk  grey,  43)  r.  ^  RiMen 

St  Bomlnao  about  8f.  ThitetMOid,  39)  to  JMO  r.  |  Tow,  18  r« — 

By  puUic  nle  thte  fbnDoon,  146 bap,  Himp i  we  haTe  lecehred  some  tuppliesat 

101  lins.aiid99hhds.  ofHaTBOnah  co&e  theendofdiis  week,  and  the  trade  was  dnl* 

went  off  at  the  prioeB  of  yesterdav,  fine  or-  ler.  Purdiaaes  may  bemade  at  the  followiiig 

dmary  I06s.  6(L  and  107«*,  good  oniinary  prices :— Ukraine,   dean,    107    to    106  ; 

108f.  and  103f.  6^  PoUsh,    ditto,   112r.;   Ukraine  Outahot, 

Tern.— At  the  East  India  sale,  Boheas  83 ;  Pbliah,  ditto,  88  to  87  r. ;  Ukraine 

sold  at  an  advance  of  2id.  to  3<i.,  commcn  pass,  74  to  7&  ^--  Polish,  78 ;  Ukraine 

Congou,  2d.,  finer  sorts,  Id,^  Twankay  1^  torse,  49)  r.    Potathct  are  hdd  at  105  r. ; 

hSriMr.    Owing  to  the  large  quantity  of  and  our  stock  is  small.     Tallow  without 

pnrate  trade  teaa,  (diiefly  caper,  hyson,  demand,  138  banco  roubles  are  asked  for 

and  gunpowder)  they  have  beoi  add  very  white  crown.    A  little  has  been  doing  in 

TCMOoably,  and  in  many  instances,  cheaper  yiJDow  crown  aft  142  r.  (   188  r.  are  sdced 

than  they  ever  were  berore.  ft|itoap  tallow  \  but  it  might  probably  be 

Spieet,^^Th»  East  India  Company  has  hBT  rather  lower.    Seeds  aw  in  general 

dedared  for  the  12th  of  November,  a  sale  dnllt  but  something  is,  howeveTyOocaidon* 

of  3OO4OOO  lb.    cinnamon ;    20,000   lb.  ally  doing.     Purchases    might    easily  be 

mace;    100,000  lb.  nutmegs;    1,000  lb.  made  atme  foDowifig  prices  t  Remaining 

oil  of  mace,  and  1,000  tons  of  saltpetre,  sowing  linseed,  4)p'to  A  alver  roubles ;  Dm- 

This  declaration  has  had  but  little  effect  on  iania  (of  111  to  115  lbs.),  atl4  to  17  b.  r. ; 

the  maiket  crushing  (of  110  to  112  lbs.),  12  to  15  b.  r. 

BaUU:  Producc^^he  demand  for  taUow  Hemp  (of  03  lbs.)  0)  to  10  r.  per  barreL 

was  very  brisk  towards  the  middle  of  this  Grain,     Rye  is  but  little  inquired  for. 

month,  and  large  purchases  were  made  at  Courland  r3re  (of  113  to  116  lbs.)  was  last 

JBCreaigd  prices,  but  the  market  has  since  sold  at  55  to  50  r.    Barley  is  rather  more 

baeome  veiy  languid,  so  that  yesterday  no  in  demand ;  and  Courland  (of  110  lbs.)  haa 

aaba  of  ydlow  candle  oould  be  made  at  been  sold  at  43  r* ;  and  (of  106  to  109  lba.> 

45f.    Hemp  has  likewise  been  in  good  re-  at52  r» 

quest,  and  an  advance  of  I5s.  todc  jdaoe        Odesta^  15    Amgutt,  —  An     imperial 

between  the  4th  andtha  18th  instant.  Flax  ukase  has  soddenlj  revoked  the  privileges 

rather  heavy,  but  the  demand  improving.  of  a  free  port,  granted  to  this  town  by  a 

(Hit. — ^There  are  sevend  vesadi^fqMirted  pieoedinff  ukase;  instead  of  whidi,  there  ia 

ftom  the  Davis  Streights  fishery  this  wedc ;  to  be  a  land  of  entrepot,  as  there  was  before, 

they  are  wdl  fidied,  but  report  indifferently  This  measure  is  ascribed  to  the  representa- 

of  the  ships  they  spoke.    The  accounts  tions  of  the  merchants  d  Riga  and  8t  Pe-^ 

they  bring  are  not  oeditcd,  and  in  conse-  tenburg.      The    Oovemor-General,    the 

quenoe  the  oil  market  must  be  stated  ex-  meidiants,  and  alldieforeign  consuls,  have 

oeedingly  heavy ;  one  or  two  parcek  are  re-  gent  a  memorial  to  his  Majesty,  represent- 

ported  at  22L  and  23/.,  but  the  first  price  ing  the  infallible  ruin  that  must  ensue  to 

oould  not  be  obtained  for  a  caigo  or  a  largo  numeroua  individuals  who  have  speculated 

pttceL  on  the  privileges  of  the  free  port,  and  the 

Rum^  Brandy^  and  HoUandt^^—Thete  certain  destruction  of  the  rising  commerce 

has  been  a  brisk  and  extensive  demand  for  of  this  place. 

rum,  but  it  has  now  rather  relaxed;  the  Hamburgh \b September.— -Cotton:  But 
late  increase  in  the  prices  is«  however,  fiilly  little  A*^n^  this  waek :  American  and  Bra- 
maintained.  Brandy  is  mudi  inquired  for;  ail  descriptions  were  duller;  but  East 
good  Cognac  realises  3«.  lOd.  and  3f.  11<}.,  India  fully  maintained  its  price.  Coffee: 
and  the  hddcrs  are  asking  At,  Chmeva  re-  There  have  been  large  purduses  this  week; 
mains  without  alteration.  and  the  prices  have  not  only  been  main- 

WooL — There  is  little  variation  in  price ;  tatned,  but  the  finer  descriptions  have  even 

during  the  present  year  the  demand  has  rigen  a  trifle.-.^raii» :  here,    as  in  Ifol- 

been  steady,  and,  as  the  importation  has  land,  the  accounts  by  the  last  two  En^ish 

not  been  considerable,  nearly  aU  the  old  maib  have  caused  a  brisker  demand  and 

atodc  has  been  worked  up.    iknne  advance  higher  prices ;  wheat,  in  particular,  of  the 

m  the  price  having  taken  place  in  Germany  best  quality,  has  beoi  in  great  demand, 

and  Spain,  the  new  wools  come  at  hi^er  large  orders  having  been  recdvcd ;  and  it 

limits.    The  manufocturers  however  gene-  is  12  rix  dollars  hif^er  than  last  week  ; 

rally  resist  the  advance,  and  expect,  that  other  sorts  in  proportion.      Rye  is  not  in 

by  holding  off  firom  jpurdiasing  fbr  sonie  'demand;  yet  it  is  hdd  a  few  dollars  higher, 

time,  the  importers  will  give  way  i  the  wod  Old  barley,  of  the  best  quality,   and  fine 

market  is  in  consequence  heavy.  oats  are  mudi  souf^t  for  exportation,  and 

bodi  paid  3  to  5  rix  dollars  nig^.    Fine 

FoREiox  CoMMEBCE.  rwe-sccd  also  has  met  a  ready  sale,  at  an 

Biga^  August  31. — Flax,    47  r.  are  advance  of  8  rix  dollars.    M'e  are  very 

adnd  for  Maricnburg    Oown ;  and  the  eager  for  the  next  accounts  of  the  sute  of 

AOowiDg  amiB  are  paid  for  at  the  annexed  the  com-trade  in  Enghtnd.    Spices :  pep- 

pfiew:  TUeanhAusen  and  Dtidanii,  45^  ^  u  «liU  in  demand.    Kmento  doD;  no 


ini.;)  Works  PrtpaHiig  pr  PMetUion.  46f 

chMigt  in  the  finer  deeerintions,eioept  dial    Elbe  era  terminated.    A  eoDTcntkm  hae 
cam  An.  has  declined  a  fittle.   Ricts 


nel^  been  agreed  upon,  bj  wlddi  the  navisatioa 

ther  the  demand  nor  the  price  has  yet  of  thatriver  is  free  from  the  point  f^en  k 

been  afoted  bjthe  rise  in  the  priee  of  becomes  navigable  (Mefaiik)  to  its  month, 

com. — Teas  pnoea  are  fair,  and  a  fiivor-  The  staples  at  Magdeburg,  Dresden,  and 

able  ojnnion  is  entertained  of  the  further  Pima    are  abolished.    The    35    cnstooi- 

course  of  this  article. — Sugar:  a  good  deal  houses  on  the  Elbe  are  reduced  to  14,  and 

has  been  doing  in  our  refined  this  week ;  probably  will  be  redneed  to  12.    Ilie  8 

and  the  better  sorts  are  held  at  id.  higher,  states  lying  on  its  banks,  Bohonia,  Saxony, 

and  the  stock  being  but  small,  tins  advance  Prussia,  the  three  principalities  of  Anhatt, 

must  be  acceded  to.    Lumps  meet  a  ready  Mecklenburg,  and  Denmark,  have  agreed 

sale  at  M.  to   9id.   and,  according   to  on  certain  fixed  duties,  which  are  not  to  be 

all  appearance,  an  improvement  may  be  augmented  widiout  the  consent  of  all  Hie 

cxpe^ed.  As  we  have  reeeived  this  weel^  states  concerned.  The  whole  oonventieiiis 
la^  imports  from  Brazil,  the  demand  Mji  drawn  up  in  a  spirit  Ya^bitf  fkvourahle  to 
raw  sugars  haa  now  become  deck  |  airitw  commerce ;  and  the  most  sanguine  hepas 

infiorkir  sorts,  in  particular,  might  prolwbly  are  entertained  that  it  will  tend  to  a  mism 

be  had  on  lower  terms.  of  liberal  trade  hitherto  unknown  in  m  in- 

Dretdemj  20  Augutt. — The  discusskms  temal  navigation  of  Germany, 
of  the  Committee  on  the  navigation  of  the 


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r«nim  quarum  Ubet indice iprsmiua eSun  ^?*^  »   par  Alme.  Barthelemy  UadoL 

srarum  inter  se  oomparata  delineatione,  ^  V™.  ^^"Y*'  ^  ,'   ^ 

item  totius  historic  ad  finhimque  doctrine-  Dicdonnaire  celto-breton  ou  breton-fran- 

rum  notitia  Uterarea,   to    usum  hfatoria  f^,  Par  J.  F.  M  A.  Legonidcc,  membre 

amicomm  adomatB,  folio,  BcToL  1820.  R  f?  *•  "^^^^^^  ^y^^  ^"    antiquoircs  dj 

Costantini,  P.  L.  Morale  Poctica  Ital-  ™^'  ^  ?!?* 

iana,  osria  Scelta  di  Massimo  e  Bentenze  .  ^"^^  ^«"».  ?«»  f  thana,  trattc  M 

tratte  da  piu  dasdd  poeti  Italiani.     Juit  R**  ^^  '"V^  *^5*;  «  "?^<^*\?*  ^• 

published,  with  a  fine  Lithognmhie  ftoit  P™»«»»  mcmbro  dcU'  Arcadia  di  R4Mna. 

IJmo.  Londra,  1821.  4#.  l?mo.  a*.  6rf.  ^    „.  „         ^ 

La  Dirina  Commedia  di  Dante,  dedicata  ^^^  etmaiam«  de  Fen^on,  recool. 

«  Canova,  con  Tav«^  in  rame^  4  Vob.  "*  P"  ";  UwnL  S  Vrts.  IHrao.  4jw 

folio,  Firens.  1817— 1».    181.  18s.  ^^  ^,  Sauisure,  Voyage  en  Jmsohb 

Alfieri,  Opere  di,  22  Vds.   4lA.  Italia,  ?  "?^^  H6bndc8  aveeeartetet  JIguret, 

180.V  21/                                           ^^  3  Vols.  8v0b  GMvc.  U  lit.  6d, 

AWcri,  Opere  Scdte.  4  Vols.  8?o.  Ml-  ,  Qu*tremere  de  Quincy,  sur  U  Statue 

lano   18^^0    2L  &t  Anciqne  de  Venus  d^oouverte  dans  lile  de 

Rime  di'  F.  PeMea,  ad  comento  di  G.  ^ilo  en  1820,  transport^  i  Paris  par  U. 

Miagioli.  2  Vols,  in  4  parts,  8vo.   Par.  ^L**"^"?  ^  ^]^  AmbasMdcur  de 

1821.  XL  X6t.  France  a  la  cour  Ottomane ;  notice  lue  A 

Aiiacreonte'e  Saffb,  Le  CMH  di,  reeale  in  I'Academie  Uoyale  dea  Bchix  Arts,  4t*. 

vend  Italiani,  da  Giofanni  Casdli,  Greco-    <^vecplaHche.  4t.6d.  

Italiani,  a  beautiful  spedmen  of  printing,  ,  ??"5^.  «'  Caventou,  Analyse  dmnlqiie 

folio,  Firenzc,  1819.  21.  X2t.  6d.  ^  Qumqmiu,  8f0.  3«. 


ribus  PUntis  Phanerogamb  hnpo-    ?"  ?,  ^^git  depuis  1790.  4  gros  Vols. 

o.  Stutt  1821.  R  11*.  6rf.  w        ,j« 

ibcdi,  F.  J.  Historis  Universi  Ta-        Manuel  de  1  amateur  d'estampcs,  fnauit 


480 


Nbw  Baienif'-^BaiUenipU. 


COct 


NEW  PATENTS. 


Frederic  Mij^idls  Van  HejUmyien,  of 
Chancerj-Iane,  London ;  for  a  new  method 
of  propdling  smaU  yessdsor  boats  throng 
water,  and  %ht  carriages  over  land. — JtUy 
23d. 

David  Bardaj,  of  Broad-street,  London, 
merchant;  for  a  sinial  lever,  or  rotatory 
standard  press.  Commnnicated  to  hhh  l^ 
a  foreigner  residing  abroad.— July  26th. 

Thomas  Baiker,  of  Oldham,  Lancashire, 
and  John  Rawlinsoo  Harris,  of  Winchester- 
piaee,  Southwark,  hat-mannfocturers ;  for 
certain  improvements  in  the  method  of 
cleaning  foxs  and  wools,  used  in  the  manu- 
facture of  hats,  from  kemps  and  hairs.— 
JulT26th. 

Jcim  Richard  Barry,  of  the  Minories, 
London;  for  certain  improvements  on, 
and  additions  to,  wheeled  carriages.— July 
26th. 


Samuel  Bagshaw,  of  Newcastle-under- 
Line,  Staffiff£hire;  for  a  method  of  form- 
ing and  manufacturing  vases,  urns,  basins, 
and  other  ornamental  articles,  which  have 
been  heretofore  usually  made  of  stone  or 
marble,  from  a  combination  of  malenals 
never  heretofore  used. — July  26th. 

John  Manton,  of  Dover-street,   I^eca- 
dilly,  Middlesex,  gun-maker ;  for  an  im- 
provement in  the  construction  of  all  kindB 
offowling-pieoes  and  fire-arms. — July  30th* 
^H^Jhomas  Bennet,  jun.  of  Bewdley,  Wor- 
^^pbrshire,  builder;  for  certain  improve- 
-^knsnts  in  steam-engines,  or  steam-apparatus. 
•»Aug.  4th. 

Jdbn  Slater,  of  Birming^iam,  manufoc- 
turer;  for  improvements  in  m«lrwg  « 
Idtchen-range  and  i^paratus  for  cool 
and  other  purposes. — ^Ang.  4th. 


BANKRUPTS  IN  ENGLAND. 


Wkmre  <k«  Town  or  Citjf  te  wMcJk  theBmkrmpt  tttldf  iM  not  expntsetl,  it  will  be  alwnwi  in  London  or  the 
Neighbourhood.    So  tdto  o/  A*  Retidtneet  qf  the  JttornejfB,  whose  nume$  are  placed  q/trr  a  [. 
T  dktlngaisbes  London  ComminionB,  C  those  of  the  country* 

GoMctU-^M^.  26  to  SepU  18. 
Aug.  SB.  Coltton.  D.  eT  Islioffton-nMui,  upbolster- 
er.    [Pope,  Old  Bethlem.   T. 


Coraer,  Geo.  Jan.  Old  Ford,  Middlesex,  fimner. 

[Sterens,  Little  SL  Thomas  Apostle,  Qoeeo- 

ttreet.    T. 
Fry,  G.  Newbory,  Berks,  mercer.    09ailth,  Ba- 

dnghall-street.    T. 
Hankes,  R.  Great  Turnstile,  LincoInVlnn-fields, 

hat-manafactarer.    [Harvey,  48,  Llncoln*B*inn- 

fidds.    T.  L  /.-«. 


Bird,  T.  Solihnl  Lodfre,  Warwick,  coal-dealer. 

[HalU  Great  James-street,  Bedibrd-row.    C. 
Bowman,  K.  Manchester,  grocer.    [Hard,  Tern* 

pie.    C. 
Brsromall,  D.  Whiteboose,  York,  file-manafac- 

turcr.    fBlaffrave,  Svmood^H-iun.    C. 
Casieli,  K.  MartinN-Iane,  Cannon-street,  winef 

merchant.     [Thomas,   Fen-conrt,   Fenchnrch- 

Ktreel.   T. 
Davi9.  $.  Butts,  .Stafford,  maluter.    [Wheeler,  28, 

Casife-strect,  Holborn.    C. 


Hodnon,  Jos.  Stalndrop,  Durham,  shopkeeper.     Hartland,  J.  Ciloncester,  mercer.    [Stevenson.  & 


CTumer.fi,  Bloomsbury-sqnare.    C. 

Howard,  B.  and  J.  Gibbs,  Cork^treet.  Bnrlin?- 
lon-irardons,  money-iaeriveners.  [Shaw,  Vem- 
lam-bnildinn,  Grav*s-inn-8quare.    T. 

Lambert,  R.  Ardwiclc.  near  Manchester,  cotton- 
manufacturer.    [Ellis,  Chancery>Iane.    C. 


Lineoln*s-inn.    C. 
Marshman,  K.  Ix>ve-lane,  rloth.&ctor.    [Smith, 

New  Bafiinrhall-strert.    T. 
Thomas,  R.  llochdule,  Lancaster,  hat-mann£fie- 

turer.    [HunI,  Temple.    C. 
Wright,  C.  Lud^ate-hlll,  wine-merchant.    [Noel, 


irarden,  boot-maker.    [Fox.  Austin-frlarx.    T. 
Davis.  T.  Great  Barr,  Stafford,  maltster.    [Rqr« 

nolds,  aO,  Hertfbrd-st.  Fitzrov-square.    C. 
Driver,   N.  Steambridjre,    Gloucester,    clodiier, 

(King,  11,  Seijeant*B-inn,  Fleet-street.    C. 
Fisher,  J.  Lancaster,  soap  manu&cturer. 

kioson.  Middle  Temple.    C. 
-Gonndry,  G.  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  bacon-dealer. 

[Bell,  9,  Bow  Church-yard.    C. 


CMa. 


Pany,  T.   Manchester,  R.  Seaton,   Pontefract,        C,  Gray*8-iou.placf,  Gray*s-inn.    T. 

SiiiSSLi*  ^V^S!^\J^^i^^^  ^  C*"*  ~^     ^^  -*•   ^~^''^°'  ^'  Henrietta-Street.  Corent- 
RotberY,  J.  and  T.  Piipe,  I^eeds,  seed-crashera. 

C^blnson.  26,E68ex.street.Strand.    C. 
Taylor,  H.  Sidney-place,  Commercial-road,  mas- 

tsr-mariner.    rCrabb.  2,  Bell's-buildings,  Sails- 

bury-sauare.   T. 
Tsjrtor,  John,  New  Cut,  Lambeth,  ironmonger. 

fWootton,  Nlchoins-lane.   T. 
Thorn,  J.  T.  Plymouth,  currier.   [Sandys,  Crane- 

limSJfd?''R^H*F!«h:r  .n^T  H,.*u  ivM*-.     Hirt,  J.  aod  J.  M'Alpin;Carli8l^  boslcrs.  [Clcn- 
WWlMlde.R.,  H.  n»her,  and  T.  Hastie,  While-        nell,  Staple«8.Inn.    C. 

wSt^^^^^^*  merchante.     [Falcon.  4,     Knowfes.  J.  and  H.  Walker,  Salford.  Lancaster, 
Elm-court,  Temple.    C.  macbine-makers.    [Willis.  Warnford-court.  cT 

Aug.  2B.  Ashton,  J.  Knntsford.  Chester, veterinary     ^nfflcy•  J*  <'•  H.  Bristol,  porter-seller.    [Clarke, 
■argeon.[Biack8tock,King^.bench.walk,Teni-     « ^*»"ceryla"e.    C. 
pie.    C.  Rawlina,  J.  Whitehaven,  Cumberland,  grocer. 

Bedford,  Tbos.  Bristol,  stationer.    [Bridges,  Red         "     " 

Lion.aquare.    C. 

Bell,  J.  Downshire-hill,  Hampstead,  victualler. 
rJones,  34,  Southampton-bulldings,  Chancery- 
lane.    T. 

tireeaboote,  W.  Ludlow,  Salop,  tanner.  [Clarke, 
Cbaoceiy-lane.    C. 

Hlllaiy,  J.  P.  Mark-lane,  wine-merchant  [Rear- 
don,  Corbet-eoort,  Graceehurch-street   T. 

JoMS,  A.  W.  New  Brentfimi,  oom.merehaat. 
CTooncS,  Craven -street.  Strand.   T. 

Marshman.  Robt  Love-lane.  eom-&ctor.  [Smith, 
New  Baainghall-street.   T. 

Seaton.  Robt.  Wentbridge,  York,  cotton-apiiiner. 
[Blakelock,  14,  Seijeanfs-lnn,  Fleet-st.    C. 

Sept.  1.  Bethell,  Wm.  V.  Liverpool,  merehant. 
/Cbester,  StapJe-ioji.   C. 


[Clennell,  Staples-inn.    C. 

Stafford,  T.  Bath,  jeweller.    [Nethenole,  16. 
sex-street.  Strand.    C. 

Woodward,  J.  and  J.  Shenton,  Birmingham,  spi- 
rit-merchants. [Drake,  Old  Hsh-street,  Doc- 
tor's Commons.    T. 

Sept  8.  Alexander,  O.  Aldermanburv.  linen-dra- 
per.   [Gates.  28,  Newprate-street.    T. 

Bnfoes,  C.  Weston-ooint.  Chester,  innkeeper. 
[John,  Palsgrave- place.  Temple.    C. 

Cooper,  Jas.  Newport,  Isle  of  Wight,  victualler. 
rRoe,  Temple-chambers.  Fleet-street.    C. 

Egling.  J.  T.  Great  Russell -street,  tlovent-gudeii, 
victualler.    [Cockayne,  6,  LyonV-inn.    T. 

Blphick.  W.  West  Ham,  Sussex,  fanner.  [Wal- 
ton,  Girdler^ball,  iiasloghall-street.    T. 

Bybe,  F.  and  A.  Schmaeck.  Bury-court,  Sl  Mary 


uvouflTf  n.  urmijura,  uHtnncr,  piDiuwr- 
[Blukuock. 4.  KUriBcnclkinik,  Temple.  C 

iVoifolli.  Hn.  MnnOoml,  LaleeMtr,  wsnttd- 
■ulur.    nVrl".  !*•  Jotui.ll.  l)Wfetd.iwr.    C. 

Hrdtr,  A.  Commvdal  Br' 


Ah,  menhuu.     rniciDiu,   Fea-nan,  Fco-     UwrdilaTi   H.  OrmiUik,  IwtaMer,  plonber. 

ctmrdi-etiTtl.    T.  r—.-i.'. — l  i  i-i.^  d — v  — ii.  + ,.  „ 

GLbwa,  J.  SouhjtRCl,  FtnilmiT-iqiiin,  mer- 

ehut.    ffiwHi.BulHhBU'HItel.  V 
lilBitaillJ.NUwEIiiu.biiur(K(,unBc(.  [Onm, 

liivm«iidi^-»DHt,8«ulliH'nrkL-    T. 

romi,  I3t.  Tnu.Blue.  KiDnlsii'd.TDnd.    T. 
Sudui,  !).£.  brldMonon^Djif.  VortL.  cnmAe- 

Ur.  {Cmu'er,  FralMck^plncr,  Old  Jrwrv.  T. 
Wamn,  J.BtMrmirr,  SDUecKi,  tiinnrr.   mv- 

lar,«,KiiiK«.biidc1kiralli,T«aBk<u    " 
Veil,  J.  les,  ud  J.  Vdl,  tail.  Wgoitl 

"-- a.Jiibbm,    [DrMjt-  —  -  "  ' 


Id  l£n-iq!  t 


iL  lO*taldeiUii,Loiidgii-(tiH(,r«Bcliiinih- 
iilpiiR,  J.  I.eKl>.«Mtl1cn-dra|Mr.   [MiklmM, 

rijht,  il.  WFlLiUiet,  W(11olmMgoi™,d«I«r 
la  con.    [JoDM.MlnelnK-iua.   T. 
irt.  18.  Batltr,  JeKQ,  Ureal  Vktminlh.  Norlolk, 
■TVcai.     [Swain,  Frediriekl-plut,  Old  Jmrrf. 

i>W.wrSiirrStr,.'r%ii»,  ■issi.'rKSi"™-  »■•"■'"- 

fiK^SW"?.  BrtSireSJi^rtn^..    [Vl«3;.«»lfc.  W.  Trfp^aklXvoii.  1.<dW«.     [Bur. 

Oli'm°T''c'o'd"?bIJ^NnnU  America  aitfrhiiiil      w2s.,"iS«,  "Sfoldnghaii.,  lu«DainhetBnr, 

fLoW.SoitliannHiB-lraildlw,  Cli;[iccrv^loi.e.         [Hnrf.KlnifiBeiidi-willi.Tcmple.    C. 


,  v.  0ml  Bawdl^UKci,  ronat-gardcn,  Bl- 
r.  _rPopHn,»l,l>eaB-MreH.Sol».   T. 
ri.  ThiH.  Tknmb-hill.  York,  aitu>ii.ipliiBer. 
Valkir.W.LlKolo'iJnn.lifldi.    C. 


*!!■.,'■ 


DfooR,  C  limdtc,  Bcnbui.    ISmli,  IVtla- 

riek-bplKf.UldJeirn.    T. 
rortaii,J.J.111rriiiiVliatcb,  Emri.  muterdiu. 

rlsM.    rDrlaar.K.NarMk-n.Snnd.    T. 
llawHB.  .1.  Prniltti,  Unaiberlaiid,  coicli^uika'. 

rsiFcLiM.  (IntrB'tlnFl,  Choipalde,    C. 
Hillary,  T.  P.  LltllcToiFirHnEl,wli>c-mi!re)iul. 

[HodgHn,  Si.  Mlldndi^eoart,  Ponlity.    T. 


[Hnid,  Kinifi  Be 
SCOTCH  8BQUESTHATIONP. 
GoMtU—Aug.  Sfi  to  5Ep<.  1& 
SwDce,  B-  QKTabmnv  Lerwleh. 
in._>       Bell,  J.  mercbut,  Olunw. 
"'"''     Hudnon,  W.  Isi-iplDDtr,  Malaifleld,  DoBdee, 

M-GnUnw,D.di«nr,  Baluunilcb. 
ryltt-     Beiiiien,  O.  nccchut,  Keith. 

WUlluuM,  E.  raecehiBl,  l.«ilicnia. 
lihaBt.     Bnee,  J.I»BBoii(er,271,  Hlgh.it.  Ed  I  nburgb. 
MoliaL  B.  culleMkclv,  Mlluu,  near  Glaijow. 
lUddscb,  W.  meretiiat,  Banff. 
WcbMU,  J.    thlp-iuaalir,  FeiT;-p(irt-eaj;«I(i, 


COURSES  OF  FOREIGN  EXCHANGE  AT 


Olf 

PuU. 

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HambniK. 
IBSrpl. 

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Vnrenben 
ISStpt. 

nerilD. 

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l>mi!cm  ... 
l-Brifc 

Hamburg 

Fraockftn. 
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uSbm.... 
Cadir. 

St:::: 

Madrid.... 
Oporto.... 

25C0 

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69 
351 

47* 

SIO 

5M 
18-66 

433 
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16-60 

669 

37-3 
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100 

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80 
371 
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69 

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10-8 

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40 

100 
001 

100 

7-2i 

141 

104* 

IMI 

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22-ao 

41 

4««5 
i;.10 

Ml-TO 

102 

6171 

mi 

CODBtES   or  rOIElOM   ZXCnAHftX   AT 


j 

Peucabun 

HidfM. 

,3«ep,. 

IJSept. 

iliondon 

16.H 

7-SJ 

88p.(t0 

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481 

W* 

ftl 

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H.mbarB.,.. 

ii>H 

190 

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02 

2t 

U2i   , 

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444 

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counsE  or  exchange. 

From  Aug.  94  (0  Seft.  31. 

Anuleidam,  C-  F 12-17..I9-1* 

Ditto  It  nght IS-U. .  12-IS.  .lS-11 

Botterduu,  3U... .12-18.. 12-I7..1S-IS 

Antveqi 1241 

Uunbuigh,  84  IT 38-2  ..3SJ) 

Alton*.  210 38-3  ..88-1 

Parii,  3d>7i'*igfat 35-70.. 2».^6 

Klto  .3U    86-0 

BouTdnui    S64t  ..SS-00 

FnakfimaatbeMiin  X 

Ex.M / 

PcKnburg,  rble,3U.. 

Viaiiu,er.   Bo.  !  H 10-35.. 10-23 

Trieste  ditto 10-24.. iO.^ 

Mkdrid,  tftaiTC 30 

Cadiz,  (ftdiTe 36 

BUboa S6i 

Bandona 36) 

Seville 3ik 

OibnUtar BOJ 

Li^iom 47 

Qtam 43J 

Venice,  Il«L  Ut a7-«> 

M>lt> 46 


Kiyio 

Pueimo,  per  oi 


.    ..301 

..lie   ..ua 


..M 


PRICES  OF  BULLION. 
jtiper  Ouiuc. 


£.  ,. 


£.    J 


Pntnc*!  gold.  In  «(4ii  0 
PotdgngoldtlnbuiS  17  10). .0    i 
Nea  doublooni ....  3  13    fl  ..0    < 

NavdidUn 0    4  ID  ..0 

K]Ter,iiibus,Mwid.0    4  11  ..0    i 


Potaloet  per  Cat.  Jo  j^pUoJjbMt. 

Wue £i    0    0  tti  4    0    0 

Mtddliog!....!    0    0  ta  1  10    0 

ChMi 0    0    0  U>  0    0    0 

0    0  to  0    0    0 


AVERAGE  PIU€S  Of  COIttr 

Bt  Oe  Quuur  of  K  WincbcMv  Banhcla, 

fnai  the  Hmued*  in  the  Wnki  tsdiD(c 

I  Aug.  I  Aug.  I  Sept.    Sept.  I  Sept. 

I    18         26     I      (  "      1    ■- 

Mlieatee    7  65  11  S4    7 

Bje  -  J34    3  31     3  36    7 

Bukj  2G  10  2G     1  25  ID 

Oua     :31     6:20  10  20    0 

Beuu  89    4 129    2  87    2 

^9m»    Isit    8|3t     2  33    0 


11,37  & 

8  21  I 

27     8 '29  » 

"      >'31  Itt 


E««1LJ> 

^heu 

[)>Tler 

H.OHa 

ca,a2-2 

lye 

£11 

lo,.',7u 

C,Hi7 

I4,<i:i(i 

Total 
64,^1 
8,63« 
73,fiOJ 

10,570 
6.107 
Qra.;  Flour  40.I4ASu^ 
Vioat  l'J3  buTcU. 


.Price  a/  Uopi  per  cwL  ia  the  fionr^ft, 
Kent,  Ntw  ba^  . .  .46(.  to    66a. 

Baaaex,  ditto 40>.  to    66«. 

£uei,  ditto 00(.  to    OOfc 


r.     £.  ,.    £.,.£.,.£.„£.    ^ 

Smlthfeld. 
to4    4. .4    eio6  10..]     Stol  16 
WhilaAapel. 

s  10(0  4   4..4  Otoe  0..1  lotoi  le 

St.  Jama't. 
3    Oto4    0..3    3ta4  16.. 1  lOteS    V 

iy  Careut^per  SIme  o/SOkat 

J^<»fUiii— Bfef....2f.  4il.loZt.4d. 

Mutton.  .St.  6J.  to  3*.    9d. 

Veal....8(.  8d.tp4f.8J. 

Pork....2i.  4d.  to  4i.    4d. 

ldii:b...3i.  OiJ.  to  4*.    04. 

Leadenkatl-Dad . . .  .2>.  6d.  to  :tt.    U. 

11utton..3i.  CJ.  to  :d.     M. 

Vea]....3i.  4d.  to  5j.     4^. 

Foik....3j.  Od.  to  4i.     M. 

Lamb...2>.  Hd.  Ut  Si.  lOd. 


Cattle  lold  at  SmUhJIHd  from  Aug.  24, 
to  Sept.  31,  MA  iwcluiat. 
.ta.        Calves.        Sheep.        Pig'i- 
11,067  2,800         145,820       1,760 

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THE 


LONDON    MAGAZINE 


No.  xxin. 


NOySE^fBER,  1821. 


Vol.  IV. 


CONTENTS. 


%^  i4(m'0  iim* 


Elia  to  his  Correspondents. 

Letter  of  Jachin,  and  Replj  to  ditto. 

Ode  to  Dr.  Kitchener,  &c  &c. 

466—468 

Orace  befome  Meat.    Dy  Elia.  469 

On  the  Songs  of  Thibsut,  King  of 
Nayazre 473 

On  Parties  in  Poetry 476 

Leisure  Hours,  No.  IIL 

On  the  Homeric  Poematim. 481 

Sonnet 484 

Table  Talk,  No.  XIL 

On  Consistency  of  Opinioii. ....  486 

T?ie  Departure  of  Summer,, ,,,»,.,,  493 

Sketches  on  the  Road,  No.  IV 496 

Traditional  Literature,  No.  XL 

The  Haunted  Ships 499 

Vertet  written  in  an  AUmm,  ByOlen.  W 

A  Sentimental  Journey  from  Islington 
to  Waterloo  Bridge 608 

Wamer*8  Church  of  England  Theo- 
logy : — Mock  Manuscript  Sermons  616 

LifeofHolty 618 


Sonnety  A  Dream,    By  John  Keats,  696 

Edward  Herbert*8  Letters  to  the  Fa- 

mily  of  the  Powells.    No.  IL 

Greenwich  Hospital 627 

Letter  to  C.  Van  Vinkbooms,  Esq.  on 

the  Exeter  Exhibition  of  Paintings  638 

A  Visit  to  John  Clare,  with  a 
Notice  of  his  New  Poems. 640 

The  Drama,  No.  XXIL   640 

Report  of  Music,  No.  XXL 666 

LiTERART    AND    SCIENTIFIC    Ix- 
TELLI6ENCS «.  668 

Abitract  or  Foreign  and  Do- 
mestic Occurrences 660 

Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths  666->667 

Ecdesiastacal  Preferments 667 

Agricultural  Report 667 

Obsenratioiis  on  the  Weather,  for  Sept.  669 

Meteorological  Journal,  for  Sept ....  671 

Comiiiercial  Rqport ; 672 

Works  preparine  for  Publication 
and  lately  published,  new  Patents, 
Bankruptcies,  M  arrets,  Stocks, 
&C. 676—682 


LONDON : 


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THE  U0N*8  BBAJ>. 


Borne  of  our  Correspondents  having  expressed  a  wish  to  put  Iheir  heads  ia 
the  Lion's  Mouth  this  months  he  hath  courteously  consented,  and  promiset 
not  to  **  wag  his  Tail,"  till  they  have  done. 


£lia  to  his  CoaBESPONDBNTS.— a  Correspondent,  who  writes  himsdf . 
Peter  Ball,  or  Belli — ^for  his  hand-writiqg  is  as  ragged  as  his  manners^aA* 
monishes  me  of  the  old  saying,  that  some  people  (under  a  courteous  perw 
phrasis  I  slur  his  less  ceremonious  epithet)  had  need  have  good  memories* 
In  my  *'  Old  Benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple,**  I  have  delivered  myself,  and 
truly,  a  Templar  bom.  Bdl  clamours  upon  this,  and  thinketh  that  he  hath 
caught  a  fox.  It  seems  that  in  a  former  paper,  retorting  upon  a  week^ 
scribbler  who  had  called  my  good  identity  Ui  question,  (see  P.  8.  to  mf 
"  Chapter  on  Ears,")  I  profess  myself  a  native  of  some  spot  near  Cavendish -^ 
Square,  deducing  my  remoter  origin  from  Italy.  But  who  does  not  see,  6X« 
cept  this  tinkling  cymbal,  that  in  that  idle  fiction  of  Genoese  ancestry  I  was 
answering  a  fool  according  to  his  folly — that  £lia  there  expresseth  himself 
ironically,  as  to  an  approved  slanderer,  who  hath  no  right  to  the  truth,  and 
can  be  no  fit  recipient  of  it  ?  Such  a  one  it  is  usual  to  leave  to  his  delusions  ; 
or,  leading  him  fi'om  error  still  to  contradictory  error,  to  plunge  lum  (as  we 
say)  deeper  in  the  mire,  and  g^ve  him  line  till  he  suspend  himself.  No  un- 
derstanding reader  could  be  imposed  upon  by  such  obvious  rhodomontade 
to  suspect  me  for  an  alien,  or  believe  me  other  than  English. — ^To  a  second 
Correspondent,  who  signs  himself  **  a  Wiltshire  man,"  and  claims  me  for  a' 
countryman  upmi  the  strength  of  an  equivocal  phrase  in  my  '^  Christ's 
Hospital,"  a  more  mannerly  reply  is  due.  Passing  over  the  Genoese  fable> 
which  Bell  makes  such  a  ring  about,  he  nicely  detects  a  more  subtle  discre*' 
pancy,  which  Bell  was  too  obtuse  to  strike  upon.  Referring  to  the  passage 
(in  page  484  of  our  second  volume),  I  must  confess,  that  the  term  '^  native 
town/'  applied  to  Calne,  primdyacie  seems  to  bear  out  the  construction 
which  my  friendly  Correspondent  is  wiUing  to  put  upon  it.  The  context  too, 
I  am  afraid,  a  little  favours  it  But  where  the  words  of  an  author,  taken 
literally,  compared  with  some  other  passage  in  his  writings,  admitted  to  be 
authentic,  involve  a  palpable  contradiction,  it  hath  been  the  custom  of  the 
ingenuous  commentator  to  smooth  the  difficulty  by  the  supposition,  that  in 
the  one  case  an  allegorical  or  tropical  sense  was  chiefly  intended.  So  by 
the  word  "  native,"  I  may  be  supposed  to  mean  a  town  where  I  might  have 
been  bom  ;  or  where  it  might  be  desirable  that  I  should  have  been  born,  as 
being  situate  in  wholesome  air,  upon  a  dry  chalky  soil,  in  which  I  delight ; 
or  a  town,  with  the  inhabitants  of  which  I  passed  some  weeks,  a  summer  or 
two  ago,  80  agreeably,  that  they  and  it  became  in  a  manner  native  to  me. 
Without  some  such  latitude  of  interpretation  in  the  present  case,  I  see  not 
how  we  can  avoid  falling  into  a  gross  error  in  physics,  as  to  conceive  that  a 
gentleman  may  be  born  in  two  places,  from  which  all  modem  and  ancient 
testimony  is  alike  abhorrent.     Bacchus  comcth  the  nearest  to  it,  whom  I  ce« 

2  L  > 


4d«  The  LMt  Head.  [T^ov. 

member  Grid  to  hare  honoured  with  the  epithet  "  Twice  born."*  But  not 
to  mention  that  he  is  so  called  (we  conceive)  in  reference  to  the  places  whenct 
rather  than  the  places  where  he  was  delivered, — for  by  either  birth  he  may 
probably  be  challenged  for  a  Theban— in  a  strict  way  of  speaking,  he  was 
a  JUius  femoris  by  no  means  in  the  same  sense  as  he  had  been  before  a  jUiu* 
alui,  for  that  latter  was  but  a  secondary  and  tralatitious  way  of  being  bom, 
and  he  but  a  denizen  of  the  second  house  of  his  geniture.  Thus  much  by 
way  of  explanation  was  thought  due  to  the  courteous  '^  Wiltshire  man." — 
To  '*  Indagator,"  **  Investigator,"  *'  Incertus,"  and  the  rest  of  the  pack, 
that  are  so  importunate  about  the  true  localities  of  his  birth — as  if,  forsooth^ 
Ella  were  presently  about  to  be  passed  to  his  parish — to  all  such  churchwar- 
den critics  he  answereth,  that,  any  explanation  here  given  notwithstanding, 
he  hath  not  so  fixed  his  nativity  (like  a  rusty  vane)  to  one  dull  spot,  but 
tbt,  if  ho  seeth  occasion,  or  the  argument  shall  demand  it,  he  will  be  bom 
again,  fn  fiiture  papain  in  whatercr  plBce>  and  at  whatever  period,  shaft 
ieem  good  unto  him. 

Modft  me  Thjpbis— mod5  Atfaenis.  Elia. 


■  2b  ih€  Editor  cftke  London  Magazine* 

In  the  amushig  article  on  Epitaphs,  N0.XXI,  the  writer  seenn  palpably  to 
U>Oiir  uhder  a  mlstalce  when  he  talks  of  ''the  erection  of  Sterne's  grave-stone 
bdng  left  to  mechaaica  and  strangers." — ^Now,  the  first  paragraph  of  the  in- 
scription runs  thus :  **  Tide  nionumental  stone  was  erected  to  the  memory  of 
tlie  deceased  by  two  brother  Masons."  (The  mechanics !) — The  epitaph 
piroceedi,  ''although  be  did  not  live  to  be  a  member  of  their  Society^  yet  all 
Ids  incomparable  performances  evidently  prove  him  to  have,  acted  by  ruU  and 
square.*'  The  odd  notion  of  the  contingent  probability  of  Sterne  using  a  hod 
«id  trowel,  and  the  aDegorically  technical  language  at  the  end,  leave  no 
room  for  doubt  that  these  "mechaniaT  were  Fa  ££  Masons.  Now,  if  the 
writer  has  ever  read  on  a  winter^s  evening,  the  "  History  of  the  Secret  Tri- 
bunal," I  have  put  him  in  a  terrible  fright  Jachin. 

Aa  Old  Mortality  is  still  on  this  side  of  the  grave,  a  copy  of  the  above 
note  was  sent  to  him,  in  the  churchyard  of  «  He  returned  the  fol- 

lowing answer. 

To  ike  Editor. 

Sir,— I  am  a  plain  roan,  unacquainted  with  the  art  of  obtaining  a  singular 
meaning  from  a  perverse  inscription :  I  call  a  spade,  a  spade,  nor  hide  that 
useful  implement  under  the  dark  cloak  of  allegory.  In  tliis,  Jachin  of  the  pillar 
has  the  advantage  of  me,  and  reminds  me  of  the  northern  poet  who  sung 
of  the  first  transgression^  and  the  last  too,  I  hope,  of  Eve ; — 

And  a  fig.lesf  apron  she  put  on 

To  show  her  maflODiie. 

Now  the  epitaph  on  Sterne  is  one  of  those  dubious  compositions  which  are 
liable  to  various  interpretations,  according  to  the  literal  or  figurative 
spirit  of  the  reader ;  but  the  professional  slang  witli  which  it  abounds  make* 

*  Imperfectas  adhuc  infans  gcnetrids  ab  aWo 
£npitur,  patrioqne  tenor  (a  credere  dignum) 
Insuitur  femori. 
Tutsque  bis  genid  sunt  incinabula  Bacchi.       Mctemorj)h,  lib.  S. 


19S1.;]  Tkt  Jam's  Miod^  4«| 

it  seem  rather  the  work,  of  a  mason  than  a  firee-miiaon.  A  dapper  and  heifer 
of  stone  is  always  called  a  mason  ;  while^  for  the  sake  of  distinction^  a  free-* 
mason  is  called  a  free-mason,  all  the  world  over :  the  latter  is  one  of  a  fra« 
temity  called  a  lodge,  the  former  helongs  to  a  society,  which  nurses  him  in 
sickness,  and  buries  him  when  he  dies.  Now^  what  says  Sterne's  inscrip- 
tion ?  ''This  stone  is  erected  by  two  brother  masonSj  who  regret  he  lived  not 
to  become  a  member  of  their  nodetj,  because^  it  it  evident,  his  admirable 
works  were  executed  by  rule  and  square"  A  very  natural  and  very  humane 
wish.  The  princes  and  proud  ones— the  free-masons  of  the  earth,  stood 
aloof^  and  saw  Sterne,  whose  wit  had  so  often  awakened  theur  pleasant 
drowsy-heads,  borne  to  thegrave  by  strangers:  so  up  came  those  two  humane 
and  humble  masons  to  do  honour,  in  their  own  kind-hearted,  but  uncouth, 
way,  to  one  whose  works  they  admired ;  and  they  wished  him  to  have  be« 
longed  to  their  society,  to  secure  him  a  decent  funeral,  and  poured  their 
affections  over  his  grave  in  the  simple  language  of  their  trade,  which  Jachhi 
calls  allegorical.  Yet,  even  allowing  those  respectable  men  to  have  been 
free-masons,  does  that  say  they  were  not  '^hewers  of  the  dusty  palace 
stone  ?"  The  heroes  of  the  rule  and  square,  the  liammer  and  chisel,  and 
trowel,  and  plummet,  are  almost^  without  eiception^  all  free-masons :  but 
Jachin — Oh  1  shame  on  thy  ignorance,  thou  brother  of  Boaz — has  no  idea 
of  uniti|ig  the  real  builders  of  the  palace  with  those  allegorical  cutters  of 

stone  called  free-masons. 

Yours,  in  good  faith. 

Old  Mortality. 


The  appeal  of  the  writer  of  ''  One  brief  remembrance  of  the  youthfid 
Bard  "  was  heard.— Judgment  affirmed. 


J.  says,  we  must  return  his  paper  if  we  refuse  it, — at  the  same  time  de- 
claring, that  *'  he  can  send  it  to  another  wori^." — We  will  thank  him  to  re^ 
member  this  power  when  he  writes  again. 

We  have  received  too  many  Vefses  on  tiie  subject  of  the  kind  Incognita's 
Sonnet  to  be  able  to  nmke  use  of  any,  without  an  apparent  partiality,  which 
it  is  our  study  to  avoid. 

The  Advice  to  H.  D.  was  given  in  seriousness.  Lion's  Head  is  incapable 
of  laughing. 

J.  G.  G.  whose  Poem  was  too  short  for  the  Bookseller,  to  whom  he  offered 
it  for  publication,  and  who  fears  it  will  be  too  long  for  the  London  Maga- 
zine, is  unfortunately  ui  the  right. 


€€ 


Song  on   Sleep^'-^''  Song  of  Death,"— '^  The  Judgment  Day,"^The 
Craniologist,"  &c. — written  in  one  hand  by  four  different  correspondents : — 

'^  Lines  written,  Oct.  26,  1820,  by  John  Allen  Walker,  on  observing  a 
single  leaf  adhering  to  the  vertical  extremity  of  a  tall  elm  near  Chelsea,  '— 
(what  a  subject  I) — 

Laura 

critic's  wheel :" — 

Sonnet  by  G.  V.  D.  whose  "  Intentions  are  estimated  in  their  true 
sense:" — and 

'*  Stanzas  addressed  to  Miss  L—  B— ,"  which  we  wish  we  could  insert, 
in  return  for  Eliza's  beautifid  prose  compliment  to  the  Lion's  whiskers : — 

— —  are,  some  of  them,  almost  too  good  to  l)c  rejected. 


'  Lines  supposed  to  be  written  by  Petrarch  ^impossible!)  on  beholding 
jra  walking ;"  the  author  of  which  begs  we  will  *'  not  crucify  him  on  the 


46ft  7^  ^'<^''  ^^^  [[Not. 

We  have  to  thank  an  unknown  Correspondent  for  the  following. 

ODE   TO  DR.  KITCHEKER. 

Ye  Mines  nine  injure  ^^       f^      ^ 

And  stir  up  mj  poetic  fire ;  vt-»*vv^  .ter^c^ 

Teach  my  burning  soul  to  speak 

With  a  bubble  and  a  squeak ! 
Of  I^.  Kitdiener  I  Ada  mU  ang. 
Till  pols,  and  p«na^  and  xoiglifiy  ketdai  ring. 

O  culinary  Sage  I 
(I  do  not  mean  the  herb  in  use, 
That  always  goes  along  with  goose) 
How  have  I  fburted  on  thy  page ! 
^  When  like  a  lobster  boil*^  the  room. 
From  black  to  red  begaa  lo  torn,*' 
TQl  midnight,  when  I  went  to  bed, 
And  dapp*d  my  tewah^iddle  *  on  my  head. 

Who  is  there  cannot  tell. 

Thou  lead*st  a  life  of  living  well  ? 

^  What  baron,  or  squire,  or  kni^t  of  the  shire 

Lives  half  so  well  as  a  holy  Frr-er  ?  '* 

In  doipg  well  thou  must  be  reckoned 

The  fint,  and  Mn.  Fry  the  second ; 
And  twice  a  Job, — for  in  thy  feverish  toils 
Thou  wast  an  over  roasta — as  well  as  boils. 

Thou  wast  indeed  no  dunoe. 

To  treat  thy  subjects  and  thyself  at  once. 

Man^  a  hungry  poet  eats 

His  bnuns  like  thee, 

But  few  there  be 
Could  live  so  long  on  tfaeb  receipis. 

What  living  soul  or  sinner 

Would  slight  thy  invitation  to  a  dinner, 
Oug^t  with  the  DanaVdes  to  dwell. 

Draw  gravy  in  a  cullender,  and  hear 
For  eVer  in  his  ear 
The  pleasant  tinkling  of  thy  dinner  beU. 

Immortal  Kitchener  I  thy  fame 

Shall  keep  itsdf  when  lime  makes  game 
Of  other  men^s — yea,  it  shall  keep  all  weathers,. 
And  thou  shalt  be  upheld  by  thy  pen  feathers.. 
Yea,  by  the  sauce  of  Michael  Kelly, 

Thy  name  shall  perish  never. 

But  be  magnified  for  ever — 
—By  all  whose  eyes  are  bigger  than  their  belly ! 

Yea,  till  the  world  is  done — 

.^To  a  turn — and  Time  puts  out  the  sun, 

Shall  live  the  endless  echo  of  thy  name. 

But,  as  for  thy  more  fleshy  frame. 

Ah  !  Death*s  carnivorous  teeth  will  tittle 

Thee  out  of  breath,  and  eat  it  for  cold  victual ; 
But  still  thy  fame  shall  be  among  the  nations 
Preserved  to  the  last  eourse  of  generations. 

Ah  me,  my  soul  is  toudi*d  with  sorrow 

To  think  how  flesh  must  pass  away — 

So  mutton,  that  is  warm  Uvday, 
Is  cold  and  turned  to  hashes  on  the  morrow ! 

Farewell !  I  would  say  more,  but  I 

Have  other  fish  to  fry. 


*  The  doctor's  compoiition  for  a  nightcap. 


THE 


Eontunt  Mw^^i^t. 


N^  XXIII.  NOVEMBER,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


GRACE  BEFORE  MEAT. 

The  custom  of  saying  grace  at  for  extennon  to  a  niche  in  the  mnd 

meals  had^   probably^  its  origin  in  ph0o8ophica]^poeticd^  and  perchance 

the  early  times  of  the  worlds  and  the  in  part  heretical^  Htufgy;  now  com- 

hunter-state  of  man^  when  dinners  pihng  by  my  friend  Homo  Hmnanus; 

were  precarious  things^   and  a  full  tor  the  use  of  a  certain  snug  congre- 

meal  was  something  more  than    a  gation  of  Utopian  Rabelsdan  Cuifl* 

common  blessing ;  when  a  belly-fiill  tians^  no  matter  where  assembled, 

was  a  windfall^  and  looked  like  a  spe-  The  form  then  of  the  benediction 

cial  proyidence.    In  the  shouts  and  before  eating  hatf  its  beauty  at  a 

triumphal  songs^  with  which^  after  a  poor  man's  table^  or  at  the  simple 

season  of  sharp  abstinence^  a  lucky  and  unprovocative  repasts  of  cml- 

booty  of  deer's  or  goat's  flesh  would  dren.    It  is  here  that  the  grace  be« 

naturally  be  ushered  home^  exbted^  comes  exceedingly  gracefuL  The  hi^ 

perhaps^    the  germ  of  the  modem  digent  man,  who  hardly  knows  whe-> 

ffrace.    It  is  not  otherwise  easy  to  ther  he  shall  have  a  meu  the  next  day 

be  imderstood,  why  the  blessing  of  or  not^  sits  down  to  his  fare  with  a 

food — the  act  of  eating — should  have  present  sense  of  the  blessing,  wliich 

had  a  particular  expression  of  thanks-  can  be  but  feebly  acted  by  tne  rich, 

givuig  annexed  to  it,  distinct  from  into  whose  minds  the  conception  of 

that  implied  and  silent  gratitude  with  ever  wanting  a  dinner  coula  never, 

which  we  are  expected  to  enter  upon  but  by  some  extreme  theory,  have 

the  enjoyment  of  the  many  oUier  va^  entered.    The  proper  end  of  food— 

rious  gifts  and  good  things  of  ex«  the  animal  sustenance — is  barely  con- 

istence.  templated  by  them.    The  poor  man's 

I  own  that  I  am  disposed  to  say  bread  is  his  daily  bread,  hterally  his 

grace  upon  twenty  other  occasions  in  bread  for  the  day.    Their  courses  are 

the  course  of  the  day  besides  my  perennial. 

dinner.  I  want  a  form  for  setting  Again,  the  plainest  diet  seems  the 
out  upon  a  pleasant  walk,  for  a  moon-  fittest  to  be  preceded  by  the  grace, 
light  ramble,  for  a  friendly  meeting.  That  which  is  least  stimulative  to 
or  a  solved  problem.  Why  have  we  appetite,  leaves  the  mind  most  free 
none  for  books,  those  spiritual  Ve-  for  foreign  considerations.  A  man 
pasts — a  grace  before  Milton — a  grace  may  feel  thankful,  heartily  thankAiI, 
before  Shakspeare — a  devotion^  ex-  over  a  dish  of  plain  mutton  with 
ercise  proper  to  be  said  before  read-  turnips,  and  have  leisure  to  reflect 
in^  the  Fairy  Queen  ? — but,  the  re-  upon  the  ordinance  and  institution  of 
ceivcd  ritual  having  prescribed  these  eating,  when  he  shall  confess  a  per- 
forms to  the  solitary  ceremony  of  turbation  of  mind,  inconsistent  with 
manducation,  I  shall  confine  my  ob-  the  purposes  of  the  grace,  at  the 
servations  to  the  experience  which  I  presence  of  venison  or  turtie.  When 
have  had  of  the  grace,  properly  so  I  have  sate  (a  rarus  hospes)  at  rich 
called ;  commending  my  new  scheme  men's  tables,  with  the  savoury  soup 

Vol.  IV.  «M 


4T0  Grace  Before  Meat,  [T^ov, 

and  messes  steaming  up  the  nostrils^  Virgil  knew  the  harpy-nature  l>etter, 

and  moistening  the  lips  of  the  guests  when    he    put    into  the    mouth    of 

with  desire  and  a  distracted  cnoice,  Cekeno  any  thing  but  a  blesshig.  Wc 

I  have  felt  the  introduction  of  that  may  be  gratefully  sensible    of   the 

ceremony  to  be  unseasonable.     With  deliciousness  of  some  kinds  of  food 

the  ravenous  orgiism  upon  ypu^   It  beyond    others^    though    that    is    a 

seems  impertinefit  to  interpose  a  re-  meaner  and  inferior  gratitude :  but 

yous  sentiment.    It  is  t  confti^oh  the  pro{)cr  object  of   the  grace   is 

purpose   to    mutter  out    praises  sustenance,  not  relishes ;  daily  bread, 

from  a    mouth    that  waters.      The  not  delicacies ;    the    means   of  life, 

heats  of  epicurism  put  out  the  gentle  and  not  the  means  of  pampering  the 

flame  of  devotion.  The  incense  which  carcase.    With  what  frame  or  com- 

rises  round  is  pagan,  and  the  belly-  posure,  I  wonder,  can  a  city  chap- 

jpod  intercepts  it  for  his  own.     The  lain    pronounce    his  benediction    at 

very  excess  of  the  provision  beyond  some    great    Hall    feast,    when    he 

die  needs,  takes  away  all  sense  of  knows  Uiat  his  last  concluding  pious 

proportion    between    the^  end    and  word— and  that,  in  all  probability, 

means.     The  giver  is  veiled  by  his  the  sacred  name  which  he  preaches — 

ffifts.      You  are  startled  at  the  in-  is  but  tie  signal  for  so  many  impa- 

justice  of  retummg  thanks — for  what?  tient  harpies  to  commence  their  foul 

f— for  having  too  much,  while  so  many  orgies,  with  as  little  sense  of  true 

starve.      It  is  to  praiset  he    Gods  thank^lness  ^  which  is  temperamce) 

amiss.     •  as  those  Virgilian  fowl !    It  is  well  if 

I  have  observed  tlus  awkwardness  the  good  man  himself  does  not  £eel 

fdt^  scarce  consciously  perhaps,  by  his  devotions  a  little  clouded,  those 

the  good  man  who  says  the  grace,  fc^gy  sensuous  steams  mingling  with, 

I  have    seen  it   in  clergymen  and  ^d  polluting  the  pure  altar  sacrifice, 
others — a  sort  of  shame — a  sense  of       The  severest  satire  upon  full  table» 

\he    co-presence    of    circumstances  and  siufeits  is  the   banquet  which 

which  unhallow  the  blessm^.    After  Satan,    in   the    Paradise    Revalued,, 

a  devotional  tone  put  on  for  a  few  provides  for    a    temptation    m    the 

seconds^  how  rapidly  the  speaker  will  wilderness : — 

fidl  into  liis  common  voice,  helping  ^  ^^^  ^^   ^  ^^^  .^  „^  ^^ 

hunself  or  his  neighbour,    as  if  to  ^j^j^  dishes  pUed,  and  meats  of  noUest 

Set  nd  of  some  uneasy  sensation  of  ^j^ 

ypocrisy.     Not  that  the  good  man  ^nd  savour ;  beasts  of  chase,  or  fowl  of 
was  a  hypocrite,  or  was  not  most  game, 

conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  the  In  pastry  built,  or  from  the  spit,  or  boiled, 

duty ;  but  he  felt  in  his  inmost  mind  Om-ambcr-6tcamcd ;  all  fish  from  sea  or 
the  incompatibility  of  the  scene  and  shore, 

the  viands  before  him  with  the  cxer-  Freshet  or  purUrg  brook,  for  which  was 

cise  of  a  calm  and  rational  grati-  „        drained  ,  .-.       _^ 

A^  jg^  °  Pontus,  and  Lucnne  bay,  and  Afnc  coast. 

I  hear  somebody  exclaim,— Woidd        The    Tempter,     I    warrant    you; 

you  have  Christians  sit  down  at  table,  thought  these  cates  would  go  down 

fike    hogs    to  their   troughs,    with-  without    the    recommendatory   pre- 

out  remembering  the  Giver  ?— no — I  face  of  a  benediction.     They  are  like 

would  have  Uiem  sit  down  as  Chris-  to  be   short  graces  where  the  devil 

tians,  remembering  the  Giver,    and  plays  the  host. — I  am  afraid,  the  poet 

less  like  hogs.     Or  if  their  appetites  wants    his    usual    decorum   hi    this 

must  run  not,  and  they  must  pam-  place.    Was  he  thinking  of  tlie  old 

per    themselves    with    delicates    for  Roman  luxury,  or  of  a  gaudy  day^  at 

which  east  and  west  are  ransacked,  Cambridge  ?     This  was  a  teuiptation 

I  would  have  them  postpone  their  fitter  for  a  Ilcliogabalus.   The  whole 

lienediction  to  a  fitter  season,  when  banquet  is  too  civic  and  culinary,  and 

appetite  is  laid  ;  wlien  the  still  small  the  acconipanin'.ents  altogether  a  pro- 

voice  can  be  heard,  and  the  reason  fanation  of   that    deep,    abstracted, 

of  the  grace  returns — with  temperate  holy  scene.     The  mighty  artillery  of 

diet  and  restricted  dishes.     Gluttony  sauces,  which  the  cook-fiend  conjures 

and  surfeiting  are  no  proper  occasions  up,  is  out  of  proportion  to  the  simple 

hr  thanksgiving.      When  Jeshurun  wants  and  plain  hunger  of  the  guest. 

wixed  fat,  we  read  that  he  kicked.  He  that  disturbed  hun  in  his  dreams. 


1 881  r\  Grace  Befbre  Me^.  4t  1 

from  his  dreams  might  have  been  bib  and  tucker,  I  cannot  imagine  it  a 

taught  better.  To  the  temperate  fan-  surplice, 

tasies  of  the  famished  Son  of  God,        I  am  no  Quaker  at  my  food.  '  I 

what  sort  of  feasts  presented  them-  confess  I  am  not  indifferent  to  the 

selves  ^ — He  dreamed  indeed,  kinds  of  it.    Those  imctuous  morsels 

As  appetite  is  wont  to  dream,  ^^  Acer's  flesh  were  not  made  to  be 

Of  meats  anS^ink.,  nature's  refreahment  received  with  dispassionate  services. 

^^cet,  ^  ^^^  ^  ^^^  ^^^  swallows  it^  af- 

^  ,     ,    ^        ^  ^  fectinir    not    to  know  what    he    is 

But  what  meato  ?—  ^^^^^    j  g^^p^^^  1^.^  ^^^  .„  y^-^ier 

Him  thought,  he  by  the  brook  of  CSierilh  matters.     I  shrink  instinctively  from 

"tood,  ,    t^  .  .        ,    ,  one  who  professes   to  like   minced 

And  saw  Ae  ravens  with  their  hwny  beaks  ^^^1.      There  is    a    physiognomical 

f^ood  to  Ehjah  bnnging,  even  and  momi  character  in  the  tastes  for  food.   ~ 


^^""^wSirbiX^t".  *^  ^^"^  ^^  ^«1^«  that  a  man  cannot  have  a  pure 

He  saw^die  prophet  aSo  how  he  fled  ^lind  who  refuses  apple-dumplings. 

Into  the  desart,  and  how  there  he  slept  I    am  not  certain  but   he   is  right 

Under  a  juniper ;  then  how  awaked  With  the  decay  of  my  first  mnocence. 

He  found  his  supper  on  the  coals  prepared,  I  confess  a  less  and  less  relish  daily 

And  by  the  angd  was  bid  rise  and  eat,  for  those  innocuous  cates.   The  wh(tte 

And  ate  the  second  time  after  repose,  vegetable  tribe  have  lost  their  gutt 

The  strength  whereof  suflSced  him  fonfj  with  me.    Only  1  stick  to  asparaguf> 

days:  ,.  ^  ^  ,  which  still  seems  to  inspire  gentle 

Sometnnes,  that  w,A  Elijah  he  partook,  thoughts.     I  am  impatient  and  que- 

Or  as  a  guest  with  Darnel  at  his  pulse.  ^  ^y^^^    ^^^^^    cuUnWy    disapDOuit- 

Nothing  in  Milton  is  finelier  fancied  ments,  as  to  come  home  at  the  oinner 
than  these  temperate  dreams  of  the  hour,  for  instance,  expecting  some 
divine  Hungerer.  To  which  of  these  savoury  mess,  and  to  nnd  one  quite 
two  visionary  banquets,  think  you,  tasteless  and  sapidless.  Butter  HI 
would  the  introduction  of  what  is  melted — ^that  commonest  of  kitchen 
called  the  grace  have  been  most  failures— puts  me  beside  my  tenour. 
fitting  and  pertinent  ?  The  author  of  the  Rambler  used  to 
Theoretically  I  am  no  enemy  to  make  inarticulate  animal  noises  over 
graces ;  but  practically  I  own  that  a  favourite  food.  Was  this  the  music 
(before  meat  especially)  they  seem  to  quite  proper  to  be  preceded  by  the 
involve  something  awkward  and  un«  grace  r  or  would  the  pious  man  have 
seasonable.  Our  appetites,  of  one  or  done  better  to  postpone  his  devotions 
another  kind,  are  excellent  spurs  to  to  a  season  when  the  blessing  miffht 
our  reason,  which  might  otherwise  be  contemplated  with  less  perturDa<« 
but  feebly  set  about  the  great  ends  of  tion  ?  I  quarrel  with  no  man's 
preserving  and  continuing  the  species,  tastes,  nor  would  set  my  thin  face 
They  are  fit  blessings  to  be  contem*  against  those  excellent  things  in  their 
plated  at  a  distance  with  a  becoming  way,  jollity  and  feasting.  But  as 
gratitude;  but  the  moment  of  ap-  these  exercises,  however  laudable, 
petite  rthe  judicious  reader  will  ap-  have  littie  in  them  of  grace  or  graces 
prehend  me)  is,  perhaps,  the  least  fit  fulness,  a  man  should  be  sure,  before 
season  for  that  exercise.  The  Quakers  he  ventures  so  to  grace  them,  that 
who  ^o  about  their  business,  of  every  while  he  is  pretending  his  devotions 
description,  with  more  calmness  than  otherwhere,  ne  is  not  secretly  kissing 
we,  have  more  title  to  the  use  of  his  hand  to  some  great  fish  —  his 
these  benedictory  prefaces.  I  have  Dagon — with  a  special  consecration 
always  admired  their  silent  grace,  of  no  ark  but  tlie  fat  tureen  be* 
and  the  more  because  I  have  ob-  fore  him.  Graces  are  the  sweet  pre- 
served their  applications  to  the  meat  luding  strains  to  the  banquets  of  aii- 
and  drink  following  to  be  less  passi-  gels  and  children ;  to  the  roots  and 
onate  and  sensual  than  ours.  They  severer  repasts  of  the  Chartreuse ;  to 
are  neither  gluttons  nor  wine-bibbers  the  slender,  but  not  slenderly  ac- 
as  a  people.  They  cat,  as  a  horse  knowledeed,  refection  of  the  poor 
bolts  his  chopt  hay,  with  indifierence,  and  humnle  man:  but  at  the  heaped^ 
calmness,  and  cleanly  circumstances,  up  boards  of  the  pampered  and  the 
They  neither  grease  nor  slop  them-  luxurious  they  become  of  dissonant 
selves.    When  1  see  a  citizen  in  his  mood,  less  timed  and  tun^^d  tj^  ^3i)A. 


472                    On  the  Songs  of  Thibaui,  King  of.  Navarre.  QNor- 

occasion^  methinks,  than  the  noise  of  supplementary     or    tea-grace    was 
those  better  befitting  organs  would  waived  altogether.  With  what  spirit 
be,  which  children  hear  tales  of,  at  might  not  Lucian  have  painted  two 
Hog's  Norton.     We  sit  too  long  at  priests,  of  his  religion,  playing  into 
our  meals,  or  are  too  curious  in  the  each  other's  hands  the  compliment  of 
study  of  them,  or  too  disordered  in  performing  or  omitting  a  sacrifice, — 
our  application  to  them,  or  engross  the  hungry  God  meantime,  doubtful 
too  great  a  portion   of  those  good  of  his  incense,  with  expectant  nostrils 
things  (which  should  be  common)  to  hovering  over  the  two  fiamens,  and 
our  share,  to  be  able  with  any  frace  (as  between  two  stools)  going  away 
to  say  grace.      To  be  thankful  for  in  the  end  without  his  supper, 
what  we  grasp  exceeding  our  propor-  A  short  form  upon  these  occasions 
tion  is  to  add  hypocrisy  to  hnustice.  is  felt  to  be  unrcverend ;  a  long  one, 
A  lurking  sense  of  this  truth  is  what  I  am  afraid,  cannot  escape  the  char^ 
makes  the  performance  of  this  duty  of  impertinence.     I  do  not  quite  ap- 
8o  cold  and  spiritless  a  service  at  most  prove  of  the  epigrammatic  concise- 
taldes.     In  houses  where  the  grace  ness  with  which  that  equivocal  wag 
is  as  indispensable    as  the  napkin,  (but    my    pleasant     school-fellow) 
who  has  not  seen  that  never  settled  C.  V.  L.,    when    importuned   for    a 
question  arise,  as  to  tvho  shall  say  it ;  grace,   used  to  enquire,    first   slyly 
while  the  good  man  of  the  house  and  leering  down  the  table,  ''  Is  there  no 
the  visitor  clergyman,  or  some  other  clergyman  here?" — significantly  add- 
guest  belike  of  next  authority  fi*om  ing,  "  thank  G— ."    Nor  do  I  think 
years  or  gravity,  shall  be  bandying  our  old  form  at  school  quite  perti- 
about  the  office  between  them  as  a  nent,  when  we  were  used  to  preface 
matter  of  compliment,  each  of  them  our  bald  bread  and  cheese  suppers 
not  unwilling  to  shift  the  awkward  with   a    preamble,  connecting   with 
burthen  of  an  equivocal  duty  from  his  that   humble  blessing  a  recomiitiou 
own  shoulders  ?     I  once  drank  tea  in  of  benefits  the  most  awful  and  over- 
company  with  two  Methodist  divhies  whelming  to  tlie  imagination  which 
of  different  persuasions,  whom  it  was  religion  nas  to  offer.    Xon  tunc  illis 
my  fortune  to  introduce  to  each  other  erai  locus,     1  remember  we  were  put 
for  the  first  time  that  evening.     Be-  to  it  to  reconcile  the  phrase  "  goo<l 
fore  the  first  cup  was  handed  round,  creatures,"  upon  which  the  blessing 
one  of  these  reverend  gentlemen  put  rested,  with  the  fare  set  before  us, 
it  to  the  other,  with  all  due  solem-  wilfidly  understanding  that  cxpres- 
nity,    whether  he  chose  to  sat/  any  sion  in  a  low  and  animal  sense,  till 
thing.   It  seems  it  is  the  custom  with  some  one  recalled  a  legend,  which 
some    sectaries   to  put  up  a   short  told    how  in    tlie    golden    days    of 
praydr  before  this  meal  also.      His  Christ's,  the  youug  Iiospitallers  were 
reverend  brother  did  not  at  first  quite  wont  to  have  sniokine  joints  of  roast 
apprehend  him,  but  upon  an  expla-  meat  upon  their  nigntJy  boards,  till 
nation,  with  little  less  importance  he  some  pious  benefactor,  commiserating 
made  answer,  that  it  was  not  a  cus-  the  decencies,  ratlicr  than  tlie  palates, 
torn  known  in  his  church  ;  in  which  of  the  children,  commuted  our  flesh 
courteous  evasion    the  other  acqui-  for  garments,  and  gave  us — horrcsco 
escin^  for  good  manner's  sake,  or  in  refercns — trowscrs  histead  of  mutton, 
compliance  with  a  weak  brother,  the  Eli  a. 


ON  THE  SONGS  OF  THIBAUT,  KING  OF  NAVARRE. 

Whether  Thibaut,  King  of  Na-  age  are  unlcnown.     On  the  other  side 

varre,  was  or  was  not  the  favoured  are  to  be  taken  into  tlie  account  the 

lover  of  Blanch,   Queen  Regent  of  total  silence  of  Joiiivillc,  tlio  contein- 

France,   and  mother    of  Louis   the  porary  historian  on  the  subject,  and 

ninth,  is   a  question  that   has  been  that  of  several   other   annalists  who 

much  debated.     Those,  who  main-  lived  at  or  near  the  time,  the  general 

tain  the  affirmative,  rely  chiefly  on  cood  character  of  Blanch,   and  the 

the   hearsay   evidence    of   Matthew  disparity  of  her  years,   for  she  was 

Paris,  and  on  the  assertion  of  an  old  nearly  old  enonch  to  be  the  mother 

French  chronicler,  whose  name  and  of  Thibaut.     But  a  scandalous  re« 


IWlO                 On  the  Songs  of  Thiband,  King  of  Navarre.  47S 

Kort,  however  improbable,  when  it  song,    the    candid    enquirer  owned 

as  been  once  broached,  seldom  fails  that  he  had  discovered  reasons  for 

to  spread  far   and   wide;    and  the  altering  his  mind.      In  them,  ''La 

*' Fama refert"  of  Matthew  has  been  hbnde  color Se"  %    were   the    words; 

eagerly  caught  at  by  a  host  of  later  which,  in  Shakspeare's  language,  may 

writers, — amongst    whom    are   Du-  be  rendered,  one — 

haillan,  the  first  of  French   histori«  Whose  red  and  white, 

ans,  who  incorporated  the  annals  of  Nature**  own  sweet  and  cunning  hand  kud 

his  country  uito  the  narration ;  Favin,  on ; 

who  wrote  the  history  of  Navarre ;  and  the  character  of  the  Queen  was 

Mezerai ;     Hapin ;     and   the    Pere  again  cleared. 

Daniel.  It  is  quite  lamentable  to  think  how 
It  is  well  known  that  the  curtail-  slight  an    accident  may  destroy  or 
raent  of  one  word,  which  a  hasty  impeach  the  reputation  of  a  virtuous 
scribe  had  reduced  to  the  unlucky  princess  in  the  eyes  of  posterity.     I 
consonants  prtbns,    has  thrown  the  could  wish  that  the  old   Punic  Ian- 
whole  life  and  character  of  Petrarch's  guage  were  recovere<l,  and  that  some 
Laura  ijito  confusion  and  perplexity.  CarthaginiaTi  manuscripts  could   be 
Did  he  mean  itfor  oar/unViawi^? —  disinterred,     which    should    equally 
He  did,  says  the  Abbe  de  Sade,  at  the  rescue  tlie  fame  of  Dido  from  the  as- 
same  time  claiming  for  himself  the  ho-  persions  cast  upon  it  by  Virgil,  who, 
iiour  to  derive  his  parentage  from  one  it  is   to  be  feared,  though  a  modest 
of  these  ill-omened  throes ;  and  im-  man  on  the  whole,  was  yet,  as  a.  de- 
mediately  the  modest  nymph  of  the  termined  bachelor,  somewhat  free  in 
Sorga  is  transformed  into  a  married  his   opinions  on  certain  points,  and 
coquette,  with  as  large  a  litter  about  besides  much  corrupted  by  his  inti- 
her    as   the    boon    goddess    in   Mr.  macy  with  Horace.     The  vindication 
Hilton's  picture  has,   and  the  little  which  Ercilla,    the   heroic    poet   of 
biographer  straining  after  his  own  Spain,  (in  this  instance  so  truly  dc- 
bubble  at  the  top.     Shall  we  sub-  serving  of  the  title,)  has  undertaken 
Btitute   periurbdtionibus    with    Lord  of  her  cause,  might  then  be  trium- 
Woodhouselee  ? — It  is  quite  another  phantly  established, 
story :  Laura  is  not  only  reinstated  Without  thus  clearing  the  way,  I 
in  her   ''  single  blessedness,"  but  is  could  not  have  reconciled  it  to  myself 
rendered  an  object  of  interest  and  to  say  a  word  about  the  Chansons  of 
compassion  by  her  numerous  and  un-  Thibaut.    But  having  so  far  satisfied 
deserved  sufferings.  my  conscience,    of  which  I  hold  it 
Something  of  the  same  sort  has  the  duty  of  every  critic  on  such  oc- 
happened  in   the  case  we   are  now  casions  to  be  very  tender,  I  have  the 
considering.       In    the    first    of   his  less   scruple    in    laying    before    my 
songs,  according  to  one  of  the  ma-  readers  an  imitation  of  one  of  these 
nuscripts   in  the    Royal   Library  at  songs,  together  with  the  original. 
Paris,*  the  King  of  Navarre  calls  his  First,  however,  I  shidl  premise  a 
mistress    ''  L(i  hhnde  couronnee" —  few  remarks  on  the  origin  and  nature 
*'  The  crowned  fair."    ''  On  reading  of   French    song-writing,    which    I 
tliis,"  says  the   editor  of  the  Chan-  have  gleaned  out  of  a  learned  disser- 
sons,  t   (to    whose    account   of   the  tation  by  the  editor  before  mentioned, 
matter  I  am  indebted  for  my  infor-  It  appears  that  abusive  ballads,  (the 
mation,)  "I  had  no  doubt  but  that  firstspecicsof  songs  that  are  known  to 
Thibaut  was  enamoured  of  Blandi."  havebeencomposcd  in  that  language,) 
But  the  inadvertence  of  a  transcriber  were  made  as  early  as  the  expcdi- 
had  agahi  thrown  an  unmerited  sus-  tion  of  Godfrey  of  Bouillon,  on  tlie 
piclon  on  the  innocent.    On  consult-  occasion  of  Arnulf,   chaplain  to  the 
ing  other  written  copies  of  the  same  Count  of  Normandy,  being  appointed 


♦  No.  7222. 

"f  liCs  Poesies  du  Roy  de  Navarre,  avec  des  Notes  et  un  Olossaire  Francois,  &c. 
Paris,  1742.     2  Tom.  «vo. 
^  The  tiamc  conibinadon  of  words  occurs  elsewhere  in  these  song?,  and  in  the 

Itomant  do  la  Ruse : 

La  face  blanche  coloree, 
Vhalcinc  douce  et  savour^ 


«r4  Onihg  Stmgt  of  ThibanU,  JKm^  of  Nawarfe.  ^Sor. 

Patriarch  of  Jerusalem^  after  he  hod  tefv-trllabley   with  a  pause  on  the- 

diM^raced  himself  by  some  irregu*  fourth.    The  rhymes  are  very  exact, 

larities  of  conduct  during  his  march  not  only  to  the  eye  but  to  the  ear; 

to  the  holy  city.    Gautier  de  Coincy,  but  an  indispensable  alternation   of 

a  monk  of  8t.  Medard  de  Soissons,  the  masculine  and  femmine  rhymes 

composed  a  large  number  of  Songs,  was  not  adopted  till  the  age  of  Marot 

yet  remaining  in  manuscript,  toge«  and  Ronsard ;  though  one  or  two  in- 

ther  with  his  other  poems.    He  was  stances  of  it  may  be  found  in  Thi- 

in  the  time  of  Philip  Augustus.    The  baut's  songs. 

next  to  Coincy^  were  those  writers  of       The  following  is  one  that  was  co<m-» 

songs  contained  in  the  manuscripts  posed  by  him  as  an  encouragement 

of  which  the  King  of  Navarre's  form  to  the  Crusaders.     I  had  intended  ti> 

a  part.    Of  these^  Chretien  de  Troyes  entertain  my  readers  with  one  of  his 

and  Aubion  de  Sezane  wrote  at  the  love  ditties ;  but  the  subject  of  this 

^nd  of  the  twelfth  century.  Thibaut,  was  so  much  more  uncommon^  and 

King  of  Navarre,  who  was  bom  in  it  seemed  to  bear  so  strongly  the 

1801,  and  died  in  1253,  is  said  to  marks  of  a  deep  and  solemn  feeling, 

have  been  distinguished   from    the  that  I  have  selected  it  in  preference 

rest  not   more  by  his   high  station  to  the  rest    Thibaut  was  not  one  of 

than  by  the  superior  elegance  and  re-  those    *^  who    reck    i\ot   their   own 

finement  of  his  style.  rede;"  for  he  himself  served  in  the 

The  first  French  songs  were  called  holy  wars ;  and  it  might  be  for  this, 

Lais,  from  the  Latin  kssiu,  a  com*  amongst  his  other  worthy  deeds,  that 

fluifU;  though  they  had   often  no  the  great  Italian  poet,  who  was  very 

more  pretensions  to  the  name  than  near  his  time,   has  given  him    the 

the  nightingale  has  to  the  title  of  name  of  the  '*  buon  r^  Tebaldo,"  * 

**  the  melancholy  bird."      Like  the  **  The  good  king  Thibault."     It  may 

Provencal,  they  have  in  general  five  be  supposed  to  have  been  written 

(Stanzas,  with  an  envoi  at  the  end.  about  the  year  lt^6,   at   the  time 

The  measure  is  most  commonly  the  when  he  joined  the  Crusaders. 

Take  him,  O  Lord,  who  to  that  land  shall  go. 
Where  he  did  die  and  live  who  reigns  with  Thee : 

But  scarce  shall  they  the  road  to  heaven  know 
Who  will  not  bear  his  cross  beyond  the  sea. 

By  such  as  have  compassion  and  kind  thought 

Of  their  dear  Lord,  his  vengeance  should  be  sought. 
And  freedom  for  his  land  and  his  countrie. 

But  yonder  all  the  evil  noen  will  stay^ 

Who  love  not  God,  nor  truths  nor  loyalty. 
**  What  will  betide  my  wife?"  shall  each  one  say ; 

**  I  would  not  leave  my  friends  for  any  fee." 
Fond  i&  the  trust  wherein  they  put  their  stead ; 
For  friend  is  none,  save  him  Uiat  without  dread 

Did  hang  for  us  upon  the  holy  tree. 

Now  on  shall  go  each  valiant  knight  and  squire. 
That  loves  his  God,  and  holds  his  honour  dcar^ 

And  wisely  doth  the  bliss  of  heaven  desire. 
But  drivellersj  skulking  at  their  hearths  for  fear. 

Keep  far  away :  such  deem  I  blind  indeed. 

That  succour  not  their  God  when  he  hath  need. 
And  for  so  little  lose  their  glory  here. 

God,  who  for  us  did  suffer  on  the  tree. 

To  ail  their  doom  in  that  great  day  shall  tell : 

*'  Ye,  who  have  hclp'd  to  bear  the  rood  for  mc, 
Ye  to  that  place  shall  go  where  angels  dwell. 

Me  there  to  view^  and  mine  own  Mother  Maid : 

put  ye,  by  whom  I  had  not  ever  aid, 
Down  shall  ye  sink  into  the  deep  of  hell." 

*-  IHiUe  Infereo,  c.  udi. 


Whoso  In  weal  would  pan  their  Ufii  away. 

Nor  meet  at  all  with  tioubla  or  afiHght, 
They  are  hii  foes  esteeni'd ;  such  shmen  they. 

As  hare  nor  sense,  tioir  hardihood^  nor  might 
Our  hearts,  good  Locd^  from  audi  Tain  thoughts  wtt  frte^ 
And  lead  ua  to  diy  landso  hoiily. 

That  we  may  stand  bslbre  tiiy  blessed  siglit 

2hb  envoi. 

Sweet  taify,  ajowned  queen  abicnre, 
.  .  Pfsj  for  us,  virgin,  in  thy  love  ; 
So  shall  we  guide  henoefortii  our  steps  aright. 


:l 


lilt 


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./ 


Signor,  saclez,'  kl  or  ne  s'en  ira 

iSn  cele  terre,  u  Diex  fti  mors  et  yis, 
£t  ki  la  crds  d'outre  mer  ne  prendra, 

A  paines*  mals'ira  en  paradisf 
Kl  a  en  soi  piti^  et  nuhiembranoe 
Au  haut  Seignor,  doit  querre^  sa  vei\]&nce, 

Et  ddUverer  sa  terre  et  son  pals. 

Tout  il  manrais  demorront*  par  de9a9 
Ki  n'aiment  DieUf  bien,  ne  nonor,  ne  pris, 

£t  chascuns  dit.  Ma  feme  que  fera? 
Je  ne  lidrole*  i:nnl  fuer  mes  amis: . 

Cil  sont  asris  en  tmp  fole  attendance, 

K11  n'est  amis  £oin,  que  dl  sans  dotanoe,' 
•  Ki  pour  noo  ill  CB  la  yraie  ords  noJa. 

Or  s'en  iront  dl  vaQIant  Badider, 

Ki  aiment  Dieu,  et  I'onour  de  cest  moot, 

Ki  sBMnent  voeloit  k  Dieu  aler, 
Et  n  morveus,  H  eoidreus*  demournmtt 

Avugle  sont,  de  ce  ne  dout-je  mie,* 

Ki  un  secours  ne  fimt  Dieu  en  sa  vie; 
£t  por  fli  pot  pert  la  gldre  del  mont. 

Dies  se  laissa  por  nos  en  crohi  pener, 
Et  nous  dira  au  Jour,  ou  tuit*«  renrout, 

'*  Vos,  ki  ma  croia  m'aidates  k  porter, 
Vos  en  ires  U,  oa  li  Angela  sont, 

Li  me  ▼errex,  et  ma  Mere  Marie  ; 

Et  Tos,  par  qui  je  n'd  onques  aie," 
Desoendes  tuit  en  infiur  le  parfimt"  ■* 

Uascuns  quide>s  deniourer  toz*^  haitiez,*» 

Et  que  Jamais  ne  ddve  mal  avoir, 
Ainsi  les  uent  enemis  et  pechiez. 

Que  lis  n'ont  sens,  hardement,  ne  podr^ 
Bian  Sire  Dies  ostez  nos  td  pens^, 
Et  nos  metez  en  la  vostre  contr^ 

Si  saintement,  que  vos  pidsse  vedr. 

X/  eavof* 

Douce  Dame,  Rdne  coron^, 
Prdez  pour  nos>  Virge  bkn  eur^,"*^ 
Et  puis  apr&  ne  nos  puit  mescheohr.o 

■  Sadez— sacar  (Spadsh),  to  take.  *Aj>siwte  ■pcipe,  icsmiy.  ^ 
(JtaliaaX  ever.  *  Quene — qa«ere.<Lalln),  tosedL  *  Danortr  dctticttmy  to  Hay. 
^  Lairaie—fiDr  laiimcnna.  '  DoCanee— deabt,  tor.  *  €<pdrBM  dnaTaceai  (UMSf^ 
one  who  eowen  oTcr  the  «mbera.  »Mie.  a  jot.  **Tdt-.«n.  MAie— dd.  **Fm^ 
foou..pcdbiiiid.  >J  QiiidD-..cndit  (Lathi),  thinks.  >«Toa-HaL  '•Hdtte-JudOnpw 
'*  Him  inrtn    liiinhmiiwiBa     t  liiarihanhi    ai  M  nai  111 


470  '     lOn  Partis  In  Poetry.  XJ^^ 


ON  PARTIES  IN  POETRY. 

If  the  Muse  would  not  be  scanda-  if  by  nature  we  mean  reality^   but 

lized  to  find  herself  m  company  with  an  abstraction,  an  Apotheosis  of  na- 

the  Demon  of  politics,  our  most  con-  ture.      Yet  they  were  by  no  means 

siderable  writers,  with  a  few  excep-  alike.     Milton  is    the   most  ideal^ 

tions,  might  be  classed  as  Constitu-  Spenser  the  most  visionary  of  poets, 

tionalists.  Legitimates,  and  Revolu-  Neither  of  them  was  content  with 

tionists.  the   world     as    he    found    it:   but 

The  great  excellence  to  which  our  Spenser  presents  you  with  a  macic 
politicaf  constitution  approximates,  picture  to  exclude  it  iirom  your  si^^ht, 
u  the  fair  and  balanced  representa-  Milton  produces  a  pattern  to  mend  it 
tion  of  all  the  great  interests  of  so-  by.  After  labouring  in  vain  to  stamp 
ciety,  and,  as  resulting  from  thence,  perfection  on  an  earthly  republic,  he 
the  due  subordination  of  every  part  embodied  it  in  a  new  world  of  Gods 
of  the  body  politic  to  the  whole.  An  and  God-like  men.  His  boldest  ima- 
analogous  excellence  is  discoverable  ginations  have  the  solemnity,  the  con- 
in  the  writings  of  our  great  drama-  scious  grandeur,  of  moral  truths ;  his 
tists,  and  dramatic  poets  (under  ideals  seem  more  substantial,  more 
which  title  Chaucer  may  be  fairly  in-  real  than  any  actual  reality.  He  rouses 
eluded),  up  to  the  ace  of  Milton,  the  mind  to  more  than  common 
These,  therefore,  we  c^  the  uphold-  wakefulness,  while- Spenser  enchants 
ers  of  our  poetical  Constitution.  They  it  into  an  Elysian  dream, 
were  the  elect  of  nature;  and  ut-  If,  however,  these  mighty  spirits 
tered,  as  it  were,  the  common  voice  were  not  Constitutionalists,  they  were 
of  mankind.  They  preserve  the  ba-  quite  as  good.  If  they  do  not  repre- 
lance  between  the  various  elements  sent  nature  as  it  is,  they  ^how  us  a 
of  humanity ;  between  those  simple  glorified  likeness  of  it  That  which 
energies,  and  primary  impressions,  was  earthy  is  become  celestial;  but 
which  it  has  been  the  fashion  of  late  still  it  retains  its  due  proportions, 
to  call  exclusively  natural,  and  the  But  there  were  some,  and  those  too 
complex  regards  that  arise  from  of  no  common  genius,  who  fell  into 
artincial  society.  The  crave  and  the  fatal  error  of  representing  parti- 
the  gay,  the  rustic  and  the  re-  cular  parts :  a  race,  who  mi^t  just- 
fined,  the  town  and  the  coun-  ly  be  called  metaphysical  poets, 
try,  are  adequately  represented  in  set  the  example  by  giving  an  undue 
their  writings.  They  never  intro-  preponderance  to  the  speculative  'in- 
duce characters,  as  corrupt  ministers  tellect.  Ben  Jonson  is  not  wholly 
are  said  to  have  sometimes  appoint-  free  from  this  fault ;  Lord  Brooke, 
ed  members  of  parliament,  merely  in  the  most  obscure  of  all  poets,  was  a 
order  to  utter  their  own  opinions,  far  more  glaring  offender ;  and  some 
their  likes  and  dislikes,  through  many  of  the  imitators  of  Spenser  are  almM[^^^^*^ 
mouths;  nor  do  they  dispose  inci-  equally  guilty.  Those  whom  Ur. 
dents  so  as  to  maintain  their  pe-  Johnson  calls  metaphysical  poets,sub- 
culiar  theories.  There  is  no  self,  no  stituting  conceits  and  witticism  for 
idiosvncracy,  in  tjieir  writings.  They  the  profound  thoughts  of  the  first 
speak,  in  sliort,  for  the  whole  estate  pommencers  of  this  corruption,  pre- 
of  human  nature,  not  for  that  parti-  pared  the  way  for  the  epigrammatic 
cular  plot  of  it  which  themselves  in-  versifiers  of  the  French  school,  by 
herit  This  praise  belongs  to  Shaks-  teaching  their  readers  to  expect  per- 
peare  pre-eminently,  yet  in  large  petual  surprizes.  Thus,  the  first  se- 
measure  it  is  due  to  his  predecessors,  rious  inroad  on  our  poetical  consti- 
contemporaries,  and  immediate  sue-  tution  was  effected  by  the  head 
oessors.  obtsMng  more  than  its  share  in  the^ 

Spenser    and   Milton,     admirable  representation.  A  contrary  abuse  \ms 

poets  as  they  were,  were  not  so  pro-  prevailed  in  later  times. 
perly  Constitutional  as  their  great        The  civil  wars  upset  Church  and 

compeers.    They  rather  resemble  the  State ;  and  poetry  shared  the  fall : 

tamers    of    ideal  common- wealths,  Milton    survived   the  deluge;    and, 

than  citizens  of  any  actually  existing  after  tossing  a  weary  while  on  the 

fUie.    They  do  not  represent  nature)  waves  of  controversy,  was  safe  landed^ 


IMl.;]  <M  Pariie$  in  Poeiry.  44^7 

like  Deucalion^  on  the  summit  of  under  command  at  highest  speed. 
P&inassus.  But,  alas!  he  helped  But  the  passion  of  Dryden  is  that  of  an 
not  to  people  the  land  anew.  A  fo-  advocate  who  pleads  for  a  stranger, 
reign  swarm  was  called  in  to  re-  and  his  indignation  is  like  that  of  a 
plenish  it.  French  prmciple  in  go«  Judge  haranguing  a  culprit.  If  he  is 
Temment,  and  in  criticism,  qrer-  affected,  it  is  wiu  the  power  of  his 
powered  or  corrupted  the  old  Bri-  own  eloquence,  not  by  real  concern 
tish  spirit ;  and  thence  arose  the  for  his  cause.  After  all,  he  is  rather 
coiurt  or  legitimate  school,  the  days  an  energetic  than  a  feeling  writer. 
of  heroic  verse,  and  mad  or  spurious  He  has  very  little  heart,  and  a  great 
loyalty.  True  it  is,  there  were  many  deal  of  nerve.  Any  one  who  will 
struggles  for  freedom ;  and  in  poetry,  take  the  nains  to  compare  his  All  for 
as  in  politics,  there  were  Whigs,  and  Love,  wito  Shakspeare's  Antony  and 
Republicans,  and  lawless  innovators.  Cleopatra,  may  readily  comprehend 
There  was  Andrew  Marvel,  who  de-  the  distinction.  Shakspeare's  dia- 
serves  a  place  in  the  house  of  Poets,  racters  are  impassionea  ;  Dryden'a 
and  did  honour  to  a  seat  in  the  House  are  all  in  a  passion.  In  ihe  former, 
of  Commons.  There  was  Cowley,  a  love,  grief,  pride,  remorse,  are  acts  of 
loyalist  of  the  best  order,  who  would,  the  immortal  being ;  in  the  latter, 
perhaps,  have  been  a  better  poet,  and  they  are  mere  effects  of  physical 
a  better  patriot,  had  he  been  less  fond  temperament,  diseases  to  be  cured  by 
of  his  wit  and  his  ease.  It  maybe  said  low  diet  and  phlebotomy, 
that  his  style  is  laboured,  but  labo-  Yet  no  author  has  equalled  Dry- 
rious  trifling  is  a  not  unfrequent  re-  den  in  his  own  way:  Absalom  and 
source  of  indolence.  Then  there  was  Achitophel  is,  in  our  language  at 
Waller,  a  true  le^timate  in  politics,  least,  quite  unrivalled.  It  is  asome- 
and  the  father  of  the  sect  in  verse:  what  singular  circumstance  thatal-* 
and  Dryden,  like  his  own  Achitophel,  most  all  our  good  poUtiqal  poems 
veering  to  all  parties,  and  ever  in-  have  been  written  by  Tories;  Butler, 
clining,  against  his  better  judgment,  Dryden,  Swift,  and  the  writers  of  the 
to  the  strongest;  Otway  ana  Lee,  Antijacobin.  Churchill  forms  a  so- 
who  caught  the  last  gleams  of  de-  litary  exception ;  unless  we  may  add 
clining  tragedy;  and  a  tribe  of  Defoe,  who  displays  in  his  True- 
rhymers  and  play-wrights,  with  and  bom  Englishman  considerable  pow- 
without  titles,  who  had  the  merit  of  ers  of  satire.  Our  Whigs  have  been 
combining  the  contemptuous  chilli-  a  most  unpoetical  generation,  dull 
ness  of  high-life  with  the  grossness  when  they  abuse,  and  very  dullness 
of  St,  Giles's.  when   they    praise.    The   truth   is. 

The  Revolution  came,  and  esta-  Whiggery,  as  distinguished  from  Re- 

blished  liberty  for  all  but  the  poor  publicanism,  is  a  species  of  modern^ 

and  the  Muses.     The  former  were  tion;  a  good  thing,  doubtless  for  plain 

stUl  constrained  to  be  proud  of  the  matter-of-fact  citizens,   but   by  no 

privileges  of  their  betters,  and  the  means  congenial    to    poetry.     The 

latter  were  content  to  walk  grace-  stem  Republicans  of  Charles's  Ume 

fully  in  their  chains.  considered  verse  as  an  abomination ; 

Far  be  it  from  us  to  undervalue  and  even  Milton  abstained  from  sup- 
that  polished  and  elegant  style  which  porting  the  cause  in  metre.  Modem 
finds  its  best  direction  in  pourtraying  Republicanism  is  of  Yankee  origin,^ 
the  polish  and  elegance,  the  foibles  a  descent  that  promises  little  but 
and  vanity,  of  artificial  life;  and  ex-  what  is  anti-poctical.  The  Muse  is 
presses,  with  almost  equal  happiness,  degraded  when  she  flatters  a  kinff : 
the  gentle  titillation  of  flattery,  the  to  flatter  a  mob  is  a  baseness  she 
frosty  keenness  of  well-bred  sarcasm,  never  can  submit  to. 
or  the  smooth  regularity  of  pruden-  We  must  confess,  that  we  like  the 
tial  moral.  Nor  is  it  incapable  of  style  of  the  Legitimate  Poets,  as  we 
higher  elevations.  The  lofty  and  respect  the  courts  of  Legitimate  Mo- 
impassioned  satire  of  Dryden,  unit-  narchs,  but  we  object  to  the  too 
inff  the  vehemence  of  anger  with  the  great  influence  of  either.  We  take  a 
self-controul  of  conscious  determina-  warm  interest  in  the  details  of  ladies' 
tion,  presents  the  finest  example  of  and  gentlemen's  dresses,  which  so 
that  sort  of  voluntary  emotion,  which,  innocently  occupy  the  columns  of  the 
like  a  well-managed  charger,  is  most  Morning    Post    after   a    Drawiuig 


Booniy  though  we  hare  not  yet  been  therefore^  that  &  dan  of  wtitera  who 

presented   ourselves^   and  are  often  represent  only  ad  much  of  man  aa  is 

at  a  loaa  for  the  meaning  and  pro-  at  the  mercy  of  circmnatance^  will 

smnciatioB  of  the  French  and  Itidian  not  be  fomid  the  best  representatives 

phrases  which  still  keep  their  i^acea  of  his  total  being.    Stilly  they  are  not 

m,  the  vocabulary  of  the  toilet^  not-  waon  imperfect  than  others  who  have 

withstancting  the  royd  preference  for  taiken  a  like  partial  view,  or  received 

articles  of  British  manufacture.    But  an  equally  limited  commission. 
we  are  always  pleased  with  our  own        To  speak  plainly,  we  consider  the 

ignorance,  when,  as  on  this  occasion,  poets  of  the  French  school  Dryden> 

It  affords  an  opportunity  for  our  fiur  Pope,  &c.  to  have  been  excellent  in 

acquaintance  to  display  their  superior  their  way ;  and  no  one  need  wish  them 

learning.    Rebuke  from  the  lips  of  a  individually  to  have  been  other  than 

female  is  sometimes  quite  as  agree-  they  were.    But  those  principles  of 

able  as  praise.    We  delight  to  ima-  criticism,  which  tended  to  prohibit 

fine  the  ease  of  the  courtiers,  the  all  poetry  that  was  not  like  theirs> 
ustle  without  confusion,  the  finely-  were  as  detestable  in  taste  as  the 
contrasted  self-importance  of  old  political  tenets  of  certain  persons^ 
peers  and  new  ones ;  of  the  com-  who,  because  monarchy  is  good  while 
moner,  whose  name  is  in  Dooma-  it  co-exists  with  freedom,  wish  to 
da^  book,  and  the  city  knight,  whose  establish  it  upon  the  ruins  of  all 
tiue  appeared  yesterday — where  his  social  privileges,  however  hallowed 
bankruptcy  may  appear  to-morrow,  by  antiquity,  or  imperiously  demand- 
We  can  recal  to  mind  the  old,  hear-  ed  for  the  welfare  of  mankind. 
ty>  English  gentility  of  George  III,  There  is  a  whimsical,  but,  we  thinicy 
•or  picture  to  ourselves  the  graceful  striking  analogy  between  the  politi- 
and  gracious  urbanity  of  our  present  cal  dogmas  of  those  worthy  person- 
sovereign.  But  though  neither  Qu»-  ages  who  boast  themselves  loyal  ta 
kers  nor  Democrats  could  easily  per^  the  shame  of  loyalty,  and  the  critical 
fluade  us  to  consent  to  the  entire  abo-  rescripts  which  were  held  of  autho- 
Btion  of  all  this,  we  do  not  wish  rity  in  Oueen  Anne's  time.  An  ex- 
every  day  to  be  a  court-day,  and  still  treme  of  caution  characterises  both, 
less  all  the  world  to  be  a  court.  Our  with  a  mighty  reverence  for  etiquette; 
moral  existence  would  be  as  much  great  pretension  to  decorum ;  frequent 
endangered  by  such  an  arrangement,  appeals  to  precedent,  yet  chiefly  to 
as  our  physical  life  in  an  atmosphere  the  precedents  of  late,  and  not  the 
of  entire  oxygen.  We  reverence  our  best  periods ;  an  instinctive  horror  of 
Monarch,  but  there  is  much  worth  whatever  is  new  or  bold ;  and  a  not 
preserving  in  our  constitution  that  is  less  intense,  though  less  open  aver- 
neither  coiuiiy,  nor  monarchical.  60  sion  to  whatever  is  derived  from  sim- 
also  we  esteem  the  poets  who  reprc-  pier  and  more  energetic  stages  of 
sented  the  courtly  in  human  nature,  society.  Both,  perhaps,  have  the 
with  all  its  refinement,  its  fickleness,  merit  of  repressing  presumption,  but 
its  brilliant  vivacity,  its  attachment  then  they  are  equ^y  fatal  to  origina-i 
to  the  formal  and  conventional ;  with  lity.  They  may  now  and  then  prevent 
as  much  of  good  as  is  necessary  to  a  goose  from  affecting  the  swan ;  but 
ease  and  decorum,  and  all  the  evil  that  for  this  service  shall  they  be  allowed 
can  make,  or  conform  to  a  fashion,  to  clip  the  wings  of  the  ea^le  ?  No; 
They  are  useful  in  their  own  days,  let  their  dealings  be  with  dema-^ 
to  check  afifectation,  and  curious  in  gogues  and  poetasters ;  the  true 
after  times,  because  they  record  it :  poet,  and  the  genuine  patriot,  are  out 
most  curious,  because  they  prove  of  their  jurismction. 
within  how  small  a  circle  the  endless  Legitimacy ^  neither  in  poetry  nor 
race  of  Folly  is  confined ;  how  soon  in  government,  ever  attained  its 
Caprice  exhausts  her  tricks,  and  how  height  in  England.  It  is  an  exotic, 
oflen  she  repeats  them.  and,  heaven  be  praised,  docs  not 
But,  prone  as  man  is  to  become  a  thrive  well  with  us.  Yet  it  helped 
creature  of  the  mode,  there  is  much  to  murder  our  Tragedy;  and  if  it  pro-i 
hi  his  composition  that  opposes  it.  He  duced  two  great  poets,  and  some  ex- 
has  affections,  and  those  affections  cellent  comic  dramatists,  it  has  to  an- 
have  objects  that  are  very  little  in-  swcr  for  much  that  it  caused,  and 
Hucaced  by  iaahioD.    The  chance  is,  perhaps  for  more  that  it  forbade  to 


18fll.;]                               Obi  Fmiu$  in  Fdeiiy.  iTt 

be  wrkten.    Wit,  the  characteristic  French  aAofA  htfmi  to  be  sfaakeoji 

of  tlie  true  Leffitimates,  is  not  com-  and  the  Constitutional  writers  came 

mon ;   the  affectation  of  it  is  pesti-  into  repute  once  more.    IHrers  aU 

lently  so.    Dryden  and  Pope  liad  in-  tempts  were  made  towards  a  reform  ; 

numerable  imitators,  yet  how  few  of  blank-verse   al)Ounded,   and    Ijnrica 

them  are  read  or  remembered?   V(^  multiplied.    Alienside  in  die  ibnner> 

lume  after  volume  of  Dr.  Anderson,  Gray  and  Collins  in  the  latter,  hav^ 

and  Mr.  Chalmers,  are  full  of  the  acquired  a  steady  reputation.  Collins, 

trash  of  pretenders  of  this  school,  like  many  of  the  minor  poets,  haa 

who  keep  their  places  and  elbow  out  not  obtamed  most  popularity  where 

their  betters.  most  was  due  to  him.     His  Passions 

Our  literature,  for  a  while,  was  have  been  spouted,  u^que  ad  nauseam, 

threatened  with  a  Cliinese  despotism,  while  his  Odes  to  Liberty,  to  Fear,  to 

ITiings  as  they  are,  the  watch-word  Poetry^  and  his  exquisite  Address  to 

of  our  Legitimate  politicians,    was  Evening,    are     comparatively    negs^ 

carried  to  a  dreadful  extent  indeed,  lected. 

True,  there  were  some  recusants;  but  Gray,  Mason,  and  the  Wartons, 

*'  their  puny  thwartin^fs,  and  mock  whatever  were  their  individual  me- 

opposition,"  served  only  to  show  the  rits,  at  least  assisted    to  break  die 

strength    of  the    prevailiriff    mode.  Legitimate  spell,  by  reconciling  the 

Among  the  innovators  was  that  pret-  public  to  bolder  metaphors,  stronger 

ty,  simpering,  thin-skinned,  insipid,  images,  and  more  varied  cadence; 

good-sort  of  a  gentleman,  Mr.  Aaron  while  Akcnside  restored  somewhat 

Hill ;  whom,  for  no  ima^able  rea-  of  the  old  energy  of  thought  and  gnu 

son  that  we  can  perceive,  it  has  been  vity  of  diction.    His  best  work  is  hi^ 

the  custom  to  praise  up  in  all  bio-  Hymn  to  the  Naiads.      His  blanlt^ 

graphics  and  biographical  introduc-  verse  is  constructed  with  considera^ 

tions  as  the  glory  of  human  nature,  ble  skill ;  it  remhids  you  of  Milton^ 

He    invented  a  stanza,  and  perpe-  without  servilelv  following  him. 

trated    much    of    nothing    therein.  But  neither  these,  nor  any  poet  of 

yVoxmg  departed  so  far  from  the  es-  their  age,  were  possessed  of  that  uni- 

tablisned  fashion  as  to  write  blank-  versality,  that  oeep  and  gcrminative 

verse,  l)ut  he  wrote  it  with  the  ca-  knowledge,  which  distinguishes  the 

dence  of  the  epigrammatic  couplet,  earlier  Constitutionalists.    They  were 

We  cannot  thiiik,  with  Dr.  Johnson,  retired  persons,  who  obtained  a  nega-' 

that  his  Night  Thoughts  is    one  of  tive  sort  of  freedom  by  withdrawing 

the  few  poems  in  which  blank-verse  from    society ;    not   citizens  of  the 

could  not  be  exchanged  for  rhyme  world,  enjoying  and  promoting  gene- 

with  advantage ;  for  bad  blank-verse  ral  liberty.    They  earned,  however, 

might  always  be  advantageously  ex-  for  the  most    part,  the  censure  of 

changed  for  good  rhyme.  Johnson,  the  great  champion  of  the 

y"  Thomson,  who  in  his  Castle  of  In-  Legitimates,  who  upheld  their  theo- 

dolence  displays  an  excellent  ear,  is  •  ries  when  their  practice  began  to  de- 

liable,  in  his  Seasons,  to  the  same  cline.  Goldsmitn,Cowper,  and  Bums, 

censure  as  Young ;  yet,  with  all  his  were  independent  men  of  no  partv, 

defects,  he  deserves  to  be  called,  as  though  tlie  former  kept  within  the 

an  enthusiastic  lady  denominated  Mr.  rules  of  Legitimacy.    But  he  had  too 

Kean,  '*  Nature  restoretl."    He  is  a  much    heart,    and    too    continuous 

tnie,warm-hcarted,British,— ay,spite  feclincs,  to    belong  properly  to  the 

of  geography,  we  will  call  him  an  school. 

English  gentleman.    Sometimes,  to  Cowper  and  Bums  owe  much  of 

he  sure,  he  took  up  with  the  cast  their  reputation  to  adventitious  dr- 

fineryof  the  Legitimates,  but  this  was  cumstances;  yet  they  fully  deserve 

the  fault  of  his  age.    He  is  a  perfect  it  all.— Cowper  was  indebted  to  his 

reservoir  of  natural  images ;  a  inan,  religious  connections,  and  to  the  ad« 

with   Thomson  in  his  pocket,  may  missibility  of    his   poems   into  the 

write  Pastorals  and  Georgics  within  libraries  of  godly  persons :  yet  they 

the  Rules  of  the  Bench.     None  did  are  entitied  to  better  company  than 

more  to  weaken  the  sway  of  Legiti-  much  that  they   will  find  there.— 

macy,  though  he  still  continued  in  Bums's  fame  was  helped  on  by  his 

nominal  subjection  to  its  decrees.  condition  and  his  countrv,  for  it  Is 

At  length,  the  supremacy  of  the  anhonounihle  propen^ty  o^— <<  Jcws^ 


480                                       OuParUtsinFoeify.  CNor* 

Scotsmen,  and  other  imperfect* sym-  versal  rcASon,  was. to  be  cast  as  a 

pathieSy"  to  foster,  or  at  worst,   to  noisome  weed  away.    Some,  indeed, 

pufT  one  another.    But  yet,  neither  pretended  to  a   certain  invitation  of 

bums   nor    Cowper    needed    these  classical  models,  especially  in  those 

iKveign  aids.    As  great  a  reputation  points,  such  as  metres,  and  univer* 

as  they  eigoy  they  would  haFe  en*  sal  suffrage,    in  which  the  ancients 

loyed    without  them,  though^  per-  had  been  formerly    supposed   least 

mura,  more  tardily.  imitable ;  but  the  greater  part  set 

Churchill,   though  an  ultra^Whig  up  for  unmitigated  originahty;  and 

in  his  politics,  must  be  classed  with  doubtless,  much  that  was  original, 

the  Legitimates  in  poetry.     He  in-  much  that  was  of  great  promise, 

herited  their  point  and  sarcasm,  with  much  that  will  be  remembered,  when 

somewhat  more  of  Juvenalian  vigour  the  storms  that  accompanied  its  birth 

and    animosity.     Their    flowenaess  are  but  remembered,  was  produced 

he  probably  rejected,  and  their  po-  at  that  time, 

lish  he  had  not  time  to  attain.  But  licence  sprang  up  with  liberty: 

The  school  of  Pope  can  scarcely  be  the  strong  used  their  strength   ty- 

said  to  have  been  overthrown  by  the  rannously ;  and  the   feeble,  casting- 

Bevolution.     It  had  long  been  wear-  away  the  restraints  which  had  served 

ing  out  by  a  gradual  slow  decay.  to  conceal  and  bolster  up  their  feeble- 

.   We  know  not  whether  Darwm  can  ness,    exposed    themselves   pitiably. 

£Eurly  be  reckoned   among  its  dis-  All  maukhid  became  statesmen,  and 

ciples ;  the  laboured  lusciousness  of  a  very  large  part  of  them,  to  say  no- 

his  lines  bears  no  resemblance    to  thing  of  womankind,  became  poets; 

Pope's  smooth  poignancy,  and  his  ex-  and  the  Revolutionists  of  both  classes 

dusive  attention  to  the  forms  of  ex-  had  a  strong  tendency  to  fonn  asso- 

iemal  nature    prevents  any   simili-  ciations;    as  witness    the    Florence 

tude  of  matter.   Of  Hayley  we  know  Miscellany,   and   the  Corresponding 

nothing.     Rogers  still  survives    like  Society.    Happily,  the  poetical  anar- 

one  01  those  gentlemen  of  the  old  chy  has  not  been  succeeded  by  des> 

court   whom  we  occasionally  meet  potism ;     but,    on  the    oilier   hand, 

with  in  society,  obstinately  retaining  many  approaches  have  been  made  to 

their  satin    waistcoats    and  ruffles,  the  restoration  of  tlie  true  old  Const!- 

their  low  bows,  and  antiquated  gal-  tution. 

lantry.  Still,  however,  our  poetical  theories 

Meanwhile,  all  thiusfs  were  pre-  are  almost  as  imperfect  as  our  poll- 
paring  for  change,  l^he  minds  of  tical  ones ;  and,  as  we  have  already 
men  were  called  to  the  contempla-  hinted,  from  similar  causes, — namely, 
tion  of  first  principles.  Dogmas,  a  partial  view  of  nature,  an  exclu- 
which  had  been  held  indisputable,  sive  devotion  to  some  of  the  ele- 
were  weighed  in  the  balance,  and  ments  of  society,  with  a  total  disre- 
found  wanting ;  and  the  portentous  gard  of  the  rest, 
creations  of  German  fancy  affected  It  is  too  often  forgotten,  moreover, 
poetry  much  as  the  American  revo-  that  neither  states  nor  men  can  re- 
jution  influenced  politics.  It  is  not  turn  to  infancy.  They  may,  indeed, 
from  a  mere  coincidence  of  time  shik  back  to  its  igiiurance  and  impo- 
that  we  have  bestowed  on  a  modem  tence ;  but  its  beauty,  its  innocence, 
class  the  title  of  the  Revolutionary  and  docility,  once  past,  are  flown  for 
School;  nor  solely  from  that  auda-  ever.  It  is  a  paradise  from  which 
city  of  innovation,  that  contempt  for  we  are  quickly  sent  forth,  and  a 
established  authorities,  which  was  flaming  sword  prohibits  our  regress 
80  remarkably  contrasted  with  the  thither.  Those  who  cry  up  the  sim- 
prescriptions  of  the  Legitimates. —  plicity  of  old  times  ought  to  con- 
There  is  a  yet  deeper  propriety  in  the  sider  this.  Human  nature,  and  en- 
name.  Both  the  politicians  and  the  tire  human  nature,  is  the  poet's  proper 
poets  of  this  school  referred  every  study.  With  external  nature  he  has 
tiling  to  nature,  to  pure  unmodifled  nothing  to  do,  any  farther  tlian  as  it 
nature,  as  they  imagined  her  to  exist  influences  the  passions,  the  afTcc- 
before  the  growth  of  social  mstitu-  tions,  or  the  imaginations,  of  his  fel- 
tions.  Whatever  was  acquired,  low  men.  Besides,  Nature,  as  pre- 
whatcver  was  jxjsitiw,  whatever  sentcd  to  the  senses,  is  mere  chaos. 
would  not  bow  to  a  levelUng,  uni-  It  is  the  nund  that  gives  form,  and 


1881.3 

grace,  and  beauty,  and  sublimity; 
and  from  that  same  mind  the  insti- 
tutions and  the  prejudices  of  social 
life  derive  their  being.  Poetry,  in 
short,  has  become  too  romantic,  and 
the  world  is  too  little  so. 

The  Kevolution  has  not  vet  sub- 
sided -  but  the  rage  of  late  has  been 
rather  for  Restoration  and  importa- 
tion, than  for  absolute  novelty.  Our 
elder  dramatists  have  been  closely 
imitated  by  men*who  have  succeeded 
in  giving  their  bloom  and  fragrance, 
but  the  soul  and  substance  are  still  to 
be  supplied.  The  lighter  Italian 
poets  have  been  felicitously  imitated. 


Leisure  Houn^ 


461 


The  heathen  Deities  have  been  re- 
called from  the  transportation  to 
which  they  were  sentenced  by  tfa^ 
gruff  infallibility  of  Johnson;  and 
a  recent  attempt  has  been  made  tb 
accommodate  us  with  a  Grecian 
metre. 

It  is  a  little  remarkable,  that  the 
most  strenuous  supporter  of  poetical 
Legitimacy  in  the  present  day,  should 
be  the  encomiast  of  Napoleon,  and 
the  derider  of  all  social  institutions  ; 
while  the  most  loyal  of  laurelled 
Bards  continues  a  decided  llevolu^ 
tioiust  in  the  state  of  the  Muses. 

Thersites. 


LEISURE  HOURS. 
No.  III. 

A    Dli^LOGUE    OF    THE    LIVING. 

On  the  Homeric  Poemaiia, 


A,  So  you  have  been  playing  leap'  and  1  must  remind  you  that  one  of 

frog  with  me.  the  most  poetical  lines  that  ever  wAs 

/.  But  clumsily,  I  fear.  written  was  written  on  an  ass's  foal ; 

A.  How   could  you    imagine   the        ,  j^,  ^^  j,      ^  ^^^  ^  ^  g^ 
poetry  of  paintin^f  to  lie  m  stables  -or  j 

and  pig-sties  ?     You  might  as  well  The  poor  dumb   brutes  are  vilified 

profess  a  fondness  for  stiif  cravats,  and  oppressed  enough, heaven  knows; 

dandy  coats,  and  patent  oval  hats :  and  it  does  one  good  %to  see  them  in 

ihetf  are  in  every-day  common  life.  quiet  and  at  their  ease.     Might  not 

/.  Nay — these  make  up  the  fud^  this  explain  the  pleasure  we  take  (I 

dress  of  every-day  life :  I  prefer  the  should  have  said  1  take)  in  seeing 

undress.     I  should  bend  the  oval  hat  them  represented  in  painting  ?    But 


into  all  possible  shapes,  untwist  the    the  sagacity  of  the  pig  TI  am  not 
*'  Thou  art  sophisticated."  forest-lovmg  instinct  of  his  natural 


*l.V»^      UI<       |/^00«t^«W     OU»|#<.£F,       U..<.*«*OV     M<W  — w       ^.•Q..»,.-j         «^»  ...w       w.^       ...       »....       ..V* 

cravat,  and  tear  holes  in  the  coat,    alluding  to  the  learned  pig),  and  the 


A.  Why,  I  have  as  great  a  dislike  state,  render  him  a  far  more  poetir 

to  clowns  and  milk-maids  as  to  them,  cal  personage  than  you  seem  willing 

Give  nie  the  landscapes  of  Ovid's  to  suppose.    Why  are  the  lambs  to 

Metamorphoses,  where  even  the  very  engross   all  poetical   consideration  ? 

daisies  have  a  being,  and  the  trees  Bloomfield's  kind-hearted  description 

have  a  shape  and  life  rather  poetical  of  the  hogs  huddling  among  the  oak- 

than  vegetable.  leaves,  and  of  their  grotesque  flight 

7.  Yes— and  you  would  introduce  when  startled  by  the  wild-ducks  in 

Apollo  running  after  Daphne  in  tlie  the  sedges,  is  as  intrinsically  poetical 

midst   of   your  '<  forest  walks."     I  as  that  of  his  young  lambs  at  play, 
had  rather  meet  a  wood-cutter,  or  a        A,  Bloomiield! — Here  you  bring 

bare-foot  girl  with  a  nut-hook.  I  have  against  me  the  Morland  of  poetry : 

no  sympathy  with  idealities.     1  am  this  is  only  the  same  argument  over 

no  Ixion,  to  embrace  a  cloud,  and  again :  it  is  "  the  old  pig  in  a  new 

call  it  beauty.      The  experience  of  doublet." 

actual  things  has  sobered  me  of  ro-        /.  Briefly  then,  the  greater  part  of 

mance.     There  is  nothing  satisfying  the  pleasure  which  we  derive  from 

in  it     It  is   like  offering  to  dine  a  description,    whether    in   poetry    or 

man  half-famished  on  "  the  honey-  painting,   depends  on  association.—^ 

bag  stolen  from  the  humble-bee."     I  You,  in  fact,  admit  this,  when  you 

shall  apostrophize  you  in  the  straui  people    your   groves  with    reclining 

of  the  Annual  Anthology:  Gocls,  or  peeping  Dryads.  The  pig  and 

Why  despwe  ^hc  colt  suggest  rustic  life :  and  rustic 

TIic  sow-bom  gruiitcr  ?  life    is  associated  with  the  humble 


489                                   On  Ae  Humerle  Poematia.  {[Nor- 

oomfortaof  a  cottage;  or^at  all  events^  ily  eareftil  not  to  offend  the  *'  word- 

'"With  the  contented  industrious  po-  catchers  who  live  on  syllables."     I 

Verty  of  a  hut :  with  fresh  and  artless  wonder  you  were  not  equally  atteo- 

home   affections:    with  the  sort  of  tive    to   the    matter-of-fact  readers 

incidents  recorded  in  Blgomfield's  ex-  fno  hisignificant  body),  who  expect 

quisite  ballad  of  Market  Night :  oates,  names^  and  reasons^  in  Tnis- 

I  ac«  him  dothed  in  snow— '«#  he !  ler-chronology  order.    Pray  what  ex- 

Dapple  wiu  houtcd:  thewcaiy  man  cuse  hare  you  for  leaving  them  ail  at 

Wim  joy  glanced  o*er  his  children's  bed.  sea  in  the  critical  controversy  of  the 

A.  You  have  left  out-  Batrd--  you  will    excuse    my  pro- 

m.          1^    i_   .  _i.  1    ./.       J  nouncmg  the  word  oftener  than  there 

Thus  spoke  the  joyful  wife,  and  ran  j^  absolute  occasion  ? 

In  grateful  steams  to  hide  her  bead :  •■   <<  t^*                     i^       ,^             .    . 

.„^    ^  ,         ,            - .         .  ,       .        _  /.  *'  m  not  answer  that,  but  say  it  la 

What  has  the  smoking  of  broth  and  niy  humour." 

turnips  to  do  with  poetry?  However,  they  shall  have  a  sample,  if 

/.  Yet    you    are   too    staunch    a  they  wish  it.    There  is  Herodotus  in 

classic  to  find  fault  with  Patroclus  his  Life  of  Homer  (which,  by  the 

cooking  and  carving  for  the  guests  of  bye,  he  did  not  write),  and  there  are 

Achilles.     In  Bloomfield,  as  well  as  Martial,  and  Statins,  and  Fidgentius, 

in  Homer,  the  circumstances  belong  and  Suidas ;   all  which    good  folks 

to  poetry  by  right  of  association.  seriously   take    it  upon    trust    that 

A,  Bloomfield  and  Homer!      Do  Homer  burlesqued  his  own  heroes. 

you  remember  the  Mseonian  Ime —  Then,  as  to  the  reasons,  if  they  be 

And  dirt  uturps  the  empire  of  hu  shoes  9  worth   groping    for    they  niay  find 

/.  That  comes  of  Robert's  paymg  ^^"^  ^^  ^^J^:   and    to    spare,    in 

too  much  deference  to  vour  principle  f^^nes  and  Maittaire;  who  have  sate 

of  poetry.     He  was  afraid  of  behig  ^JJ^"  ^^  \^^^^^'  i"  ^o™,  ?"^  stnahm, 

vulgar.     He  disdained  his  hob-naU  ^^  ac^V^l  or  conceivable  objecUona 

shoes,  and  got  upon  stilts.    Take  a  Jo  the  right  ofauthorshipbemg  vested 

•imilar  image  as  treated  by  Crabbe :  ^"1  Homer.     There  is,  or  was,  a  piece 

of  antique  sculpture,  where   Homer 

e,     ,       ^ —She picks  her  way  stands,  or  stood,  with  mice  about  his 

Slowly  and  cautious  m  the  chngmg  day.  ^^^^    Therefore,  he  wrote  the  mice  and 
A.  For  heaven's  sake,  let  us  get  frogs :  what  can  be  more  clear  and 
out  of  the  mire  and  talk  of  Homer ;  conclusive  ?     The  reading-desk  and 
though  we  are  at  present  on  bogg^  owl  under  Boileau's  wigged  effigies 
ground,  even  with  him.    What  could  are  nothing   to  it.     So  pronounced 
possess  you  to  ride  cheek  by  jowl  Wetstein  and    Kuster.      But    then 
with  Tom  Pamell  in  his  jog-trot  he-  comes  Schott;    and  he  contends  that 
roic  ?  /  dash'd  mto  my  subject  some-  the  epic  burlesque  (or  apologue,  as 
thing  in  this  way :  one  ingenious  gentleman,  whose  name 
Ye  muses  nine,  that  dwell  upon  the  verdant  has  given  me  the  slip,  chooses  to  call 
hill  of  Helicon,  it)  has  no  necessary  relation  to  the 
Widi  inspiration  fire  my  soul  to  sing  of  mice   in  the  marble ;  for  that  these 
deeds  of  glory.  are,  in  fact,  the  ZotN,  "  the  jealous, 
/.  But  in  this  case,  how  should  I  waspish,  wrong-head,   rhyming    (or 
have  fared  with  the  wig-blocks  of  the  reviewing)  race"  of  antiquity,  nib- 
good  Queen  Anne's  school,  who  de-  bling  at  the  writings  of  which  they 
termine  what  is  rhythm,  not  by  their  were  envious ;   and  indeed  the  sup- 
ear,  but  by  their  fingers  ?     You  may  porters  of  tlie  other  side  of  the  ques- 
he  as  rhythmical,  or  as  lyrical,  as  tion  are,  I  think,  bound  to  account 
you  please.     They  will  only  look  at  for  the  ahsencc  of  Monsieur  Frog. 
your  long  lines,  and  (it  is  as  much  A.  Yet  though  the  army  of  miCe, 
as  they  can)  count  them.     They  will  (I  wonder  if  they  are  the  same  that 
discover  that  you  have  got  sixteen  took  by  storm  Bishop  Hatto's  tower 
syllables    in    your  first  verse,    and  on  the  Rhine,  as  the  Lakite  Laureate 
Jlfteefi  in  your  second;  and  will  talk  said  or  sang?)  though  the  army  of 
to  you,  with  a  supercilious  hoist  of  mice,  and  the  knights  of   the  bul- 
the  eyebrows    and   a   wise   simper,  nish,  do  not  stand  out  in  nito  rclieiH), 
about  polish  and    correctness,   and  they  may  all  the  while  be  lying  snug- 
Mister  Pope.  in  the  parchments.     Why  is  Homer 
A,  You  seem  to  have  been  might-  to  be  always  seen  roaring  out  heroics 


189L3  CM  the  Homeric  PoemaHa.  48S 

with  fimestone  eye-balls^  and.a  moutii  daahing  Carian  Queen ;  who  set  tlii» 
iike  the  mask  of  angiy  Chremes?  fashion  of  swallowing  the  ashes  e^ 
He  could  shake  his  sides  now  and  dead  husbands,  and  building  mautfo* 
then:  witness  lame  Vulcan  plajring  leums^  which  thus  were  necessarihr 
the  cup-bearer ;  buUy  Thersites ;  and  cfno/op^.  The  former  is  a  littfe 
the  miV/znF  bestowed  by  Ulysses  on  out  of  date.  Henry  Stephens  ao 
Inis  the  beggar,  in  presence  of  the  tually  met  with  an  ancient  copy  of 
suitors,  who  seem  to  nave  been  lads  the  Batrachomyomachia,  intituled-— 
of  the  fancy.  TirPHTOS  TOY  KAPOS. 

/.  I  never  could  see  much  drollery        A.  So— you  have  let  the  author  gut 
in  these  incidents.    Shakspeare  has    of  the  bag  at  last.    As  you  dismisp 
made  Thersites,  Ajax,  and  others,    the  Frog-^Lnd-Motu^^batile  with    sa 
immeasurably  more  entertaining  than    little  ceremony,    I  will  lay  my  Dfe 
Homer.    After  all,  this  is  not  even    you  will  not  be  more  complaisant  to 
properly  comei^y ;  much  less  parody:    the  Hymns.     Some  I  am  ready  tt> 
it  is  history-painting ;  and  i  do  not    give  up ;  but  Thucydides  and  Pau« 
except  such  traditions  respecting  the    sanias  quote  one  or  two  ais  Homer's* 
gods  as  might  appear  to  take  a  tine-    I  suppose,  if  you  profess  to  say  aAy- 
ture  of  humour.     The  traits  of  ludi-    thing  of  these,  you  will  say  it  in 
crouscharactercameinhis  way:  they    good  earnest;   and  not  shuffle  the 
belonged  to  the  truth  of  his  person-    trouble  ofT  your  hands,  as  you  did 
ages;  they  were  recognised  as  to\iches    when  you  ran  a  tilt  at  me,  instead  of 
of  legendary  portrait-painting ;  and    breaking  a  spear  with  clarissimo  viro 
do  not  seem  to  have  been  sought  and    Bamesio,    It  you  try  to  get  off  by 
singled  out  by  that  gust  of  satirical    such    shabby    shifts  here,   we   wiu 
humour  which  sports  itself  with  such    have  you  shut  up  in  a  dark  stably, 
luxuriant  activity  in  the  Troilus  and    d  la  Morland,    with    one    of    your 
Crcssida.    But  if  we  admit  certmn    sleepy  shaggy  colts, 
descriptions  and  portraits  in  the  Iliad        /.  Nay,  I  mean  to  be  quite  parti- 
andOdyssey  to  be  properly  comic,  the    cular  and  methodical,  I  assure  you. 
conclusion  is  a  great  deal  too  violent.     Let  me  recommend  you  and   your 
that  the  poet  either  did  or  could  fur-    friends  to  the  Abb^  Suchay's  Disser- 
nish  out  a  work  so  different  in  its    tationson  the  Hymns  of  tb^e  Ancients; 
kind  as   the  heroi-comic.      Harles,    or  Snedorf's    Ve  Hymnis  veteriliiD 
with    his    usual   sagacity,    remarks    Grsecorum ;    or  Ruhnken's  Episto)^ 
that  satire  and  burlesque  are  not  the    Critica  in  Homeridarum  Hymnos. 
growth  of  such   rude    and    simple        A,  1  shall  scarcely  set  out  to  the 
times  as  those  of  Homer,  but  assort    BibUotheque  Royale  to  search  for  thero» 
better  with  a  certain  refinement  of    Can't  you  particularize  ?     1  thought 
institutions,  and  that  fastidiousness    you  said  3^ou  would, 
which  is  the  fruit  of  the  corruption        /.    Well  then — the    Scholiast    on 
of  manners  ;    such,  for  instance,  as    Pindar  ascribes  to  Cinethus  of  Chios 
prevailed   in  Greece   after  the  im-    the  Hymn  to  Apollo.   This  is  the  one 
portation    of   Persian    luxury.      In    quoted  as  Homer's  by  Thucydides. 
short,    he    boldly  pronoimces    (and    But  as  the  latter  wrote  his  history  in 
he  has  philosophy  on  his  side)  that    the  eighty-ninth  Olympiad,  and  Ci- 
in  the  rude    and    simple    times    of    nethus  lived  only  in  tlie  sixty-ninth. 
Homer,    no  such  phenomenon  as  a    it  seems  scarcely  probable  that  the 
mock-heroic  poem  could  have    had    historian  should   have    mistaken    a 
any  existence.  poem  of  so  recent  an  era  for  Homer's; 

A,  Well,  this  is  a  short  way  of  and  yet  Cinethus  might  have  made 
getting  rid  of  the  question,  and  free  with  Homer's  name,  as  Onoma^ 
pretty  efifectual.  But  if  Homer  did  critus  did  with  that  of  Orpheus, 
not  write  it  pray  who  did  ?  Pausanias  mentions   the   Hymn    to 

/.  Why,  Plutarch,  at  the  end  of  Ceres  as  Homer's;  and  quotes  a 
his  book  On  the  Malevolence  of  He-  passage  from  it  which  is  extant  iu 
rodotus,  tells  us  that  Pigrcs  or  Tigres  the  copy  discovered  by  Mathei  at 
(the  letters  arc  often,  you  know,  Moscow.  Ruhnken  thinks  the  author 
interchanged  in  the  old  MSS.)  was  uncertain  (a  most  safe  and  politic 
thought  to  l)c  the  real  author.  He  guess),  but  places  him  near  Homer's 
lived  about  the  time  of  Xerxes :  and  time.  Groddeck  argues  that  the 
was  the  brother  of  Artemisia,    the    notions   contained   in   it  savour   of 


484  Oa  ike  Hofiieric  PoenuUui.  £[Noir. 

the  philosophicxil  subtleties  which  ob-  citers :  and  it  is  likely^  that  from 
tained  a  footing  in  a  later  age.  Pro-  the  spirit  of  emulation^  and  the 
clu8>  in  the  fragment  of  the  Life  of  power  of  habit,  they  might  have 
Homer,  where  he  enumerates  his  acouired  such  a  fsiality  of  imi- 
poems,  makes  no  mention  of  any  tatmg  the  Homerical  style  as  might 
nynms  at  all.  As  to  the  Hymn  to  have  deceived  even  sagacious  judges^ 
Mercury,  the  Sophist  ApoUonius,  in  and  those  who  Uvea  much  nearer 
his  Homeric  Lexicon,  denied  that  to  those  ancient  times  than  Thu- 
Apollo  was  ever  called  by  Homer  cydides  and  Pausanias.  We  have 
Letoides  fson  of  Leto,  or  Latona).  an  instance  of  highly  spirited  inuta- 
Yet  in  this  hymn  the  epithet  occurs  tion  even  in  a  comparatively  modem 
more  than  once.  I  leave  you  to  draw  poet ;  I  mean  Quintus  Calaber.  But 
the  inference.  Atheneus,  b.  1,  c.  19,  directly  hints 
Am  Do  you  mean  to  assert  that  at  the  idea  that  one  of  the  Home- 
Homer  composed  no  .hymns  what-  rids  was  the  author  of  the  hynm  to 
ever  ?  Why  hymns  are  quite  as  an-  Apollo.  I  know  that  his  name  will 
cient  as  war-son^s.  Tnere  were  have  weight  with  you,  and  here  I 
Pamphu8>    and   Olen,   and   X  don't  rest  my  cause. 

'  know  who  bendes— to  say  nothing        A,  1  must  say  it  is  something  re- 

of  Orpheus ;    though  perhaps  you  freshing  to  rest  on  so  euphonious  a 

think  he  never  existed.  name  as  Athensus,  after  the  stone- 

/.  I  don't  think  he  ever  did :  and  cutting  combinations  with  which  you 

I  use  Homer's  name  more  as  the  have  lulled  my  ears    for    the    last 

distinction  of  a  particular  point  of  quarter  of  an  hour.     Schott,  Wet- 

autiquity,  than  of  an  identical  bard,  stein,    Kuster,    Groddeck:  — pray, 

the  author  of  extended  poems.    But  didn't  you  talk  something  about  a 

I  allow,  that  there  were  very  ancient  *^  brazen  candlestick  ?  "    I  think  the 

hymns     called    Orphic,    and    there  least  you  can  do  is  to  run  off  a  few 

might  have  been    Homeric    hymns  glib  verses.     I  don't  care  whether 

also.    The  question  is,  are  these  the  you  have  the  fear  of   Pope    before 

same  ?  your  eyes,  or  whether  you  choose  to 

A.  Why  not  ?  astonish    some    dunder-head    critic 

/.  We  have  no  evidence  that  they  with  the  ''  numerous  verse"  of  noble 

are,  beyon'd  a  vague  and  coi^cctural  old  Chapman ;  whom,  my  easel  to  a 

tradition,  /n/emo/ evidence  is  against  pig-stye,  he  never  heard  of.  Suppose 

ttie  position.    The  style  is  a  trifle  you  try  your  hand  at  one  of  the 

more  sweet  and  florid  than  the  style  hymns  ?     If  you  don't  choose  to  call 

of  Homer.    We  have  also  very  sub-  it  Homer's,  you  may  call  it  Home* 

stantial  grounds  for  belief  that  the  rical,   or  rhapsodical,  or  Cuiethian^ 

Homeridic,  or  Homeric  Rhapsodists,  or  anything  you  will.    What  say  you 

did  not    barely  recite  Homer's  oral  to  Bacchus  or  the  Pirates? 
poems,  but  forged  others.     You  will        /.  Aye,  you  And  the  jncturesquc  in 

remember   they  were  not  mere  re-  it.    I  will  see  what  can  be  done. 

An  Idler. 


SONNET. 


Daughters  of  £ngland!  where  has  Nature  given 

Creatures  like  you,  so  delicately  form'd  ? 
Ye  earthly  types  of  beauty  in  its  iieavon. 

With  tender  thoughts  and  blushes  ever  warm'd ! 
Where  is  the  heart,  with  npathy^  so  MessM, 

That  woman's  beauty  fail'd  to  lead  astray? 
Where  is  the  eye  cart  for  a  moment  rest 

On  Beauty's  face,  and  calnrily  turn  away  ? 
O  lovely  woman!  muse  of  many  themes. 
The  sweet  reality  of  Fancy's  dreams ; 

WTiere  is  the  soul  that  never  lost  its  rest, 
Nor  felt  the  thrilling  aching,  and  the  strife, 

From  stolen  glances  on  a  heaving  breast 
As  white  as  marble  statues  wa'nn'd  with  life  ? 


1821.;]  nbl^Talk.  485 


TABLE  TALK. 

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ON  C0NBI8TSNCY  OF   OPINIOIT. 


■  Servetur  ad  immn 
QualiB  ab  inceptu  piooetterit,  et  sibi  ooostet. 

Many  people  boast  of  being  mas-  Incorri^ble  to  proof  as  need  be.  I  an 

ten  in  their  own  house.    1  pretend  attached  to  them  in  consequence  of 

to  be  master  of  my  own  mind.    I  tiie  pains>  the  anxiety,  and  the  wastfe 

should  be  sorry  to  have  an  ejectment  of  time  they  hare  cost  me.    In  &ct, 

served  upon  me  for  any  notions  I  may  I  should  not  well  know  what  to  do 

chuse  to  entertain  there.  Within  that  without  them  at  this  time  of  day$ 

little  circle  I  would  fain  be  an  abso-  nor  how  to  get  others  to  supply  their 

lute  monarch.  I  do  not  profess  the  place.    I  would  quanel  witn  the  best 

spirit  of  martyrdom ;  I  have  no  am-  iriend  I  hilve  sooner  than  acknow* 

bition  to  march  to  the  stake  or  up  to  ledge  the  right  of  the  Bourbons.    I 

a  masked  battery^  in  defence  or  an  see  Mr.  »— «  seldomer  than  I 

hypothesis :  1  do  not  court  the  rack :  did,  because  I  cannot  agree  with  him 

I  do  not  wish  to  be  flayed  alive  for  about  the    Catalogve  Baismm^e.     I 

affirming  that  two  and  two  make  remember  once  saying  to  this  ffentle- 

four,  or  any  other  intricate  propo-  man,  a  great  while  ago,  that  I  did  not 

sition :  I  am  shy  of  bodily  pains  and  seem  to  have  altered  any  of  my  ideas 

penalties,  which  some   are  fond  of,  since  I  was  sixteen  years  old.  '^Wbj 

miprisonment,  fine,  banishment,  con-  then,"   said  he,  *'  you  are  no  wiser 

fiscation  of  goods:  but  if  I  do  not  now  than  you  were  then  1"  I  might 

prefer  the  independence  of  my  mind  make  the  same  confession,  and  the 

to  that  of  my  body,  I  at  least  prefer  same  retort  would  apply  stUl.    Cokeh 

it  to  every  thing  else.    I  would  avoid  ridge  used  to  tell  me,  that  this  pertf^ 

the  arm  of  power,  as  I  would  escape  nacity  was  owing  to  a  want  of  tijmm 

from  the  fangs  of  a  wild  beast :  but  pathy  with  others.  What  he  calls  #yfiii* 

as  to  the  opinion  of  the  world,  I  see  pathizinff  with  others  is  their  admiring 

nothing  formidable  in  it.    ''  It  is  the  nim,  and  it  must  be  admitted  that 

eye  of  childhood  that  fears  a  painted  he  varies  his  battery  pretty  often,  la 

devil."    I  am  not  to  be  brow-beat  or  order  to  accommodate  himself  to  thki 

wheedled  out  of  any  of  my  settled  sort  of  mutual  understanding.    But 

convictions.  *  Opinion  to  opinion,  I  I  do  not  agree  in  what  he  says  of  me. 

will  face  am  man.  Prejudice, fashion.  On  the  other  hand,  I  think  that  it  is 

the  cant  of"^  the  moment,  go  for  no-  my  sympathizing  befirehand  with  the 

thing ;  and  as  for  the  reason  of  the  Afferent  views  and  feelings  that  may 

thing,  it  can  only  be  supposed  to  rest  be  entertahied  on  a  subject,  that  pre^ 

with  me  or  another,  in  proportion  to  vents   my  retracting  my  judgment^ 

the  pains  we  have  taken  to  ascertfun  and  flinging  myself  into  the  contrary 

it.    Where  the  pursuit  of  truth  has  extreme  tifterwards.  If  you  proscribe 

been  the  habitual  study  of  any  man's  all  opinions  opposite  to  your  own, 

life^  the  love  of  truth  will  be  his  rul-  and  impertinently  exclude  all  the  evi^ 

ing  passion.  '^  Wliere  the  treasure  is,  dence  that  does  not  make  for  you,  it 

there  the  heart  is  also."    £very  one  stares  you  in  the  face  with  double 

is  most  tenacious  of  that  to  which  he  force  when  it  breaks  in  unexpectedly 

owes    his    distinction   from    others,  upon  you,  or  if  at  any  subsequent 

Kings  love  power,  misers  gold,  wo-  period  it  happens  to  suit  your  inte- 

men  flattery,  poets  reputation — and  rest  or  convenience  to  listen  to  objec- 

philosophers  truth,   when    they  can  tions  which  vanity  or  prejudice  had 

find  it    They  are  right  in  cherishing  hitherto  overlooked.    But  if  you  are 

the  only  privilege   they  inherit    If  aware  from  the  first  suggestion  of  a 

*'  to  be  wise  were  to  be  obstinate,"  I  subject,  either  by  subtleQr  of  tact  or 

might  set  up  for  as  great  a  philoso-  close  attention,  of  the  fidl  force  of 

phcr  as  the  best  of  them ;  for  some  of  what  others  possibly  feel  and  think  of 

my  conclusions  are  as  fixed  and  Qs  it,  you  are  not  exposed  to  the  same 

Vol..  IV.  2  N 


486  Tktbk'Taik.  D^ov. 

racillation  of  opinion.    The  number  story  somewhere  in  Don  Qtiixotc^  of 

of  grains  and  scruples,  of  doubts  and  two  champions  coming  to  a  shield 

difficulties    thrown   into    the    scale  hung  up  against  a  tree  with  an  in* 

while  the   balance    is  yet  undecid-  scription  written  on  each  side  of  it. 

ed,    add  to  the  weight  and  steadi-  £ach  of  them  maintained,  that   the 

ness  of  the  determination.    He  who  words  were  what  was  written  on  the 

anticipates  his  opponent's  arguments,  side  next  him,  and  never  dreamt,  till 

confirms  while  he  corrects  his  own  the  fray  was  over,  that  they  might  be 

reasonings.      When  a  question  has  different  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 

been    carefully  examined  in  all  its  shield.    It  would  have  been  a  little 

bearings,  and  a  principle  is  once  es-  more  extraordinary  if  the  combatants 

tablished,  it  is  not  liable  to  be  over-  had  changed  sides  in  the  heat  of  the 

thrown  by  any  new  facts  which  have  scufBe,  and  stoutly  denied  that  thane 

been  arbitrarily  and   petulantly  set  were  any  such  words  on  the  opposite 

aside,  nor  by  every  wind  of  idle  doc-  side  as  they  had  before  been  bent  on 

trine  rushing  into  the  interstices  of  a  sacrificing  their  lives  to  prove  were 

hollow  speculaticm,  shattering  it  in  the  only  ones  it  contained.    Yet  such 

pieces,  and  leaving  it  a  mockery  and  is  the  very  situation  of  some  of  our 

a  bye- word ;  like  those  tall,  gawky,  modem  polemics.    They  have  been 

staring,  -  pyramidal  erections  which  of  all  sides  of  the  question,  and  yet 

are  seen  scattered  over  different  parts  they  cannot  conceive  how  an  honest 

of  Uie  country,  and  are  called  the  man  can   be  of   any  but  one — that 

Follies  of  different  gentlemen !     A  which  they  hold  at  present.  It  seems 

man  may  be  confident  in  maintain-  that  they  are  afraid  to  look  their  old 

ing  a  side,  as  he  has  been  cautious  in  opinions  in  the  face,  lest  they  should 

chusing.it.    If  after  making  up  his  be  fascinated   by  them   once  more, 

mind  strongly  in  one  way,  to  the  best  They  banish  all  doubts  of  their  own 

of  his  capacity  and  judgment,  he  feels  sincerity  by  inveig^ng  against  the 

himself  inclined  to  a  very  violent  re-  motives  of  their  antagonists.    There 

▼ulsion  of  sentiment,  he  may  general-  is  no  salvation  out  of  Uie  pale  of  their 

Ij  rest  assured  that  the  change  is  in  strange  inconsistency.    They  reduce 

lumself  and  his  motives,  not  in  the  common  sense    and  probity  to  the 

reason  of  things.  straitest  possible  limits — the  breasts 

I  cannot  say  that,  from  my  own  ex-  of    themselves    and    their    patrons, 

perience,  i  have  found  that  the  per-  They  are  like  people  out  at  sea  on  a 

sons  most  remarkable  for  sudden  and  very  narrow  plank,  who  try  to  pusli 

violent  changes    of   principle   have  every  body  else  off.    Is  it  that  they 

been  cast  in  tiie  softest  or  most  sus-  have  so  little  faith  in  the  cause  to 

ceptible  mould.     AH    their  notions  which  they  have  become  such  staunch 

have  been  exclusive,    bigoted,  and  converts,  as  to  suppose  that,  should 

intolerant.    Their  want  of  consist-  they  allow  a  grain  of  sense  to  their 

ency  and  moderation  has  been  in  ex-  old  allies  and  new  antagonists,  they 

act  proportion  to  their  want  of  can-  will  have  more  than  they  ?  Is  it  that 

dour  and  comprehensiveness  of  mind,  they  have  so  little  consciousness  of 

Instead  of  being  the  creatures  of  sym-  theur  own  disinterestedness,  that  they 

pathy,  open  to  conviction,  unwilling  feel  if  they  allow  a  particle  of  hones- 

to  give  offence  by  the  smallest  differ-  ty  to  those  who  now  differ  with  them, 

enoe  of  sentiment,  they  have  (for  Uie  they  will  have  more  than  they?  Those 

most  part)  been  made  up  of  mere  an-  opinions  must  needs  be  of  a  very  fra- 

tipathies— a  very  repulsive  soit    of  gile  texture  which  will  not  stand  the 

personals— at  odds  with  themselves,  shock  of  the  least  acknowledged  op- 

and    with   every    body  else.      The  position,  and  which  lay  claim  to  re- 

slenderness  of  their  pretensions  to  spectabUity  by  stigmatizing  all  who 

philosophical   inquiry  has  been  ac-  do  not  hold  them  for  ''  sots,  and 

companied  with  the  most  presump-  knaves,  and  cowards."    There  is  a 

tuous  dogmatism.    They  have  been  want  ofwell-balanced  feeling  in  every 

persons  of  that  narrowness  of  view  such  histance  of  extravagant  versati- 

and    headstrong    self-sufficiency    of  lity ;  a  something  crude,  unripe,  and 

purpose,  that  they  could  see  only  one  harsh,  that  does  not  hit  a  judicious 

side  of  a  question  at  a  time,  and  palate,  but  sets  the  teeth  on  edge  to 

wMchever  they  pleased*    There  is  a  think  of.    '*  I  had  rather    hear  my 


mother's  cat  mew,  or  a  wheel  grate  hear  that  he  has  tfiven  up  his  theory 
on  the  axle-tree>  than  one  of  these  that  poetry  should  he  written  in  the 
same  metre-ballaid-mcHigers"  chaunt  language  of  prose,  or  applied  for  an 
his  incondite  retrograde  lays  without  iijunction  against  the  Lyrical  Bal- 
ihyme  and  without  reason.  lads.    I  will  wager  a  trifle,  that  our 
The    pruiciples    and    professions  ingenious  poet  will  not  concede  to 
change :  the  man  remains  the  same,  any  patron,  (how  noble  or  munificent 
There  is  the  same  spirit  at  the  boU  soever)  that  the  Leech  Gatherer  is 
tom  of  all  this  pragmatical  fickleness  not  a  fit  sulgect  of  the  Muse,  and 
and  Tirulence,  whether  it  runs  into  would  sooner  resign  the  stamp-dis* 
one  extreme  or  another :— to  wit,  a  tributorship  of  two  counties,  thaa 
confinement  of  view,  a  jealousy  of  bum  that  portion  of  the  Recluse,  a 
others,  an  impatience  of  contradic-  Poem,  which  has  been  given  to  the 
tion,  a  want  oi  liberality  in  constru-  wcnrld  under  the  title  of  the  Excursion, 
ing  the  motives  of  oUiers  either  from  The  tone,  however,  of  Mr.  Words- 
monkish    pedantry,  or   a  conceited  worth's  poetical  effusions  reouires  a 
overweening  reference  of  every  thing  little  reyimon  to  adapt  it  to  tne  pro- 
to  our    own   fancies    and   feeling  gressive  improvement  in  his  political 
There  is  something  to  be  said,  m-  sentiments:  for,  as  £ELr  as  I  under- 
deed,  for  the  nature  of  the  political  stand  the  Poems  themselves  or  the 
machinery,  for  the  whirling  motion  Preface,  his  whole  system  turns  upon 
of   the   revolutionary   wheel  which  this,  that  the  thou^ts,  the  feelings, 
has  of  late  wrenched  men's  under^  the  expressions  of  the  common  people 
standings  almost  asunder,  and  <'  a-  in  country  places  are  the  most  renn- 
mazed  the  verv  faculties  of  eyes  and  ed  of  all  others ;  at  once  the  most 
ears;"  but  still  this  is  hardly  a  suffi-  pure,  the  most  simple,  and  the  most 
dent  reason,  why  the  adept  in  the  sublime:— yet,  with  one  stroke  of  his 
old  as  well  as  the  new  school  should  prose-pen,  he  disfranchises  the  whole 
take  such  a  prodigious  latitude  him-  rustic  population  of  Westmoreland 
self,  while  at  the  same  time  he  makes  and  Cumberland  from  votuig  at  elec* 
so  little  allowance  for  others.    His  tions,  and  says  there  is  not  a  man 
whole  creed  need  not  be  turned  topsy-  among  them  that  is  not  a  knave  in 
turvy,  from  the  top  to  the  bottom,  grain.    In  return,  he  lets  them  still 
even  in  times  like  these.    He  need  retain  the    privilege    of  expresainff 
not,  iu  the  rage  of  party-spirit,  dis-  their  sentiments  in  select  and  naturtu 
card  the  proper  attributes  of  huma-  languajse  in  the  Lyrical  Ballads.    So 
nity,  the  common  dictates  of  reason,  much  mr  poetical  justice  and  politic 
He  need  not  outrage  every  former  cal  seventy  1   An  author's  political 
feeling,  nor  trample  on  every  custo-  theories  sit  loose  upon  him,  and  may 
mary  decency,  in  his  zeal  for  reform,  be  changed  like  his  clothes.    His  lite- 
or  in  his  greater  zeal  against  it.    If  rary  vanity,  alas  I  sticks  to  him  like 
his  mind,  like  his  bodv,  has  under-  his  skin,  and  survives  in  its  first  gloss 
gone  a  total  change  of  essence,  and  and  sleekness,  amidst 
purged  off  the  taint  of  all  its  early  The  wreck  of  matter,  and  the  crush  of 
opinions,  he  need  not  carry  about  wodds. 

with  him,  or  be  haunted  in  the  per-  Mr.  Southey  still  makes  experi* 
sons  of  others  with,  the  phantoms  of  ments  on  metre,  not  on  governments, 
his  altered  principles  to  loath  and  and  seems  to  think  the  last  resort  of 
execrate  them.  He  need  not  (as  it  English  liberty  is  in  court-iambics, 
were)  pass  an  act  of  attainder  on  all  Stifl  the  same  upstart  self-sufficiency, 
his  thoughts,  hopes,  wishes,  from  still  the  same  itch  of  newfangled  in- 
youth  upwards,  to  offer  them  at  the  novation  directed  into  a  new  channel, 
shrine  of  matured  servility :  he  need  still  the  same  principle  of  favour- 
not  become  one  vile  antithesis,  a  liv-  itism,  still  the  same  overcharged  and 
ing  and  ignominious  satire  on  him-  splenetic  hostility— all  is  right  that 
self.  Mr.  Wordsworth  has  hardly,  I  he  approves,  all  is  wrong  that  op« 
should  thuik,  so  much  as  a  single  par-  poses  his  views  in  the  smallest  par-> 
tide  of  feeling  left  in  his  whole  com-  ticular.  There  is  no  inconsistency 
position,  the  same  that  he  had  twen-  in  all  these  anomalies.  Absurdity  u  . 
ty  years  ago;  not  *'  so  small  a  drop  uniform;  egotism  is  the  same  thing; 
of  pity,"  for  what  he  then  was,  ''as  a  limited  range  cxf  comprehensi<Mi  ia 
a  wren's  eye,"— except  that  I  do  not  a  habit  of  ixwEii  >3ba0l  %.TQAa(\  v^iSncBw 


488  2Vi^-2Vift.  [^Nor. 

gets  the  better  of,  and  may  distin-  what  did  it  all  end  in,  but  their  be- 

fluish  equally  the  PantlBocratist  or  ing  made  Lords?"    It  is  better  to 

Constitutional  Association-monger.  be  a  lord  than  a  Incciney  to  a  lord. 

To  quit  this,   which  is  rather  a  So  we  see  that  the  swelling  pride  and 

stale  topic,  as  well  as  a  hopeless  one,  preposterous  self-npinion  which  ex- 

and  give  some  instances  of  a  change  alts  itself  above  the  mightiest,  look- 

of  sentiment  in  individuals,   which  ing  down   upon,   and    braving    the 

may  serve  for  materials  of  a  history  of  boasted  pretensions  of  the   highest 

opinion  in  the  begiiming  of  the  19th  rank   ana  the  most  brilliant  talents 

oeatury :— -A  gentleman  went  to  live,  as  nothing,  compared  with  its  oim 

mme  years  ago,  in  a  remote  part  of  conscious    powers    and    silent    un- 

the  country,  and  as  he  did  not  wish  moved  self-respect,  grovels  and  licks 

to  affect  singidarity  he  used  to  have  the  dust  before  titled  wealth,  like  a 

two  candles  on  his  table  of  an  even*  lacquered  slave,  the  moment  it  can 

ing.    A  romanUc  acquaintance  of  lus  get  wages    and    a  livery !     Woi Jd 

in  the  neighbourhood,  smit  with  the  Milton  or  Marvel  have  done  thus  ? 
love  of  simplicity  and  equality,  used        Mr.  Coleridge,  indeed,  sets  down 

to  come  in,  and  without  ceremony  this  outrageous  want  of  keening  to 

•nufifone  of  them  out,  saying,  it  was  an  excess  of  sympathy,  and  there  is> 

a  shame  to  uidulge  in  such  extra-  after  aU,  some  truth  in  his  8tiggc»- 

TSgance,    while  many  a  poor  cot-  tion.     There  is  a  craving  after  the 

tsger  had  not  even  a  rush-light  to  approbation     and     concurrence     of 

see  to  do  their  evening's  work  by.  others  natural  to  the  mind  of  man. 

This  mi^t  be  about  the  year  1802,  It  is  difficult  to  sustain  the  weight 

and  was  passed  over  as  among  the  of  an  opinion  singly  for  any  length  of 

ordinary  occurrences  of  the  day.    In  way.    The  intellect  languishes  with* 

1816  (oh!  fearful  lapse  of  time,  preg-  out  cordial  encouragement  and  sup* 

Bsnt  with  strange  mutability),  the  port.    It  exhausts  both  strength  and 

same    enthusiastic  lover  of   econo*  patience  to  be  always  striving  agaivist 

my,  and  hater  of  luxury,  asked  his  the  stream.     Contra  uudentior  ito-^ 

thoughtless  ixiend  to  dine  with  him  is  the  motto  but  of  few.      Public 

Ml  company  with  a  certain  lord,  and  opinion  is  always  presshig  upon  the 

to  lend  him  his  man  servant  to  wait  mind,  and,  like  the  air  we  breathe* 

at  table ;  and  just  before  they  were  acts  unseen,  unfelt.     It  supplies  tlic 

sitting  down  to  dinner,  he  heard  him  living  current  of  our  thoughts,  and 

say  to    the   servant  in  a  sonorous  infects  without  our  knowledge.     It 

whisper  — ''  and  be  sure  you  don't  taints  the  blood,  and  is  taken  into 

forget  to  have  six  candles  on  the  the  smallest  pores.    The  most  sanh- 

table ! "    Extremes  meet.   The  event  guine  constitutions  are,  perhaps,  the 

here  was  as  true  to  itsdf  as  the  oscU-  most  exposed  to  its  influence.    But 

latiou  of  the  pendulum.    My  uiform-  public  opinion  has  it  source  in  power, 

aut,  who  understands  moral  equa-  m  popular  prejudice,  and  is  not  al* 

tions,  had  looked  for  this  reaction,  ways  ui  accord  with  right  reason,  or 

and   noted  it   down   as    character*  a  high  and  abstractid  imagination, 

btic.    The  impertinence  in  the  first  Which  path  to  follow  where  the  twoi 

instance  was  the  cue  to  the  ostcnta-  roads  part  ?     The  heroic  and  rom«ii« 

tious  servility  hi  the  second.     The  tic  resolution  prevails  at  first  in  high 

one  was  the  fidfilment  of  the  other,  aiul  heroic  tempers.     They  think  to 

like  the  type  and  anti-type  of  a  pro*  scale  the  heights  of  truth  and  virtue 

phecy.    No— the  keeping  of  the  dha-  at  once  with    him   *'  whose  genius 

racter  at  the  end  of  fourteen  years  had  angelic  whigs,  and  fed  on  man* 

was  as  unique  as  the  keeping  of  the  na," — ^but  after  a  time   find   them- 

thought  to  the  end  of  the  fourteen  selves  baffled,  toiling  on  in  an   uphill 

lines  of  a  Sonnet ! — Would  it  sound  road,    without    friends,    in    a    cold 

strange  if  I  were  to  whisper  it  iu  the  neighbourhood,  without  £iid  or  pro-- 

reader's  ear,  that  it  was  the  same  spcct  of  success.    The  poet 

person  who  was  thus  anxious  to  see  i^ir-  -  ««*r«  «o^  i,«  fi,«  -o^ 

*^.  ji      ^i_     A  ti     .  .  LAKt  a  warm  coca  oy  tne  way. 

SIX  candles  on  the  table  to  receive  a  b        j  j 

lord,  who  once  (in  ages  past)  said  He  hears  murmiu^  loud  or  sup- 
to  me,  that  *'  he  saw  nothing  to  pressed,  meets  bLmk  looks  or  scowl- 
admire  in  the  eloquence  of  such  men  mg  faces,  is  exposed  to  the  pelting 
aa   Mansfield   and   Chatham ;   and  q€  the  \iitiles8  press,  and  is  stunned 


1691.;]                                           I\ihli>Talk.  489 

by  the  shotit  of  the  mob,  that  gather  gtiidance  of  this  demon^  if  every 
round  him  to  see  what  sort  of  a  whimsy  or  occult  discovery  of  his 
creature  a  poet  and  a  philosopher  is.  own  is  not  received  with  acclama- 
What  is  there  to  maJie  him  proof  tion  by  one  party,  will  wreak  his 
against  all  this?  A  strength  of  under-  spite  by  desertmg  to  the  other,  and 
standing  steeled  against  temptation,  carry  all  his  talent  for  disputation 
and  a  dear  love  of  truth  that  smiles  with  him,  sharpened  by  rage  and 
opinion  to  scorn?  lliese  he  per-  disappointment.  A  man,  to  be 
haps  lias  not.  A  lord  passes  in  his  steady  in  a  cause,  should  be  more 
coach.  Might  he  not  get  up,  and  attacned  to  the  truth  than  to  the  ao- 
ride  out  of  the  reach  of  the  rabble-  quiescence  of  his  fellow-citizens.  A 
rout  ?  He  is  invited  to  stop  dinner,  young  student,  who  came  up  to  town 
If  he  stays  he  may  insinuate  some  a  few  years  since  with  ^me  hyper- 
wholesome  truths.  He  drinks  in  critical  refinements  on  the  modem 
rank  poison— flatteir !  He  recites  pWlosophy  to  introduce  him  to  the 
some  verses  to  the  ladies  who  smiie  Gamaliels  of  the  age,  but  who  would 
delicious  praise,  and  thank  him  allow  no  one  else  to  have  a  right 
through  their  tears.  The  master  of  view  of  the  common  doctrines  of  the 
the  house  suggests  a  happy  allu*  school,  or  to  he  able  to  assign  a  rea« 
sion  in  the  turn  of  an  expression,  son  for  the  faith  that  was  in  him,  was 
*'  There's  sympathy."  This  is  l)et^  sent  to  Coventry  by  the  true  adeptfl> 
ter  than  the  company  he  lately  left,  who  were  many  of  them  as  wise  and 
Pictures,  statues  meet  his  raptured  as  fastidious  as  himself.  He  there- 
eve.  Our  Ulysses  Ihnds  lumsclf  in  fore  turned  round  upon  the  whole 
the  gardens  of  AJcinous :  our  truant  set  for  this  incUgnity,  and  has  been 
is  fairly  caught.  He  wanders  through  playing  off  the  heavy  artillery  of  his 
enchanted  ground.  Groves,  dassic  scurrilous  abuse,  his  verbal  logic, 
groves  nod  unto  him,  and  he  hears  and  the  powerful  distinctions  of  the 
*' ancestral  voices"  hailing  him  as  civil  and  canon  law  upon  the  de- 
brother-bard!  He  sleeps,  dreams,  voted  heads  ofhis  tasteless  associates; 
and  wakes,  cured  of  his  thriftless  '^  perpetual  volley,  arrowy  sleet," 
prejudices  and  morose  philanthropy,  ever  since  1  It  is  needless  to  men^ 
He  likes  this  courtly  and  popular  tion  names.  The  learned  gentleman 
sympathy  better.  **  He  looks  up  having  left  his  unpateful  party  and 
with  awe  to  kings ;  with  honour  to  unprofitable  principles  in  dudgeon, 
nobilitv;  with  reverence  to  magis-  has  gone  into  the  opposite  extreme 
trates, '  &c.  He  no  longer  breathed  like  mad,  sticks  at  nothing,  is  cal-* 
the  air  of  heaven  and  his  own  lous  to  public  opinion,  so  that  he 
thoughts,  but  is  steeped  in  that  of  pleases  his  employers,  and  can  l>e- 

Ealaces  and  coiuts,  and  finds  it  agree  come  *^  a  thorn  in  the  side  of  free- 

etter  with  his  constitutional  tem-^  dom;"  and  fairly  takes  the  bridle  in 

pcrament.    Oh !  how  sympatJiy  al-  his  teeth,  stop  him  who  can.    A  more 

ters  a  man  from  what  he  was  !  obstinate  hebig  never  took   pen   ht 

T»     u    -J  ^  u    _*-     t  •  J  hand.     Yet,  by  agreeing  to  his  con^ 

ii:ar^1^^^^^r^  elusions  and  sub£^^^^^ 

Alas!  die  gratitude  of  man    ™™^*  immte  (such  as  they  are)  it  would 

Has  oftcner  set  mc  mourning.  ^  8^^  possible  to  make  him  give 

up  every  one  of  his  absurdities  in 

A  spirit  of  contradiction,  a  wish  succession,  and  to  drive  him  to  set 

to  monopolize  all  wisdom,  will  not  up  another  New  Daily  Paper  against 

account  for  uniform  consistency,  for  himself! 

it  is  sure  to  defeat  and  turn  against  I  can  hardly  consider  Mr.  Cole* 

itself.    It  is  "  every  thing  by  turns,  ridge  as  a  deserter  from  the  cause 

and  nothing  long.'       It  is  warped  he  first  espoused,  unless  one  could 

and  crooked.      It  cannot  bear  the  tell  what  cause  he  ever  heartily  es^ 

least  opposition,  and  sooner  than  ac-^  poused,  or  what  party  he  ever  be<* 

qiticsce    in  what  others  approve  it  longed  to,  in  downright  earnest.     He 

will  change  sides  in   a  day.    It  is  has  not  been  inconsistent  with  him- 

ofTcnded  at  every  resistance  to  its  self  at  different  times,    but  at  all 

captious,  domineering  humour,  and  times.    He  is  a  sophist,  a  casuist, 

will    cpiarrel    for    straws    with    its  a  rhetorician,  what  you  please ;  oswl 

best  friends.     A  person  under  the  might  hme  «itgviib\  ot  ^«i^s&sssr^  v^ 


TWf-Tdft.  [JSor^ 


tkt  end  of  hit  bretth  on  one  ode  of  ture,    and   all  the  while  afraid  of 

m  qtiestioo  or  another,  but  he  nerer  agreeing  with  him  lest  he   should 

way  a  pragmatical  feUow.    He  Ihred  instantly  turn  round  and  unsay-  all 

in  a  round  of  contradictions^    and  that  he  had  said,  for  fear  of  my  «^ 

narer  came  to  a  settled  point    His  ing  away  with  too  good  an  opinum 

fimcy   gave  the   cue  to  his  judg*  of  my  own  taste,  or  too  great  an  ad- 

ment,  and  hb  vanity  set  his  inven-  miration  of  my  id(A — and  his  own. 

tion  afloat  in  whatever  direction  he  I  dare  not  ask  his  opinion  twice,  if  I 

could  find  most  scope  for  it,  or  most  have  got  a  favourable  sentence  oiioe, 

Mfmpaihy,  that  1^  admiration.    His  lest  be  should  belie  his  own  senti- 

jdfe  and  Oinnions  might  naturalhr  ments  to  stagger  mine.  I  have  hemid 

recdve  the  title  of  one  of  Hume  s  him  talk  divinely  f  like  one  inspired) 

EsMys^-*'  A   Sceptical   Solution   of  of  Boccaccio,  and  the  story  of  the  Pot 

Sceptical  Doubts.      To  be  sure,  his  of  Banl,  describing  **  how  it  grew, 

Watchman  and  his  Friend  breathe  and  it  grew,  and  it  grew,"  till  you 

a  somewhat  different  tone  on  sub-  saw  it  spreaui  its  tender  leaves  in  the 

jects  of  a  particular  desoiption,  both  light  of  nis  eye,  and  wave  in  the  tte- 

of   them   I4>parently    pretty    high-  mulous  sound  of  his  voice ;  and  yet  if 

raised,  but  whoever  will  be  at  the  you  asked  him  about  it  at  another 

pains  to  examine  them  doselv,  will  time,   he  would,  perhaps,  affect  to 

find  them  to  be  vchtntariesy  nigues,  think  little  of  it,  or  to  have  forgotten 

solemn  capricdos,  not  set  composi-  the  circumstance.    His    enthusiasm 

tions  with  any  malice  prepense   in  is  fickle  and  treacherous.     The  in- 

them,    or  much  practical  meaning,  stant  he  finds  it  shared  in  common^ 

I  believe  some  of  his  friends,  w£>  he  backs  out  of  it.    His  enmity  is 

were  indebted  to  him  for  the  sugw  equally  refined,  but  hardly  so  un- 

ffestion  of  plausible  reasons  for  con-  social.    His  exquisitely  tiuned  invec- 

mrmity,  and  an  opening  to  a  more  tives  display  all  the  beauty  of  scorn, 

qualified  view  of  the  letter  of  their  and  impart  degance  to  vulgarity.  He 

paradoxical  prindples,   have  latdy  sometimes  finds  out  minute  exceUen- 

disgusted  him  by  the  virulence  and  des,  and  cries  up  one  thing  to  put  you 

extravagance   to   which  they   have  out  of  conceit  with  another.     If  you 

carried  hints,  of  which  he  never  sus-  want  him  to  praise  Sir  Joshua  com 

pected  that  they  would  make  the  amorf,  in  his  best  manner,  you  should 

least  i>0S8ible  use.    But  if  Mr.  Cole-  begin  with  saying  something  about 

ridge  is  satisfied  with  the  wandering  Titian — if  you  seem  an  idolizer  of 

Moods  of  hb  Mind,  perhaps  this  is  Sir  Joshua,  he  will  immediately  turn 

no  reason  that  others  may  not  reap  off  the  discourse,    gliding  like   the 

the  solid  benefit.    He  himself  is  like  serpent  before  Eve,  wary  and  beau- 

the  idle  sea- weed   on    the    ocean,  tiful,  to  the  graces  of  Sir  Peter  Lely, 

tossed  from  shore  to  shore :  they  are  or  ask  you  if  you  saw  a  Vandyke 

like  bamades  fastened  to  the  vessd  the  other  day,   which  he  does  not 

of  the  state,  rotting  its  goodly  tim-  think  Sir  Joshua  could  stand  near, 

hers  I  But  find  fault  with  the  Lake  Poets, 

There  are  some  persons  who  are  of  and  mention  some  pretended  patron 

too  fastidious  a  turn  of  mind  to  like  of  rising  genius,   and  you  need  not 

any  thing  lonff,  or  to  assent  twice  to  fear  but  he  will  join  in  with  you  and 

the  same  opmion.     — —  always  go   all   lengths  that  you  can  wish 

sets  himself  to  prop  the  falling  cause,  him.    You  may  calculate  upon  him 

to  nurse  the  ncketty  bantlinjB^.    He  there.      **  Pride  devates,    and   joy 

takes  the  part  which  he  thinks  in  brightens  his  fiice."     And,  ind^d^ 

most   need  of  his  support,   not  so  so  eloquent  is  he,  and  so  beautifiil  in 

much  out  of  magnanimity,  as  to  pre-  his  eloquence,  that  I  myself,  with  all 

vent  too  great  a  degree  of  presump-  my  fi-eedom  from  gall  and  bitterness, 

tion  or  sdf-complacency  on  the  tri-  could  listen  to  him  untired,  and  with- 

umphant  side.    <'  Though  truth  be  out   knowing  how  the  time  went, 

trutli,  yet  he  contrives  to  throw  such  losing  and  neglecting  many  a  meal 

changes  of  vexation  on  it  as  it  may  and  hour, 

lose  some  colour."    I  have  been  de-  _—  From  mom  to  noon, 

lighted  to  hear  him  expatiate  with  From  noon  to  dewy  e?e,  a  summer^s  day ! 

Ifie  most  natural  and  affecting  aim-  When  I  cease  to  hear  him  quite, 

pMcHj  on  •  fin^oiuila  pMnge  oc  ^m>  ^i^to  Vaioic^iioi^  turned  to  what 


18210  Table^iyk.  4»1 

cento  they  may  of  praise  or  blame,  join  the  prevailing  clamour  whaterwr 

will  sound    dull,    ungrateful,     out  it  i» ;  so  tliat  the  fluctuating  state  of 

of  tune,    and   harsh,   in  the  com-  public  opinion  regulates  their  fcTeiv 

parison.  ^K  restless  enthusiasm,  like  a  ther* 

An  overstrained  enthusiasm  prtH  mometcr.    They  blow  hot  or  cold, 

duces  a  capriciousness  in  taste,  as  according  as  the  wind  seto  favourable 

well  as  too  much  indifference.     A  or  otherwise.    With  such  people  tfic 

person  who  seto  no  bounds  to  his  onlv  infallible  test  of  merit  is  success; 

admiration  takes  a  surfeit  of  his  &-  and  no  argumento  are  true  that  have 

voiuites.     He  over-does  the  thing,  not  a  large  or  powerful  majority  on 

He  gets  sick  of  his  own  everlasting  their  side.    They  go  by  appearance 

praises,  and  affected  raptures.    HS  Their  vanity,  not  the  truth,  is  their 

J)references  are  a  great  deal  too  vio-  ruling  oljject.    They  are  not  the  last 

ent  to  last    He  wears  out  an  au-  to  qmt  a  falling  cause,  and  they  are 

thor  in  a  week,  that  might  last  him  a  the  first  to  hail  the  rising  sun.    Their 

year,  or  his  life,  by  the  eagerness  with  minds  want  smcerity,  modesty,  aiid 

which  he  devours  him.    Every  such  keeping.    With  them— 

favourite  is  in  his  turn  the  greatest  ^__,^^  ^o  have  doneis  to  h«ng 

writer    in    the    world.      Compared  Quite  out  of  fashioii,  like  a  rusty  maU 

with  the  lord  of  the  ascendant  for  the  in  monumental  mo^ezy. 

time  being,  Shakspeare  is  common-  ^,         .1,         . ,  ^ 

place,  and  MUton  a  pedant,  a  little  They  stiU,  "with  one  consent,  pruse 

insipid  or  so.    Some  of  these  prodi-  new-born  gauds,   and  Fame,  as  they 

gics  require   to  be  dragged  out  of  construe  it,  " 


their  lurking-places,    and  cried  up  ■  Like  a  fitthionahle  host, 

to  the  top  ot  the  compass ; — their  That  al^dy  shakes  his  partiiig  guest  by 

truto  are  subtle,   and  must  be  vi-  me  hand; 

olently  obtruded  on  the  sight     But  And   with   ha  anns  outstretchM,  as  bs 

the    effort   of    exaggerate    praise,  _        would  fly, 

though  it  may  stag|er  others,  tires  ^"""^^'^^   **°^'      W*^«~   *^ 

the  maker,  and  we  liear  of  them  no  And  F^^  goes  out  sighing, 
more  after  a  while.      Others  take  **  ^^     " 

their  turns,    are  swallowed    whole.  Such  servile  flatterers  made  an  idol 

undigested,  ravenously,   and  disap*  of  Buoniaparte  while  fortune  smiled 

pear  in   the   same  manner.     Good  upon  him,  but  when  it  left  him,  they 

authors  share  the  fate  of  bad,  and  a  removed  him  from  his   pedestal  ni 

library  in  a  few  years  is  nearly  dis«  the  cabinet  of  their  vanity,  as  we  take 

mantled.    It  is  a  pity  thus  to  outlive  down  the  picture  of  a  relation  that 

our    admiration,    and    exhaust   our  has  died  without  naming  us  in  his 

relish  of  what  is  excellent    Actors  will.    The  opinion  of  such  triflers  is 

and  actresses  are  disposed  of  in  the  worth  nothing :  it  is  merely  an  echo, 

same    conclusive  peremptory  way :  We  do  not  want  to  be  told  the  event 

some    of  them    are    talked    of  for  of  a  question,  but  the  righto  of  it 

months,  nay,  years ;  then  it  is  al-  Truth  is  in  their  theory  nothing  but 

most  an  offence  to  mention  them,  ''noise  and  inexplicable  dumb  show." 

Friends,  acquaintance,  go  the  same  They  are  the  heralds,  outriders,  and 

road ; — are  now  asked  to  come  six  trumpeters  in  the  procession  of  fame  ; 

days    in    the    week,    then    warned  are  more  loud  and  boisterous  than  the 

against   coming  the  seventh.     The  rest,  and  give  themselves  great  idrs, 

.smallest  faults  are  soon  magnified  in  as  the  avowed  patrons  and  admirers 

those  we  think  too  highly  of:   but  of  genius  and  merit 
where  shall  we  find  perfection  ?     If       As  there  are  many  who  change 

we  will  put  up  with  notlung  short  of  their  sentimento  with  circumstances, 

that,  we  shall  have  neither  pictures,  (as  they  decided  lawsuito  in  Rabelais 

books,  nor  friends  leftp— we  shall  have  with  the  dice),  so  there  are  others 

nothing  but  our  own  absurdities  to  who  change  them  with  their  acquaint- 

keep  company  with  !    ''  In  all  things  ance.    "  Tell  me  your  company,  and 

a  regular  and  moderate  indulgence  is  I'll  tell  you  your  opinions,"  might  be 

the  best  security  for  a  lasting  enjoy-  said  to  many  a  man  who  piques  hhn- 

ment" — Bubke.  self  on  a  select  and  superior  view  of 

There  are  numbers  who  judge  by  things,  distinct  from  the  vulgar.    Iiw 

the  event,  and  change  with  fortune,  dividuals  of  this  class  are  quick  and 

They- extol  the  hero  of  the  day,  and  versatile^  but  the^  ttce  «a1  VAtic^ 


4M  TabU^Talk.  C^OT» 

hand  with  opinion.    They  catch  it,  contradictiong,  there  might  be  some 

idien  it  is  pointed  out  to  them,  and  pound  for  this  whiffling  and  violent 

lake  it  at  the  rebound,  instead  of  moonsiatency.    But  the  face  of  truth, 

gfanbg  4he  first  impulse.  Their  minds  like  that  of  nature,  b  different  and 

Mt9  a  light,  luxuriant  sdl,  into  which  the  same.    The  first  outlme  of  an 

tlKNights  are  easily  transplanted,  and  Of^nion,  and  the  general  tone  of  think- 

shoot  up  with  uncommon  sprightli-  ing,  may  be  sound  and  correct,  though 

naas  and  vigour.     They  wear  the  we  nwy  spend  an^  quantity  of  time 

dress  of  other  people's  minds  very  and  pains  m  worlung  up  and  uniting' 

gracefully  and  unconsciously.    They  the  parts  at  subsequent  sittings.    If 

teU  you  your  own  opinion,  or  very  we  nave  mistaken  the  character  of 

eively  repeat  an  oluservation  you  the  countenance  altogether  at  first, 
ve  made  to  them,  about  half  a  year  no  alterations  will  bring  it  right  after- 
afterwards.  They  let  you  into  the  wards.  Those  who  mistake  white 
ddicades  and  luxuries  of  Spenser  for  black  in  the  first  instance,  may 
with  great  disinterestedness,  in  re-  just  as  well  mistake  black  for  wldte 
turn  for  your  having  introduced  that  when  they  reverse  thdr  canvass.  I 
author  to  their  notice.  They  prefer  do  not  see  what  security  they  can 
West  to  Raphael,  Stothard  to  Rubens,  ba^e  in  their  present  opinions,  who 
till  they  are  told  better.  Still  they  build  their  pretension  to  wisdom  on 
are  acute  in  the  main,  and  good  Um  total  folly,  rashness,  and  extra- 
judges  in  their  way.  By  trying  to  vagance  (to  s^  no  worse)  of  their 
iipprove  their  taste,  and  reform  ueir  fbmier  ones.  The  perspective  may 
notions  according  to  an  ideal  stand-  change  with  years  and  experience : 
ard,  they  perhaps  spoil  and  muddle  we  niay  see  certain  things  nearer,  and 
their  native  faculties,  rather  than  do  others  more  remote;  but  the  great 
them  any  good.  Their  first  manner  masses  and  landmarks  will  remain, 
is  their  best,  because  it  is  the  most  though  thrown  into  shadow  and 
natural.  It  is  well  not  to  go  out  of  tinged  by  the  intervening  atmosphere: 
ourselves,  and  to  be  contented  to  take  so  the  laws  of  the  understanding,  the 
up  with  what  we  are,  for  better  for  truths  of  nature  will  remain,  and  can- 
worse.  We  can  neither  beg,  borrow,  not  be  thrown  into  utter  confusion 
nor  steal  characteristic  excellencies,  and  perplexity  by  our  blunders  or  ca- 
Some  views  and  modes  of  thinking  price,  like  the  (%tjects  in  Hogarth's 
suit  certahi  minds,  as  certain  colours  Rules  of  Perspective,  where  every 
suit  certain  complexions.    We  may  thing  is  turned  upside  down,  or  thrust 

rwith  very  shming  and  very  use-  out  of  its  well-lmown  place.  I  can- 
qualities  without  getting  better  not  understand  how  our  political 
ones  to  supply^  them.  Mocking  is  Harlequins  yfeel  after  all  theur  sum- 
catching,  only  in  regard  to  defects,  mersaults  and  metamorphoses.  They 
Mimicry  is  always  dangerous.  can  hardly,  I  should  think,  lodl^ 
It  is  not  necessary  to  change  our  at  themselves  in  the  glass,  or  walk 
road  in  o|>der  to  advance  on  our  jouiv  across  the  room  without  stumbling, 
ney.  We  should  cultivate  the  spot  This  at  least  would  be  the  case  if 
of  ground  we  possess  to  the  utmost  thev  had  the  smallest  reflection  or 
of  our  power,  though  it  may  be  ctr-  selu'kiiowledge.  But  they  judge  firom 
cumscribed  and  comparatively  bar-r  pique  and  vanity  solely.  There  should 
ren*  A  rolling'  stone  gathers  no  moss^  oe  a  certain  decorum  in  life  as  in  a 
People  may  collect  all  the  wisdom  picture,  without  which  it  is  neither 
they  will  ever  attain,  quite  as  weU  by  useful  nor  agreeable.  If  my  own  opU 
staying  at  home  as  by  travelling  nions  are  not  right,  at  any  rate  they 
labroaa.  There  is  no  use  in  shifting  are  the  best  I  have  been  able  to  form, 
from  place  to  place,  from  side  to  side,  apod  better  than  any  others  I  could 
or  from  subject  to  subject.  You  have  take  up  at  random,  or  out  of  perver- 
lalways  to  begin  again,  and  pever  sity,  now.  Contrary  (pinions  vitiate 
finish  any  course  of  study  or  obser-  osie  another,  and  destroy  the  simplici- 
vation.  By  adhering  to  the  same  ty  and  ckamess  of  the  mind :  nothing 
fuinciples  you  do  not  become  sta-  is  ffood  that  has  not  a  beguming,  a 
tionary.  You  enlarge,  correct,  and  middle,  and  an  end;  and  I  would 
consolidate  your  reasonings,  without  wish  my  thoughts  to  be 

fu  4iP<y  «|SMm>tkw0  mi  petulaiu  T. 


l9Sn.'2  Tkg  DepaHtan  tf  Skimmer.  40d 


THE  DEPARTURS  OF  SUBfMER. 

Summer  is  gone  on  swallows'  wingSj 
And  Earth  has  buried  aU  her  flowers: 
No  more  the  lark,  the  linnet  smgs. 
But  SUence  sits  in  fiided  bowers. 
There  is  a  shadow  on  the  plain 
Of  Winter  ere  he  comes  again,— 
There  is  fai  woods  a  solemn  sound 
Of  hollow  warnings  whiqier'd  round. 
As  Echo  in  her  de^  reeess 
For  once  had  tum'a  a  prophetess. 
Shuddering  Autumn  stops  to  list. 
And  breathes  his  fear  in  sudden  sighSj, 
With  clouded  face,  end  hazel  eres 
That  quench  themselves,  and  hidein  mist. 

Yes,  Summer's  gone  like  pageant  bright ; 
Its  glorious  days  <n  golden  nght 
Are  gone— the  mimic  sims  that  quiver. 
Then  melt  in  Time's  dark-flowing  river. 
■Crone  the  sweetly  scented  breeze 
That  spoke  in  music  to  the  trees  ; 
Gone  for  damp  and  chilly  breath. 
As  if  fresh  blown  o'er  marble  seas. 
Or  newly  from  the  lungs  of  Deathi^ — 
Gone  its  viroin  roses'  luuriies. 
Warm  as  wnen  Aurora  rushes 
Freshly  from  the  God's  embrace. 
With  all  her  shame  upon  her  face. 
Old  Time  hath  laid  them  in  the  mould  ; 
Sure  he  is  blind  as  well  as  old. 
Whose  hand  relentless  never  spares 
Young  cheeks  so  beauty-bright  as  theirs ! 
Crone  are  the  flame-eyed  lovers  now 
From  where  so  blushing-blest  they  tarried 
Under  the  hawthorn's  biosBom-bough, 
Gone ;  for  Day  and  Night  are  married. 
All  the  light  of  love  is  fled : — 
Alas !  that  negro  breasts  should  hide 
The  lips  that  were  so  rosy  red. 
At  morning  and  at  even-tide  I 

Delightful  Summer  f  then  adieu 
'Till  thou  shalt  visit  us  anew : 
But  who  without  regretful  sigh 
Can  say — adieu — ^and  see  thee  fly? 
Not  he  that  e'er  hath  felt  thy  power. 
His  joy  expanding  like  a  flower 
That  cometh  after  ndn  and  snow. 
Looks  up  at  heaven  and  learns  to  glow : — 
Not  he  that  fled  from  Babel-strife 
To  the  green  sabbath-land  of  Sfe,  - 
To  dod^  dull  Care  'mid  chister'd  trees. 
And  cool  his  fi)rehead  In  the  breeze,-— 
Whose  spirit,  weary-worn  perchance. 
Shook  from  its  wings  a  weight  of  grief. 
And  perch'd  upon  an  asp^n  lea^ 
For  every  breath  to  make  it  dance* 

Farewell  I— -on  wings  of  sombre  stain. 
That  blacken  in  the  Iwt  bin*  akks; 


fi^rW^M'^^^ 


4M  71^  Departure  of  Summer.  C^^^* 

Tbou  fLj'st — ^but  thou  wilt  come  again 

On  the  gay  wings  oC  butterflies. 

Spring  at  thy  approach  vrill  sprout 

Her  new  Corinthian  beauties  out^ 

Leaf-woven  homes^  where  twitter-words 

Will  grow  to  songs,  and  em  to  birds; 

Ambitions  buds  shall  swell  to  flowers. 

And  April  smiled  to  sunny  hours. 

Brif  ht  days  shall  be,  and  gentle  nights 

FuS  of  soft  breath  and  echo-light8> 

As  if  the  God  of  sun-time  kept 

His  eyes  half-open  while  he  slept. 

Roses  shall  be  where  roses  were. 

Not  shadows,  but  reality  ; 

As  if  they  never  peiish'd  there. 

But  slept  in  immortality : 

Nature  shall  thrill  with  new  delight. 

And  Time's  relumined  river  run 

Warm  as  young  blood,  and  dazzling  bright^ 

As  if  its  source  were  in  the  sun ! 

But  say,  hath  Winter  then  no  charms  ? 
Is  there  no  joy,  no  sdadness  warms 
His  aged  heart?  no  happy  wiles 
To  cheat  the  hoary  one  to  smiles  ? 
Onward  he  comes — the  cruel  North 
Pours  his  furious  whirlwind  forth 
Before  him — and  we  breathe  the  breath 
Of  famish'd  bears  that  howl  to  death. 
Onward  he  comes  from  rocks  that  blanch 
O'er  solid  streams  that  never  flow. 
His  tears  all  ice,  his  locks  aU  snow. 
Just  crept  from  some  huge  avalanche — 
A  thing  half-breathing  and  half-warm^ 
As  if  one  spark  began  to  glow 
Within  some  statue's  marble  form. 
Or  pilgrim  stiflen'd  in  the  storm. 
O  !  wUl  not  Mirth's  light  arrows  fail 
To  pierce  that  frozen  coat  of  mail  ? 
O !  will  not  Joy  but  strive  in  vain 
To  light  up  those  glazed  eyes  again  ? 

No !  take  him  in,  and  blaze  the  oak. 
And  pour  the  wine,  and  warm  the  ale  ; 
His  sides  shaU  shake  to  many  a  joke. 
His  tongue  shall  thaw  in  many  a  tale. 
His  eyes  grow  bright,  his  heart  be  gay. 
And  even  his  palsy  charm'd  away. 
Wliat  heeds  he  then  the  boisterous  shout 
Of  anffry  winds  that  scold  without. 
Like  shrewish  wives  at  tavern  door  ? 
Wliat  heeds  he  then  the  wild  uproar 
Of  billows  bursting  on  the  shore  ? 
In  dashing  waves,  in  howling  breeze. 
There  is  a  music  that  can  charm  him ; 
When  safe,  and  shelter'd,  and  at  ease. 
He  hears  the  storm  that  cannot  harm  him. 

But  hark  !  those  shouts  !  that  sudden  din 
Of  little  hearts  that  laugh  within. 
Oh!  take  him  where  the  youngsters  play. 
And  he  will  grow  as  young  as  they  I 


1881.;] 


8keidi9$  Oh  the  Boad. 

They  oome !  they  come !  each  blue-eyed  ^K>rt, 

The  Twelfth-Ni^  Kxhg  and  all  his  court— 

'Tis  Mirth  fresh  crown'd  with  mistletoe ! 

Music  with  her  merry  fiddles^ 

Joy  ''on  light  fantastic  toe^" 

Wit  with  lul  his  jests  and  riddles^ 

Sinffing  aod  dandi^  as  they  go. 

And  Lore,  young  Love^  among  the  rest^ 

A  welcome— nor  unbiddea  gu^ 


i§$ 


But  still  for  SoMner  dost  thou  grieve  ? 
Then  read  our  Poets— they  shall  weave 
A  garden  of  green  £uicies  stiU, 
Where  ^y  wish  may  rove  at  wilL 
They  have  kept  for  after  treats 
The  essences  of  summer  sweets. 
And  echoes  of  its  songs  that  wind 
In  endless  music  through  the  mind : 
They  have  stamp'd  in  visible  traces 
The  "  thoughto  that  breathe,"  hi  words  that  shine— 
The  flights  of  soul  in  sunny  places — 
To  greet  and  company  with  thine. 
These  shall  wing  thee  on  to  flowers— 
The  past  or  future,  that  shall  seem 
All  the  brif^ter  in  thy  dream 
For  blowing  in  such  desert  hours. 
The  summer  never  shines  so  bright 
As  thought  of  in  a  wintei^s  night ; 
And  the  sweetest  loveliest  rose 
Is  in  the  bud  l>efore  it  blows. 
The  dear  one  of  the  lover's  heart 
Is  painted  to  his  longing  eyes. 
In  charms  she  ne'er  can  realize- 
But  when  she  turns  again  to  part. 
Dream  thou  then,  and  bind  tny  brow 
With  wreath  of  fimcy  roses  now. 
And  drink  of  Summer  in  the  cup 
Wliere  the  Muse  hath  mix'd  it  up ; 
The  "  dance,  and  song,  and  sun-oumt  mirth," 
AVlth  the  warm  nectar  of  the  earth : 
Drink  !  'twill  glow  in  every  vein. 
And  thou  shalt  dream  the  winter  through : 
Then  waken  to  the  sun  again. 
And  find  thy  Summer  Vision  true !  Incog. 


SKETCHES  ON  THE  ROAD. 
No.  IV. 


The  advanced  season  of  the  year, 
and  several  other  considerations,  hav- 
ing induced  us  to  abandon  our  ori« 
final  intention  of  walking  through 
taly,  by  Florence,  Bologna,  and 
Rome,  to  Naples,  we  determined 
to  proceed  to  Genoa,  and  there  em- 
bark in  some  country  vessel.  We 
accordingly  left  Milan  one  morning, 
about  mne  o'clock,  in  one  of  the 
boats  called  Corriere,  which  carry 
passengers  on  the  canal  as  far  as 

5 


Pavia.  We  found  this  mode  of  con- 
veyance  pleasant  enough :  the  boats 
are  fitted  up  very  conveniently,  widi 
rooms  and  seats,  and  are  drawn 
alonff  at  a  ffood  rate  by  two  horses^ 
which  are  (£anged  once  on  the  way. 
The  regular  post  road,  from  Milan 
to  Pavia,  runs  sometimes  on  one  side 
of  the  canal,  and  sometimes  on  the 
other,  but  always  close  to  the  em- 
bankment:  the  charge  for  the  pas* 
sage,   a  distanoe  of  abvx^  \?««q^ 


iSMdtef  oil  ikt  Road.  [^Nor. 

miles^  is  only  twelve  sotis.  One  of  chapels^  an  inlaid  flooring'^  a  qua- 
thcm  leaves  Pavia,  and  one  Milan  drated  deling,  painted  with  the  de- 
every  morning.  We  found  an  agree-  li^tfhl  blue  produced  from  the  la- 
able,  merry  company  assembled^  a-«  pis  lazuli  ground^  and  thick,  cliimiy 
mong  which  were  several  students  columns,  dark  and  unomamentea, 
returning  to  the  university^  the  va«  struck  us  on  entering.  On  goin^ 
cation  having  expired  at  Uie  featival  round  the  dnirch  and  contiguous 
of  S.  Carlo  di  Bormmeo.  We  had  apartments,  we  were  surprised  by 
not  proceeded  far  when  two  boys  the  abundance  of  labour  and  mate- 
entered  the  cabin,  and  placing  them-  rials  that  every  where  met  our  sight; 
selves  in  the  middle,  began  a  iSOtiAc  the  number  of  statues  and  paint- 
dialogue  ;  as  it  was  in  Sttetio  MU  Ings,  the  quantity  of  mosaic,  of  in- 
lanese  we  understood  but  little  of  it;  laying  of  lapis  lazuli,  verde  and  W- 
we  heard,  however,  that  It  was  in  dUts  anticoy  jasper^  sgste,  and  otSer 
rh3rme,  and  a  quarrel  between  a  man  Valuable  stones,  and  the  elaborate 
and  his  wife.  It  created  very  heafty  carving  ifi  wood^  and  gilding,  were 
laughter,in  which  we  joined,  otirri^-  really  astonishing.  Here,  however^ 
bility  being  exdted  by  the  drollety  as  at  the  Domo,  and  several  other 
of  their  gesticulation,  and  the  natu-  places  we  have  seen  in  the  Milanese, 
ral  screaming,  scolding  voice  of  the  there  is  a  greater  display  of  labour, 
boy  who  played  the  wife.  VThen  the  Snd  oddness,  and  expence,  than  of 
scene  was  finished,  one  of  them  sang  good  taste  or  fine  effect  The  sta- 
a  song  in  the  Milanese  dialect,  while  tues  of  milk-white  marble  are  po- 
the  other  went  round  the  company,  lished  to  shine  like  those  figures  in 
with  his  tattered  hat  in  his  hand,  to  china,  with  which  we  still  see  the 
appeal  to  the  generosity  of  his  au-  chimney-pieces  ornamented  in  sonne 
dience.  These  primitive  comedians  old-fashioned  houses  in  England; 
collected  a  few  sous,  with  which  among  the  quantity  of  paintings  are 
they  regaled  themselves  on  some  a  few  good  pieces  of  the  Lombard 
roasted  chesnuts  and  dried  grapes,  scnool :  the  mosaics  are  in  bad  taste, 
at  the  first  little  public-hotise  we  and  the  carving  in  wood  has  all  the 
came  to.  «  preposterousness  of  that  epoch  for 
We  left  the  boat  about  five  miles  ever  execrable  in  the  annals  of  art 
from  Pavia,  in  order  to  vi^t  the  Cer»  — the  sixteenth  century.  It  reaUy 
iosi,  a  celebrated  convent,  which  lies  makes  the  perspiration  stand  on  one  s 
about  half  a  mile  to  the  left  of  the  forehead,  to  think  how  these '  poor 
canal.  We  approached  it  by  a  nlea-  men  must  have  turned,  and  twistcnl, 
sant  avenue :  on  reaching  the  eoifice  and  fatigued  themselves !  How  much 
we  found  a  curious  red  brick  fa-  bad  taste  must  have  toiled  to  arrive 
^ade,  much  like  some  of  our  old  ma-  at  such  a  perfection  of  deformity, 
nor-houses  in  Eneland ;  We  passed  What  ease  and  simplicity  in  the  an- 
through  this  into  a  large,  opetr,  paved  dents  !  a  twined  foliage,  the  luxu- 
court-yard,  overgrown  with  weeds,  riant,  elegant  vine,  the  broad  oak 
and  in  parts  covered  with  rubbish ;  leaf,  the  acanthus,  the  arbutus,  and 
the  dumsy  front  of  the  chiu-ch  faced  a  few  other  objects,  equally  naTf, 
us  on  entering ;  two  ranges  of  stone  suffice  for  them,  and  are  susceptibdc 
building  flanked  the  court ;  they  of  endless  variety, 
seemed  to  be  totaUy  deserted,  the  We  observed  throughout  the  build- 
windows  were  all  broken,  and  the  ings,  signs  of  neglect  and  desertion, 
iron  bars,  in  the  lower  story  of  the  and  of  fast  approaching  decay;  the 
building,  in  the  last  state  of  corro^  roof  of  the  church  has  been  long  in 
sioii ;  the  chain  that  once  ran,  firom  want  of  repair,  and  the  water  has  in 
post  to  post,  round  the  yard,  was  many  places  soaked  through,  and 
lAearly  til  broken  away,  and  only  stained  the  costly  colouring.  Oar 
some  small  pieces  lay  rusting  on  the  old  guide,  on  our  remarking  this  cir^ 
ground.  cumstance,  shrugged  up  his  shoiridert, 
^  After  calling  and  waiting  for  some  and  said  sometliing  about  the  demo^ 
time,  an  old  porter  came  limping  ralization  of  the  times. 
out  with  a  large  bundle  of  keys  ;  he  Bidding  farewell  to  the  Ccrtosi,  we 
unlocked  the  door,  in  silence,  and  renewed  our  journey :  the  evening  was 
admitted  us  into  the  church*  A  la-  calm  and  soothing,  ami  after  a  plca^ 
howDoA  altsff   a  numbet  o£  paVnted  usat  ^%Ut.  we  arrived,  about  two 


1931.;]  Skekha  on  the  JBoa^.  M» 

hours  before  sun-set^  at  the  nuned  o'clock ;  we  there  took  a  good  break** 
walls  of  the  ancient^  aiid  once  cde«  fast,  to  strengthen  ub  for  the  fatigu-i 
brated  city  of  Pavia.    We  employed  ing  ascent  of  the  Bocchetta^  and  re-* 
the  rest  of  the  evening  in   visituig  fusing  yarious  proffers  of  mules  uid 
the  univcfHity,  in  wolkmg  about  the  chaises^  set  out  after  an  hour.    We 
towii^  making  melancholy  reflections  soon  passed  the  scene  of  the  deadly 
on  its  present  fallen  condition^  and  battle  which  took  place  on  the  heights 
in   talking  of  the  ckivaltreMque  and  behind  Novi^  between  the  Russians 
amiable  Francis  I. — who  was  made  and  the  troops  of  the  French  repub-^ 
prisoner  in  the  battle  of  Pavia^  close  lie;  we  had  not^  however^  ascended 
at  hand.  much  higher  ere  a  heavy  fall  of  rain 
The  next    morning  we  departed  began^  which  continued  with  few  in- 
early:   we  left  Pavia  by  crossing  m  termissions  until  evening.     We  re« 
curious  covered  bridge  over  the  Ta-  grctted  this^  less^  perhaps,  ibr  the 
ciuo^  and  in  about  an  hour  and  a  half  discomfort  it  occasioned^    than   be* 
we   passed   another   branch   of  the  cause  it  prevented  our  view  of  the 
same  river,  on  a  bridge  of  boats^  and  fine  mountain   scenery.     When  we 
breakfasted  at  a  little  village  near  had  got  to  the  summit  of  the  first 
the    bank.      Hence    a    short    walk  ridge^  a  tremendous  storm  came  on ; 
brought   us    to    the    shore    of   the  there  was  no  place  to  take  shelter 
**  bnKul  Poy"  which  we  also  crossed  in^  so  we  were  obliged  to  continue 
on  a  bridge  laid  over  boats^  paying  on  the  open  road.  The  thimder  burst 
two  soldi  each  for  the  passage.    We  over  our  heads  in  deafening  crashes^ 
walked  bravely  on,   in  spite  of  the  which  were  echoed  and  lengthened 
bad  roads,    which  (the  soil  of  this  out  bv  the  mountains;  the  flashes 
part  of  Piedmont  being  very  argU-  of  lightning,  dissipating  the  vapours 
laccous)  the  late  rains  had  m  certain  which  concealed  every  object  (even 
places  rendered   almost  impassable,  the  road  on  which  wc  were  walking) 
About  noon  we  had  a  delightful  re-  sometimes  showed  us  the  deep  a- 
past  at  a  small  village,  said  tasted  bysses  close  by  the  road's  side^  and 
again  that  delicious  Piedmontese  rus-  at  others  brought  out   some   little 
tic  bread,  no  doubt  the  same  sort  white  village  far  down  in  the  valley, 
tliat  Rousseau  found  so  much  to  his  or  illuminated,   for  a  moment,   the 
Liste,  and  of  which  he  spoke  with  fine  chesimt  woods  which  clothe  the 
such  satisfaction  many  years  after-  mountain  to  a  certain  height:  the 
wanls.     In   the   afternoon  we  con-  large    rain    drops   pattered   heavily 
tinned  at  a  brisk  pace,  and  passing  upon  us,    and  oo  the  nearly  naked 
through  the  town  of  Voghera  (where  trees,  and  in  every  chasm  by  which 
we  hud  our  passports  signed)   and  we  passed,  we  heard  the  swoln  tor- 
several  villages,  and  a  fine  coiuitry,  rent  iVetting  and  roaring  down  the 
we  arrived,  about  an  hour  after  sun-  steeps.— This  ''  hurlyburly  "  did  not 
set^  at  Tortona ;  and  there  an  excel-'  cease  until  we  came  close  to  the  old 
lent  supper  and  clean  beds  solaced  town  of  Gavi,  whkh,  in  its  perched 
us  for  tne  fatigues  of  the  day,  which  position    with    its    dark    buildings, 
had  not  been    inconsiderable.    We  ruined  fordfications,  and  riven  towers, 
were  en  roufe  the  next  morning  be-  with  wide,  dense  masses  of  vapour 
fore  daylight:   almost  immediately  floating  beneath,    and  black  clouds 
on  leaving    the  town  we  crossed  a  hanging  close  above,  presented  a  pic- 
fine  bridge,  thrown  over  a  wide  bed,  ture  romantic,  savage,  and  sublime, 
which,  at  tluit  season,  contained  but        At  Gavi  we  dried  oiu*  wet  clothes^ 
an  inconsiderable  stream ;  when  the  laughed  at  the  rueful  figure  we  each 
sun  arose,    we  saw^  fuU  bef(Nre  us,  made,    refreshed    ourselves    with  a 
the  pass  of  the  Bocchetta,  and  the  cup  or  two  of  warm  wine,  and  agaiw 
line  of  the  nigged  Apennines  or  Li-  put  ourselves  in  motion.    After  an 
gurian  Alps,  just  tipped  with  snow  agreeable  variety   of  '*  up  liill   and 
which  had  fallen  the  preceding  night ;  down  hill,"  deep  muddy  roads,  swol- 
and  to  the  right  our  view  extended  len  streams  (to  cross>,  and  drenching 
nearly  to  the  ])laiii  of  Marengo,  on  showers,  we  arrivea  at  the  town  of 
which  Bonaparte  won   Italy.     We  Voltagio^    as  the  bells  were  sound- 
reached  Novi,  a  large  town  on  the  ing  the  "  Ave  Maria.**    Immediately 
entrance  of  the  Genoese  territory,  at  that  we  got  to  the  inn,  we  had  a 
the  foot  of  the  mountaui,  about  nine  good  fire  lighted,  and  took  a  *^  v(v»s: 


498                                      fBeeUk£i  on  thi  Road.  C^or; 

drappie"  to  eiq>el  the  effects  of  ex-  stood  there  examining  the  hanhne« 
ternfu  moisture :  our  hostess  and  her  and  p^U^m^k  confusion  of  the  moim- 
daughter  bustled  about  to  prepare  tains^'  the  clouds  cleared  up^  and  the 
supper^  whilst  another  pretty  young  vapours  floating  away,  ^ave  us  a 
woman  sat  in  a  comer  busy  at  her  glunpse  of  the  olue  Mediterranean ; 
wheeU  and  sang  some  beautiful  Ita-  It  was  but  a  glimpse,  but  it  was  rich 
lian  airsj  with  a  good  voice. — We  in  pleasure ;  it  was  impossible  for  ua 
had  not  been  there  long  when  a  de-  to  see  again  that  classic  sea,  on 
cent  looking  young  man  came  in  and  whose  waters  and  on  whose  shores 
sat  down  by  the  fair  songstress ;  they  we  had  spent  so  many  memorable 
presently  began  to  chaunt  together^  hours^  without  emotions  of  delight ! 
and  in  the  course  of  the  evening  they  The  descent  from  the  pass  is  very 
sang  several  sweet  melancholy  duets  rapid :  as  we  got  lower  down  we 
with  much  taste  and  feeling.  Here  saw  the  rough  mountain  (crowned 
was  wherewithal  to  make  the  heart  by  the  celebrated  battery  of  the 
happy  !  we  took  our  supper  by  the  Sprone,  and  a  continuation  of  towers 
side  of  a  bright  wood  fire,  forgot  our  and  fortifications),  against  which 
fatigue  and  drenchingj  and  chatted  proud  Genoa  leans  her  Moulders,  and 
awhile  with  the  people  of  the  house,  were  delighted  with  a  variety  of 
Our  old  host  spoke  of  Suwarrow  and  mountain  scenery,  equal,  we  think, 
Bonaparte ;  he  said  the  former  had  to  any  in  the  lesser  Alps.  Watch- 
once  slept  under  his  roof,  that  he  towers  that  perch  on  the  points  and 
had  seen  him  several  times  during  angles,  church  spires,  white  villages, 
the  wars  in  that  part,  and  that  he  and  country  mansions,  that  rise  from 
was  a  very  cross  looking  little  old  the  midst  of  woods  of  chesnut  and 
man ;  of  the  latter  he  said,  that  the  oak,  or  peep  between  the  boles  and 
sole  cause  of  his  fall  was.  Ids  having  interstices  of  the  trees— cattle  and 
acted  like  a  bad  Catholic,  in  op-  flocks  grazing  on  the  flats,  and  goats 
pressing  the  holy  church,  and  taking  that  sound  tneir  rustic  bells  on  the 
the  Pope  prisoner.  This  latter  opi-  cliffs  above  clear  waters  that  throw 
mon  we  have  frequently  heard  in  themselves  down  the  steep  rocks,  or 
Italvw— He  described  to  us  the  hag-  babble  along  narrow  deep  valleys— » 
gard  appearance  of  the  poor  wretches  such  are  the  components  of  scenes 
who  came  out  of  Genoa,  after  the  which  will  ever  charm,  and  such  are 
famous  siege  sustained  by  Massena,  here  found  in  abundance, 
in  a  very  striking  manner:  we  have  In  about  two  hours  and  a  half  from 
frequently  been  surprised  at  the  fine,  the  time  of  our  leaving  the  pass  of 
ttmple,  spirited  manner  in  which  the  the  Bocchetta,  we  reached  the  Fai  di 
vulgar,  and  particularly  the  vulvar  Polcevera,  which  winds  at  the  foot 
of  Itidv,  d^cribe  any  thing  that  of  the  mountains  that  shut  in  Genoa. 
comes  nome  to  their  bosoms ;  and  This  valley  is  exceedingly  populous ; 
this  present  was  a  good  instance— it  village  succeeds  to  village  with  little 
brought  Dante  to  our  minds.  We  intermission;  the  number  of  villas 
went  to  bed  about  ten,  and  soon  lost  and  country  houses  Tall  fantastically 
all  thoughts  of  the  cruel  Suwarrow,  painted  on  the  outside)  is  astonish- 
of  the  ambitious,  and,  perhaps,  hard-  mg,  and  gives  an  imposing  idea  of 
ly  less  cruel,  Bonaparte,  of  the  Pope,  the  former  affluence  and  splendour  of 
and  of  Massena,  in  a  refreshing  sleep,  the  Genoese. — The  termination  of 
The  next  morning  the  bad  weather  this  valley  brought  us  close  to  the 
continued :  as  we  went  on,  however,  sea  shore ;  then  turning  to  the  left 
it  cleared  up  by  decrees ;  we  passed  and  passing  the  magnincent  suburb 
through  several  villages,  observed  //  Borgo  di  San  Pier  d* Arena  (a  long 
some  fine  mountain  scenes  (though  stately  row  of  houses  parallel  to  the 
under  a  very  different  aspect  to  wl^t  sea  shore),  we  soon  arrived  at  the 
we  had  last  seen  them  in  the  summer  Lanterna  (light-house),  whence  we 
season,  ^een  with  foliage,  and  discovered  the  city  and  the  pdrt ;  and 
prank't  with  flowers),  and  about  11  in  less  than  another  half  hour  we 
o'clock  reached  the  narrow  rough  were  inclosed  by  the  triple  walls  dT 
pass  of  the  Bocchetta.     While   we  Oenova  la  Svjierba. 


18S1 .3  TradUianal  LiUrahre.  409 

TRADITKMiAL  UTERATURB. 
No.  XL 

THfi   HAUNTED  SHIPS. 


Though  \nj  mind^lB  not 


Uoodwijik*d  with  rustic  marvels,  I  do  thmk 

There  are  more  things  in  the  grove,  the  air,  the  flood. 

Yea,  and  the  chameU^d  earth,  than  what  wise  man, 

Wlio  walks  so  proud  as  if  his  form  alone 

Fill*d  the  wide  temple  of  the  universe. 

Will  let  a  frail  maid  say.    I*d  write  i*  the  creed 

O*  the  sagest  head  alive,  that  fearful  forms, 

Holy  or  reprobate,  do  page  men*s  heels; 

That  shapes,  too  horrid  for  our  gaze,  stand  o*er 

The  murderer^s  dust,  and  for  revenge  glare  up, 

Even  tin  the  stars  weep  fire  for  very  pity. 

Along  the  coast  of  Solwa^,  ro-  the  shore  till  we  came  within  sight 
mantic  on  the  Scottish  side^  witJi  its  of  the  ruined  Abbey  of  Sweetheart, 
woodlands^  and  bays,  and  cliffs^  and  The  green  mountain  of  Criffell  as-* 
headlands;  and  interesting  on  the  cendedbe^eus;  andthebleatof  the 
English  side^  with  its  many  beautifid  flocks  from  its  summit,  together  with 
towns  with  their  shadows  on  the  wa-  the  winding  of  the  evening  horn  of 
ter,  rich  pastures,  safe  harbours,  and  the  reapers,  came  softened  mto  some- 
numerous  ships ;  there  still  linger  thing  like  music  over  land  and  sea. 
many  traditional  stories  of  a  marl-  We  pushed  our  shallop  into  a  deep 
time  nature,  most  of  them  connected  and  wooded  bay,  and  sat  silently 
with  superstitions  singularly  wild  looking  on  the  serene  beauty  of  the 
and  imusual.  To  the  curious  these  place.  The  moon  glimmered  in  her 
tales  afford  a  rich  fund  of  entertain-  rising  through  the  tall  shafts  of  the 
ment,  from  the  many  diversities  of  pines  of  Caerlaverock.  and  the  sky, 
the  same  story;  some  dry  and  barren,  with  scarce  a  cloud,  showered  down 
and  stripped  of  aU  the  embellish-  on  wood,  and  headland,  and  bay,  the 
ments  of  poetry  ;  others  dressed  out  twinkling  beams  of  a  thousand  stars, 
in  all  the  riches  of  a  superstitious  be-  rendering  every  object  visible.  The 
lief  and  haunted  imagination.  In  tide  too  was  coming  with  that  swift 
this  they  resemble  the  inland  tradi-  and  silent  swell  observable  when  the 
tions  of  the  peasants;  but  many  of  wind  is  gentle;  the  woody  curves 
the  oral  treasures  of  the  Galwegian  alonf  the  land  were  filling  with  the 
or  the  Cumbrian  coast  have  the  flooa  till  it  touched  the  green  branches 
stamp  of  the  Dane  and  the  Norse-  of  the  drooping  trees ;  while  in  the 
men  upon  them,  and  claim  but  a  re-  centre  current  the  roll  and  the 
mote  or  faint  affinity  with  the  legiti-  plunge  of  a  thousand  pellocks  told  to 
mate  legends  of  Caledoiua.  Some-  the  experienced  fisherman  that  salmon 
thing  like  a  rude  prosaic  outline  of  were  abundant.  As  we  looked,  we 
several  of  the  most  noted  of  the  saw  an  old  man  emerg^ing  from  a 
northern  ballads,  the  adventures  path  that  winded  to  the  shore  througli 
and  depredations  of  the  old  ocean  a  grove  of  doddered  hazel;  he  carried 
kings,  still  lends  life  to  the  evening  a  halve-net  on  his  back,  while  behind 
tale ;  and,  amon^  others,  the  story  of  him  came  a  girl,  bearing  a  small  har« 
the  Haunted  Ships  is  still  popular  poonwithwmchthefishersareremark- 
among  the  maritime  peasantry.  ably  dextrous  in  striking  their  prey. 

One  fine  harvest  evening  I  went  The  senior  seated  himsdf  on  a  large 

on  board  the  shallop  of  Richard  Faul-  gray  stone  which  overlooked  the  bay, 

der,  of  Allanbay ;   and,  committing  laid  aside  his  bonnet,  and  submitted 

ourselves  to  the  waters,  we  allowed  a  his  bosom  and  neck  to  the  refreshing 

gentle  wind  from  the  east  to  wait  us  sea  breeze ;  and  taking  his  harpoon 

at  its  pleasure  towards  the  Scottish  from  his  attendant,  sat  with  the  gra- 

coast.     We  passed  the  sharp    pro-  vity  and  composure  of   a   spirit  of 

montorj  of  Siddick ;  and  skirting  the  the  flood,  with  his  ministering  nymph 

land  within  a  stone  cast,  glided  along  behind  him.    We  pushed  our  shallop 


M)  Tke  HmmM  Skip§.  C^o  v. 

to  the  shore,  and  soon  stood  at  their  Macmoran.  She  stood  holding  a  small 

side.  "  This  is  old  Mait  Macmoran,  gaff-hook  of  polished  steel  in    her 

the  mariner,  with  his  grand-daugh-  hand,    and  seemed  not  dissatisfied 

ter  Barbara,"  said  Richard  Faul&r,  with  the  glances  I  bestowed  on  her 

in  a  whisper  that  had  something  of  fix)m  time  to  time,  and  which  I  held 

fear  in  it ;  **  he  knows  every  creek,  more  than  requited  by  a  single  glance  . 

and  cavern,  and  quicksand,  m  Sol  way,  of  those  eyes  which  retained  so  many 

^-has  seen  the  Spectre  Hound  that  capricious  hearts  in  subjection, 
haunts  the  Isle  of  Man ;  has  heard        The  tide,  though  rapidly  augment- 

him  bark,  and  at  every  bark  has  seen  ing,  had  not  yet  filled  the  bay  at  our 

a  ship  sink ;  and  he  has  seen,  too,  the  feet    The  moon  now  streamed  fairly 

Haunted  Ships  in  full  sail ;  and,  if  all  over  the  tops  of  Caerlaverock  pines, 

tales  be  true,  he  has  sailed  in  them  and  showed  the  expanse  of  ocean 

lumself;  —  he's    an  awful  person."  dimpling   and    swellmg,    on    which 

Though  I  perceived  in  the  commu-  doops  and  shallops  came  dancing, 

ideation  of  my  friend  something  of  and    displaving  at  every  turn  their 

the  superstition  of  the  sailor,  I  could  extent  of  white  sail  against  the  beam 

not  help  thinking  that  common  ru-  of  the  moon.    I  looked  on  old  Mark 

nour  had  made  a  happy  choice  in  the  mariner,  who,  seated  motionless 

ringling<mt  old  Mark  to  maintain  her  on  his  gray  stone,  kept  his  eye  fixed 

intercourse  with  the  invisible  world,  on  the  mcreasing  waters  with  a  look 

His  hair,  which  seemed  to  have  "re-  of  seriousness  and  sorrow  in  whidi 

ftised  an  intercourse  with  the  comb,  I  saw  little  of  the  calculating  spirit 

hang  matted  upon  his  shoulders;  a  of  a  mere  fisherman.     Though  he 

kind  of  mantle,   or  rather  blanket,  looked  on  the  coming  dde.  Ids  eyes 

nfamed  with  a  wooden  skewer  round  seemed  to  dwell  particularly  on  the 

fas  neck,  fell  mid-leg  down,  conceal-  black  and  decayea  hulls  of  two  res- 

ing  all  his  nether  garments  as  far  as  sels,  which,  half  immersed   in  the 

a  paii*  of  hose,  darned  with  yam  of  quicksand,  still  addressed  to  ^rery 

an  conceivable  colours,  and  a  pair  of  heart  a  tale  of  shipwreck  and  deso- 

riioes,  patched  and  repaired  tiU  no-  lation.  The  tide  wbeeled  and  foamed 

thing  of  die  original  structure  re-  around  them ;  and  creeping  inch  by 

mdned,  and  dasped  on  his  feet  with  inch  up  the  side^  at  last  fairly  threw  its 

two  massy  sflver  buckles.     If  the  waters  over  the  top,  and  a  long  and 

dress  of  the  old  man  was  rude  and  hollow  eddy  showed  the  resistance 

sordid,  that  of  his  erand-daughter  which  the  liauid  element  received* 

was  gay,  and  even  rich.    She  wore  a  The  moment  tney  were  fahrly  buried 

l>oddice  of  fine  wool,  wrought  round  in  the  water  the  old  man  dasped  his 

the  bosom  with  alternate  leaf  and  hands  together,  and  said,  "  Blessed 

lUy,  and  a  kirtle  of  the  same  fabric,  be  the  tide  that  wiU  bredc  over  and 

which,  almost  touching  her  white  and  bury  ye  for  ever !    Sad  to  mariners, 

ddicate  ancle,    showed   her  snowy  and  sorrowful  to  maids  and  mothers, 

feet  so   fairy-light  and  round    that  has  the  time  been  you  have  choked 

they  scarcely  seemed  to   touch  the  up  this  deep  and  bonnie  bay.     For 

grass  where  she  stood.    Her  hair,  a  evO  were  you  sent,  and  for  evil  have 

natural  ornament  which  woman  seeks  you  continued.    £very  season  finds 

much   to    improve,   was    of  brifi^t  from  you  its  song  of  sorrow  and  waO^ 

glossy  brown,  and  encumbered  rather  its  funeral  processions,  and  its  shroud- 

uian  adorned  with  a  snood,  set  thick  ed  corses.    Woe  to  the  land  where 

with    marine    producdons,     amonc^  the  wood  grew  that  made  ye !  Cursed 

which  the  small    clear  pearl  found  be  the  axe  that  hewed   ye  on  the 

in  the  Solway  was  conspicuous.   Na-  mountains,  the  hands  that  joined  ye 

ture  had  not  trusted  to  a  handsome  together^  the  bay  that  ye  fiirst  swam 

shape,  and  a  sylph-like  air,  for  young  in,  and  the  wind  that  wafted  ye  here ! 

Baroara's  influence  over  tiie  heart  of  Seven  times  have  ye  put  my  Hfe  in 

man;  but  had  bestowed  a  pair  of  large  perils  three  fair  sons  have  ye  swept 

bright  blue  eyes,  swimming  in  liquid  from  my  side,  and  two  bonme  grand« 

Ught,  so  fuU  of  love,  and  gentleness,  bairns ;    and  now,   even  now,  your 

and  joy,  that  all   the  sailors  from  waters  foam  and  flash  for  my  destruc- 

Annanwater    to  far  Saint  Bees  ac-  tion,  did  I  venture  my  iufiirrn  limbs  in 

knowledged  their  power,   and  sung  quest  of  food  in  your  deadly  bay. 

0ongs  about  the  bonnie  lass  of  MaxK  v  sei^  V^^j  \ha.t  zvq\\q  and  that  foam. 


1^.;]  7^  ffatmted  Skip$.  .  iOl 

and  hear  by  the  sound  and  smging  of   nate  fisherman.    He  staid  not  to  po- 
your  8urffe>  that  ve  veam  for  anoUier    fit  by  our  aid;  for  when  he  perceived 
victim,  out  it  shall  not  be  me  nor    us  near  he  uttered  a  piercing  shriek 
mine."     Even  as   the  old    mariner    of  joy,    and    bounded  towards    us 
addressed    himself   to  the   wrecked    through  the  agitated  element  the  full 
ships  a  young  man  appeared  at  the    length  of  an  oar.    I  saw  him  for  a 
southern  extremity  of  tne  bay>  hold-    second  on  the  surface  of  the  water ; 
ing  his   halve-net  in  his  hand,  and    but  the  eddying  current  sucked  him 
h^tening  into  the  current      Mark    down ;  and  all  I  ever  beheld  of  hiip 
rose,  and  shouted,  and  waved  him    again  was  his  hand  held  above  the 
back  from  a  place  which,  to  a  person    flood,  and  clutching  in  agony  at  some 
unacquaintecf  with  the  dangers  of  the    imaginary  aid.    1  sat  gazing  in  hor- 
bay,  real  and  superstitious,  seemed    ror  on  the  vacant  sea  before  us :  but 
sufficiently    perilous :     his     grand-    a  breathing-time  before,  a  human  be- 
daughter  too  added  her  voice  to  his,    ing,  full  of  youth,  and  strength,  and 
.  and  waved  her  white  hands ;  but  the    hope,  was  tnere :  his  cries  were  still 
more  they  strove  the  faster  advanced    ringing  in  my  ears  and  echoing  in  the 
the  peasant  till  he  stood  to  his  middle    woods;  and  now  nothing  was  seen 
in  the  water,  while  the  tide  increased    or  heard  save  the  turbulent  expanse 
every  moment  in  depth  and  strength,    of  water,  and  the  sound  of  its  chafing 
**  Andrew,  Andrew,  'cried  the  younff    on  the  shores.    We  pushed  back  our 
woman,   in  a  voice  quavering  with    shallop,  and  resumed  our  station  on 
emotion,  "  turn,  turn,  I  tell  you :  O    the  cliff  beside  the  old  mariner  and 
the  Ships,  the  Haunted  Ships !"  but    his  descendant.   ''  Wherefore  sought 
the  appearance  of  a  fine  run  of  fish    ye  to  peril  your  own  lives  fruitlessly?" 
had  more  influence  with  the  peasant    said  Mark,  "  in  attempting  to  save 
than  the  voice  of  bonnie  Barbara,    the  doomed.    Whoso  touches  those 
and  forward  he  dashed,  net  in  hand,    infernal  ships  never  survives  to  tell 
In  a  moment  he  was  borne  off  his    the  tale.    Woe  to  the  man  who  ia 
feet,  and  mingled  like  foam  with  the    found  nigh  them  at  midnight  when 
water,  and  hurried  towards  the  fatal    the  tid^  has  subsided  and  they  arise 
eddies    which    whirled    and   roared    in  their  former  beauty,  with  forecastle^ 
round  the  sunken  ships.    But  he  was    and  deck,  and  sail,  and  pennon,  and 
|i  powerful  young  man,  and  an  expert    shroud.    Then  is  seen  the  streaming 
ihvimmer:  he  seized  on  one  of  the    of  lights  along  the  water  from  their 
projectix^  M^  of  the  nearest  hulk,    cabin  windows,  and  then  is  heard  the 
and  clfiii^mg  to  it  with  the  grasp  of    sound  of  mirth  and  the  clamour  of 
despair,  uttered  yell  after  ydl,  sus-    tongues,,  and  the  infernal  whoop  and 
taining  himself  against  the  prodigious    hallo,  and  soug,  ringing  far  and  wide, 
rush  of  the  current.    From  a  sh^ling    Woe  to  the  man  who  comes  nigh 
of  turf  and  straw,  within  the  pitch  of    them."  To  all  this  my  Allanbay  com- 
a1)ar  from  the  spot  where  we  stood,    panion  listened  with  a  breathless  at- 
came  out  an  old  woman  bent  with    tention.    I  felt  something    touched 
age,  and  leaning  on  a  crutch.    '<  I    with  a  superstition  to  which  I  partly 
hear  die  voice  of  that  lad  Andrew    believed  i  had  seen  one  victim  offered 
Lammie ;  can  the  chield  be  drowning    up ;  and  I  inquired  of  the  old  mari« 
that  he  skirls  sae  uncannilie?"  said    ner,   ^'  How  and  when  came  these 
the  old  woman,  seating  herself  on  the    haunted  ships  there  ?    To  me  they 
ground,  and  looking  earnestly  at  the    seem  but  tne  melancholy  relics  of 
water.   *'  Ou   aye, '    she  continued,    some  mihappy  voyagers,  and  much 
"  he's  doomed,  he's  doomed ;  heart    more  likely  to  warn  people  to  shun 
and  hand  can  never  save  him ;  boats,    destruction,  than  entice  and  delude 
ropes,  and  man's  strength  and  wit,    them  to  it"     *' And  so,"  said  the 
all  vain !    vain  !    he's  doomed,   he's    old  man  with    a  smile,  which  had 
doomed !"  By  this  time,  I  had  thrown    more  of  soriow  in  it  than  of  mirth  ; 
myself  into  the  shallop,  followed  re-    *'  and  so,  young  man,  these  black  and 
luctantly  by  Richard  Faulder,  over    shattered  hulks  seem  to  the  eye  of 
whose  courage  and  kindness  of  heart    the  multitude.    But  things  are  not 
superstition  had  great  power ;   and    what  they  seem  :  that  water,  a  khid 
with  one  push  from  the  shore,  and    and  convenient  servant  to  the  wants 
some  exertion  in  skulling,  we  came    of  man,  which  seems  so  smooth,  and 
within  a  ouoit-cast  of  Uie  unfortu-    so  dunplingi  and  so  gentlet  has  awal^ 
Vol.  I  v.  2  O 


MS                                          The  Haunted  Ships.  C^OV. 

lowed  up  a  human  soul  even  now ;  ed  a  sbape^  which  flitted  from  ex- 

and  the  place  which  it  covers,  so  fair  tremity  to  extremity  of  the  ship^  with 

and  so  levd^  is  a  faithless  quiclcsand^  the  appearance  of  trimming  the  siulto 

out  of  which  none  escape.    Things  and  duecting  the  vessel's  course.  But 

are  otherwise  than  they  seem.    Had  the  decks   of   its    companion    were 

you  lived  as  long  as  1  have  had  the  crowded  with   human  shapes  ;    the 

sorrow  to  live;   had  you  seen    the  captain^  and  mate^  and  sailor^  and 

storms,  and  braved  the  perils^  and  cabin  boy,  all  seemed  there;  and  from 

endured  the  distresses  which  have  them  the  sound  of  mirth  and  min- 

befallen   me ;   had   you  sat   gazing  strelsy  echoed  over  land  and  water, 

out  on  the  dreary  ocean  at  midnight  The  coast  which  they  skirted  along* 

on  a  haunted  coast ;  had  you  seen  was  one  of  extreme  danger ;  and  the 

comrade  after  comrade,  brother  after  reapers  shouted  to  warn  them  to  be- 

brother,  and   son    after  son,  swept  ware  of  sand-bank  and  rock ;  but  of 

away  by  the  merciless  ocean  firom  this  friendly  counsel  no  notice  was 

your  very  side;  had  you  seen  the  taken,  except  that  a  large  and  £»« 

sliapes  of  fxiends,  doomed  to  the  wave  nushed  dog,  which  sat  on  the  prow, 

and  the  qiucksand,  appearing  to  you  answered  every  shout  with  a  long, 

in  the  dreams  and  visions  of  the  night;  loud,  and  melancholy  howl.      The 

then  would  your  mind  have  been  pre-  deep  sand-bank  of  Carsethom  was  ex« 

pared  for  crediting  the  maritime  le-  pected  to  arrest  the  career  of  tJ&ese 

gends   of  mariners ;    and    the    two  desperate  navigators ;  but  they  pass- 

haunted  Danish  ships  would  have  had  ed,  with  the  celerity  of  waterfowl,  over 

'  their  terrors  for  you,  as  they  have  for  an    obstruction  which  had  wrecked 

all  who  sojourn  on  this  coast.  Of  the  many  pretty  ships. 

'  time  and  the  cause  of  their  destruc-  ^'  Old  men  shook  their  heads  and 
tion  I  know  nothing  certain:  they  departed,  saying,  ^  We  have  seen  the 
have  stood  as  you  have  seen  them  for  fiend  sailing  in  a  bottomless  ship ; 
uncounted  time;  and  while  all  other  let  us  go  home  and  pray:'  but  one 
ships  wrecked  on  this  unhappy  coast  young  and  wilful  man  said,  'Fiend! 
have  gone  to  pieces,  and  rotted,  and  I'll  warrant  it's  nae  fiend,  but  douce 
sunk  away  in  a  few  years,  these  two  Janet  Wither-shins,  the  witch«  hold- 
haunted  hulks  have  neither  sunk  in  ing  a  carouse  with  some  of  her  Cunw 
the  quicksand,  nor  has  a  single  spar  berlandcummcrs,andmickle  red  wine 
or  board  been  displaced.     Maritime  will  be  spilt  atween  them.    Dod  I 

.'  legend  says,  that  two  ships  of  Den-  would  gladly  have  a  toothfu* !   Ill 

mark  having  had  permission,  for  a  warrant  its  nane  o'  your  cauld  sour 

-  time,  to  work  deeds  of  darkness  and  slae-water  like    a    bottle  of  Bsuilie 

•  dolour  on  the  deep,  were  at  last  con-  Skrinkie's  port,  but  right  drap-o*-my- 

demned   to  the  whirlpool    and   the  heart's-blood  stuff  that  would  waken 

sunken  rock,  and  were  wrecked  in  a  body  out  of  tlieir  last  linen.     I 

'  this  bonnie  bay,  as  a  sign  to  seamen  wonder  where  the  cummers  wUl  an- 

to  be  gentle  and  devout.    The  night  chor  their  craft?'    *  And  I'U  vow,' 

when  they  were  lost  was  a  harvest  said  another  rustic,  '  the  wine  they 

evening  oi  uncommon  mildness  and  quaff    is    none    of  your    visionary 

'  beauty :  the  sun  had  newly  set ;  the  drink,  such  as  a  drouthie  body  has 

moon  came  brighter  and  brighter  out;  dished  out  to  his  lips  in  a  dream ; 

and  the  reapers,  laying  their  sickles  at  nor  is  it  shadowy  and  unsubstantial 

the  root  of  tne  standing  com,  stood  on  like  the  vessels  they  sail  in,  which 

rock  and  bank,  looking  at  the  uicreas-  are  made  out  of  a  cockle-shell  or  a 

ing  magnitude  of  the  waters,  for  sea  cast-off-slipper,   or  the  paring  of  a 

'  and  land  were  visible  from  Saint  Bees  seaman's  right  thumb-nail.     I  once 

'  to  Bamhourie.    The  sails  of  two  ves-  got  a  hansel  out  of  a  witch's  quaigh 

sels  were  soon  seen  bent  for  the  Scot-  myself, —  auld    Marion    Mathers    of 

tish  coast ;  and  with  a  speed  outrun-  Dustiefoot,     whom    they    tried    to 

ning  the  swiftest  ship  they  approach-  bury  in  the  auld  kirk-yard  of  Dim- 

ed    the   dangerous    quicksands  and  score,  but  the  cummer  raise  as  fast 

headland   of  Borranpoint.      On  the  as  they  laid  her  down,  and  nae  where 

deck  of  the  foremost  ship  not  a  living  else  would  she  lie  but  in  the  l>onnic 

soul  was  seen,  or  shape,  imless  some-  green  kirk-yard  of  Kier,  among  douce 

thing  in  darkness  and  form   resem-  and  sponsible  fowk.    So  I'll  vow  that 

Mmg  a  human  shadoyr  co\AOl  \^  calU  the  wine  of  a  witch's  cup  is  as  fell 


1821.3                                   The  Haunied  Ships.  503 

liquor  as  ever  did  a  kindly  turn  to  a  their  name,  country^  or  destination' 
poor  man's  heart ;  and  be  they  fiends  could  be  Imown,  was  left  remain- 
or  be  they  witches,  if  they  have  red  ing.  Such  is  the  tradition  of  the 
wine  asteer,  I'll  risk  a  drouket  sark  mariners ;  and  its  truth  has  been  ai- 
for  ae  glorious  tout  ont.'  '  Silence,  tested  by  many  families  whose  amm 
ye  sinners,'  said  the  minister's  son  of  and  whose  Others  have  been  drown- 
«  neighbouring  parish,  who  united  ed  in  the  haunted  bay  of  filawhooly.'* 
in  his  own  person  his  father's  lack  of  **  And  trow  ye/'  said  the  old  wo- 
devotion  with  his  mother  s  love  of  man,  who,  attracted  from  her  hut  by 
liquor.  'Whisht! — speak  as  if  ye  the  drowning  cries  of  the  young 
had  tbe  fear  of  something  holy  before  fisherman,  had  remuned  an  auditor 
ye.  Let  the  vessels  run  their  own  of  the  mariner's  legend ;  "  And  trow 
way  to  destruction:  who  can  stay  the  ye,  Mark  Macmoran,  that  the  tale  of 
eastern  wind,  and  the  current  of  the  the  Haunted  Ships  is  done  ?  I  can 
Sol  way  sea?  I  can  find  ye  Scripture  say  no  to  that.  Mickle  have  mine  ears 
warrant  for  that :  so  let  them  try  heard ;  but  more  mine  eyes  have  wlt- 
their  strength  on  Blawhooly  rocks,  nessed  since  I  came  to  dwell  in  this 
and  their  might  on  the  broad  quick-  humble  home  bv  the  side  of  the  deep 
sand.  There  s  a  surf  running  there  sea.  I  mind  the  night  weel :  it  was 
would  knock  the  ribs  together  of  a  on  HaUowmass  eve :  the  nuts  were 
galley  built  by  the  imps  of  the  pit,  cracked,  the  apples  were  ate,  and 
and  commanded  by  the  Prince  of  spell  and  charm  were  tried  at  my  fijre- 
Darkness.  Bonnilie  and  bravely  they  side;  till,  wearied  with  diving  into  the 
sail  away  there ;  but  before  tiie  blast  dark  waves  of  futuriU^>  the  lads  and 
blows  by  they'll  be  wrecked ;  and  red  lasses  fairly  took  to  the  more  visiUe 
wine  and  strong  brandy  will  be  as  blessings  of  kind  words,  tender 
rife  as  dyke-water,  and  we'll  drink  clasps,  and  gentle  courtship.  Mt 
the  health  of  bonnie  BeU  Blackness  words  in  a  maiden's  ear,  and  a  Idndlie 
out  of  her  left-foot  slipper.'  The  kiss  o'  her  lip,  were  old  world  mat- 
speech  of  the  young  profligate  was  ters  to  me,  Mark  Macmoran ;  thougk 
applauded  by  several  of  his  com-  I  meAi  not  to  say  that  I  have  bcin 
panions,  and  away  they  flew  to  the  fi'ee  of  the  folly  of  daunering  and 
bay  of  Blawhooly,  from  whence  they  daffin  with  a  youth  in  my  day,  and 
never  returned.  The  two  vessels  were  keeping  tryste  with  him  in  dark  and 
observed  all  at  once  to  stop  in  the  lonely  places.  However,  as  I  say, 
bosom  of  the  bay,  on  the  spot  where  these  times  of  eigoyment  were  passed 
their  hulls  now  appear:  the  mirth  and  gone  with  me;  the  mair's  the  pity 
and  the  minstrelsy  waxed  louder  than  that  pleasure  should  fly  sae  fast  away 
ever;  and  the  forms  of  maidens,  vrith  —and  as  I  could  nae  make  sport  I 
instruments  of  music  and  wine  cups  thought  I  should  not  mar  anv ;  so 
in  their  hands,  tlirongcd  the  decks,  out  I  sauntered  into  the  fresh  cold  air, 
A  boat  was  lowered ;  and  the  same  and  sat  down  behind  that  old  oak,  and 
shadowy  pilot  who  conducted  the  looked  abroad  on  the  wide  sea.  I 
ships  made  it  start  towards  the  shore  had  my  ain  sad  thoughts,  ye  may 
with  the  rapidity  of  lightning,  and  its  think,  at  the  time:  it  was  in  that  veiy 
head  knocked  against  the  bank  where  bay  my  blythe  good-man  periled, 
the  four  young  men  stood,  who  longed  with  seven  more  in  his  company > — and 
for  the  unblest  drink.  They  leaped  on  that  very  bank  where  ye  see  the 
in  with  a  laugh,  and  with  a  laugh  waves  leaping  and  foaming,  I  saw 
were  they  welcomed  on  deck ;  wine  seven  stately  corses  streeked,  but 
cups  were  given  to  each,  and  as  they  the  dearest  was  the  eighth.  It  was  m. 
raised  them  to  their  lips  the  vessels  woefiU  sight  to  me,  a  widow,  with 
melted  away  beneath  their  feet ;  and  four  bonme  boys,  with  nought  to  sup- 
one  loud  shriek,  mingled  with  laugh-  port  them  but  these  twa  hands,  and 
ter  still  louder,  was  heard  over  land  God's  blessing  and  a  cow's  grass.  I 
and  water  for  many  miles.  Nothing  have  never  liked  to  live  out  of  sight  of 
more  was  heard  or  seen  till  the  this  bay  since  that  time;  and  mony's 
morning,  when  the  crowd  who  came  the  moonlight  night  I  sit  looking  on 
to  the  beach  saw  with  fear  and  won-  these  watery  mountains  and  mese 
dcr  the  two  Haunted  Ships,  such  as  waste  shores ;  it  does  my  heart  good, 
they  now  seem,  masts  and  tackle  whatever  it  may  do  to  my  head.  So 
gone;  nor  mark,  nor  sign,  by  which  ye  see  it  wa&R^&s^^xfiA»&'«v^gc6.\^»^ 


lOi                                      The  Haunted  Shipe.  [[Nor. 

looking  on  sea  and  land  sat  I ;  and  in  Blawhooly  bay^  while  the  shadowy 
my  heart  wandering  to  other  thoughts  figure  lowers  down  the  boat,  and  augw 
toon  made  me  forget  my  youuful  ments  their  numbers  with  the  four 
company  at  hame.  It  might  be  near  unhappy  mortals  to  whose  memory  a 
the  howe  hour  of  the  night:  the  tide  stone  stands  in  the  kirk-yard,  with  a 
was  making,  and  its  singing  brought  sinking  ship  and  a  shoreless  sea  cut 
strange  old  world  stories  with  it;  and  upon  it.  Then  the  spectre  shms  va- 
I  thought  on  the  dangers  that  sailors  msh,  and  the  drowning  shnek  of 
endiure,  the  fates  they  meet  vrith,  and  mortals,  and  the  rejoicing  laugh  of 
the  fearful  forms  they  see.  My  own  fiends  are  heard,  and  the  old  huUs 
blythe  good-man  had  seen  sights  that  are  left  as  a  memorial  that  the  old 
made  mm  grave  enough  at  times,  spiritual  kingdom  has  not  departed 
tiiough  he  aye  tried  to  laugh  them  from  the  earth.  But  I  maun  away, 
away.  Aweel,  atween  that  very  and  trim  my  little  cottage  fire,  and 
rock  aneath  us  and  the  coming  tide,  make  it  bum  and  blaze  up  bonnie, 
I  saw,  or  thought  I  saw,  for  the  tale  to  warm  the  crickets,  and  my  cold  and 
is  so  dream-like  that  the  whole  crazy  bones,  that  maun  soon  be  laid 
might  pass  for  a  vision  of  the  night,  aneath  the  green  sod  in  the  eerie  Idrk- 
I  saw  the  form  of  a  man :  his  yard."  And  away  the  old  dame  tot- 
plaid  was  gray ;  his  face  was  gray ;  tered  to  her  cottage,  secured  the  door 
and  his  hair,  which  hung  low  on  the  inside,  and  soon  the  hearth- 
•^own  till  it  nearly  came  to  the  flame  was  seen  to  glimmer  and  gleam 
middle  of  his  back,  was  as  white  as  through  key-hole  and  window. 
the  white  sea-foam.  He  began  to  *'  I'll  teU  ye  what,"  said  the  old 
howk  and  digunder  the  bank;  an'  God  mariner,  in  a  subdued  tone,  and  with 
ibe  near  me,  thought  I,  thb  maun  be  a  shrewd  and  suspicious  glance  of 
the  unblessed  spirit  of  Auld  Adam  his  eye  after  the  old  sybil,  ''  it's  a 
€k)wdgo wpin,  the  miser,  who  is  doom-  word  that  may  not  very  well  be  utter- 
ed to  dig  for  shipwrecked  treasure,  ed,  but  there  are  many  mistakes  made 
and  count  how  many  millions  are  in  evening  stories  if  old  Moll  Moray 
bidden  for  ever  fi*om  man's  enioy-  there,  where  she  lives,  knows  not 
ment.  The  Form  found  sometning  mickle  more  than  she  is  willing  to 
which  in  shape  and  hue  seemed  a  tell  of  the  Haunted  Ships  and  their 
left-foot  slipper  of  brass ;  so  down  to  unhallowed  mariners.  She  lives  can- 
the  tide  he  marched,  and  placing  it  mlie  and  quietly ;  no  one  knows  how 
on  the  water,  whirled  it  thrice  round;  she  is  fed  or  supported;  but  her  dress 
and  the  infernal  slipper  dilated  at  is  aye  whole,  her  cottage  ever  smokes, 
every  turn,  till  it  became  a  bonnie  and  her  table  lacks  neither  of  wine, 
barge  with  its  sails  bent,  and  on  board  white  and  red,  nor  of  fowl  and  fish, 
leaped 'the  form,  and  scudded  swiftly  and  white  bread  and  brown.  It  was 
away.  Hecameto  one  of  the  Haunted  a  dear  scofT  to  Jock  Matheson,  when 
Ships;  and  striking  it  with  his  oar,  a  he  called  old  Moll  the  uncannie  car- 
fair  ship,  with  mast,  and  canvass,  and  line  of  Blawhooly :  his  boat  ran  roimd 
mariners,  started  up :  he  touched  the  and  roimd  in  the  centre  of  the  Solway, 
other  Haunted  Ship,  and  produced  the  —everybody  said  it  was  enchanted,-— 
like  transformation;  and  away  the  and  down  it  went  head  foremost:  and 
three  spectre  ships  bounded,  leaving  had  nae  Jock  been  a  swimmer  equal 
a  track  of  fire  behind  them  on  the  to  a  sheldrake  he  would  have  fed  the 
billows  which  was  long  unextin-  fish; — ^but  I'll  warrant  it  sobered  the 
'guished.  Now  was  nae  that  a  bonnie  lad's  speech ;  and  he  never  reckoned 
and  a  fearful  sight  to  see  beneath  the  himself  safe  till  he  made  aidd  Mdl 
light  of  the  HaUowmass  moon?  But  Uie  present  of  anew  kirtle  and  a 
the  tale  is  far  firae  finished ;  for  ma-  stone  of  cheese."  "  O  father,"  said 
riners  say  that  once  a  year,  on  a  cer-  hb  grand-daughter  Barbara,  ''  ye 
tain  night,  if  ye  stand  on  the  Borran-  surely  wrong  poor  old  Mary  Moray : 
point,  ye  will  see  the  infernal  shallops  what  use  could  it  be  to  an  old  woman 
cominff  snoring  through  the  Solway:  like  her,  who  has  no  wrongs  to  re- 
yc  will  hear  the  same  laugh,  and  dress,  no  malice  to  work  out  against 
nong,  and  mirth,  and  minstrelsy,  mankind,  and  nothing  to  seek  of  en- 
which  our  ancestors  heard ;  see  them  joyment  save  a  cannie  hour  and  a 
bound  over  the  sand-banks  and  sunken  quiet  grave — what  use  could  the  fiel- 
rockB  Uke  aea-guUs^  cast  Uieit  audiot  \Aw«hi^  of  fiends  and  the  comma- 


I B91 .3  The  Haunted  Shipt.  605 

nion  of  evil  spirits  be  to  her?  I  kuow  window  of  the  bridal  chamber^  the 
Jenny    Primrose   puts    rowan  -  tree  time  the  bridegroom  was  gropinff  his 
above  the  door-head  when  she  sees  way  to  the  chamber  door;  and  ye 
old  Mary  coming ;  1  know  the  good  have  heard — ^but  why  need  I  multiply 
wife    of  Kittlenaket   wears  rowan-  cases  ?  such  things  fai  the  ancient  days 
berry  leaves  in  the  headband  of  her  were  as  common  as  candle-lieht.    So 
blue  kirtle,  and  all  for  the  sake  of  ye'll  no  hinder  certain  water  elves  and 
averting    the    unsonsie    glance     of  sea  fairies^  who  sometimes  keep  fes- 
Mary's  right  ee ;  and  I  know  that  the  tival  and  summer  mirth  in  these  old 
auld  laird  of  Bumtroutwater  drives  haunted  hulks^  from  falling  in  love 
bis  seven  cows  to  their  pasture  with  with  the  weel-faured  wife  of  Laird 
a  wand  of  witchtree>  to  keep  Mary  Macharg;  and  to  their  plots  and  con- 
from  milking  them.    But  what  has  trivauces  they  went  how  they  might 
all  that  to  do  with  haunted  shallops^  accomplish  to  sunder  man  and  wife ; 
visionary  manners^   and   bottomless  and  sundering  such  a  man  and  such  a 
boats  ?  I  have  heard  myself  as  plea-  wife  was  like  sundering  the    green 
saiit  a  tale  about  the  Haunted  Ships  leaf  from  the  summer, or  the  fragrance 
and  their  unwoildly  crews  as  any  from  the  flower.    So  it  fell  on  a  time 
one  would  wish  to  hear  in  a  whiter  that  Laird  Macharg  took  his  halve- 
evening.    It  was  told  to  me  by  young  net  on  his  back,  and  his  steel  spear  in 
Benjie  Macharff,  one  summer  night,  his  hand,  and  down  to  Blawhooly  bay 
sitting  on  Arbigland  bank:  the  lad  gade  he,  and  into  the  water  he  went 
intended    a  sort   of   love  meeting;  right  between  the  two  haunted  hulks, 
but  all  that  he  could  talk    of  was  and  placing  his  net  awaited  the  com- 
about   smearing   sheep  and    shear-  iug  of  the  tide.    The  night,  ve  maun 
ing  sheep,   aiuf  of  the  wife   which  ken,  was  mirk,  and  the  wind  lowne, 
the  Norway  elves   of    the    Haunt-  and  the  singing  of  the    increasing 
ed  Ships  made  for  his  uncle  Sandie  waters    among    the  shells  and  the 
Macharg.     And  I  shall  tell  ye  the  peebles  was  heard  for  sundry  miles, 
tale  as  the  honest  lad  told  it  to  me.  All  at  once  lights  began  to  glanqe 
Alexander  Macharg,    besides  being  and  twinkle  on  board  the  two  Haunt- 
thc  laird  of  three  acres  of  peatmoss,  ed  Ships  from  every  hole  and  seam, 
two  kale  gardens,  and  the  owner  of  and    presentiy   the    sound   as    of  a 
seven  good  milch  cows,  a  pair  of  hatchet  employed  in  squaring  timber 
horses,  and  six  pet  sheep,  was   the  echoed  far  and  wide.    But  if  the  toil 
husband  of  one  of  the  handsomest  of  these  unearthly  workmen  amazed 
women  in  seven  parishes.    Many  a  the    Laird,     how  much    more    W98 
lad  sighed  the  day  he  was  brided ;  his    amazement   increased   when  a 
and  a  Nithsdale  laird  and  two  An-  sharp  shrill  voice  called  out,  '  Ho  I 
nandale    moorland    farmers     drank  brother,  what  arc  you  doin^  now  ?' 
themselves  to  their  last  linen,  as  well  A  voice  still  shriller  responded  from 
as  their  last  shilling,  through  sorrow  the    otiier     haunted     ship,     '   I'm 
for  her  loss.    But  married  was  the  making  a  wife  to  Sandie  Macharg !' 
dame ;  and  home  she  was  carried,  to  and  a  loud  quavering  laugh  runnmg 
bear  rule  over  her  home  and  her  hus-  from  ship  to  ship,  and  from  bank  to 
band,  as  an  honest  woman  should,  bank,  told  the  joy  they  expected  from 
Now  ye  maun  ken  that  though  the  their  labour.    Now  the  liurd,  besides 
flesh  and  blood  lovers  of  Alexander's  being  a  devout  and  a  God-fearing 
bonnie  wife  all  ceased  to  love  and  to  man,  was  shrewd  and  bold ;  and  in 
sue  her  after  she  became  another's,  plot,    and  contrivance,  and  skill  in 
there  were  certain  admirers  who  did  conducting  his  designs,  was  £urly  an 
not  consider  their  claim  at  all  abated,  overmatch  for  any  dozen  land  elves : 
or  their  hopes  lessened  by  the  kirk's  but  the  water  elves  are  far  more  sub- 
famous  obstacle  of  matrimony.     Ye  tie;  besides,  their  haunts  and  their 
have  heard  how  the  devout  mimster  dwellings  being  in  the   great  deep, 
of  Tinwald  had  a  fair  son    carried  pursuit  and  detection  is  hopeless  if 
away,  and  bedded  against  his  liking  they  succeed  in  carryuig  their  prey 
to  an  unchristened  bride,  whom  the  to  the  waves.    But  ye  shall  hoar, 
elves  and   the  fairies  provided :  yc  Home  flew  the  laird,—  collected  his 
have  heard  how  the  bonnie  bride  of  family  around  the  hearth, — spoke  of 
the  drunken  laird  of  Soukitup  was  thesigns  and  the  sins  ofthe  times,  and 
stolen  by  the  fairies  out  at  the  back-  talked  of  mortificflJdsyok^sDL^Y^v^^x^s^^ 


506                                           The  Haunted  Ships.  QNov. 

averting  calamity ;  and  fixikally  takine  ancath  a  summer  sun.     O  man,  you 

his  fiEither*B  Bible^  brass  clasps.  blacK  a  douce  man,  and  fitter  to  be  an  elder 

print,    atid   covered    with  calf-skin,  than   even   Willie  Greer  himself,    I 

from  the  shelf,  he  proceeded  without  have  the  minister's  ain  word  for't,  to 

let    or    stint  to    perform  domestic  put  on  these  hard-hearted  looks,  and 

worship.    I  should  have  told  ye  that  gang  waving   your  arms  that  way, 

he  bolted  and  locked  the  door,  shut  as  If  ye  said,    *  I  winna   take  the 

up  all  inlet  to  the  house,  threw  salt  counsel  of  sic  a  hempie  as  you,'  your 

itkio  the  fire^  and  proceeded  in  every  ain  leal  wife ;  I  will  and  I  maun  have 

way  like  a  man  skilful  in  guarding  an  explanation.'    To  all  this  Sandie 

against  the  plots  of  fairies  and  fiends.  Macharg  replied,  '  It  is  written — 

]^  wife  looked  on  all  this  with  won-  ''wives,  obey  your  husbands ;"  but  we 

der ;  but  she  saw  something  in  her  have  been  stayed  in  our  devotion,  00 

husband's  looks    that  hindered  her  let  us  pray ;' and  down  he  knelt:   his 

fhmi   Intruding    either    question  or  wife  knelt  also,  for  she  was  as  devout 

aldvice,  and  a  wise  woman  was  she.  as  bonnic;  and  beside  them  knelt  th^ 

Near  the  mid  hour  of  the  night  the  household,  and  all  lights  were  extin- 

liish  of  a  horse's  feet  was  heard,  and  guished.    '  Now  this  beats  a','  mut« 

the  sound  of  a  rider  leaping  from  its  tered  his  wife  to  herself;   'however, 

foackj  and  a  heavy  knock  came  to  the  I  shall  be  obedient  for  a  time ;  but  if 

door  accompanied  by  a  voice,  saying,  I  dinna  ken  what  all  this  is  for  before 

*  The  cummer  drink's  hot,  and  the  the  mom  by  sunket-tlme,  my  tongue 
knave  bairn  is  expected  at  Laird  is  nae  langer  a  tongue,  nor  my  naiids 
Laurie's  tp-night ;  sae  mount,  good-  worth  wearing.'  The  voice  of  her 
wife,  and  come.'  ^  Preserve  me !'  husband  in  prayer  interrupted  this 
fUdd    the  wife  of  Sandie  Macharg;  mental  soliloquy;  and  ardently  did  he 

*  that's  news  indeed;  who  could  beseech  to  be  preserved  from  the 
have  thought  it  ?  the  laird  has  been  wiles  of  the  fiends  and  the  snares  of 
heirless  for  seventeen  years  !  Now  Satan ;  from  witches,  ghosts,  goblins, 
Sandie,  my  man,  fetch  me  my  skirt  elves,  fairies,  spunkies,  and  watcr- 
and  hood.*  But  hcv  laid  his  arm  kelpies ;  from  the  spectre  shallop  of 
round  his  wife's  neck,  and  said,  '  If  Solway ;  from  spirits  visible  and  in- 
all  the  lairds  in  Galloway  go  heirless,  visible ;  from  the  Haunted  Ships  and 
over  this  door  threshold  shall  you  their  unearthly  tenants;  from  mari- 
not  stir  to-night;  and  I  have  said,  and  time  spirits  that  plotted  against  god- 
I  have  sworn  it:  seek  not  to  know  ly  men,  and  feU  in  love  with  Qieir 
why  nor  wherefore — but.  Lord,  send  wives—'  '  Nay,  but  his  presence  be 
us  Uiy  blessed  mom-light.'  The  wife  near  us !'  said  his  wife  in  a  low  tone 
looked  for  a  moment  in  her  husband's  of  dismay.  '  God  guide  my  gude- 
eyes,  and  desisted  from  further  en-  man's  wits :  I  never  heard  such  a 
{treaty.  '  But  let  us  send  a  civil  prayer  from  human  lips  l>efore.  But 
inessage  to  the  gossips,  Sandy;  and  Sandie,  my  man,  lordsake  rise:  what 
hadnae  ye  better  say  J  am  sair  laid  fearful  liffht  is  this — bam,  and  byre, 
with  a  sudden  sickness ;  though  its  and  stable,  maun  be  in  a  blaze;  and 
sinful-like  to  send  the  poor  messen-  HawkieandHurley,Doddie,andChcr- 
ger  a  mile  agate  with  a  lie  in  his  rie,  and  Damson-plum,  will  be  smoor- 
mouth  without  a  glass  of  brandy.'  ed  with  reek,  and  scorched  with 
'  To  such  a  messenger,  and  to  those  flame.'  And  a  flood  of  light,  but 
who  sent  him,  no  apology  is  needed,'  not  so  gross  as  a  common  fire,  which 
said  the  austere  laird,  '  so  let  him  ascended  to  heaven  and  filled  all  the 
depart.'  And  the  clatter  of  a  horse's  court  before  the  house,  amply  justi- 
hoofs  was  heard,  and  the  muttered  fied  the  good  wife's  suspicions.     But 

'  imprecations  of  its  rider  on  the  churl-  to  the  terrors  of  fire  Sandie  was  as 

tsh   treatment    he  had  experienced,  immoveable  as  he  was  to  the  imagi- 

^^  Now  Sandie,  my  lad,'  saici  his  wife,  nary  groans  of  the  barren  wife   of 

laying  an  arm  particularly  white  and  Laird  Laurie ;  and  he  held  his  wife,  and 

round  about  his  neck  as  she  spoke,  threatened  the  weight  of  his  right- 

*  are  you  not  a  queer  man  and  a  hand — and  it  was  a  heavy  one — to  all 
stem  ?  I  have  been  your  wedded  who  ventured  abroad,  or  even  imbolt- 
wife  now  these  three  years  ;  and,  be-  ed  the  door.  The  neighing  and  pranc- 

sidc  my  dower,    have  brought  you  ing  of  horses,  and  the  bellowing  of 

tbroc  03  bonnie  bairns  as  evet  smW^  covf^,  ^v^m<c.\!LtAd  the  horrors  of  tht: 


1631.3                              Verses  written  in  an  Album.  601 

night;  and  to  any  one  who  only  beard  admitted  his  visitants.  A  synod  of 
the  din  it  seemed  that  the  whole  wise  men  and  women  sat  upon  the 
onstead  was  in  ablaze^  and  horses  and  woman  of  timber,  and  she  Was  final- 
cattle  perishing  in  the  flame.  All  ly  ordered  to  be  devoured  by  fire,  and 
wiles,  common  or  extraordinary,  were  that  in  the  open  air.    A  fire  was  soon 

Eut  in  practice  to  entice  or  force  the  made,  and  into  it  the  elfin  sculpture 

onest  farmer  and  his  wife  to  open  was  tossed  from  the  prongs  oi  two 

the  door;  and  when  the  like  success  pair  of  pitchforks.    And  the  blaze 

attended  every  new  stratagem,  silence  that  arose  was  awfiil  to  behold ;  and 

for  a  little  while  ensued,  and  a  long,  hissings,   and  burstings,   and   loud 

loud,  and  shrilling  laugh  wound  up  crackUngs,  and  strange  noises,  were 

the  dramatic  efforts  of  tne-night.    In  heard  in  the  midst  of  the  fiame ;  and 

the  morning,    when  Laird  Macharg  when  the  whole  sunk  into  ashes  9 

went  to  the  door,  he  found  standing  drinking  cup  of  some  precious  metal 

against  one  of  the  pilasters  a  piece  of  was  found;  and  this  cup,  &shloned 

black  ship  oak,  rudely  fashioned  into  no  doubt  by  elfin  skill,  but  rendcired 

something   like   human   form,     and  harmless   by  the   purification    with 

which  slulful  people  declared  would  fire,  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Sandie 

have  been  clotned  with  seeming  fiesh  Macharg  and  his  wife  drink  out  of  to 

and  blood,  and  palmed  upon  him  by  this  very  day." 

elfin  adroitness  for  his  wife,  had  he  LammerUa,  Cumberland, 


VERSES  WRITTEN  IN  AN  ALBUM. 

The  blessings  that  to  earth  are  sent. 
Like  Angel  guests,  but  come  and  go ; 

The  spell  dissolves,  the  tie  is  rent. 
And  brief  the  date  of  bliss  below. 

And  thou,  the  darling  of  the  muse. 

Thy  flower  has  bloom'd,  thy  light  has  shone ; 
Mine  eye  thine  ocean-track  pursues ; 

I  feel  thy  grasp,  and  thou  art  gone. 

I  trace  in  joys  that  passing  fly. 
In  hopes  that  chase  the  hour-glass  ,sand. 

The  watchings  of  a  Father's  eye. 
The  beckonings  of  a  Father  s  hand. 

Not  here  our  home ;  and  grief  and  care. 
Those  stem,  kind  monitors,  repeat 

Here  is  your  prison-house,  and  there 
The  bourne  where  kindred  spirits  meet. 

The  waving  mantie  faintiy  seen. 
Of  him,  whom  we  no  more  may  see. 

Tells  of  the  pleasures  that  have  been. 
But  tells  of  those  that  yet  shall  be. 

There  is  a  shore,  whence  never  ked 
Shall  waft  the  parted  finend  away ; 

Rapt  on  the  propnet's  fiery  wheel. 
The  soul  shall  spam  its  perish'd  clay. 

And  they,  whose  hearts  de^ndence  wrings. 
While  change  and  chance  their  link  dissever. 

Shall  stoop  their  interclasping  wings. 
Met  at  Heaven's  gate,  and  met  for  ever. 


#08  A  Seniimental  Jammey,  from  IsSngion  to  Waterloo  Bridge.      P^ov. 


A  SENTIMENTAL  JOURNEY,  FROM  ISLINGTON  TO  WATERLOO 

BRIDGE,  IN  MARCH,  1821. 

The  Mm  of  Cornelius  shall  make  his  own  legs  his  compasses :  with 

those  he  shall  measure  continents,  islands,  capes,  bays,  streights,  and 

isthmusses. — Metnoiart  of  Martinu*  Scriblerut, 

"  I  SHOULD  like  very  much  to  tra-  England  has^  to  be  sure^  its  national 

▼el^"  said  a  young  cockney,  with  his  character ;  but  it  gives  birth  to  many 

feet  on  the  fender.    ^^  London  is  a  mongrels,  who  belong  rather  to  the 

yast    place;    but  the  world  is  ten  Spanish,   Dutch,  or  other  breeds:— 

times  Digger,  and,  no  doubt,  a  many  there  are   foreigners  bom  here,   as 

•tranffe  things  are  to  be  seen  in  it."  well  as  others  who  visit  us,  and  why 

''  And  pray,  young  man,"  said  an  should  we  go  abroad  to  study  them, 

oid  gentleman,  whom  he  called  the  when  we  have  them  all  in  epitome  at 

philosopher,  ^^  pray  are  you  so  fami-  home  ?  Different  nations,  like  differ- 

Bar  with  the  features  of  your  own  ent  men,  are  only  compounds  of  the 

country ;  are  you  so  well  acouainted  same  ingredients,  ))ut  in  varied  pro- 

with  its  men  and  manners,  uiat  you  portions.    We  shall  find  knaves  and 

must  go  out  of  it  for  matter  of  inves-*  nonest  men   in  every  state,  and  a 

ligation  and  speculation  ?"  large  proportion  of  fools  and  dunces 

'*  As  for  men,"  replied  the  cock-  in  them  all.    We  shall  find  every 

ney,  *'  we  may  see  them  any  where,  where  the  same  passions,  the   same 

I've  seen  Cribb,  and  Spring,  and  the  virtues  and  vices,  but  altered  in  their 

best  good  ones  that  ever  peeid ; — and,  proportions,  by  the  influences  of  edu- 

as  for  manners,  I  learned  them  at  the  cation,  laws,  and  religion ;  which  in 

dancing  school.     I  have  not  been  all  some  parts  tend  to  improve,  and,  in 

over  England,  to  be  sure,  like  my  others,  to  pervert  the  common  nature 

father's    riders ;    but  I've   been    to  of  mankind.     It  is  in  their  civil  and 

Margate,    Brighton,    and    Moulsey  religious  institutions  that  we  are  to 

Hurst ;  so  that  what  I  have  not  seen  look  for  the  grand  causes  effecting 

by  sack  I  have  seen  by  sample.    Be-  those  distinctions    which  constitute 

sides,  London  is  the  verv  focus  of  national  character, — ^but  before   we 

England,  and  sure  I  am,  that  I  know  go  to  investigate  them,  we  should, 

it  firom  Wapping  to  Hyde  Park  cor-  at  least,  understand  a  little  of  our 

ner,   and  have  seen  all  that  is  in-  own." 

structive  in  it.  I've  been  up  the  Mo-  "  Pshaw!"  said  the  cockney, 
nument,  and  down  St.  Paid's,  over  who  began  to  grow  tired  of  this  ba- 
the bridges,  and  under  the  tunnel,  rangue,  "  there  are  sights  to  be  seen 
I've  seen  the  king  and  court — Mrs.  abroad  which  can't  be  brought  over 
Salmon's  royal  waxwork  too,  and  the  here ;  and  as  for  men  being  the  same 
wild  beasts  at  Exeter  'Change— I've  all  the  world  over,  it's  all  my  eye, — 
seen  Drury  Lane  and  Covent  Garden  an't  there  the  Hottentots  that  have 
play-houses,  besides  the  houses  of  noses  like  your  Pug's,  and  heads  as 
liOrds  and  Commons — the  Soho  Ba-  black  and  woolly  as  my  poodle's? 
zaar, — and  both  Bartlemy  Fair,  and  An't  the  Frenchmen  all  skinny,  and 
the  Brighton  pavilion.  I  never  miss-  have'nt  the  Spaniards  large  whis- 
ed  a  Lord  Mayor's  show,  nor  any  kers  P  There  are  the  Patagonians  too, 
thing  that  is  worth  seeing ;  and  I  that  are  all  as  big  as  the  Irish  giant, 
know,  by  sight.  Lord  Castlereagh,  and  Laplanders  no  bigger  than  Miss 
Jack  Ketch,  Sir  William  Curtis,  Bil-  What's-her-name,  the  dwarf?" 
ly  Waters,  and  many  other  public  *'  Pshaw!"  said  the  philosopher, 
and  distinguished  characters."  in  his  turn ;  ''  all  these  are  minor 

'^  If  you  have  seen  no  more  than  distinctions,  and  shrink  as  it  were  to 
Tou  say,"  said  the  philosopher,  "  you  nothing,  when  compared  with  the 
nave  seen  a  great  deal  more  than  is  immeasurable  distances  between  the 
EngUsh;  and  if  you  only  wish  to  minds  of  men: — whether  I  be  English- 
study  mankind,  it  is  at  least  a  reason  man  or  Hottentot^  a  Laplander,  or  a 
9gKaaX  Jrour   leaving  the  country.  Patagonian, 


ia91«3    ^  SefUmeiOal  Jotame^^  from  Islington  to  Waterioo  Bridge.  doa 

If  I  could  stxetch  from  pole  to  pole,  in  the  centre  of  the  village,  or  rather 

And  grasp  the  ocean  in  a  span,  town  of  Islington,  when  I  observed 

I  must  be  measured  by  my  soul ;—  that  the  steps  which  led  down  to  the 

The  mind's  the  staDdard  of  the  man.»  ^oor,  had  become  the  seat,  or  rather 

^'  There  is,  no  doubt,  a  consider-  the  couch,  of  an  unfortunate  female, 

able  difference  between  a  Hottentot's  She    had,  like  Sterne's    Maria,  her 

nose,  and  my  own,   which,  as  you  dog,  and  her  jpipe,  and  like  her  too> 

observe,  is  a  fine  Roman  one,  and  she    was    evidently    beside    herself, 

very  like  CsesaV's;   but  there  is,  I  '^  Poor  unfortunate  and  interesting 

flatter  myself,  a  much  greater  differ-  Maria,"  said  I,  "  as  she  came  into 

ence   between    our    understandings,  my   mind,    exactly   as    Sterne    had 

The  first  is  onlv  a  difference  in  tne  drawn  her.   I  had  touched  a  strings— t 

conformation  of  matter,  but  the  last  at  the  name  of  Maria,  the  female  for 

is  a  gradation  in    mind,  which,   to  the  first  time  raised  her  head,  and  I 

speak  in  common  language,  is  the  caught  a  glance  of  her  uncommon 

most  material  matter  of  the  two."  countenance.    The  rose  had  not  fled 

Here  the  cockney  was  quite  out  of  from  it,  nor  the  bloom,  for  this  was 

patience  ;  he  did  not  care,  he  said,  damson,  and  that  was  damask ;  there 

about  mind  and  matter ;  and  as  to  was  a  fixedness  in  her  gaze,  and  al«' 

the  difference  of  men's  minds,  why  though  she  quickly  tum'd  her  head 

men  would  differ,  but  he  meant  to  be  away,  she  could  not  hide  fi*om  me 

of  his  own  mind,  and  the  philosopher  that  she  had  a  drop  in  her  eye. 

might  be  of  his,  and  so  they  parted.  ^*  It  won't  do,"  said  I,  shaking  mr 

As  I  was  present  at  this  conver-  head,  ''  Maria  found  Sterne's  hano* 

sation,  it  occurred  to  me  that  if  men  kerchief,  and  washed  it  with  tears^ 

were  so  much  alike  every  where,  or  and  dried  it  in  her  bosom ;  but  if  I 

rather,   if   every  soil  produced  the  lose  mine  here,  it's  ten  to  one  if  I  see 

same  varieties,  I  could  see  as  much  it  again ;  and  if  this  Maria  should 

of  them  in  a  walk  through  the  popu-  wet  it  with  her  eyes,  methinks  it 

lous  streets  of  London  as  in  a  hasty  would  dry  best  again  at  her  nose, 

journey  all  over  the  Continent.    O !  There  is  nothing  to  sympathize  with 

I  will  not  travel,   said  I,  for  in  the  in    her    bewilderment — she's    rather 

first  place,  it's  unnecessary ;  and,  se-  bewitched  than  bewitching— she's  a 

condly,  I  do  not  feel  equal  to  its  fa-  dry  subject,"  and  so  I  left  her. 

tigues  and  dangers,  and,  lastly,  said  My  eyes,  however,  were  full  charg* 

I,   (for  we  always  get  to  the  true  ed  with  the  tears,  and  my  bosom 

reason  at  last)  I  can't  afinni  it     Be-  with  the  sighs,  which  I  had  expected 

sides,    I    had    not    seen    Waterloo  to  mingle  with  those  of  the  supposed 

Bridge,  and  we  ought  to  see  our  own  unfortiniate.      Some    sentimentalists 

bridges,  before    we   go  to  see  the  would  have  vented  them  upon  the 

bridges  of  others.  first  dead  dog,  or  lame  chicken,  they 

A  traveller,  said  I,  should  have  all  might  meet  with,  but  I  held  them 
his  wits  about  him,  and  so  will  I.  too  valuable  to  be  wasted  upon  such 
He  should  let  nothing  escape  him,  no  objects.  I  hate  the  weeping-willow 
more  will  I — he  should  extract  re-  set,  who  will  cry  over  their  pug  dogs, 
flections  out  of  a  cabbage  stump,  and  canaries,  till  they  have  no  tears 
like  sun-beams  squeezed  out  of  cu-  to  spare  for  the  real  children  of  mis- 
cumbers  ;  so  will  I,  if  I  can— and  he  fortune  and  misery, — ^but  sensibility 
shoidd  converse  with  every  and  any  is  too  scarce,  and  too  valuable,  not  to 
one,  even  a  fish-woman.  Perhaps  I  be  often  imitated,  and  these  therefore 
will,  and  perhaps  I  will  not,  said  I.  are  the  ways  in  which  they  advertise 
Who  knows  but  I  may  make  a  sen-  their  counterfeit  drops.  They  should 
timental  journey,  as  g(X)d  as  Sterne's;  be  punished  like  any  other  impostors, 
but,  at  any  rate,  I  can  write  it,  and  and  they  might  be  made  of  some  use 
send  it  to  the  London  Maoazinb.  to  society  at  the  same  time ;  for  as 

I  had  hardly  left  the  threshold  of  other  convicts  are  set  to  beat  hemp, 

m^  door,  ere  I  met,  as  I  thought,  and   pick  oakum,    so  I  would  set 

with  an  adventure.  I  had  just  reach-  these  to  perform  funerals,  and  to  chop 

ed  that  ancient  and  grotesque  house  onions.    These  reflections,  and  the 

which  is  said  to  have  been  a  summer  incidents  which  gave  rise  to  them,  f 

seat  of  Queeu  Elizabeth,  though  now  resolved  to   treasure   up>  for  they 


510         A  SenUmenial  Journey,  from  Islington  to  Waterloo  Bridge,        Z^^^*' 

would  perhaps  have  their  use  in  he  had  only  half  a  crown  in  il. 
son\c  part  of  my  journey.  Thev  will  "  Thank  your  honour,"  said  he,  look- 
warn  me  against  being  too  sentimen-  ing  full  in  my  face,  and  then  lookm^ 
tal,  said  I.  In  the  lirst  place,  it's  ri-  down  upon  my  boots,  he  thanked  me 
diculous— secondly,  it's  useless — and,  again,  and  still  more  emphatically. 
lastly,  it's  inconvenient,  for  I  just    "  It's  very  true,"  said  I,  entering'  int9 

recollect  that  there's  a  very  large  hole  his  feeling — "  it's  very  true-— and  if  I 

in  my  pocket  handkerchief.  too  had  looked  upon  my  boots  yoa 

These    reflections     brought    me  probably  had  not  had  it"  He  thougfat, 

into  Colebrook  Row,  or  rather  into  a  no  doubt,  with  certain  philosophen^ 

heap  of  mud  that  stood  at  the  end  that  man's  main  spring  is  selfisniiesi^ 

of  it,  for  street  reveries  are  very  sub-  and* perhaps  he  was  not  quite  wrong; 

ject  to    such    sudden    terminations,  but,  at  all  events,  to  decide  it,  I  re* 

They  say  that  Englishmen  have  a  solved  to  watch  his  customers,   and 

rusticity  about  them,  that  only  rubs  analyze  his  profits.    '^  A  {dague  take 

off  by  a  little  travel ;  but  that  must  the  fellow  !"  said  an  old  gentleman, 

certainly    be   erroneous,    for   I  had  whom  he  had  hunted  fifty  paces  for 

hardly  gone  a  quarter  of  a  mile,  ere  a  halfpenny  ;  ''  you  ought  to  be  re- 

I  lost,  m  the  mudding  of  my  boots,  ported  to   tiie    Mendicity    society.** 

the  little  all  of  polish  that  I   wore  He  gave  it  him  to  get  rid  of  his  im- 

about  me.    Barring  the  first  agony  portunity,  thought  I;  he  would  have 

of  mortification,  I  oorc  it,  however,  kept  his  halfpenny  by  walking  a  little 

with  uncommon  fortitude,  for  I  knew  faster — but  he  walks  very  lame,  poor. 

that  travellers  must  expect  to  meet,  as  old    gentleman,    and    that    perhaps 

I  did,  with  sad  and  serious  accidents,  makes  him  pettish.    The  next  ha&« 

There  passed,    moreover,    a  young  penny  he  got  from  a  lady,  who  had 

gentleman,  in  very  tight  trotter^ases,  walked  a  long;  way  down  the  road  to 

ut  whilst  his  feet  gave  evident  signs  avail   herselt   of  his  laboiu*.     'Twaa 

of  suffering,  I  observed  that  his  coun-  rather  for  her  upper  leather's   than 

tenance  was  calm,  vacant,  and  stoical,  her  soul's  sake,  said   I ;  and  as  for 

Pshaw !   said  I,  if  he  can  bear  his  that  old  lady  tbat  followed  her,  I  can 

phiches  so  well,  I  may  surely  put  up  read  in  his  face  that  she  has  given 

with  my  splashes — this  pain  of  mine  him  a  pocket-piece — but  they  ml  go 

exists  only  in  imagination,  whereas  in  charity,  as  it  is  call'd,  and  1  have 

his   poor    feet,  —  like    Shakspeare's  leam'd,  by  the  bye,  what  to  do  with 

stricken  deer,  ''distend  their  leathern  a  forged  or  flash  note.     As  nobody 

coats  almost  to  bursting."    What  a  else  seemed  inclined  to  give  him  any 

felicity  there    is    in  a  happy  appli-  thing,  I  summ'd  up  my  calculation  ; 

cation  of  words !  I  was  so  pleased  one  third  had  been  given  from  incon* 

with  the  resemblance  which  I  had  venience,   and  one  third  for  conve- 

discovered   between   the   foot    of  a  nience,  and  the  rest,  or  the  pocket* 

dandy  and  a  stricken  deer,  that  I  piece,  was  the  gift  of  pure  charity, 
quite    forgot   my  vexation,  and  its        We  may  say  of  charity,  as  Hamlet 

cause.    1  found,  as  I  thought,  that  I  Travestied,  does  of  death — that  it's 

had  a  genius  for  apt  quotations,  and  tnily  a  fine  thing  to  talk  of.     We  all 

resolved  not  to  be  sparing  of  them ;  preach  it— we  all  praise  and  admire, 

they  would  give  to  my  travels  an  air  but  when  we  come  to  the  practise  of 

of  great  learning,  and,  if  learning  it,  we  "  leave  that  to  men  of  more 

be  better  than  riches,  there  would  be  learning,"  and  are  as  careful  of  otir 

no  more  harm  in  showing  it   thus,  pence,    as    of   our   lives,  when  we 

than  in  pulling  out  a  large  purse,  as  "  find  they've  no  chance  of  return** 

some  do,  to  give  a  poor  beggar  a  ing." 

lialfpenny.  1  had  hardly  ended  these  uncha- 
<'  Give  a  poor  beggar  a  halfpenny,"  ritable  reflections  when  I  was  obliged 
said  a  man,  as  if  he  had  heard  and  to  retract  and  repent  them.  I  had 
echoed  the  last  part  of  my  thought,  begun  to  read  a  very  conspicuous 
The  City  Road  was  excessively  dirty,  hand-bill,  which  was  pasted  on  some 
but  he  had  swept  a  cleaner  passage  palings  near  Sadler's  Wells,  and  in- 
over  it,  and  as  I  trod  across  his  little  vited  the  admirers  of  fisty-ciifTs  to  a 
track  of  Terra  FiriAa,  I  dropped  the  grand  sparrhig  benefit,  at  the  Fives 
merited  coin  into  his  hat,  fur  1  ^aw  Coiut.     But  1  had  hardly  got  far<« 


1 821 .3      A  SenHmenlal  J<mmey,  from  liUngton  to  WCaierbo  Bridgi.  SI  i 

ther  than  the  noble  science  of  self-  conclusion;   and,    taking  advantage 

defence,  when  it  was  for  the  most  therefore,  of  a  general  pause,  the  ef- 

Sart  eclipsed  by  a  new  hand  bill,  feet  of  exhausted  rage,  I  was  in- 
esh  from  the  pole  of  the  bill-stick-  duced  to  offer  my  aid  as  a  mediator 
er, — and,  altogether,  they  then  ap-  between  the  two  sexes.  Now,  it  sq 
peared  as  follows  : — To  the  Fancy-^  happens,  that  when  persons  are  angrj 
on  such  a  day — a  Sermon  will  be  or  xidiculous,  they  like  to  make  par- 
preached  by  such  a  bishop— at  such  ties  of  all  the  spectators,  and  as  I 
a  church,  for  the  benefit  of  such  a  had  taken  no  part  in  the  fray,  but 
charity,  and  as  a  little  piece  of  the  had  been  strictly  neutral,  the  pro* 
other  bill,  expressed  at  the  bottom  posal  was  generally  agreed  to ;  cspe- 
that  real  good  ones  were  expected,  I  cially  as  I  nad  the  appearance  of  one 
applied  it,  of  course,  to  the  exclusion  of  the  meek  among  men.  Getting 
of  pocket-pieces.  I  had  a  fresh  sub*  therefore  upon  one  of  the  benches,  I 
ject,  besides,  in  this  piece  of  waggery  stretched  forth  my  hand,  and  pro- 
of the  bill-sticker's,  which  had  at-  ceeded  as  follows :  "  Ladies  and 
forded  me  no  little  entertainment.  Gentlemen,  the  question  which  you 
Shakspeare  was  right,  and  so  was  the  have  referred  to  me  is  of  the  great- 
philosopher,  in  my  estimation,  for  I  est  importance,  not  only  to  me,  but 
saw  that  what  they  had  represented  to  you, — not  only  to  you,  but  to  all 
was  correct,  that  certain  ctiaracters  the  world.  It  reqiures  to  know  which 
are  confined  to  no  class,  condition,  of  the  sexes  was  bom  for  dominion — 
nor  country.  We  may  meet  with  whether  woman  should  rule, — P**  oz 
dull  pedagogues  and  authors,  and  man  should  be  ruled,"  said  an  Irish-* 
with  sensible  clowns  and  witty  bill-  man.]]  It  not  only  questions  whe- 
stickcrs;  and  I  doubt  not  that  we  ther  wife  should  rule  husband,  or 
shall  as  readily  meet  with  blunt  husband  rule  wife,— but  also  if 
Frenchmen,  with  shuffling  English-  queens  should  ascend  the  throne,  or 
men,  and  honest  and  brave  Italians.  if  kings  should  sit  on  it ;  for  which- 

I  met  with  no  other  incident  worth  ever  may  be  unfit  to  -command  a 
relating,  or  reflecting  upon,  till  I  family,  must  be  equally  unqualified 
came  to  a  public  house  near  Lady  to  govern  a  nation.  The  conclusion 
Huntingdon's  chapel,  and  there  I  of  this  sentence  was  followed  by 
met  with  matter  of  interest  and  a^  shouts  of  applause  from  both  parties, 
rausement,  inasmuch  as  it  involved  a  each  applying  to  the  other  the  unfit- 
question  upon  nation'al  and  domestic  ness  to  y^  hich  I  alluded.  '^  If,"  said 
government.  I,  '^  we  may  judge  from  a  law  which 

It  was  no  less  than  a  quarrel  be-  exists,  and  has  existed,  I  should  say 

twcen  a  man  and  his  wife,  who  had  that  the  softer  sex   are  unqualified 

just  ejected  him  from  his  seat  in  the  for  the  thrones,  from  which  by  that 

parlour ;  and  the  argument  was,  not  very  law  they  stand  excluded."  Here 

whether  he  should  go  there  at  all,  but  I  was  obliged  to  bow  to  the  applause 

whether  he  should  go  there  without  of  my  male  hearers,  and  also  to  the 

her  permission,  first  sought  and  ob-  ladies,  in  order  to  avoid  the  force  of 

tained.      There    were   not  wanting  a  flying  patten, 

auxiliaries  and  allies  upon  each  side,  *'  But  there  is  one  circumstance," 

and  there  were  as  many  advocates  I  continued,  '*  and  it  certainly  goes 

for  the  rights  of  woman,  as  there  strongly  against  such  a  conclusion ;  I 

were  supporters  of  the  doctrine  of  mean  that  in  that  instance,  the  men 

the  free-will  of  man.    There  was,  were  the  law  roidEers."  Here  again  I 

besides,  a  third  party,  composed  chief-  had  to  bow  to  the  ladies,  and  duck  to 

ly  of  young  persons,  perhaps  spin-  the  gentlemen. ''I  will  say,  moreover, 

sters  and  bachelors,  wno,  by  siding  that  if  we  refer  to  the  histoiy  of  a 

sometimes  with  one,  and  sometimes  nation  where  that  law  was  unknown, 

the  other,  seemed  inclined  to  provoke  we  shall  find  that  the  reigns  of  two 

the  opposing    parties   to  a  general  thirds  of  her  queens  have  been  happy 

combat.     It  was  evident,  from  the  or  glorious.  (Loud  applause  from  the 

clamour  of  the  females,  and  from  the  females.)     Tnis  fact,  however,  goes 

shearing  of  the  men,  that  the  argu-  no  further  in  support  of  this  side  of 

ment,    if   such  it  might  be  called,  the  question,  than  the  Salic  law  on 

would  never  urrivc  at  any  legitimate  the  other ;    for,    allowing  that  the 


51%         A  SenOmerdal  Journey,  from  liUngton  to  WaUrko  Bridge.       [^Jtim. 

sway  of  those  queens  was  so  sweet  gate,  or  the  most  i^orant.     But  I 

and  splendid,  yet  we  must  remem-  must  confess,  and  I  do  it  with  all  on* 

ber,  that  they  governed  by  their  mi-  cerity,  that  this  would  appear  to  aw 

nisters,  and  conquered  by  their  ge-  to  be  a  most  unhandsome,  moat  ii»- 

nerals  and  admirals.  (Cheers  from  the  charitable,     and     unjust     eatimate. 

men.)  T Shouts  from   the  men,   and    hiBici 

"  If  we  trace  stiU  farther  back  in  irom  the  ladies.) 
nistory,  even  unto  the  days  of  Saul        "  How  then  shall  we  decide  tlut 

and  David,  and  if  we  find  a  frequent  great  question,  seemg  that  the  trial 

mention  of  kings,  and  of  their  being  by  battle  is  by  parliament  aboliahed? 

anointed,  what  then  shall  we  say  of  It  may  be  ruled  from  precedent,  or 

this  question,  if  in  the  whole  course  rather  the  want  of  it,  that  the  female 

of  that  history,  we  find  no  instance  sex  be  excluded  from  the  sovereignty 

of  an  anointed  queen  ?  (Hisses  and  and  the  priesthood ;  but  their  claimi 

groans  from  the  ladies.)     If  such  be  to  domestic  dominion  are  as  yet  im- 

the  fact,  what  shall  we  mfer  from  it,  controverted,  (cheers  from  the  ladies) 

but  that  there  were  no  priestesses?  — and  as  yet  unestablished.     (Cheen 

(Shouts  and  laughter  from    the  la^  from  the  gentlemen.) 
dies.)    But  why  had  they  no  priest-        "  There  only  remains,  in  my  <^ 

esses  ?     I  must  confess  that  I  am  nion,  a  middle  course  to  pursue : 

unable  to  answer.    (Cheers  from  the  „  -  ^  „  ,^  . 

males.)     I  will   now    consider   the  l^^''^''^fy!'TJ^^^^V^' 

other  branch  of  the  subject,  for  al-  But  each  command  by  turn.,  and  e^Oi  obey. 

though  it  is  evident,  that  those  who  ^'  Let  the  ladv  be  paramount  in 
are  unfit  to  nde  families  must  be  the  kitchen  and  the  nursery,  and  ab- 
unqualified  to  govern  kingdoms  ;  yet  solute  in  the  garrets.  Let  the  gen- 
it  does  not  tollow,  therefore,  that  tlomaii  be  king  in  his  parlour,  and 
those  who  are  unable  to  goveni  king-  emperor  in  his  study — and  as  for  the 
doms,  are  unequal  to  the  lighter  task  drawing  room,  and  the  garden,  let 
of  governing  a  family.  There  are  their  sway  there  be  divided.  Let  hw 
many  very  worthy  women  whom  I  be  a  judge  in  fashions,  in  novels^  and 
should  be  loth  to  trust  with  a  sceptre,  in  all  fancy  articles ;  and  let  him  de- 
but they  sway  the  domestic  rod  with  cide  on  politics,  on  li(]uor8,  and  oa 
vigour  and  success.  (Hear!  from  the  horseflesh.  As  for  all  other  matters 
men.)  And  there  are  also  many  men  of  argument,  let  tiiem  be  considered 
of  a  different  stamp,  of  indolent  or  as  drawn  battles  at  draughts  ;  and, 
profligate  characters,  whose  affairs  finally,  let  each  sex  consider  itself  as 
thrive  best,  or  would  thrive  better,  bound  to  the  other,  by  an  alliance 
under  the  guidance  of  their  wives,  offensive  and  defensive. ' 
(Hear !  from  the  women.)  The  conclusion   of  thb  my    ora- 

*'  We   know,  too,  that  there  are  tion  was    followed  by  very  general 

others  who  have  willuigly  resigned  to  cries  of  applause,  which  were   Uie 

their    wives   the   controul    of  their  more  gratifying,  when  I  considered 

purse,  and  the  direction  of  their  af-  the  difficulty  of  pleasing  all  parties 

fairs ;  convinced,  by  experience,  that  in  a  concern  of  so  much  interest  to 

they  were  the  best  merchants,  the  each.    Nor  was  that  my  only  reward, 

best  accountants,  and  the  best  ora-  for  I  received  I  know  not  how  many 

tors.  (Hear,  hear !  from  the  ladies.)  invitations  to  partake  of  porter,  gin, 

*'  Upon  these  grounds,  we  may  as-  and  punch,  all  of  which  I  decline^ 
sign  the  right  of  dominion  to  the  fe-  allegmg  that  1  wished  to  go  straight- 
male  sex — (screamsof  applause  from  way  to  Waterloo  Bridge — at  leaat» 
the  women,  and  groans  from  the  men)  as  much  as  it  was  possible  to  do  so, 
I  say,  upon  these  grounds  we  may  by  Gray's  Iim  Lane,  Chancery  Lane, 
assign  the  ric^ht  of  dominion  to  the  and  the  Strand, 
female  sex — (the  same  tumult  repeat-  1  had  just  reached  the  middle  of 
ed.)  I  say,"  said  I,  raising  my  Elm  Street,  when  I  was  alarmed  bj 
voice,  '^  1  say,  that  upon  these  loud  and  piercing  screams,  and  as  a 
groimds,  we  may  assign  the  right  of  carriage  had  rapidly  turned  the  cor- 
dominion  to  the  female  sex,  provided  ncr,  1  fearM  that  some  unfortunate 
that  the  whole,  or  tlie  greater  portion  human  l>eing  had  been  run  over, 
of  meuj  may  be  supposed  idle,  profli-        There  i&  something  in  the  shriU 


18S1.;]     A  SenHmenial  Jownejf,  from  Islington  to  Waterloo  Britlge.  6L$ 

cry  of  a  female  in  distress,  that  irre-  *'  coax  her/'  said  I,  ''  call  her,  or 
sistibly  impels,  and  wings  one  to  her  run  before  her,  and  endce  her  with  a 
succour;  I  flew  up  the  hill — turned  cabbage-leaf^  do  any  thing  but  whip 
the  comer — and  beneld  at  my  feet  a  her  so  cruelly." 
poor  swine,  which  was  screanung  *'  And  now,"  I  continued,  address- 
under  the  repeated  lashes  of  a  ruffian  ing  myself  to  the  by-standers,  a« 
drover.  mongst  whom  were  some  very  well- 
She  had  sunk  down,  apparently  dressed  ladies  and  gentlemen ;  '*  now 
from  exhaustion,  in  the  middle  of  the  let  me  impress  upon  your  memories 
kennel,  and  as  she  startled  and  kicked  one  very  great  error  as  regards  pig 
under  the  blood-thirsty  thong,  her  driving. '  A  pig  will  run  this  way^ 
struggles  and  splashhigs  were  truly  and  that,  and  any  way,  perhaps,  but 
shockmg.  Agea — ^and  a  female— ex-  the  right  one ;  but  it  is  uncharitable 
posed  to  insmt,  cruelty,  and  indig>-  and  cruel  to  attribute  to  ohtUnacy, 
nity — ^her  grunts  so  like  groans — and  what  may  only  originate  in  an  over 
her  squeaks  so  like  screams — it  was  anxiety  to  please.  I  have  seen  a  pig 
impossible  for  humanity  to  look  on  run  backward,  and  forward,  and 
and  be  passive.  I  straddled  over  the  sideways,  and  if  it  had  been  possible 
unfortunate  sow,  and  interposed  my  to  run  a  dozen  ways  at  once,  I  verily 
own  body  betwixt  her  ana  her  tor-  believe  it  would  have  done  it." 
mentor ;  and  had  it  been  at  the  risk  The  sow  got  up— the  crowd  dis- 
of  immolation,  my  feelings  could  not  persed — and  I  pursued  my  journey, 
have  allowed  me  to  shrink  from  it  I  It  afterwards  struck  me  that  I  heard 
should  have  died  a  glorious  martyr  at  a  distance,  the  same  shrill,  human- 
to  humanity  1  like,  and  persevering  screams — but  it 
I  protected  the  innocent— and  I  might  be  fancy,  for  I  believe  they 
did  more,  for  I  threatened  to  chastise  will  ring  in  my  ears  as  often  as  I  pass 
her  oppressor ;  and  I  should  certainly  the  comer  of  £lm-8treet,  Gray's  Inp 
have  done  so  with  his  own  whip,  if  I  Lane. 

coidd  only  have  wrested  it  from  him.  Gray's  Inn  Lane,  by  the  bye,  is 

However,    I    accepted    the    bmte's  not,  as  I  coi^jecture,  the  true  name  of 

challenge  to  fight,  and  here  I  must  it ;  the  ancient  appellation  must  have 

say,  that  upon  any  other  occasion,  I  been  any   thing    but  what  it  now 

should  have  deemed  it  disgraceful  and  bears,  perhaps  Grazing  Lane,  because 

ungentiemaiUy — but  in  such  a  cause  ere  it  was  built  upon,  the  catUc  used 

—as  the  champion  of  humanity — the  to  graze  in  it.    Be  that  as  it  may, 

guardian  of  tne  bmte  creation  —  I  there  is  nothhig  farther  to  remark  of 

thought  it  not  onlv  gentiemanly,  but  Gray's  Inn  Lane,  but  that  it  bruigs 

angelic ;  and  I  felt  that  I  was  quite  one  into  Holbom. 

in  my  duty  when  I  folded  up  my  new  Hence,    and    through     Chancery 

coat,  and  confided  it  to  the  care  of  a  Lane,  I  amused  myself  by  specu- 

decent  shopkeeper.     We  exchanged  lating  on  the  faces  of  the  passengers, 

only  a  few  blows,  and  if  I  did  not  It's  a  study  I'm  very  fond  of,  and  if 

thrash  him  heartily,  he  owed  it  to  I  am  in  any  thing  superstitious,  it  is 

my  humanity;    for  it    was    merely  in  the  signs  and  forebodings  of  the 

from    a  rehictonce  to  end  in  blood  countenance.    Who  cannot  trace  in 

what  I  had  begun  in  tears,  that  I  so  the  face  of  a  dandy  the  circulation  of 

speedily  declined  the  combat.     The  his  two  ideas,  his  opinion  of  himself 

spectators,  indeed,  did  not  seem  to  and  others;  and  who  is  there  that 

enter  into  my  feeling — but  whip  me  mistakes  the  keen  eye  of  a  genius  ? 

the  man  who  would  not  prefer  the  But  it  is  Temper  that  writes  the  most 

praise  of  mercy  to  the  meed  of  vie-  legible   hand    in    the   cowitenance ; 

tory !  Besides,  I  considered  it  a  sin —  and,  it  is  easy,  therefore,  to  distin- 

a  kind  of  profanation  to  mar  and  dis-  guish,  amongst  a  crowd,  the  pet  lamb 

figure  '^  the  human  face  divine,"  and  of  his    mother ;    the  tyrant  of  his 

one  of  us,  at  least,  was  handsome.  family ;   and  the  humble  servant  of 

I    did    not,    however,  resign   the  his  wifb.    There's  that  man,  said  I, 

cause  or  interests  of  the  poor  sow,  looking  at    a'  gentleman   who   was 

but  slipping  a  crown  into  the  hand  standing  on   the  edge  of  the  pavc- 

of  the  drover,  I  recommended  her  to  ment,   his   curied  lip   indicates    his 

his  mercy  as  a  man,  and  a  Christian :  pride ;  but  I  know  by  the  very  rest- 


§!»  A  Sniumtmi^  Ji/mrmnf,  Jrvm  ItBrngUm  U  WaUrho  Mwdgt^      {TtoC 


of  Lif  eye  ihit  be'?  afrsld  of  fcsf  led  t?  m»  m&sr  __. ,__ 

bofiflf.  Af  fwtLstmUi  vhr  Laf  j-JiX  tkos  SDd  has  tended'  abore  all  to 

paMed,  I  voald  not  lire  with  mch  pFOfaxMe  the  i:c£enl  •"^•**rr  btfM 

a  temper  for  mj  \tovd  arid  lodjdnc'.  t-ieczsn*  and  utilhr ;  and  vrfaeo  we 

That  ladr's  mask  is  handfome,  but  1  cxutempJaie  the  mldbtj  ^■^it'^y  of  iip 

murt  tar  vhh  tbe  fox.  ''  cerebrum  proeres  bitheno,  who  can   ■—i^-i^ji 

IKJO  hal«et ;"  azui  her  Bttie  firi's  doll  its  &ture  attaiomcnts  ? 
hag  more  wit  in  her  one  ere^  than  the        Long  mar  it  oootiiiue  its  iMglH| 

haf  in  two.  mardi,  to  the  honour  and  happiaBB 

My  judinnentJ,  howerer,  were  not  of  mr  cxMrntrrmen;  and  maj  titty, ii 

alwaji  fortunate ;  the  msn  with  rest-  better  daj5,  obtain  lor  dkeir  ■-**■— ^j 

lefs  ejes  was  only  loolmiir  for  his  and  incenuhy  tibose  rewards  wliid^ 

poodle  dag,  and  as  the  cros«-]ookine  hitherlo>haTe  not  kept  pace  with  tfas 

man    weM    9^JTi    after w^j-ds  ir:to  a  merits. 

cook-shop,  I  Fuppo«ied  that  be  bad        May  they  stiS  trarel  onwards  ia 

been   rather    hunj^er'd    than    ill-na-  tbe  path  of  improrement,  »r^,  lap. 

tured.    As  for  the  lady  and  the  child,  mounting    all    obstacles    which    a 

I   don't   know    whether  I  set  them  meaner  ambhion  would  plant  in  thek 

down  rightly  or  not,  but,  in  the  mean  way,  reach  that  point  of  excdloMe 

time,  I  will  suppose  so,  and  ding  to  and  perfection,  to  which  man  in  tUs 

my  study.  worid  may  be  destined  to  attain  I 

I  was  now  in  the  Strand,  dose  to        Here  a  bookseller's  shop  gave  a 

Temple    Bar ;    and   from  hence   to  new  turn  to  my  ^)eculatioos.     We 

Waterloo  Bridge,  1  calculated  would  are,  certainly,  a  reading  people,  I 

be  the  journey  of  an  hour,    ^^lio  is  thought,  as  I  looked  in  at  the  aim 

there  that  can  walk  along  this,  or  any  dow ;  but  I  would  fain  know  if  »!«■ 

of  the  principal  City  streets,  without  cultiraticHi  of  the  mind  conduces  la 

admiring  the  number  of  elegant  shops,  happiness.     I  was  inclined  to  decide 

and  the  still  more  elegant  and  woo*  in  the  affirmatiTe ;  for  the  coDectioB 

derful  productions  which  they  con-  before  me  suggested  the   names  of 

tain  ?  'They  are  to  me  the  sources  of  Shakspeare,  Addison,  Milton,  and  a 

the  greatest  pleasure,  and  when  time  host  of  other  authors,  linked  with  a 

will  permit  me  to  do  so,  I  inspect  thousand    dclighti'id    reminiscences^ 


have  even  lieen  caiitrht,  and  rallied  by     F(toles  Jeste  Btxtk  ;'-^DiaJog^es  of  tke 
my  acquaintance,  lor  lookin;^  in  lo-    Dead  ; — Life  in  Ijondon  ; — Tbm/tue  # 


because  that  I  can  there  trace  an  evi-  what  have  we  here  ? 
dent  and  progressive  improvement  in  It  happened  very  strangely— I 
the  arts  and  mnimfacturcs  of  my  might  almost  say  miraculously—- ^that 
country.  This  alTords  mo  a  delight  I  rea<l  a  solution  of  my  speculation 
with  which  all  ought  to  sympathize,  "i  a  book  before  me.  It  was  called 
and  tluit  calls  forth  an  admiration  in  T}ie  Praifsc  of  I/rnorance;  and,  in 
which  all  must  participate.  Whc-  the  two  grave-looking  brown-com« 
ther  we  examine  those  paintings  and  plexioned  pages  that  lay  open,  I  read 
prints,  which  are  more  strictly  term-  as  follows : 
c<l  works  of  art,  whether  we  exa- 
mine thoHC  fabrics  which  have  been        ^^^  was  made  to  bcc  happyc :  bat 

produced    by    the  most  complicated  "°^  learned:   for,   eating  of  the  Tree  of 

machinery,   or  those   minor   articles  Knowlctlgc  hee  was  caste  out  of  Paradysc. 

which  are  the  work  of  the   handy-  „."r-  "*  "^u  ^^  ^l^'"'^,  '**'  'SP^™^"^  '-^^ 

craftsman,  we  shall   find  that  there  ^  ^  ^"K  ^'T' *^  ^^  TV^^. "i*^ '^^^''P" 

,^^»,.»:i.  :..  «ii  «  1              r  .     1       I .  .  P^*^  withall,  have  nocht  but  the  li^noranrr 

prevails  ni  all  a  degree  of  laste  which  of-  ly^^^^^.    '             ^                   b         i^ 

can  only  be  the  rcHiilt   of  a  cencra!  s<»t.  wc  ask.'  not  wliioii  l>ce  the  nio^i 

cultivation  of  mind.     It  is  this  that  luppyc:  but  which  bcc  ihc  kc^te  unhap- 


1S81.;]     A  Seniimentai  Jtmrmy,  fnm  IsUngUm  k>  Wakrho  Bridge.  415 

pje ;   and  trulye  hoe  hath  leeste  Painet  aakde :  '^  Why  will  hee  not  write  again  ?  '* 

that  hath  not  most  Dokes.  And  the  Pariahe  Ckrke  hys  witte  suf- 

Hee  is  your  Berkshire  or  Hampflhire  fioeth  to  hys  Epitaph :  whidi  runnes : 

«iannc  with  a  harde  Head  and  a  long  Sto-  ^j^^ !  aLdce !  that  studye  colde  not  save 

hee  aleepes,  you  wot  not  which  can  grunt  bothi 

loudeste.    For  why?  Hee  beares  no  ou^  And  Studye  too.  Death  is  a  dreadfuU  Godi 

on  hys  Head ;  ezcepte  hys  Hatte  i  and     -nrv- r,  ^,^v  -^„^ 

that  Lee  hath  nT)^  cire  wlthaU,  ex.    Whwh  spareth  nonne 

cept  a-Sundayes.    One  maye  rede  m  hys  Unfortunately^  I  could  neither  read 

Vysage  that  ^e  wots  not  to  write :  but  bee  further^  nor  turn  over  the  leaf  through 

maketh  hys  Marke ;  and  soe  hadi  one  (o  the  glass ;  and^  still  more  unforto* 

ten  ohaunces  againste  the  GaUowes.  nately^  I  did  not  go  in  and  purchase 

Hys  Haire  is  unkempte ;  and  soe  is  hys  ^^  book. 

Irtellecte :  but  betwixt  both  hee  savcth  a  However,  I  had  read  enough  to 


maye 

with  one  Idea:  but  hee  is  more  Uessede  No  more:  where  Ignoranne  is  bliss 

than  imye  with  two ;  for  hee  hath  nonne  of  .^is  foUy  to  be  wisT 

their  feverishe  AVJinnins.    How  can  hys  «      •  •             «               i 

Minde  wander  ?  ,  ^'^  ^i^  ^^  ^^  second  great  aues^ 

Now  look  yoa  to  our  SdioUar.    Hee  tion  that  I  had  decided,  I  walked  on- 

cryes  in  hys  verye    Birthe :    for  hee  is  ward  to  Waterloo  Bridge,   without ' 

stryped  into  hys  A.  B.  C.    Most  of  hys  any  doubt  of  being  able  to  determine 

Wordcs  doe  end  in  O,  and  hys  Whyp-  the  third ;  viz.  as  to  the  merits  and 

pingcs  have  many  Syllables.    Hee  hatedi  demerits  of  the  bridge,  and  its  archi- 

tiys  dioke  fiille  sore:  and  noc  Marvel  I  tect. 

For  hee  wotteth,  to  die  Sorrowe  of  hys  g^^  j^ere  an  unforeseen  difficulty 

Bottom,  that  Leammg  is  at  die  Bottom  of  n-ggpnted  itself  •    for   owinir   to   the 

hys  Sorrowe.    There  is  a  naturall  Hyphen  peseniea  iiseJl ,    lor   owmg  to   tne 

betwixt  them.    A  connexion  of  Minde  and  lateness  of  my  arrival,  and  the  sud- 

Matter.     One    oometh   not  without  the  ^^",  (^U  of  a  very  dense  fdg,  I  was 

other :  and  hee  cursedi  them  bodi  in  hys  unable  to  do  any  thing  more  than 

Wayc.    Hys  Granmiar  bringes  him  frcshe  detennine  to  come  agam. 

Annoye :  for  hee  onlye  weepcth  in  another  I  accordingly  walked  back  into  the 

Tense.    But  hee  gets  the  Interjections  by  Strand,  and  finding  a  stage  at  Somer- 

Hartc.    Figures  are  a  great  Grecfe  unto  set  House,  I  took  my  seat  in  it,  and 

him ;  and  onlye  multiplic  hys  Fames.  The  turned  towards  home.     I  had  three 

dead  Tongues  doe  bringe  him  a  lively  sor-  travelling     companions,    two   males 

rowe :   hee  gcttes  them  at  hys  Fmger's  ^nd  one  female,   and  after   we  had 

"""  Ami  soe  hee  waxeth  m  Growth :  into  a  ^^c"««^  the  usual  topics,  and  paid 

Quarto  or  Folio,  a8  maye  bee.     A  greater  ^^  "?"?^  compliments,  the  conversa- 

Bulke  of  Learning  and  Heavincsse ;  and  M?"  ^^^"^ed  away  mto  a  profound 

beUke  hee  gocth  maddc  with  Study  over-  wlence:  I  therefore  employed  myself 

much.    Alsoe,  bee  betakedi  him  to  write :  in  the  arrangement  of  my  travels,  and 

and  letts  his  Braincs  be  suckede  forthe  in  recollecting  the  various  incidents 

through  a  QuilL    If  hee  seeke  to  gette  and    reflections  to   which  they  had 

Monneye  hys  Boke  is  unsolde ;  and  if  hee  given  rise.  I  must  request,  Mr. Editor, 

wolde  hove  of  the  Worldc's  Fame,  hee  is  your  utmost  indulgence  towards  one 

praysde   of  those  that   studye  not   hys  go  inexperienced  as  a  traveUer,  and  if 

Kimes :    or  «  scomde  and  mockcdc  of  y^^  ghouij  find  that  the  style  of  my 

those  that  will  not  undcrstande  hys  Con-  ,,«,.,of;/%«  :«  ^^^^^a  ««^  ..«!>„»»    ^^a 

,,-, .  1    .              .   o       '      tf  narration  is  rugirea  and  uneven,  ana 

ccites.     \V  hich   w   a  great  Sorrowe :   for  ^u  *  *u     •     •  i     *        j      ^     ^' 

Pocsie  hatli  matlc  hys  Hartc  tender ;  and  a  ^!?^^  *^^  incidents  and  reflections  are 

little  Wordc  is  a  greate  Paine.    Soe  he  abrupt  and  unconnected,  I  beg  that 

getts  noc  Substance ;  but  looses  Fleshe.  y^"  will  attribute  it  to  the  unpleasant 

Lasdyc  he  tlyeth  a  pitifuU  Death :    the  jolting  oi  the  stace,  and  the  frequent 

kindlye  Creditourof  anunkindlycM'orklc;  interruptions  and  Stoppages   that  it 

nnd   tlicn   hcc  is  wccpctlc  for;    and  it  is  met  with.                                   Incog. 


iTwk  kf,^ 


^16  Warmr's  Church  of  England  Theology.  ■  QNof. 

WARNER'S  CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND  THEOLOGY.  • 

MOCK  MANUSCRIPT  SERMONS. 

The  hungry  sheep  look  up  and  are  not  fed. — MUton't  Lycidat, 

We  thought  it  right,  in  a  late  lities  for  composition  might  not  be 
Number,  to  expose  in  rather  pl^  altogether  of  the  highest  or  the 
terms,  an  infamous  invasion  at-  clearest  order.  These  bladders  and 
tempted  to  be  made  by  the  country  corks  for  young  dabblers,  these  theo- 
dancea  upon  oiu:  churches.  \Vc  logical  pick-locks  for  ^openiuff  the 
endeavoured  to  pouit  out  the  hypo-  pews  of  the  heart,  were  DOtiffht  ii^ 
crisy  of  that  attempt,  by  which  it  eagerly,  and  the  most  difScmt  pM« 
was  sought  to  build  a  Hymn  Book,    sages  of  old  divinity  were  opeoea  by 

the  frame-work  of  which  should  be  them.    Sermons  composed  from  tbue 
Neii  Gow  stuccoed  oyer  with  the  sa-    skeletons  were  doubly  didactic,  for 

-  cred  cement  of  Whitejield  and  Wesley,  they  taught  not  only  the  congrega- 

»Our  readers  will  hardly  believe  that  tion  but  uie  teacher.    By  the  help  of 

this  species  of  religious  craft  has  not  these  leading-strings  the  most  timid 

confined  itself  to  the  organ-loft  and  person  might  wander  safely  through 

the  pews ;  but  has  cunningly  crept  all  the  tangled  mazes  of  Scripture 

its  way  up  the  steps,    and   seated  controversy,    and    perhaps    be    en- 

itself  in  the  Pulpit     The  Rev.  R.  abled  ultimately  to  walk  alone.  There 

YTamer,  rector  of  Great  Chalfield,  might  be  some  deceit,  it  is  true,  in 

Wilts,  has  accomplished  a  great  in-  passing  off  such  cast-iron  discourses 

rention  for  those  indolent  and  can-  as  though  they  were  hammered  and 

tious  pastors,  who  would  fain  have  wrought  out  of  the  malleable  ore  of 

their  flocks  believe  that  the  Sabbath  the  preacher's  brain ;  but   as  some 

words    that   float   from    their    lips,  trouble  was  really  necessary  to  render 

floated  originally  from   their    pens,  the  articles  fit  for  use,    it  was  Uie 

Sir  Roger  Be  Coverley  made  it  his  less  culpable  to  endeavour  to   put 

boast,    that    his     curate    delivered  them  forth  as  original.    We  wish  we 

sound  discourses  from  the  pages  of  could  speak  as  tenderly  of  the  series 

Tillotson  and  Barrow ;  and  the  cu-  of  ten  sermons  now  before   us;  hyX 

rate  himself   had  no  inclination   to  the  hypocrisy  of   the  endeavour  to 

disguise  the  source  from  which  the  foist  a  limited  numl)er  of  packets  of 

sacred  waters  ran.     But  the  Rev.  R.  very   indifferent  and  common-place 

Warner  is  a  very  different   person  prose  upon  a  church  congregation,  as 

from   either  Sir  Roger  De  Coverley  the  patient  labours  of  the  week,  by 

or  his  curate :    he  thinks  that  idle  means  of  a  *'  manuscript  character 

pastors  had    better  retail  his  little  and  a  '*  black  cover,"  is  so  offensive 

parcels  of  Theology,  made  up  like  in  our  eyes,  that  we  should  hold  our- 

packets  of  gout  specifics,  or  Seidlitz  selves  to  be  poor  advocates  of  ho- 

powders,  for  ready  use  and  infallible  nesty  and  decorum,   if  we  were  to 

relief:  it  is  not  his  opinion  that  the  pass  by  so  gross  an  infringement  of 

clergy  should   let  the  congregation  the    candour    and    decency   of    the 

into  the  secrets  of  the  cushion,  and  church.     If  a  printed  sermon  is  to 

therefore   his   "  Series  of  Ten  Ser-  be  selected,  why  should  there  be  any 

mons  "   is   *'  printed  in  a  beautiful  disguise  ?     Is  there  any  peculiar  vir- 

Manuscripi    Cfuiracter,     stitched    in  tue  in  a  manuscript  character  ?     Any 

black  covers"     We  almost  expect  to  superior   holiness   in  a  black  cover  f 

see  the  advertisement  conclucle  with  None:— but  the  ready-made  homily, 

the  earnest  advice,  ''  Be  sure  to  ask  thus  clothed,  is  an  apparent  asiitr- 

for  Warner's  Blacking."  ance  to  the  flock,  that  the  shepherd 

Many  of  our  readers  have  seen  a  has  been  watching  and  toiling  all  the 

set  of  Skeleton  Sermons,  qualified  for  week  for  its  safety  and  its  welfare, 

the  use  of  young  divines,  whose  abi-  It  is  uitended  that  this  ''  maiuiscript 


•  Church  of  England  Theology,  a  Series  of  Ten  Sermons,     lly  tlie  Rev.  R.  Warner, 
Rector  of  Great  Clialficld,  Wilts.     Longman  and  Co.  London,  lail. 


U2\.2                            Mode  ihmuerifi  £krfnoni.  4U 

character  "  should  give  a  colourable  When  the  heads  of  our  Establish- 
hUtory  of  nights  ana  days  of  intense  ment  every  where  raise  the  cry  that 
reading  and  severe  application, — of  "  the  Church  is  in  danger,"  when 
deep  and  holy  thought,  and  serious  the  land  is  acknowledged  to  be  full 
writing ;  aud  that  it  should  be  a  gua<  of  Dissenters,  affamst  whom  accu- 
rantee  for  continual  exertion.  Would  sation  is  preferred  that  their  teachers 
some  unruly  churchwarden,  or  pesti-  are  not  mtelligent,  scholastic,  pro- 
lent  overseer,  insinuate  that  the  cu-  found — like  the  clergy  of  the  Church 
rate  was  a  lover  of  loo,  or  a  wor-  of  England,— is  the  justice  of  our 
shipper  of  double-barrelled  guns,  is  it  charge,  the  strength  of  our  cause,  to 
not  sufficient  for  him  to  reply  by  be  rested  on  the  ^^  Ten  Sermons  of 
inquiring  how,  in  such  case,  his  ser-  the  Rev.  R.  Warner  ?"  Infidelity  is 
mons  could  be  so  beautifully  com-  said  to  be  more  active  now  than 
posed  and  so  fairly  copied  ?  Would  ever,  and  in  its  ingenuity  more 
anyone  say  he  was  an  idle  and  a  subtle: — but  what  need  we  fear, 
negligent  man, — is  not  the  constant  since  the  essence  of  "  Church  of 
discourse,  in  its  neat  black  cover,  an  England  Theologr  "  is  contained  in 
ample  answer?  The  subjects  of  ten  ma^ncal  packets,  one  packet  a 
these  sermons,  too,  are  the  most  im-  dose,  which  can  be  sent  by  return  of 
portant  on  which  a  minister  can  £s-  coach  to  any  part  of  the  faifected 
course,   and  thus  prove,  in  a  still  kingdom? 

atronffer  manner,  his  erudition,  zeal,  Alasl  Leriaduui  is  not  so  tamed, 

and  abUity.  That  congregation  would  jt  remains  to  be  said,  in  justice  to 

be  an  ungrateful  congregation  mdeed,  the  Rev.  lUchard  Warner,  that  he  is 

that  could  suspect  a  clergyman  of  „ot  the  original  discoverer   of  this 

negligence   or  want  of  power,  who  ingenious    pian    for    a   machme   to 

should  descant  learnedly  upon  abridge  the  labours  of  his  clerical 

Ist.  The  Scriptural  Doctrine  of  the  Fall  brethren.     Dr.  Trusler  of  Bath,  his 

and  Conniption  of  Man.— 2d.  Do.  of  Re-  predecessor,   was  the  renowned  in- 

pentance.— 3d.  Do.  of  Faith. — 4th.  Do.  of  ventor ;    and  his  fame  in  this,  and 

Good  Works—-  5th.  Do.  of  ConTersioa  and  similar  undertakings,  is  thus  immor- 

Atonement  through  Christ— 6th.  Do.  of  talized  by  the  pen  of  Cowper : 

STcTrHttSlT^'^h^^^  Buth.rk^do«or'.v«cel-fi«twedged 

:^£e^^f^J^'t^'^.  Two  e^he  stands,  ^.dwith  ^ 

gurative  Language  of  Scripture.  Inspires  the  new^  his  trumpet    Keenerftr 

All  which  Do's  are  printed  in  a  neat  ^'**>«"  '^  invective  is  his  bold  harangue, 

MS.  character,  and  stitclied  in  black  ^*'^*»^*  through  that  public  oigan  of  report 

covers ;  so  that  it  is  next  to  impos-  ?*  **^  ^^  *^L5°^.'  defying  shame, 

sible  that  even   the  persons  in  the  ^«wuncestotheworidhiiownandtheir>! 

gaUeries  should  detect  the  pious  and  ^*  ^"^^  ^  "^  "^"^  ~*^  ^ 

erudite  fraud.                       ,     „     ^  And  collides,  unuught ;  sells  accent,  tone. 

But  we  have    consumed   all    the  And  emphasis  in  so^  and  gives  to  pray*r 

space  we  can  afford  for  this  unseemly  Th*  adagio  and  andante  it  demands, 

publication,   and  shall  content  oiur-  He  grinds  divinity  of  other  days 

selves  with   once  for  all  protesting  Down  into  modem  lise;  tran^/brmi  o&i 

against  the  hypocrisy  which  blackens  print 

more  than  the  covers  of  this  piti^l  ^To  zig-zag  manuteript^  and  cheatt  the  eyee 

series   of   sermons.      We  are  quite  Qf  ^^f^V  <^ritics  by  a  thtmtand  arts. 

sure  that  no  ingenuous  mmd  would  Are  there  who  purchase  of  the  doctor's  ware? 

knowingly  second  these  contrivances;  S^\~^*  '^^,^  ^  ""i*  T°m^^ 

and  we  therefore  hope  that  the  few  ^^  ^J^'Sd 

observations  we  ha^  hastily  made,  Hc  do^bUaiS"  is  in  sport,  and  does  but 

will    have   some   ettect  m  showing  ^y 

them  in  their  true  (and  not  their  ma-  Assuming  thus  a  rank  unknown  before-. 

nuscript)  character.  Grand  caterer  and  dry-nurse  of  the  church  I 


Vol..  IV.  «  p 


518  LifeofmUy^  C^OT. 


LIFB  OF  HOLTY.* 

Lvwis     Hehey     Creistopher  diligence  was  so  intense,    that    he 

H5ltt  was  bom  on  the  21  st  of  De-  would  not  suspend   his  application 

cember,  1748,    at  Mariensee  in  the  even  durinff  breakfast ;  he  never  ap- 

Electorate  of  Hanover,    where  his  peared  at  duiner  or  supper  widiout 

father,  Philip  Ernest  Holty,  hiid  offi-  being  summoned,  and  secretly  stayed 

dated  as  a  clergyman  from  the  yt^ar  up  every  night  until  three  o'clock.  Tlda 

1748.  His  mother,  Elizabeth  Juliana  last  practice,  when  discovered  by  his 

Gossel,  who  was  his  father's  second  father,  was  prohibited  by  him,  and 

wife,  was  the  daughter  of  a  solicitor  Holty 's  mother  allowed  him  only  a 

at  Celle.    She  also  dyin^  young,  his  scanty  light  when  he  withdrew  to  his 

father  in  1758  married  his  third  wi£e,  bed-chamber  at  eleven  o'clock,  the 

who  became  a  widow  in  1775.  hour  at  which  the  family  usually  re* 

According  to  the  testimony  of  his  tired.    However,  all  the  care  that 

step-mother,  who  had  known   him  was   taken    to    remove    lamps  and 

from  his  tenderest  infancy,  Holty  was  candles  out  of  his  reach  proved  in* 

exceedingly  handsome  until  his  ninth  effectual,  for  it  was  found  out  a  con-i 

vear,  in  which  the  small-pox  effaced  siderable  time  after,  that  he  used  to 

his  beauty.    He  early  manifested  a  provide  himself  with  oil  during  the 

sprightliness  of  disposition  and  a  de->  day,  and  to  scoop  lamps  out  of  tur- 

sire  of  knowledge  which  were  very  nips.    In  order,  besides,  to  awakea 

remarkable.     As  soon  as  he  could  early  for  the  purpose  of  reading  the 

manage  a  pen,  he  began   to  write  books   which   he  huddled    together 

down  whatever  had  struck  his  fancy  from  all  quarters,  he  used  to  tie  a 

in  the  course  of  recital,  or  in  ordinary  string  round  his  arm,   to  which  a 

conversation.     His  deportment    to-  stone  was  attached,  and  this  he  laid 

wards  every  person  was  affectionate  on  a  chair  by  his  bed-side,  that  when 

and  winning;  and  he  let  no  opportu-  about  morning  he  should  turn  in  the 

nity  pass  of  defending  diose  wnom  he  bed,  the  stone  might  fall  and    the 

esteemed,  when  any  thine  to  their  pre*  chuck  upon  his  ann  arouse  him. 
judice  was  uttered  in  his  presence.        Notwithstanding  all  this  eagemea. 

He  was  consequently  a  universal  fa-  he  was  far  from  bSng  either  morose 

Vourite,  as  well  on  account  of  his  or    haughty:    on  the  contrary,  hit 

personal  beauty,  as  of  his  droll  sallies  cheerful,  mild,  obliging,  and  tender 

and  observations.    His  mother  died  disposition,  rendered  him  the  joy  of 

of  a  consumption,  and  he  was,  in  the  his  family  before  he   became   their 

week  of  her  decease,  attacked  by  an  pride.    Out  of  school-hours,  he  found 

inveterate  small-pox,  which,  added  a  pleasure  in  wandering  through  a 

to  the  e&cts  of  grief,  for  a  long  time  shady    wood,   with   books     in     his 

threatened  him  with  the  loss  ofsight,  pockets,  which  he  used  to  read  aloud, 

and  deprived  him  of  that  sprightli-  ^-and  in  contemplating  the  beauties 

ness  which  was  natural  to  him.  After  of  nature.    At  Gottingen  he  after- 

the  lapse,  however,  of  two  years,  he  wards  perused  the  best  authors  in 

recovered  the  use  of  his  eyes,  and  re-  this  manner.    His  propensity  also  for 

doubled  his  ardour  and  diligence  in  the    terrific    early  displayed   itselfl 

learning.      His  father,  who  was  a  He  used  to  visit  the  church-yard,  and 
member  of  the  German  Society  of    other  appalling  places,  at  all  hours 

Gottingen,  was  well  versed  both  in  without  fear,  and  even  weaned  some 

sciences  and  languages,  and  also  im-  grown  persons  from  their  apprehcn- 

bued  with  a  taste  for  poetry.    Under  sions  by  exhibiting  them  in  a  rldi- 

his   supcrintendance,    young    Holty  culous  light.    He  often  dressed  him- 

became    instructed    in    the    Latin,  self  out  like  a  ghost,  and  glided  alone 

French,  Greek,  and  Hebrew,  as  well  among  the  graves  in  the  evening, 

as  the  German  language, — in  Geo-  merely  for  his  pleasure,  and  without 

^raphy.  History,  and  all  the  other  intending  to  frighten  any  one.     At 

branches  of  a  school  education.    His  the  age  of  eleven  he  made  his  first 


*  From  a  life  of  him  written  in  German,  by  Voss. 


i 


18f  lO                                       Life  of  J72%.  hi 

essay  in  poetry^  and  became  ao  at-  heel  of  his  left  foot,  with  a  Tery  slow 
tachcd  to  the  punuit^  that  even  while  and  awkward  motion.  *'  What  are 
in  church  rhymes  occurred  to  his  you  about  there  r"  inquired  one  of 
mind,  which  he  used  to  write  upon  the  friends.  '*  Enjoying  mjself!"  re- 
the  wall  when  he  happened  to  have  plied  hc^  smiling.  Of  little  confi- 
no  paper.  Of  the  concerns  of  the  dential  parties  he  was  particularly 
body  he  was  quite  regardless,  and  it  fond,  especially  where  the  board  was 
required  no  small  persuasion  to  in^  crowned  with  Rhenish  wine.  He 
duce  hhn,  upon  arrivuig  at  Gottingen,  would  recline  upon  rose  leaves^  a- 
to  exchange  his  dusty  woollen  coat  noint  his  beard  like  Anacreon>  and 
for  the  grave  brown  suit  with  gilt  make  such  solemn  preparations  for 
buttons  which  he  was  obliged  to  drinkuig,  as  if  he  were  about  to  real- 
wear,  ize  the  termination  of  his  own  song*. 

After  some  time  spent  at  a  public  written  in  praise  of  that  genial  beve- 

BchooIinCelle,he in  1769 commenced,  rage;  but  the  matter  ended  there, 

fit  Gottingen,  as  a  student  of  theolo-  Voss  never  saw  him  weep  but  twice, 

gy,  where  he  was  to  remain  for  three  One  day  Hdlty  avowed,  as  if  acci« 

years.    To  his  other  studies  he  here  dentally,  that  he  used  to  spit  blood  in 

added  that  of  the  Italian  language,  the  morning ;  but  it  was  not,  until 

In  the  third  year  he  made  the  ac-  after  many  repeated  and  ineffectual 

quaintance  of  Burger  and  MiUer,  and  remonstrances,  that  he  was  at  length 

afterwards    of  Voss,    Bole,    Hahn,  persuaded  to  consult  BIchter.    This 

Leisowitz,  Cramer,  and  Count  Stoll-  physician,   after  inquiring  into   the 

berg.    Having  been  permitted  to  re-  case^   gave  him  consolation,  but  in 

main  another  half  year  at  the  Univer-  such  a  manner  that  Holty  understood 

sity,  he  laboured  assiduously  until  him,  and  on  returning  home  he  wept 

he  obtained  an  exhibition  which  was  bitterly.     The  other  occasion,  was 

in  the  gift  of  two  ladies,  and  commons  his  hearing  of  the  death  of  his  father, 

free,  in  addition.    He  was  also  ap-  He  entered  Voss's  room  with  a  troup 

pointed  to  a  situation  in  the  Philo-  bled  countenance.    '*  How  goes  it, 

logical  Seminary,  and  signified  to  his  Holty?"  inquired  the  latter.    *'  Very 

father  that  he  intended  to  supply  all  well^"  answered  he,  smiling,  *'  but 

his  remaining  wants  by  the  profits  my  father  is  dead^** — and  tears  gush* 

arising  from  tuition.  ecf  along  his  pallid  cheeks. 

Those  who  saw  Holty  for  the  first  He  spoke  little  or  nothings  even 
time  did  not  readily  discover  hit  among  friends,  when  the  company 
character.  He  was  robust,  round-  was  numerous.  When  he  did,  it  was 
shoiddered,  and  awkward,  unwieldy  only  to  interrupt  the  conversation  bj 
ui  his  gait,  and  of  a  deathy  paleness,  some  droll  sallv,  rendered  still  more 
silent,  and  inattentive  to  those  about  laughable  by  the  dryness  with  which 
him.  Notwithstanding  his  simple  it  was  uttered,  and  the  serious 
air,  however,  his  laughing  eye,  which  countenance  of  the  speaker.  He 
was  of  the  clearest  blue,  sparkled  often  visited  Leisewitz  without  ex- 
with  an  expression  of  sincerity  and  changing  a  word  with  him,  until  at 
archness,  which  diffused  itself  over  last  by  some  chance  they  entere<l  into 
his  entire  countenance,  when  he  was  conversation :  however,  his  oddities 
cnioying  his  books,  rambling  through  did  not  prevent  him  from  being  loved 
a  Leautiful  country,  or  lying,  on  his  and  revered  by  his  companions,  who 
back  under  a  blooming  tree.  His  esteemed  him  as  it  were  something 
feelings,  which  were  intense,  he  sacred.  To  this  appearance  of  in- 
usually  suppressed, — and  whenever  difference  he  joined  an  ardent  curio* 
he  ^ave  them  vent  it  was  almost  in-  sity.  He  had  the  earliest  intelli- 
vanably  in  some  characteristic  man-  gence  of  the  new  works  which  ap- 
ner.  He  was  in  the  company  of  a  peared  at  the  fairs,  and  mmmagid 
few  friends  at  Hahn's,  when  the  news  through  all  the  reviews  which  con- 
was  brought  that  Klopstock  was  to  tained  either  praise  or  blame  of  hlm- 
pass  through  Gottingen.  He  had  self,  or  his  friends,  although  he  equal- 
been  hitherto  rocking  himself  very  ly  disregarded  both,  as  issuing  for 
composedly  in  his  seat,  with  his  the  most  part  from  the  pens  of  inex- 
bread  and  buttur  in  his  hand,  but,  perienced  or  venal  critics.  He  often 
upon  hearing  this,  he  stood  up,  and  sat  during  whole  ;  days,  and  the 
began  to  whirl  himself  about  on  the  greater  part  of  the  night,  porun^  o^«t 

2r^ 


A80  Life  of  HdUjf.  E;N4 

foIltM  and  quartos,   traitfcribing  or        It  occurred  to  me  to  give  lesoos  ib 


among  _      .      . 

papers,  translations  from  Tasso  and  ^^^  ^  ^T«  ^^  ^  pwd  by  one  half  cC 

Ariosto,    and    little  Greek    poems,  "7  W^*;  -onie  baye  gone  awaj,  airf 

which  were  never  intended  for^ubli-  J^v?  jSl^!?  "ST^^f  ^^'2 

«„*:.».     T.,  k;-  !«♦♦«•  «.».».  k«  iil*»^^  "•^^  coDtractcd    debts^   and    must  agam 

^tion.    In  hw  latter  years  he  learned  have  recourse  to  my  fcther.  ^^ 

the  Spanish  language^  and  thus  ex- 
tended that  wide  field  of  knowledge        Among  other    pieces    which    he 

the  flowers  of  which  he  loved  to  cuQ  translated  about  tnis    period,    were 

upon  their  native  soil.  Kurd's  Dialogues,  and  the  first  part 

'    Holty  was  never  seen  to  be  discon-  of  Shaftesbury.   It  has  been  asseite^ 

iented    or   peevish  when  surprized  but  erroneously,  by  Miller,  that  Von 

over  his  books.    He  quietly  closed  conripleted  the  translation  of  the  re» 

"die  volume,  and  gave  his  friend  a  maining  parts, 
most  cordial  welcome.    One  of  his        Some  more  passages  of  the  letter 

favourite  amusements  was  the  writ-  above  alluded  to  will  convey  a  more 

ing  of   rhymed  termhiations,*^  and  vivid  idea  of  Holty's  mhid  than  a 

parodies  in  imitation  of  the  noisy  cold  description  could  furnish: — 
poetasters  of  the  day.    At  some  of       i  am  still  here.    Who  knows  how  long 

the  social  meetmgs,  poems  on  some  the  separation  wiU  last,  when  once  I  ^ 

prescribed  suhgect  were  to  be  given  be  severed  from  my  friends?     I  wiU  sli^ 

In,  and  the  defaulter  was  obliged  to  with  them  as  long  as  I  possibly  can.    My 

wear,  as  a  pimishment,  a  paper  coro-  principal  occupations  are  to  be  the  rcadii^ 

net  in  the  shape  of  a  grenadier's  cap.  of  Greek  and  the  writing  of  poetry.     How 

On  one  occasion,  it  was  by  main  force  8^oet  is  the  idea  of  immortality !    Who 

that  Holty  escaped  the  superimpom-  would  not  with  pleasure  endure  all  ttie  mi- 

tion  of  one  of  diese  crowns,  formed  •«"«  f  hfe  when  that  is  to  be  the  leoom. 

out  of  a  Gottingen  weekly  paper,  hi  P«!"/    ^*J»  *  ^^^^  uicomp«bl«  to 

which  a  «  condemned"  p^m  of  his  H[  ^^uu  """**^  "^  '^^S^JST 

*»««  /«  ♦^-^  ^f  ^:...«^*/«Ko^:^»  »i.:^k  "^K**  ^ho  will  love  our  memory,  and  wHh 

own  (a  term  of  disapprobaUon  which  themselves  transported  back  tb  our  days, 

he  used  to  affix  to  those  compositions  ^^  i^  ^hose  braists  we  shall  kindle  die 

in  which  he  had  not  succeeded  ac-  Ioveofvirtue....I  should  like  to  live  fiv  a 

cor4inff    to  his    wishes),    had  been  few  years  in  some  great  town,  and  to  be 

priiited.     He  was  kind  and  obliging  introduced  into  every  kind  of  smiety,  with 

ni  the  extreme,  and  never,  even  by  a  the  view  of  studving  man  more  attentively, 

look,    evinced  any  disinclination  to  which  I  fed  will  be  indispensably  necenaiy 

form  one  at  thehr  meetings,  or  ram-  if  I  am  to  make  my  fortune  as  a  poet    I 

bles  through  the  fields,  although,  as  J»T«  »Pent  my  years  among  books....If  I 

was  often  discovered,  he  had  thereby  J^  °P  htoihen  and  sisters,  who  after  my 

been  obliged  to  postpone  very  impor-  2^"  "  t*ll  u  "^  ^ "»  ^*  "^J^T 

tant  buriSess,  and  ti  repau- the  lost  ^^'^^'^^T^^^'^l^l^'^ 

^    V^u     -      'is         >  u-       •  i^  taining  any  situation,   but  doiend  upoa 

thne  by  the  sacrifice  of  his  nights  tran8l^^aone,UvinisometiiSSin  toS^ 

l^^y  J^^  instructed  Miller  m  Eng-  sometimes  in  the  country.    In  the  town 

lish,  Hahn  m  Greek,  Voss  m  English  i  would   amass  knowledge  of  »^tH»*^, 

and  Italian,— and  Miller  in  return  in-  and   in  the  country  write  poems.     My 

troduced  him  to  a  knowledge  of  the  desire  for  rural  life  is  so  strong,  that  I  eo«ld 

language    of  the    min8trel8,t     with  hardl^jr  make  up  my  mind  to  paaa  all  ny 

which   he    had    become  acquainted  days  in  town ;  and,  m  fact,  whenever  I 

through  the  medium  of  the  Swabian  *"*^  <f  ^^  country  my  heart  begins  to 

Jl^^^  beat.    A  cottage  with  a  wood  near  it— .a 

In  the  autumn  of  1773,  Holty  be-  "«!?**^  with  a  silvery  sprin^and  a  wife 

.*««  ♦*>  f^o^i.  #u«  ».^»^w  \^A  li  *u^  to  •""*  "^y  cottage— are  aU  I  wish  lor  on 

«m  to  teach  for  money,  and  in  the  ^^^    Of  frienTl  fed  no  w«m  far  I 

Mowing  jummer  to  translate  from  p„,^  ^^  ^^y.     Theb  feve  «iB 


contains  the  following  passage : —  mj  spring,   and  in  my  wood,  and  neal 


*  Bonti  Rimia.  -f-  Minntanger,  chantcun  d*aino«u. 


1821.;]                                       Life  of  HsHy.  m 

those  blitsftil  cUys  when  I  enjoyed  the^  marriage.     When  I  viilted  ray  paitnii 

aodcty shall    I  make  more    ballads  P  last  aotumn,  I  heard  Aat  she  was  ill,  aind, 

Perhaps  I  fthall  manufacture  some  morei  probably,  near  her  end.  It  is  sinful  to 
but  they  will  not  be  numerous.  A  writer  lave  her  any  longer.  My  love  is,  indeed, 
of  ballads  appears  to  me  like  a  harlequin,  extinguished,  and  nothinff  remains  but 
or  the  proprietor  of  a  show-box.  My  pre-  a  sweet  remembranee,  and  tender  heart- 
dominant  inclination  is  for  rural  poetry,  beating,  when  her  image  appears  befon 
and  the  sweet  and  melancholy  musings  ef  my  eyes.  Still  I  have,  at  times,  the  maH 
the  poet.  It  is  in  these  that  my  heart  takes  ardent  wish  to  see  her  oooe  morOi  Mig^H 
the  most  lively  interest.  I  will  summon  she  not  have  fdt  a  reciprocal  attadrnient 
all  my  powers.  I  will  not  be  a  poet  at  all,  for  me  ?  I  never  declared  my  affbcdoii 
unless  I  can  become  a  great  one.  If  I  can-  for  her,  nor  was  capable  of  so  doing.  How 
not  produce  anything  wliich  shall  bear  the  could  a  young  man  make  a  declaration  of 
stamp  of  imnK)rtality,  and  rival  the  works  love,  and  expect  a  return,  who  had  not  yet 
of  my  friends,  no  syllable  of  mine  shall  been  at  college,  and  on  whose  dhin  the 
ever  be  printeid.  A  middling  poet  is  a  down  of  manhood  is  yet  soaredy  apparent  ? 
nonentity  1  Enough  of  the  affairs  of  the  heart.— I 
.  ,  ,  .^  1  •  J  *  ^v  ""°»  indeed,  ashamed  of  having  written 
In  ano^er  letter,  beannir  date  the  thj,  leuer,  bu^  let  it  be,  UttcrcTwm  arm. 
13th  of  December,  177d>  he  writes  hescuut.  -  -  , 
thus:-— 
I  have  just  kft  the  society  of  our  iKendi.  }\^  here  necessary  to  cxDlain  the 

- 1  thank  Heaven  that  t^  us  together,  "i^X*-  ""^'"L  '"?'"*^^^  ,,  i^^T 
and  Shan  continue  to  doTas  longVwS  ?^  GotUn^n  friends,  as  alludedta 
breath  is  in  me.  Sacred  friendshm,  how  °^''®'  *""  *"  subsequent  letters.  Th^ 
much  hast  thou  blessed  me  I  I  knew  several  poems,  separate  and  col- 
nobody 1  could  open  my  heart  to  none—  lected,  which   Holty  had  published 

thou  hast  united  noble  hearts  to  mine—  since  the  year  1769,  had  cabled  him 

thou  hast  caused  me  many  a  happy  hour,  the  reputation  of  a,  youthnd  genius. 

and  wilt  contribute  to  sweeten  all  the  fu-  From   KSstner  and   Murray  he  re* 

ture  bitternesses  of  my  Hfc.    Laura  was  ceiTed  striking  marks  of  attentioo. 

bom,    and   has  been  educated  in  town.  About  the  year  1771,  he  became  ac- 

She  IS  the  handsomest  bang  I  have  eva  q„ainted  with  BQrger,  the  then  un- 

•~;  "°  "°!5!fi!!  "^  *ir^  JS^^  '  t^own  author  of  s^me  pieces  in  thje , 

create  more  perfect.    She  has  a  tall  com-  ai«.«««^u  ^r  *u^  %tr        '*^*'  *    >*^ » 

manding  figi^  a  fme  shape,    an  oval  ^i'S*"^^^  ^f  ^"?^"%iTi  ,T**^ 

face,  %ht  hair,  hirge  blue  ey^  a  bloom-  ^^^'    When,  m  spnnff  1772,  Voss 

ing  complexion,  a  grace  and  charm  in  all  was  conducted  out  of  the  obscunty 

her  looks  and  gestures.    Never  did  I  see  ^^  ,  Mecklenburdi   to  Gottingen   bjr 

a  female  dance  with  more  elegance ;  my  Boie,  the  publisher  of  the  Almanack 

heart  has  trembled  with  delist  when  I  of  the   Muses,  H51ty   invited   him, 

have  heard  her  sing  a  foreign  song  (for  she  through    a    fHend,     to  a  party    at 

ahw  understands  Italian  and  French).    She  which    Miller    was  present      Voss 

takes  great  pleasure  in  the  works  of  Kleist  found  two  well-dressed  persons  who 

and  GeMner ;    whedier  Ac  reads  Klq>-  gpoke  in  an  unusual  dialect,  and  a 

stock  I  do  not  know.    When  I  first  be-  '^^  dressed  in  rags,  who  poured 

came  acqnamted  with  her,  she  was  with  *       ir          ^j    ••^"*   »»"v   pwucv 

her  sirtS,  who  wasmarri;!  in  il^n^  ''''^  "^^f  ^^  f."^^  ^^^^t"^.  **"  h  * 
phce,  and  died  in  December  1768.  It  ™^*"  domestic  of  Hdlty  s.  After 
was  a  beautiful  May  evening;  the  night-  «®°if  ^™®>  ^^  *"®"^  expressed  a 
ingales  were  beginning  to  sing,  and  the  ^^^h  that  Voss  should  hear  the  new 
tvolight  shades  to  dose  in.  She  was  walk-  ballads  recited, .  and,  lo !  the  domes- 
ins;  through  an  orchard  of  apple-trees  in  tic,  who  was  Holty  himself,  with  his 
fuU  bloom,  clad  in  the  colour  of  innocence,  face  brightening  up,  read  aloud  Le- 
Pink  ribbons  leaved  upon  her  beautiful  ander  and  Ismene.  The  other  two 
bosom,  and  a  beam  of  the  westerina  sun  were  Miller  and  his  cousin.  Thus 
fhMuenUy  tinged  her  white  robe  and  lovely  originated  a  friendship,  in  Which 
necL  What  wonder  that  such  transcen-  fiofe  and  Frederick  Hahn,  a  mto  of 
.^^^rSit'^^^^^  anobleb^^^^^^^^ 

IshoufifiUasheet,  werel  toteUof  an  P^^'^P^^®^^  ,  .  ,  ,  . 
the  love-sick  fantasies  and  felliea  which  I  ^^  ^  cheerful  autumnal  evening  the 
at  that  time  committed.  After  the  kpse  70unger  friends,  who  were  waOung 
of  a  twelvemonth  she  returned  to  town.  ^^  the  fields,  became,  on  approach- 
In  a  year  one  has  time  for  many  a  cdestial  ing  a  fine  oak,  in  the  heat  ot  conver- 
dream,  and  amatoiy  composition.  Neither  sation,  suddenly  inspired  as  it  were 
was  warning...!  saw  her  twice  alter  her  ta  devote    thempel^ree    in    soleinii 


A92  Life  of  Hdiiy.  [[Nov- 

league  to  their  country.  To  this  Denina^  in  his  ^'  Literature  of  the 
•oclety  Bo)e>  Count  StoUberg^  and  Prussian  Monarchy/'  removes  the 
Christian  and  Frederick  Leopold  scene  of  the  solemnity  to  the  neigh- 
afterwards  acceded.  They  met  every  bourhood  of  the  Blockberg,  and  states 
Sunday  evening  for  various  literary  that  there  is^  in  the  castle  of  StolU 
purposes.  Several  residents  of  dis-  berg^  at  Wemigerode,  a  large  hall^ 
tant  towns  attached  themselves  as  wherein  the  bards  of  Germany,  with 
honorary  members  to  this  society,  Gleim  as  their  president,  used  to 
without  actual  co-operation.  Even  celebrate,  with  beer  and  tobacco,  an 
Klopstock,  to  whom  Count  Stollberg  annual  feast,  at  which  the  seat  of 
had  sent,  in  1773^  a  selection  of  honour  was  left  vacant  for  the  ge- 
poems^  the  joint  production  of  tl\e  nius  of  Klopstock.  Gleim  pointed 
members,  judged  favourably  of  it,  out  this  passage  to  Voss,  and  asked 
and  wished  to  become  one  himself,  him  where  the  confounded  Italian 
Burger  was  a  friend,  but  not  a  mem-  had  made  out  the  lie. 
ber.  He  sometimes  frequented  their  The  following  strange  fabricatio9> 
meetings^  and  submitted  his  poems  insignificant  as  the  materials  may 
(as  for  instance,  his  Lenora,  stanza  have  been  out  of  which  it  was  com- 
by  stanza),  to  their  criticism.  The  re-  posed,  must  not  be  passed  over  m 
port  of  Burger's  verses  attracted  Cra-  silence.  The  youths  of  the  society, 
iner.  The  society  declared  against  on  fine  days,  delighted  to  hold  their 
(jerman  iambic  verse,  and  Voss  in  meetings  in  remote  villages,  some- 
vain  represented  to  Burger  the  unfit-  times  in  the  house  of  a  worthy  host, 
ness  01  the  language  for  that  sort  of  where  some  new  composition,  such 
metre,  by  an  attempt  to  translate  in  as  Miller's  ^'  May  is  enticing,"  witli 
it  the  description  of  Priam's  palace,  Bach's  music,  was  frequently  taught 
proving  also  the  facility  ot  com-  in  confidence  to  the  young  rustics ; 
posing  in  hexameters.  When  the  sometimes  in  the  clean  cottage  of  a 
original  members  separated.  Over-  peasant,  which  was  Ilolty's  choice; 
beck,  and  afterwards  Sprickmann,  or  on  the  green  sward  of  a  luxuriant 
acceded  to  the  surviving  ones.  orchard,  where  tiiey  drank  potations 
The  domesUc  and  retired  charac-  of  rich  milk.  It  occurred  once  or 
ter  of  this  literary  imion,  the  co-  twice,  on  a  moonlight  night,  that 
operation  of  noblemen  of  education,  they  passed  the  word,  one  to  an- 
and  other  circumstances,  at  length  other,  how  agreeable  it  would  be  to 
excited  jealousies,  to  which  the  two  remain  in  the  country  (to  ^'  rusticate*' 
yisits  of  Klopstock  mainly  contri-  was  the  technical  expression^  and 
buted,  fbr,  on  his  journey  to  and  to  compose  each  a  poem.  This  plan 
from  Carlsruhe,  he  had  devoted  a  few  being  concerted,  Ilolty's  poem  '^  To 
days  to  the  society  exclusively.  The  Daphne's  Canary-bird,"  that  of  Voss 
roasters  in  a  certain  academy,  which  on  Anch-e,  and  Hahu's  reminiscence 
in  the  be^ning  was  fostered  by  ''  Burst  thy  Clouds,  O  Moon,"  wci:e 
the  muse  of  Haller,  and  some  other  composed  in  Scharf  s  garden  at  the 
persons,  allowed  themselves  all  man-  same  time.  The  two  first  had  lain 
ner  of  licence  in  inveighing  against  down  in  their  clothes  to  rest,  and 
poets^  and  their  pursuits,  voss,  at  were  breathing  the  sweets  of  repose, 
one  time,  intended  to  rise  in  defence  when  Hahn,  holding  a  light  and 
of  the  abused  Holty,  but,  upon  con-  some  paper,  roused  them,  and  began 
sideration,  rested  his  defence  upon  to  write.  A  continued  laugh  which 
the  uprightness  and  purity  of  hiis  struck  their  ears  prevented  them 
character.  During  this  persecution,  from  yielding  to  the  melancholy  in- 
a  story  was  circulated,  which  had  spiration  of  the  mO(fti-light  scene, 
been  fabricated  at  a  drinkine-bout.  This  proceeded  from  one  of  those 
that  a  society  of  bards  was  formed,  engaged  at  the  nocturnal  worship  ot 
conaisting  of  a  hundred  individuals,  Odin,  which  was,  however,  unac- 
who,  wrapped  in  the  skins  of  beasts,  companied  by  smoking  and  the  in* 
lued  to  offer  sacrifice  on  the  neigh-  vocation  of  Klopstock. 
bouring  hills  at  midnight,  to  mvoke  In  the  summer  of  1773,  Klop- 
Odih  and  Klopstock,  to  bum  in  stock's  birth-day  was  celebrated. 
^^g7>  and  to  drink,  not  wmc,  but  All,  including  Ili'ilty,  dressed  in  their 
Strong  beer.  This  tale  was  tricked  holiday-clothes,  assembled  in  the 
cut  with  many  other  circuxasiance^  ^.^cmoou  at  Hahn's,  around  a  tablp 


which  sparkled  with  flasks  of  Rhenish  meny  traveUina  oomj^anion,   m  aiBRcm. 

wine.     At  the    upper   end    of  the  We  took  our  Sumet  in  his  oompany  «t 

chamber  lay  Klopstock's  works,  upon  Mcncbuig,  and  dzank  a  great  deal  of  the 

an  arm-chair.  Some  of  the  odes  were  hec  of  that  place,  which  Klopttock  c^ 

recited.     Klopstock  and  the  Rhenish  *^«  monarch  of  maJt^rifUci.    It  is  tb^ 

made  the  conversation  warm ;  enthu-  *~«  ^'!!f^.f  ??«?'" ^"^l  ^  S"  ^ 

siasm  rosetoite  height;  and  senti-  Pf""*^  ^^"?  ^  ^viK^f"*^ 

■Mooui  ivoc  w  *w»  u^iQui.,  »<iu  o<c»u  ^^^^  smoog  hu  people  in  Valhalla.    Wa 

ments  were  uttered,  replete  with  a  partook  w  heartfiT^  the  divine  nectar, 

noble  mdignaUon,    against  that  le-  that  our  htm  became  as  red  as  fire,  like 

vity  which  turns  mtoajest  every  se-  Uien's  when  he  amended  to  the  deity, 

rious  feeling  for  the  sublime.     The  Between  Meisebuig  and  Leipaic  we  tooJ^ 

judicious  Boie  endeavoured  to  ex-  coffee  in  a  hou^  at  the  doGor  of  which  a 

cuse  it,   and  the  argument  became  phaeton  had  drawn  up,  which  conveyed 

still  warmer.     One  drew  forth  the  two  lovelv  youn^  females.    The  one  was 

Comic  Tales.       '  To  the  flames  !  *  remarkably  beautiful,  and  quite  captivated 

echoed  all  romid  the  room,  and  the  ™y  ^'^^'    ^  »tatkmed  myself  near  die 

flames  blazed  accordingly.    "  Here,  t?^''  ^*»«"  ''^^JP^^  ^^  "P^  re-ascended, 

with  the  portrait  out  oVthe  pocket-  ^^^  r  tSS^^  "^e  a^li^Wt?  J^ 

book,     cned  another.     A  shout  of  „^  j  ^^  ^lem  drive  off ;  but  I  was  gbd 

exultation  arose  as  the  unoffendme  t^at  my  heart  was  stiU  capable  of  feeling, 

pnnt    was    thnce    earned    uoward  what  a  heaven  is  love  1  be  is  an  angel 

by  the  heat.     This  affair,  which  was  who  can  Uve  in  this  heaven ;  a  son  of  per- 

nothin^  but  a  sudden  burst  of  in-  dition,  who  has  never  gained  admittance  to 

dignation  against  those  who  misin-  it.    Notwithstanding  my  matted  hair,  she 

terpreted    the    desipere    in    loco    in  would,  perhaps,  have  smiled  on  me,  if 

which    the    youths    indulged,    was  >he  had  known  that  the  celebrated  poetic 

terminated  by   Boie,  who,   smiling,  dreamer  •  was  standing  before  her. 

reproved  their  disorderly  conduct.  There  is  still  pointed  out  at  Halle 

There  were,  however,  many  of  the  a    solitary   seat  in   a  rock,   called 

instructors  at  l^tUngen,   who,   far  «  Holty's  bench;"  but  Holty  never 

from  jommg  m  the  petty  war  against  visited  that  town,  during  this  or  any 

those  young  and  mgenuous  spirite,  other  journey.    The  person  who  ori- 

favoured   them    with  their    counte-  ginally  bestowed  the  name  thought, 

nance  and  suoport.    To  Kastner  in  no  doubt,  that  the  feeling  poet  would 

particular  Holty  was  indebted   for  have  chosen  such  a  seat  tor  hi»  me- 

many  substantial  kindnesses.    After  ditations. 

the  death  of  the  young  bard,  some  Late  in  the  autumn  of  1774,  Holty 

insmuaUons  were  thrown  out  against  began  to  spit  blood,  whidi  he  con- 

his  mulufanous  readmg,  which  Kfist-  sidered  merely  as  the  consequence  of 

ner  resented  in  a  poignant  epiffram.  an  obstinate   cough,    conUacted  in 

About  Michaermas  1774,   he  ac-  the  first  year  of  his  academic  course; 

companied  Mdler  to  Leipsic     The  or,  of  a  stitch  of  long  continuance, 

following  IS  extracted  from  his  jour-  ^iUi  which  he  had  been    afflicted. 

"^•■~  In  the  beginning  of  May,  1775,   a 

We  travelled  from  Noidheim  to  Rossla,  ^^w  weeks  after  the  death  of  his  fa- 

tfae  residence  of  Count  StoUbeig,  in  an  ther,  he  crossed  Hanover  from  Got- 

open  carriage,  with  the  clear  storry  heavens  tingen,  on  his  return  to  Mariensee, 

above  us.    At  Rossla  we  were  transferred  where  he  continued  to  undergo  his 

to  what  is  called  the  yeUow  coachy  a  veti-  course  of  medicine  under  the  care  of 

de  for  travelling  hung  with  yellow  doth,  in  Zimmermann.     On  the  8th  of  May 

which  eight  passengers  can  ttt--two  before,  h^  ^^  ^^ites  to  Voss  at  Wand*, 

two  behind,  and  two  on  each  side.    I  chose  Kp^.^  ._ 
one  of  the  side  seats,  on  account  of  the 

prospect;  and  gazed  out,  as  from  a  window,  Zimmemiann  has  infbnned  I^iaewits, 

upon  the  mighty    and   beautiful    world,  that  I  may,   periiaps,  recover  from  my 

We  passed  t^migh  Eisleben,  where  Lu.  consumption,  by  the  use  of  the  prescribed 

ther  first  saw  the  light,  but  could  neither  remedies,  .  and  an  adherence  to  the  regi- 

see  the  house  in  which  he  was  bom,  nor  jnen  pointed  out  to  me.    You  percdv^ 

the  town  itself,  as  it  was  midnight  when  therefore,  the  danger  of  my  situation,  and 

we  pafsed  through  it.     Here  we  got  a  how  narrow  the  pathway  is  between  lif^ 

i 

*  Holty^s  friends  sometimes  passed  jokes  qn  the  visions  of  his  dreams,  whidi  he  was 
so  fond  of  celebrating,  and  he  used  gocxUmmouredly  to  drcuUte  their  jokes. 


8M 


Lgtof  Mdhyl 


CHor- 


■ad  dtedi,  akHig  which  I  advance.  lit- 
tle ar' I  fear  death,  I  should  have  wished 
to  sufvive  for  a  couple  of  olympiads  more, 
in  order  to  enjoy  lire  with  you,  my  fHends, 
and  to  aroid  being  swept  away  with  the 
flreat  tide  of  BMortality,  wi^iout  ever 
Mving  riMn  aboive  the  surifaoe.  But  God's 
win  be  done !  As  to  other  matters,  I  live 
here  very  agreeably.  Maiiensee  is  plea- 
■antly  and  poetically  ntuated.  It  is  sor- 
raunded  by  woods,  oom-fields,  and  mea- 
dows. But  what  is  the  beautiful  country 
to  me  when  I  have  no  friend  to  wander 
widi  me  through  it !  I  assure  you  I  am 
grieved  to  the  neart  when  I  think  of  the 
aodal  days  at  Qottingen,  and  turn  myself 
round  to  look  for  finends,  and  find  none. 
I  must  remain  here  until  Michaelmas. 
There  is  no  alternative.  I  must  first  sub- 
init  to  the  course  of  medidne,  and  wait  the 
return  of  my  health.  It  will  be  bliss  if  I 
can  scrape  together  as  much  money  as  will 
carry  me  to  Wandsbeck  at  Michaelmas. 
Perhaps  I  shall  visit  you  for  a  few  days 
towards  the  end  of  May,  if  my  health  im- 
prove. How  long  does  Klopstock  stay  ? 
Is  Miller  still  there  ?  I  am  yearning  for 
iiews  from  him.  It  would  be  sinful  for 
you  to  leave  me  long  in  my  solitude  without 
writing  to  me.  O  the  joy  of  passing  one 
day  in  dear  Hamburgh  !  O  that  we  #ere 
there—that  we  were  there !  Send  me 
such  of  my  poems  as  you  consider  to  want 
correction,  and  let  me  know  what  improve- 
ments may  have  occurred  to  you.  Remem- 
ber me  to  Klopstock,  dau^us.  Bode,  and 
all  friends  of  the  bard's,  both  male  and  fe- 
male. A  copy  of  Atfno  omnia  sua  tecum 
jfortante  would  also  be  very  acceptable  to 
me.  Lastly,  I  should  wish  to  have  a 
copy  of  the  song  of  the  gracious  dame. 
Farewell  t    I  eagerly  await  your  answer. 

Holty  wrote  again  on  the  11th  of 
May^  concerning  the  state  of  his  dis- 
order^ and  his  hopes  of  recovery. 

I  have  a  longing  desire  to  hear  some- 
thing f^Nxn  you.  W  rite  then  to  me,  Voss. 
Write  to  me.  Miller,  if  you  be  there.  I 
should  be  glad  to  hear  of  yoiur  domestic 
affairs ;  of  your  arrangements  for  the  Al- 
manack, of  klopstock,  of  a  thousand  other 
things,  \rhen  I  perceive  ^rmptoms  of 
convalescence  I  will  also  saddle  my  poetic 
nag  again.  I  shall  send  you  by  the  earliest 
iDppoitunity  a  couple  of  convivial  songs, 
which  I  composed  at  Oottingen.  Have 
you  yet  enjoyed  yourself  at  the  theatre  ? 
Are  the  poets  cried  down  in  Hamburgh 
also  ?  Have  you  seen  beautifld  visions  in 
your  dreams,  and  made  a  purse  of  gold  by 
celebrating  them  in  your  verses?  The 
Hamburghers  must  certainly  have  already 
b<^n  to  go  on  pilgrimage  in  crowds  to  St. 
Wandsbeck !  O  you  must  enjoy  golden 
idavs .'  I  hope  I  shall  soon  see  you.  Fare- 
weU! 


'  The  mere  opening  of  these  letters' 
agonizes  th\e  heart — it  seems  as  if 
one  heard  from  afar  Uie  voice  4^f  a 
departed  friend.  There  certainly 
are^  and  will  ever  be  kindred  spirits 
to  sympathize  with  this  feeling.  On 
the  26tn  of  May,  he  states  that  his 
health  had  been  improving  for  the 
last  fortnight,  and  that  he  could 
again  breathe  fireely^  and  without 
pain: 

That  *  *  *  has  fiallen  in  love  la  quite 
gratifying  to  me.  I  always  heartily  rejoice 
when  I  near  that  one  of  my  fri^da  has 
won  the  affections  of  some  amiable  girL  I 
should  wish  that  all  were  transpOTted  to 
that  heaven  of  love,  where  once  a  golden 
seat  was  for  a  short  time  conceded  to  me. 
Now  I  totter  on  the  threshold,  and  tha 
door  is  shut  fiwt  against  me.  I  am  deaiioai 
to  get  an  explicit  account  of  the  English 
girl  of  whom  *  *  *  is  enamoured,  aad 
of  the  whole  amour.  If  you  wish  to  do 
me  a  favour,  devote  some  time  or  other  one 
half  hour  to  that  subject.  Have  you  seen 
the  maid?  She  is,  no  doubt,  handsome 
and  amiable.  What  are  her  parents  ?  Has 
•  •  •  made  a  formal  proposal  for  her  ? 
Has  he  no  proofs  of  redprood  affection  on 
her  part  ?  How  did  he  become  acquainted 
with  her  ?  I  have  not  yet  thought  of  the 
translation.  But  it  must  soon  be  resumed 
if  I  think  of  earning  a  mite  to  pay  my 
travelling  expenses  to  Hamburgh.  The 
beautiful  May  has  glided  away  imper- 
ceptibly. I  sauntered  about  the  ga^en 
the  entire  morning,  or  else  in  the  nei^- 
bouring  wood;  or  lay  in  the  grass,  and 
read  the  Messiah,  or  Shakspeare.  Of^en 
as  I  made  the  attempt  to  write,  the  verses 
would  not  flow  upon  me.  The  novelty  of 
this  abode  was  partly  the  cause,  the  head- 
ache partly.  I  will  now  spread  all  sails, 
and  you  may  reckon  on  numerous  contri- 
butions. You  shall  receive  from  me,  if 
fortune  be  propitious,  some  odes  and 
hymns,  a  terrific,  and  a  tender  ballad,  a 
*  fkntasy  on  the  state  of  the  human  soul  be- 
fore its  birth,  and  perhaps  an  elegy.  I 
will  also  collect  some  of  my  old  compo- 
sitions. I  have  constant  invitations  from 
my  readers  and  admirers  here,  and  pass 
almost  every  evening  in  company.  They 
look  with  wonder  upon  me,  because  my  , 
name  has  occasionally  appeared  in  the 
newspapers.  No  one  individual  u  capable 
of  judging  of  the  merits  of  the  pieces 
themselves.  I  do  not  even  think  that  they 
have  all  understood  your  conditions  of  sub^ 
scription.  The  following  is  the  proof.  A 
certain  person  told  me,  about  two  days  ago, 
that  I  had  been  praised  in  the  Hamburgh 
Correspondent,  and  that  it  was  therem 
stated,  that  my  futuYe  articles  were  to  be 
si^od  "  T."  I  believe  Prometheus  mix- 
ed up  some '  improper  ingredient  in  tho 


im.2  Lift  ff  HSHy. 

x^j  <rtil  of  which  he  laieoded  the  bniiw  them,  thai  I  shoold  be  wny  to  ipend  any 

of  most  men. .  .Oive  Claudius  and  CUuidia,  spring  within  the  dismal  indQs  of  a  town, 
and  all  the  young  mastm  and  miweB  i|rtio         j„   ^j^^  ^  j^ 

liave  a  regard  for  me,  the  aahitatwn  of  a  j^ .      .        ,   .  '   '    T     J^ 

bard.    I^  with  aU  my  wiahing  powem  ^ent  to  Hanover,  in  order  to  undergo 
that  God  may  strengthen  you,  and  prcaenre  »  8*^0^  qfter^course  of  medicine,  ai 
you  for  your  ftiends  and  beloved.    Fare-  ^  expressed  it,   under  the  care  of 
well— write  to  me  often,  whenevvr  you  Zimmermann,  having  determined  to 
have  half  an  hour  to  younelf.  set  out  afterwards  for  Wandsbeck. 
^      ,           ,      n    »          t.       1-  ^**  hopes  rose  and  fell,  but  he  mahi- 
On  the  12th  of  June,    he    thus  tained  his  cheerfuhjess,  and  used  to 
writes  from  Mariensee :  pass  jokes  upon  himself.    The  fol- 
I  again  send  you  two  articles.    They  lowing  extract  is  from  a  letter  which 
^  cTe  both  oonposed  in  the  lovdy  month  of  he  sent  to  Voss  on  the  14th  of  Maj^ 
May,  among  nightingales  and  luxuriant  1776,  accompanied  by  some  contri- 
trees,— and  I  shall  be  rejoiced  if  they  ex-  butions,  for  the  Almanack  of  the  en- 
hale  any  of  that  vernal  sweetness  which  on  suing  year : 
all  sides  streamed  in  upon  me  as  I  sang. 

I  can  send  you  three  sheets  if  you  want  so        If  you  still  have  room,  I  will  commii. 

much;  if  not,  I  will  not  stint  the  others  wcate  to  you  some  longer  poems  whieh 

for  want  of  room.    I  wish  you  n^ouldsend  ^^  'f^  V^J  >»  ™y  head,  and  partly 

me  all  the  pieces  which  you  have  of  mine,  °>J*  «'  »*•    ^  have  done  nothing  this  long 

and  pomt  out  those  passages  which  need  the  ^hilc.     They  are  meagre,  unpoetical  times 

file  or  burnisher.    I  have  leisure  enough  here,— as  m«igre  as  Pharaoh's  lean  kine, 

for  using  these  fevourite  implements,— and  ^'  myteif.    The  forenoon  I  am  obliged  to 

I  wish  to  remove  all  inequalities  from  the  f  «^®««  ^  tramOating ;  after  dinner,  I  get  a 

surface,  before  I  send  the  chUdren  of  my  head-adie,  and  flush  m  the  face,  and  fbd 

imagination  into  the  world.    I  shall,  with  ^fP**?^  *?  ^^  nothing,  until  about  fivo 

much  thankfidness,  adopt  any  alterations  «  ^^    ^  8«^^  ^^^  ^7  chamber,  and 

which  you  and  Claudius  may  surest.  scarcely  sec  a  human  bcmg. ..  .1  have  a 

A      .  .L    ^^j    r  A  ^  P'"^  ^^"»h  for  the  proposed  excursion  to 

Again,  on  the  22d  of  August:  i,ubeck,  in  order  to  see  rational  peo^ 

You  receive  herewith  three  poems,  which  once  again.    I  should  like  it  best  at  IffiZ 

I  struck  off  hut  week,  and  sundry  altera-  chaelmas :  I  shall  then  be  rid  of  my  trans- 

tions  which  I  have  made  in  former  compo-  lation,  and  able  to  pass  some  wedcs  with 

sidons.      Make  what  use  you  please  of  you  in  tranquillity.     I  have  an  uncommoQ 

them.    The  "  Future  Mistress  '^  is  my  desire  to  see  you  once  again.    My  leii. 

favorite.     You  can,  perhaps,  stQl  retrench  dcnce  here  is  extremely  disagreeable  to  me; 

some  faults,  and  add  some  beauties We  I  must  either  go  elsewhere  soon,  or  else 

are,  at  present,  in  the  midst  of  the  hay  I  e^udl  become  rusty.    Miller  has  already 

harvest — ^the  meadows  exhale  their  sweets,  written  several  romances.    Answer  my  leU 

and  are  alive  with  mowers.    I  often  lie  at  ter  soon.    I  shall,  in  ftiture,  write  fr». 

dusk  on  a  hay-stack,  and  indulge  my  ftn-  quently  to  you. 

des,  until  Ae  wlver  moon  comes  forth        jhege  were  Holty's  last  words  to 

upon  the  sky,  and  agreeably  surprises  me.  j^j^^  ^j^o,  with  amdety,  awaited  his 

On  the  10th  of  October,  he  writes  coming.    Holty  died  at  Hanover,  on 

from  ZeUe :  the  1st  of  September,  1T76. 

Write  to  me  by  the  f  ery  first  post,  whe-        .^^^^^   ^^  ^^^  ^^^,  «/  ^  y<>"^' 

ther  you  will  continue  at  WandsWk  dur-  J^!"^  genius  struggled  so  success- 

ing  this  winter,  or  in  what  other  phu»  you  ^^"X  against  the  pressure  of  bodily 

will  fix  your  quarters.    I  grope  about  in  disease   that   he  shmes  among  the 

the  dark,  and  know  not  where  to  find  you.  first  poets  in   every  department  of 

I  am  ignorant  whether  you  are  ahready  seU  the   art   which  he   cultivated.     His 

ded  ill   Mecklenburgh,   or  lingering   at  poems  were  not  the  creations  of  a 

Flensburg  on  the  shore  of  the  ocean,  or  in  mind  which  centered  all  in  itself,  but 

what  comer  of  the  earth  you  have  secreted  of  one   which  looked  upon   nature 

yourself.    If  you  be  still  at  Wandsbeck,  I  ^jth  the  eye  of  love,  and  embodied 

shaU  go  to  you ;  if  vou  r«nove  mto  Meek-  j^  Verse  the  genuine  feelings  of  the 

"^^"^d   f?w  '?S1J'~'T*P^  heart   From  Sis  desire  to  investigate 

vour  apartment  at  Wandsbeck.  or  choose  ^i.    ^  /•      .  t    .     \1  .^     » 

HanovCT  for  my  abode.    I  am  thinking  of  ^^  ^^^^^  ^^  primamil  simpbaty  of 

passmg  the  fair  month  of  May  somewhere  manners,  m  regions  where  nature  is 

or  other  in  the  country,--eithcr  at  Mari-  uti«haclfled    m    her    operations,    he 

ensee,  or  with  Bruckner.    The  spring  is  so  had,  in  the  winter  of  177i,  planned 

delightful  in  the  coimtry,  and  mortals  are  to  undertake,  along  with  Voss,  a  pc« 

destined  to  enjoy  the  sweets  of  so  iew  of  destrian  tour  through  Italy  and  Si< 


590                                            Sonnet  b^  Keats>  C^^T* 

cily.  They  intended  to  omit  the  benevolent  lady  sent  him  a  donation 
known  tracks  and  the  haimts  of  the  of  fifty  dollars.  He  was,  however, 
antiquarian  and  the  artist, — and  in  already  dead  when  the  money  ar- 
their  stead,  to  remain  for  a  longer  rived,  and  it  was  therefore  presented 
time  in  peacefid  villages,  remote  to  his  eldest  brother, 
from  the  highway,  or  to  wander  Even  in  the  last  year  of  his  life, 
about  with  the  shepherds  of  the  Holty,  not  thinking  his  end  so  ni^h, 
Apennines,  and  ^tna.  They  ex-  occupied  himself  in  forming  a  col- 
pec  ted  to  earn  with  delight,  among  lection  of  his  poems.  Death  sur- 
the  gardens  of  Hesperia,  a  suffi-  prised  him,  and  his  papers  were  con- 
ciencv  for  their  maintenance,  by  nded  to  Boie,  who  unaertook  to  edit 
translating  from  the  English  and  Ita-  them,  and  to  devote  a  part  of  the 
Man  languages, — and  entered  into  a  profits  of  the  sale  to  the  erection  of 
contract  with  a  bookseller  to  that  a  little  monument  of  marble  on  the 
effect.  Holty  proposed  to  himself,  ^ave  of  the  Hanoverian  poeL  Hav- 
as  a  beginning,  an  extract  from  the  vau  been,  however,  appointed  to  an 
Connoisseur,  with  Hurd,  Shaftes-  omcial  situation  i^i  Dithmarscheo,  he 
bury,  and  Plato's  Republic ;  to  his  was  obliged  to  delay  the  execution  of 
destined  companion,  he  proposed  this  project,  and  a  certain  person, 
Blackwell,  the  source  from  which  who  gave  out  that  he  was  a  fnend  of 
commentators  derived  all  their  Ho-  the  deceased,  had  the  audacity  to 
meric  knowledge  at  that  period.  publish  a  garbled  collection  of  his 
To  speak  of  Holty's  piety  would  poems,  culled  from  various  periodi- 
be  superfluous.  His  poems  evince  cals,  as  well  of  those  that  had  been 
that  nc  revered  religion  with  the  condemned,  as  of  those  that  had 
flame  feelings  with  wmch  every  good  been  approved  by  the  author  himself, 
man  does.  From  the  time  that  he  This  cu-cumstance  induced  Voss, 
was  able  to  earn  a  livelihood,  his  with  the  assistance  of  Count  StoU- 
high  spirit  prevented  him  from  soli-  berg,  to  undertake  the  first  genuine 
citing  any  assistance  from  his  fa-  edition  of  his  works,  and  the  profits 
mily  ;  hence  he  was  sometimes  in  were  sent  to  Holty 's  mother,  to  ena- 
Btraitened,  although  never  in  actually  ble  her  to  defray  the  expenses  of  edu- 
needy,  circumstances.  Voss,  while  eating  her  younger  cnildren,  as  a 
at  Hamburgh,  happened  upon  one  moimment  was  considered  to  be  wo 
occasion  to  deplore  the  necessity  distuiction  of  merit  in  Hanover,  where 
Holty  was  under,  of  fatiguing  him-  the  grave  of  a  Leibnitz  remains 
self  with  translating,  even  in  the  ex-  unknown.  X.  ^. 
tremity  of  his  disease,  upon  which  a  Dublin,  Avgiui  9,  1821. 


SONNET,-^  DREAM. 


As  Hermes  once  took  to  his  feathers  light. 

When  lulled  Argus,  baffled,  swoon 'd  and  slept 
So,  on  a  Delphic  reed,  my  idle  spright 

So  play'd,  so  charm'd,  so  conquer'd,  so  bereft 
The  Dragon- World  of  all  its  hundred  eyes. 

And  seeing  it  asleep,  so  fled  away  ; — 
Not  to  pure  Ida  with  its  snow-cold  skies. 

Nor  unto  Tempe,  where  Jove  grieved  that  day ; 
But  to  that  second  circle  of  sad  Hell,* 

Where  in  the  gust,  the  whirlwind,  and  the  flaw 
Of  rain  and  hailstones,  lovers  need  not  tell 

Their  sorrows.     Pale  were  the  sweet  lips  I  saw. 
Pale  were  the  lips  I  kiss'd, — and  fair  the  form 
1  floated  with  about  that  melancholy  storm. 
April,  18W.  John  Keats. 

*  Dante ;  Infemo,  c.  5. 

"  The  stormy  blast  of  hell 
With  resdess  fury  drives  the  spirits  on, 
IVhirrd  round,  and  cUshM  amain  with  tore  annoy.'* 


1821.]]  Greenwich  Hospital* 

KDWARJ)    II£IU)£RT'8    LETTEES   TO  THE    FAMILY    OF    THE    POWELLS. 

No.  11. 
GREENWICH  HOSPITAL. 

To  Russell  Powell,  Esq. 

My  Dlar  Russell! — The  kind  in-  mendous  hive,  into  which,— rash 
terest  which  all  your  family  took  in  drone  as  I  am ! — I  have  at  lcngth[ 
the  letter  which  I  addressed  to  your  ventured  to  creep.  I  am  now,  mjj 
sister,  descriptive  of  the  Coronation,  dear  Russell,  seeing  all  that  can  bq 
has  rendered  the  task  of  writing  to  seen, — insinuating  myself  into  scenes 
any  one  pf  you  the  most  delightful  and  amongst  characters  which  l^alf 
amusement  of  my  evening  hoiurs ;  of  London  even  know  only  by  heais 
and  I  have  now  a  double  pleasure  in  say, — wandering  amongst  the  nobles^ 
witnessing  the  various  scenes  which  buildings  around  me, — harvesting 
make  up  the  great  drama  of  life  in  in  truth,  within  the  granary  of  m^ 
this  metropolis,  from  a  knowledge  of  mind,  food  enough  to  last  your  hunt? 
the  gratification  I  shall  have  in  de-  gry  spirits  tlirough  the  winter.  Rua-; 
scribing  them,  and  the  interest  you  sell !  strange  and  opposite  have 
will  feel  in  hearing  them  described,  been  my  researches  of  late. — I  have 
You  well  know  my  restless  and  un-  been  to  the  green-room  of  a  princir 
appeasable  hunger  of  mind,  after  all  pal  theatre,  and  witnessed  all  the 
that  is  either  curious  or  instructive  craft,  hate,  and  envy,  "  found  onlj^ 
in  this  world, — not  regarding  per-  on  the  stage,"  as  my  Lord  Byroi) 
sonal  comfort,  or  even  personal  safe-  well  expresses  it  in  his  sweet  nui-; 
ty,  in  the  attainment  of  any  interest-  sance,  I)on  Juan;— and  I  have  pe- 
ing  object,  and  ever  disciplining  my  netrated  into  all  the  heartless  eageD- 
temper  and  my  mind  to  meet  and  ness,  guileful  ferocity,  and  desperatq 
mingle  with  all  descriptions  of  per-  spirit  of  the  cock-pit.  Greenwich 
sons,  in  order  to  the  observing  of  Hospital  has  opened  to  my  eyes  its 
their  habits,  their  pleasures,  or  their  majestic,  enormous,  and  bcauti^ 
peculiarities.  I  love  to  visit  the  charities;— and  the  bear-garden  has 
great  national  buildings,  which  com-  made  me  familiar  with  its  strange, 
memorate  either  the  country's  taste,  antique,  and  brutal  mysteries.  I 
or  the  country's  charities  and  wealth;  have  beheld  the  costly  state  and 
•^1  loye  to  behold  the  revelries,  the  fineries  of  a  court, — -the  strife,  the  ter- 
glories,  the  pastimes,  of  the  rich  and  rors,  the  appalling  fierceness  of  a 
the  great; — 1  take  a  deep  interest  in  bull-fight,— tne  pictorial  wcaltli  and 
the  amusements,  the  rude  sports,  the  stately  formalities  of  Hampton  pa- 
noisy  vivacity  of  the  poor.  You  know  lace, — the  beautiful  and  exciting 
that  my  knowledge  of  London  had  conllict  of  two  great  pugilists.   Have 

Ereviously  arisen  principally  from  the  not  my  pursuits  been  various,  and 

ooks  which  I  had  read,  and  that  my  my   curiosity  un^vearicd  and  deter- 

actual  experience  of  life   had   been  mined? — My  letters  will  now,  if  my 

gained  chiefly  from  the  small  life  of  health  and   leisure   permit,  give   to 

market    towns   and   country   revels,  you,   my  dear  Russell,    or  to   your 

How  often,  Russell,  have  v/e  ejacu-  sisters,  if  the  subject  should  beseem 

lated  wishes    to  each   other,    when  them,  faithful  accounts  of  my /rczrt'/*, 

standing  at  a   wrestling  match,  or  — accounts  which  will   be  novel  at 

looking  upon  the  lads  of  single  stick,  least ;  for  I  do  not  remember  to  have 

or,  when  walkhig  over  the  most  cele-  read   any   description   of  several   of 

brated  houses  *'  for  miles  round," —  the  scenes  which  I  have  eimmerated. 

that  we  could  see  and  admire  those  — The  buildhigs,  the  theatres,    the 

higher  and  more  exciting  struggles  court,  will  have  gaiety  and  beauty 

and  combats  of  tlie  great  cjty, — those  enough  to  interest  the  ladies'  minds  ; 

theatres,    temples,    and  palaces,  of  for     what    female    heart    is    proof 

which  we  had  so  often  read,  even  to  against  pointed  lace,  or  can  contem- 

dreaming — that  we  could  watch  and  plate rullloswitliout  emotion? — while 

wonder  at  the  workings  of  that  trc-  the  rougher  diamonds  of  the  cock-* 


JKK                                        Greenwich  Hospital  C^ot. 

pit,  the  bear-garden>  and  such  rude  grant  paper^  and  kept  in  the  inner- 
mines^  will  be  rich  jewels  in  the  cap  most  recess  of  her  pocket  book)  is 
of  your  curiosity.  I  have,  indeed,  a  just  dashed  with  a  glossy  white> 
scene  in  store  which  will  be  brighter  which  seems  to  light  upon  him  more 
and  costlier  than  all  the  rest ;  but  I  like  the  fflory  than  the  waste  of  age, 
dare  not  hint  at  it  yet^  Jest  I  ruin  and  brightens,  if  possible,  the  se- 
my  chance  of  being  taken  to  it  at  all,  rene  sweetness  of  his  forehead.  He 
or  rashly  endanger  my  safety  while  speaks  very  little,  but  he  looks  as  if 
there: — rest,  rest,  perturbed  Russell!  his  thoughts  ran  on  with  the  radiant 
until  I  shall  in  my  wisdom  see  fit  to  solemnity  of  a  river.  His  observa- 
exhibit  this  brilliant  and  matchless  tions,  indeed,  when  they  do  come 
gem  to  your  wondering,  your  de-  forth,  are  remarkable  only  for  their 
Sghted  eyes.  simplicity  and  humane  gentleness  ;-— 
I  should  not  omit  to  inform  you,  and  you  feel  convinced  that  they 
that  Mrs.  Mallinson's  letter  of  intro-  are,  as  the  old  play  hath  it,  kiUed 
duction  to  the  Mortons  has  been  to  with  kindness.  His  thoughts  remain 
me  most  serviceable  and  successful,  with  him,  but  his  feelings  come  forth 
for  they  have  taken  me  by  the  hand  and  speak,  and  you  may  ever  perceive 
with  the  utmost  friendship  and  libe-  that  his  mind  discourses  silently  and 
rality,  and  have  obtained  for  me  with  itself,  while  his  heart  is  the  active 
the  sight  of  many  London  lions : —  and  eloquent  minister  to  his  tonnie. 
indeed,  they  appear  to  me  to  have  I  wish,  Russell,  you  could  see  mm 
access  to  all  tne  chief  cages  of  the  sittuig  at  his  table,  or  at  his  fireside, 
city,  and  the  Hectors  and  Fannys  of  and  fighting  the  conversation  with 
tids  marvellous  metropolis  are  rami-  his  pleasant  looks.  All  customs,  all 
liar  to  them  as  household  words.  To  pleasures,  all  regulations,  take  their 
render  my  letters  the  more  intelligi-  exactness  from  his  presence,  and  I 
ble  to  you,  as  the  Mortons  will  m^e  never  saw  order  wear  so  attractive  a 
the  principal  dramatis  persons  of  my  garb  as  that  in  which  Mr.  Morton 
epistolary  drama,  I  will  attempt  as  clothes  her.  He  has  the  most  pre- 
dear  a  description  of  them  as  I  can  cise  and  quiet  mode  of  taking  his 
accomplish ;  relying  upon  your  in-  scat,  or  reading  the  newspaper  (and 
genuity  for  colouring  my  sketch  quiet  as  he  naturally  is,  he  is  yet 
with  the  lively  and  gallant  tints  of  deeply  interested  in  the  political  agi- 
your  own  imagination.  I  shall  tations  which  ever  disturb  the  heart 
merely  offer  you  the  family  in  out-  of  his  country),  or  stirring  the  fire,  or 
line,  after  the  style  of  Retsch's  Faust,  putting  on  his  spectacles.  He  goes 
being  convinced  that  none  but  a  to  an  office  somewhere  in  the  city 
masterly  hand  can  safely  venture  daily,  but  I  do  not  see  that  his 
upon  a  minute  finishing.  Mr.  Mor-  merchant-life  distracts  his  home 
ton,  the  father,  is  one  oi  those  gentle  comforts,  or  molests  his  morning 
and  silent  characters,  which  are  ra-  thoughts ;  whether  it  be  that  his  pe- 
ther  spirits  of  the  household,  than  culiar  temperament  places  all  com* 
active  and  common  mortal  portions  mercial  fluctuation  m  a  mild  and 
of  it : — never  mingling  in  the  petty  softening  atmosphere,  or  that  he 
strifes  and  light  joys  of  the  mo-  meets  not  with  those  temporary  dif- 
ment, — ^but  sonening  and  quieting  the  ficulties  and  perplexities  which  call 
former  with  a  bland  and  pleasant  daily  at  the  most  obscure  and  dusty 
placidity,  and  heightening  the  latter  dens  of  business,  and  affiict  the  nerves 
by  a  cheerful  and  generous  regard,  ofthe  oldest  and  most  staid  merchant. 
His  affe  I  should  guess  to  be  about  I  know  not ;  but  the  rise  and  fall 
fifty- six;  you  may  perceive  that  of  stocks— the  intricacies  of  the  mar- 
Time  is  beginning  to  write  a  few  kets — ^the  imcertainties  and  dangers 
faint  lines  upon  his  forehead,  and  of  the  shipping — the  more  polisned 
tiiat  his^  eve  begins  to  show  that  pa-  difficulties,  and  changes,  and  higher 
tient  ^  wisaom  which  only  comes  of  mysteries  of  the  court,  abide  not  with 
the  light  of  many  yeacs.  His  hair  Mr.  Morton.  He  hears  the  din  of 
(which  Mrs*  Morton  tells  me  was  a  the  nation,  and  it  stuns  him  not  :— 
raven  black  "  when  they  were  mar-  he  sees  the  great  game  of  the  world 
ried,"  and  of  which  she  has  one  played,  and  heeds  not  its  rogueries, 
precious  lock>  neatly  folded  in  fra-  its  ruin,    or   its    fascinations.    His 


ISSl.n  Greenwich  BospUdL  689 

heart  is  in  his  home,  and  in  his  or  that  picture ;  and  she  points  out 
family,  and  he  does  not  ever  look  to  the  disposition  of  the  lights  and  shadea 
the  winners  and  the  losers  elsewhere,  which  frames  the  resemblance.  She 
Such  is  Mr.  Morton.  To  me  he  is  never  delivers  her  opinions  authori- 
unusually  loquacious,  which  is  a  sure  tatively,  or  with  a  consciousness  d 
mark  of  his  regarding  me  kindly ; —  power,  but  suggests  wisdom  for  the 
and  the  other  evening  he  took  par-  adoption  of  others ; — and  often  so 
ticular  joy,  durine  our  rubber,  in  expresses  an  ingenious  thought,  that 
alwavs  having  a  kmg  for  my  queen,  her  husband,  by  a  word  or  two^ 
and  laughed  outright  in  detectinff  a  seems^  to  orig^ate  rather  than  con* 
revoke  which  I  committed;  which  firm  it.  It  is  her  chief  de^e  t& 
was  the  most  gratifying  sign. — He,  make  Mr.  Morton  appear  superior  to 
in  general,  pities  the  objects  of  his  herself,  and  to  that  end,  her  voice 
triumphs,  and  silently  pines  over  his  and  her  manner  are  gentle  and  su1>« 
own  success,  which  he  ever  thinks  dued  in  his  presence,  as  though  she 
"  runs  too  much  on  one  side."  took  all  her  feelings,  thoughts,  and 

Mrs.  Morton  is  a  woman  of  the  wishes,  from  his  heart  and  mind : — 
most  superior  mind  and  admirable  though  to  those  whose  observation 
manners ;  and  I  never  hear  her  men-  is  acute,  it  is  evident  that  her  know* 
tioned,  even  by  friends,  without  ex-    ledge  is  far  more  profound  than  she 

Sressions  of  the  most  untainted  en-    chuses  to  lay^  open.    By  an  ease  of 
earment.    The  silence  and  worldly    manner  peculiar  to  herself  she  ac« 
inaptitude  of  her  life-partner  have    commodates    her    mind   to  that  of 
called  forth  the  powers  of  her  mind,    every  person  with  whom  she  con« 
and  given  a  constant  exercise  to  her    verses,  and  never  offends  an  inferior 
fine  judgment.     She  has  the  most    capacity  with  the  least  sign  of  su-* 
pleasing  way  of  insinuating  plain  ad-    periority.     With   all    these    higher 
vice  that  I  ever  beheld ;  and  I  be-    qualifications  of   mind,    she    is    at 
lieve   it  is  impossible    to  disregard    heart   a  very  woman,  and  has  idl 
the   sweet  persuasion  and   delicate    the  delicate  tenderness,  and  unfailing 
earnestness  of  her  voice  and  expres-    love,  of  her  sex.    The  lock  of  hair 
sion.    She  is  younger  than  Mr.  Mor-    which  she  preserves  with  the  youth- 
ton  by  some  years,  and  has  a  face  still    ful  mystery  of  a  ^1,  awakens  early 
eloquent  with  beauty.  The  dark  eye,    pride  and  young  joy  within  her,  ana 
—the  happy  forehead,— the  pale  cheek,    sets  her  dreaming  over  Mr.  Morton's 
— the   mouth,    made   ever  pleasant    marriage  dress   and  manfy-  person, 
by  a  thousand  amiable  smiles,  seem    and  calls  up  the  mode  of  his  hair, 
still  to  retun  the  sweeter  virtues  of    and  the  astounding   colour    of  his 
youth,   and  enforce  die  wisdom  of    coat.    ^^Your  uncle  was  dressed  in 
experience   by   giving   it   a   charm    bright  blue,  and  had  rufiles  of  this 
which  experience  seldom  possesses,    breadth   (measuring  a  width  upon 
Mrs.  Morton  is  admirably  well  read    her  sleeve,  that  never  fails  to  exalt 
in  all  the  sound  authors  of  our  Ian-    all  the  female  eyebrows  in  the  room), 
gnage,  and  can  converse  on  subjects    I  think  he  was  certainly  the  hana- 
which  seldom  come  under  the  con-    soinest  man  of  his  time ! — I  wore 
sideration  of  women.    She  is  mistress    that  dress  which  you  now  and  then 
of    the    learned    enthusiasm,    holy    contemplate  in  my  drawer,  and  I 
poesv,  and  breathing  piety  of  Bishop    cannot  say  I  think  the  brides  of  the 
Taylor,  and  can  lead  you  througn    present  age  dress  so  becomingly  aa 
the  quaint  periods  of  Sir  Thomas    those  of  my  own  day."  Such  woman- 
Browne's    rich  and    antique   philo-    ly  reminiscences  as  these  are  always 
sophv.    Shakspeare  and  Spenser  are    said  with  a  mellowed  tone  of  voic^ 
familiar  to  her,  in  their  deepest  fan-    and  with  a  glisten  of  the  eye,  which 
des,  and  most  curious  excellencies ;    show  how  much  the  devoted  nature 
and  she  is  skilful  in  her  knowledge    of  the  sex  triumphs  over   the  ao- 
of  the  works  of  the  most  eminent    quired  formalities  and  tastes  of  life, 
painters.      She    enlightens   common    Mrs.  Morton  sits  at  her  table  like  a 
walks,  the  idlest  evening  rambles,    queen,  in  the  true  dignity  of  grace, 
with  talk,  all  breathing  information,    and  I  am  happy  to  say,  Riissel^  that 
and  pleasure,  and  tmth.  The  distant    I  stand  weft  at  her  drawlng-rooma 
gloomy  landscape  reinuids  her  of  this    and  domestic  court. 


HSO  Greenwich  Hospiial  pJ'oF. 

This  excellent  coiiplc  are  without  signature  ?    Not  but  that  I  could  al- 

c3iildren  of  their  own,  but  they  have  ways  detect  you !   Not  yours !    dear 

taken  to  their  bosoms  two  nieces  and  ine !  Well  I  tnought  them  not  auite 

(i  nephew,  the  daughter's  and  son  of  pensive  enough. — But  I  dou't  believe 

Mr.   Morton's  brother,    whom    they  you.  — O!     What    is    Lord     Byron 

cherish  as  their  own,  and  upon  whom  about }    Mr. (namhig    another 

tfcey  lavish  all  those  patenial  endeiu:-  literary  name)  tells  me  that  he  is  writ- 

men'ts  which,  in  the  want  of  an  object  ing  a  tragedy.  I  think  Marino  Faliero, 

to  rfcfet  tipon,  so  often  irritate  and  cm-  horrid  !  Mr.  — —  (naming  an  actor) 

Wtter  the  married  life.     The  eldest  of  assures  me  it  would  never  g^ei  up  / 

tfiese  young  ladies  is  naturally  of  a  Have  you  read  Don  Juan?    I  have 

^od  heart,  I  believe ;  but  she  has  so  not :   but   I   think  it  abounds    with 

Rlftny    acquired    faults,     so    many  beautiful  passages,  though  it  is  a  sad 

lady-artifices     and    studied    pretti-  wicked  book.    O !  what  do  you  think 

nesses,  that  I  never  know  when  she  of 's  prose?  Is  it  not  flowery  and 

is  thoroughly  interested  or  earnestly  beautiful  ?  You  never  know  whether 
moved.  She  is  a  polite  adorer  of  liter-  it  is  poetry  or  prose,  which  is  so  vastly 
atureandthedrama,— and  follows  the  delightful." — This  is  a  slight  and 
Aage  more  like  a  religion  than  a  light  meagre  sketch  of  tlie  style  of  Pru- 
ana  occasional  amusement.  From  deuce's  conversation,  which  I  must, 
certain  connexion's  she  has  become  in-  as  usual,  leave  to  the  powers  which 
tlmate  with  some  of  the  performers,  you  possess  of  making  a  miserable  de- 
and  the  consequence  is,  that  a  morn-  scription  opulent.  She  has  great  good- 
iiig  visit  from  any  tragedian  is  a  sure  nature,  the  eternal  palliative  of  all 
foremnner  of  seriousness  for  the  day,  disagreeable  qualities,  and  can  at  a 
a  support  and  a  stay  to  her  pensive  quiet  fireside  make  herself  amusing 
looks,  which  she  leans  upon  with  a  and  intelligent,  but  a  stranger  at  tea, 
most  dignitied  reserve.  Miss  Pru-  or  an  extra  wax  candle  in  the  sconce, 
dence  Morton  (she  was  the  first  of  an  is  the  never-failing  destroyer  of  all  her 
intended  series  of  the  cardinal  virtues,  natural  freedom.  And  she  siraight- 
which,  to  her  mother's  deep  disappoint-  way  exalts  herself  into  the  wary,  the 
ment,  was  broken  in  upon  by  the  per-  wise,  the  literary  Prudence.  Some  of 
verse  arrival  of  two  brothers  into  this  her  sayings  are  remembered,  but  con- 
breathing  world)  Miss  Prudence  Mor-  sidering  the  plentiful  crop  of  her  con- 
ton,  I  repeat  her  name,  is  a  decided  versation  it  is  wonderful  that  a  few 
Blue,  at  least  as  far  as  youth  and  its  scanty  ears  only  are  preservetl.  ^VTien 
established  foibles  will  permit  her  to  her  form  is  at  its  height  she,  like  the 
be.  She  is  tall,  and  has  dark  earnest  lovely  Marcia,  "  towers  above  her 
eyes,  which  at  evening  parties  go  sex,**  and  that  considerably,  and  I 
through  and  through  you  in  search  shidl  not  easily  forget  the  prodigious 
of  literary  information.  She  loves  to  step  and  grasp  with  wliicli  she  wheeled 
secure  to  her  own  readhig  the  per-  me  down  the  stone-staircase  of  Mr- 
son  and  the  attention  of  some  young  Morton's  house  the  other  day  at 
gentleman  in  the  sonnet  line,  and  to  dinner. 

extract  all  the  sweets  from  his  brain         Agnes  Morton,  yoiuiger  than  either 

as  store  for  the  cells  of  her  own  peri-  her  brother  or  sister,  is  one  of  tliose 

cranium.  She  sits  at  him.   She  so  dis-  sweet  little  fairy  creatures  which  we 

poses  her  attitude,  that  his  bodily  re-  seem  to  recognize  as  the  realization  of 

treat  is  rendered  impracticable.    Her  some  dim  poetic  dream,  or  favourite 

eyes  are  levelled  against  him,  and  she  beauty  of  tlie  fancy.     Her  light  blue 

steadily  fires  down  upon  his  helpless  eyes,  softening  beneath  the  shadowy 

earsthe  twenty-pounders  of  her  heavy  yet  even  tracery  of  her  eye-brows, 

interrogatories.      "  Have   you   seen  gleam  upon  you  with  a  modesty  and 

Campbell's   song   in    the   last   New  tenderness   idmost   uneartlUy : — and 

Monthly,  and  is  it  not  charmhig  ? —  the  airy  figure,  ever  simply  attired. 

Not  seen  it !  I  own  I  wonder  at  that,  seems  framed  only  to  be  lighted  about 

Mr.— -(naming  some  literary  name)  by  such  gently   radiant  eyes.     Her 

copied  it  out  for  me  before  it  was  in ;  very  motii>n  has  feeling  in  it :  and  her 

and  I  like  it  amazingly. — () !  and  are  voice  is  quite  Shaksptarian,  being  low 

thosevourlineshi  the  London?  I  know  and  sweet,  an  excellent  thiuir  in  wo- 

they  are  —but  why  do  you  use  that  man.  Indeed  her  elf-like  shape,  melo- 


1M1.3  Qrtenvnch  HotpiiaL  ^Sl 

diouB  tonefl>  and  retired  looln^  seem  fine  maiiljr  person^  urMoh^lxowever,  he 
contrived  by  nature  as  contrasts  to  a  little  distorts  by  the  decisive  c^t 
the  gigantic  figure^  vehement  voice^  of  his  coat>  and  the  Corinthian  round- 
and  vampire  gaze  of  Miss  Prudence,  ness  of  his  collar,— but  it  is  not  at  all 
Agnes,  worthy  owner  of  that  inno-  unpleasant  to  behold  his  light  lithe 
cent  appellation,  hath  the  sweetest  person  disdaining  the  restraint  and 
and  simplest  wisdom  in  the  world:  unprisonment  of  dress^  and  dancing 
Agnes  with  her  lamb-like  heart,  and  about  under  the  Merino  and  thebuck- 
^^  those  dove's  eyes,"  by  gentleness  ramwithallthelooseliberty  ofaboyat 
carries  all  before  her.  She  rules  all  school.  His  spirits,  when  excited,  run 
hearts^  as  by  some  fairy  spell.  Her  riot,  and  trample  upon  fashion  in  their 
soft  exclamations  of  attachment,  dis-  freedom.  Buttons,  stay-tape,  and 
regard,  or  wonderment,  are  potent  as  button-holes  are  set  at  defiance ;  an4 
acts  of  parliament,  or  wills  of  princes,  the  natural  man  bursts  through  all 
You  must  not  imagine,  Russell,  that  his  envious  clouds,  and  asserts  his  un-* 
I  am  heart-stricken  more  than  be-  tameable  glory.  Tom  is  intended  for 
comes  a  respectful  friend,  though  I  the  law,  if  it  shall  please  his  volatile 
fear  my  description  rather  borders  spirits  to  sufier  such  intention  to  ruA 
on  the  style  of  the  last  new  novel : —  its  unshackled  course ;  but  there  is  no 
my  aflTections  are,  as  you  know,  wed-  vouching  for  so  heedless  and  unrelf-* 
ded  to  books  and  life,  and  I  see  no  able  a  mind,  which  at  a  moment's 
very  great  probability  of  my  ever  de-  waminff,  or  even  none  at  all,  might 
viating  into  the  lover.  Besides,  the  waste  its  sweets  behind  a  grocer's 
times  are  ill,  my  prospects  are  bound-  counter,  or  inspire  crossed-legs  and 
ed,  and  Mr.  Vansittart  has  set  his  a  thimble  on  a  raised  board  imder  sL 
face  decidedly  against  Cupid.  dim  sky-light.    He  reads  poetry  to 

Thomas  Morton,   the  nephew,  or    please  Prudence ;  but  he  occasionally 
Tom,  as  he  is  more  familiarly  and    tries  her  patience  by  the  vehemence 
affectionately  called  by  his  near  ac-    and  sameness  of  his  quotations.    He 
quaintance  and  friends,  (and  I  always    has  an  ill  knack  of  wrenchine  a  pro- 
tnink  that  pleasant  monosyllabic  an-    found  or  romanUc  passage  from  its 
pellation  is  a  species  of  short-hand  for    original  beauty  and  meaning,  and  of 
Kind-heartedness),  is  the  life,  delight,    applying  it  to  some  unlucky  and  lu-> 
and    perplexity    of  the   household;    dicrouscircumstance,  to  the  utter  dis- 
— spirited,   volatUe,    effervescing  in    may  of  his  elder  and  more  inspired 
health,  and  twenty  years  of  age ;  he    sister.    She  looks  upon  him  with  her 
is  at  once  the  source  of  mirth,  afiec-    tragic  eyes,  a  look  of  learned  remon- 
tion,  and  disorder.    When  you  enter    strance;  and  he  receives  her  rebuke 
the  house  he,  like  Latimer's  peculiar    with  a  burst  of  triumphant  laiighter, 
bishop,  "  is  never  idle ; "  either  the    which  sinks  him  only  deeper  in  Miss 
foil  is  in  his  hand,  and  he  is  pinking    Prudence's  displeasure.    To  Agnes, 
away  at  an  old  port  rait  of  a  great  great    Tom  is  all  that  is  respectful,  gentle, 
imcle,  whose  canvas  countenance  he    and  sincere,  recognizing  her  imob- 
has  already  converted  into  a  frightful    trusive  manner  and  exquisite  softness 
rival  of  the  nutmeg-grater ;  or  with    of  heart  with  all  the  generous  and 
muffles  on  his  knuckles,  he  is  dipping    sensitive  regard  of  his  nature.    The 
away  scientifically  at  the  day-UMs    aficctations  and  enormities  of  Pru- 
of  a  pier  glass,  or  getting  consider-    dence  sit  uneasily  upon  him ;  but  the 
ably  the  best  of  a  comer-cupboard,    pretty  manners  and  engaging  looks 
One  while  you  shall  leave  him  reading    of  Agnes  disarm  his  ridicule  and  tame 
one  of  Plutarch's  lives,  or  burying  his    his  heedlessness.  Mrs.  Morton  is  con- 
brain  in  the  dark  soil  of  Bishop  An-    tinually  annoyed  at  the  follies  and 
drewes'  Divinity ;  but  leave  the  room    bursts  of  rash  gaiety  in  Tom,  but  her 
for  ten  minutes,  and  you  will  find    inimitable  discernment  into  character 
him  on  your  return  trying  the  latest    makes  her  perceive  a  virtue  under  all, 
quadrille  with  six  chairs  and  a  plate    which  will  yet  surmount  its  present 
warmer;  or  exercising  his  legal  powers    impediments.   Pnidence,  with  all  her 
of  oratory,  and  convincing  a  green    temporary  afflictions,   sets  a  proper 
baize   table   of  the  strength  of  his    vahie  upon  his  services  at  theatres 
talents  and  his  hand,  and  the  inveter-    and  parties, — Agnes  loves  him  for  his 
ate  justice  of  his  cause.    He  has  a    marked  and  unceasing  gentleness  and 


532                                           Greenwich  Hospital.  Dff^» 

affection,— ^andoldMr.  Morton  silently  for  the  leamin^^  elo(luence>  and-cUff* 

delights  to  sec  how  fine  spirited  a  lad  cemment  she  displayed  in  her  accouQt 

Tom  is^  and  though  often  worn  with  of  it.     Mr.  Morton  was  not  present, 

his  noisy  mirth^  and  suffering  in  his  as  he  did  not  think  that  the  pleasure 

furniture  from  Tom's  turbulent  ex-  compensated  for  the  danger  of  at^ 

ercises,  still  he  never  fails  to  take  a  tempting  to  be  there;  but  he  cheer- 

pride  in  the  hoj,  and  to  say  ''  Aye,  fully  used  his  hiterest  and  his  purs^  in 

aye,  let  him  be  young — we  were  all  procuring  tickets  "  for  the  girb,*'  and 

young  ourselves,  and  have  all  had  our  listened,  and  still  listens,    with  one 

troublesome  days.   I  myself,  (he  will  of  his  own  quiet  smUes,  to  the  un- 

aometimes  continue,  to  the  regular  ravelling  of  the  brilliant  and  tangXcsd 

astonishment  of  Agnes)  I  myself  was  threads  of  the  subject,  so  persever- 

once  dangerous  to  the  glaisses,  and  ingly  taken  in  hand  by  the  rest  of  hiS' 

had  my  boisterous  propensities.  Tom  family. 

is  a  kind  nephew."  And  Tom  if  kind.  We  were  all  sitting  ooe  afleniooD 

He  is  kind  even  to  me,  Russell,  who  over  our  fruit, — sippmg  it  might  be 

sometimes  venture  to  sift  advice  over  a  temperate  glass  of  Mr.  Morton's 

his  fleeting  failings :  and  his  readi-  particular,  which  leapt  into  the  glass 

ness  to  fly  itny  where  in  my  service,  "  with  all  its  sun-set  glow/'  ever  at 

or  accompany  me  on  any  of  my  ex-  the  same  interval,  and  ever  in  the 

travagant  wanderings,  is  so  lively  and  same  moderate  quantities;  our  dis- 

pleasurable,  that  I  should  hate  my«  course  was  at  its  meridian,  and  we 

self  if  I  thought  I  had  written  one  word  sat  basking  in  the  warmth  of  bright 

which  woidd  in  reality  prejudice  his  talk,  and  could  have  been  satisfied  to 

frank  character  in  your  eyes. — There,  have  ever  so  sunned  ourselves.    Mrs. 

I  have  given  you  a  picture  of  the  Morton  was  in  the  full  plumage  of 

Mortons,  and  it  is  not    '^  done  in  wisdom,  — Miss  Prudence  had  laid 

little,"  I  think,   but    manufactured  aside  those  two  dilating  eyes,  so  wont 

after  the  style  of  poor  Dr.  Primrose's  to  expand  over  a  whole  company, — 

family  ffroup,— huge,  awkward,  and  Agnes  sat  with  her  little  white  band 

unsatisfactory.    Tell  me,  when  you  in  Mr.  Morton's,  and  smoothing  with 

write  to  me,  whether  you  detect  in  the  other  the  scanty  silken  hair  which 

my  poor  language  Mr.  Morton  from  scarcely  shadowed  his  forehead.  Tom 

Mrs.  Morton,  or  Tom  from  Agnes.   I  was  cutting  out  an  orange  into  a  sick 

own  I  pique  myself  on  Prudence.  alderman,  and  finding  in  his  labours 

Many  of  my  days,  my  dear  Russell,  their  own  exceeding  great  reward  ;. 

are  passed,  as  you  will  readily  con-  for  he  could  procure  no  one  to  eulo* 

jecture,  in  the  society  of  this  excellent  gize    his  sculpture  in  fruitage— ^all 

familv ;  and  one  or  other  of  them  ge-  present  having  often    been   treated 

nerall^  accompanies  me  on  my  excur-  with  a  sight  of  the  same  specimen  of 

sions  m  search  of  the  picturesque,  as  the  ideal  in  art     I  had  my  forefin-^ 

it  may  be  called,  of  this  mighty  city,  ger  of  my  right  hand  pertinaciously 

At  evening,  we  discuss  the  wonders  hooked  round  the  stem  of  my  glass, 

we  have  seen^  and  many  and  various  in  which  bloomed  that  purple  TOwer 

are  the  observations  we  make — each  which  I  have  gathered  ever  since  I 

admiring,   or   severely    commenting  was  no  higher  than  a  wine  glass. 

upon,  the  events  of  the  dav,  after  his  We  were  all  peculiarly  happy,  altera 

or  her  own  peculiar  turn  of  mind.     I  nately  talking,  alternately  listening,— ^ 

remember  the  Coronation  was  food  for  when  the  perfect   blue  of  the  sky, 

many  candle-light  hours,  for  though  and  the  intense  lustre  of  the  sun,  car- 

I  then  was  not  so  familiar  with  £e  ried  our  thoughts  to  the  coimtry,  and 

Mortons,  I  saw  them,  and  spoke  to  I  know  not  how  it  was  that  they 

them,  at  that  august  ceremony.  Mrs.  travelled  to  Greenwich.    One  igno- 

Morton  described  the  felicitous  effect  rant  question  of  mine  led  on  to  one 

of  the  grouping  and  the  colour  of  the  sweet  remembrance  of  the  ladies,  and 

scene,  and  thus  opened  to  me  the  another,  another— and  my  mind  be- 

mystery  of  the  beauty  that  delighted  came  excited  in  the  narration  I  heard 

me;  and  I  will  say,  that  if  I  have  been  — and  curiosity  led  to  uttered  de- 

at  all  successful   in  describing  any  sires— and  desires  grew  to  projected 

part  of  that  magnificent  procession,  realizations,    till  in   due   course  of 

itistoMrs.  Morton  that  I  am  indebted  scheming,    we  arrived  at  a  deter-> 


|g8i.]]                                     Ch-eenwick  ffogpitoL  #93 

mination  to  visit  Greenwich  Hospital  rejoiced  in  the  fineness  of  our  dav-> 

on  the  following  day.    Mrs.  Morton  and  begged  me  to  admire  particularly 

would  fain  have  gone  that  very  after-  Sir  James  Thornhill's  paintings  at 

noon,  that  her  best  half  (in  her  esti-  Greenwich  Hospital^  .which  he  re- 

nation)  might  partake  of  the  plea-  membered  were  very  blue  and  very 

sure;  but  Mr.  Morton  protested  a-  beautiful;    and   he    then  w(widered 

gainst  it,  declaring  tl^at  he  had  seen  whether    this   Sir   James  Thomhill 

ie  building  many  years  ago>  and  was  any  relation  of  the  Baronet  iu 

that  the  evening  damps  were  much  the  Vicar  of  Wakefield^  for  he  never 

against  the  joufn^y  home.    The  visit  lost  the  impression^  made  in .  youth^ 

accordingly  was  postponed  until  the  that  this  tale  was  a  true  one,  and 

morrow ;  and  the  evening  inibsided  t^at  all  its  characters  had  lived  prer 

into  a  quiet  tea,  and  a  patient  rubber^  ijsely  as  Goldsmith  has  so  exquir 

in  the  course  of  which  I  led  a  small  aitely    described  them.     Wlien  we 

diamond  that  forced  Mr.  Morton's  w^re  all  assembled  at  the  breakfast 

king  of  trumps^  and  crowned   my  table.  Prudence  broke,  the  ice  of  an 

misfortune    by    omitting    to    lead  aoology,  by  hunting  that  she  doubtr 

through  the  honour,  which  lost  us  the  ea  whether  the  dav  "  would  last ;  V 

fame,  and  which  abducted  from  Mr.  and,  indeed,  that  she  took  no  pecu- 
lorton  a  kindly  and  monitory  moaur  liar  delight  in  seeing  a  great  old  build- 
ing, till  I  left  the  house  for  the  ing„  full  of  lame  uncultivated  old 
night.    But  on  shaking  my  hand  at  men;  and  that,  indeed,  she  expected 

parting,  he  told  me  that  he  believed     Miss would  call  with  the  lines ; 

we  coidd  not  have  won  the  game ;  and,  indeed,  that  she  coiUd  not  alto- 

and  he  begged  I  would  not  think  gether  think  herself  well,  for  she  had 

more  about  it,  although  indeed  any  neard  the  clock  strike  two,  and  could 

card  would  have  been   better  than  not  see  very  clearly  with  her  eyes  in 

the  diamond.  the   morning,    giving    thf  m   at  the 

I  wish  I  could  begin  this  para*  same   moment  a  profound  roll,  as 

graph  with  the  explosion  of  some  though  they  were  revolving  like  8a«> 

aucn  eloquent  gun  as  commences  the  tellites  around  her  head,  to  convince 

deep  tragedy  in  the  Critic ;  and  thus  us  that  her  sight  was  a^ected.    Mrs. 

convey  to  you  a  perfect  and  an  in-  Morton,  foreseeing  no  great  advan^* 

atantaneous  idea  of  the  rich  ''  saf-  tage  from  Miss  rrudence's  society 

£ron  morning,"    without    the  usual  under  ber  then  state  of  mind,  very 

flourish  of  sim  and  clouds,  and  all  wisely  begged  her  not  to  think  c£ 

the  established  finery  of  blue  firma-  venturing  in  so  dire  a  state  of  health ; 

ment,  and  ''  gilding  the  eastern  he-  and  Miss  Prudence,  with  a  aigh  that 

misphere,"    and  singing   birds    and  seemed  *'  to  shatter  all  her  bulk,  and 

fresh  zephyrs ;  but  I  have  no  way  end  her  being,"  consented  to  give  up 

of   breaking   all  this  splendour   to  the  pleasure  of  Mr.  Herbert's  com- 

you,  Russell,  without  having  recourse  pany,  with  tlie  same  species  of  re- 

to  these   popular  terms:    you.  will  luctance  that  Richard  displayed  to 

therefore  have  the  kindness  to  ima*  receive  the  crown  at  the  hands  of 

gine  one  of  the  brightest  .days  that  the  pertinacious  Lord  Mayor.   Agnes 

ever  shone  in  the  first  chapter  of  a  looked  pale,  and  was  evidently  af« 

novel,  and  you  will  approach  within  fected  with  a  head  ache,  though  she 

thirty    degrees    of    that    admirable  made  no  complaints,  and  was  anxious 

morning  on  which  it  was  our  fate  to  to  assure  us  that  it  would  be  rer 

visit  Greenwich  Hospital.   Qur  com«  moved  by  the  ride  and  the  fresh  air. 

Dany  fell  off  rather  m  the  morning.  Tom  would  have  accompanied  us, 

Mr.  Morton,  as  usual,  came  down  to  but  he  had  some  other  engagement, 

breakfast    (I    was  invited    to    that  which  I  guessed^  by  his  shrewd  winks 

meal,  and  was  punctual)  in  his  easy  and  nods,  was  not  of  that  order  that, 

slippers,  but  otlierwise  neatly  armed  in  the  opinion  of  ladies,  ought  to  su- 

in  cleanliness   for  his    City  duties,  persede  a  visit  to  so  noble  a  building 

He  shook  my  hand,  and  slightly  re^  as  Greenwich  Hospital.    He  wished 

curred  to  our  misfortunes  we  night  he  could  make  one  with  Herbert,  but 

before  by  hoping  that  I  had  thought  (squaring  with  his  clenched  hands, 

no  more  of  the  diamond,  as  it  was  and   scientifically    touching   at    the 

really  not  worth  caring  about    He  tea-urn)  he    had  business  in  hand 

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^4  Grunvokh  Hospital.  [^Norv 

that  must  be  taken  by  the  forelock,  road  out  of  London^  that  public 
He  took  tOi  opportunity,  while  the  houses, in  proportion  toother  houses^ 
ladies  were  gone  up  to  attire,  to  let  are  as  about  four  to  one— extrava- 
me  into  the  secret  of  "  a  bull  bait  gant  odds !  as  Tom  would  say. 
down  the  Edgeware  Road,  near  the  How  shall  I  give  you  an  idea  of 
four  mile  slab^"  which  would  be  the  beauty  of  the  far-famed  Hospital 
worth  whole  pailfuls  of  pensioners,  of  Greenwich,  rising  with  its  ijair 
and  he  was  desirous  of  fleshing  a  domes  and  stately  walls,  by  the  side 
young  ring-tailed  and  tulip-eared  of  one  of  the  noblest  rivers  in  Eu- 
puppy,  of  which  he  had  the  most  rope  ? — In  no  way,  I  fear,  save  by 
extravagant  expectations ;  not  but  sending  you  the  '*  perspective  riew^ 
that  I  should  be  entertained  where  sold  by  the  boatswain  m  the  painted 
I  was  going.  In  less  than  a  quarter  Hall,  done  in  a  very  masterly  man- 
of  an  hour  from  the  period  of  tnis  as-  ner  by  some  one,  if  I  recollect  ri^t- 
surance  our  breakfast  party  had  se-  ly,  connected  with  the  Hospital.  The 
parated;  Mrs.  Morton,  Agnes,  and  beautiful  park  rises  grandly  on  the 
myself,  were  seated  in  the  carriage,  larboard  side  of  the  building,  to 
rattling  through  the  stony-hearted  speak  professionally,  and  seems  to 
streets.  Mr.  Morton  was  steadily  protect  it  from  all  rude  storms,  and 
walking  towards  his  counting-house,  tempests ;  as  it,  in  tiun,  shields  its 
with  a  placid  heart,  and  an  umbrella  old  glorious  inmates  from  the  blasts 
under  his  arm,  (for  he  never  was  be-  and  billows  of  the  world.  There  are 
trayed  by  a  fine  morning  into  an  a-  four  divisions,  all  stately  and  ma- 
batement  of  this  salutary  provision  jestic ;  and  the  court  yards  and 
against  the  malice  of  the  clouds),  kingly  statue  speak,  like  an  English 
Miss  Prudence  had  arranged  herself  history,  of  the  reign  of  George  the 
over  a  volume  of  Wordsworth,  and  Second.  The  very  dress  of  the  pen- 
a  lace-fnll,  and  sat  like  Lydia  Lan-  sioner  appears  a  sober  record  of  the 
guish  over  the  tears  of  sensibility,  fashion  of  that  day,  and  removes  the 
ready  for  any  one  that  should  come :  wearer  from  the  modem  manners  and 
while  Tom,  with  a  blue  neckerchief,  look  of  the  foolish  mankuid  of  this 
and  a  white  hat,  was  shaking  his  round-hatted  generation.  Every  old 
way  down  the  Edgeware  Road,  in  sailor  appears  coeval  with  the  loun- 
the  taxed  cart  of  one  of  the  cognos-  dation  of  the  charity,  and  walks  the 
centi,  discussing  the  breed  of  pied  deck  of  the  buildnig  under  his  three 
and  brindled,  and  sitting  with  his  two  cornered  beaver,  more  like  a  formal 
hands  round  the  lugs  of  his  little  tu-  gentleman  out  of  one  of  Sir  James 
lip-eared  puppy,  which  sat  up  in  Thomhill's  pictures,  than  the  living 
restless  state  between  his  legs.  hulk  of  a  man  of  war,  laid  up  in  the 
I  shall  not  detain  you,  RusseU,  blessed  harbour  of  his  country.  All 
over  the  common  adventures  of  the  the  arrangements  of  this  admirable 
road;  you  will  know  that  the  prin-  charity  are  so  well  ordered  that  the 
cipal  incidents  were  the  paying  of  sailor  has  his  life  embalmed  in  com- 
turnpikes,  a  tax  which  those  who  fort,  and  preserved  as  much  in  its 
prize  smooth  roads  and  easy  riding  original  shape  and  appearance  as 
seldom  think  an  evil.  We  passed  possible.  The  watches  are  set — the 
Charing  Cross,  a  part  of  the  world  food  is  portioned  out— the  cooks  are 
that  edaoes  the  word  *'  Greenwich"  of  the  crew — the  lieutenants  pre- 
imceasingly,  and  is  kuidly  sending  side — the  bed-rooms  are  like  cabins 
coaches  there  every  quarter  of  an  —the  wainscotting  is  of  oak — the 
hour  of  the  day.  We  passed  over  very  cloth  of  the  dress  is  blue.  It 
Westminster  Bridge — we  passed  Ast-  is  life  in  a  stone  ship, — on  an  untrou- 
ley's  Theatre— we  passed  the  Asylum  bled  sea, — with  no  end  to  fresh  meat 
— we  passed  the  Elephant  and  Castle  and  water, — a  naval  romance  !  There 
—we  passed  the  Bricklayer's  Arras  is  no  more  to  do  than  to  take  care  of 
—we  passed  the  Robin  Hood — we  their  munificent  vessel;  and  I  will 
passed  the  Canal — the  Three  Com-  do  them  the  justice  to  say,  that  they 
passes— the  Seven  Stars — all  build-  are  ever  washing  the  decks.  You 
ings  and  places  very  utiinterestlng  to  can  hardly  go  over  the  rooms  with- 
you,  excepting  so  kut  as  they  show,  out  finding  one  man  at  his  Bible- 
being  the  leading  objects  of  a  given  another   at    a  sea  voyage—  another 


1 WIO  *  Gmk^Mi  HoipUd.  6H 

looking  through  a  teiescope  at  ths  a  Dutch  vesBel^ — the  arrowy  Courseof 

vessels  in  the  river :  they  are  a  silent^  a  wherry^ — are  all  beheld  and  thought 

contemplative  race,  made  so,  it  may  over  with  an  unchangeable  profun- 

be^  by  the  eternal  and  higher  noise  of  dity  and  a  deathless  silence.    It  ap- 

the  sea,  which  has  unfitted  them  for  pears  to  me  that  words  are  of  no 

the  lighter  voices  of  their  kind.    But  use  by  the  water  side.     The  only 

from  this  general  character  for  re-  object  that  calls  up  an  extraordinary 

serve  and  retirement  let  me  exempt  expression  of  surprise  or  distaste  on 

honest  Master  Ball,  as  comely  a  man  the  mahogany  line  of  visages  along 

as  ever  wore  checked  shirt, — as  con-  the  railing,  is  the  aquatic  innova- 

versational  a  man  as  ever  piped  all  tion  of  a  steam-boat ; — that  elevates 

hands, — as  cheerful  a  man  as  ever  the  bristles  of  twenty  or  thirty  pair 

brake  biscuit,  or  damped  a  tobacco-  of  rugged  old  eyebrows,  and  crum- 

tinted  tooth  with  a  tumbler  of  cold  pies  up  so  many  dark  brown  cheeks 

frog.  He  is,  if  I  mistake  not,  the  till  they  look  like  a  row  of  bifiens. — 
oatswain  of  one  of  the  long  rooms.  But  not  a  word  passes.  The  long — 
and  sits  there  as  jolly  as  though  he  rapid — smoking  machine  goes  rat- 
should  never  be  old ;  smiling  on  all  tling  by,  convulsing  the  xvrer,  and 
comers,  and  looking  over  two  shining  agitating  the  lesser  craft : — but  much 
bronzed  cheeks  with  the  most  easy  as  it  onends  the  eyes  of  the  oldest 
and  winning  assurance  in  the  world,  sailors,  it  is  passed  and  passes  in  a 
Mrs.  Morton  well  remarked,  that  he  dignified  silence.  I  was  much  amuB« 
looked  as  if  he  would  give  sickness  ed,  and  nudged  m^  good  friends  on 
no  more  quarter  than  the  enemy.  His  each  side  to  share  m  my  amusement, 
forehead  shone  insufferably  bright,  by  watching  one  hale  old  man,  with 
and  quite  dazzled  the  eyes  of  the  a  peculiar  and  shrewd  cock  of  his  tri<- 
beholder ;  and  his  hands  were  cross-  cornered  beaver,  probing,  with  his 
ed  over  the  lower  button  of  his  gimlet  eye,  the  rusty  hole  in  the  bot- 
waistcoat,  which  fastened  as  convex  tom  of  a  worn-out  skiff.  He  stood 
a  little  garment  as  ever  bent  round  a  sideways,  peering  into  it  with  all  the 
comfortable  body.  Agnes  thought  sagacity  ol  the  n^agpie's  marrowbone 
the  forehead  was  like  that  of  Mr.  survey — now  ogling  it  on  this  side- 
Morton  ;  but  we  all  negatived  her  now  contemplating  it  on  that, — and 
opinion,  and  left  her  to  the  solitary  appearing  to  see  in  it  something  far 
possession  of  it ;  which,  however,  deeper  than  our  poor  optics  could  dis- 
woman-like,  she  tenaciously  held.  cem.  He  looked  closer  and  closer. 
But  I  know  not  how  it  is,  I  am  and  twined  his  glossy  antiquated 
getting  out  of  order,  and  am  de-  fingers  upon  the  small  of  his  back,— 
scribing  a  character  with  which,  at  and  pursed  his  uuder  lip, — and  gave 
present,  I  have  clearly  no  business.  his  head  a  more  intense  twist—  till  1 
The  terrace  that  runs  along  the  really  thought  the  hole  might  not  be 
whole  range  of  the  biulcUng,  between  a  mere  hole,  and^  that  I  ought  not, 
it  and  the  water,  is  pleasantly  si-  as  Mr.  Puff  says,  to  be  *'  too  sure 
tuated,  but,  as  it  does  not  much  that  he  was  a  beef-eater."  Five  mi^* 
abound  with  pensioners,  it  is  by  no  nutes  elapsed,  but  the  inquisition  was 
means  a  strikmg  attraction  in  my  not  oyer; — indeed,  it  deepened  and 
eyes.  But  in  the  walk  below  it,  at  deepened,  and  just  as  I  was  satisfied 
the  edge  of  the  water,  narrow,  incon-  the  scrutiny  was  ripening  to  a  pur* 
venient,  and  throning  with  water-  pose,  and  that  the  old  pan  was  ar* 
men,  sailors,  and  other  bronzed  men, —  riving  at  his  conclusion,  he  suddenly 
we  fidl  delighted  to  walk.  There  do  the  dispersed  all  our  expectations  by 
maimed  and  weather-tried  tenants  of  loosening  his  hands,  giving  the  silver 
the  place  saunter  out  their  indolent  buckle  of  his  right  leg  an  easy  eleva- 
and  late  holiday  of  existence.  There  tion  into  the  sun,  and,  whistling  off 
do  they  sit  for  hours,  like  Crabbe's  the  last  notes  of  some  ricketty  tune, 
Peter  Ghrimes,  but  without  his  crimes,  he  left  us  with  an  empty  stare  at  our- 
looking  upon  the  flood.  There  do  selves,  the  building,  and  the  river* 
they  lean, — there  stand, — tliere  re-  And  this  is,  with  these  charming  old 
cline, — there  sidle  about.  The  pass-  men,  an  incident — a  sample  of  life, 
ing  of  a  packet, — ^the  slow  drifting  of  a  Thus  do  they  dweU,  thus  exist  in  do- 
xnerchantman, — the  heavy  slumber  of   ing  nothing  with  more  industrious 

SQ8 


^a  .                                     Gneiwich  Hoqnial.  [[Nor. 

exactness  than  any  other  kind  of  idlers  remarks^  well  dieeccribed  by  Sir  Rldi. 

in  the  world.  Steele.    And  as  his  language  csnnot 

By  the  kindness  of  one  of  Mr.  Mor-  fail   to   be  more   satisfactory   than 

ton's  friends^  who  holds  some  place  "  any  thing  that  I  can  say  upon  it," 

of  trust  in  the  Hospital>wewere  con-  I    have    borrowed    an  old   copy  oC 

ducted  to  the  chapel^  one  of  the  roost  that  dull  essayist^  and  transcribe  lor 

beautiful  places  ot  worship  I  ever  be-  you  part  of  the  passage^  as  folio  wa  :'— 

held,    but    possessing,  perhaps,   too  j^  the  middle  of  the  ceiling  is  a  v«t 

much  of  architectural  splendour  for  i^^  ^val  frame,  painted  aaS  carved  in 

the  sincerity  and   serenity  of  devo-  imitation  of  g<^d^  with  a  great  thkteen 

tion.  It  had  not  the  unobtrusive  quiet  rising  in  the  inside  to  throw  up  the  fignici 

of  the  little  Oratory  of  Warwick  Cas-  to  the  greater  height ;  the  oval  » 


tie:    but  the  gothic  style  is  to  my  to  a  great  soffite  adorned  with  loaea,  in 

feeUngs  always  more  associated  with  imitation  of  copper.   The  whole  itaoppoft- 

the  sacred  earnestness  of  prayer.     A  ed  by  eight  gigantic  figures  of  slaves,  four 

steady,  sober  pensioner,  with  a  white  on  each  side,  as  though  they  were  carved  in 

willow  wand  in  his  hand,  marshalled  **°*^®* 

us  up  to  the  extreme  end  of  the  inte-  ••••••        » 

nor,  and  pointing  to  a  huge  painting        Each  end  of  the  ceiling  is  raised  in  per- 

by  West,  over  the  communion  table,  "Pective,  with  a  balustrade  and  dliodc  ar- 

began  his  daHy  labour    of    descrip-  ch«,  supported  by  groups  of  stone  figuns, 

tion.    The  Preservation  of  St  Paul  ^^^  ^^  \«^J^  °f, j^  !?^».-5r^ 

p        eu*  1  i.  u       u  1  of  the  hall ;  m  the  middle  of  whidi  ou- 

from  Shipwreck  must  be  abrave  sub-  j      ^^  ^  '  ^^  ^^  ^^  ^,^,^    ^^^^  ^ 

ject  for  an  old  sador  to  enlarge  upon ;  the  upper  hafi,  is  seen,  in  perspSod^  die 

and  accordingly,  our  guide  lifted  up  tafferm  of  the  Blenheim  man-of-wa.,  with 

his  voice  and  spake.     He  pointed  out  all  her  galleries,  port-holes  open,  Ac,  ts 

the  mariners, — the  sea, — the  vessel ;  one  side  of  which  u  a  figure  rf  Vidary  fiy- 

and  nothing  that  I  can  say  will  afford  ing,  with  spoils  taken  from  the  enemy, 

you  an  idea  of  the  deep  rugged  vi-  snd  putting  them  on  board  the  JBngiirii 

gour  of  his  voice.     When  he  came  to  man-of-war.    Before  the  ships  is  a  %ne 

a  word  wiUi  an  R  in  it,— it  rattied  in  representing  the  dty  of  London,  with  die 

his  moutii  like  a  loose  sail  in  a  stifiT  anns,  sword,  and  capof  mamtenance,  ly- 

Wmd;  and  his  laborious  expulsion  of  P^'^  .^^  Thwoe  and  Isis,  withtibe  ote 

•ound  resembled   tiie    exertions  at-  T     .r'"  ^"^  "^  ^ft^ST^  2 

•t/uiiu.  ««;a^iuv/j«^    ^^    v^*..  Mwiio   av  j^^    ^^  ^^^  Tvue  Dourmg  forth  sada  a 

tendant  upon  workmff  a  boat  agwnst  ,^^    In  the  giery,  on^ch  side  of  die 

a  heavy  sea.  He  resolutely  adhered  to  odp,  are  the  Arts  and  Sciences  that  idaie 

his  own  mode  of  pronunciation,  which  to  Navigation,  with  the  great  Aichmedes, 

made  good  havoc  with  many  stout  many  old  philosophen  consulting  tlie  oom- 

words,  that  had  stood  the  storms  of  pass,  &c. 

other  tongues ; — but  so  like  the  mo-  At  the  other  end,  as  you  letum  out  of 
notonous  tones  of  the  sea  was  this  *he  Hall,  is  a  gallery  in  the  same  manner, 
his  delivery  of  sound,  that  I  coidd  »°  ^«  middle  of  which  b  a  stem  of  a  bean- 
have  closed  my  eyes  and  fancied  my-  ^  galley  filled  wiA  Spanish    trophka; 

self  sitting  near  tiie  mainmast,  witii  "?f «  ""^J^^  *^  ".^^  "^^  ^,Ef 
aU  the  world  of  ropes  and  booms  ?V^'  the  Severn  with  the  Avon  fidhng 
!_•  J  xli-  *^  J  ri,L  mto  her.  With  other  lesser  nvers.  In  die 
creaking  and  rattiiug  aromid  me.  The  ^^^h  end  of  the  gallery  in  the  famous  Tyrho 
picture  IS  a  clever  picture,  but  it  has  Brahe,  that  noble  Danish  knight,  and  gic^ 
all  the  hardness  and  stittness  peculiar  ornament  of  his  profesaon  and  human  na- 
to  West.  The  pulpit  is  not  at  all  ture.  Near  him  is  CJopemicus,  with  hii  In- 
tuited to  the  purity  of  the  chapel,  thagorean  system  in  lus  hand  :  next  to  ban 
The  celling  is  extremely  rich.  At  is  an  old  mathematician,  holding  a  latge 
the  entrance  there  is  an  inner  portico  table,  and  on  it  are  described  two  principal 
supported  on  beautiful  columns  of  %««»  o^  die  incomparable  Sir  Isaac  New- 
white  marble,  which  caught  tiie  heart  *?"'  ^^^  ^^<^  many  extiaoidinary  thi^  m 

of  Agnes,  and  was  not  displeasing  to  ^f,  ^  f*,^^^  .?''^\S^  *^  m 

♦k^^««™   «„«-    «r   1,^-   -  ^*   «    1  Rallery,  to  the  south,  is  the  learned  Mr. 

tiie  severer  eyes   of  her  aunt  and  gj^^;^^  R^g.  Ast;>n.  Pmfes..,  with  Ms 

W    T»  .  .   1  T»  11  r  ,       t        .  ingenious  disciple,  Mr.  T.  Weston.  In  Mr. 

The  Painted  Hall  faces  tiie  chapel,  J^stead's  hand  is  a  huge  acmll  of  poer, 

and  IS,  to  be  sure,  sufficientiy  snleii-  on  which  is  drawn  the  great  edipae  of  dit 

did:— the  ct^Uin^  is,  as  a  very  clever  Sun  that  happened  m  April,  1 716;  near 

Jittie  account  ot  Greenwich  Hospital  him  is  an  old  man  with  a  pendulnm. 


IgSl.]]                                   GreiHwich  HoipUaL  537 

ing  the  woonds  of  time,  u  Mr.  Flamstead  its  last  and  eternal  cabinet  and  how 

makes  his  obaervadoos,   with   his   ^est  glorious  was  the  wood  of  which  it 

mural  arch  and  tube,  on  the  descent  ot  the  was  constructed,  it  is  affecting  little 

3Ioon  on  the  Severn;  which  at  certain  to   say  that  it  inspires  gentle,   and 

times  forms  such  a  roll  of  the  tides,  as  the  proud,  and  melancholy  thoughts, 

sailors  corruptly  call  the  Hygrc,  instead  of  yj^g  kitchen,  and  the  dinner  room, 

the  IW,   and  b  ycrjr  dangerous  to  iffl  ^itiithekhomelyfumiture  and  pease- 

•^'^^I'^r^'Z^w*^^^/^*!^  soup  atmosphere,  are  refreshmg  to  be- 

nvers  tumwinir  down,  or  the  moon  s  miiu-  ,    ,r           •!   i           u             *    ii        i 

cnce,  into  ti^Serem.    In  this  gallery  ai«  ^^^>  V^ovid^  you  have  not  allayed 

mc^;  aits  and  sciences  lelating  to  Naviga.  the  cravings  of  your  appetite ;  and 

(j0Q^  the  cleauhness  observable  around  is 

the  pleasantest  provocative  of  hunger 
Mr.  Flamstead  looks  down,  with  his  in  the  world.  When  we  passed 
ingenious  disciple,  in  a  way  to  awe  through  these  rooms,  the  scouring 
all  sublunary  objects.  The  mixture  was  going  on,  and  there  was  a  tho« 
of  gods,  rivers,  virtues,  fame,  king,  rough  sloppmess  apparent  over  every- 
queen,  and  TychoBrahe,  is  sufficient-  thing.  The  bread-room  had  a  de- 
ly  various  to  hit  the  taste  of  the  most  Ughuul  wheaten  odour,  which  took 
dainty  admirer  of  variety.  I  do  not,  my  senses  mightily.  Aj^cs,  as  she 
however,  see  in  this  description  any  peeped  with  her  pretty  face  through 
account  of  the  portrait  of  the  first  the  grating  at  the  imprisoned  loaves, 
pensioner,  the  original  man  of  blue,  heaved  a  sigh  as  though  she  pitied 
the  Adam  of  Greenwich  Hospital,  the  confinement  of  even  a  half^quar-' 
whom  death  turned  out  of  his  water*  tern  /—so  much  like  a  prison  did  this 
side  Paradise :— I  see  no  mention  of  huge  pantry  look,  aiid  so  ready  was 
him,  although  the  little  stunted  boat-  her  pity  for  any  thing  that  reminded 
swain  pointed  him  out  in  the  c^ing,  her  of  a  prison, 
and  dared  us  to  get  to  any  part  of  the  We  took  a  survey  of  the  rooms,  in 
hall  without  encountering  the  eyes  of  which  were  the  little  cabins  of  this 
this  seaman  in  the  shrouds.  I  think,  happy  crew,  all  as  smart  and  neat  as 
however,  in  spite  of  this,  that  he  was  the  peaceful  hearts  and  golden  leisure 
blind.  At  the  end  of  the  hall  are  the  of  tneir  tenants  could  make  thenv. 
portraits  of  George  I.  and  his  family.  Each  pensioner  appeared  to  have 
all  little  well-wigged  princes,  and  for*  brought  with  him  the  hammock  froni 
midable  princesses,  doubtless  very  his  favourite  vessel ;  and  the  clean  sir 
staring  likenesses.  Sir  James  Thorn*  lence  of  the  long  apartm^ts  seemed 
hill  figures  away  also  himself,  in  a  one  perpetual  sal)bath.  On  entering, 
^len£d  suit,  and  enclouded  in  a  wig  — there  sat  our  good  friend  Ball, 
of  inestimable  curl.  '^  The  whole  of  reading  near  the  wmdow,  with  his 
this  celebrated  work  was  not  com-  comely  blue  legs  crossed  placidly 
pleted  till  1727 ;  and  cost  6,63^  be-  over  each  other,  and  his  bn^ht  old 
jng  after  the  rate  of  8/.  per  yard  for  ^ yes  twinkling  with  a  roguish  joy 
the  ceiling,  and  1^  per  yard  for  the  peculiar  to  himself. '  He  did  not  rise 
sides."  This  appears  to  me,  Russell,  up,— neither  did  he  lay  aside  his  vo- 
to  be  very  cheap  workmanship,  and  lume — Robinson  Crusoe,  or  Philip 
might  well  be  adopted  by  private  fa-  Quarll  it  might  be, — but  he  looked 
milies.  The  sides  of  the  hall  have  re-  archly  upon  us,  and  answered  our 
presentations  of  fluted  columns,  which,  queries  with  an  honest  merriment  that 
as  the  boatswain  says,  "  you  would  made  me  wish  myself  an  old  bald- 
believe  were  carved ; — they  are  all  as  headed  sailor  of  some  sixty  years  of 
smooth  as  this  wall."  Mrs.  Morton  age,  sitting  in  a  long  room  at  Green- 
engraved  a  smile  upon  his  copper  vi-  wich  Hospital,  and  answering  three 
«age,  by  examining  closely,  and  very  inquisitive  visitors  without  a  care  as 

generously  still  professing  a  disbe-  to  what  queries  were  put  to  me.    The 

ef; — ^he  drew  his  willow  wand  across  little  cabms,  or  bed-rooms,  are  small, 

it,  winked  at  me,  and  re-assured  her  and  decked  after  the  taste  of  the  pro- 

that  it  was  ^'  nothing  but  pautted."  prietors : — ^here  you  shall  see  a  fiam- 

Lord  Nelson's  car  stands  in  one  cor-  mg  ship, — there  a  picture  of  Nelson, 

ner,  and  when  it  is  remembered  how  done  on  glass,  with  desperate  blue 

great  were  the  remains  which  it  bore,  coats,  and  alarming  yellow  breeches, 

through  a  grateful  weeping  people^  to  and  sold  by  those  foreign  pedlars  at 


tas                        LeUer  to  ComeUmg  Ftm  Fimkbooms,  Esq.  C^ot. 

a  priot  whioh  almost  persuades  one  tire  you   with   the  minute  details, 

that  they  must  have  stolen  the  co-  which  jou  will  read  in  the  agreeable 

kmrs^  or  pilfered  the  pictures  ready  and  intelligent  Uttle  pamphlet,  sold 

framed  and  glazed.  at  the  hospital  (a  copy  of  which  1 

We  were  shown  Jnto  some  of  the  now  send  you).— We  sauntered  into 
rooms  of  state,  and  were  hurried  the  park,  and  huried  ourselves  for 
fitmi  portrait  to  portrait  in  cruel  some  hours  in  the  green  solitude  of 
haste.  In  one  room  we  beheld  Cap-  that  solemn  and  peaceful  retreat, 
tain  Spearing,  the  marvellous  gentle-  The  rich  trees,  spreadhig  and  ming^ 
man  that  lived  seven  days  in  a  coal-  ling  their  ample  foliage^— the  soft  ver- 
pit  without  food,  and  afterwards  dure  of  the  grass — the  deep  and  sileiit 
married  and  had  nine  children,  as  he  dells — the  lofty  and  green  enuoences 
by  his  own  ingenious  and  entertain-  (commanding  a  view  of  the  mighty 
iug  narrative  avoucheth.  The  be-  city,  and  its  spacious  living  river), 
liei  among  the  ssdlors,  however,  is,  all  well  and  wondrously  contrasted 
that  a  Robhi  Redbreast  brought  him  with  the  scene  we  had  been  witness^ 
food,  but  I  do  not  altogether  side  ing,  and  disposed  our  hearts  to  feel 
with  the  pensioners  in  this  creed,  bnmmed  with  peace  and  grateful 
He  looked  so  well  and  neat  in  joy,  and  gently  to  marvel "  why  there 
his  light  flaxen  wig,  though  up-  was  misery  in  a  world  so  fair ! "  I 
wards  of  ninety,  as  I  was  told,  that  shall  never  forget  Mrs.  Morton's 
I  had  serious  thoughts  of  trying  a  voice,  musical  and  eloquent  in  that 
coal-pit  myself,  and  could  well  en-  blessed  place,  and  Agnes  letting  her 
dure  the  Robin  Redbreast's  victuals  sweet  nature  breathe  itself  in  un- 
to survive  so  well  and  flourish  so  restrained  freedom.  We  returned  to 
merrily.  town,  and  recoimted  to  Mr.  Morton, 

Age,    indeed,    in    this    matchless  late  into  the  uight,  the  wonders  we 

building,  is  as  verdant  and  pleasant  had  seen ! 

as  youUi  elsewhere.  You  see  white  Forgive  this  letter  of  fearful  length; 
hairs  in  every  direction — ^but  no  white  not  often  will  I  so  err ;  but  the  Mor« 
faces.  The  venerable  chaplain,  whom  tons  are  described,  and  you  will  not 
I  saw,  had  a  cheerful  vivacity,  and  have  that  description  to  undergo 
a  sprightly  vein  of  conversation,  quite  again.  Miss  Prudence  had  seen  Mr. 
captivathig  and  instructive;  and  I  — ,  the  tragedian,  and  was  pro- 
am  very  sincere  in  wishing,  Russell,  foundly  pensive : — Tom  was  tired  to 
that  you  and  I  could  have  a  cozey  death,  and  slept  in  his  chair  a  sort 
dish  of  tea  with  him,  and  a  long  chat  of  dog-sleep,  learned,  I  believe,  at 
over  the  early  governors  and  the  the  strife  he  had  been  witnessing.— 
golden  days  of  Greenwich  Hospital.  Farewell. — Love  to  all  the  Powells 

I  have  given  you,  my  good  friend,  — not  forgetting  yourself,    my  dear 

a  very  imperfect  and  hasty  sketch  of  Russell.             Y  our's  faithfully, 

|his  great  charity ;  but  I  would  not  Albant/,           Edward  H£&B£bt, 


LETTER  TO  CORNELIUS  VAN  VINKBOOMS,  ESQ. 

PN    THE    £ZET£a  EXHIBITION    OF    PAINTINGS. 

Exeter^  16  Oct.  1821. 

Dear  Mr.  Van  Vinkbooms,  city.  As  you  are  a  sort  of  foster* 
I  am  an  old  man  and  a  lover  of  father  to  the  fine  arts,  and  look  afler 
old  pictures,  and  I  take  the  privilege  the  sister  Muses  with  a  careful  and 
of  age  to  address  you  with  that  mark-  parental  eye,  I  am  quite  sure  that 
ed  affection  which  you  will  not  dis-  you  will  regard  any  advancement  of 
like,  when  you  know  that  I  read  your  their  influence  and  welfare  as  so 
dogmas  the  first  among  the  articles  much  achieved  by  your  constant  la- 
in the  London  Magazine,  and  that  hours  in  their  behalf;  and  I  therefore 
I  learn  enough  from  them  to  set  me  venture,  for  nearly  the  first  time  in 
^p  as  a  connossieur  in  this  westejn  my  life  (having  only  written  paperf 


18S1.3  On  (he  SmcUt  Sxkibitum  cf  Pahiimgw.  AS9 

on  political  eoonomy  in  a  oounti^  works;  but  let  me  not  undervalue 

newspaper^    which,    howeyer,  were  the  sanctioh  of  his  name  to  an  uiider- 

readify  inserted  on  my  merely  paying  taking  in  the  bud,  as  I  may  poetically 

the  common  price  of  an  advertise-  call  it.    Sir  Stafford  Nortncote    (a 

ment),  to  adoress  these  few  lines  to  relation  of  the  great  Northcote  the 

inform  you  that  Painting  hath  set  painter,  I  presume,)  indeed,  discou- 

her  blessed  foot    in  the  west-— that  raffed  the  attempt  at  first,  as  I  am 

she  is  rising  like  a  sun  in  this  quarter  informed, — ^but  on  seeing  that  others 

(which,  let  alone  its  not  being  the  thought   it  practicable,   he  begged 

east,  is  the  truest  and  most  apposite  that  one  of  his  pictures  might  be  in- 

fijTure  that  I  can  adopt).    The  mists  serted  in  the  room,  and  his  name  in 

of  ignorance  are  rolling  away  towards  the  catalogue.    There  appears  to  be 

the  distant  villages,  and  we  are  be-  a  cowardly  feeling  of  the  way,  and  not 

ginning  to  break  forth  with  a  splen-  a  march  at  once  to  success !  The  best 

dour  which  will  rival  the  proud  lustre  works^  indeed  I  may  say    almost 

of  Plymouth  ^the  birth-place  of  Sir  the  only  works  woru   seeing,   are 

JoshiuL  Reynolds  and  Eastlake)  and  from  the  collection  of  a  Mr.  W.  Ken* 

the  enlightened  glories  of  Birming-  dall, — ^a  worthy  and  intelligent  gentle- 

ham  (the  birth-place  of  no  one).  man  of  these  parts,  who  has  contri- 

It  has  long  been  considered,  dear  buted  with  a  Uberal  hand.    There 

Mr.  Cornelius,  a  desideratum,  or,  an-  are  a  few,  a  very  few,  fine  portraits,  by 

flice,   a  thing  to  be   desired,   that  Opie,  Northcote,  and  Owen; — ^par- 

Ixeter  should  add  to  its  agreeable  ticularly  one  of  Northcote's  own  fine 

theatre  (that  theatre  from  which  the  sensible  head ! — And  a  very  rich,  ripe, . 

great  Mr.  Kean  was  selected),  to  its  old  landscape,  A  Flemish  Revel,  oy 

public  assemblies,  and  its  archltec-  Ostade  and  Teniers  (worth  the  price 

tural  riches, — an  institution  for  the  of  admission  and  catalogue  in  itself), 

encouragement  of  the  fine  arts ;  and  which  I  look  at  again  and  again  with- 

at  length,  partly  by  the  exertions  of  out  tiring,  and  which  1  point  out  to 

a  respectable  tradesman  of  the  name  my  children  as  a  warm,  glowing,  fruit- 

of  Cole  (a  dealer  in  drawings  and  ful  specimen  of  the  old  masters.  You 

looking-glasses),  and  chiefly  by  the  will  be  glad  to  hear  that  the  fine  arts 

instantaneous  exertions  of  the  nobi-  (to  take  up  my  first  figure)  are  dawn- 

lity  and  gentry  of  Devon — such  an  ing  in  the  west — and  I  rejoice,  that  I 

institution  has  been  formed.    Appli-  am  one  of  the  first  to  announce  to 

cation  having  been  made  to  the  prin-  you    such    gratifying    intelligence, 

cipal  persons  of  wealth  and  taste  in  Pray  encoiurage  us,  Mr.  Van  Vink« 

the  county  for  the  loan  of  their  pictures,  booms !— Pray  tell  Mr.  Cole  that  he 

to  form  an  exhibition,  for  the  delight,  is  a  laudable  person— pray  impress 

glory,  and  instruction  of  the  inhabit-  upon    the    nobility    and    gentry    of 

ants  of  Exeter,  the  Earl  of  Morley,  Devon,  that  by  taking  a  lukewami 

Sir  Thomas  Ackland,  Lord  Clifford,  interest  in  this  important  work  they 

Mr.  Bielfield,  and  others,  with  a  most  are  letting  slip  an    opportunity   of 

praiseworthy  alacrity,  supplied  a  few  doing  a  great  service  to  their  county, 

of  their  paintings  towards  forwarding  Up  with  your  voice,  Mr.  Van  Vink- 

the  plan ;  and  with  many  disappoint-  booms,  up  with  it,  and  awaken  this 

ments,  and  under  considerable  dis-  slumbering  enthusiasm  of  Devonshire 

advantages,  a  small  and  interesting  men!    H^oo!  to  the  heart   of  Sir 

exhibition  has  been  opened.    I  my-  Thomas  Ackland !   Speak  aloud  into 

self  furnished  my  solitary  little  land-  the  ears  of  the  Earl  of  Egremont, 

scape,  leaving  a  great  yellow  stain  and  spare  not !    Thunder  into  the 

on  the  white  pannel  of  my  best  draw-  mind  of  Mr.  Dickenson  !   Call  out, 

ing-room,  to  bear  testimony  of  my  and  waken  to  the  watdi,  Mr.  W.  A. 

zeal  In  the  cause.    Certain  it  is,  Mr.  Harris !    The  sister  Muses  are  now 

Cornelius,  that  more  mifht  have  been  likely  to  obtain  a  seat  here;  and  I 

done ;  for  it  is  not  to  oe  supposed,  trust,  I  do  trust,  Mr.  Cornelius  will 

that  Sir  Thomas  Ackland's  best  pic-  give  them  his  vote,  which,  in  the  eleo« 

ture  is  the  faded  portrait  of  one  of  tion  for  fame,  is  aolumoer ! 
his  ancestors  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds;         {  am,  dear  Mr.  Van  vinkbooms, 
or  that  hjs  collection  is  so  limited,  Yoiu^s  extremely, 

as  to  afford  no  more  than  four  trifling  &snex« 

4 


UO                                     A  VisU  to  Jt^n  Clare.  ^Nor. 

A  VISIT  TO  JObN  CX4AR£, 

fflTB  A  N^OTIC£  OF  HIS  NEW  FOXMB* 

To  the  Editor  of  the  London  Magazine. 

Watufordy  Oct  13,  1821. 

I  HAVE  just  returned  from  visit-  steps  there.  "  Tradition  gives  these 
ing  your  fnend  Clare  at  Helpstone,  brigs  renown,"  but  their  antiquity  fm 
and  one  of  the  pleasantest  days  I  ever  visible  only  to  the  poet's  eye — tne  date 
spent,  was  passed  m  wandering  with  of  the  present  structure  is  1641  ;  stilly 
lum  among  the  scenes  which  are  tlic  the  Roman  road  crossed  over  on 
subject  of  his  poems.  A  flatter  coun-  the  same  foundation,  and  that  is 
tiry  than  the  immediate  neighbour-  Enough ;  or  if  more  certain  evidence 
hood  can  scarcely  be  imagined,  but  of  Roman  origin  were  wanted,  a  frag- 
the  grounds  rise  in  the  distance  cloth-  mcnt  of  a  most  ancient  wall  runs 
ed  with  woods,  and  their  gently  into  the  road  diagonally  at  this  place, 
swelHng  summits  arc  crowned  with  leaving  the  mind  in  that  degree  of 
village  churches ;  nor  can  it  be  call-  obscurity,  with  respect  to  its  age  or 
ed  an  uninteresting  country,  even  use,  which  Burke  esteems  to  be  essen- 
without  the  poetic  spirit  wliich  now  tially  connected  with  the  sublime, 
breathes  about  the  names  of  many  of  Of  the  Poem,  Clare  gave  me  the  fol- 
ils  most  prominent  objects,  for  the  lowuig  account.  He  was  walking  in 
ground  bears  all  the  traces  of  having  this  direction  on  the  last  day  of 
been  the  residence  of  some  famous  March,  1821,  when  he  saw  an  old 
people  in  early  days.  "  The  deep  acquaintance  fishing  on  the  lee  side 
sunt  moat;  the  stony  mound,"  are  vi-  of  the  bridge.  He  went  to  the  near- 
sible  in  places  where  modem  taste  est  place  for  a  bottle  of  ale,  and  they 
would  shrink  at  erecthig  a  temporary  then  sat  beneath  the  screen  which  the 
cottage,  much  less  a  castellated  parapet  afforded,  while  a  hasty  storm 
ihansion ;  fragments  of  Roman  brick  passed  over,  refreshing  themselves 
are  readily  fomid  on  ridges  which  with  the  liquor,  and  moralizing  some- 
still  hint  the  unrecorded  history  of  a  what  in  the  strain  of  the  poem.  I 
far  distant  period,  and  the  Saxon  question  whether  M''ordsworth's  ped- 
rampart  and  the  Roman  camp  are  lar  could  have  snoken  more  to  the 
in  some  places  seen  mingled  toge-  purpose.  But  all  these  excitations 
gether  in  one  common  ruin.  On  the  would,  I  confess,  have  spent  their 
line  of  a  Roman  road,  which  passes  artillery  in  vain  against  the  woolpack 
within  a  few  hundred  yards  of  the  of  my  imagination ;  and  after  well 
yiUage  of  Helpstone,  I  met  Clare,  considering  the  scene,  I  could  npt  help 
about  a  mile  from  home.  He  was  looking  at  my  companion  with  sur^ 
^oing  to  receive  his  Quarter's  salary  prise :  to  me,  the  triumph  of  true 
from  the  Steward  of  tne  Marquis  of  genius  5}eemed  never  more  conspicu- 
Excter.  His  wife  Patty,  and  her  ous,  than  in  the  construction  of  so 
sister  were  with  him,  and*  it  was  the  interesting  a  poem  out  of  such  corn- 
intention  of  the  party,  I  learned,  to  mon-place  materials.  With  your 
proceed  to  their  father's  house  at  own  eyes  you  see  nothing  but  a  duU 
Casterton,  there  to  meet  such  of  the  line  of  ponds,  or  rather  one  continued 
family  as  were  out  in  service,  on  their  marsh,  over  which  a  succession  of 
annual  re-assembling  together  at  Mi-  arches  carries  the  narrow  highway : 
chaelmas.  I  was  very  unwilling  to  look  again,  with  the  poem  m  your 
disturb  this  arrangement,  but  Clare  mind,  and  the  wand  of  a  necromancer 
indsled  on  remaining  with  me,  and  seems  to  have  been  employed  in  con- 
tfae  two  chearfid  girls  left  their  com-  juring  up  a  host  of  beautiful  accom- 
panion  with  a  "good  bye,  John!"  paniments,  making  the  whole  waste 
which  made  the  plains  echo  again,  populous  with  Kfe,  and  shedding  all 
and  woke^  in  my  old-bachelor  heart  around  the  rich  lustre  of  a  grand  and 
the  reflection  **  John  Clare,  thou  art  appropriate  sentiment.  Imagination 
a  very  happy  fellow."  has,  in  my  opinion,  done  wonders  here. 

As  we  were  within  a  hundred  yards  and  especially  in  the  concluding  verse, 

of  Lolham  Brigs,  we  first  turned  our  which  contains  as  lovely  a  groupe  as 

*  The  ViUage  Minstrd  and  other  Poems.    By  John  Clare,  the  Nortbamptooahtrc 
Poet  2  vda^Jraylw  and  Ue8M!y>  1821. 


18S1.3 


A  Viiii  ^  JoAn  Chrr. 


ever  was  called  into  life  by  the  best 
^*  makers"  of  any  age  or  country. 

TBS  LA0T  OF  ■▲aCH. 
Written  at  Loffum  Brigt. 
Though  o'er  the  darksome  northern  hill 

Old  ambush'd  winter  drowning  flies. 
And  fidntly  drifts  his  thieatcnings  stiU 

In  snowy  sleet  and  blackening  skies; 

Yet  where  the  willow  leaning  lies 
And  shidds  beneath  the  budding  flower. 

Where  banks  to  break  the  wind  ariae, 
'Tis  sweet  to  sit  and  spend  an  hour. 

Though  floods  of  winter  bustling  fidl 

Adown  the  arches  bleak  and  blea. 
Though  snow-storms  clothe  the  mossy  waQ, 

And  hourly  whiten  o*er  the  lea ; 

Yet  when  nom  clouds  the  sun  is  free 
And  warms  the  learning  bird  to  sing, 

]Neath  sloping  bank  and  sheltering  tree 
'Tis  sweet  to  watch  the  creeping  Spring. 

Though  still  so  early,  one  may  spy 

And  track  her  footsteps  every  hour ; 
The  daisy  with  its  golden  eye, 

And  primrose  bursting  into  flower ; 

And  snugly,  where  the  thorny  bower 
Keeps  off"  the  nipping  ftost  and  wind. 

Excluding  all  but  sun  and  shower. 
There,  children  early  violets  find. 

Here  'neath  the  shelving  bank*s  retreat 
^  The  horse-blob  swells  its  golden  ball ; 

Nor  fear  the  lady-smocks  to  meet 

The  snows  that  round  their  blossoms  iUl : 
Here  by  the  arch's  ancient  wall 

The  antique  elder  buds  anew ; 
Again  the  bulrush  sprouting  tall 

The  water  wrinkles,  rippling  throu^ 

As  spring's  warm  herald  April  comes. 
As  nature**  sleep  is  nearly  past. 

How  sweet  to  hear  the  wakening  hums 
Of  aught  beside  the  winter  bUat ! 

Of  feathered  minstrds  first  and  laat, 
The  robin^s  song*s  again  begun; 

And,  as  skies  dear  when  overcast, 
Larks  rise  to  haO  {he  peeping  son. 
The  startling  peewits,  as  they  pass, 
Scream  joyous  whirring  over-head, 
Ri^t  glad  the  Adds  and  meadow  grass 
Will  quickly  hide  their  cardess  shed : 
Therooks,  where  yonder  witchens  spread, 
Quawk  damorous  to  the  Spring's  aoprtNu^h ; 

Here  silent,  from  its  watery  b^ 
To  hail  her  coming,  leaps  the  roadi. 
While  stalking  o'er  the  fields  again 
In  stripp'd  defiance  to  the  storms. 
The  hardy  seedsman  qmads  the  grain. 
And  all  his  hopdiil  Unl  peilbrmsy^ 
In  flocks  the  timid  pigeon  swaims. 
For  scatter'd  kernels  ^ance  may  spate ; 
And  as  the  plough  unbeds  the  worms, 
The  crows  and  magpies  gather  there. 
Yon  bullocks  lowe  their  liberty. 

The  young  grass  cropping  to  thdr  fill; 
And  colts,  from  straw-yards  ndgfaing  free, 
Spring's  opening  promise  'joy  at  will; 


Ml 


Akmg  the  bank,  beside  the  rill, 
T^h^ipy  lambkins  bleat  and  run. 

Then  weary,  'neath  a  shdtering  hill 
Drop  basking  hi  the  gjeamhig  sun. 
At  distance  from  the  water's  edge, 

On  hanging  sallow's  fiothest  stretch. 
The  moor-hen  'gins  her  nest  of  sedge 

Safe  from  destroying  school-boy's  re 

Fen-sparrowB  durp  and  fly  to  fetch 
The  wither'd  reed-down  rusdh^  mgPt^    ' 

And,  by  the  sunny  side  theStch, 
Prepare  their  dwelling  wann  and  dry. 

Again  a  storm  encroaches  round, 
TUck  douds  are  darkoiing  deep  bdnodi 

And,  through  the  arches,  hoarsdy  sound 
The  risfaigs  of  the  hollow  wind: 
Spring's  early  hopes  seem  half  resign'd» 

And  silent  for  a  while  remain;      ^*^^ 
Tin  sunbeams  broken  douds  can  flnd. 

And  brighten  all  to  life  again. 

£re  yet  a  hailstone  pattering  comes, 
Or  dimps  the  pod  the  rainy  squall. 

One  hears,  in  mighty  murmuring  hums. 
The  spirit  of  the  tempest  call : 
Here  shdtering  'neath  the  andeat  wall 

I  still  pursue  my  musing  dreams. 
And  as  the  hailstones  round  me  iall 

I  nuurk  their  bubbles  in  the  streams. 

Reflection  here  is  warm'd  to  si^. 
Tradition  gives  these  brigs  renown. 

Though  heedless  Time  long  paas'd  them  by 
Nor  thought  them  worthy  noting  down : 
Here  in  the  mouth  of  every  down 

The  "  Roman  road"  familiar  sounds; 
All  else,  with  everhisting  frown. 

Oblivion's  mantling  mist  surrounds. 

These  walls  the  work  of  Roman  hands  f 

How  may  conjecturing  Fancy  pore, 
As  londy  here  one  calnuy  stands 

On  p^s  that  age  has  trampled  o'er. 

The  builder's  names  are  known  no  moie; 
No  spot  on  earth  didr  memory  bean; 

And  crowds,  reflecting  thus  beftnv, 
Have  since  fbund  groves  as  dark  as  th>i>i, 

The  storm  has  ceas'd,— again  the  sun 

The  ague-shiverii^  season  dries ; 
Short-winded  March,  thoalt  soon  be  dona. 

Thy  fiunting  tempest  mildly  dies. 

Soon  April's  flowers  and  dappled  skies 
Shall  spread  a  couch  for  lovdy  May, 

Upon  whose  bosom  Nature  lies 
And  smiles  her  joyous  youth  away. 

(V.  ii  p.  iia,) 

From  Lolham  Brigs  we  turned  to- 
wards the  village  of  Helpetone,  and 
at  a  distance  I  saw  «  Langley  Bush," 
which  Clare  regretted  was  friat  haat* 
ening  to  utter  decay;  and  could  he 
have  the  ear  of  the  noble  proprietor^ 
he  said^  he  would  beg  that  it  n^ght 
be  fenced  round  to  preserve  it  from 
unintentional  aa  well  aa  wanton  in* 
jury.  There  is  a  melancholy  cadenoe^ 
m  the  construction  of  the  little  poem 


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A  riiii*  10  John  Clare. 


CKor. 


whidi  he  addressed  to  this  Bush^  that 
chimes  on  my  ear  whenever  its  name 
is  mentioned,  and  seems  to  attach  me 
to  it  as  to  a  rational  object,  though  I 
know  nothing  further  of  its  history 
than  is  contained  in  the  followuig 
lines. 

What  truth  the  story  of  the  swain  allows, 
That  tells  of  honours  which  thy  young 
days  knew, 
Of  ^*'  Langley  Court'*  being  kept  beneath 
thy  boughs 
I  cannot  tell    thus  much  I  know  is  true. 
That  thou  art  reverenced :  even  the  rude  clan 
Of  lawless  gipsies,  driven  from  stage  to 
stage, 
FQfering  the  hedges  of  the  husbandman. 
Spare  thee,  as  sacred,  in  thy  withering 
age. 
Both  swains  and  gipsies  seem  to  love  thy 
name. 
Thy  8pot*8  a  favourite  with  the  sooty  crew, 
And  soon  thou  must  depend  on  gipsy-fame. 
Thy  mouldering  trunk  is  nearly  rotten 
through. 
My  last  doubts  murmur  on  the  xephp's 
swell. 
My  last  look  lingers  on  thy  boughs  with 
pain; 
To  thy  declining  age  I  bid  farewel, 
Like  old  companions,  ne*er  to  meet  again. 

(V.  i.  p.  164.) 

The  discretion  which  makes  Clare 
hesitate  to  receive  as  canonical  all 
the  accounts  he  has  heard  of  the  for- 
mer honours  of  Langley  Bush,  is  in 
singular  contrast  with  the  enthusiasm 
of  his  poetical  faith.  As  a  man,  he 
cannot  bear  to  be  imposed  upon, — 
his  good  sense  revolts  at  the  least  at- 
tempt to  abuse  it; — but  as  a  poet,  he 
surrenders  his  imagination  with  most 
happy  ease  to  the  illusions  which 
crowd  upon  it  from  stories  of  fairies 
and  ghosts.  The  effect  of  this  dis- 
tinction is  soon  felt  in  a  conversation 
with  him.  From  not  considering  it, 
many  persons  express  their  surprise 
that  Clare  should  be  so  weak  on 
some  topics  and  so  wise  on  others. 
But  a  willing  indulgence  of  what 
they  deem  weakness  is  the  evidence  of 
a  strong  mind.  He  feels  safe  there, 
and  luxuriates  in  the  abandonment  of 
his  sober  sense  for  a  time,  to  be  the 
sport  of  all  the  tricks  and  fantasies 
that  have  been  attributed  to  preter- 
natural agency.  Let  them  address 
him  on  other  subjects,  and  unless 
they  entrench  themselves  in  forms  of 
language  to  which  he  is  unaccus- 
tomed, or  take  no  pains  to  undcri^tand 
him  according   to  the  sense  rather 


than  the  letter  of  his  speech^  they 
wiU  confess,  that  to  keep  fairly  on  a 
level  with  him  in  the  deptn  and  tenour 
of  their  remarks,  is  an  exercise  requir- 
ing more  than  common  effort.  He 
may  not  have  read  the  books  which 
they  are  familiar  with,  but  let  them 
try  him  on  such  as  he  has  read,  ^und 
the  number  is  not  few,  especially  of 
the  modem  poets,^  and  they  will  find 
no  reason  to  unoervalue  his  judg- 
ment His  language,  it  is  true,  is 
provincial,  and  his  choice  of  words  in 
ordinary  conversation  is  indifTereut, 
because  Clare  is  an  unpretending' 
man,  and  he  speaks  in  the  idiom  of  his 
neighbours,  who  would  ridicule  and 
despise  him  for  using  more  or  better 
terms  than  they  are  familiar  with. 
But  the  philosophic  mind  will  strive 
to  read  his  thoughts,  rather  than 
catch  at  the  manner  of  their  utter- 
ance; and  will  delight  to  trace  the 
native  nobleness,  strength,  and  beau- 
ty of  his  conceptions,  under  the  tat- 
tered garb  of  what  may,  perhaps,  be 
deemed  uncouth  and  scanty  expres- 
sions. But  why  do  I  plead  for  his 
language  ?  M^e  have  nothing  in  our 
poetry  more  energetic  or  appropriate 
than  the  affecting  little  poem  of 

CHILDISH   R-CCOLLECTIONS. 

Each  scene  of  youth  to  me*s  a  pleasing  toy. 
Which  memory,  like  a  lover,  doats  upon  ; 

And  mix*d  with  them  I  am  again  a  boy. 
With  tears  and  sighs  regretting  pleaauies 
gone. 

Ah !  with  enthusiast  excesses  wild 

The  scenes  of  childhood  meet  my  moisten- 
ingeye. 

And  with  the  very  weakness  of  a  child 
I  feel  the  raptures  of  delights  gone  liy. 

And  still  I  fancy,  as  around  I  stroll 
£ach  boyiah  scene,  to  mark  the  sport 
and  game, 
Others  are  living  with  a  self-like  soul, 
That  think,  and  love  such  triftes,  just 
the  same. 

An  old  familiar  spot  I  witness  here. 

With  young  companions  where  we  oft 
have  met: 
Tho*  since  we  play*d  *tis  UeachM  with 
many  a  year. 
The  sports  as  warmly  thrill  mj  boaom 
yet. 

Here  winds  the  dyke  where  oft  we  jumped 
across, 
*'i*i8  just  as  if  it  were  but  yestonight ; 
There  hangs  the  gate  we  called  our  wooden 
horse, 
W' here  wc  in  sce-saw  ridings  took  de*. 
light. 


%9Siir}                             A  run  io  J<M  Claire.  JiS 

And  every  thing  ifaiiies  roond  me  just  at  Kow  e*en  the  diltte  muddng  in  the  wlnd^ 

then,  The  veiy  nuhee  nodding  o*er  the  greeoi 

Kole-hiUs,  and  tzeet,  and  buihes  speck-  Hold  each  expressive  langaaae  to  mv  mind, 

ling  wild,  And,  like  ^dd  comrades,  tdl  of  what  haa 

That  freshen  all  those  pastimes  up  ageiv—  been. 

O  grievous  day  that  changM  me  from  a  q  cc  g^get  of  sweets "  from  infancy  that 

child !  flow. 

To  seek  the  plaything  and  the  pleasmg  toy,  When  can  we  witness  bliss  so  sweet  at 

The  painted  pooty-shell  *  and  sunmier-  then  ? 

flowen,  Mi^t  I  but  have  my  choice  of  joy  bdow. 

How  blest  was  I  when  I  was  here  a  boy;  f  d  only  ask  to  be  a  boy  agen. 

What  joys  were  mine  in  those  ddij^tftd  u^^  ^wns  no  joy  so  pleasant  as  the  past, 

"^^^  •  That  banished  pleasure,  wrapt  in  mcmo- 

On  this  same  bank  I  bound  my  posies  up,  ry*s  womb : 

And  cuU'd  the  sweetest  blossoms  one  by  It  leaves  a  flavour  sweet  to  every  taste, 

one ;  Like  the  sweet  subetanoe  of  the  honey- 

The  cowslips  still  endce  me  down  to  stoop,  comb.                        ^V.  ii  p.  14.) 

But  all  4e  feelings  theyinspir'd  are  gone.  If  elegance  and  tenderness  of  ex- 

Though  in  the  midst  of  each  endear'd  de-  pression  are  required^  from  what  au- 

light,  thor  in  our  language  can  we  adduce 

Where  stUl  the  cowslips  to  the  breeses  more  delightful    instances  than  are 

bow,  found  in  the  following 

Though  all  my  childish  scenes  are  in  my  ballad. 
sight, 

6ad  manhood  marks  me  an  intruder  now.  Winter's  gone,  the  summer  breezn 

Breathe  the  shepherd  s  joys  again. 

Here  runs  the  brook  which  I  have  damm*d  Village  scene  no  longer  pleases, 

and  stopt  Pleasures  meet  upon  the  plain ; 

With  choking  sods,  hnd  water-weeds,  and  Snows  are  fled  that  hung  the  bowers, 

stones,  Buds  to  blossoms  soMy  ste^l. 

And  watched  ^ith  joy  till  bursting  off  it  Wint^'s  rudeness  melts  in  flowers :— . 

pl^'pt)  Charmer,  leave  thy  spinning  wheel. 

In  rushing  gushes  of  wUd  murmoxing  And  tend  the  sheep  with  mOt 

^^^  '  Careless  here  shall  pleasures  lull  thee, 

Here  stands  the  tree  with  claq)ing  ivy  bound.  From  domestic  troubles  tree ; 

Which  oft  IVe  climb*d,  to  see  the  men  Rushes  for  thy  couch  1*11  pull  thee, 

at  plough,  In  the  shade  thy  seat  shall  be ; 

And  checquer*d  fields  for  many  a  fuzlong  An  the  flower-buds  will  I  get 

round,  Spring's  first  sunbeams  do  unseal, 

Kock'd  by  the  winds  upon  its  topmost  Primrose,  cowslip,  violet  :.— 

bough.  Charmer,  leave  thy  roinniog  wheel. 

Ah,  on  this  bank  how  happy  have  I  felt.  And  tend  the  sheep  with  DM. 

\\lien  here  I  sat  and  mutter'd  nameless  Cast  away  thy  "  twiUy  willy," 

songs.  Winter's  warm  protecting  gown. 

And  with  the  shq»herd-boy,  and  neatherd.  Storms  no  longer  blow  to  chill  thee ; 

knelt  Come  with  mantle  loosely  thrown, 

Upon  yon  rush-beds,  plaiting  whips  and  Garments,  light  as  gale's  embraces, 

thongs.  That  thy  tovely  shape  reveal; 

Fond  memory  warms,  as  here  with  gravel-  Put  thou  on  thy  amr  dresses :— 

shells  Charmer,  leave  thy  spmmng  wheel, 

I  pU'd  my  fancied  cots  and  walled  rings,  -^.nd  tend  the  sheep  with  id«. 

And  Booop'd  with  wooden  knife  my  liule  Sweet  to  sit  where  brooks  are  flowing, 

wells.  Pleasant  spreads  the  gentle  heat. 

And  tiU'd  them  up  with  water  from  the  On  the  green's  lap  thyme  is  growing, 

springs.  Every  molehill  forms  a  seat : 

Ah,  memory  sighs,  now  hope  my  heart  be.  Fear  not  suns  'cause  thou'rt  so  fiur, 

ffuilM  In  the  thorn-bower  well  conceal ; 

To  bSSd  as  yet  sr.ug  cots  to  cheer  de-  Ne>r  a  sunbeam  pierces  Acre .— 

snair  Charmer,  leave  thy  spmmng  wheel, 

WhUe  fate  at  distance  mocks  with  grinnmg  ^^  *^^  *^«  ^JfP..''^  J^ 

smUes,                                *^^  (V.n.  p.84.) 

And  calls  my  structures  ''  castles  in  the  In  the  following  little  poem  the 

air."  art  of  the  composition^  admiraUt  M 

•  Snail  sbcU. 


^44  A  Visit  io  John  Oare.  Qfi 

it  if >  and  yielding  to  no  other  in  this  And  the  ipeckt  throede  never  wakci 

rerocct,  is  yet  exceeded  and   kept  ,,/?°^'  ,  «  _.  i^      ^ 

properly  under  by  the  easy  grace  and  ^^  Hfi/P^^  Spring  seemimdtimgfitnn 
SeU^te  fancy  ^th  wWcfc  the  lorer  ^"^  ^^^"^-  ^^'  »•  P-  206.) 

urges  his  passion.  I  have  dwelt  more  at  length  than 

may  be  necessary  in  a  letter  to  you^ 

BALLAD.  ^^  ^g  subject  of  Glare's  power  oi" 

I  love  thee,  8«eet  Haiy,  bat  lore  thee  in  language,  but  some  of  his  frienda  ob- 

w  J;Tim»  A,  ^^u^i^s,  Wiui«n  ii«^i*h«  ject,  in  my  opinion  roost  unreasonably. 

As  thou  gocst'a  walking  Fd  breathe  in  that  he  would  thresh  and  not/Aim^ 

tljoeear  ^^  com^  another  does  not  like  his 

*  And  whisper  and  sigh  how  I  love  thee,  eliding  the  first  syllable  of  some  of  his 

my  Mary  !  words,  as  "  'preaching,  &c.*'  Erery 

».!-•-.  i-i...       .1.1. .  one  seems  to  think  that  the  words  or 

I  wmOi  but  to  toudi  thee,  but  with  it  m  vam ;  ^hraiiPR  which  are  in  commoif  uwi  in 

W«t  thou  but  a  streamlet  a  winding  so  Phases  wtucn  a^^^^^!!^^  fcit!!Jf 

^i^yl  ^  his  native  juace,  or  where  he  happen- 

AAd  I  little  lobules  of  toft  dH>K>ing  rain,  ^  to  pass  the  greater  part  of  his  life. 

How  fond  would  I  press  thy  white  bo-  ought  to  be  reckoned  the  true  and 

som,  my  Mary  I  entire  *^  world  of  words"  for  all  En- 
glishmen ;  and  so  each  disallows  by 

I  would  steal  a  kus,  but  I  dare  not  pre-  ^^^  almost  every  expression  whici 

.«.   f*\?®  •  .   ^      .    ,,  ,_  has  not  received  the  sanction  of  the 

swtTw  •  ""  *°  *^y  «*^»  court.    At   this    rate,    Spenser  and 

And  I  a  bold  bJfor  to  riik  its  bloom,  Shakspeare  ought  to  be  proscribed, 

A  whole  summer's  day  would  I  kiss  thee,  and  Clare  may  be  well  content  to 

my  Mary!  endure  their  fate.     But  m   reality, 

,      . ,    ,  ^ ,  Clare  is  highly  commendable  for  not 

W.^'^t  M^^SJT^^  "#'"■»«•  « W***'  '«nd  it «  «  proof 

thdlSj  ""  •"•"'^  P°^  ^  of  the  originality  of  his  genius.    Style 

Aikl  I  the  U^'wDodbiM  to  twine  on  the  at  seconJ-haod  is  unfert,  unnatural, 

\fff^Mi  *"d  common-place,  a  parrot-like  re- 

rd  embraee  thee  and  ding  to  diee  ever,  petition  of  words,   whose  individual 

my  Mary!  (V,  l  p.  195.)  weight  is  never  esteemed, — a  cluster- 

language  framed  and  cast  iuto  set 

One  more  quotation,  and  I  return  forms,  in  the  most  approved  models, 

to   my  companion.    Is  it    possible,  and    adapted    for    aD    occasions, — 

that  any  mode  of  education,  or  any  an  expedient,    in  fact,    to  give  an 

rank  in  life,  could  have  taught  Clare  appearance     of    thinking,     wiUiout 

ts  express,  in  better  laiguage  than  "   the     insupportable     fetigue      of 

he  has  chosen,  the  lovely  images  un-  thought"     It  suits  the  age,  for  we 

der  which  he  commemorates  abound  with  machinery,  invented  to 

PLEAiinMifl  PA5T  supersede  man's  labour ;  and  it  is  in 
PLEASURES  PAST.  ^^^   .^  ,,  .^  adapted  to  the 

Sprmg*s  sweets  they  are  not  fled,  though  ^^^nest  capacities;"  but  there  ne- 
Summer  s  blossom  ^         j.  j       • 

H«  met  it.  Wight  of  Mdnen,  dnxiping  ^J'  7»» .».  «^«?t  ?"«»'  "'^^^  ^I 

l^^     ^^^  ^     --r-^  ginal  thmker  m  prose,  who  did  not 

amjkmer]  gms  byjktdbediin  memory' t  compose  his  phraseology  for  himself; 

lotom^  words  must  be  placed  m  order  with 

L\fiU  nurtRng  huds  among  the  weeds  of  great  care,    and  put  into  combina- 

woe.  tions  which  have  been  unknown  be- 

Sach  pkasmg  token  of  Springes  eailymoro-  fore,  if  the  things  which  he  is  soli- 

hsg  citous   to   express,    have  not  been 

Warms  with  the  pleasures  which  we  once  discovered  and      expressed    before. 

X.   uvS*??®^',    ,    ^  ^    ,_    ^     .  In  poetry,  especially,  you  may  esti- 

Spring's  earlyheJaldson the wiitersmilmg,  ^^  that   of  the  l??^^^*?^  ^    ^^t^tto 
That  often  on  their  errands  meetV^r  ".^  ^9«   to  whicli  our   approv^ 
doom^  critics  will  not  subscribe:    tney  al« 
PiimToee  and  daisy,  dreary  hours  beguiling,  ^ow  of  no  phrase  which  has  not  re- 
Smile  o*er  my  pleasures  past  whene'er  ceived    the   sanction    of    authority, 
they  come;  no    expression    for    which,    in    the 


1891.3  A  y^i  to  John  Clan.  5i« 

sense  used,  you  cannot  plead  a  pre-  within^  and  with  the  appetite  of  a 

cedent.    The  j  would  fetter  the  £ng)-  thresher  we  went  to  our  luncheon  of 

lish  poet  as  much  as  they  circum-  bread  and  cheese,  and  capital  beer 

scribe  the  maker  of   Latin  verses,  from  the  Bell.    In  the  midst  of  our 

and  yet  they  complain  that  our  mo-  operations,    his    little    girl    awoke, 

dem  poets  want  origuiality  !  a  fine  lively  pretty  creature,  with  a 

Helpstone  consists  of  two  streets,  forehead  like  her  father's,  of  ample 

intersecting  each  other  at  right  an-  promise.  She  tottered  alonp  the  floor, 

gles.    In  themiddle  stand  the  church  and  as  her  father  looked  after  her 

and  a  cross,  both  rather  picturesque  with  the  fondest  afiecticm,  and  with 

objects,  but  neither  of  them  very  an-  a  careful  twitch  of  his  eyebrow  when 

dent.    Clare  lives  in  the  right  hand  she  seemed  in  danger,  the  last  verse 

street.  I  knew  the  cottage  by  the  elm  of  his  Address  to  her  came  into  my 

trees,  which  overhang  it:  mind : 

—  The  witchen  biancheK  nigh,  Lwd  knows  my  heart,  it  lova  thee  mudi ; 

O'er  my  snug  box  towering  high—  And  miy  my  feeUngs,  aches,  and  such, 

J             1  J  *    I.        *!.  *  *i. The  pams  I  meet  in  folly's  dutdi 

and  was  plad  to  hear  Uiat  tiiey  are  BeWr  thine : 

not  now  bkely  to  be  cut  down.  Child,  it's  •  tender  string  to  touch, 

On  a  projecting  wall  m  the  mside  xhat  sounds  "  dioa*rt  mine.** 

of  the  cottage,  which  is  white-wash-  (V.  i.  p.  163.) 

ed,   are  hung  some  weU  engraved  ^  ^^  ^^^             ^  ^^  ^j, 

portraits,  ingilt  frames  with  a  neat  p^bably  see  bfin  advanced  to  that 

V  riT*  ?  ri   ^    «    5'"";f\'*H-i*  8tote  of  patriarchal  felicity,  which  is 

sketch  of  Clare  8  Head  which  Hil-  ^  beautSiilly  pourtrayed  fii  hi«  Bun- 

ton  copied  in  water  colours,  from  ^    Walks  • 

the  l&JTfire  D&iiitinfir   And  fifint  &8  &  fire* 

sent  to  Clare's  father.    I  tiiink  ^t  With  lo^»weet  pledges  peddling  at  his 

no    act    of  kindness    ever  touched  That  offirt  Wm  with  their  childidi  glee 

him  more  tiian  Ous;  and  I  have  re-  in  fruitless  diases  after  bird  and  bee ; 

naarked,   on  several  occasions,   that  And,  eager  gathering  erery  flower  they  pwi^ 

the  thought,  of  what  would  be  his  fa^  of  yellow  kmbtoe  and  the  totteri.gre8a, 

ther's  feelings  on  any  fortunate  dr-  C>tt  whimper  round  him  disappointment's 
cumstance  occurring,  has  given  him  si^ 

more  visible  satisfaction,  than  all  the  At  sight  of  blossom  that's  in  bloom  too 
commendations  which  have  been  be-  high, 

stowed  on  his  genius.     I  believe  we  And  twitch  his  sleeve  with  all  their  coax- 
must  go  into  low  life  to  know  how  „        "8  powers 
very  much  parents   can  be  beloved  To  uigc  his  hand  to  reach  the  temptmg 

El  ff  thTd7n,o?t^th?n,n^  ^«  "Z^^  *^  "^  '^'" 

that    tiie    affection   of  die  child  is  On  gate  or  stie  to  pull  the  blossoms  down 

concentrated  on  them  the  more,  from  Qf  pale  hedge-roses  straggling  wild  and 

having  no  other  friend  on  whom  it  tall, 

can  fall.  ^  I  saw  Clare's  father  in  the  And  scrambling  woodbines  that  outgrow 

garden :  it  was  a  fine  day,  and  his  than  all, 

rheumatism    allowed    him    just   to  He  turns  to  days  when  he  himself  would 

move  about,  but  with  the  aid  of  two  **•« 

sticks,   he  could  scarcely  drag  his  His  tender  father  for  sudi  toys  as  these, 

feet  along:  he  can  neitiiw-  kneel  nor  And  smiles  with  rapuirt,  as  he  plucks  the 

stoop,    f  tiiought  of  Clare's  lines:  ^^  n^eJrtJrSelings  of  those  kwely  hour., 

1*11  be  thy  crutch,  my  filmier,  lean  on  me ;  And  blesses  Sunday*s  rest,  whose  peace  at 

Weaknctt  knits  ttubborn  while  Wt  bearing  will 

thee:  Retains  a  portion  of  those  pleasares  stilL 
And  hard  shaU  fall  the  shock  of  fertone's  (V.  ii.  p.  107,  8.) 

^   -1  ^^^^     ,          .,     ,         _  Our  meal  ended,  Clare  opened  an 

Toekethysorio#s,ereitb«jtomedcnm.  ^j^  ^^^  bookcase,  and  shwed  me 

KYoL  L  p.  b7.)  jjig  library.    It  contahis  a  very  ^ood 

The  father,  though  so  infirm,  is  collection  of  modem  poems,  chiefly 

only  fifty-gix  years  of  age ;  the  mo-  presents  n:iade  him  since  the  publicaF* 

ther   is   about   seven   years    older,  tion  of  his  first  vdume.    Among  the 

While  I  was  talking  to  the  old  man,  works  of  Burns,  Cowper,  Wofd»- 

Clare  had  prepared  some  rdraihiDeiit  woict)!k>  Oetei^u^^  1Sb»ikak«  ^^^^^w;^ 


Md                                     A  fiiit  io  JoKn  Glare*                                 D^of . 

and  about  twenty  volumes  of  Cooke's  pond^  partly  overhung  with  trees  ;  a 

Poets^    I    was  pleased   to  see  the  deep  wood  backs  the  field;  and  uk- 

Nithsdale  and  Galloway  Sang  of  our  front  is  an  ancient  building,  which 

friend  Allan  Cunningham^  to  whom  looks  like  an  old  manor-house,  but  it 

Clare  expresses  a  great  desire  to  be  is  now  in  ruins :  the  scene  is,  per- 

introduced ;   he  thought,  as   I  did,  haps,  the  most  picturesque  of  any  in 

that  only  "  Auld  Lang  Syne "  could  the  neighbourhood.    Here  let  me  re-- 

have  produced  such  poems  as  The  fer  you  at  once  to  the  poem  of  Cross 

Lord's  Marie,  Bonnie   Lady  Anne,  Roads,  or  the  Haymaker's  Story.     Tt 

and  the  Mermaid  of  Gallowa'.     The  is  so  true  to  nature,  so  full  of  minute 

Lady  of  the  Bishop  of  Peterborough  incidents,  all  telling  the  story  in  the 

had  just  made  him  a  present  of  Miss  most  dramatic  way,  that  any  attempt 

Aikin's  Court  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  to  glance  at  it  otherwise  than  in  the 

From  Sir  W.  Scott  he  received   (I  words  of  the  original,  would  be  to 

think)  the  Lady  of  the  Lake,   and  destroy  some  portion  of  its  interest ; 

Chatterton's    Poems  of  Rowley,  in  and  altogether  it  is  a  most  affecting' 

lieu  of  two  guineas  which  were  o^er-  narrative.    The  following  lines  are 

ed  him;  he  had  requested  to  have  the  beautifully    characteristic    of   those 

value  of  the  gift  enhanced  by  the  numberless  recollections>  which  rush 

autograph  of  Sir  Walter,   in  one  or  upon  the  memory  after  an  irrepara- 

both  the  volumes,  but  his  wish  was  ble  deed  is  done,  and  seem  to  have 

refused.    Crabbe's  Works  were  sent  been  so  strikingly  prophetic  of  the 

him,  by  Lord  Milton,  on  the  day  I  fact,  that  our  indifference  to  them 

called    at    Helpstone.      To   see  so  assumes  even  a  culpable  taint,  and 

many  books  handsomely  bound,  and  we  almost  feel  as  if  we  might  have 

"  flash'd  about  with  golden  letters,"  prevented  the  mischief.    An  old  wo- 

as  he  describes  it,  in  so  poor  a  place  man,   who  was  Jenny's  companion, 

as  Clare's  cottage,  gave  it  almost  a  ro-  thus  narrates  the  story : 
mantic  air,  for,  except  in  cleanliness. 

It  is  no  whit  superior  to  the  habita-  Poor    thoughtless  wench !    it  seems    but 

tions  of  the  poorest  of  the  peasantry.  Sunday  past 

The  hearth  has  no  fire-place  on  it.  Since  we  went  out  together  for  the  last, 

which   to    one    accustomed   to  coal  -^.nd  plain  enough  mdeed  it  was  to  find 

fires  looked   comfortless,   but   Clare  ^^^'^  something  more  than  common  on  her 

found  it  otherwise  ;  and  I  could  rea-  „      ,  "^"  %         ^    ,      ,  -  „    -   . 

dilv  nicture  him  eniovini?    as  h    H  ^        ^**  always  fond  and  full  of  chat, 

•I        u*_    ir   •                r  1  •          1*  In  passing  harmless  jokes  *bout  bcaus  and 

scribes  himself  m  one  of  his  early  ^^that, 

8onnetS>  But  nothing  then  was  scarcely  talk'd  ahout. 

The  happy  winter-night.  And  what  there  was,  I  even  forc'd  it  out. 

When  the  storm  pelted  down  with  all  his  A  gloomy  wanness  spoiled  her  rosy  cheek, 

might,  And  doubts  hung  there  it  was  not  mine  to 

And  roar'd  and  bdlow*d  in  the  chimney-  *eek ; 

top,  She  ne*er  so  mudi  as  mentioned  things  to 

And  pattered  vehement  Against  the  window-  come, 

light,  But  sighM  o*er  pleasures  ere  she  left  her 

And  on  the  threshold  fell  the   quick  home; 

eaves-drop.  And  now-and-then  a  mournful  smile  would 

How  blest  I've  listenM  on  my  comer  stool,  raise 

Heard  the  r  'orm  rage,  and  buggM  my  At  freaks  repeated  of  our  younger  days, 

happy  spot,  Which  I  brought  up,  while  passing  spots 

While  the  fond  parent  wound  her  whirring  of  ground 

spool,  MTiere  we,  when  children,  "  hurly-bur- 

And  sparM  a  sigh  for  the  poor  wander.  ly'd  "  round, 

er's  lot.  Or   '^  blindman-bufTd  **  some  morts   of 

In  thee,  sweet  hut,  this  happiness  was  hours  away— 

provM,  Two  games,  poor  thing,  Jane  deady  lov*4 

And  these  endear  and  make  thee  doubly  to  play. 

lovM.                       (V.  ii.  p.  152.)  She  imil'd  at  these,  but  shook  her  head  and 

Havmg  directed  my  mail  to  set  off  ^vheneK  thought  my  look  was  tum'd 

in  an  hour  s  time,  and  wait  for  me  at  ^side  • 

^^^^^R.  ®^  Barnack  Hill,  I  walked  Nqt  tum'd  she  round,  as  was  her  former 

with  Clare  to  the  lower  end  of  the  way, 

Btreet,  to  aee  the  place  where  "  Jen-  To  praise  the  thorn,  white  orer  then  with 

jif  *'  diowntdkemM^    It  ii  a  \ax15t  H!k<i  \ 


1821.3  A  ViiU  io  /«*»  Ckre^  «1 

Nor  stooped  once,  tho'thmiiMidi  round  IMT  FkppM  the  broad  Mh-I«ftvei  o'crihe  pond 

ffTcw  redin  d, 

To  pull  a  co'wjOip  as  she  us'd  to  do :  And  o'er  the  water  cxiiik'dthe  cuidled  wave, 

For  Jane  in  flowers  delighted  from  a  child—  That  Jane  was  deeping  in  her  watery  gjave. 

I  like  thegarden,  butSielov'd  the  wild.  The  neatherd  boy  that  usM  to  tend  the 
And  oft  on  Sundays  young  men^s  gif^  de-  cows, 

riinM,       •'•'-<'  While  getting  whip^tidcs  from  Ae  dang* 

Podes  from  gardens  of  the  sweetest  land,  ^     .^,J^^  ^.^^^^ 

And  eager  scrambled  the  dog-rose  to  get,  Of  oners  drooping  by  the  wster  nd^ 

And  woodbine-flowers  at  every  bush  she  H«  bonnet  floating  on  the  tm>  espied ; 

1,1^  He  knew  it  well,  and  hastcn*d  feurfiil  dom 

The  cowslip  blossom,  widi  its  ruddy  streak,  To  take  the  terror  of  his  feais  to  town^ 

Would  tempt  her  furlongs  from  the  path  A  mdandioly  story,  far  too  true ; 

^  g^  .  And  soon  the  village  to  the  pasture  fleWy 

And  gay  long 'purple,  with  its  tuf^  spike.  Where,  from  the  deepest  lude  the  pond 
She'd   wade  o'er  shoes  to  reach  it  in  the  about, 

^yl^g .  iney  oragga  poor  Jenny^s  iifelett  Doaj 

And  oft,  while  scratching  through  the  bri-  ^^ 

ary  woods  And  took  her  home,  where  scarce  an  haar 

For  temptingcucko^flowersand  violet  buds,  ??"*  ^T.  .      ,., 

Poor  JMie,  I've  known  her  crying  sneak  to  She  had  been  hvmg  bke  to  you  and  L 

^,^Q  I  went  with  more,  and  kias'd  her  for  the 

Fearing  her  mother  when  she'd  torn  her  .    ,  ,  ^■■*» 

gown.  And  thought  with  tears  on  pleasures  that 

Ah,  these  were  days  her  conscience  view'd      .    ,    ,^<^c  P"'  1        ,  ^        , 

with  pain  And,  the  last  kindness  left  me  then  to  do^ 

MTiich  all  are  lodi  to  lose,  as  wdl  as  Jane.  ^  went,  at  milking,  where  the  blossoms 
And,  what  I  took  more  odd  than  all  the  rest,      ^    ,   ,^Z\  -  ,   .     - 

^Yai,  that  Hame  night  she  ne'er  a  wish  ex-  And  handfuU  got  of  rose  and  lambtoe 


prest 


sweet, 


To  see  the  gipsies,  so  bclov'd  before.  And  put  them  with  her  in  her  wmding. 

That  lay  a  stone's-throw  from  us  on  the  .,^  i  *^ 


moor: 


A  wilful  murder,  jury  made  the  crime ; 


I  hinted  it ;  she  j««t  reply'd  again—  ^or  parson  'low'd  to  pray,  nor  beU  to  chhnei 

i!5he  once  believ'd  Uienu  but  had  doubts  On  the  cross  roads,  far  from  her  friends  and 

since  then  Km, 

And  when  we  so'ught  our  cows,  I  call'd,  The  usual  law  for  thdr  ungodly  dn 

«(  Come  mull !  "  ^*  "^  violent  hands  upon  themsdves  hava 

But  she  fltood  silent,  for  her  heart  waa  fiiB.  ^        ^^d»  ^  .   .     ,.,. 

She  lov'd  dumb  things ;  and  eie  she  had  ^oor  Jane's  last  bed  un-chnstian-hke  was 

begun  ^^^  5 

To  milk,  caress'd  them  more  than  e'er  And  there,  like  all  whose  last  thoughts 

she'd  done ;  *^*™  *°  heaven, 

But  though  her  tears  stood  watering  in  her  She  deepe,  and  doubtless  hop'd  to  be  for- 

eye  given.  (V.  ii.  p.  92.) 

I  little  took  it  as  her  last  good-bye ;  The  tale  is  a  true  oiie^  and  in  a 

For  she  was  tender,  and  I've  often  known  little  village  it  would  doubtless  make 

Her  mourn  when  beetks  have  been  tram-  a  deep  iropresdon  at  the  time ;  but 

pled  f" «  Clare  received  it  from  tradition^  for 

So  I  nf«  dream  d  from  this,  what  soon  ^^  circumstance  happened  long  ago: 

T:n  ♦!»«««* •  u  •     V  n  he  would  learn  therefore  the  mere 

Tmthenextmomuig»„gherp«»mg-bdI.  j^^^^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^  ^1  ^^  j^^,^^ 

^  hi  such  a  pond^  and  all  those  par- 

And  how  wonderfully  natural  on  ticulars  which  constitute  the  poetry 

these  reflections !  of  the  story,   would  remain  to  be 

That  very  morning,  it  affects  mc  still,  created  by  the  activity   of  his  own 

Ye  know  the  foot-path  ddles  down  the  hill,  imagination.     The   true  poet  alone 

Ign'rant  as  babe  unborn  I  pass'd  the  pond  could  so  faithfully  realize  to  himself. 

To  milk  as  usual  in  our  dose  beyond,  and  few  of  that  class  would  dare  to 

And  raws  were  drinking  at  the  water's  edge,  ^^ell  so  intensely  upon,  the  agoniziiw 

^   ^^~''  '''^^     ^^'  considerations    which    pass    in    thi 

AndgnlttSdmidgesdanc'dthewatero'er,  "J'^V^  *  person  intent  on  selMe- 

JustL  I've  maS^d  them  scores  of  time^  strucUon  :  the  subsequent  reflections 

\ic(on^  O'  ^^  narrator  on  her  own  mainer« 

And  birds  sat  singing  as  in  mornings  gone,  ^'^^^    ^"    passing   the    pond    where 

While  I  as  unconcem'd  went  soodling  on,  Jenny  lay  drowned,  and  on  the  wn* 

But  little  dreaming,  as  the  wakening  wind  coucero  of  the  caUk  «Dll^SBa^oDaM^^k^ 


646                                  A  Vmi  io  John  Ckre.  CNar. 

may  he,  pethxpB,  more  easily  oon-  Vow  lobe  true;  and  to  be  truly  ta*«n, 

ceived,  but  are  no  less  faithfully  and  Rep»»  ^^  !?▼»»  f^  ^o^  it  o'et  agun  ; 

eloquently  uttered.  And  pauw  at  k«  of  langua^to  proclaim 

li  our  way  to  Bamack,  we  skirted  VT^^!^^^'^^^^^.'^^t^J:'^'' 

^  ^^Umi  pajlure/'  ^hich,  as  it  ^.d  w^e,^a  h^- --^»>^  ^ 

brought  to  my  mnsd  one  of  the  most  ^                     '        * 

delicious  descriptions  I  ever  saw  of  ^^  f^^^j^  ^  heaven  to  witneM  what  ha . 

the  progress  of  love,  shall  be  my  And  silent  ahowi  what  want  of  wotda 

apolojg^,  if  any  is  necessary,  for  the  oeals ; 

foUowmg  quotation.  Then  ere  the  parting  moments  huatle  mgh. 

And  night  ui  deqxr  dye  his  curtain  dinii 

Now  ftom  the  pasture  milking-maidens  fj^  g^^  ^y^  evening  glads  the  »"»^«— 

come,  eye, 

WMiojch  a  swiun  to  bear  Ae  burden  home,  He  swears  his  truth,  and  seals  it  en  hir 

Who  often  coax  them  on  their  pleasant  way  jjpg^                            ^y^  ^  ^  ^3^^ 

To  soodle  longer  out  in  lovers  dday ;  '       r* 

While  on  a  taiole-hill,  or  aTesting  sdle,  At  the  &id  of  that    same    pas- 

Thi  simple  rustics  try  thdr  arts  the  whik  ^Qral,    "  Rural  Evening/*  how  per- 

^'^^SSfi"^"''"^^^'"^^""  feet  in  form,  character,  and  colour,  ia 

o    *-i.-^^^'  *  .w^    1,  *  *t,--       «  the  following  sketch  of  an  aged  wo- 

The  b<S.d  word,  which  nature  le».  to  ^^:^t^^":^ro;i^^ 

T4ewndjLer«reet.onai«u.ge,«loTe"  Fnm.  thetow  door  that  bow.  ««,  prop,  ta^ 

and  "  dear  "  twem, 

WUhwum«Mut««rii>8.meete»hm«den'.  *«»«  «»Wf.'°««ing  «Ume  narer*  *• 

^  scene ; 

•--,      ^*              v    V  1—         ^    1.  By  them  reminded  of  the  loogJoat  day 

Who  as  by  magu  snut,  she  knows  not  why,  -mVi,.^  .i,.  k^-«ir  .».  ^^^Z^mwJi  «^»  m 

T^  the  iniXlook  duu  waits  a  inshM  When  Je  herself  was  young,  and  went  » 

•Th^     ^5^?^  1  J         •    1      •    J  V-1.U1 1  And,  turmng  to  the  painful  scenci 

DNop.  finfid  down  in  love'.  delightA.1  The  mounoL  change  h«i  met 

swoon,  ^j^            ^ 

As  sfinkstheblossom  from  the  suns  of  noon;  y,^  .^i»:«  J  i,**-,*    ♦i,«  ntw%*Tm^  ..,,,_■.  -„ 

While  s^half-smother'd  from  the  thiob.  Her  achmg  heart,  the  oontraat  mom  so 

Ar>A  h^  ^i'««^  trpmWInc  «'«•  tl,.  ^'en  sighs  a  wish  that  life  had  never  been. 

And  broken  words  sweet  trembhngoer  the  ^^  ;2nly  rinning,  while  she  etrtvci  to 

^^  "^^  ^  ^^"^"  ^"""^^  *^'^  Half^^«»d  discontent  pursues  ita  way 

Betray  the  plainer  what  she  strives  to  hidei.  P\    ®                  ' 

^^''^SiT^'^**™^*^*'^^'^  If  life's  hst 'troubles  she'd  esc«M  unseen; 

Discerns  the  fondness  she  at  first  denies,  ^       |^^  mide,            o"*"©         PP*** 

And  with  an  passions  love  and  truth  can  gfce  bad  but  SirM  of  childhood's  joya,  and 


"'^^  died. 


Uigesmore  snong  the  simpering  maid  to  And  as  to  talk  some  passing 

Tokens  diat  edio  from  the  aoul  withiik—  j/.  ^ 

Her  toft  hand  nipping,  that  with  aidour  g^^^  turns  foin  echoes  of  her  younger  yeaia, 

A  J  ^^T**    .,.  -. ^  And  nips  the  portion  of  her  snuff  with  tearsb 

And,  tunid,  gentlier  presses  its  returns ;  r-       i  y^  ^      ^^ 

Then  stealing  pins  with  innocent  deceit,  *       "* 

To  loose  the 'kerchief  from  its  envied  seat;         -q^^  y^y  g^^  tired,  or  at  least  I 

Then  unawares  her  bonnet  he'll  untie,  ^j^^  ^his  long  letter.    Briefly 

To^.^'^'STm'^yrjg^dffi^  then,  suppose  that  I  parted  wiUi  my 

As  love  yields  kinder  tleTbJ  si^^'  interesting  companion,  on  the  top  of 

Whae,  iiearly  conquer'd,  she  lek  disap-  Barnnck  Hi  1,  a  place  which  he  has 

proves,       ^      ^  "  celebrated  in    his  poems;    that   he 

And  owns  atbM^  'mid  tears  and  sighs,  she  pursued  his  way  to  Casterton  ;  and 

loves.  that  after  dinner  I  tried  to  put  thfse 

With  sweetest  feelings  diat  this  world  be*  ray  imperfect  recollections  or  the  day 

stows  01)  paper  for  your  amusement.  . 
Now  mA  to  .each  their  inmost  souls  dis-  •  •  • 


1891.;]  The  Xhrama,  349 


THE  DRAMA. 

Now  XXII.  ' 

SoMC  thousand  gentlemen  and  which  agreeable  pcooedure  he  con* 
ladies  will  find  our  article  this  mouth  trives  to  win  the .  haart,  hand,  aad 
vastly  unsatisfactory ;  for  the  Captain  mouth  of  a  gay  lady,  with  white 
of  our  cruiser  <'  Ihe  Critic"  being  flounces  and  dark  ringlets.  His  name 
confined  to  his  hammoclL,  and  the  was  Nicodcnuis. — The  Ghojst  was  the 
vessel  being  still  on  the  peace  or  orbit  of  his  course :  in  which  farc^ 
summer  establishment,  the  commaad  we  were  grieved  to  see  and  hear  our 
has  alighted  on  the  gunner 's-mate ;  a  old  favourite  <'  little  Knight "  fly  dip 
worthy  man  who  will  fire  his  thirty-  rectlv  in  the  face  of  Hamlet,  and 
six-pounders  with  great  alacrity  till  for  the  temporary  purpose  of  pleasing 
the  signal  is  hoisted  to  cease ;  but  the  un-pLtti^oiug  pit  atnl  gallery  of 
who  cannot  readily  come  into  the  mor  Drury,  exaggerate  rustic  character 
dem  innovation  of  using  IocIls  and  (of  which  we  have  seen  a  little)  inla 
takingczact  aim.  He  caUs  out  roughly  a  caricature  of  Mr.  What  dye  cal) 
in  the  old  style,  ''  Muad  the  heave  of  him,  the  Droll  of  the  Cobourg.  It 
the  sea !  Blaze  away,  my  lads ! "  and  would  not  be  desirable  to  search  for 
never  heeds  whether  his  shot  teUs:  a  more  apposite  illustration  of  the 
in  this  way  two-thirds  are  wasted  ^  danger  arising  from  a  bad  neighbour- 
but  whenever  a  ball  does  take  effect,  hood,  than  in  Mr.  K.'s  degradation  to 
the  cracking  timbers  show  how  hard  his  present  style  of  mockhig,  notimi* 
it  was  rammed  home.  tating  humanity :  — his  case,  how- 
Taking  No.  XXI.  as  a  pattern,  it  ever,  admits  an  easy  remedy ;  he 
seems  the  custom  to  open  tne  period-  must  recollect  his  former  8elf>  or  see 
ical  batteries  on  Covent  Garden — but  Eniery  ^t  least  once  a  week.^  Fof 
as  Drury  will  occupy  a  very  little  the  rest,  "  The  Coronation,  as  usual, 
time,  let  us  despatch  it,  and  toss  it  till  further  notice,"  and  the  actor  em- 
over  our  left  shoulder  as  lightly  as  peror  himself,  or  themself,  (to  speak 
the  intolerably  tolerable  Mr.  Cooper  regally)  a^  usual — modestly  swaggeri 
(under  the  alias  Geraldi  Duval)  has  past  those  ever-arms-presenting  dis^ 
tossed  that  very  fine  young  woman,  temper  guards,  with  a  ''  New  Man- 
Miss  Smithson,  every  evening,  ^'Sun-  tle  !  "  more  purple  than  port,  and  * 
days  excepted,"  since  our  last.  Our  pompously  condescending  face  more 
good-natured  Commander  has  called  purple  than  the  mantle.  There  hat 
Mr.  Cooper  **  an  inoffensive  actor,  also  been  a  farce  as  u^uo^— Monsieur 
with  no  great  points  about  him : "  the  Tonson  hight;  the  plot  is  well  known, 
latter  limb  of  the  sentence  is  undeni-  Good-bye,  Drury  I 
able,  seeing  that  the  gentleman  al-  At  Mr.  Smirke's  house  they  have 
luded  to  is  as  plump  as  a  partridge ;  begun  rather  strong,  treating  the  no- 
but  for  the  former,  we  must  be  mu-  bodies  *  in  town  with  their  principal 
tinous  or  dissentient.  Once  indeed,  he  dish  on  the  very  first  night,  instead 
nearly  reached  that  much  desired  con-  of  trying  third-rate  debutants  in 
summation  by  doing  little  or  nothing  first-rate  parts,  on  an  easy  audience, 
for  two  hours  but  walk  in  and  out  This  gives  rise  to  two  doubts — on^ 
through  the  doors,  and  through  the  whether  any  live  novelties  are  forth- 
JitfSf  dressed  in  bkuck,  with  a  shovel-  coming  besides  horses ;  the  other,  it 
hat,  pressing  the  head  of  his  cane  Mr.  xoung  to  be  considered  the  ao" 
against  his  mouth,  and  uttering  knowledged  king,  as  of  yore,  two 
groans :  occasionally  b^roaching  sen-  years  back  ?  Green-room  report  an^ 
timents  indicative  of  a  gusto  for  swers  the  first  in  the  negative ;  and 
graves,  an  amove  for  exequis,  a  con-  as  far  as  concerns  the  male  divisioQ, 
noissance  in  coffins— assuming  to  be  the  public  have  no  reason  to  lamrnit^ 
a  human  treatise  on  urn-burial ;  by  but  for  the  female,  or  O.  P.  eider  ^dr 


*  *  There  m  nobody  ui  town,*  said  Topham  Beauderc,  ^  besides  myself  and  about  a 
teiUion  of  vulgar !  * 

Vot.  IV.  9  R 


.rfV. 


S50                                             Tike  Drama.  CT'^or. 

there  do  tiie  ladies  use  the  hare's  down  at  this  present  degenerate  timc^ 

foot,    let  the  pump  in  Bow-street  when  the  theatres  are  nearly  desertcMl 

Sour  streams  oxmef.    Empty  is  the  by  all  real  play-goers.    "  ft  is  Loin- 

ressing-room  of  O'Neill ;  hollow  are  bard-street  to  a  Chanay  arin^/'   But 

the  drawers  of  the  natural^  liyely  the  proof  of  the  pudding  is  in  the 

lady-like  Brunton;  or^  only  ^Ued  by  eating — how  fills  the  treasury  ?  Does 

5retty>  vain  Foot,  and  unoffending  he^  she^  or  it  bring  <ft«ordered  (L  e. 
frs.  Brudenell^  who,  not  to  speai  cash  for  check)  houses?  There  is 
profanely^  but  technically^  is  no  eood.  the  higher  tribunal^  above  even  friend- 
— Miss  Dance  has  kindly  fulfilled  our  ly  encores  and  hired  bravos  (not  aa^ 
prognostication  made  ^xe  minutes  sassins) ;  there  is  the  grand  test !  The 
after  her  primal  entry ;  and  has  re-  public  fancy  that  managers  often  em- 
nounced  Covent  Garden  (so  we  will  ploy  undue  measures  to  thrust  down 
put  it  to  spare  her  blushes)  for  ever  mediocrity  like  a  horse- ball — ^no  such 
and  a  day.  We  have  been  told^  that  thing !  it  is  the  aspirant  himself  or  his 
this  young  lady  is  well  connected^  injudicious  followers.  The  manager 
and  chose  the  stage  solely  out  of  does  not  care  a  d — n  who's  damned^ 
love  for  the  art :  these  circumstances  or  who's  saved,  as  long  as  he  brings 
might  be  gathered  from  her  havings  the  '^siumpv"  It  would  be^  no  doubty 
as  a  LADY>  dressed  Mrs.  Haller  in  an  a  singular  improvement  to  the  house 
evening  costume  from  the  lasf  Jour-  to  possess  another  Siddons^  but  that 
nal  des  Dames,"  very  attractive  and  can  hardly  be  hoped ;  in  the  mean- 
unpenitential ;  and  from  the  deter-  time  the  histrionic  lord  mayor  has 
mined^  sustained  manner  in  which  Charles  Kemble,  Wm.  Macready, 
she  acted  every  scene^  from  first  to  and  Charles  Young,  and  heeds  not 
last.  The  Stranger^  with  all  its  glar-  the  tears  of  a  dozen  neglected  Misses, 
ing  faults^  is  a  heart-breaking  busi-  —A  new  bull  to  be  baited  attracts  a 
ness,  as  London  knows  ;  but  if  any  north-west  countryman ;  and  a  new 
tears  were  shed  that  nifht,  they  somebody  to  be  d — d  has  irresistiUe 
rather  gushed  from  the  indslible  re-  charms  for  a  London  pittite, 
collections  of  Siddons  and  O'Neill,  We  must  now  go  back  a  fittle  to 
than  from  any  fault  of  the  debutante,  consider  the  second  of  our  dubious 
who  ddicately  feeling  for  other  paint-  points,  viz.,  what  is  to  be  the  exact 
ed  cheeks  besides  her  own,  contrived,  rank  of  Mr.  Young  ?  This  indeed  b 
in  most  eloquent  dumb  show,  to  as-  an  entanglement  not  easily  unravel- 
sure  the  sentimental  milliners  and  led.  After  the  retirement  of  Mr. 
little  government  clerks  that  ''  she,  Kemble,  his  range  of  parts  fell  of 
Mrs.  Haller,  was  not  Mrs.  Haller  the  necessity  to  the  lot  of  Mr.  Y. ;  for 
countess-house-keeper,  but  Miss  D.  there  was  no  one    else   to   assume 

of .    In  short,  we  never,  cer-  them,  and  the  town  was  already  ae- 

tainly,  saw  an  English  countess  with  customed  to  this  gentleman's  petform- 

such     stiff,     tutored,    unfashionable  ances  in  the  highest  claats,    during 

brachial  actions ;  and  we  trust,  that  it  the     temporary    secessions    of  the 

may  be  long  ere  we  meet  with  any  at  all  great  John.  Charles  Kemble,  indeed^ 

resembling  it  among  the  house-keepers  made   one    or    two    inroads,   as   ia 

of  even   ''  the  first  families."    She  Hamlet  for  instance ;  but,  elegant, 

never  forgot  who  she  was,  nor  where  and  easy  as  he  is  in  genteel  comedy, 

she  was,  for  an  instant ;  neither  did  he   becomes  artificial  in  the  loftier 

the  uninterested  part  of  Uie  audience,  tragedy,  and  his  Princely  Dane  never 


There  was  some  talk  of  the  house  produced  a  permanent  effect :  he 

being  packed  on  the  first  night  of  the  therefore  compelled,  after  some  stnl|P- 

Kind's  appearance; — of  this  we  know  gling,  to  delight  the  audience  with 

nothmg,  for  we  were  not  present:  Falconbridge,  instead  of  lulling  them 

but  we  were  on  Miss  D.'s  first  night,  with  King  John ;    while    the  rival 

and  knowing  a  little  how  these  things  Charles  swayed  his  mild  sceptre  in 

are  managed,  we  took  some  tent;  and  peace.    But  now  a  scene  of  (tisquiet 

we  do  affirm,  that  never  were  clap-  begins  slowlv  to   open. — A    young 

pers  placed  so  thickly,  nor  so  judici-  actor,    already   highly    esteenied  at 

ously,   in  the  whole   course   of  our  Bath,  made  a  trial  at  Covent  Garden 

theatrical  experience.     I'his  sort  of  in  Phillips's  Orestes.— Polished   and 

management  will  make  any  thing  go  heavy  as  this  part  b  (and  therefore 


mn.2                           ^^  DtmMh  dsi 

the  worst  calculated  to  display  Mr.  evidentlj  the  crisis  of  Mr.  M.'s  fate. 
Macready's  peculiar  powers  that  At  first  it  seemed  to  «>  off  rather 
could  well  have  been  chosen)  his  flatly — it  was  a  new  khid  of  Richard^ 
passion  and  nature  broke  right  and  they  did  not  know  what  to  make, 
through  it,  and  convinced  the  mana-  of  it :  but  at  length  a  test  of  Intel- 
gers  mat  they  had  alighted  on  some-^  lect  and  feeling  offered — mouths  were 
thing  rather  above  par,  than  below  opened  and  bodies  leaned  forwards^^ 
k.  He  was  enraged;  but,  the  arduous  a  low  hush! — "Good,  it  will  do  by 
business  bemg  already  filled  by  — !"  burst  from  an  old  amateur 
Young  and  C  Kerable,  his  great  near  us;  up  went  the  applause,  a- 
talents  were  not  immediately  brought  round,  above,  and  below ;  the  burden 
out.  Messrs.  Morton,  Shiel,  and  rolled  from  Macready's  mind — the 
Dimond  hearing  that  he  possessed  roofing  of  terrible  suspense  fell  in, 
tones  of  deep  menace,  like  the  pre-  and  the  vanquishing  fiame  burst  high, 
paratory  roar  of  a  lion,  and  seeing  shaking  its  light  over  all  the  house, 
that  he  stood  firm  on  his  legs,  and  The  business  proceeded  sweepingly, 
could  assume  a  murderous  smile,  maugre  the  pitiful  attempts  of  the 
manufactured  a  stock  of '  slaves,'  and  creatures  fi'om  the  "  Coal  Hole  !"  till 
traitors,  and  assassins,  for  his  express  in  the  Tower  scene  during  "  the  smo< 
use.  Mr.  C.  Kemble  was  the  nice  thering,"  the  pit  rose  simultaneously 
young  man  in  these  things,  and  Mr.  perforce,  cheering  and  waving  their 
Young  a  Turkish  admiral,  an  old  nats  and  handkerchiefs !  The  en- 
Moorish  priest,  or  any  body  with  a  thusiasm  which  ran  through  all  the 
long  beard,  and  speeches  to  match,  spectators  was  indeed  surprising :  in 
The  public  thought  that  Mr.  Mac-  tne  dress  circle  (the  formal^  cold^ 
ready  was  a  man  of  some  forty  years,  dress  circle,)  bravos  were  heard  from 
with  a  desperate  physiognomy,  and  men  and  females  loud  as  those  which 
the  ladies  hated  him ;  he  played  his  greet  Noblet  and  Bigotiui ;  and  when 
part  with  such  intolerable  plausi-  the  curtain  fell,  a  deafening  call  drag- 
bility.  We,  who  had  previously  ged  forth  the  proud  actor,  faint,  rc- 
seen  him  enter  into  the  needy  tricks  vered,  and  shaken  with  internal  emo- 
of  Lackland,  more  heartily  than  tions,  to  receive  the  congratulations 
even  Jones,  and  set  off  the  free,  full-  of  the  warm-hearted.  From  this  a;ra 
blown  character  of  Alexander,  knew  may  be  dated  the  commencement  of 
better:  but  we  kept  silence,  merely  Mr.Young'srapid  decline  in  the  favour 
hinting  at  a  speedy  fiame-up  of  the  of  the  Covent-Gardenites :  his  grace- 
smouldoring  fire.  We  did  not  wait  fid  attitudes,  his  mellow  and  equable 
long — the  audiences  got  tired  of  rant-  voice,  and  his  imposing  but  heartless 
ing  Irish  tragedies,  and  Mr.  M.  of  delivery,  were  no  match  for  the  fa- 
personating  "  painted  devils  only  fit  miliar  pathos  and  whirlwmd  fury  of 
to  affright  babes ;  "  he  determined  to  Macready,  who  drives  on,  right  or 
make  or  mar  himself,  he  set  his  thea-  wrong,  like  a  stream  from  the  moun- 
trical  life  upon  the  cast,  and  played  tain ;  *^  Passion,  the  all  in  all "  in 
Richard  III — ipith  complete  success!  acting,  "being  everywhere  present. 
Many  of  his  most  araent  admirers  raising  the  low,  dignifying  the  mean, 
were  astonished — for  our  own  part,  and  putting  sense  mto  the  absurd."* 
we  should  have  been  astonished  if  Mr.  Voung  at  the  close  of  the  sea- 
he  had  failed.  At  the  commence-  son  disappeared.  His  re-engagement 
ment  of  the  play  he  had  three  difii-  seemed  to  us  an  omen  of  no  good ; 
culties  to  overcome  :  his  own  iliffi-  we  fancied  that  it  involved  the  dis- 
dence  and  extreme  agitation  ;  the  missal  of  his  rival,  whom  we  camiot 
prejudices  of  the  public  against  the  afford  to  lose,  much  as  we  like  Young 
audacity  of  a  second-rater  ffor  in  sad  in  many  parts,  and  highly  as  we  re- 
truth,  he  was  considered  little  better) ;  spect  him  personally.  This  event  has 
and  theunhooded  opposition  of  Kean's  not  taken  place,  and  Mr.  C.  Kemble, 
partisans,  aptly  cognominated  from  besides,  is  likely  to  lend  his  strong 
theirodioushowHng"  The  Wolves."  shoulder  to  the  dramatic  wheel,  li 
The  house  filled  early  ;  and  it  was  this  noble  triumvirate  would  lay  aside 


*' Charles  Lamb. 
2  112 


559  The  Drama.  [[Ni 

all  petty  jealousies^   and  play  into  intellect  sometimes  allotted  by  Pro- 
each  other's  hands,   we  might  anti-  Tidcnce  to  poor  human  nature.  The 
cipate  a  royal  season ;  but  to  effect  affecting  tale  of  FMzabcth    was  aU 
this  their  respective  ranks  must  first  tacked  some  years  aco  by  a  butcher- 
be  settled. — One  must  be  the  Apex,  ly  felloM',  who,  with  trifling'  altera* 
for   Covcnt   Garden    will  not,    like  tions,  such  as  stretching  out  one  plaio 
Brentford,  bear  two  monarchs.     Let  efiective  word  into  a  drivelling  cham- 
Mr.  Young  then,  who  is  suavity  it-  be  miaid's  mewl,  half  an  hour  long,  or 
self,  give  a  little  way — out  of  gcnero-  cutting  short  what  the  interest  of  the 
sity ;  and  let  Mr.  Macready  try  to  tale  required  to  have  at  length,  sue- 
overcome  him  in  this  sweet  conten-  ceeded  in  making  it  as  ludicrous  a  tra« 
tion.      As    for   Charles    Kenible  he  gedy  as  ever  drew  tears  from  the  pitj« 
possesses  a  despotic  right  over  Cassio,  mg  barmaids  and  recruiting  scijeantt' 
Charles  Surface,  Falconbridge,  Ed-  fancy  girls  of  Petty  France,    durin|^ 
gftr,  and  Mr.  Lovemore,  in  The  Way  tlieir  carnival  'clept  Gooseberry  Fair. 
to  Keep  Him,  which  nobody  will  be  — M'e  do  not  here  refer  to  those  Ireu 
hardy  enough  to  hnpugn ;  and  we  morons  people,  tlie  Governor,    Al- 
trust  that  he  has  suffideut  sense  of  tradoff,  and  Servitz,  with  his  inef- 
justice  to  temper  his  hot  ambition,  fable  tri-coniered  cocked  hat ;  with 
and   to  make  himself  contented  with  tliem  it  is  impossible   to  quarrel,  for 
hisownpleasant  realm,  without  seek-  they  gave  us  the  pleasure  of  86eirg 
ing  to  acquire  a  new  one.    Macroady  a  little  and  hearing  less  of  Messrs. 
must  keep  Richard,  because  he  can  Farren,    Liston,  and  Fawcett;  nei- 
look  like  a  villain,  and  Young  can-  tlier  do  we  object  to  the  part  called 
not ;  and  Rob  Roy,  because  he  made  Calmar,  hiasmuch  as  it  induced  Mr. 
it  what  it  is;  and  Hotspur,  because  Duniset  to  wear  a  very  smart  dress, 
it  suits  his  temper ;  and  Henry  5th,  (Russian    no    doubt,    as   it   exactly 
because  he  is  yoimg  and  free ;  and  matched  Cherubino's  Sf^nish  uiiifi^rm 
Zanga,  and  Sir  Giles  Overreach :  but  in   Figaro)  and  to  sing  one  song  and 
he  shall  not  touch  Leon,  nor  Duke  a-half,  the  corresponding  share  being 
Aranza,    nor  Mr.  Oakley,  nor  Car-  supplied  by  Mrs.  Vaughan,  late  Alist 
dinal  Wolsey,  nor  Jaques,  nor  Cas-  Tennaint. — Mr  I),  is,  doubtless,  sur- 
sius,  nor  Cato,  nor  Rolla,  nor  Joseph  prised  at  the  slight  approbation  that 
Surface,    which    last    is    and    shall  lollowod  his  warblinL'-in  laU?  sccsnns. 
be    Mr.  Young's    in   spite  of    Mr.  Tlic  plain  truth  is,  that  from  Ids  siip- 
Hazlitt.      If  some  coalition  of  this  pressed   and  timid  manner  the  hoiise 
khid  can  be  brought  about  all  will  does  not  hear  one  word  he  breathes! 
go  well,  otherwise  there  will  be  the  Perhaps  this  arises  (as  from  the  ap- 
eustomary  huffs  and  miffs,  perhaps  plication  of  his  hand  to  the  pit  of  his 
tiffs  and  cuffs,*  and  a  great  deal  of  stomach  we  are  apt  to  suspect)  out 
rugging  and  riving,  during  which  the  of  some  internal  oppression,    which 
raie  in  dispute  will  go  to  pot,  and  the  might  be  greatly   alleviated  by  the 
public  be  kept  in  an  alternating  fever  use  of  peppermint  or  ginger  lozenges; 
of  expectation  and   disappointment,  at  all  events  let  him  try  to  throw  c^ 
For  oiir  parts  we  will  have  an  eye  to  his  ungrounded  flutter,  and  send  forth 
these   two  gentlemen,    excellent  in  his  voice  ore  rotundo,  or  uferio,  as  m 
divers  ways  if  they  corld  but  think  his  original  Cymon. — A  whisper  at 
so ;  and   the  first  who  introduces  a  parting ;  depend  more  on  your  memo- 
discord  (it  will  not  surely  be  Young  ry  than  on  the  prompter,  whoso  sounds 
from  his  high  love  of  harmony)  shall  are  not  quite  so  melodious  as  your 
receive  as  hearty  a  flogging  as  we  own. 


can  lay  on.    Diximus.  And  now  we  have  got  on  an 

23d    Oct — A    piece    (the    Exile)  able    subject,    viz.   the  performen, 

has  been   dragged  out   of  the  ash-  why  return  to  one  so  disagreeable  as 

hole,   lately,    to  serve  as   a  vehicle  the  performance  ?     Those   who  hare 

for  the    folly   of  the  day,   called   A  seen,  or  mean  to  see.  The  Pa^^eant, 

Coronation,   This  Thing  is  a  curious  will  despise   our  feeble  description ; 

example   of  the    small    particle    of  and  the  country  gentlemen  may  be 


See  Theatrical  Annals,  for  1821. 


19tl.3  Tk§  Drama.  553 

assured  that  all  our  able  pens  could  gal  majesty.  Macready,  like  Antar^ 
write  would  not  afford  them  anything  «  howls  at  them  and  they  are  horror- 
like  a  distinct  notion  of  its  proi&gious  struck  ! — ^he  yells  in  their  faces,  "  Oh, 
splendour,  which  exceeds  even  the  by  Abs,  I  will  not  be  controlled  !"— 
grand  banquet  at  Drury,  and  comes  neither  can  he  be.  Miss  Foote  look- 
Rttie  behind  the  late  reality  in  West-  ed  (she  is)  beautifid ;  if  her  well- 
minster- HalL   Nevertheless,  it  want-  feigned 

ed  solenniity  from  first  to  last ;  and  in        **  ^j^^^  1,^  not  made 

this  respect  lags  very  lamely  behind  '*  Sorrow  more  beautiful  than  beauty 'sidf:*' 
the  coronation  of  Henry  V.  or  Elliston 

the  IsL  The  absence  of  the  awe-  ^^fs*  Vuiing  is  not  so  handsome  as 
spreading  organ  had  much  to  do  with  Miss  Foote;  b^t  then  she  has  **a 
it  Of  horses,  Cossack  and  Tartar,  desperate  moan,"  and  a  "  talking 
who  imitate  wildness  with  the  cour-  gnef,"  solemn  as  the  strain  of «« Old 
bettes,  and  demi- voltes  of  the  high  l*ouIter'smare,"  whom  we  dare  swear 
manege,  there  is  no  lack ;  besides  ^^  never  heard  of,  any  more  than 
six  that  draw  the  gold  car  of  the  o^  ^^e  gentieman  who  revived  it; 
Empress  KUzabeth,  who,  by  the  bye,  Robert  Southey,  LLD.  to  wit- 
takes  all  the  applause  showered  upon  With  regard  to  Mr.  Comer,  who  pre- 
the  cattie  and  the  coachmaker  to  sented  one  Friskey  or  Whiskey,  he 
herself,  and  bpws  to  the  pit  most  pught  to  have  an  opportunity  of  show- 
condescendingly.  Mr.  Young,  as  Da-  ^S  ^^  public  how  easily  and  gaily 
ran,  was  at  once  easy  and  elegant  in  ^  c^n  carry  off  a  Zummerzetzhire 
every  motion  ;  so  much  so,  that  it  is  ^^d>  ^  London  has  not  spoilt  him. 
worth  anv  artist's  while  to  see  him  That  is  justice.  The  original  music, 
pluck  forth  his  mooned  scimitar.  His  ^y  Mazzinghi,  is  heavy  enough,  and 
delivery,  though  beautiful  hi  itself,  cuts  sadly  agahist  Bishop's  ahy  po- 
is  rather  suited  to  the  lecturer  tiian  lacca  from  the  Farmer  s  Wife  ("  Go, 
to  the  actor :  in  the  pulpit  he  would  trifler,  go  I")  and  his  striking  cnorus, 
make  what  the  old  ladies  call  '<  a  ^^^  hy  Pyne,  Taylor,  Isaacs,  and 
fine  man."  A  great  passion  for  Thmcy ;  in  which,  however,  there 
music,  and  that  of  the  sweetest  khid.  Is  an  evident  weakness  towards  the 
has  proved  in  his  case  of  serious  dis-  conclusion,  arishig,  in  our  opinion, 
advantage ;  for  his  ear  being  attuned  ^o™  &n  undue  predominance  in  the 
to  a  luscious  harmony,  cannot  sup-  kettie  drums  over  the  voices !  This 
port  a  sudden,  natiural,  but  harsh  is  a  vulgar  trick  unworthy  of  Mr. 
burst :  he  rather  sings  than  speaks.  Bishop,  who  possesses  more  fancy 
and  his  usual  nqethod  of  intonation  aimI  spirit  than  all  our  other  English 
may  be  signified  thus  o  while  composers  put  together.  But  it  is  no 
his  violent  starts  are  no  abrupter  matter,  for  there  was  nothing  ui  the 
than  this  <  :  Young  can  conse-  appearance  ofany  part  of  the  audience 
quentiy  swell  a  note  of  rage  to  the  (nor  ever  is  at  this  time  of  the  year) 
loudest  without  shaking  a  fibre  of  hit  betraying  a  foolish  squeamislmess. 
body ;  practised  lungs  stand  him  in  The  dress  circle  was  filled,  and  well 
the  stead  of  sympathetic  fiiry.  John  filled,  chietly  with  good-natured  peo« 
Kemble  was  fire  itself  compared  with  pie  from  those  happy  parts  of  our 
Mr.  Young.  Nevertheless,  it  requires  island  where  the  influence  of  Mrs. 
no  common  talent  to  pitch  the  idea  Bell  is  scarcely  felt.  They  came  to 
of  a  character  on  a  very  dangerous  cry  and  laugh,  and  they  did  so.  One 
height,  and  mahitain  it  there  to  the  family  in  particular,  close  to  us,  who' 
consummation  without  a  single  dere-  occupied  a  whole  box,  drew  cons!-* 
liction :  and  this  talent  seems  to  ua  derable  attention,  from  their  fine, 
the  undoubted  prerogative  of  Charles  unsophisticated  way  of  developing 
Vouiig,  whose  style  may  be  com-  theil:  sympathies.  Some  tolerably  c& 
pared  to  the  equable  flow  of  a  wide  vilized  looking  persons  in  the  private 
rolling  river,  while  that  of  Macready's  boxes  regarded  them  with  as 'much 
resembles  an  inland  sea,  vexed  and  astonishment  as  they  would  some 
tormented  by  sudden  whirl-blasts;  wild  Cherokces.  We  followed  this 
not  grand  />rr  se,  but  dangerous.  Wron^iieaded  party  out  of  the  house. 
Again,  Young  would  seem,  like  Gof-  and  lud  the  gratification  of  secmg 
fredo,  to  awe  his  opponents  by  a  re-  them.  Sir  Fraucia,  my  Lady,  Squire 


^4                                              The  thrama:  D^o^- 

9ic!u^cl>   Miss  Jetaij,  and  all^  em-  feeling  of  strangeness  curbing    her 

bark    in    the   capacious  receptacle^  powers^  were  evident  to  the  curious 

drawn  by  the  '  ould  wheezy-bellied  eye.    Suffice  it  to  say  that,  as  far  as 

coach  horses,'  attended  and  encum-  her  womanly  nature  would  permit 

bered  by  ^  heavy  Ralph    and  John  her,  she  gave  her  songs  with  great 

Moody.'  feeling  and  propriety ;  using  little  or 

HAYMARKET.  no  omameut  to  spoil  the  effect  of 

We  were  just  going  to  offer  a  few  those  charming  old  tunes :  and  loud 

remarks  on  Match-Breaking,  (a  petite  plaudits  from  all  parts  of  a  full  house 

comedy,  in  which  Messrs.  Cnatterly,  acknowledged  her  good  taste  and  able 

Terry,    Oxberry,   and  some  others,  execution.      For  all  this,   however, 

''of  whom  the. world  hath  no  fame,"  she  will  never  be  a  star,  at  least  in 

dance  the  hays  on  a  rope  of  loyalty ;  the  Beggar's  Opera,  and  there  are 

and  lively  Mrs.  Baker  kisses  Miss  unfortunately   not  many   characters 

R.  Corris  neck  after  a  fashion  ex-  adapted  for  the  display  of  her  c;oun- 

tremely  instructive  to  young  gentle-  ter-tenor  voice ;  but  let  us  see  her 

men  going  to  be  married ;— this  is  a  sofl  liuibs  in  petticoats,  and  we  will 

long  parenthesis,)    when  we    were  tell  you  more  about  her.     As  to  the 

summoned   to    devote    a    scrap    of  rest  of  this  opera,    *'  least   said  is 

room  to  a  Miss  Blake,  from  the  Bris-  soonest  mended."      Miss    R.    Corn 

tol  or  Bath  theatre,  who  wished  much  (Polly)  is  a  very  nice  little  musical 

to  know  what  London  would  think  of  automaton,    accurately  tuned,    who 

her  in  the  tight  coat  and  lax  charac-  seems  to  delight  the  frequenters  of 

ter  of  Capt.   Macheath ;  and  about  this  theatre  hugely,  though  not  quite 

this  point  we  shall  not  differ  much,  so  much  as  Mr.  J.  Russell  in  Filch, 

we  apprehend,  from  our  brother  cri-  Many  of  our  readers  have,  no  doubt, 

tics.     She  is  not  tall  nor  bashful,  but  been   annoyed  with  this    important 

▼ery   plump    and    pleasant  counte-  little  person's  unconscious  caricatures 

nanced;    and    formed  too    well    a  of  Matthews,  but  not  one,  we  are 

woman,    ever   to  resemble  a  man :  sure,  ever  suffered  so  much  as  we 

broad  cloth  seemed  to  trammel  her  as  did  last  night  under  the  infliction  of 

much  as  the  iron  armour  of  Saul  did  his  copper  voice, 

the  son  of  Jesse.    Her  bow  was  de-  Filch  is  as  great  a  favourite  with 

lightfully    feminine  and    awkward ;  us  as  with  Mrs.  Peachum.     ''  Come 

and  she  held  her  riding  whip  as  if  hither.  Filch !  I  am  as  fond  of  this 

she  would  not  have  touched  her  horse  child  as  though  my  mind    misgave 

with  it  for  the  world.     I  could  ha —  me  he  were  my  own."     Who  does 

that  is   WE  could  have  kissed    her  not  sec  in  this  the  prepossessing  and 

therefore  heartily ;  for  be  it  known,  modest  winningness  so  accordant  with 

that  going  on  the  forlorn  hope  is  far  his  name?  formingof  itself  such  a  fine 

less  frightful   to  us   than   the   bare  contrast  to  the  horrid  and  mysterious 

chance  of  meeting,  within  four  walls,  designations  of  Crookfingcred  Jack, 

one  of  those  preternatural  amazons  Wat  Dreary,  and  JRohin  of  Bagshot, 

who  wear    no    veils,   narrow-brim-  alias  Gorgon!  alias  Carbuncle,  aliaa 

med  hats,  and  neckcloths,  and  who  etcceiera!   His  very  first  speeches  are 

will,  out  of  pure  spite,  flog  me  a  full  of  pity  and  gratitude. — Speaking 

little  imoflending  horse  with  all  the  of  Betty  Sly's  transportation,  ne  says, 

bnitality  of  a  sporting  squire   or  a  '^  In  truth'  'tis  a  pity  to  lose  so  good 

hackney  coachman !  To  return.  Miss  a    customer !    'twas   to   her   I    was 

Blake's  tones  in  speaking  are  fiiU,  obliged  for  my  education  I "  Here  is 

soft,  warm,  and  heartfelt:  and  her  the  whole  duty  of  pupils  towards 

reading,    to   speak   technically,  dis-  their  former  tutors  exemplified  in  a 

covers  sense  and  sentiment ;  qualities  sentence.    But  it  is  not  merely  for 

to  which  the  difficult  part  of  Mac-  these  tenderer  qualities   that   he  is 

heath  is  all  unused.    Of  her  singing,  distinguished — he    is   a  philosopher 

even  if  it  came  under  our  depart-  and  a  moralist,  witness  the  deep  re-> 

ment,    we  should  be    loth    to  say  flection  and  tnith  of  "  'Tis  woman 

much  on  only  one  trial ;  for  though,  that   seduces  all  mankind,"  and  his 

like   a  sensible   girl,    she  had  sup-  noble  declaration  that,  *'  he  won't  be- 

pressed  the  obvious  signs  of  trepida-  tray  any  body,"  but  keep  his  houour 

tioo^.  yet  an  inward  tremble^  iad  a  bright  and  untarnished,   ^y^,,ainid 


th«  unhallowed  •ophifltieadons  which  ffhost  of  the  lamented  and  never  to 

have  been  mo^er  s  milk  to  him,  he  be  replaced  Simmons,  the  real  Filch! 

retains  an  ardent  and  abstracted  a»»  and  scourge  this  usurper    howUnff 

piration  after  houestj;   and  thfaiks  down  the  Haymarket  !~One  word 

seriouslj  of  taking  up  and  goinff  to  more;  perhaps  Mr.  J.  Russell  has 

sea !    And  is  it  to  be  endured  tnat  heard  of  Shakspeare,  at  least,  in  the 

Mr.  Russell  is  to  come  impudently  manager's  copies ;  now  we  recom* 

forwards,    and  trayestie  before  our  mend  him  to  find  out  Hamlet's  ad* 

noses  the  delicate,  (''  He  hath  as  fine  vice,  touching  the  interpolations  of 

a  hand  at  picking  a  pocket  as  a  wo-  those  who  play  the    fool — but  we 

man ! ")  the  inteUectual  Filch,  into  a  forget— it  would  be  of  no  t  use ;  and 

corporeal  uproarious  blackguard,  '^  a  we  can  only  sincerely  commiserate 

desperate  yillain"  *    from    Tothill«  the  shrewd  and  caustic  Terry  on  his 

fielos  or  Fleet-lane,  who  has  not  wm$  being  obliged  to  put  up  with  the 

enough  ever  **  to  bring  him  to  the  outrageous  bawling,  and  extraneouf 

^dlows  with  any  credit."    No !  rise  slang  of  this  il^udging  actor ! 


REPORT  OF  MUSia 
No.  XXL 


The  events  in  the  musical  world  vember  to  February),  bv  the  aid  of 

are  few  and  scattered ;  for  the  me«  the  salutary  springs  of  Bladud.    The 

tropolis  is  empty,  and  England  has  grand  concentration  of  professors  and 

not,  like  the  Continent,  a  host  of  amateurs  at  Birmingham,  and  the 

cities  wherein  composers   and  sing-  meeting  of  the  three  choirs,  with  oo- 

ers  and  instrumentalists  arise,  or  to  casional  festivals  at  Liverpool,  Man- 

which  tiiey  repair,  like  thos^  delicate  Chester,  Norwich,  and  other  towns, 

birds  of  passage  which  furnish  the  serve  to  propagate  more  extensively 

rarest  objects  to  a  lower  sense.    Yet  the  knowleage  and  practice  of  the 

England  has  now  its  great  towns,  (as  science.     But  these  are  casual,  not 

populous  and  more  opulent  perhaps  continual  supports ;  and  perhaps  the 

than  many  of  the  continental  cities,)  grand  reason  why  music  fails  to  re« 

which  give  high  encouragement  to  ceive  the  same  constant  encourage- 

art.    But  England  is  not  vet  a  mu-  ment  in  England  that  it  does  abroad, 

sical  nation.    It  is  also  split  by  reU-  (after  the  necessary  allowance  for 

gious   dissent,    and   the  methodists  national  cultivation)  b,  that  music  is 

who  form  the  majority  in  some  dis-  dear  in  this  country,  and  cheap  every 

tricts  have  no  ''  relish  for  poetrv  or  where  else.    Even  the  Italians  who 

music,  above  the  pitch  of  a  Taber-  visit  us  come  to    '^  make  their  for- 

nacle  hymn,"  as  some  of  their  dSs-  tunes,"  and  those  who  are  content 

tinguished  brethren  have  declared,  with  moderate  pay  in  Italy,  we  have 

The  same  exclusive  spirit  pervades  recentiy  seen,  nave  the  modesty  to 

almost  the  whole  of  the  three  great  require  tiieir  carriages  and.  dinners 

denominations.    London  is  therefore  of  three  courses    and  fourteen  co- 

the  only  place  that  affords  encou-  vers  here,  with  salaries  which  are 

ragement  to  art.    Bath  indeed  takes  never  heard  of  abroad.    So  generous 

a  prominent  character  in  its  support,  a  creature  do  the  Siffnors  and  8iff- 

wnen   London  empties  itself  or  its  noras  esteem  John  Bim ;  impoverisb- 

patrician  patrons,  who  refresh  them-  ed,  ruined,  complaining,  complaisant, 

selves,  and  repair  the  fatigues  of  the  complying  John  Bull, 
winter  campaign  (from  April  to  Au-        We  must,  indeed,  except  Madame 

gust)  during  the  summer  (fi-om  No-  Catalani,  who,  by  a  memoir  of  her 


*  So  Mr.  RuMell'f  psnegyrist  in  the  Morning  Poit  aayi. 

'\  A  judiriout  audience  at  Covent  Garden  one  ni^t  hincd  thisjpenon  dmmghoat 
Lawyer  Flexible,  as  prettily  as  any  moderate  man  could  deaire.  We  sat  in  a  private 
box  so  dose  to  him,  that  we  could  have  pulled  him  by  the  leg  on  his  exit  throush  the 
doors ;  and  we  do  afiirm,  that  he  nerer  visibly  altered  a  hair  I !  but  went  on  playmg  of 
thsodBihilliDggaUciy.    '«  This  aboirs  a  most  pilifid  ambitm.*' 


66^  Eefori  t^f  Musk,  E^o^« 

travels,  engagements,  presents^  and    natnenta.    In  four  months  she  re»- 
charities,  places  the  emoluments  la*    Uzed  15,000  guineas,  and  refused  an 
vished  upon  public  performances  on    offer  of  J  0,000  to  give  ten  concerts 
the  Continent   at   an    elevation  fa<    in  Poland,  in  consequence  of  fear  of 
beyond  any  thing  that   this    coun-    the  climate.    She  also  sang  in  more 
try   bestowed  even  upon   her  own,     thau  forty  other  cities   and    towns^ 
her  favorite  Billuigton,  iu  the  height    and  frequently  appropriated  the  re- 
of  the  rage  with  which  that  great    ceipts  ox  concerts  to  the  poor.    Ma- 
singer  was  followed  after  her  return    dame  Catalaui  has  determined  oii  re- 
from  Italy.    During  her  stay  here,  it    tiring  (afler  a  short  time),  and  with 
was  said  that  Madame  Catalani  had    this  view  has  refused  various  offers 
earned  more  than  40,000/.    She  left    in  Italy,  being  desirous  to  conclude 
this  country  seven  years  ago,  went    her  public  career  in  England,  where 
to  Paris,  where  she  enjoyed  the  p&-    her  first  great  honours  were  obtain- 
tent  of  the  theatre  lialieh,  with  an    ed.    She  now  mirposes  to  make  a 
annual  allowance  of  7,000/.  from  the    tour  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland, 
court,  and  engaged  the  first  compo-     and  to  return  to  London  next  spring, 
sers  and  singers,  who,  when  Catalani    Such  have  been  the  respect  and  the 
did  not  sing',  had  little  attraction :     profits    which    have    attended    this 
she  therefore  quitted  Paris«  wonderful  creature.     In  private  life 

At  Berlin,  her  success  was  com-  her  manners  are  amiable  and  ezem- 
pleted  by  a  letter  of  acknowledge-  plary.  She  is  the  wife  of  M.  Valle- 
ment  from  the  King,  written  with  breque,  whom  she  first  met  at  the 
his  own  hand,  accompanied  by  the  house  of  General  Lusnes  in  Poriu- 
ffTand  medal  of  the  academv.  At  gal,  and  has  two  children,  a  boy  and 
Hanover,  the  Duke  of  Cambridge  re-    a  girl. 

ceived  her  '^  with  the  amenity  which        Mrs.  Dickons  has  retired  from  pub- 
distinguishes  him."    She  gave  a  con-    lie  life,  and  is  residing  m  France, 
cert  for  the  poor,  and  was  crowned        Signora    Corri    is    gone   to   Italy 
at  the  theatre.     From    thence  she    with  her  father  and  a  yomiger    sis- 
went  to  Stutgardt,  where  her  sing-     ter,  Angelina,  who  made  her  debut 
ing  made  such  an  impression  on  the    last  season,  at  her  benefit  concert. 
King,    that,   just    previous    to    his         The  King's  Theatre,  it  is  report- 
death,    which    happened   soon  after    ed,   is  engaged  liy  Mr*   £bers,  and 
her  arrival,  he  pronounced  her  name.     Kosshii    will    come   to   England   to 
At  Munich,  the  Queen  embraced  her    compose  for  the  next  season. 
(we  almost  wish  for  the  moment  to        There  have  been  two  provincial 
have  been  the  Queen)   and  reconi-    meetings  since  our  last  report,   at 
mended  her  to  her   daughter,    the     ^V'orcester  and  Chester ;  the  former 
Empress  of  Austria.    At  v'ienna  she    of  which  was  unfortunately  attended 

fave  Concerts  at.  the  Redoubt,  and  by  the  death  of  ]Mr.  Griffiths,  a  ba&s 
,000  persons  (at  a  high  price  of  singer,  in  an  apopleciic  fit,  during 
admission)  are  said  to  have  been  Mr.  Vaughan's  song  of  *'  Gentle 
present  at  each  of  them.  The  £m-  Airs,"  in  the  church.  This  professor 
peror  presented  her  with  a  superb  was  amongst  the  few  living  who  sang 
ornament  of  opal  and  diamonds,  and    at  the  Abbey. 

the  magistracVj  to  manifest  their  The  publications  are  a  little  more 
sense  of^her  charity,  struck  a  medal  numerous  at  this  season  than  usual, 
to  her  honour.  Twelve  Monjerrinas  for  the  Piancm 

At  6t  Petersburgh,  though  the  Jbrte,  by  M-  Clementi.  A  Monferrina 
price  of  admission  was  fixed  at  twen-  is  a  dance  peculiar  to  the  state  of 
ty-four  roubles,  hundreds  were  night-  Monferrato.  They  are  of  an  ex- 
ly  disappointed '  of  seats ;  and  at  tremely  singidar  construction,  and  to 
length  Madame  (*atalani  gave  a  us  entirely  new.  They  are  all  in 
concert  at  the  Exchange,  when  six-eight  time,  and  consist  of  a  major 
4,000  persons  were  presenL  The  and  minor  movement.  They  partake 
receipts  of  this  evening  were  be-  of  the  graceful  character  of  the 
stowed  upon  ^)0  unfortunate  fami-  waltz,  but  want  its  siuiplicity,  and 
lies.  Their  Imperial  Majesties  em«  are  capable  of  much  expression  ;  in 
braced  her  at  parting,  and  loaded  this  respect  alone  they  are  difficult, 
her  with  rich  presents,  consisting  of  The  tenth  number  of  tlie  Ofttrmiie 
#  girdle  of  diamonds  and  other  oir-    Airsi^hj  Holder^  v|iona  v«ry  |iictly 


18il.;]  Report  of  Mnric  667 

air  of  Bishop's,  My  Native  Highland  presoit  month  are,  the  overture  to 

Home,  from  the  Slave.    A  very  Sf*  H  Thtrco  in  Itaiia  for  the  piano-forte, 

greeable  flow  of  melody  is  miuntain-  by  Watts ;  Mozart's  overture  to  11 

ed  throughout  the  piece,   which  if  Seraglio,   with   a  flute  and  violon-« 

animated  and  brilliant.    The  intro-  cello  accompaniment;  the  overture, 

duction,  however,  is  rather  common-  sinfonias,    marches,    and    chorusset 

place.  in    Handel's    oratorio  of  Hercules, 

A  Tenia  with  Variations  and  Waltz,  adapted  for  the  organ  or  pianoforte 

by  the    Fame   composer,    is  in  the  by  Dr.  Crotch.    Some  of  these  adap« 

siiiooth  style  of  the  former  but  lest  tations  will   be    found    particularly 

difficult.     The  variations  present  no-  useful  as  voluntaries, 
tiling  novel  in    their    construction ;        The  third  book  of  selections  from 

they  lire,   however,   agreeable,  and  Himmel's  Fanchon,  by  V.  Novello, 

the    yoimg    performer    may    derive  as  duets  for  the  pianoforte.  We  hava 

from  them  both  pleasure  and  profit  already  mentioned  the  great  beauty 

A  Fantasia  for  the  Pianoforte,  by  and    elegance  of  these   duets — this 

Gladstanes,  is  in  a  scrambling,  uncon-  number  scarcely  equals  its  predeces- 

uectcd  style,  with  but  little  to  attract  sors,  because  the  subjects  are  not  al«» 

the  ear.     It  ought  to  be  remembered  together  so  beautiful  and  interesting, 
that  the  word  Fantasia  is  not  a  li-        The  vocal  department  of  compos!- 

cence  for  evert/  sort  of  extravagance :  tion  is  by  no  means  distinguished  by 

composers  are  too  apt  to  consider  it  any  considerable  accessions.    Hark 

as  a  sanction  for  every  excess  of  the  the  wind  with  sullen  roar,  a  trio,  and 

imagination.  No  time  is  like  the  present,  a  song,  Zw 

No,  10  of  the  Quadrille  Rondos,  by  J,  Watson,  are  admirable — for  their 

Calkin,  is  hrely  and  agreeable.    The  absurdity.    The  trio  is  indebted  to 

cadences  are,  perhaps,  rather  awk-  Mr.  Bishop's  Fast  into  the  waves,  but 

ward,  but  the  subject  is  pretty,  and  the  song  owes  no  obligations  to  any. 

keeps  up  the  spirit  of  the  piece.  body,  except  indeed  it  be  to  the  poet, 

Adesie  Fideles  with  Variations  for  the  who  has  added  incessant  and  evanes- 
Harj),  hf  Dussek.    There  is,  perhaps,  cent  as  rhymes  to  present,  to  our  al- 
niore  sameness  in  compositions  for  ready  numerous  stock, 
the  harp  than  for  any  other  histru-        The  Christmas  rose,  a  duet,    by 
ment,  and  in  the  piece  before  us  this  Mr.  Dannelly,  promises  something  a( 
defect  is  very  apparent.    Arpeggios  the  lieginning,  but  the  close  is  bolster- 
constitute  the  principal  features  of  ous  and  barren.    This,  like  the  sai^ 
the  variations  under  tue  form  of  the  rose,  is  both  in  and  out  of  season, 
triplets,  (ascending  and  descending)         The  wounded  negro  boy,  is,  we  ear- 
quadruplets,  &c.  &c.      The   air  is,  nestly  hope,   defunct,  dead    of  h]» 
however,    well  preserved,    and    its  wounds.    So  may  he  himself  be  at 
sweetness  will  not  fail  to  recommend  rest,  and  all  honest  passengers  be  no 
the  lesson,  united  as  it  is  with  a  cer-  more  disturbed  by  hb  dolorous  wail« 
tain  portion  of  brilliancy  and  facility  ings. 
of  execution.  The  parting  moment  fast  drew  nigh. 

Introduction  and  Polarca  Duetts  for  is  too  chromatic  to  be  pleasing. 
two  Harps,  or  Harp  and  Pianoforte ,        Deep  in  my  soul,  by  G.  V.  Duval, 

hy  Chipp.    This  is  a  very  agreeable  Esq.  ncgins  with  the  very  notes  of 

and  easy  composition,  and  m  every  Mr.  Horsley's  lately  published  and 

way  suited  to  a  concert  defamiUe,  beautiful  canzonet  Laura*    There  if 

The  First  Numbers  of  a  Series  of  more  pretension  in  this  ballad  than 
Ojteratic  Overtures,  composed  and  ar^  in  any  of  the  former,  and  as  a  whole 
ranged  by  J.  F.  Danne/ly,  does  not  it  is  better  by  some  degrees.  Mr. 
promise  much.  Mr.  Dannelly  has  Duval  probably  did  not  know  that 
taken  detached  passages  of  the  over-  Mr.  Horsley  has  published  a  song 
ture  to  //  Don  Giovanni,  and  inter-  called  Medora,  upon  the  same  words, 
spersed  them  among  paraphrases  of  Summer,  by  Sir  John  Stevenson,  is 
his  own,  where  they  float  like  drops  by  no  means  equal  to  his  general  pro- 
of oil  upon  tlie  surface  of  water,  ductions.  Its  principal  fault  is  a. 
There  is  neither  solution  nor  even  total  want  of  character.  It  twinkles 
mixture,  and  both  fluids  are  rendered  like  the  *'  many  twinkling  leaves" 
useless.  of  the  season  it  celebrates,  and  to 

Amoiig  '.Ike  Mrrar^menta  of  the  about  as  much  purpose. 


5i8 


LUerary  attd  Scknti/U  IiU€liigtnce,  ^c. 


CNor. 


7%#  Rote  of  affection,  from  the 
same  hand,  is  just  a  pleasing  pretty 
ballad.  Tiie  poet  has  fallen  mto  a 
curious  rhetorical  error^  when  he 
talks  of  ''the  soJ\  hues"  of  a.  promise 
never  fading  from  his  mind. 

We  would  earnestly  recommend 
Pope's  "  Verses  by  a  Person  of  Qua-> 


lity/'  as  a  serious  study  to  erery  ho* 
nest  gentleman  who  designs  to  show 
his  passion  "  in  rhyme.**  Ixxwe,  if 
we  may  trust  to  the  instances  of  most 
of  our  "  Ballad  mongers/'  is  become 
a  terrible  affliction,  but  one  remore 
from  ideotic  imbecility. 
Oct,  20,  1821. 


LITERARY  AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

Italian  Literature, — PiofesRor  Barbieri^  city,  has  offered  a  prise  of  200  ducats  ftr 

of  Milan,  who  has  already  distinguished  the  best  ooiuedy  or  tragedy  tfamt  ahall  bs 

himsdf  as  a  writer  for  the  stage,  is  now  sent  in  the  ooiine  of  the  present  yesc    A 

employed  in  publishing  a  selection  of  the  collection  of  Poems  by  MdlU  paldiBhad  at 

best  modem  oamas  of  Italy,  andtranala-  Naples  under  the  title  of  Paesie  di  mb 

tionsfromthe  most  oelebrated  dieatricalpro*  Amieo  degli  Oomink,  few  breathes  a  wmnm 

ductions  of  Germany  and  other  countries,  patriotic  spirit,  indulging  in  lofty  aatiema. 

A    12mo.    volume,    generally  containing  tions  of  freedom,  but  lus  hopes   and  nk 

three  pieces,  appears  montlily :  in  the  first  prophecies  have  since  been  frustrated.     In 

are  translations  of  Delarigne's  Vepres  Sid-  many   places  the  author  speaks  in   h%|b 

liennes,  Kotzebue*8  Count  Beojowsky,  and  terms  of  commendation  of  seyeral  men  of 

a  comedy  fVom  the  pen  of  the  editor  himsdf,  rank,  who,  like  himself,  prefer  the  indepcad- 

entitled  II  Temo  al  Lotto.     In  the  higher  ence  of  their  country  to  the  pririleges  aa- 

departments  of  science  and    philosophy,  nezed  to  a  nobility  depressing  to  the  oom- 

many  productions  have  appeared  that  uiow  munity  in  general,  and  hostile  to  its  inle. 

the  Italians  to  have  shaken  off  that  apathy  rests.     La  Staria  delta  FUosofia  Greca^  by 

and  torpidity  which  have  hitherto  prevent-  Dr.  Sacchi,  of  Pavia,  is  a  work  of  oooside- 

cd  the  south  of  Europe  from  attaining  the  rable  interest  and  information,  in  whidi  dia 

rank  enjoyed  by  its  northern  rivals.    11  author  displays  great  erudition,  and  tfamws 

CatechUmo    Agrarioy   by   Caro    Pollini,  considerable  light  upon  a  difficult  subject. 

Member  of  the  Veronese  Society  for  the  There  are  four  volumes  now   published: 

Promotion  of  Agriculture  and  Trade,  al-  the  first  contains  the  History  of^  the  lonie 

though  a  small  volume,  is  one  of  considera-  and  Pythagorean  schools;  the  second,  diat 

ble  interest.     The  writer  treats  in  a  plain  of  the  Italic ;  the  third,   of  the  Eleatic ; 

and  perspicuous  manner  of  whatever  is  ne-  and  the  fourth,  an  account  of  the  Herac* 

eessary  to  be  known  by  the  husbandman,  litic  and  Sophistic  sects.     Professor  Ressi, 

and  hss  been  very  favourably  mentioned,  of  Pavia,  has  published  a  work  on  politi. 

He  has,  however,  little  that  can  be  termed  cal  economy,  entided  DclV  Ecomomia  idit 

original,  most  of  what  he  says  having  al-  Specie  Humana^  in  which  he  expomidi 

ready  been  communicated  to  the  public  by  very  perspicuously  the  theories  of  Qnesaay, 

He  and  other  Italian  authors  on  agricultu-  Smith,  Stevard,  and  Ortes ;  and  addnoea 

rsl  topics.     The  Collezione   dei    Classici  the  various  opinions  of  Malthus,  Herrensdi- 

JtaHani^  publishing  at  Pavia,  proves  by  ward,  lAuderdale,  Sismondi,  and  Lidite&. 

the  success  whidi  it  has  received,  that,  at-  stein.    Another  work  relating  to  the  phikw 

tached  as  they  are  to  the  lighter  and  more  sophy  of  politics  and  government  is  SmW 

elegant  arts,  the  Italians  do  not  neglect  the  Adminutrazione  delta  Giust'usia  Penak  ae* 

more  abstruse  branches  of  science,  nor  are  Gaverni  Costituzionaliy  Napeti,  1821,  oo 

averse  to  studies  which,  fVom  their  dryness  the  Administration  of  Penal   Justice  in 

and  speculative  nature,  present  so  little  to  Constitutional  Governments.    The  author, 

captivate  the  imagination,  or  to  aUore  any  Francesco  de  Marco,  enquires  into  the  real 

but  those  who  are  decidedly  reflecting.     In  principles  of  penal  justice,  and,  in  explain- 

this  respect,  therefore,  Italy  may  be  allow-  ing  the  nature  of  constitutional  ^ovemment, 

ed  to  be  not  at  all  less  active  than  her  he  deduces  the  necessity  of  trial  by  jury ; 

neighbours.      Among  the  works  already  pointing  out,  at  the  same  time,  the  varioas 

nven  in  this  collection,  is  a  translation  of  forms  which  modem  nations  have  given  to 

Kant*s   Critic  of  Pure  Reason.     Signora  thb  method  of  triaL     This  work  .will  be 

Luna  FoUicro,  of  Naples,  a  lady  who  ad-  found  to  display  an  intimate  acquaintance 

dressed  an  elegant  patriotic  ode  to  her  coun-  with   modem  jurididal  knowledge.     The 

trymen,  delineating  in  powerful  language  Neapolitan  press  has  also  ushered  forth  to 

and  glowing  colours  the  advantages  of  the  the  world  a  project  for  a  system  of  univer- 

**  New  Constitution,**  has  written  a  treatise  sal  public  instmction,  Sagffio  d*  Istruskme 

on  the  Physical  and  ftloral  Education  of  Univcrtalr  e  Pubtlca^  by  Nicole  CoreDi, 

Fanalea.— Salvadore  Fabbrichard,  mana-  Professor  of  Chemistry.     This  publication, 

gerof  theXcitio  FkKcntinoia  te  MOBMt  ^abidi^raadediGirtea  ta  the  Nakiooal  Pte* 


18S1.]]                    Literary  and  Scientifle  TnttUigtneef  S^.  dS9 

liament,  owed  its  birth  to  certain  appear-  long  mnce  a  steam-boat  veotured  to  sea  in 

anccs  in  the  political  horizon  that  promised  a  violent  tempest,  when  do  other  vessel 

the  dawn  of  a  brighter  era,  but  which  have  could,  to  the  assistance  of  a  richly-frcight- 

since  pa»Hed  away.     Besides  the  general  ed  merchant  ship. 

views  wiiich  he  here  takes  of  the  subject,  Armenian  Journal.-^ A.  Journal  in  the 

the  author  proposes  the  establishment  of  Annenian  language  is  now  printed  at  the 

a  committee  of  jurors,  whose  object  should  Armenian  convent  at  Venice.     This  pub« 

be  the  improvement  of  all  arts  and  sciences,  lication,  the  contents  of  which  arc  chieflj 

Under  the  title  of  Memoric  Storichfj  S^.  (ranslaied  from  the  Italian  journals,  has  a 

we  are  presented  with  a  biography  of  Count  very  considerable    circulation    througliout 

Vincenzo  Dandolo,  and  an  account  of  his  all  the  Levant    At  Constantinople  it  haa. 

various  works.     Compagnoni,  the  author,  many   subscribers,    and   has   even  found 

and  intimate  fHend  of  Dandolo,   exhibits  way  into  the  Seraglio.     The  Hospodars  of 

his  merits  in  chemical  knowledge,  and  the  Wallachia  and  Moldavia  avail  themselves 

testimonies  which  foreigners  have  paid  to  of  it  very  extensively,  for  the  political  buU 

his  acquisitions  and  labours  in  this  branch  letins  which  they  are  obliged  to  draw  up 

of  science.  every  week  for  the  Grand  Signior. 

Germany. — A  pocket  edition  of  a  series  Nubia. — M.  Gau,  of  whose  travels  wb 
of  translations  from  the  most  classic  writers  have  before  spoken,  has  commenced  the 
of  foreign  countries  is  now  publishing  in  publication   of   them    under  the  title  of 
Germany.      Among    the   works   already  ^'  New-discovered  Monuments  of  Nubia  ■ 
published    are,    Voltaire*s    Candide    and  on  the  banks  of  the  Nile,  between  the  first 
Charles  XII,  Moliere*s  TartufTe,    Shak-  and  second  Cataracts,  drawn  and  measured 
i^eare's  Timon  of  Athens,  and  Lord  By-  in  1819."    The  works  which  have  hitherto 
zon*s  Poems.  appeared  respecting  this  very  interesting 
Denmark, — A   literary    discussion    re-  country,  afford  but  very  little  intelligcnee 
specting  the  merits  of  northern  and  das-  respecting  its  architecture  and  monimients 
sical  mythology  has  lately   excited  much  of  art     Even  the  plates  to  Be]zoni*s  book 
attention.    Baden  continues  to  attack  the  are  devoted  chiefly  to  the  bas-reliefs  in  the 
system  of  northern  mythology,    and  has  tombs  of  Thebes,  and  what  antiquities  of 
himself  been  attacked  in  return  by  his  op-  Nubia  are  represented  arc  not  given  with 
ponents,  the  advocates  for  it,  among  whom  architectural  precision.     M.  Gau,   on  the 
are  Professor  Finn,  Magnusen,  and  others,  contrary,  confines  himself  exclusively   to 
who  accuse  him  of  not  comprehending  the  Nubia,  and  has  delineated  every  subject 
spirit  of  die  mythology  which  belabours  with  the  greatest  exactitude  and  correctness, 
to  explode.     He  has,  nowever,  the  artists  Of  the  principal  buildings  he  gives  plans, 
Eckersbcrg  and  Hoyer  on  his  side.     On  elevations,  sections,  and  details,  and  the 
the  other  hand,  the  three  greatest  poets  of  bas-reliefs  are  represented  both  in  outline 
Denmark,  men  of  indisputable  genius,  and  and  coloured  ;    and  all  these  plates  are 
perfectly  indigenous  in  their  taste,   have  upon  the  same  scale  as  those  in  the  mag« 
given  authori^  to  the  anti-classic  party,  nificent  French  work  on  Egypt,  to  whi& 
and  have  borrowed  most  freely  from  the  the  present  publication  is  intended  as  a 
stores  of  the  Edda.    So  far  as  this  is  done  supplement    M.  Gau  gives  the  represent 
with  discretion  it   is   commendable,   but  tations  and  admeasurements   of   twenty- 
exclusive  sjrstems  of  taste  are  desirable  nei-  one  different  monuments,  upon  60  plates, 
ther  in  literature  nor  in  art  ten  of  which  are  coloured ;  and  these  are 
Numismatics. — A  Greek  silver  medal,  all  engraved  by  the  same  artists  as  exe- 
lately  found  among  the  ruins  of  Antiochia,  cuted  those  in  the  French  work :  conse- 
and  brought  from  Aleppo  to  Paris,  has  quently  the  uniformih^  of  the  two  works, 
the  head    of  Demetrius   Soter,    king  of  in  this  respect,  will  be  preserved.     The 
Sjnia,  and  that  of  a  female.     It  is  singular  text,  which  is  in  German  and  French,  and 
that  no  other  medal  of  this  monarch  pre-  written  by  one  of  the  most  intelligent  and 
sents  the  two  heads.    M.  Hauetroche,  in  erudite   antiquarians,    will   be   published 
a   recent  work,   proves   that  the  female  with  the  twelfth  and  last  number.    M. 
head  is  of  Laodice,  the  sister  and  wife  of  Gau*s  drawings  elucidate  in  the  most  satis- 
Dcmetrius  I ;  and  that  this  authentically  factory  manner  the  origin  and  progress  of 
confirms   the  conjectures  of  Visconti  re-  architecture  throughout  that  region,  where 
specting  a  fine  Cameo  (published  in  his  it  took  its  rise  in  Nubia  or  Ethiopia,  ma- 
Iconographie  Grecque,  pi.  43,  no.  27*)  re-  tured  itself  in  Sgypt^    and   attained  its 
presenting  both  those  personages.  acm^  at  Thebes.    They  represent  the  tem- 
Steam  Vessels. — These  veuels  arc  now  pies  situated  farthest  to  the  south,  which 
employed  in  the  Adriatic    One  (La  C!a-  are  probably   the   most  ancient  of  any, 
rolma)  goes  regularly  every  second  day  and  are  entirely  excavated  from  the  rocK. 
from  Venice  to  Triest     Another  (L*Eri-  Nearer  to  Egypt  these  temples  arc  only 
dano),  passes  regularly  between  Pavia  and  half  sunk  into  the  ground,  and  in   the 
Venice,  and  with  sudi  celerity  that  the  neighbourhood  of  the  first  fiitaract  thihr 
voyage  it  acoomplished  in  37  houzs.    Not  an  fbund  completely  above  grounds 


S60  Abitraci  of  Fortign  and  Pomesiic  Occurrenui.  ZJ^^^' 


MONTHLY  REGISTER. 


ABSTRACT  OF  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  OCCLTREXCLSL 

The  spirit  of  the  Greeks  towards  and  the  scholar  could  not  withhold 
the  Turks  still  continues  in  as  great  a  sucred  and  warm  aspiration  for  the 
a  state  of  exasperation  as  ever,  not-  cause  which  coi^\ires  up  the  sl;ade  of 
withstanding  the  apparently  pacific  classic  empire,  and  hecoiites  coii^e- 
document  issued  bv  the  Porte  ;  and  crated  by  the  names  of  Maratlioii  and 
fortune  seems  to  favour  their  exer-  Cheroiuca.  The  accessions  which  we 
tkms.  The  latest  accounts  have'  have  nientioued  are  of  the  highest 
brought  intelligence,  that  Novarice,  importance  to  the  Greeks,  who,  al- 
themostimportant  place  in  the  Morea,  though  intelligent  and  active,  must 
has  fallen  into  their  hands,  with  a  con-  necessarily  be  deficient  in  the  science 
fiderable  quantity  of  valuable  stores,  of  tactics ;  and  this  advantage  can 
It  is  not  at  all  improbable  that  in  a  ncfver  be  counterbalanced  by  a  cor^ 
very  short  time  the  whole  of  the  responding  one  on  the  part  of  their 
Peninsula  will  renounce,  or  cs-  antagonists,  whose  stupid  bigotry  re- 
cape,  the  dominion  of  the  Turks,  in  nounces  the  improvements  to  be  de- 
whose  possession  but  a  very  few  rive<l  from  Christian  communication, 
places  continue  to  linger.  In  the  However,  although  Greece  has  led 
mean  time,  a  very  enthusiastic  spirit  the  van  of  this  im|M)rtant  enterprise, 
in  favour  of  the  Greek  insurrection  said  thus  set  the  inspiring  and  patrio- 
seems  to  have  been  excited  on  the  tic  example,  it  is  not  perhaps  ou  that 
Continent :  the  last  accmmts  from  side  t!iat  the  Turkish  dominion  has 
Marseilles  state,  that  a  creat  mim-  to  fear  its  final  and  rapidly  approach- 
ber  of  young  Germans,  wno  had  been  ing  overthrow  in  Eiuope.  Russia,  ap- 
prevented  from  embarking  at  Trieste,  parently  acquiescing  in  the  views  of 
had  arrived  there  in  order  to  charter  the  surrounding  cabhiets,  and  renounc* 
a  vessel  for  Idria,  and  that  two  ing  all  idea  of  territorial  acqulsi- 
French  generals  were  to  accompany  tion,  has  still  in  silence  concentrated 
them  in  their  enterprise.  We  confess,  an  overwhelming  force.  Russia  has 
we  are  not  at  all  surprised  at  this  ever  deemed  a  free  communication 
patriotic  sympathy.  Independent  of  with  the  Mediterranean  an  object  of 
the  natural  desire  which  so  many  paramount  importance,  and  this  she 
military  men,  cast  altogether  upon  could  at  once  secure  by  posscs^ng 
perhaps  but  slender  resoiu-ces  by  the  herself  of  the  northern  part  of  Turkey. 
universal  peace,  must  have  to  resume  To  prevent  this  accession,  Austria 
the  activity  which  opetis  to  them  alone  could  effectually  interpose :  but 
wealth  and  honour — independent  of  she  has  had  her  quietus  in  the  occu- 
the  feeling  always  excited  in  favour  pation  of  Italy,  and  gratitude,  if  not 
of  the  weak  against  the  strong,  and  policy,  must  prevent  her  interposition, 
of  the  oppressed  against  the  oppres-  What  effect  such  a  change  might 
sor — independent  of  the  religious  dis-  hereafter  have  upon  our  possessions 
like  with  which  Christendom  must  in  India  it  would  perhaps  be  too  curi- 
have  observed  tlie  endurance  of  a  ous  to  contemplate;  but  at  all  events, 
Mahometan  yoke,  and  the  humane  no  change  can  deteriorate  those  who 
dislike  with  which  mankind  in  genera]  are  groaning  under  the  abject,  stupid, 
mnst  have  witnessed  the  arrogance,  and  uncivilized  bigotry  of  the  Turks, 
the  cruelty,  and  but  too  often  the  On  the  part  of  Spain  there  is  no- 
atrocity  of  its  imposition, — there  is  thing  very  new,  at  least  iu  a  political 
something  in  the  very  name  of  Greece  point  of  view  ;  but  the  Extraordinary 
to  excite  the  ardour  and  the  enthusi-  Cortes  have  been  occupied  with  a 
asm  of  civilized  humanity.  Even  subject  internally  of  much  importance 
where  the  politician  might  be  chilled  to  that  country.  Our  readers,  per- 
by  the  frost  of  interest,   the  patriot  haps,  may  recollect  that  in  the  King's 


1821.]]  Abitraei  of  Foreign  and  Domestic  OeewreMtg.  Mi 

speech  a  new  divition  of  the  country  the  pnecmitioiis  of  the  board  cfheahh, 

WU8  pointed  out,  as  a  project  proper  continues  to  make  dreadful  ravages, 

for  their  attention.     I'he  ancient  di-  In  Catalonia  and  Arragon  it  rages 

vision  of  the  Spanish   provinces  a-  with  such  fury^  that  on  the  23d  and 

mounted  to  thirtv-two^  an  apportion-  S4th    September    the  deaths,    ez« 

ment  so  unequal  as  to  occasion  much  elusive  ot  children,  amounted  to  260 1 

local  inconvenience.      The  prefects  It  is  said  that  the  entire  population 

appointed  by  the  Constitution,  and  of  Tortosa  have  fallen  victims  to  it, 

those  provincial  assemblies  to  whom  and  that  the  city  is  converted  into  a 

the  administration  of  justice  was  con-  desart.    The  bishop  feU  in  the  cause 

fided,  found  the  exercise  of  their  re-  of  humanity,  on  the  third  day  of  an 

spective    functions   much  impeded,  illness  contracted  during  his  exertions 

and  in  some  instances  entirely  frus-  to  comfort  those  afflicted ;  a  death 

trated,    by    the  great    distance    of  not  unworthy  of  a  Christian  apostle, 

some  of  their  districts  from  the  pro-  A  natural  alarm  has  communicated 

vincial  capitals,  and  in  many  cases  itself  to  France,  and  a  lazaretto  has 

by  the  excessive  populaticm  placed  been  established  at  the  Pas-de-Bisso* 

under  their  government.    Some  idea  bie  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Bidassoa, 

may    be    formed    of    this    by    the  where    every    person    coming  from 

fact,    that    Catalonia     alone     con-  Spain  is  subjected  to  a  quarantine^ 

tains    under    the    present    partition  of  a  duration  proportioned  to   the 

one  thousand  square  leagues  of  tcni-  length  of  his  journey.    Those  who 

tory,    and  upwards  of  a  million  of  come  from  an  infected  district  are 

inhabitants,  confided  to  one  provin-  forced  back.    At  Barcelona  the  mori- 

cial  assembly  and  one  prefect  Under  tality  is  stated  as  dreadful :   hopes 

the  new  system  this  province  is  to  be  were  entertained  that  the  cool  weather 

divided  into  four.     The  project  at  towards  the  close  of  September  would 

present    recommended    divides    the  have  arrested  the  progress  of  this 

whole    coimtry,     and    its    adjacent  cruel   disorder,  but  ninety  had  died 

islands,  into  fihy-one  provinces,  fix-  on  the   last  day  of  that  month,  and 

ing  the  maximum  of  Uie  population  six  hundred  new  cases  were  declared 

of  each  at  four  hundred  tnousand  on  the  dav  following. 

Kcople.    This  new  organization  is  to        In   Lisbon  a    strong  anti-British 

e  followed  by  a  fresh    census  and  feeling  has  shown  itself,  which  cer- 

valuation  of  property,    in   order  to  tainly  adds  but  littie  to  tiie  fame  of 

promote  a  more  euuitable  assessment  Portuguese  gratitude.   The  dismissal 

•of  taxes,  and  to  nx  the  internal  mi-  of  Lord  Beresford  has  been  followed' 

Htia  establishment  on  a  better  basis,  up  by  a  fiscal  imposition  upon  the 

This  plan,  creating  no  less  than  nine-  importation  of  all  British  manufac-^ 

teen  new  provinces,  and  materiallr  tures,  of  such  a  nature  as  to  amount 

altering  the  boundaries  of  the  ola,  almost  to  a  total  prohibition.    The 

must  produce  a  considerable  change  English  ambassador  sent  in  a  formal 

in  the  geographical  division  of  Spain  ;  remonstrance  against  the  imposition 

it  will  also  produce  much  expense,  by  of  these  new  duties,  and  next  day 

thecreation  of  so  many  additional  pub-  had  an  unavailmg  meeting  with  the 

lie  functionaries :  but,  on  the  whole,  new  ministry. 

the  plan  seems  a  ^ood  one,  and  its        Some    very    extraordinary    trials 

temporary  inconveniences  are  likely  to  have  taken  place  in  Paris,  the  results 

be  much  more  than  counterbalanced  of  which  mark,  better  than  a  volume 

by  the  permanent  beneficial  effects  of  observations,  the  state  of  public 

which  must  result  from  the  improved  feeling  in  that  country.    The  prmci- 

administration  of  the  laws,  and  the  pal  was  tiiat  of  M.  Barginet,  who 

more  equitable  collection  of  the  re-  was  indicted  for  a  libel  on  the  king, 

venue.    The  departmental  division  of  as  the  author  of  a  pamphlet  entitM 

France,   originally  proposed  by  the  ^'  The  Queen  of  England  and  Napo^^ 

Abbe  Sieyes,  and  acted  on  with  such  leon,  who  both  died  of  cancer."    The 

effect  by  Napoleon,  gave  rise,  in  all  publication,  which  M.  Barginet,  who 

probability,  to  this  alteration.  is  a  very  young  man,  boldly  avowed^ 

We  are  truly  sorry  to  state  that  manifestly  ascribed    to    poison    the 

the  yellow  fever  has  appeared  in  the  death  of  the  two  distinguished  indi- 

peninsida,  and^  notwitlistanding  all  viduals-  named  in  the  title.    In  Uie 


MS  .Abilrati  of  F^irHgn  and  Domestic  OccMrrmces*  C^^* 


fifth  page^  the  following  expressions,  has  a  despotic  censorship  to  a1 

which  must  serve  as  a  specimen  of  and  she  has  to  guarantee  her  literacy 

the  whole,  occur :  "  But  our  young  property  against  the  interference  <5f 

hands  will  not  carry  the  censer  before  the  police.     Paris  teems  at  this  mcM 

the  idols  to  whom  human  blood  is  ment  with  placards,  and  pamphlets^ 

sacrificed — ^before  we  were  subjects  and    caricatures,    on    the    death   of 

of  kings  we  were  citizens  of  a  coun*  Napoleon  ;    but    their    existence    is 

try  ;  we  will  speak  for  it,  and  we  ephemeral ;  the  very  day  on  which 

will  wait  for  the  future.     Caroline  they  issue  from  the  press  they   are 

was    sacrificed  to   private  interest,  seized,   and  suppressed  by  the  bii« 

and  Napoleon  to  policy.     I  hesitate  gands  of  government.     The  publiab^ 

not  to  repeat,  that  both  died  of  the  ers  have  latterly  successfully  evaded 

same  distemper  1    Where  will  that  this  interposition,  by  sending  fbitk 

cruel  delirium  end,  which  has  taken  an  immense  impression  at  the  mo^ 

possession  of    £uropean    cabinets?  ment  from  the  press,  which  is   in« 

Weary  of  treachery  and  perfidy,  have  stantaneously    bought    up    by    pre-* 

they  resolved  henceforward  to  em-  arranged  purchasers:    this   plan  se- 

?loy  only   poison  and   the  steel  P "  cures,    at  all  events,   some  trifling 
-he  jury,   after  some  deliberation,  profit,  before  the  pillage  commences.* 
acquitted  the  author  of  this  produc-  We  have  seen  some  of  those   pro-' 
tion,    probably    upon    the    ground,  ductions,  which  are  highly   charao* 
though  iK)t  expressed,  that  it  was  a  teristic  of  the  ingenuity  and  inven-' 
libol  rather  on  the  king  of  England  tion  of  that  mercurial  country, 
than  the  king  of  France.    This  was        We  are  sorry  to  have  to  place  in 
followed  by  the  trial  of  M.  Flocon,  the  very  front  of  our  domestic  iiitel- 
as  the  author  of  a   pamphlet    ad-  ligence  the  premature,  but  total  fai- 
dressed  to  '<  Francis  Charles  Joseph  lure,  of  all  the  splendid  anticipations 
Buonaparte,  born  at  the  Castle  of  to  which  his  Migesty's  visit  to  Ire- 
the    Tuilleries,   March  SO,    1811;"  land  had  given  rise  in  the  minds  of 
and  its  author,    who   also  avowed  those  who  possessed  a  superficial  ac- 
himself,  was  charged  with  '<  an  at-  quaintance  with  the  character  of  that 
tack   upon    the    order   of  the  sue-  people.  The  gaudy  and  hollow  bubble 
cession    to    the    throne,  ^an   offence  ofconciliationhasburst,  and  a  system 
against  the  person  of  the  king,  and  of  outrage,  robbery,  murder,  and  as- 
aii  offence  against  the  members  of  sassination  has  commenced,  scarcely 
the   Royal   Family."     The   passage  to  be  parallele<l  in  the  annals  of  any 
on  which  the  charge  principally  rest-  civilized  country.    The   counties  w- 
ed,  was  the  following,  *' Twice  have  Lunerick,  Mayo,  and  Cavan  are  at 
I  seen  the  soil  of  France  polluted  by  present  the  chief  seats  of  the  disturb- 
the  steps  of  foreigners,  whose  arms  ance.      In  the  former  of  these  coun- 
have  twice  imposed  upon  us  shame  ties   the   outrages  are   of  the  most 
and    slavery;    and    being    then  too  horrible  and  aggravated  nature.     A 
young,  I  could  not  ei^oy  the  glori-  most  respectable  magistrate,  a  Mr. 
ous    right  of   dying   by   the    hands  Going,  was  attacked  upon  the  public 
of  the  enemy.   Time  rolls  on,  things  highway,  and,  to  use  the  vulgarly  era- 
change,  men  pass  away,  sovereig^is  phatic  phrase  in  which  the  intelligence 
are  alarmed,   yes,   for  Uie  sad  off-  of  his  death  was  announced  in  Dub- 
spring  of  a  degenerate  race ! "     M,  lin,  "  his  body   was  made  a  riddle 
Flocon,  who  defended  himself,  con-  of!  "    Any  one  of  the  seven  wounds 
tended  that  he  had  not  transgressed  inflicted  on  him  must  have  proved 
the  boundaries  of  free  discussion  al-  mortal;    and    such   was  the   daring 
lowed  by  the  charter,  and  the  jury  ferocity  of  his  assassins,   that  even 
agreed  with  him.     So  far  we  should  the   dead  body   was   obliged   to   be 
have    to    congratulate    France,    on  guarded  home  by  a  military  escort, 
having  thus  acquired  the  invaluable  The  unfortunate  gentleman  was  dis- 
privilege    of   the  interposition  of  a  tinguished  for  his  loyalty,  and  has,, 
jury  before  conviction   and  its   con-  we  regret  to  state,  left  a  large  fa- 
sequences :    but   still   she  must   ad-  mily   almost  unprovided   for.       Go- 
vance    much     farther,     before    she  vernnient  have  offered  a  reward  of 
enjoys  the  glorious  freedom  of  dis-  20t)0/.    for   the   apprehension   of  his 
cuasion  allowed  in    England.      She  murderers,  who,  as  if  to  show  that 


18910              Abitraci  of  Foreign  a$uL  DomeHic  Oeaumnui.  463 

they  were  actuated  Bolely  by  a  aan-  nobility  of  the  kindom.  A  ^^cand  til* 
ffuinary  spirit,  left  his  watch  and  a  umphal  arch  was  erected  in  his  ho- 
large  sum  of  money  he  had  on  his  nour^  and  a  salute  of  110  pieces  of 
person  untouched!  At  a  meeting  artillery  announced  the  moment  at 
of  the  Irish  privy  council^  it  was  re-  which  he  passed  under  it !  The  city 
solved^  and  too  justly^  to  proclaim  was  splendidly  iUumuiated  in  the 
this  district  In  various  other  parts  evening.  We  lament  to  add  that  hia 
of  this  unfortunate  country^  midnight  Majesty  has  had  a  slight  attack  of 
meetings^  robbery  of  arms^  and  in-  the  gout^  which  confined  him  to  his 
cessant  organization,  prove  clearly  chamber,  and  for  a  time  interrupted 
enough  that  these  outrages  originate  the  national  festivities.  It  is  confr- 
in  previous  concert.  If  any  thing  dently  reported,  that  he  means  to  visit 
were  wanting  to  show  this,  it  would  Berlin  before  his  return,  and  also  that 
be  the  almost  incredible,  but  too  he  has  acceded  to  the  urgent  entrea* 
well  authenticated,  fact,  that  in  an  ties  of  the  French  monarch  to  receive 
hour  after  the  murder  of  Mr.  Going,  in  Paris  some  return  for  the  number- 
it  was  announced  to  the  country  by  less  favours  for  which  Louis  is  in- 
bonfires  upon  all  the  hills,  and  echoed  debted  to  this  country.  Lord  Lauder- 
by  a  savage  yell  of  exultation  from  dale  has  received  a  summons  to  meet 
the  villages  !  If  this  system  be  not  his  Majesty  in  that  capital  on  the  flrat 
speedily    and  manfully  suppressed,  of  December. 

we  should  not  be  surprised  at  a  re-  Sir  Robert  Wilson  has  laid  before 
newal  of  the  horrors  of  1798.    In  the  the  electors  of  South wark  copies  of 
tnean  time,  the  different  Actions  in  all    the   correspondence    which   has 
Dublin  seem  labouring  to  evince  how  passed  between  him  and  the  Duke  of 
hollow  and  hypocritical  were  thevr  York  on  the  subject  of  his  dismissal 
promises  of  forbearance.     The  ob-  from  the  service.     He  has  demanded 
noxious  toast  which  brought  down  to  know  what  charge  has  been  pr»> 
public  censure  upon  Alderman  Dar-  ferred  against  him,  who  has  preferr^ 
fey   has  been   repeated,    in   spirit,  it,  and  that  he  may  meet  his  accusers 
though  not  in  terms,   by  the  new  before  a  competent  tribunal ; — he  haa 
Lord  Mayor,  who  is  in  high  favour  also  demanded  from  Lord  Sidmouth 
with  his  party  in  consequence,  and  depositions  which  were  said  to  have 
does  not  appear  at  all  in  disfavour  been  made  against  him,  in  order  that 
with  the  government,  as  the  Lord  he  might  prosecute  the  parties  who 
lieutenant    was    not    only    present  made  them  for  peijury:    these  de- 
when  the  toast  was  given,  ana  drank  mands  have  all  met  with  a  direct  re* 
it,  but  toasted  in  return,  *'  the  Dub-  fiisal.     It  appears,  however,  from  a 
lin  Corporation."    If  the  King  was  published  note  of  a  conversation  be- 
in  earnest,  when  he  so  strenuously  tween   Sir  Robert  Wilson    and    Sir 
recommended    conciliation,    this    is  Richard  Bimie,  that  there  has  be«i 
strange  conduct ;  and  if  he  was  not  no  written  information  given  against 
— but  it  is  hard  to  say,  whether  the  the  ex-general.  In  the  mean  time  the 
*'  emerald  flowers,"  and  the  "  laurel  public  nave  warmly  discussed  the 
crowns,"  and  the  shouts  of  servile  and  subject,  and  a  subscription  has  been 
disgraceful  adulation,    which  alter-  opened  to  remunerate  Sir  Robert  for 
nately  insulted  the  spirit  and  under-  his  pecuniary  losses.    This  already 
standing  of  himself  and  Lord  Lon-  amounts  to  a  very  considerable  sum, 
donderry,  deserved  any  other  return  and  the  leading  Whig  Lords  have  con- 
than  derision  and  disappointment.  tributed  munificently ;  the  Duke  of 
The  reception  of  his  Majesty  at  Bedford,  Lord  Darlington,  Lord  Fitz- 
Planover  ^  has    been   quite  as  loyal,  william.    Sir    Francis  Burdett,   and 
though  with  much  less  of  servility  and  Mr.  Lambton  have  each  subscribed 
ostentation.    He  b  splendidly  lodged  ^ve  hundred  pounds ;  and  a  number 
at  the  beautifully-situated  palace  of  of  others  in  proportion.    A  meeting 
Herrenhausen,  and  on  the  10th  of  was   held    at    the  City  of  London 
October  made  a  solemn  public  entry  Tavern  for  the  puipose  of  advancing 
into  the  capital  of  his  German  domi-  this  object,  at  which  it  was  agreec^ 
nions,  accompanied  by  his  royal  bro-  that  any  overplus  which  might  exist 
thers  the  Dukes  of  Cumberiand  and  after  defraying  Sir  Robert  Wilson  a 
Cambridge^  and  attended  by  all  the  losses,  should  be  handed  over  to  the 


564  Ahttrad  of  Foreign  find  DwnesHc  Occvrreneei.  C^®^* 

famines  of  Honey  and  Francis^  the        The  American  papers  announce  a 

two  unfortunate  men  who  fell  victims  new  method  of  ruising   money  by 

on  the  day  of  the  Queen's  funeral,  lottery.    The  following  is  the  ezpe- 

Mr.  Lambton  was  in  the  chair,  and  dicnt^  as  announced  ny  public   ad- 

l^essrs.  Ellice  and  Hume  made  state-  vertisement,  and  it  is  alixe  remark« 

ments  which  certainly  went  altogether  ahle  for  its  novelty  and  its  modesty, 

to  exculpate  that  officer  from  any  "  A  young  man  of  good  figure  and 

charge  of  having  preconcerted  with  disposition,  unable,  though  desirouSy 

the  mob  the  impediments  by  which  to  procure  a  wife  without  the  pre- 

the  funeral  procession  was  diverted  limmary  trouble  of  amassing  a  for- 

from  its  course.    As  this  subject  will  tune,   proposes  the  following  expe- 

of  course  become  the  topic  of  parlia-  dicnt  fur  the  attainment  of  lus  wish- 

mentary    investigation,   we    abstain  cs— he  offers  himself  as  the  prize  of 

from  all  comment,  unhiformed  as  we  a  lottery,  to  all  widows  and  virgins 

are  upon  the  facts  which  led  mmisters  under  thirty-two !    The   number  of 

to  advise  the  measure  of  dismissal.  tickets    to   be  600,  at   fifty  dollars 

There  has  been  a  very  curious  ac-  each.    One  number  only  to  be  drawn 
quittal  in  one  of  the  courts  of  Paris,  from  the  wheel,   the  fortunate  pro- 
on  the  ground  of  excessive  bad  charac^  prietor  of  which  is  to  be  entitled  to 
ier!  A  man  of  the  name  of  Desjjar-  himself,  and    the    30,000    dollars!" 
dins  was  tried,  for  havhig,  on  his  own  This  ideal  value  of  a  husband  seems, 
confession,  admitted  that  he  was  an  in  some  degree,  countenanced  by  the 
accomplice  of  Louvel,  the  assassin  of  circumstance  of  two  ladies  having 
the  Duke  de  Berri,  and  the  case  was  in  the  course  of  last  month  fought  a 
clearly  proved.    Desjardins  set  up,  duel,   from  motives  of  jealousy,  id 
as  his  defence,  that  he  was  so  noton-  the  forest  of  Boulogne  ;   two  '^ots 
ous  for  his  falsehood,  that  nobody  in  each  were  fired,  but  fortunately  the 
the    world  could    give  credit  to  a  fair  combatants  escaped,  without  any 
word  he  said,  and  produced  a  whole  other  woiiiids  than  those  which  Cu- 
host  of  witnesses,  his  iriends  and  re-  pid  had  previously  inflicted, 
latives,  who  all  swore  to  the  fart  with         It  is  hientioncd  in  the  Irish  pa- 
such  effect,  that  he  was  declared  not  pers,  that  though  the  bogs  are  now 
guilty.    We  recollect  but  one  similar  quiescent,  several  mountains  in  the 
instance,  which  occurred  some  years  county  of  Gal  way  have  lately  moved 
ago  in  Ireland,  on  a  charge  against  a  away  to  the  sea  shore ;  it  is  rather 
man   of  highway  robbery.      In   the  late  in   the  season  for  a  visit  to  a 
course  of  the  trial  the  prisoner  roared  watering  place.  These  moving  moon- 
out  from  the  dock  that  he  was  guilty,  tains  are  situated   on   the  estate  of 
The  jury   acquitted    him,   and  the  Mr.    Martin,    the    member   of  par- 
judge  remonstrated.     "  Gootl  God,  liament,  and  are  part  of  the  posses- 
gen  tle.nen,  did  you  not  hear  tlie  man  sions  which  Moore  has  immortalized 
himself  declare  that  he  was  guilty!"  in  the  Fudge  family. 
*'  We  did,  my  Lord,"  said  the  fore-  Place  me  amid  O  'Kourkcs,  O  *TooIcs, 
man,  and  **  Uiat  was  the  very  reason  The  royal,  ragged  house  of  Taia, 
we   acquitted   him,  for  we  knew  the  Or  place  me  where  Dick  Mardn  Tula 
fellow   to   be  so  notorious  a  liar  that  The  houseless  wilds  of  Cunnemaxs. 
he  never  told  a  word  of'  truth  in   his  Mr.  Martin  is  so  well  liked  Iq  Gal* 
life"  way,  that  nothing  but  a  convulsion 

A  statement  of  the  revenue  has  of  nature  could  deprive  him  of  any 

been  published,  by  which  it  appears  of  his  territory, 
that  tnere  has  been  an  improvement        At  this  late  period  of  the  month 

of  849,000/.  comparing  the  last  qunr-  we  can  only  refer  our  readers  to  an 

ter  witli  the  corresponding  quarter  in  important  Russian  Ukase,  which  has 

1820:    in  the  Customs,   an  increase  been  just  received,  and  will  be  found 

of  150,000/. ;  in  the  Stamps,  about  in  our  Commercial  Report.     The  re- 

60,000/,  and  in  the  Excise  of  very  gulations   to   which  it    subjects  ail 

near  T0,000/.    We  sincerely  congra-  trading  vessels  will  materially  affect 

tulate  the  country  on  this  statement.  the  interests  of  England. 


18810 


Birth9^~I£aniage^^^De€Uhs. 


565 


DIRTH& 

Sept.  31.  At  Timerton,  Cornwall,  the  lady  of  Col. 

Sir  Ednrand  Key&ton  wnillam»,  KCB.  And  KTS. 

adaoifbter. 
28.  Al  her  Aithefi  hon»e.  Bedale,  Yorkshire,  the 

lady  of  Sir  J.  P.  Doreiford,  Uart.  a  boo. 
Oct.  8.   In  HilUtr«rt,  Berkeleyniquare,  the  lady 

of  H.  Bruoirhain,  Eitq.  a  daugnter. 

—  At  Eait  Uoarue,  Siusex,  the  lady  of  K.  Robeit* 
son,  Esq.  a  dau>;hter. 

6.  In  Great  .lameti-street,  Btdford-rovr,  the  lady 
of  £dwani  lloiroyd,  Esq.  a  dauKbter. 

8.  At  Adburv^Iace,  Berkshire,  the  lady  of  Sir 
James  Fellowes,  a  son. 

9.  At  the  BUhop  of  Chester*!  P&lace,  Chester, 
Lady  Charlotte  l4iw,  a  son. 

10.  In  Upper  Bedford-place,  RoiselKsqnare,  the 
lady  of  Wm.  I^oftos  Lowndes.  Esq.  a  son. 

11.  In  i>'oley«pIace,  Mrs.  Chas.  Neate,  a  son. 

14.  At  High  Legh,  Cheshhre,the  lady  of  John  Legh, 
Esq.  a  son. 

15.  At  Caroberwell,  the  lady  of  Charles  Janliue, 
Esq.  adau/htcr. 

19.  At  Walroer.  the  lady  of  Rear  Admiral  Harvey, 
CB.  a  danchter. 

—  At  Laudoe.  Cornwall,  the  lady  of  Thos.  John 
Phlllipps,  Ksa.  u  daughter. 

17.  In  upper  Oroircnor-ttreet,  the  lady  of  Dr. 

FittoD,  a  Kon. 
"  At  Londam-hall,  SniTolk,  Lady  Sophia  Mae- 

donald.  a  son. 
19.  In  Great  Ormond -street,  Qneen-sqnarc,  Blrs. 

Duff,  four  One  children,  three  boys  aikd  ooe  girl. 

IK    SCOTLAWD. 

At  Dmmmond-place,  the  lady  of  Sir  Wm.  Mil- 
liken  Napier,  Uart.  a  son. 

At  Kdlnburgh.  l^idy  Turpichen.  a  sen. 

At  Edinbunrh,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Liddell,  the  ladv  of 
the  Hon.  H.  T.  LIddeil.  of  Ravensworth  Castle, 
Durham,  a  son  and  heir. 

At  Edinbunrh,  the  ladv  of  Rear  Admiral  Otway, 
Conunander  in  Chief,  a  daughter. 

IK   IRELAKD. 

At  Roebuek-house,  near  Dublin,  the  hon.  Mrs. 
Peter  La  Touche,  a  son. 

In  Rutland-square,  Dublin,  the  Countess  of  I^ng- 
ford.  a  son. 

At  HelmoDt,  in  Qacen's  Countr,  Lady  Ixniisa  Do- 
rothea Campbell,  wife  of  Major  Geo.  Campbell, 
a  son  and  heir. 

At  Cork,  the  lady  of  Capt.  Dilkes,  RN.  a  son. 

At  Dublin,  the  lady  ot  Sir  Francis  Hassard,  a 
daughter. 

ABROAD. 
At  Malta,  the  lady  of  Geo.  Ward,  Exq.  Deputy 

Paymaster-General  to  the  Forces,  a  daughter. 
At  the  Govern nieut-bouBo.  JerMy,  the  ludy  of  His 

Excellency  Sir  Colin  Hulkett,  KCU.  and  GCH. 

a  daughter. 

MARRIAGES. 

Sept.  22.  Henry  Carter,  Esq.  of  Parliament-st. 
we^itminster.  to  Eliz.  Jane,  daughter  of  the  late 
Dr.  Bourgeois,  and  third  niece  of  Sir  Francis 
Bourgeois,  of  Dulwlch  College. 

Lately.  Charles  Dormer,  Esq.  son  of  the  late  Joi. 
Dormer,  Esq.  of  Warwicksliire,  and  Couxin  to 
the  present  Lord  Dormer,  of  Gn>ve  Park,  to 
Elizabeth  Charlotte.  dauKhter  of  Chas.  De  Coe- 
tlegpn,  Esq.  of  Asbfonl  Cottage,  Middlesex,  and 
Welbeck-street,  Ix>ndon. 

28.  At  St.  (ieoi^e*s.  Hauover-cquare,  Thomas 
Mailing,  eldest  son  of  Col.  Welsh,  of  Hertford- 
street,  Mayfiiir,  to  Frances  Sophia,  daughter  of 
the  late  Wm.  Hunter,  Esq. 

Oct.  1.  At  Whlppingham,  Isle  of  Wight,  Lieut. 
Col.  Samuel  Hull.  89th  Regt.  to  SophU,  Mary 
Lambert,  eldest  daughter  of  Charles  Lambert, 
Esq.  of  Fltzrov-square,  London;  and  of  Os- 
bome>house,  Isle  of  Wight 

2.  At  St.  James*,  Westminster,  Mi^or  Jns.  Haek- 
ett,  of  the  Hon.  East  India  Company's  Service, 
to  Marguerite,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Col. 
GledMiale,  of  Whitehaven,  Cumbo'land. 

6.  At  St  George's,  Bloonisbiiiv,  Thos.  Hunt,  Esq. 
of  Montacue-street  to  Ixralsa,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  thelate  Dr  John  M.  Lettsom.and  Grand- 
daughter of  the  late  Wm.  Nantoa,  Em}.  of  Rus- 
sell-sqoare. 

Vol.  IV. 


6.  AtSt  James's  Church,  by  the  Rev.  Chas.Jas. 
Hoare,  Hector  of  Ulandfunl.  Dorsetshire,  Koury 
Charles,  .second  aon  of  Henry  Hwh  Hoarr, 
Esq.  of  Barn  Kims,  In  thr  county  of"  Surrey,  to 
Mrs.  Prince,  yonngest  daughter  of  tlie  late  G«. 
neral  Ainslie. 

—  H.  W.  .'>uUtT,  E»fj.  of  Whitr  Stanton, >omrr<«<M, 
to  Elizabeth.  >uuiiKu«t  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Dashwood  Kiii;r.  Bart  MP. 

-•  AtiSt.  Gcvrge*a.  Hanover- st^uare,  Henry  Fii^hrr 
Sloane,  FUq.  of  KoekUeare  Court,  iuthe  CoUiity 
of  Devon,  to  .Snmh,  eldeiit  ilaaghter  of  the  lalfi 
Thomas  Porter,  Esq.  of  Hockbeure-house,  in  the 
same  county. 

9.  At  St.  John's  Church,  Chester.  Mr.  Ilobcit 
Mercer,  of  Hebiirue  Bridge,  near  Blackburn,  to 
Miss  Jrmium  Moriis,  of  Chester.  The  parties 
were  to  have  been  married  ihirty-six  yran  aifO^ 
the  bridegroom  has  siuce  that  period  been  liviug 
in  matrimony,  uud  has  had  eigktctn  children  by 
his  first  wife  :  and  what  adds  u>  tbe  idiigularity 
of  this  niurriaire,  is,  that  nutil  the  day  previous 
to  its  taking  place,  the  happy  eoopla  had  not 
seen  each  other  fer  thirty hiIx  years. 

10.  At  Mary-le-bone  Church,  B.  R.  Haydoo,  Esq. 
hbtoiicuf  pulnter,  to  Mrs.  Hymon,  of  Stone- 
hou»c.  Devouiphire. 

18.  At  Ltannurtlie,  Monmouthshire,  John  Haw- 
kins. Enq.  of  tialums,  Herts,  to  Maria  Anne, 
daut'ht«>r  and  co-heiress  of  the  late  Chaa.  Dodd, 
Esq.  of  PigKot*s  Kud,  HerU. 

—  At  .\ttrrdon  Church,  Kent,  the  Hon.  Captain 
Campbell,  UN.  MP.  to  Charlotte,  second  daugh.^ 
ter  of  Gen.  (iuscoyne.  Ml*. 

19.  At  St.  James's  Church,  John  Paul  Bedford^ 
Esq.  of  the  Theatre  Koyal,  Dublin,  to  .Miss 
Greene,  late  of  the  Theatre  Royal  Coveut  Gar- 
den. : 

«-  At  Ansley,  Warwickshire,  John  Chctwodt, 
Esq.  eidentson  of  Sir  John  Chetwode,  bart.  of 
Oakley,  Staftbrdshire,  and  nephew  to  the  Earl 
of  Stamford,  to  Klixabuth  Juliana,  eldest  dau}^h- 
ter  of  John  Ncwdigate  Ludford,  Esq.  DCL.  of 
Ansiey-hail. 

IK  SCOTLAKD. 

At  Valleyfleid,  John  Hi^y.  Esq.iun.  of  Smlthfield. 
and  Hayston.  to  MIks  Anne  Preston,  dnuirhter 
ol  the  Ikte  Lieut.  Col.  (Jeorffe  Preston,  of  the 
Royal  Marines,  and  niece  of  Sir  Robt  Preston, 
ofValles^d.Uart. 

At  Aberdeen,  Wm.  Knight,  LLD.  Professor  of 
Natural  Philosophy  in  l!ie  I nstitutiou  of  Bel- 
fast, to  Jane,  eldest  dau/liter  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Glennie,  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  and 
liOgic. 

IRELAND. 

By  the  Rev.  John  Mackenzie.  Di>.  the  Lord  Ed- 
ward Chichester,   second  son  of  the  Mnrquix 
of  IKtnegal,  to  .Amelia  Diana,  daughter  of  Urn— 
rv  Deaue  Grady,  Esq.  of  Mciiriuu-squore,  Dub- 

ABROAD. 

At  Guernsey,  TIios.  Carey,  Knf].  of  Roxcl.  in  that 
Island,  to  Barbara,  eliirst  danu'hter  or  the  late. 
Col.  Jackson,  MP.  for  the  County  of  Mdvo, 
Ireland. 

At  Leghorn,  by  the  Rev.  TIion.  Hall.  Chnnlain  to 
the  British  Factory,  the  Hon.  iVrlhur  Hill  Tre- 
vor, eldest  son  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  Ixird  Vircoont 
Dungannon,  to  Sophia,  daughter  of  Gor^reit 
D»Arc7  Irvine,  Esq.  of  Castle  Ir\'ine,  County  of 
Fermanagh,  Ireland. 

At  Leghorn,  John  Christie,  Esq.  of  Hoddrmli>n, 
in  the  County  of  Hertford,  to  Caroline,  eldest 
daughter  of  John  Fklcoaer,  Esq.  His  Britan- 
nic Majesty's  Consul  General  for  Tuscany. 

At  Windsor,  Nova  Scotia.  John  M*Kav.  Esq.  of 
Bettyhill,  Sutherlandshire,  Captain  i7th  liegt. 
of  Inftintry,  to  Amelia  Isabella,  third  dao^^htcr 
of  the  late  BeiOamin  De  Wolf,  Esq.  of  thut 
place. 

DEATU& 

Sept.  20.  In  Wigmore-strtet,  Gen.  And.  Cowell, 
formerly  of  the  Coldstream  Gnanls,  In  hb  GOth 
year. 

21.  At  Hampstead,  after  but  a  fiew  minutes  III- 
ness,  C-atberine,  the  wife  of  Charles  Barton, 
Esq.  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  Barrister  at  I^aw. 

Lately  at  Harlyn.  in  his  fihth  year,  H.  Peter, 
Esq.  formerly  Lieut  Col.  of  the  Cornwall  Mili- 


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B.  Al'ipDihwtck  Piirk   MUT  AniM,  Iha  will  of 
ThlW.TI.iiillMhw.ilr.  b^. 

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LoM  liKOGiit  N..I™,  ud  Ui.  ntml  £«{. 

;.  At  CafEwHOB.  Mn.  HsiiuUi  hlmrr,  wlOow 
of  Ibo  liK  »lc*Jahn  rumor,  of  lt»Uoi..»ii.^ 

CJU..1,  ...1  avui.  .f  U..  ^,:Sb  «gl.«„  ^ 

At  CanUantliupIc,  un  bli  InHlt, 
DouglH  Suaa,  £»].  onjj  kd  of , 


1,  Keijml  AnllliK.  Em.  ofDerUj. 

Ijuelir  u  UrtclloB,  the  >fu  oI  Sir  J<Aii  Oven.  At  LXnapore,  Ucniil  C9Ih  SlarclO.  Uol.  A 

But.  MP.  {hi*  nunlhiii)  Kkhnnl  Lc  Hnnw,  UrnMcLiuJ,  CO.  coiumaiidiDii  the  A9lb 

l!o<).a(Kt.  Ui>rolrb>,  i-Fin1>n>bnhint,  ond  Ar-  oftrr  in  illii»Boronly(]i(FF.b.r>. 


(tniDtof  Foot,  j< 
FoAm  Mi  ■ 
tly  u  Ui 

lut.  MP 

loif.alKt.  borolrbi,  i-rinlirobnhint,  ood  Ar-  iftrr  in  illii»Boronly(]i(FF.b.r>. 

'''^?l£'?'V  »'>l'""'- "1!^  '";  ,  ■*'  ^,Vr'/  '°  '■'' I""' ['".  Sf'  WnllrrSroBot Bnit. 

Aind  78^  Ju.  Donoilhorne,  En|.  of  Someiul.  of  Ballinioircr,  In  the  omdit  of  Anauh. 

UTHC, IVifnB«t«inirr.  AIMnltrn,  Eul  indlni,  Vtasrta Ihile^Sta.  Ut. 

3t.  After  >  h)i»  illnrw.  John  Heirmn.  MD.  al  i>r  lu  die  3d  iiuivc  cnwliy.  ^b  of  naaM 

UiiUifWlcli, Cbi-iliiie, m^ SB.  »v.I>'r.Kio.  ari1urhiinrr-k«iv. 

tM.I.AlP1nieuli.(ii:uriiFHuUi7Stm[t.FV|.Dr  At  l.lnban,  1.ih1i  Morik  J.  MioJonrll.  wtitow  of 

Millbrd,  Drrbnhirt,  rlitnl  Kiaofllto.  UnuwD  U«it.-UeiiciBl  .'.Jeuiiilcr  Jludoncll,  of  |«u 

Slnu,E*ii.  of  Beliwr,  lo  Ihe  (uot  Coanly.  KT. 

3.  JoHpbHvi>or.l>t;i^ogFiiil<^iiuinircllknowB  At  Mmlricl.  t.lnit.  Thomu  AttwSbl,  »a  of  T 
In  lb*  liUniT  "mU,  1»  Ii)<  work,  -  On  th<  Atiwooil,  Hjiq.  of  hii  Mi<ni(i  Iwod,  ud  «f- 
frinriplHof  Ptalroupblul  CHlldini.  uinllnt  muni  of  bl.  I'buW  Cathedral.  TIiN  aafar- 
■o  Poolrr.-  He  w»  miiiy  renr*  a  Mtmbri  of  lunalt  iirntlf man  loit  bin  t]f:  hy  aauulnyiao. 
Trinity  Col  Irn.  OilbnU  awl  »ine  doe  Defur  AI  lloili,  Umkt  Canada.  •fciSj,  Daniel  Haorr- 

rellct  ol  the^Her'!  Dr.  WluSy,  of  NonnitJ;  «  fnS^tJi,  LllK  Uhu"itc  HH^'elile^'toh- 

4.  Al  lib  bow*  in  Slunfotd-ttitfl,  in  hh  «lit  Sand.vi. 

Tear,  John  Btunle.  F*i.  ihe  Mlrlinml  Bnri-  AiCalcutii,  aiiE'l  G^.  Colonel  Colin  ttackeuk. 

ueer.    Bnrr  put  oC  the  UnlUd  Klninloin  pot-  CK.  or  ihe^liJiu  Eniiliiccn.  SurTno(.4kw 

Kioei (one  monnnenlofUa •kill, udmr^  lalnflodla.    Hln  iwkllc  Mrrlcea  ai  »  Batl. 

rial  of  lib  bna:  nor  an  nn^  coomrr  jitodiit*  ""'  u4  iSiimjor,  on  the  eDDtiorat  of  la^ 

worki  nperlor  In  manllnde,  ntllltj,  and  >cl-  aurlnv  Qie  Jong  period  of  hiif  yaait,  otrlnlnre 

tner.  to  lila  ttniilo,  the  breakmier  at  Pip.  forhin  DieapproballonoftbadHlerentaBTerB- 

inoutli,  and  (he  Walerloo  brUie.  Hli  mnaJiH  mrolo  nndir  ulilch  lie  wu  emphRtd.    Aula 

wrre  Inurrrd  DO  Ihe  18th  In  St  PbuI>>  Uthr-  anll^iuarr,  hli  lalenu  wen  hlnbly  eMecaied  bt 

dial,  near  thoM  of  Wno,  Milne,  Banr,  Key-  'ti"'  *<»c  loappreclale  Ihetn.  fnni  the  km««- 

nndalODRIialnof  pftnlaeani^cB  fiMmedUn  ■»  <hi^  South  of  Fnner.  aflir  a  p^nhl  maeB, 

(iineral  ptouaolon.  GeDrno  Maiwell.  Ku.  Ian.  of  rimekir.  tmi 

—  At  Nevpnit,  lale  ofWMit,  agtd  US,  Samiiet  Ueat..Colon(l  oflheGallonnpinllltla. 
Bnllap.    TUi  ladlrUnnr  bf  eieeMlie  puil. 

■KHiT,  namaed  npnrii  «f  10,<M«.  yet  hlTa^.  LOKQEtitV. 

pmuca  HU  atwtyt  Uialof  Bbrf;gar!  andhla  lo  f alr&i  connly,  Amirl!.!!,  .Mr.  Bobeit  Tboinu. 

nanoei  gf  living  wai  eqoallp  vreuhed.    He  *"^    ^^  van.      He  Itced  lo  lee  the  mlith 

bat  left  a  widaw  and  tmt  uu,  betvaeii  whom  ftnrration,  anilptrhapt  tbf  DutnlKraf  deeccnd' 

ba  baa  Prided  hit  property.  aatiof  Ihli  mao  li  aneijuallGd  la  hltiorr.    Al- 

6.  AtWorceitcr,  In  conacqaeace  of  an  apoplee.  tliouvh  hiA  habila  w^re  not  panlcniarip  ab- 

albedral  Ibe  prtcidlng  day,  iluini  one  of  the  dlcal  ild :  and  heieLilncdtbefDlliiteofbii  In- 

imtlal  parftrmaneei.  In  vhleli  be  >ra>  em.  •elleetualfiicnItlFi  to  tlielail, 

btcX  lo  bli  iral  durli»  Ike  time  that  Mi.  rean,Mr,Chaii.LayDr,>Fn.  Hi  vai  bora  aiAl. 

eairicd  001  and  bled  bul  wlUi  no  effect,  eontlnu.  l^W.  and  hu  left  a  oldow,  nho  b  hineH  ar- 

Mred,  about  4  o'clock  on  the 


LO  iKirth  gr 


-  A. KaartOlMioi^  „e«  Sonttjaiiipton,  In  her  ^Ul. ftW d^^or to  K=rT"ci«. ™.^! 

«di  «i.  HarrlH.  irlfe  of  Charles  flankMI,  Intend  litr  domudc  adaln.    So  Utile  •tiXcf 

gl-  •»' >hM  daajtlilar  efUnUiK  W.  VllKbolf,  nenory  Imulnd,  that  the  had  a  full  ne^  Is. 

r.&«te-Js«tif i.H-.  „„.  »niw,'«.Sff.E!;cs."~'  •> 

Wliliami,  of  Crali.y-dn,  Anglraea,  tlie  lady  of  ed  lothenwal  (tfeofman. 


At  Holluway- 
Inonilnarr  aja  of  131  Tea™,  and  In  Ibi  fkil  m- 
■entanofnll  hl<  hraliin,  Mr.  John  Maddnk. 

AjiFd  lu>  inn  mi  fire  uionthi,  Baiban  Husblr, 

of  tiK  l>9;.ban!:,  N'eocutlc. 


1821.]]        .    EccUtiatticcU  PrefcrmeiUs-*-Agriculiural  Report.  56r 

At  PUrig  Arentie,  Lcith-walk,  In  his  lOai  year,  frenrntlon  of  hi*  deseendanti.     His  memorr 

Jm.  AllisMU  A  native  of  <iorfunui>ck.  in  Stir.  wu«  retnarttublv  stronfr*  and  he  possesffd  a  vivid 

liniciihlre;  and  a  gardener  by  pntTeiiiiiou.    AU  recollection  of  tlie  events  conuected  with  tha 

tboD^^h  upwards  of  40  when  he  fint  married,  be  rebellion  of  1745. 
haried  three  wives,  and  lived  to  see  the  fourth 


ECCLESIASTICAL  PREFERMENTS,  &c. 

The  Rev.  T.  Ersklne,  AM.  son  of  J.  F.  Erskine,  Bishop  of  Cbester,  has  been  collated  by  his  Lord- 

Esq.  of  Mar,  and  cbaplain  to  the  Right  hou.  I^rd  ship  to  the  vicarage  of  Cbildwali,  Luncnsliire. 

Abercromby,  instituted  to  the  vicariufeof  Bcightoo,  OXFORD.— The  Rev.  Geo.  W.  Hall,  DD.  Master 

In  the  countv  of  Derby,  vacant  by  the  death  of  tlte  of  Pembroke  (College,  after  beinir  previously  no. 

Kev.  Richanl  Morton,  on  the  preseutatioo  uf  the  minated  by  the  Right  Hon.  Lord  ureiirille,  ihuD- 

Right  Hon.^arl  .Manvers.— Tlie  itev.  Henry  Wray  celior  to  the  University,  to  be  VIre-(  Chancellor  for 

Whinfield.  to  the  rectory  of  iiattles^don-cum-IMt-  the  year  ensuing,  was  invested  with  thatothce,  in 

grove,    Northainptoosliire.— The    Kev.   (.'haries  full  convocation:  after  which  he  nuniinutcd  his 

Mrickie,  MA.  to  the  rectory  ofQuarley.— The  Rev.  Pro-Vice-Chancellors,  vis.  the  Rev.  Thomas  Ixre, 

B.  (Vutwell,  LLB.,  (o  the  rectory  of  Sparksnall,  DD.  President  of  Trinity  College,  the  Rev.  Frod- 

Suffoik.— The  Kev.  L.  lirown,  BA.  to  the  rectory  sham  Hodson,  DD.  Principal  of  Bmzenose  Col- 

of  Thorringtoo,  Suffolk.— The  Rev.  W.Cookbum,  lege;  the  Rev.  Richard  Jenkyny,  DD.  Master  of 

to  tlie  rectory  of  Tilbridge,  Devon  —The  Rev.  W.  Bolllol  College :  and  the  Rev.  John  Collier  Jones, 

J.  Farrington,  to  the  rectory  of  TilbriJge,  Devon.  DD.  Rector  of  Exeter  College. 

^The  Rev.  J.  Wetherall,  LLi3.,  appointed  one  of  CAMBRIDGE.— Wm.  Joseph  Bayne,  Esq.  BA. 

the  Prebeoftsries  of  Hereford   Cathedral.— The  ofTrinity  College,  elected  a  Fellow  of  that  Society. 

Bishop  of  Bristol  has  appointed  the  Rev.  S.  Sever  — ^The  circumstance  of  there  being  only  one  va- 

mral  acan  of  hi>  diocese  .—The  Rev.  H.  Law,  BA.  cancv  at  the  annnal  election  of  Fellows,  has  not 

Fellow  of  S;.  John*»,  Cambridge,  and  son  of  the  happened  before  for  upwards  of  SO  years. 


AGRICULTURAL  REPORT. 

The  harvest  has  been  now  so  far  com-  years  of  high  prices,  from  the  vast  breadth 
plctcd  in  all  but  the  extreme  northern  of  enclosures,  and  the  immense  improvc- 
parts  of  the  country,  that  a  fair  estimate  ments  in  the  science  itself.  All  these:  con- 
can  be  formed  of  its  productiveness ;  and  spired  to  raise  the  expectation  of  tlic  in- 
there  can  remain  no  doubt  tl^at  in  bulk  crease,  which  is  now  brought  to  the  proof 
it  is  greatly  beyond  the  average.  The  by  the  facts  of  the  season. 
sample,  as  we  had  before  stated,  confdsta  It  has  long  been  suspected,  that  portions 
of  varieties  of  cold  and  damp,  and  mixed  of  foreign  wheat  have  been  smuj^lcd  out  of 
and  soimd  com.  Yet  we  nave  not  the  the  warehouses,  under  the  King^s  Lock.  In 
smallest  hesitation  as  to  the  growth  aiid  one  case,  we  understand,  this  suspicion  has 
stock  being  abundantly  more  than  sufHcient  been  very  recently  proved  to  be  well  found- 
for  the  consumption  of  the  year.  There  ed,  viz.  at  Bridlington,  in  Yorkshire; 
is  not,  nor  has  were  ever  been,  the  small-  where,  either  by  collusion  with  the  officers 
est  chance  of  the  ports  opening,  except  of  excise,  or  by  their  neglect  or  folly,  a 
some  grand  mananivre  be  playod  off,  to  considerable  qtiantity  has  actually  been  rc- 
which  we  cannot  imagine  any  power  pos-  moved.  There  is  great  reason  to  believe 
sesaed  by  individuals  to  be  adequate,  in  that  similar  practices  exist  in  other  quar- 
the  present  state  of  knowledge  and  of  the  ters,  and  the  landed  interest  could  not  do 
press.  For  observe  how  the  slight  rise  better  than  to  petition  the  Board  of  Trade 
that  took  place  about  a  month  smce  af-  to  cause  the  same  officer  of  the  cvntows 
fected  the  market  In  the  weeks  ending  who  was  employed  in  the  investigation  of 
Sept  22  and  29,  and  Oct  6,  and  13;  this  affair,  to  survey  all  the  wareliouneH 
27,436  quarters  of  English  wheat,  15,110,  where  foreign  grain  is  deposited.  We 
20,210,  and  13,783,  arrived  coastwise  at  have  the  surest  grounds  for  believing  that 
the  port  of  London,  while  the  several  mar-  frauds  of  various  kinds,  to  the  same  in- 
kets  of  the  kingdom  indicated  a  like  re-  tent,  viz.  the  introductian  of  fbreign  wheat 
dundant  supply.  During  the  year  1818,  the  into  tlie  home  market,  would  be  cbtectetL 
foreign  and  English  average  supplies  joint-  The  wheat  sowing  is  now  beginning, 
ly,  were  not  1 2.000  quarters  weekly  ;  and  and  agriculturists  of  high  note  have  pub- 
in  no  instance  of  late  years  has  such  a  lished  the  results  of  various  experiments, 
vast  quantity  of  English  growth  come  at  relative  to  the  prevention  of  smut  in 
once  into  Mark  Lane,  as  during  these  wheat.  Amongst  others.  Sir  John  Sin- 
weeks.  A  great  proportion  too  is  of  o/i  dair,  and  J\Ir.  Blaikie,  the  highly  rt-^pcct- 
wheat,  M'e  consider  these  as  strong  symp-  cd  steward  of  J.  W,  Coke,  Esq.  claim 
toms  of  that  surplus  which  we  believe  to  from  their  rank  in  practical  science  tlie  first 
exist.  We  have  lately  travelled  over  the  regard.  Sir  John  advocates  the  use  of 
country  in  many  directions,  and  never  do  blue  vitriol  (sulphate  of  copper)  as  a 
wc  remember  such  a  congregation  of  stacks  pickle,  and  he  gives  the  following  recipe 
as  is  now  every  where  to  be  seen.  These  for  its  use :  "  After  dissolving  five  poiuid>' 
appearances  only  corroborate  the  expccta-  weight  of  the  sulphate  of  copper,  or  blue 
tions  naturally  to  be  formed  from  the  ex-  vitriol,  in  hot  water,  add  as  nmch  cold 
citcmcnt  towards  agriculture  of  so  many  water  as  may  be  sufficient  to  cover  tiirctt 


^68  Agricultural  Report.  [[Nov. 

bushels  of  wheat.  I^et  the  wheat  be  gra-  operation  is  best  perfoimed  by  ahaldng  the 
dually  passed  through  a  riddle,  in  order  iHieat  through  a  riddle  into  the  water;  tbe 
that  all  the  light  grains  may  swim  on  the  seeds  of  we^s,  baBa  of  smut,  and  ligbt 
surface,  and  be  skimmed  ofT.  Stir  the  com,  will  then  float  on  the  surfiioe,  and  may 
wheat  repeatedly,  that  it  may  be  effec-  be  skimmed  off  at  pleasure,  for  the  peifeit 
tually  cleared  of  all  the  light  grains  ;  let  com  only  will  descend  to  the  bottom :  after 
the  wheat  continue  in  the  liquid  for  five  or  the  refuse  has  been  carefully  skimmed  oB^ 
six  hours,  or  it  may  remain  even  longer,  die  wheat  should  be  n^ell  stirred  up,  and, 
without  risk.  It  should  then  be  taken  out,  if  the  water  appears  turbid  or  foul,  it  shoald 
and  thrown  upon  the  floor.  If  it  is  to  be  be  poured  ofif,  and  more  dean  water  adde^* 
sown  broadcast,  it  should  be  crusted  with  and  the  wheat  again  stirred  up ;  thia  pro- 
lime  in  the  usual  way ;  but  if  intended  for  cess  should  be  repeated  imtil  the  wneat 
drilling,  it  should  be  stirred  about,  for  five  appears  clean,  which  is  denoted  by  tbe  wa-> 
or  six  hours  in  dry  weather,  or  double  that  ter  being  quite  clear  when  poured  oflf^ — die 
time  in  moUt ;  or  by  the  use  of  a  fiihner,  wheat  uiould  then  be  put  into  the  picUe 
it  win  soon  become  perfectly  dry  ;  it  may  previously  prepared  for  it. 
then  be   driUed  with  as  much  fiicility  as        ^^  I  prefer  that  of  salt  water  made 


grain  that  had  not  under;^ne  any  openu  ently  strong  to  float  a  fresh  or  new  laid  hen*li 

tion.     After  from  six  to  nine  bushels  nave  egg,  and  I  recommend  that  appUcatkn, 

passed  through  this  operation,  then  add  not  because  it  is  the  oldest  pactioe  (thoo^ 

one  pound  of  the  sulphate  for  every  three  I  confess  I  am  a  great  stickler  in  dcfince 

bushels,  until  thirty  bushels  have  been  of  many  ancient  husbandry  practices,  with* 

used,  when  the  liquor  has  probably  become  out  meaning  to  undervalue  the  greater  part 

80  foul  or  turbid,  that  a  fresh  quantity  of  of  what  I  call  modem  improvements  in  the 

the  preparation  should  be  made  ready.  practice  of  the  first  and  most  honourable  of 

^'  The  advantages  to  be  derived  from  Ae  arts),   I  approve  of  the  salt-water    steep 

use  of  this  specific  are  very  great:  1.  The  because  it  is  not  only  very  effective,  but 

expense  is  but  trifling,  the  price  of  blue  there  is  no  risk  attending  the  use  of  it,  and 

vitriol  not  exceeding  from  6d.  to  Sd,  or  the  expence  has  also  become  trifling  since 

lOd.  per  lb.    Five  pounds  will  be  suffi-  the  reduction  of  the  duty  upon  adulterated 

dent  for  nine  bushels,  or  from  Gd.  to  lOd.  salt  when  used  for  husbandry   purpotek 

or  1«.  per  acre,  according  to  the  price  of  The  wheat   seed  should   be   wdl  stirred 

the  vitriol,  and  the  quantity  of  seed  sown ;  about  in  the  pickle,  and  the  refuse  rising  to 

and  after  being  used,  the  water  may  be  the  surface  of  the  salt  water  skimmed  off; 

evaporated,  and  the  remains  of  the  sulphate  if  the  grain  or  kemd  is  quite  sound  it  may 

will  again   crystallize :  2.  Liming  is  not  be  let  remain  in  a  brine  of  this  description 

necessary ;  and  in  many  places,  lime  recent-  for  the  space  of  twdve  hours,  without  daa- 

]y  slaked  cannot  be  had :   3.  The  grain  ger  of  rcceiring  any  injury ;  but  raw  oc 

may  afterwards  be  kept  with  safety  for  damp  samples  should  not  be  haaarded  st 

some  time :  4  The  plant  is  so  strength-  long  in   the  pickle.     When  the  wheat  b 

ened,  that  it  is  less  liable  to  be  lodged,  or  taken  out  of  the  pickle  and  laid  upon  a 

to  sufier  from  other  disorders  besides  smut ;  floor,  it  should  then  be  well  mixed  up  with 

and,  5.  This  plan  is  much  superior,  in  quick  lime,  and  spread  upon  the  .floor  to 

point  of  deanliness,  to  those  disgusting  pro-  dry;    if  the  weather  prove  wet,  or  any 

cesses  that  are  usually  recommended  for  the  other  impediment  occur    to    prevent  die 

same  purpose.  pickled  wheat  being  sown  in  due  time,  it 

^^  The  grain  should  be  perfectly  dry  be-  should  be  spread  thin  upon  the  floor  and 

fore  the  solution  of  vitriol  is  appbcd.'*  turned  frequently. — Wheat  pickled  in  aslt 

Mr.  Blukie*s  remarks  are  much  more  water  may,  witli  proper  attention  to  spread- 
extended,  and  are  published  in  a  small  pam-  ing  thin,  turning,  and  admitring  a  hm 
phlet  This  gentleman  takes  up  the  sub-  circulation  of  air,  be  kept  for  seven!  wedes 
ject  under  the  impression,  that  last  year  without  sustaining  any  injury,  and  this  is 
has  produced  a  far  greater  proportion  of  one  great  advantage  of  the  oomnxm  sak 
smutted  wheat  than  is  usual,  and  that  as  pidde  over  urine  or  odier  alkali  pickles. 
smut  is  contagious  in  the  sced^  the  conse-  Mliether  prepared  or  not,  the  seed  will  stiQ 
quences  may  be  vasdy  spread  and  pro-  be  liable  to  contract  the  disease  by  tMocmlom 
longed  by  the  injudicious  or  incautious  use  Hon  upon  farms  where  there  had  recently 
of  smutted  seed.  been  any  smutted  wheat  upon  the  premises. 

Mr.  B.  thinks  thorough  washing  an  use-        In  addition  to  these  processes  I^Ir.  Blaikia 

ful  precaution,  and  the  process  of  pickling  eamesdy  advises  sundij  precautions  to  pre- 

an  mdispensable  one.    His  recommenda-  vent  the  spread  of  the  infection.     Ue  says, 

tions  are  as  follow  :  that  clean,  or  even  pickled  wheat,  put  into 

*'  First,  put  a  quantity  of  clean  water  into  sacks  which  have  recenUy  contained  smuU 

the  tub  or  dstem  suffident  t^  cover  all  the  ted  wheat,  will  be  infected.     lie  urges  the 

wheat  seed  intended  to  be  put  into  it,  about  necessity     of   deaning    bam   floors,    and 

three  or  four  inches  deep ;  then  pour  the  washing  them   with   urine,   and   crusriog 

wheat  very  gently  into  the  water,  and  this  them  with  quicklime,  before  the  seed  wheat 


18S1.]]                              Ob§erv<Uitms  on  iht  Weather.  669 

k  laid  upon  them.  Oraen  mtnuie  taken  There  k  greater  danger  in  using  stale  than 
fireih  the  bam  door,  where  smutted  iriieat  fresh  urine  pickle ;  and  it  is  said  that  the 
has  been  thrashed,  will,  he  says,  infed  alkali  in  the  urine  of  cows,  and  some  other 
the  seed  sows.  brute  animals,  is  much  stronger  than  in 
He  further  oonsiderB  the  diKsse  as  human  urine ;  if  so,  ihap  is  still  greater 
caused  by  an  insect,  the  eggs  of  which  ad-  danger  in  using  the  former  than  the  latter 
here  to  the  seed;  and  recommends  that  the  pickles  for  seed  wheat, 
rising  ear  be  observed  as  soon  as  it  issues  **  VHieat  seed-pickled  in  urine  should  ba 
frtmi  the  sheath ;  and  he  avers  that  ^<  ^f  sown  as  soon  after  the  operation  as  possi* 
no  in/ectiom  ascends  wUh  the  ear  from  the  ble ;  the  earth  absorbs  the  pemidous  pro- 
root^  there  wiU  be  no  smut  in  the  prv  perties  ot  the  alkali,  and  the  germ  of  the 
duee.*^  These  assertions  are  sudi  as  to  wheat  kernel  is  thereby  tireserred.  On 
challenge,  by  their  usefulness,  the  most  the  other  hand,  if  left  only  a  few  hours 
minute  regard  of  the  scientific  agriculturist'  out  of  the  nomid  after  the  pickling  opera- 
Mr.  Blaikie  extends  his  remarks  to  the  tion  is  performed,  the  germ  of  the  gndn 
nature  of  seed,  and  recommends  kiln  dry.  receives  material  injury,  and  is  in  some 
ing  as  an  excellent  and  certain  mode  of  cases  entirely  destroyed.'* 
rendering  damp  com  fit  for  seed,  where  Mr.  Blaikie  gives  siogular  proofs  of  this 
sound  is  not  to  be  procured.  He  says,  effect  He  urges  sowing  too  nweh  rather 
^^kiln  drying  damp  seed  wheat  tends  in  some  than  too  little  seed,  as  being  on  the  sale 
degree  to  destroy  smut  infection ;  but  the  nde. 

greatest  advantage  derived  ftom  the  prae-  We  have  cited  these  observations  at  this 
ttoe  is,  hardening  the  kernel,  and  thereby  length,  because  the  time  is  most  important, 
rendering  it  less  liable  to  be  injured  by  any  a&d  the  deflective  crop  of  last  season  adds 
of  the  usual  processes  of  pickling^  or  other  to  the  momentous  vdlue  of  such  partidpa- 
dressingfbr  the  prevetUkm  of  smut,  turns  of  knowledge  ;  nor  can  we  better 
^*  This  is  a  matter  of  great  importance,  dose  our  report  than  by  expressing  an  ear- 
and  is  wen  worthy  of  the  n^ieatgrower^s  par-  nest  hope,  that  die  remarks  and  facts  re- 
ticular attention,  lative  to  the  spade  cultivation  of  wheat, 
^'  Urine  pickle  is  very  generally  used  in  drawn  from  Mr.  Owen*8  report  to  the 
some  districts  for  the  prevention  of  smu^^  county  oS  Lanark,  and  the  practice  of  Mr. 
it  is  effective,  but  dangerous,  and  should  Falla,  of  Newcastle,  and  printed  in  our  re- 
never  be  used  without  great  caution,  for  it  port  for  June  last,  will  meet  attention  lunv. 
not  only  destroy  the  embryo  of  the  smut  Nothing  could  be  more  beneficial  to  sodety 
insect  but  die  germ  of  the  wheat  also,  un-  at  large,  than  the  repetition  of  these  expe- 
Ite  care  is  taken  to  counteract  its  effects,  riments  in  sundry  places.     Oct,  20,  1821. 


OBSERVATIONS  ON  THE  WEATHER, 

FOB  September,  1821. 

Naval  Academy^  Gospori, 

GENERAL    BEPORT. 

Nearly  one-half  of  tins  month  was  fine  1820,  and  4**  higher  than  the  average  of 

sunny  weather :  the  other  part  comes  under  September  for  the  last  six  years ;  therdforp, 

the  diaracteristics  of  rain  and  wind,  with  a  it  may  be  termed  a  veiy  warm  month, 

slirouded  sky,  it  having  rained  (more  or  The  temperature  of  spring  water  did  not 

less)  on  19  different  days,  of  which  onO  whole  arrive  at  its  mtLvimum  Dioffii  for  the  year 

days  the  labours  of  husbandmen  have  been  till  the  19th  instant 

suspended  in  the  com  fidds,  by  a  fall  of  The  atmospheric  and  meteoric /;A«fioiiirfUi 

between  3  and  4  inches  in  depth.  The  winds  that  have  come  within  our  observation  this 

having  prevailed  mostly  from  S  W.  the  ba-  month,  are  3  colottred  parhelia,  6  para-  . 

rometer  has  fluctuated  much,  and  the  at-  selenee,  5  lunar  and  3  solar  halos,  36  me- 

mosphere  was  frequently  loaded  with  im-  teors,  4  rainbows,  lightning  in  the  evenings 

pure  vapours,    an  unusual  host  of  small  of  the  Gth  and  21  st,  and  thunder  in  the 

winged  msects,  and  flying  gossamer.  evening  of  the  (kh  ;  also  10  gales  of  wind. 

The  mean  temperature  of  the  air  was  or  days  on  which  they  have  prevailed,  viz. 

more  than  C^  above  that  of  September,  7  from  SW.  1  from  W.  and  2  from  NW. 

DAILY   REMARKS. 

September  1.  AM.  fair,  with  Cumuli :        3.  Overcast  and  rather  damp  neatly  all 

in  the  aiftemoon  Nimbi  and  light  showers  day  and  night 

of  rain :  a  doudy  night    About  11  PM.        4.  Overcast  and  showery  at  intervals, 

3  small  meteors  descended  in  a  westerly  with  a  brisk  gale  from  SW. 
directioif  between  the  douds.  5.  A  sunny  day  and  a  pleasant  breeze: 

'2.  Fine,  with  a  mixture  of  tlie  modifi-  an  overcast  sky  by  night.     . 
cations  of  douds  :  much  dew  in  the  night,         6.  At  6  AM.  two  beautiful  coloured 

and  winds    crossing  each  other  at   x^t  parhelia  appeared,  one  on  each  side  of^  aad 

angles.  both  MP  ^'  ^okanx  ttoov^  "^sa  ^gosv^  ^\^a^ 


570                                      Observations  on  the  Weather.                              [T^JoT. 

was  then  due  east     The  silvery  colour  be-  Id,  AM.  overcast  and  drizzling  rain  at 

hind  the  red  portion  of  the  parhelion  to  the  intervals :  PM.  cloudy  and  fine.     In  the 

nurth  of  the  hun,  was  so  bruliant  as  scarce-  evening  a  ydlow  discus  halo  appeared  in 

ly  to  be  viewed  with  the  naked  eye ;  the  an  attenuate  Cirrostratut^  surrounded  by 

parhelion  to  the  south  of  the  sun  was  form-  a  dull  red  colour.      A   brilliant    meteor 

ed  last,    and  both    entirely    disappeared  passed  between  the  moon  and  Jupiter  at 

when  the  clouds  had  passed  off.     These  10  PM.  and  at  11  o'clock,  a  paraselene 

mock  suns  were  followed  by  a  £unt  solar  was  observed  to  the  north  of  the  moon, 

halo,  and  frequent  showers  in  the  day.  I7.  Fine,  except  dark  passing  clouds. 

Vivid  lightning  aiid  distant  thunder  pre-  18.  AM.  an  attcnuateid  vetT  of  dood, 

vailed  throughout  the  night.  yet  warm  and  pleasant :  PM.  fine.    At  10 

7.  A  moderate  gale  from  SW.  and  minutes  past  8  PM.  a  meteor  with  a  spark- 
showers  at  intervals,  ezcq)t  in  the  after-  ling  train  appeared  between  the  stars  Ala- 
noon,  which  was  fine.  m&.  in  Andromeda  and  Algol  in   Me- 

8.  A  fair  day  and  night  after  9  AM.  dusa*s  head :  and  between  that  time  and 
when  the  veil  of  cloud  moved  oflf  by  a  NW.  10  o'clock,  several  other  meteors  were 


wind.  without  trains,  towards  the  east. 

9.  An  overcast  sky  and  light  showers,  19.  A  fine  sunny  day,  with  a  gale  ftom 
widi  a  brisk  S W.  gale.  At  a  quarter  past  N W. :  passing  beds  of  Cirrottratns  br 
8  PM.  a  coloured  meteor,  with  a  short  ni^t.  At  20  minutes  past  8  PM.  a  bril- 
tfain,  descended  almost  perpendicularly  from  lijmt  meteor,  with  a  train  extending  dinmgh 
behind  a  large  cloud,  and  appeared  to  fall  a  space  of  about  15°  and  of  a  light  red  co- 
in the  western  point  of  the  horizon.  A  lour,  passed  towards  the  south,  betwe«i 
very  stormy  night  followed.  the  Dolphin  and  Pegasus.      In  a  quarter 

10.  A  showery  day,  and  cloudy  and  of  an  hour  afterwards,  a  similar  meteor 
fine  by  night.  At  half  past  7  AM.  a  appeared  in  a  northerly  direction,  and  be- 
briglit  parhelion  appeared  to  the  north  of,  tween  this  time  and  10  o'clock,  three 
and  22°  40'  radius  from,  the  sun  ;  and  at  others  without  trains. 

8.  o'clock  a  perfect  rainbow  appeared,  also  20.  light  rain  and  wind,  with  Ixtde  in- 

two  others  and  a  solar  halo  in  the  course  termission.      The  swallows,    previous    to 

of  the  day.     Between  7  And  8  PM.  two  their  departure,    have  been  congregating 

f^t  puratclcnte  appeared,  one  on  each  side  for  some  days  past  in  this  neighbourhood, 

ojf  the  moon,  at  the  exterior  edge  of  a  large  21.  Steady  rain  and  calm  nearly  all  day 


solar  Iialo,  on  the  top  of  which  a  small  in-  and  night     After  sunset  the  clouds 

verted  arc  tended  to  create  another  para-  the  western  horizon,  presented  a  variety  of 

selene :  each  of  them  was  22^  45^  d&tant  colours ;    pale  lightning   soon  afterwards 

from  the  moon.  followed,  and  continued  to  discharge  itsdf 

11.  A  sunny  day,  with  much  Cirrus  from  the  clouds  at  slow  intervals  horn. 
and  Cumulostratut :  passing  beds  of  Cir"  7  o'clock  till  near  midnight 

rostratus  after  sunset,  in  which  three  co-         22.  A  Stratus  early,  followed  by  a  fine 

loured  parcuelena  appeared  between  8  and  day,  but  a  moist  air ;  six  small  meteors 

9  e'dock,  one  on  each  side  of  the  moon,  appeared  in  the  evening :  a  dear  sky  and 

the  other  at  the  top  of  a  large  halo  that  a  heavy  dew  by  night 

surrounded  her :  after  thcs&nia  pJumomcna         23.  AM.  overcast  and  calm:  P3I.  fine, 

had  disappeared,  the  moon  was  apparently  and  six  small  meteors  in  the  evenins. 

encompassed  by  a  dose  yellow  corona,  and         24.  Drizzling  rain  nearly  all   day  :    a 

a  green  cirde  IJ^  in  diameter,  followed  in  dear  dewy  night 

the  night  by  heavy  showers,  and  a  gale         25.  Overcast  and  showery;  and  a  per- 

from  SW.  this  diange  was  previously  in-  feet  rainbow  at  mid-day. 

dicated  by  the  sinking  of  die  bannneter  in         20.  Overcast  nearly  all  day:  light  rain 

the  afternoon.  and  an  equinoctial  ^e  from  the  SAV^.  by 

12.  A  fair  day,  and  a  condnuation  of  the  night 

gale  ftom  the  same  quarter :  a  large  lunar         27.  Light  sliowers  at  intervals,  and  a 

halo,   and  a  yellow  corona  endrded  by  continuation  of  the  gale  from  the  same 

two  rings,  followed  by  a  light  shower  oif  quarter, 
rain.  28.  Mosdy  overcast  in  the  day  :  a  stiff* 

13.  A  fur  morning :  PM.  steady  rain,  gale  from  the  west,  with  rain  in  the  night 
with  light  shifting  winds.  29.  NimU  and  frequent  showers  in  the 

14.  Drizzling  rain  and  light  variable  day,  with  a  strong  gale  from  NW.  and  a 
winds  most  of  the  day  :  a  large  lunar  halo  rising  barometer  :  a  dear  star-light  night, 
and  much  dew  in  the  night  four  small  meteors,  and  much  dew. 

15.  A  Stratus  early,  followed  by  a  fair  30.  AiVI.  fair :  PM.  overcast,  and  rain 
day,  with  Cumuli^  &c.,  and  two  winds :  in  the  night 

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57«  CofMrUiHitU  Repoirf,  QI^O^* 

COMMERCUL  REPOBT. 

{London^  Oct.  23.) 

The  ittate  of  ^  amt-market  (undoubt-     does  not  sppeai  Hkdy  to  obtain  the  object 
cdly  the  subject  of  motst  general  intemt)     propofwd.    It  is  acknowledged  on  all:lundi» 
since  (he  date  of  our  last  rq)ort,  has  ftilly     that  it  would  be  hi^y  desirable  to  remov* 
justified  the  (minions  we  thet«  expressed     the  impedimentB  to  intenal  €oniinctee»  hf 
In  fact,  had  there  been  ally  real  grounds     abolislung  the  entries  on   goods    r"«^**y 
to  appii^end  such  a  defidehcy  in  our  own     from  one  of  the  Confedenrted  States    to 
crops,  as  to  call  for  the  opening  of  the     another,  and  to  establish  cttstom4M>»sc«  on 
ports  to  foreign  grain,  the  truth  must  by     the  frontier  of  the  ConfbdeiBtioD,  tt>  levy 
this  time  have  been  ascertained.     The  de«    duties  on  goods  exported  to,  or  impoitcd 
dine  in  the  prices,  therefore,  allows  us  to     from,  states  not  memben  of  it  {  hot  tfaia 
presume,  that  the  public  in  general  now     regulation  would  cause  a  deficiencj  in  th^ 
see  that  their  fears  were  ill  founded.   From     revenue  of  each  member,  iHiich  it  wouli 
the  present  state  of  thd  averages,  all  pro-     be  difficult  to  supply, 
babuity  of  the  opening  of  the  ports  after        The  fur  at  Leipsic  is  stated  to  be  Teiy 
the  15di  of  November,  seems  done  away,    unfkvourable  on  the  whole ;  and  the  £ngi- 
AVith  respect   to    thd   importation    fVom     liah  cottons  and  printed  calicos  are  said  to 
Canada,  barley  and  oats  are  at  present  the    have  been  neglected,  notwithstanding  their 
only  artides  which  are  at  prices  that  would     low  prices,  and,  the  dearer  Frendi,  Swim, 
adniljt  tliem  from  our  Nortn  American  pes-     and  Saxon  preferred  to  them  on  aooount 
sessions.  <^   their  superiority  both  in   quali^  and 

The  state  of  our  fordgn  trade  has  not  yet  in  the  beauty  of  the  pattens.  This  state- 
essentially  varied.  But  a  great  change  mcnt  has  been  so  often  repeated  nearly 
seems  on  the  eve  of  taking  place  in  our  verbalim  et  Uicratim^  that  we  hanOy 
commerdalrdations  with  Portugal.  Thele-  know  what  credit  is  to  be  attached  to  itt 
gislature  of  that  kingdom  seems  disposed  to  M'o  shoulil  imagine,  however,  that  tba 
adopt  a  ri^Tous  prohibitoiy  system,  similar  English  manufacturer  must  soon  leam  ] 
to  that  .wliich,  contrgiry  to  general  expcctati-  to  suit  the  taste  of  his  customers,  and 
on, was  introduced  into  Spain  by  tlie  Cortes ;  cannot  doubt  his  ability, 
and  ^ich  has  had  the  effect  of  deluging  We  arc  happy  to  find  that  the 
that  kingdom. with  contraband  goods,  and  of  from  Yorkslurc  for  the  last  quarter 
causing  a  system  of  smuggling  to  be  expe-  highly  favourablo  to  the  manufiacturea  of 
ricnccd  which  sets  the  laws  at  defiance,     that  great  county. 

and  is  equally  ruinous  to  the  naiional  ma-  Cotton — The  sale  of  cotton  at  the  India 
nufacture,  to  the  honest  merchant,  and  to  House  which  we  mentioned  in  our  preoed- 
the  public  revenue.  The  Portuguese  Cortes  ing,  naturally  tended  to  depress  the  priee^- 
have  already  rasolved  to  raise  tl^c  duty  on  the  quantity  declared  being  above  121,000 
British  woollen  manufactures  to  30  per  bags,  of  which  12,000  were  Bengala,  and 
cent,  instead  of  15,  which  they  state  to  be     6,000  Surats. 

according  to  the  true  sense  of  the  cidsting  The  following  are  the  particulara  of  thia 
treaties  between  the  two  nations.  sale  at  the  India  House,  12th  instant,  in« 

The  Commercial  Confederation  of  the     eluding  about  3,000  bags  taken  alterwuda 
States  of  the  .South  of  Germany,  which  we     at  the  sale  prices : — 
have    had    fcequcnt  occasion  to  mention, 

12,000  Bengal,  of  which  0,200  stdd,  viz.  1,570  good  and  very  good 5jf<f.  a  B|d: 

6,060  fair  and  good  fair 5^^.  a  ^d. 

1,051  very  ordinary 5^  a  5|^ 

remainder  boup^t  in  from  Sldl  a  'ji 
500  good  to  very  .superior  Toomd  Tkd.a8\d. 

6,000  Surat 3,000  sold 045  good  fair  to  very  good G^d.  a  7-^ 

1,650  very  ordi.  leafy  to  middling  oJ.    a  6§4, 
remainder  bought  in  from  b^d.  a  ^^ 

576  Madras 510  sold fair  to  good  fair 63^d.  a  7^d. 

remainder  bought  in  from  7i<2*  a  lid, 

230  Bourbon 130  sold very  ordinary  stringy  to  good  . . .  0^(/.a  12)dl 

remainder  bought  in  at  1  l^d, 
116  Packing 116  sold fair  to  good Hd.  a  e^d. 

16,022  12,962 

It  is  estimated  (hat  of  the  quantity  sold  For  this  week  past  the  sales  have  been 

9,000  bales  were  taken  for  home-coosump-.  considerable,    particularly  of  East   India 

tion,  2,<M)0  for  ex|>ort,  and  the  remainder  descriptions;  thedemar*d,  which  was  steady, 

on  speculation  :  the  Bengals  sold  at  a  re-  appears,  however,   to  have  rather  subsided 

duction  of  Id.  a  ^J.,  Surata  at  tlie  decline  yesterday  and  this  forenoon;  the  purchases 

o/'^V.  a  id.  per  lb.  exceed  2,300  packages,  chiefly  lor  home- 


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coDHumption  ;  the  BrazO  and  New  Orteans  Musoovades  this  forenoon,-  the  bnyen  wait- 

for  the  Frendi  maiketi  the  zemainder  on  ing  the  event  of  the  public  sale ,  there  waa 

spcculatioD,  the  particulan  are  fHiO  Ben-  no  altetatioa  in  the  pricea  by  private  ooin 

gals,  very  ordinary  5^4.  a  6}<2. ;  tut  5|i.  $  tract.    By  pnblic  sate  to-day,  267  hfada. 

and  good  fair  6M* :  107  Surats,  common  44  tra.  Jamaica  sugius  weae  bnm^t  for* 

ordinary  Gd.  a  6itL  ;  good  fair  Id.  a  1^, ;  ward,  the  whole  went  off*  heavily,  and  gv- 

good  ?}(/. ;  and  a  few  very  good  at  ttti. ;  nerally  6<2.  a  1«.  per  cwt.  under  the  pr^ 

'lb  Pemambuoo,  good  12}^.;  50  Paraibai  vioua  market  prices;  low  dry  brown  51 J^ 

fair  12^  ;  15  Para,  0}(<.,  fair :  586  New  (M.  a  52#.  6tf.,  the  good  broWn  54«.  a  sefty 

Orleans  lO^i.,  ordinary  a  Wid^  good :  all  a  few  lots  sold  58<.,  59«.,  a  62#.  Gd.    Thif 

in  bond.    The  sales  during  the  last  four  Barbadoes  sale  this  fbrenoisn,  cansixting  of* 

weeks  (exclusive  of  the  India  sale)  have  coloury  sugars,  went  off  at  veiy  full  prioei^' 

been  about  5,300  bags.  one  lot  at  75«.  G&,  the  remauider  Git*  m* 

At  Liverpool  the  market  has  not  been  70«. ;  the  previous  rates  were  ftilly  aunu: 

iiXtercsting,  and  the  prices  have  rather  de-  ported ;  the  sale  consisted  of  137  caafcr 

clincd  this  week.     The  sales  for  five  wce|n  Barbadoes. 

from  15th  September  to  20th  October  were        The  grocers  oontmue  to  be  the  chief  pn^ 

37,(jOO  bags?;   the  arrivals  35,000  bags,  chasersof  refined  goods,  and  such  has  laeeif 

Of  the  sales  14,000  bogs  were  in  the  wnk  been  the  diemand  £br  finie  parcela,  that  tlii 

ending   22d    September ;   the   favourable  prices  must  be  stated  a  shade  higher ;  th* 

commencement  of  which  wo  noticed  in  our  inferior  goods  are  without  dteration.  TherS 

report.  The  importations  of  Boigal,  Surat,  is  some  request  for  single  loaives  for  crush^ 

iVIadoM,    Bourbon,    and   Manilla,   which  ingb^—AIolaases  are  heavy, 
amounted  to  44,000  bala  in  die  first  nine        By  pul^  sale  on  Friday,  320  chests 

months  of  1820,  hay^  b^en  only  15,500  I^avannah  sugars  were  brought  forwaiidy 

up  to  I  St  October  this  year.     The  stock  on  chiefly  yellow  descriptions,  for  which  th* 

the  1st  October,  1820,  was  213,($50  bales,  request  some  weeks  ago  was  oonsidemUe  ^ 

and  1st  October,  1821,  162,850  boles.  good  brown  wfM  25^.  6ij!. ;  all  the  yeHdir 

Sugnr. — There  have  been  no  remarkable  good  and  fine  quality  was  taken  ih  at  one 

fluctuations  during  the  preceding  four  weeks;  price,  29«. ;  fine  starong  white  at  46y. 
the  demand  for  good  Muscovades  has  been        Accounts  of  a  most  distresmng  natim 

KtQody  and  coDhiderable,  and  the  prices  have  have  been  received  from  Jamaica,  where  a 

not  much  varied,  but  low  browns  have  been  drought  of  above  a  year's  duTBrion,  threatena 

hmvy  for  some  time  past.     Coloury  sugars  not  only  dtetruction  to  the  sugar  crops,  but 

have  been  in  great  request  and  scarce.    At  even  universal  famine^  the  soil  being  bifinC 

a  public  sale  on  the  13th  instant,  of  01  almost  to  a  dndcr,  and  afiurding  no  vegota- 

hognheads  .9  tierces  Barbadoes,  of  which  a  tion  to  supply  fo6d  either  for  man  or  au3- 

large  proportion  were  coloury.     These  de-  mala.     Should  these  statements  be  f^iUy 

scriptions  sold  2s,  a  Zs,  higher  than  at  any  coofiitned,  their  infhtcnce  on  the  mkurKet' 

previous  sale  ;■  70^t  a  IGs,  Gd.  for  middling  cannot  wdl  be  doubted, 
to  good  white ; .  other  sLUgars  d5«.  a  07«*  Average  prices  of  Raw  Sugar  by  Qn^ 

The  requeat  for  refined  goods  for  heme-  Z(^te  t — 

consumption  has  been   very  considemble  SeCembte  29 30«.  7^ 

during  the  course  of  this  month ;  but  the  October       6 31i.  2i«f.' 

purcb.iscs  for  exportation  have  been  on  a  13 30«.  !i\d. 

very  limited  scale.     The  only  demand  fbt  20 3!>r.  0^/2. 

shipping  to  any  extent  has  been  for  the         Cqj^r  .—During  the  week  succeeding 

Mediterranean.  our  last  report,  the  cofibe  market  was  in  a. 

East  India  sugars  are  extremely  low ;  it  very  unusual  state ;  St.  Domingo  being 

seems  singular,  that  though  the  importation  8a  to  8t.  per  cwt.-  higher  in  pzoportioA 

of  East  India  sugar  has  been  considerably  than  Jamaica ;  and  Demarara  to  Berbiee 

l«»s  the  first  nine  months  of  this  year,  than  from   IOjt.  to  12«.  higher  than  the  usual 

during  the  same  period,  1820,  and  though  proportion.      The  firat  public  sales  thia* 

the  consumption  has  increased,  the  pricea  month  aoeorditagly  excited  some  interest; 

have  continued  to  decline  at  each  succeed-  and  the  circumstance  being  rather  peculiar, 

iiig  sale.  The  following  is  the  report  of  the  we  shall  give  the  particulars  of  the  sales 

sugar  market  for  the  last  week.  rather  more  fully  than  usual.     There  wen 

There  was  a  steady  and  considerable  de-  five  sales  amounting  to  5Ct  casks,  003^ 
mand  for  good  sugars  last  wedc ;  the  brown  bags,  at  whicdi  the  prkcs  begni  to  rctum- 
amtinucd  neglected:  no  alteration  what-  to  the  usual  proportions  of  value.  Ordinary, 
ever  in  the  prices  by  private  contract  oould  good,  and  fine  ordinary  Jtai^ca,  fully  sup- 
be  stated.  The  pubUc  sale  of  St.  Lucia  ported  the  prices  of  the  preceding  week,  and 
sugars  on  Friday  consisted  of  about  350  m  several  instances  went  a  shade  higher : 
ca»ks;  the  proportion  sold  went  a  shade  all  other  descriptions  fidling  into  the  usual 
higher  than  the  previous  rates,  low  brown  proportion  of  the  market ;  Foreign  Coflfee, 
50«.  Gd.  a  52f.  Gd.y  remai:idcr  53«.  a  58f.  St.  Domingo  and  Havanuah,4f.a5«.lower, 
Gd.  extensive  parcels  of  good  ordinary  Havan- 

Tlicre  was  very  little  busincaa  done  in  nah  selling  at  92j.  02«.  Gd,  and  OSr.;  St. 


5r4                                       Commernal  Report.  C^o^- 

l>omingo  Terj  oidmftrj  si  97«*  ordinaiy  Sficei* — ThemariECtitlietTy,  andprieai 

in  ctskfl  IOOjt.     Dominica  oo^ee  agun  2«.  but  little  varied.    The  Gompanj'a  Lucied 

lower.    Middling,  good,  and  fine  middling  price  of  mace  is  reduced  to  6#.;  nntmry 

cofiee  at  an  irre^ilar  reduction  of  3«.  a  6«.  to  3f.    An  amount  of  20,0001b.  of  dovw 

sereral  parcels  of  good  middling  Jamaica  is  reported  from  Holland,  and  adrertiaed 

sdling  at  120«.  a  123«.  Od.  fine  middling  for  sale  the  same  day  aa  the  Oompanyli 

\2bs.  a  128ji.  M.\  for  200  bags  very  good  sale  of  spices. 

St.  Domingo  102«.  was  offered :  the  whole  Silk.— The  prices  of  East  India  nlk  ne 

were  taken  in  i02«.  Qd.\  130  bags  Porto  nominal,  on  account  of  the  commenccmeut 

Rioo  also  withdrawn  at  100«.  6</.     The  of  the  India  House  sale :  the  prices  hilbevto 

very  great  reduction  in  the  prices  was  ex-  are    considerably  higher  than   Ia«t   sale ; 

pec^  to  attract  the  attention  both  of  spe-  Bengals  at  the  advance  of  8  to  10  per  cent, 

culators  and  shippers ;  and  we  accordingly  Cocoa. — The  reduction  of  the  duty,  and 

find,  in  the  succeeding  week,  a  general  im-  the  low  prices  seem  to  have  a  fmvoivable 

provement     1036  casks  and,  1825  bags,  effect  on  the  consumption  of  ooooa.     On>- 

by  public  sale,  going  off  very  freely,     llie  cers  have  lately  purchased  Ghrenada,  90ff.  to 

good  or  fine  ordinary  Jamaica  at  an  ad-  9di.     Berbice,  54«.  to  55«. 

vance  of  2«.  to  4«.  and  all  other  qualities  Tea. — The  Company*s  sale  is  fixed  for 

rather  higher.    During  the  second  week  of  4th  December,  vi2. 

this  month  the  prices  continued  firm,  rather  Bohea 900,000 

improving  than  otherwise ;    but  at  these  Congou,  Campoi,  Pe- )  ,  nj^  ^^^^ 

pubUc  sales  on  the  16th  of  462  casks  and  koc,  and  Souchong  j  *j««^»ww 

1340  bags,  the  whole  went  off  very  heavily,  Twankav 1,000,000 

the  ordinary  Jamaica  \t.  to2«.  lower ;  good  Hyson-skin 100,000 

middling  2#.  to  4«.  lower.    St  Domingo,  Hyson 250,000 

and  other  foreign  descriptions,  were  iJao  ..__ 

If.  lower,  and  the  marxet  heavy  at  the  Including  private  trade  7)  100,000  A. 

decline.    The  quantity  of  coffee  brou^t  Rum^  Brandy^  and  ffolhttds. — At  the 

forward  by  public  sale,  last  week,  aner  beginning  of  the  month  there  was  a  bridt 

(Tuesday),  was  1637  casks  and  2077  bags;  denumd  for  brandy,  which,  however,  soon 

a  great  proportion  was  taken  in,  the  de-  subsided.      Cogniac  of  a  favourite  mark 

mand  bmg  languid :  no  reduction  in  the  realized  At.  6d.  and  superior  quality,  Am.  A/i* 

prices  was  however  submitted  to,  till  to-  At  a  public  sale  on  the  12th  instant,  89 

wards  the  close  of  the  week,  when  mid-  puncheons  of  Jamaica,  and  84  of  Leewaid 

dling  and  good  middling    Jamaica    and  Islands,s<dd  freely  at  pricesrather  higher  than 

Dutch  coffee  gave  way  2t.  a  3#.  per  cwt  the  previous  sales  by  private  contract,  lis. 

There  were  three  public  sales  of  coffee  Jamaica.  .9  to  12.  .OP. .  1'.  Od. 

brou^t  forward  this  forenoon,    consisting  12  to  16 1«.  Id* 

of  374  casks  and  743  bags ;  the  whole  18  to  21 1«.  8<f.  to  1«.  9iL 

went  off  with  great  heaviness,  but  no  re-  22  to  24 1«.  lOt.  to  It.  11^ 

duction  in  the  prices  can  be  stated. — 56  Leeward  Islands,  UP.  U.  Ad, 
casks  705  bags  very  ordinary  St.  Domingo  Last  week  there  were  few  purchasers  of 
were  taken  m  at  i00«.  6i.,  with  the  ex-  rum  by  private  contract ;  the  prices  were 
ception  of  one  lot  sold  at  101«.;  the  mid-  maintained,  except  at  a  public  sale  of  104 
dling  and  good  middling  Jamaica  sold  puncheons  Jamaica,  which  went  Id.  per 
again  at  very  low  prices,  at  nearly  the  re-  gallon  lower. — ^A  sale  of  88  pimcheoos  of 
duction  we  have  stated ;  good  middling  Leeward  Islands,  and  123  of  Jamaica  this 
121«.  and  12i«.  6d.;  middling  115#.  6d.  morning  was  at  about  the  same  reduction 
fine  ordinary  coloury  fox V  105«., and  106«.  oi  \d.  Brandies  are  nearly  nominaL  In 
6J.  Generally  the  market  may  be  stated  Geneva  there  is  no  alteration, 
heavy,  and  the  biddings  at  pubUc  sale  Ian-  Hemp,  Flax,  and  TaUmo. — The  de- 
guid,  yet  no  reduction  in  the  prices  can  be  mand  for  tallow  continues  languid ;  a  fur- 
quoted,  except  the  middling  and  good  mid-  ther  depression  of  (yd.  aYs.  per  cwt.  most 
dling  qualities,  which  are  fully  2«.  a  3#.  again  be  stated :  the  market  is  heavy  at 
lower  than  on  Tuesday  last  the  reduction. — Hemp  is  in  good  request. 

Indigo. — At  the  East  India  sale,  which  and  the  late  advance  in  the  prices  is  foDy 
commenced  on  the  2d  instant,  every  de-  maintained :  there  is  little  alteration  in  flax. 
scription  of  indigo  sold  much  higher  than  .—Letters  were  yesterday  received,  dated 
at  the  preceding  sale;  fine  9d,  per  lb.  St.  Petersburgh,  28th  ultimo;  the  Ex- 
good  \t.,  middlmg  li.  to  \s.  3d.  com-  change  remained  nearly  the  same,  9|<2. 
mendng  fully  is.  3d.  higher.  About  300  OiUs  &c. — The  oil  market  continues 
chests  of  shipping,  and  260  chests  of  or-  without  briskness ;  there  are  several  rather 
dinaxy  were  bought  in  by  the  proprietors,  extensive  buyers  of  Greenland  at  2R  but 
The  importation  whidi  was  14,847  chests,  we  beUeve  they  cannot  find  any  parcels  at 
&c.  in  the  fijst  nine  months  of  1820,  has  at  that  rate.  S^  and  linseed  oils  are  a 
been  only  9,734  chests,  &c  during  the  shade  lower. 

same  period  this  year.     The  prices  have  Cora.^Referring    our  readers    to    the 

not  ehiinged  smce  tfie  sale.  ubles,  by  which  they  will  see  ths  reductioii 


1821.3  Commercial  Report.  6%B 

of  the  average  prices,  we  add  the  report  of  order  ftom  the  Bfiniater  of  Hnanoe,  by 

the  market  St  yesterday.  which  our  Aree  port  ia  to  remain  unchanged* 

In  addition  to  the  arriTala  of  English  on  the  same  footing  as  hitherto  till  further 
wheat,  17i699  qrs.  there  was  a  large  pro-  orders :  and  the  merchants  may  import 
portion  of  the  prerious  supply  left  over  to  their  goods  as  before, 
yesterday's  market ;  the  trade  was  in  con-  22  ^Irpf-^Several  vessels  have  lately  ar- 
sequenoe  exceedingly  heavy,  and  although  rived  from  Constantinople.  Our  situation 
one  or  two  parcels  of  fine  new  white  sold  at  is  very  singular.  But  lately,  we  thought 
an  advance  of  2f  .per  quarter,  yet  every  other  we  had  every  reason  to  expect  the  speedy 
description  was  2s.  a  3^.  lower;  the  best  commencement  of  hostilities;  and  wears 
old  declined  in  the  same  proportion :  a  now  convinced  more  and  more,  and  every 
great  quantity  of  the  wheat  still  renuuns  day,  that  we  have  been  mktAlf<»n-  Our 
undisposed  of,  although  the  holders  were  commercial  relations  with  Turkey  arc,  in 
offering  damp  and  inferior  parcels  at  very  fact,  interrupted,  yet  the  hopes  of  peace 
depressed  prices,  to  induce  the  buyers  to  prevail.  Every  body  wishes  to  see  the  end 
come  forward. — There  were  large  supplies  of  this  state  of  uncertainty, 
of  new  barley  brought  to  market  last  week,  St.  Petershurgy  Sept.  28. — An  impe- 
but  at  a  dedine  of  4i.  there  have  been  ex-  rial  ukase  of  the  4th  instant  regulates  the 
tensive  purchases,  and  the  quantity  offering  trade  in  the  Aleutian  and  Kurile  Islands, 
was  so  reduced,  that  an  improvement  of  U.  and  the  Russian  possessions  in  the  north- 
was  resized  on  Friday^s  prices. — The  arri-  west  coast  of  America,  and  the  east  coast 
vals  of  English  oats  last  week  exceeded  of  Siberia  as  follows.  '^  Having  perceived 
28,000  qrs.;  the  trade  was  in  consequence  by  the  statements  laid  before  us,  that  the 
heavy ;  a  few  prime  parcels  of  both  old  trade  of  our  subjects  in  the  Aleutian  is- 
and  new  went  off  at  a  decline  of  It.  but  lands,  and  in  the  Russian  possessions  along 
generally  the  market  must  be  quoted  2t.  the  north-west  coast  of  America,  is  sub- 
lower. — Beans  met  a  dull  sale,  at  the  de-  jected  to  many  obstacles  and  disadvantages 
dine  of  It. — In  peas  no  alteration  whatever  from  the  practice  of  smuggling,  and  as  we 
can  be  stated.  find  that  the  chief  cause  or  these  disadvan- 

■  tages  lies  in  the  want  of  regulations  re- 

FoREiox  CoMKERCE.  spccting  the  limits   of    navigation  along 

RiffOy  September  28.  —  Corn.    There  those  coasts,  and  a  standard  or  oommerdal 

have  been  some  purchases  lately  of  oats,  at  relations  as  well  in  those  parts,  as  in  gene« 

40  to  44  r.  per  last.    The  nommal  price  of  ral  on  the  east  coast  of  8ibaia,  we  have 

holmdried  rye  (of  1 15  to  116  lbs.)  is  5G  to  thought  fit  to  determine  these  relations  as 

57  roubles.      Potashes j   108  roub.   have  follows: — 

been  paid  for  Polish,  the  stock  of  which  is  Sec.  I.  "  All  trade,  whale-fishery,  fishery 
neariy  exhausted.  Seedsy  the  weather  be-  in  general,  and  every  kind  of  business,  in 
ing  constantly  wet  and  cold  makes  the  the  harbours  and  ba3rs,  and  in  general  akng 
prospect  of  the  crop  this  year  more  and  the  whole  northwest  coast  of  America,  from 
more  unfavourable,  and  it  is  feared,  that  a  Behring*s  Straits  to  the  Gist  degree  of  north 
very  small  quantity  of  really  good  quality  latitude,  as  well  as  along  the  Aleutian  is- 
will  be  brought  to  market,  which  will  ci  lands,  and  on  the  east  coast  of  Siberia,  and 
course  sell  very  dear.  Hitherto  there  are  also  along  the  Kurile  islands,  that  is  to  say, 
no  sellers,  and  the  imports  will  hardly  com-  from  Behring^s  Straits  to  the  South  Cape  of 
nience  before  the  beginning  of  next  month,  the  island  of  Ooroop,  in  46  deg.  51  north 
Tallov,  is  rather  more  in  demand,  145  lat,  are  allowed  exdusivdy  to  Russian  sub- 
banco  roubles  have  been  paid  for  yellow  jects. 

and  white  crown,  and  there  remain  pur-        Sec  II.  *^  In  consequence,  every  foreign 

chasers  for  soap  tallow  at   130   roubles,  vessd  is  prohibited,  not  only  to  land  on  any 

Hemp,  especially  dean,  has  fallen ;  Po-  of  the  coasts  and  islands  belonging  to  the 

lish  dean    110  r.«     Ukraine    ditto     100.  Russian  possessions,  and  mentioned  in  the 

Other  descriptions  keep  up  better.     Polish  preceding  Section,  but  even  to  approach 

outshot,  87  r.  Ukraine,  82  r.  Polish  pass,  them  within  less  dian  one  hundred  Italian 

74  to  77*  Ukraine  ditto  74  r.     Torse,  51  miles,  on  pain  of  confiscation  of  both  ship 

r.  per  Sib.      Flax,    Thiesenhausen  and  and  cargo,"  &c. 

I>ruiania  Rackitzer,  44j| ;  Badstub  cut,  Hamburg^  Oct.  13.— CoMon.  The  de- 
white  and  light  grey  mixed,  38  to  38}  r. ;  mand  and  sale  very  limited. — Cqffke  has 
Risten  Thrceband,  29  r. ;  Tow,  13  r. ;  per  been  exdusivdy  purchased  this  week,  and 
Sib.  Hemp  Oily  to  be  had  at  87  r.  b.  per  the  prices  are  therefore  more  firm. — Corru 
Sib.  Fine  white  Ilavannah  Sugars  have  While  our  stock  of  wheat  is  oonsidenbly 
been  sold  at  18  J  cop.  7  months  crediL    The  increased  by  fresh  supplies,  the  sales  are 

E rices  of  Salt  decline  more  and  more,  the  limited  to  our  own  consumption,  so  that  the 

ist  prices  paid  were,  St.  Ubes,  47  r. ;  grey  prices  of  several  descripdons  have  fallen  6 

French   37i  r. ;   fine  Liverpool    52  r.    at  or  six  rix  dollars.    The  holders  of  the 

present,  only  50  r.  are  offered  for  the  latter,  finest  sorts  keep  away  fWim  the  market.  A 

Odessa,    Sept.    14. — Yesterday  an  ex-  good  deal  of  business  has  been  doing  this 

press  arrived  from  St  Petersburgh  i^  sn  week  in  Oats  and  Badey  of  the  best  quft. 


Zie  Works  Preparing  fir  PmBUcaihn.  CNot. 

lity,  IS  wen  for  exportation  to  Engbuid  (it  unfavourable  inflaenee-^-M  Cheali  bsve  in 

beSng  «tk2^po8ed  probable  that  the  ports  will  conMauenee  been  Hold  here  latdy  (chicflT 

be  open)  as  for  home  consumption,  so  that  from  the  interior  of  Germany)  «t  •  ctmJL 

the  prices  have  risen  2  dollars.  Fine  Black  durable  advance,  and  one  fine  peicel  ml. 

Kape-seed  has  also  been  purdiased  for  ex-  ized  23f.  Flemish. 

portation    to    England   at    their    current         Rice. — Having  fidlen  to  the  price  at  vfakh 

prices.  it  stood  before  the  sudden  rise  in  the  pries 

Indiffo. — AAion^    the   most  important  of  Com,  a  more  considerable  di'annend  mmf 

changes  this  week,  is  the  increased  acniand  be  expected. 

and  price  of  this  article.     The  new  riise  of         Tobacco. — Firm  in  price,  bat  little  doiqw 

Od,  to  If.  5<f.  per.  lb.  in  the  London  sale  200,000  lbs.  of  Porto  Kico,  voll  and  lei^ 

just  terminated,  and  the  certain  information  have  lately  been  imported  from  St.  Tho 

that  it  was  caused  by  the  real  demand,  con-         «Vi/^r.— Hamburgh  refined    have 

firm  the  opinion,  ihat   the  cultivation  of  with  a  brisk  sale  this  week  at  the  ca 

tliis  dye  has  been  so  limited  in  I'ndia  for  juices.     Lumps  are  Uttk  inquired  for, 

some  years  past  on  account  of  the  price  be-  occasionally  parcels  might  be  had  a  trifle 

ing  too  low  to  remunerate  the  planter,  so  lower.     Scv(»:al  parcck  of  raw  sugan,  hi- 

tliJBt  the  stock  both  in  and  out  of  Europe  is  tlierto  withheld,  are  now  broufj^t  to  mar- 

noW  inadequate  to  the  consumption,  and  kct,  which,  with  tho  want  of  demand,  ttiU 

even  an  abundant  crop  would  not  have  an  further  depresses  the  prices. 


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David  Gordon,  of  Edinburgh,  now  re-  Bath,  MD. ;    for  an  improved  letoit  m 

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John  Nichol,  of  West-End,  St  Jolm's,  Richard  Francis  Hawkins,  of  Plumstead, 

Hampstead,  Middlesex, master-mariner;  for  Kent,  master-mariner;    for  improvcnients 

an  improved  capstan,  windlas8,and  hawser-  in  the  construction  of  andiors.— Sept.  1  Ith. 

roller. — Aug.  22d.  William    Webster,     of     (reorge-court, 

William  Lane,  of  Birmingham,  jack-  Princes-street,  Soho,  Middlesex,  gun- 
maker  ;  for  certain  improvements  on  hori-  maker;  for  certain  improvements  in  the 
zontal  roasting-jacLs ;  which  improvements  mechanism  of,  and  appertaining  to,  For- 
are  appUcable  to  other  useful  purposes. —  syth's  roller  magazine,  for  the  discharge  of 
Aug.  23d  fowling-pieces  and  fire-arais  in  general,  by 

David  Gordon,  of  Edinburgh,  at  present  means  of  percussion. — Sept  1 4th. 

rending  in  Stranraer,  Esq. ;  for  certain  im-  William  Losh,  o{  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

provements  in  the  construction  of  harness  ironmonger ;  for    a  method  of  increasii^ 

for  animals  of  draft  and  burthen..    Sept.  8th.  the  strength  of  timber.— Sept.  20th. 

BANKRUPTS  IN  ENGLAND. 

ffliere  the  Tovm  or  City  in  which  the  Bankrupt  retidet  is  not  expressed^  it  xcill  he  a/tr/iyt  in  lAmdon  or  tkt 
Ncighbonrhood.     So  aUo  of  the  Retidencea  qf  the  Attomeyi,  vhote  nanut  are  plojctd  qflrr  a  T, 
T  dlsUnguishei  London  Cominisfilons,  C  those  of  the  country. 

Gazette — Sept.  22  to  Oct.  23.  Smart,   H.  Worcester,  wine-merchant.      THaa- 

nam,  Pinzza-chambera,  Covent-gardeB.    T 
Sept  22.     Arnold,  J.    H.,   Llanblethlan,    Gla-     Oct.2.— Mercer,  H.LirerpooLnierch&ut.  rBattv« 
morgan,  cstUcJobber.   [Jennings,  4,  Elnm^ourt,         Chanccrv-lanc.    C.  •"        '  * 

Temple.    T.      •  Ward,  T.  Scamer,  York,  malutcr.  [Lerer.  Gni,H- 

Colyer,  W.   Broad  street,  St.  Giles's,  boot    and  Inn.    C.                                                  .      -y^ 

shoe-maker.    [Jones.  1,  New-inn.    T.  Whitehead,   R.    \llthnell,  Uncaster,   com-mer- 

Hailstone,    W.     Mildenhall,     Suffolk,     grocer.  chant.     [Hall,   Great  James-street,    Bedlbnl- 

[Grcgv)n,  Anpel-court,  Thro^morton-street.  T.  row.    C. 

Hancock,  S.  Judd-street,  St.  Pancras,  hardware-  ^^^    -     „            ,    -,  ..  .„    . 

man.    [Pringle,  Queen-street.  Cheapside.    T.  ^^^  **'    ^<^',  ^-  TothiU-street,  Westmiaster. 

Jones,  T.  St.  John  street.  West  Smithfield.  sta-  „  proccr.    [Tottle,  .13.  Poultry.    T. 

tloner.    [Sweet,  Ba-slughall-strcet.    T.  Evans,   T.  B.    Strand,   wine    and    braudj.iuer- 

Mead.  T.  .Sandwich,  Kent,  victualler.  rix)dinirton.  ^*''*"*-     [^^t<*ven.s   Little  St.  Thomas  Apovtie. 

2,  Seijeaots'-inu,  FleeUslreet.    C.  Quecn-stroet,    T. 

Rowley  M.  Bear-street,  Leirpstor-square,  dealer.  ^'<xxly.  .J^-    Frorae   Selwood,    Somerset,    baker. 

TFisher,  Furnivalvinn,  Holborn.    T.  ,   [Perkins,  2,  Holboro-court,  GrayVinn.   C. 
Wniiams,  H.  Plough^ourt,  Ix>mhard. street,  mer-  Rowbottom,  W.    Oldham,  I^ancastcr,    machine- 
chant.     [Pearce.  St.  Swithin's-lanc,  Lombard-  „,  "'^'**"''-    t^^ll"*^:  Temple.    C. 

•treet-    T.  Thompson.  J.  T.  I^nir  .Vcre.  coach-joiner.     [Ste- 

c-«»  «v     n      .        .    rx             ,     .,  ,  vens.  Littlest. Thomas  Apostle, QneensL     T. 

feept.  2r..    B«'eRton,  J    Dmyton  in   Hales,  Salop.  Wells  S.  Mj.ldlefoii--.ir.leu,  I'eutoiuille.    ereen 

^,V''i'r'^'"A,  f"'*''^*'"0.<'ray's-j»n.pl.ire.    C.  Grocer.    TTatham.  Castle-street.  Holbom.    T* 


Gibson,  T.  Jun.    Liverpool,   ship-bread    baker. 
[Chester,  .1,  Siaple-inn.    C. 


grocer.    [Tatham,  Castle-street,  Holbom.    T." 

.    .      ,. _.    ^..  Oct.  9.  Bursoy,  .1.  Jon.  floodpe-street,  Totteoham- 

Ginl.  !L  Park-laiie,  .Middlesex,  sa.Mlcr.    [Bour-         Court-road,   bookseller  and  stationer.      [War- 
dillon.  Bread-street,  riicap>ide.    C.  ,,'^"'1'.  ^^?i''^';|*\"*^'    '^\ 

plastrrer. 

inen-draper. 

Sent  20    Uarnhv    I    V/.w  \T«Ur»„    v .  t-     i     ^  ^^^^-   1*^  — TSiirfon,  J.    Blackburn,  Lancaster,  «»- 

^miThin  !\li\w^^^  ^''^'  '^''■'''         ^''''''-  ,  ili»?Sj.  ^'  ^«"thampton4,uUdin«l 

Tr"'nVhi\U**Kin?ir;'.r?r  *r^  r^^f^*-     BeCr??    lindo!;:iane,  FnOeM.   •tone-»«on. 


Banhvpts — Stiptettralioni — Fortign  EwchangK. 

uker.    [Ar-     Ebitci.J.  iinilJ„Muk-lmiK,iBi 


[CoIUe.  '0,  /xiLitfrmauDiuj-    t. 
Cir»n.  t.   AlfKisu.  DtrbTi  pMCr.    [Ersnlir. 
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■£1<.   ■ . 

[UiirlH,  Rc4  U , 

JukHB,  v.  Lntot-hm,  Ci 

[TifUir,  IS,  FwDlnl^iiD. 

iiucriro1«"n.     [UilM,  'tiimMi 


.  M.  'Kir-'- 

B,  k.  LBStal 


I.  n.  Holborn,  book-dealer.     [Ednrli, 
.  SheSrlil,  mtrcbaol.*   C^Iud,  Calcmaa. 


Oct.  za.-Clinlib,  W.  P.AIdgite.ehemlu.    [Pu. 

(OB.  Bow-ehnnta.Tird,  Chcnridi.    T. 
DBTtii,    J.    HImIkMiu.    GUmciIer,    dnpn, 

[PwKB,  PaiDiMnnit.  TcmsJe.    C. 
OnT.  J.  St.AfnchCaninai.'fs^.    rK«lnoa, 

lXji>hB.>tnct.AJflphl.  T. 
riuci>,Et.Ncwcaitl('apoD-TyH,)iittcr.  [Flttior, 

Thnin-lDD,  Holborv,    C. 
G»rw,    W.  Hiyiuu'ket.  trHtnlDiUr,  udln. 

[Matlhem,  CaMlt-iDrtt,  Holbom.   T. 
HuKtKi,  n.  AlIhKi  WoodbonH,  Hint,  cbcH*. 

ham.    froanr.  S.  CnTrB-tDHl.  Stiud.    C. 
KnBiphrld^  S.  Wtihun  Frlur.  SoinuKt,  (u- 
'  hoMcr.     [Ptrklflt,   I,  Holbem-coiin,  <!nT«. 

CarlLitF,  CginlKrlaDil,    iDBkMixr. 

BILL  iujr borough,     LIdoiIb,    grocn. 

1.  L«kFr.    [liuioM,  2.  KingVbCBCb- 


-•ireej,  au-rwui. 
U.  A.TLiomMn,  T 


nFutcr.  giwr.  [Seaile, 
iMbnry,  CloacrUir,  mlT- 
[.  [B«ke, 


[l!«nnli,'Wnnn"o"l 


S^Tui 


H  IJaalcrlHiry-iqiiare,  Soolh* 
.'•«  B«H(lL-cosit,CaR;-iLrt«,  LIB. 
el,  W.  rharlKWJUwt,   FHiroj.ti|. 


JaiBDlieln'w.,  ui  H.^CampbeLI,  brc' 


Car  "rWl'l'.  w'  "  t  "bartl'^MiliKI.,  Edl  nbai|A. 
Crihain,  T,  DiFrchant,  EaitHood-puk,  Glaifsir, 


COURSES  OF  FOREIGN  EXCHANGE  AT 


OH 

Paiii. 

«t?!^T 

V'Jir 

Nar™tjei„ 

SS: 

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W- 

Tf-c-r: 

London  .. 

P>™. 

H«nburg. 

Vienn.. .. 
FnmckfOrt. 

V«&z..'..'". 
NaplB..  ... 
BUbo,.... 
Madrid. ... 
Oporto.... 

18S 

475 

fiOO 
556 
15-50 
433 
lS-50 

iaco 

37- 

lOfl 
146 
147 

1 

371 

4111 
37 

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105 

,SJ 

105 

4J 

10-6 
118J 
144 
1344 

87 

fl.IO-9 

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100 
100 

7-l» 
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100 

618 
128 

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171 

1^ 

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14 
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IGl 

51 
S43 
39 

856 

".'zr^-: 

MARKETS. 


COURSE  OF  EXCHANGE. 
From  SepU  26  to  Oct,  23. 

ArMterdam,  C  F 12-16. 

l>itto«t«ght 12-13. 

Rotterdam,  2U 12-17- 

Antwerp 12-9  . 

Hamburgh,  2^  U 38-1 

Altona,2iU 3U-2 

Paris,  3  daya'  aight 25-70. 

l>itto..2U    36-0  . 

Bonrdeaux    26-0  . 

FrankfbrtontheMain ) 

Ex.M ...f 

Petersbarg,  rble,  3  Us.. . .  ,8^ 

Vienna,  ef.  flo.  £  M 

Trieste  ditto 

Madrid,  eflSscdve 36 

Cadiz,  effective 36 

Bilboa 85f 

Barcelona 3a^  . 

SeviUe 334 

Gil^xuHar 3(^ 

Leghorn • 47 

Genoa 43^ 

Venice,  ItaL  Liv 26-60 

MdU 45 

NaplM 39i    . 

Palermo,  per  oz.     118 

Lisbon 50 

OpgfTio 50 

Rio  Janeiro 48J 

Bahia 59 

Dublin 9 

Cork 9 


12-17 
12-14 
12-18 
12-10 


25-75 
26-  5 
26-  5 


.157 

10^3 
10-23 


35J 
39i 


.58 
.8i 


PRICES  OF  BULLION. 

At  per  Ounce. 

X*.  #.     d,     £,    t»   d» 
Poct\igal  gold,  in  coin  0    0    0  ..0    0    0 
Foreign  ^d,  in  bars  3  17  10i..O    0    0 
New  doubloons  ....3  13    6..0    0    0 

NewdoUan 0     4     0..0    0    0 

SilTer,  in  ban,  stand.  0    4  11   ..0    4  IO4 

The  above  Tables  contain  the  highest 
mnd  the  lowest  prices. 

Avfra/{e  Price  of  Haw  Sugary    exclusive 
of  Duty,  31«.2^^ 

Bread. 

Highest  price  of  the  best  wheatcn  bread 
in  London  12^  the  quartern  loaf. 


Potatoes  per  Cvt,  in  Spitaljiclds. 

Kidneys £0    0  0  to  0  0  0 

Champions.  ..2  10  0  to  4  0  0 

Oxnobles 1   10  0  to  2  6  0 

Apples 0    0  0  to  0  0  0 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN 

.IK  THE  TWELVE  UAKITIBCE  DISTRICTS. 

By  the  Quarter  of  8  Winchester  Bushels, 
from  the  Returns  in  the  Weeks  ending 


Sept. 
22 
Wheat  68  lo 


^ept. 
29 


Oct. 
6 


70     7  64 


7 
11 

2 


Rye-   32  2  34    6  31 

Barley  33  3  35     1  35 

Oats     22  7,23    4  22  10 

Beans  33  11  36     8134     9 

Peas     22  7  35  10  33 


5 


Oct. 

13 

61 

4 

28 

4 

33 

5 

21 

11 

33 

3 

131 

6 

Com  and  Pulse  imported  into  the  Port  of 
London  from  Sept.  25,  to  Oct.  33. 


Wheat 

Barley 

Oats 

Bye 

Beans 

Pease 

Malt 


English:  Irish 

66,802!  2,760 

25,052  2,995 

62,628;  4,050 

636;  — 

16,678  — 

7,543  — 


Foreign'   Total 
9,6151  79,177 
1,785    29,834 


15,456 


II2,1S3 

636 

16,678 

7-VI^ 


14,365  Qrs.;  Flour  41,858Sacks. 
Foreign  Flour  —  barrels. 


Price  of  Hops  per  cwU  in  the  Bororngk. 
Kent,  New  bags  . .  .40/.  to    l»0<. 

Sussex,  ditto 40i.  to 

Essex^  ditto 00#.  to 

Yearling  Bags 00«.  to 

Kent,  New  Pockets  40t.  to 

Sussex,  ditto 40«.  to 

Essex,  ditto 50#.  to 

Famham,  ditto 160#.  to  1 1(0<. 

Yearling  Pockets . . .  \06s,  to  1 40#. 


50*. 
iM»«. 
00*. 
80*. 
63f. 


£. 


Average  Price  per  Load  of 
ffay,  CioxHrr.  Strav, 

s,    £,  #.    £.  s»  £.    s.    £.  #•    J^   1. 

Sviithjcld. 
0^4    4. .4    0to5    0..1     8toi  16 

Whitcchapch 
10to4    4. .4    O.to5     5..1   10  to  1  16 

St,  Jameses, 
Oto4     4. .3    7to4  15. .1   lOtol   19 


Meat  by  Carcase,  per  Stouc  of  8lb,  at 


Ncii'galc, — Ikcf ...  .2*. 

]\Iutton..2f. 

Veal 2*. 

Pork 2*. 

Lamb . .  .0*. 
Lcadcn/ialh-'T\c€f . . .  .2*. 

Mutton..  2*. 

Veal ...  .3*. 

Pork . . .  .3#. 

Lamb . . .  0/. 


Of/,  to  3/.  erf. 

Od.  to  .^.  Otf. 

8^.  to  4«.  8^ 

8d.  to  4*.  8k£. 

Od,  to  Ox.  OdL 

4d.  to  St,  64, 

(M,  to  2s,  8d, 

Hd,  to  6s,  OdL 

Bd,  to  5*.  S& 

Od,  to  0*.  Oirf. 


CaUie  sold  at  Smithjield  from  Sept,  ««, 

I0  Oct.  21,  both  indnsirr. 
Beasts.        Calves.        Sheep.         Pigs- 
12,651  1,750         113,150       1,540 

iilOHEST  AND  LOWEST  PRICES  OF  COALS  (IN  THE  POOL), 

In  each  Week,  from  Oct.  1  to  Oct.  22. 
Oct.  1.  Oct.  8.  Oct.  15.  Oct.  22. 

1.  d.      s.  d,     s.  d.       s.  d,      s.  d.      s.  d.  s.  d.       s,  d, 

Newcastle.  tiO  6  to  44  6  1  :i3  0  to  46  3  i  :{8  3  to  44  9  I  J»6  0  to  44  6 

Sunderland  37  0  to  44  3     42  9  to  47  6    36  9  to  46  3  36  6  to  45  3 


Bif  Mtitn.  WOLFE  and  EDMONDS,  No.  9,  'Oungt-AlUif,  I 
(Oct.  Iflth,  1881.) 


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THE 


LONDON    MAGAZINE 


No.  XXIV. 


DECEMBER,  1821. 


Vol.  IV- 


tX)NTSNTS. 


^t>t  lion'K  H^a.— Addrtts 683 

Letter  from  the  Engliah  Opium 
Eater,  &C&C.   584 

^.The  Ea&lt  Fbencb  Poets. 
/  CkmentMarot    687 

Traditioval  Literature,  No.  XIL 
Miles  ColTine,  the  Cumberhuicl 
Mariner,  withaBaOad 694 

Myl^TStPlay.    BjElia   003 

Ok  the  Writikos  of  Johm  Paul 
Frederick  Richter    606 

The  Hi^y  Life  of  a  Parish  Priest  in 
Sweden 613 

The  Last  Will  and  Testament :— the 
House  of  Weeping 615 

Table  Talk,  No.  XIIL 

On  the  Spirit  of  Partisanship  . .  620 

CONTINUATIOV  of  Dr.  J0Hir80N*8 

Lives  of  the  Poets,  No.  II. 
The  Life  of  Sir  William  Jones..  626 

Leisure  Hours,  No.  IV. 

Baccfuuy  or  the  Piratesy  torn 

the  Homeric  Hymns 699 

ABoikdPig 643 

Sketches  on  the  Road.  No.  V..-U3enoa  644 
WestminsterAbbey ,...  661 


C  9an  l^inhboQmfr,  {litf  ^og.- 
mM  for  ?^t(mant1.  No.  III. 
The  Amateur's  Boudoir,  or  a  Visit 
to  Janus 666 

ImiiaHaiu  ofthei2d  and  AZdPtahm,  664 

Sauna 666 

The  Drama,  No.  XXIIL 666 

Report  of  Music,  No.  XXIL 672* 

Popular  Retrospect  of  the  Pro- 
gress of  Philosophy  and  Sdcnce....  674 

Aestract  of  Forxigk  avd  Do- 
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Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths  682—684 

Ecclesiastical  Preferments 684 

Agricultural  Report 684 

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Meteorological  Journal,  for  Oct  ....  686 

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Ths  clofle  of  tbe  year^  c<micidlDg  with  the  compledon  of  the  FooHh 
Volume  of  the  London  Magazine^  agreeably  remhids  vm,  that  a  ItW 
wordt  of  acknowledgflneiit  are  dae«  firsts  to  our  irameroiur  friends  and  €tm 
public  for  their  firm  and  increasing  support ;  and  next,  to  our  kind  Con* 
tributors  in  general^  whose  exertions  hate  raised  the  London  Maoaziks 
to  its  present  distinguished  rank  in  periodical  literaturej  and  have  pfO« 
cured  for  it  so  large  a  share  of  public  favour. 

As,  on  the  one  hand,  we  are  happy  to  say,  that  greater  encoiuagement 
could  not  have  been  expected  than  we  have  experienced;  so,  on  the  other^ 
we  are  proud  to  affirm,  that  a  greater  number  of  men  of  talent  than  the 
London  Magazine  now  unites  in  its  support,  were  never  before  com- 
bined in  furtherance  of  any  undertaking  of  a  similar  nature. 

But  gratitude  for  public  patronage  is  best  evinced  by  increased  ende»^ 
vours  to  deserve  it ;  and  the  most  agreeable  return  we  can  make  to  our  con** 
tribntors  for  their  individual  exertions  is  to  associate  thehr  labours  with 
productions  of  kindred  talent.  As  evidence  of  our  zeal  in  these  endea* 
vours,  we  present  the  following  account  of  a  part  of  our  resources  for  the 
ensuing  year  ;  from  whence  it  will  appear,  that  the  future  Numbers  of  the 
London  Magazine  will  be  enriched,  not  only  by  the  continued  exertiote 
of  its  present  Correspondents,  but  by  papers  from  new  Contributors  on 
important  and  interesting  subjects,  the  very  nature  of  which  will  be  ah 
earnest  to  the  literary  world  that  they  proceed  firom  meu  of  the  highest 
intellectual  ability. 

1.  The  Essays  of  £lia. 

S.  The  Essays  of  the  Author  of  Table  Talk. 

3.  Twelve  Tales  of  Lyddal  Ceobs,  by  the  Author  of  Teaditionac 

LiTEEATURE. 

4.  The  Continuation  of  Dr.  Johnson's  Lives  of  the  English  Poets. 

5.  Notices  of  the  Early  French  Poets  ;  vide  "  Clement  Maeot," 
in  the  present  Number. 

6.  Leisure  Hours:  Translations  of  Select  Poems  firom  Classic  Au^ 
thors  of  Greece  and  Rome,  with  critical  Remarks. 

7^  Translations  in  Prose  and  Verse  from  die  most  eminent  of  the  Finb 
Writers  of  Modern  Germany,  with  a  Character  of  the  Genius  of  each 
Author,  forming  an  Anthology  of  their  finest  Passages.  By  the  English 
OriuM-EATER ;  vide  the  Articles  on  Ricuter  In  our  present  Number* 


6S4f  The  Lum't  Head.  C^^^^ 

8.  Edward  Heebert's  Lkttbrs. — The  Subject  of  the  next  will  be  Thx 
Green  Room  of  the  London  Theatre. 

D.  The  Beauties  of  the  Living  Dramatists^  A  Series  of  humorous 
Faper8>  the  first  of  which  will  appear  in  the  Number  for  January. 

10.  The  Beauties  of  the  Term  Bsforts. 

11.  OsMYN^  a  Persian  Tale.    Part  II. 

It*  Essays  on  the  Fine  Arts,  by  Cornelius  Van  Vinkbooms,  Esq. 

13.  Letters  to  a  Young  Man  of  Talent  whose  Education  had  been 
neglected. 

,  14*  ESSAYS,  by  TuuRMA>  Author  of  the  Article  on  ^^Westminater  Abb^j" 
^  the,  present  Number. 

13.  The  Third  Part  of  ti^  Confessions  or  an  English  OriuM*£ATEm. 


In  reference  to  the  last  Ardcle^  we  iiave  to  lay  before  our  Readers  the 
following  Letter : 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Isondon  Magazine. 
Sii^ 

But  to  leave  this  subject,  and  to  pass  to  another  more  immediately  coo. 
nected  with  your  Joiunal : — I  have  seen  in  the  Sheffield  Iris  a  notice  of  my 
two  papers  entitled  Confessions  of  an  English  Opium^ater.  Notice  of  any 
^prt  from  Mr.  Montgomery  could  not  have  failed  to  gratify  me^  by  proving 
tjiat  I  had  so  far  succeeded  in  my  efforts  as  to  catch  the  attention  of  a  dis- 
tinguished man  of  genius:  a  notice  so  emphatic  as  this^  and  introduced  by 
ah  exordium  of  so  much  beauty  as  that  contained  in  the  two  first  paragraphs 
on  the  faculty  of  dreaming^  I  am  bound  in  gratitude  to  acknowledge  as  a 
more  fiattering  expression  and  memorial  of  success  than  any  which  I  had 
allowed  myself  to  anUcipate. 

I  am  not  sorry  that  a  passage  in  Mr.  Montgomery's  comments  enahles  me 
tp  take  notice  of  a  doubt  which  had  reached  me  before :  the  passage  I  mean 
if  this :  in  the  fourth  page  of  the  IriSj  amongst  the  remarks  with  which  >L:. 
Montgomery  has  introduced  the  extracts  which  he  has  done  me  the  honoi^ 
to  make^  it  is  said — ''  whether  this  character/'  (the  character  in  which  tlie 
Opium-eater  speaks)  ^'  be  real  or  imaginary^  we  know  not."  The  same 
doubt  was  reported  to  me  as  having  been  made  in  another  quarter  ;  but, 
in  that  instance^  as  clothed  in  such  discourteous  expressions^  that  I  do  uot 
think  it  would  have  been  right  for  me,  or  that  on  a  principle  of  just  self-re^ 
spect^  I  could  have  brought  myself  to  answer  it  at  all ;  which  I  say  in  no 
anger,  and  I  hope  with  no  other  pride  than  that  which  may  reasonably  influ- 
ence any  man  in  refusing  an  answer  to  all  direct  impeachments  of  his  veracity. 
From  Mr.  Montgomery,  however,  this  scruple  on  the  question  of  authen- 
Ucity  comes  in  the  shape  which  might  have  been^iticipated  from  his  own 
courteous  and  honourable .  nature,  and  implies  n*  more  than  a  suggestioa 
(in  one  view  perhaps  complimentory  to  myself)  that  the  whole  might  be 
professedly  and  intentionally  a  fictitious  case  as  respected  the  inci- 
dents— and  chosen  as  a  more  impressive  form  for  communicating  some 
moral  or  medical  admonitions  to  the  unconfirmed  Opium-eater.  Thus 
shaped  —  1  cannot  have   any  right  to  quarrel  with  this  scruple.     But 


1921.;]  The  LMs  ffiod.  185 

■ 

on  many  accounts   I  should  be  sorry  that  such  a  view   were  taken 
of  the  nmiitlre  by  thdse  wHo  Mf  have  happened  to  l«ad  It     And 
therefore,   I-  asMre  Mr.  Montgomery,    fai   ttds  public  w^,  that  tib« 
enthre   Confessions   were   designed  to   conVey  a  narrative  of  my  own 
experience  as  an  Opium-eater,  drawta  up  with  entire  simplicity  and  fidelity 
to  the  facts ;  from  which  they  can  in  no  respect  hare  deviated,  except  by 
such  trifling  inaccuracies  of  date,  8cc  as  the  memoranda  I  have  with  me 
in  London  would  not,  in  all  cases,  enable  me  to  reduce  to  certainty.    Ovet 
and  above  the  want  of  these  memoranda,  I  laboured  sometimes  (as  I  will 
acknowledge)  under  another,  and  a  graver  embarrassment: — To  teD  nodiingf 
but  the  tnith-HEnust,  in  all  cases,  be  an  unconditional  moral  law :  tb  teH  ^ 
whole  truth  is  not  equally  so :  hi  the  earlier  narrative  I  acknowledge  tfuit 
I  could  not  always  do  this :  regards  of  deUcacy  towards  some  who  are  fA 
living,  and  of  just  tenderness  to  the  memory  of  others  who  are  dead,  obliged 
me,  at  various  points  of  my  narrative,  to  suppress  what  would  have  added 
interest  to  the  story,  and  sometimes,  perhaps,  have  left  impressions  on  tlie^ 
reader  favourable  to  other  purposes  of  an  auto-biographer.    In  cases  whicll. 
touch  too  closely  on  their  own  rights  and  interests,  all  men  should  hesitate 
to  trust  their  own  judgment :  thus  far  I  imposed  a  restraint  upon  myself,  H 
all  just  and  conscientious  men  would  do :  in  every  thing  else  I  spoke  fearw 
lesdy,  and  as  if  writing  private  memoirs  for  my  own  dearest  friends; 
Events,  indeed,  in  my  life,  connected  with  so  many  remembrances  of  grie^ 
and  sometimes  of  self-reproach,  had  become  too  sacred  from  habitual  contem« 
plation  to  be  altered  or  distorted  for  the  unworthy  purposes  of  scenical 
effect  and  display,  without  violating  those  feelings  of  self-respect  which 
all  men  should  cherish,  and  giving  a  lasting  wound  to  my  conscience. 

Having  replied  to  the  question  involved  in  the  passage  quoted  from  the 
Iris,  I  ought  to  notice  an  objection,  conveyed  to  me  through  many  channels^ 
and  in  too  friendly  terms  to  have  been  overlooked  if  I  had  thought  it  un<«' 
founded :  whereas,  I  believe  it  is  a  very  just  one  : — it  is  this :  that  I  have 
so  managed  the  second  narrative,  as  to  leave  an  overbalance  on  the  side  of 
the  pleasures  of  opium ;  and  that  the  very  horrors  themselves,  described  as 
connected  with  the  use  of  opium,  do  not  pass  the  limit  of  pleasure.^I 
know  not  how  to  excuse  myself  on  this  head,  unless  by  alleging  (what  is 
obvious  enough)  that  to  describe  any  pains,  of  any  class,  and  that  at  per« 
feet  leisure  for  choosing  and  rejecting  thoughts  and  expressions,  is  a  most 
difficult  task :  in  my  case  I  scarcely  know  whether  it  b  competent  to  me  to 
allege  further,  that  I  was  limited,  both  as  to  space  and  time,  so  long  as  it 
appears  on  the  face  of  my  paper,  that  I  did  not  turn  all  that  I  had  of  either 
to  the  best  account.  It  is  known  to  you,  however,  that  I  wrote  in  extreme 
haste,  and  under  very  depressing  circumstances  in  other  respects. — On  the 
whole,  perhaps,  the  best  way  of  meeting  this  objection  will  be  to  send  you  a 
Tliird  Part  of  my  Confessions :  *  drawn  up  with  such  assistance  from  fuller 


*  In  the  Third  Put  I  will  fill  up  an  omission  noticed  by  the  Medical  InieUtgeneer^ 
(No.  24,)  viz. — The  omission  to  record  the  particular  effects  of  the  Opium  between 
1804—12.  This  Medical  Intelligencer  is  a  sort  of  digest  or  analytic  summary  of  con- 
temporary medical  essays,  reviews,  &c  wherever  dispersed.  Of  its  general  merits  I 
cannot  pretend  to  judge :  but,  in  justice  to  the  writer  of  the  article  which  respects 
myself,  I  ought  to  say,  that  it  is  the  most  remarkable  specimen  of  skilful  abridgement 
and  judicious  composition  that  I  remember  to  have  met  with. 


191  TkiUmltBend.  D^0& 

IBOPOrand^  and  the  recoUectioog  of  my  oriy  companion  during  tiioae  yenn^ 
fd  ,1  diall  be  able  to  command  on  my  return  to  the  north:  I  hopt  that 
I  ihall  be  able  to  return  thither  hi  the  course  of  next  wedr:  and,  there- 
lofie^  by  the  end  of  January,  or  thereaboutay  I  shall  have  iSMmd  kiaiirt 
tan  my  other  employments,  to  finish  it  to  my  own  satia&ction*  I  do  aol 
Tcnture  to  hope,  that  it  will  realize  the  whole  of  what  is  felt  to  be  wantmg : 
but  it  is  fit  that  I  should  make  the  e£forty  if  it  were  only  to  meet  the  ez« 
preivons  of  interest  in  my  previous  papers,  which  hare  reached  me  froon  all 
«H|rlers,  or  to  mark  my  sense  of  the  personal  kindnesa  which,  hi  many 
funt^  must  hare  ^Uctated  the  terms  in  which  that  hiterest  waa  conreyed. 

Thb,  I  think,  is  what  I  had  to  say.  Some  thingst,  which  I  might  hav9 
been  di^Kiaed  to  add,  would  not  be  fittii^  hi  a  public  letter.  Let  m/t  aagr* 
hofrerer,  generally,  that  these  two  papers  of  mine,  short  and  meoosidar* 
able  a^  they  are,  have,  in  one  way,  produced  a  disproportionate  lesult 
though  but  of  a  personal  nature,  by  leading  to  maoy  kind  acta,  and  gene* 
rous  senrices,  and  expressions  of  regard,  in  many  different  sh^iei^  finoBi  men 
^talents  in  London* 

To  these  hereafter  I  shall  look  back  as  to  a  fimd  of  pleasant  rcDMni* 
bianoes.  Meantime,  for  the  present,  they  have  rendered  me  a  aerrioe  not 
lev  acceptable,  by  making  ray  residence  in  London,  in  many  reelects, 
i^gieeahle,  at  a  time  when,  on  other  accounts,  it  should  naturaUy  hsfct 
been  fax  otherwise. 

I  remain.  Sir, 

Your  faithful  friend  and  senrant, 

XkM^oii,  Nov.  97,  1891.  X.  Y.  Z. 


lion's  Head  regrets  that  it  must  defer  many  Answers  to  Correspondenla 
till  next  Month. 


THE 


ionlion  iilaBajitte. 


N^  XXIV.  DECEMBER,  1821.  Vol.  IV. 


€||e  €arip  fond)  ^crtsf. 

[[An  article  appeared  in  a  former  Number  of  the  London  Magazine, 
entitled  "  Notices  of  the  Early  French  Poeta,"  which,  had  the  writer  com- 
pleted his  design,  would  doubtless  have  been  followed  by  several  others  of 
the  same  kind.  We  are  happy  to  announce,  that  one  of  our  Correspondents 
has  taken  up  the  subject  with  the  intention,  as  will  be  seen  in  the  following 
paper,  of  continuing  it.]] 

CLEMENT  BfAROT. 

In  the  course  of  this  last  summer,  ready  to  pardon,  in  consideration  of 
I  happened  to  reside  for  some  weeks  higher  excellence,  or  even  to  wel- 
in  a  place  where  I  had  free  (iccess  to  come,  as  so  many  means  of  aiding 
%  large  collection  of  books,  which  us  in  that  escape  from  the  tameness  of 
ibrmerly  belonged  to  the  kings  of  common  every-day  life,  which  it  is 
France ;  but,  like  other  royal  pro-  one  great  end  of  poetry  to  effect.  I 
perty,  having  been  confiscated  at  the  do  not  know  of  any  other  people 
Revolution,  still  continues  unre-  who  have  set  up  an  exclusive  stand- 
claimed,  and  is  now  open  to  the  use  ard  of  diis  sort.  What  would  the 
of  the  public.  Of  Uiis  occasion  I  Greeks  of  the  age  of  Pericles  have 
gliidly  availed  myself,  to  extend  my  said  to  a  literary  censor,  that  should 
acquaintance  with  some  of  their  have  endeavoured  to  persuade  them 
earlier  writers,  whose  works  are  not  to  throw  aside  the  works  of  Homer 
oommonly  to  be  met  with  in  our  own  and  Hesiod,  because  he  could  have 
country ;  and  amongst  these,  fixed  pointed  out  to  them,  in  every  page, 
my  attention  principally  on  such  of  modes  of  expression  that  would  not 
their  poets  as  were  of  most  note  at  have  passed  muster  in  a  coterie  at 
the  restoration,  or  more  properly  Aspasia's?  What  reply  should  we 
flaking,  the  general  diffusion  of  po-  make  to  a  critic,  that  would  fain  put 
lite  learning  in  Europe.  What  the  us  out  of  conceit  with  some  of  the 
result  of  this  inquiry  has  been,  I  in-  finest  things  in  Spenser  and  Shak- 
vite  my  readers  to  judge?  speare,  because  they  were  cast  hi  a 

The  French  of  Uie  present  dav,  I  mould  utterly  differing  from  that  im- 

know,  set  but  little  store  on  these  pressed  on  Uie  language  of  our  po- 

revivers  of  the  poetical  art    Their  liter  circles,  though  similar  enough  to 

extreme  solicitude  for  what  they  call  the  stamp  of  our  country-fc^s*  talk  ? 

the  purity  of  their  language,  makes  Let  any  one  take  up  Voltaire's  com- 

them  easily  offended  by  phrases,  the  mentary  on  the  tragedies  of  Comeille, 

irregularities  of  wliich  we  8houJd  be  and  he  will  see  to  what  a  pitch  this 

Vol.  IV.  2X 


^8                           Earfy  French  PoeU^CUment  Mairci.  CP^<^ 

I 

£Entidiou6iie68  hae  been  oarrled  In  the  The  whole  poem  is  Indeed  00  fiin- 
instance  of  a  writer  comparatively  oiflily  and  so  replete  with  a  peculiar 
modem.  I  am  not  much  afraid  lest  kind  of  sprightly  humour^  that  I  am 
the  generality  of  my  readers  should  not  without  hopes  of  amusing  my 
be  subject  to  any  such  disgust.  Our  readers  by  an  abstract  of  it. 
i^orance  is  a  happy  seciuit^r  from  In  this  merry  spring-tide^  the  God 
this  danger ;  though  I  trust  it  will  commands  that  his  eyes  may  be  un- 
not  prevent  us  from  beinff  alive  to  bandaged,  and  looking  round  his  ce« 
the  many  beauties  that  will  meet  us  lestial  throne^  tees  all  nations  bend- 
in  the  search  we  are  about  to  en-  itig  under  his  sway,  like  a  scion  under 
gage  in.  the  wind ;  and  the  other  deities  them- 
y  We  will  begin  with  Marot ;  not  selves,  submitting  to  his  power.  But 
because  his  works  are  of  very  rare  observing  that  Marot  continued  still 
occurrence,  (for  there  have  been  refractory,  he  resolves  to  tame  the 
many  editions  of  them,)  but  because,  rebel ;  and  taking  an  arrow  out  of 
though  frequently  spoken  of,  and  his  quiver,  executes  his  purpose  so 
even  recommended  as  a  model  of  effectually,  as  to  render  the  unhappy 
elegant  "  badinage "  by  Boileau,  he  poet  an  object  of  commiseration  to 
is  t)ut  little  known  amongst  us;  all  who  have  a  heart  capable  of 
which  indeed  is  not  much  to  be  pity.  In  order  to  assuage  his  sufier- 
wondered  at,  when  his  own  country-  ings,  Marot  resolves  on  a  far-off 
men  seem  to  have  almost  lost  sight  journey  in  search  of  the  goddess 
of  him.  '^  Marot  is  much  talked  of,  Ferme-amour,  a  pure  and  chaste 
but  seldom  read,"  says  one  of  their  dame,  whom  Jupiter  had  sent  upon 
critics.*  '^  We  do  not  read  with  earth,  committing  the  government 
pleasure  that  which  has  need  of  a  of  loyal  spirits  to  her  care.  A  long^ 
dictionary  to  explain  it.  Almost  all  time  did  the  Poet  compass  land  and 
his  expressions  are  antiquated." —  sea,  like  a  knight-errant,  on  this 
*'  Villon  and  Marot,  and  some  others,  quest.  Of  all  to  whom  he  came  he 
are  satirical  poets ;  and  their  epi-  inquired  whether  she  dwelt  in  their 
grams  may  be  said  to  be  the  only  land ;  but  of  none  did  he  gain  any 
titles  they  have  to  celebrity  in  the  tidings  of  her.  At  length  he  deter- 
present  day,"  says  another.f  All  this  mines  to  go  to  the  Temple  Cupidique, 
may  show  the  little  taste  the  French  in  the  hopes  of  finding  her  there ; 
now  have  for  their  elder  poets.  How  and  setting  out  early  in  the  inomingy 
otherwise  could  they  have  overlooked  has  no  difficulty  in  discovering  his 
those  exquisite  sketches,  the  Temple  way ;  for  many  a  passing  pilgrim 
of  Cupid,  and  the  Eclogue  of  Pan  had  sprinkled  it  with  roses  and 
and  Robin,  by  Marot ;  the  latter  of  branches  of  rosemary ;  and  as  he 
which  is  worthy  the  author  of  the  advanced,  he  fell  in  with  other  pil-> 
Faene  Queene,  X  as  the  former  is  of  grims  who  journeyed  on,  sighing  and 
Chaucer  ?  relating  their  sad  haps.  Joining  their 
We  might  almost  suppose  our-  company,  he  arrives  with  them  at 
selves  to  be  reading  an  imitation  of  the  royal  temple ;  where,  in  the  en- 
the  proem  to  tlie  Canterbury  Tales,  closure  that  surrounded  it,  the  sweet 
in  the  following  verses  with  which  breath  of  the  west-wind,  and  Tityrus, 
the  Temple  of  Cupid  opens :  and  the  god  Pan  with  his  flocks  and 
Surlcprintemps  que  la  bcUc  Flora  ^^rds,  and  the  sound  of  pipes  and 
Les  champs  couvcrts  de  diverse  fleur  a,  flageolets,  and  of  birds  answering  to 
E  son  amy  Zephyrus  les  esvcnte,  thein,  soon  refreshed  his  wearied 
Quand  doucement  en  Tair  souspire  e  vente.  spirits. 


*  M.  Dussault,  in  a  review  of  a  Selection  of  Marot*s  Works,  inserted  in  his  Annales 
Litt^raires,  t.  i.  p.  1 98. 

f  M.  A  vend,  one  of  the  writers  in  the  Lyc^  Fran<jais,  t.  ii.  p.  106,  an  entertaining 
miflcellany  that  lasted  but  a  short  time  after  the  decease  of  Charles  Loyson,  a  young 
poet  of  considerable  pjjomise,  who  was  a  chief  contributor  to  it  He  died  in  the  cours* 
of  last  year. 

X  Indeed  iie  has  clawly  copied  it  in  the  Slicpheard's  Kalcndar,  Eel.  12. 

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l«ai.;j  Earlif  French  PoHt-^^CUmtni  Marot  Ji39 

Tou8  arbres  eont  en  ce  lieu  verdojans ; 
Petits  ruisseaux  y  furent  ondoyans, 
Tomours  faisans^  ao  tour  des  prez  herbus 
Un  doux  munnure :  et  quand  le  der  Fhebus 
Avoit  droit  1^  ses  beaux  rayons  espars^ 
Telle  splendeur  rendoit  de  toutes  pars 
Ce  lieu  divin,  qu'aux  humains  bien  sembloit 
Que  terre  au  ciel  de  beauts  ressembloit 

His  heart  assured  him  that  this  was  the  residence  of  Ferme-amour ;  and 
Hope  led  him  onward  to  the  delightful  place.  It  seemed  as  if  Jove  had 
eome  from  heaven  on  purpose  to  frame  it ;  and  there  was  wanting  nothing 
but  Adam  and  Eve  to  make  one  believe  that  it  was  the  terrestrial  paradise 
itself. 

Over  the  portal  he  observes  a  scutcheon  with  the  arms  of  Love  en- 
graved on  it;  and  higher  up  the  figure  of  Cupid  himself^  with  his 
naked  bow  out-stretchea  and  ready  to  discharge  an  arrow  at  the  first 
comer.  He  now  enters ;  and  is  welcomed  by  Bel-accoeil,  who  takes  him 
by  his  right  hand>  and  leads  him  through  a  narrow  path  Into  the  beautiful 
enclosure  of  which  he  was  the  first  porter. 

Le  premier  huis  de  toutes  fleurs  vermeillei 
Estoit  construiste^  et  de  boutons  yssans, 
Signifiant  que  joyes  non  pareilles 
8ont  a  jamais  en  ce  lieu  neuiissans : 

The  door  was  built  up  of  all  flowers  red 
And  buds^  that  from  their  buttons  issued. 
Denoting  well  that  joys  without  compare 
For  ever  in  that  place  y-blooming  were. 

This  was  the  barrier  kept  by  Bel-accueil  in  Us  green  robe;  who  day 
and  night  opens  to  true  lovers  and  gracious;  and  willingly  enlists  them 
under  his  banners ;  whilst  he  excludes  (as  reason  is)  all  those  who  are  such 
as  the  perfidious  and  disloyal  Jason. 

We  now  come  to  the  great  altar^  which  is  a  rock  of  that  virtue^  that 
every  lover  who  would  flee  from  it  is  drawn  nearer^  like  steel  to  the 
magnet.  The  canopy  is  a  cedar^  which  stretches  so  wide  as  to  cover  the 
altar^  on  which  body^  and  hearty  and  goods^  must  be  given  up  as  an  ofiering 
to  Venus. 

• 

De  Cupido  le  diademe 
Est  de  roses  un  chapelet^ 
Que  Venus  cuellit  elle  meme 
Dedans  son  jardin  verdelet ; 
Et  sur  le  printemps  nouvelet 
Le  transmit  k  son  cher  enfant 
Qui  de  bon  coeur  le  va  coiflant ; 
Puis  donna  pour  ces  roses  belles 
A  sa  mere  un  char  triomphant 
Conduit  par  douze  colombelles. 
Devant  1  autel  deux  cypres  singuliers 
Je  vey  fleurir  sons  odeur  embasm^e : 
Et  me  dit-on  que  c'etoient  les  pilliers 
Du  grand  autd  de  haulte  renomm^. 
Lors  millc  oiseaux  d'une  longue  ramee^ 
Vindrent  voler  sur  ces  vertes  courtines^ 
Prestz  de  chanter  chansonettes  divines. 
Si  demanday  pourquoi  li  sont  venus : 
Mais  on  me  dit^  amy^  ce  sont  matincs^ 
Qu'ilz  viennent  dire  en  Thonneur  de  Venus. 

2X2 


590  Early  French  PoeU^^Clemeni  Maroi,  CPtt. 

On  Cupid's  brow  for  crown  was  set 

Of  roses  a  fair  chapelet> 

The  whicli  within  ner  garden  green 

Were  gather'd  by  Love  s  gracious  queen. 

And  by  her  to  her  infant  dear 

Sent  in  the  spring-time  of  the  year. 

These  he  with  right  good- will  did  don ; 

And  to  his  mother  thereupon 

A  chariot  gave^  in  triumpti  led 

By  turtles  twelve  all  harnessed. 

Before  the  altar  saw  I^  blooming  fear. 

Two  cypresses^  embalm'd  with  odours  rare. 

And  these,  quoth  they,  are  pillars  that  do  bide 

To  stay  this  altar  famed  far  and  wide. 

And  then  a  thousand  birds  upon  the  wing 

Amid  those  ciulains  ^reen  came  fluttering. 

Ready  to  sin?  their  little  songs  divine. 

And  so  I  ask  d,  why  came  they  to  that  shrine  ? 

And  these,  they  said,  are  matins,  friend  ;  which  tliey 

In  honour  of  Love's  queen  are  come  to  say. 

Before  the  image  of  Cupid  burned  the  brand  of  Distress,  "  le  bnndoQ 
de  Destresse,"  with  which  Dido,  Biblis,  and  Helen  of  Greece,  were  in* 
flamed.  Now,  however,  it  served  as  a  lamp  to  the  temple. 
.  The  samts  of  either  sex,  who  are  invoked  here,  are  Beau-parler,  Bien- 
celer,  Bon-rapport,  Grace,  Marcy,  Bien-servir,  Bien-aymer,  and  others, 
without  whose  aid  no  pilgrim  can  succeed  in  overtaking  the  prey  whic^ 
he  pursues  in  the  Forest  of  Loves. 

Chandelles  flambans,  ou  esteintes^ 
Que  tous  amoiueux  pelerins 
Portent  devant  tels  saincts  et  sainctes, 
Ce  sont  bouquets  de  romarins. 

Les  chantres,  linotz,  et  serins, 
£t  rossignolz  au  gay  courage. 
Qui  sur  Duissons  de  verd  bocage 
Ou  branches,  en  lieu  de  pulpitres, 
Chantent  le  joly  chant  ramafe. 
Pour  versets,  respons,  et  epistres. 

Les  vitres  sont  de  dair  et  fin  crystal, 
Ou  peintes  sont  les  gestes  authentiques 
De  ceux  qui  ont  jadis  de  coeur  loyal 
Bien  observe  d' Amour  les  loix  antiques. 

Torches  quench'd  or  flaming  high. 
That  all  loving  pilgrims  bear 
Before  the  saints  that  list  their  prayer. 
Are  posies  made  of  rosemary. 

Many  a  linnet  and  canarv. 
And  many  a  gay  nightingale. 
Amid  the  green-wood's  feafy  shroud. 
Instead  of  desks  on  branches  smale,* 
For  verse,  response,  and  'pistle  loud. 
Sit  shrilling  of  their  merry  sons. 

The  windows  were  of  cryst^  clear. 
On  which  old  gestes  depeinten  are. 
Of  such  as  with  true  hearts  did  hold 
The  laws  by  Love  ordain'd  of  old. 


*  This  reminds  one  of  a  line  in  Shekspeare^s  sonnets : 

^'  Bare  niinM  choin  where  late  the  sweet  birds  sang. 


1891.3                    -SMy  I^^rench  PoeU^Clenunt  Maroi.  ^1 

In  secret    tabernacles   and  little  Genius^    the   arch-prleet>    stands 

shrines      are    deposited    necklaces^  ready  to  administer  the  vows  to  all 

rings^  crowns  (coins),   ducats,   and  who  are  desirous  of  professing.    The 

chains  of  gold ;    by  which  greater  altars,  whereon  they  are  sworn,  are 

miracles  are  wrought  in  love  than  couches  covered  with  sumptuous  or- 

even  by  the  mightv  saint  Beau-parler  naments :  no  candles  are  used  day  or 

(Fine- talk)  himself.  night;  and  the  terms  of  their  pro- 

The  vaults  and  arches  are  mar-  fession  are  so    clear,    that   novices 

vellously  hiterlaced  with  trellis-work  know  more  than  the  most  learned 

of  vines,  from  which  the  young  buds  clerks, 

and  grapes  are  seen  depending.  The  masses  for  requiem  are  sere- 

The  beUs  are  tabours,  dukimers^  nadinfs;  and  the  solemn  words  re- 
harps,  lutes,  hoboes,  flageolets,  trum«  peated  for  the  deceased,  as  pater- 
pets,  and  clarions;  from  which,  when-  nosters  and  avemaryes,  are  the  gos- 
soever  they  are  sounded,  there  issues  siping  and  prattle  of  women.  The 
a  chime  so  melodious,  that  there  is  sacred  processions  are  the  morris- 
no  soldier,  however  fond  of  war,  who  dancing,  and  mumming,  and  antic 
would  not  quit  lance  and  sabre  to  feats  of  amorous  champions;  their 
become  a  monk  in  this  temple.  consolings  are  to  talk  paur  by  pair,  or 

On  the  sick  and  infirm^  who  are  to  read  the  Ars  Amandi  for  gospels  : 

recommended  for  charity,  the  ladies  and  their  holy  relics  are  the  lips  ox 

bestow  smiles,  and  kind  looks,  and  their  ladies.  On  all  sides,  says  Marotj 

kisses,  for  alms.    The  preachers  are  I  look  round  me  and  contemplate ; 

elderly  matrons,   who  exhort  their  and  in  my  life  I  think  I  never  saw  a 

younger  sisters  not  to  lose  the  flower  temple  so  well  fitted  at  all  points,' 

of  their  age ;  and  many  are  the  con-  excepting  one — and  that  was,  that 

verts  that  are  won  over  by  this  doc-  there  was    no    pix  Tpaix)    on  the 

trine.  The  cemetery  is  a  green  wood;  altar.  Joy  there  is,  ana  mourning  full 

the  walls,  hedges  and  brakes ;  the  of  wrath ;  for  one  rest,  ten  travails  ; 

crosses  are  fruit-trees ;  and  the  De  and  in  brief,  it  would  be  hard  to  say 

Profundis,  merry  songs.    Ovid,  Mas-  whether  it  were  more  like  Hell  or 

ter  Alain  Chartier,  Petrarch,  and  the  Paradise :  I  know  not  what  to  com- 

Romant  of  the  Rose>  serve  for  Mass-  pare  it  to  better  than  a  rose  encom- 

book.   Breviary,   and  Psalter ;   and  passed  with  thorns ;  short  pleasures 

the  lessons  chaunted  are  rondeaux,  and  long  complainings, 

ballads,  and  virelays.    Other  manner  After  some  other  adventures  in  the  , 

of  chauuts  there  are,   that  consist  temple,  he  at  last  finds  Ferme-amour 

only  of  cries,   wailings,   and  com-  in  the  choir  between  a  great  prince 

plaints.     The  little  chapels,  or  ora-  and  an    excellent  lady,    who  were 

tories,  are  leafy  chambers  and  branch-  invested  with  the  royal  fleur-de-lys 

ing  cabinets ;    labyrinths  in   woods  and  ducal  ermines.  Bel-accueil  opens 

and  gardens,  where  one  loses  oneself  for  him  the  entrance  into  the  cnoir, 

while  the  green  lasts ;  the  wickets  and  he  gladly  enlists  himself  imder 

are  low  bushes,   and  the  pavement  the  standard  of  Ferme-amour;  but 

all  of  green  sward.  the    play     on    the    words,    choeur 

The  eau-benite    ^or    holy- water)  and  coeur,  on  which  the  conclusion 

stood  in  a  lake,  called  the  lake  of  turns,  cannot  be  preserved  in  £ng- 

tears,    made  from  the   weeping    of  lish. 

lovers.    Nothing  can  grow  near  it ;  It  may  be  seen  from  this  view  of 

but  every  thing    there  is  withered  one  of  ms  poems  how  strone  a  re- 

throughout  the  year.     The  water-  semblance  Marot  bears  to  Chaucer, 

sprinkle  was  a  faded  rose.     As  for  He  has  the  same  liveliness  of  fancy ; 

the  incense  that  was  burned  within  the  same  rapidity  and  distmctness  of 

the    temple,    it    was   composed    of  pencil ;  the  same  archness ;  the  same 

daisies,  pmks,  amaranths,  roses,  rose-  disposition  to  satire:  but  he  has  all 

mary,    red  buttons,    lavender,   and  these  generally  in  a  less  degree.    His 

every  flower  that  casts  a  comfortable  language  does  not  approach  much 

smell ;    but    the   marigold  too  (the  nearer  to  the  modem  than  old  Geof- 

flower  of  care,  "  de  la  soucie "  )  was  frey's ;    though  his  age  is  so  much 

amongst  them :  less  remote  from   ours.    Marot  was 

Voila  qui  mi  trouble  Is  tens,  contemporary  with  our  writers  in  the 


Mi  JBarfy  French  PoeU-^UmefU  Marot.  [l>ec. 

time  of  Henry  VIII. ;  and  had  they  vere  to  the  nags  canors  of  later 

left  any  thing  equal  to  thia  piece>  or  times. 

to  the  EpbUe  of  Maguelonne  h  son  A  passage  hi  the  last  mentioned  of 
Amy  Pierre  de  Provence^  or  to  the  these  poems^  descriptive  of  the  re- 
Hero  and  Leander  of  this  writer^  ception  Hero  gives  her  lover,  after 
manv  a  lover  of  antique  simplicity  his  first  swimming  across  the  Helles- 
would  have  risen  up  amongst  us  to  pont^  appears  to  me  to  be  a  model  of 
show  how  superior  such  compositions  ease  and  sweetness. 

Elle  embrassa  d'amour  et  d'aise  pleine 
Son  cher  espoux  quasi  tout  hors  d'aleine, 
Ayant  encor  ses  blancs  cheveux  moiiillez 
Tons  degouttans^  et  d'escume  souillez. 
Lors  le  mena  dedans  son  cabinet ; 
£t  quand  son  <;orps  eut  essuyd  bien  net, 
D'huile  rosat  bien  odorant  I'oignit^ 
£t  de  la  mer  la  senteur  estainguit.* 

Du  Bellay^  a  poet  who  lived  in  Marot's  time^  considered  his  Eclogue  ok 
the  Birth  of  the  Dauphin  as  one  of  his  best  productions.  It  is  little  more 
than  a  translation  of  the  Pollio  of  Virgil. 

His  tale  of  the  Lion  and  Rat  opened  the  way  for  La  Fontaine's  excellence 
in  that  species  of  writing. 

The  epigrams^  for  wmch  he  is  so  much  applauded^  are  often  gross  and 
Bcentious.    I  have  selected  one  that  is  not  open  to  this  objection. 

Plus  ne  sub  ce  que  j'ay  est^^ 
Et  ne  le  s^aurois  jamais  estre. 
Mon  beau  printemps  et  mon  est^ 
Ont  fait  le  sault  par  la  fenestre. 
Amour  tu  as  este  mon  maistre^ 
Je  t'ay  servi  sur  tous  les  Dieux. 
O  si  je  pouvois  deux  fois  naistre> 
Comme  je  te  servirois  mieux. 

•  The  merit  of  this  so  much  depends  on  the  delicacy  and  happy  tmn  of  the 
expression  that  I  am  loth  io  venture  it  in  English* 

Clemsnt  MiiEOTj  whom  I  have  thus  endeavoured  to  introduce  to  the 
notice  of  my  readers^  was  bom  at  Cahors,  in  Ouercy,  in  1484.  His  father 
jjean^  t  a  Norman,  was  abo  a  poet  of  some  celebrity ;  as  appears  from  an 
ippigram  addressed  by  his  son  to  Hugues  Salel,  another  wnter  of  whom  it 
\g  intended  to  give  some  accoimt  in  a  future  paper. 

De  Jan  de  Meun  s'enfle  le  cours  de  Loire. 
En  maistre  Alain  Normandie  prent  gloire : 
Et  plaint  encore  mon  arbre  patemeL 

'^  The  Loire  swells  with  pride  at  the  name  of  Jean  de  Meun.  Normandy 
glories  in  Master  Alain  (Alain  Chartier),  and  still  mourns  for  my  paternal 
tree." 

During  the  captivity  of  Francis  I.  in  Spain,  Clement  was  apprehended  on 
a  suspicion  of  heresy^  and  confined  in  the  Ch&telet  at  Paris,  from  whence 


*  It  will  be  found  on  a  oompariaon  with  the  Greek  poem  of  Musaeus,  that  Marot 
hat  followed  it  very  closely.  I  have  not  Marlow  and  Chapman*s  poem,  lately  re-edited 
with  a  pleasant  preface,  nor  Mr.£lton*8  translation,  to  compare  with  this. 

+  Jean  Maiot^s  poems  were  republished  at  Paris,  1723,  in  two  volamesi  together 
imtk  those  of  Micfad,  who  was,  I  think,  the  son  of  Clement 


1991.;]  Earfy  French  PoetM^CUmnU  Marot.  S9& 

he  was  transferred  to  Chartres.  Having  been  deHyered  through  the  hrter- 
cession  of  his  friends,  but  still  fearing  a  second  imprisonment,  he  took  re- 
fuge, first  with  Margaret  of  Navarre,  the  King's  sister,  and  afterwards  at 
Ferrara,  with  Renee,  Duchess  of  that  city,  and  daughter  of  Louis  XIl. 
To  these  events  of  his  life  he  refers  in  some  verses  addressed  to  those  through 
whose  kindness  he  had  obtained  his  freedom. 

J'euz  a  Paris  prison  fort  inhumaine :   ' 
A  Chartres  fuz  doucement  enclou^ : 
Ariintcnant  vois,  ou  mon  plaisir  me  maine ; 
C'est  bien  et  mal.    Dieu  soit  de  tout  lone. 

''  At  Paris  my  prison  was  a  cruel  one ;  in  my  confinement  at  Chartres  I 
had  milder  usage.  Now  I  go  where  my  pleasure  leads  me.  It  is  good  and 
evil.     God  be  praised  for  all." 

At  Ferrara,  he  contracted  a  friendship  with  Calvin,  and  is  said  to  have 
embraced  the  opinions  of  tliat  reformer.  But  at  the  solicitation  of  Paul  II1» 
the  Duke  of  Ferrara  determined  on  banishing  all  the  wits  and  learned  men^ 
who  were  suspected  of  heresy,  out  of  his  territories ;  and  the  Duchess  pre- 
vailed  on  the  King  of  France  to  allow  Marot  to  return  to  his  court,  and  to 
restore  him  to  favour,  on  condition  of  his  again  becoming  a  dutiful  son  to 
the  Church.    Against  the  charge  of  dissension  he  thus  defends  himself: 

Point  ne  suis  Lutheriste, 
Ne  Zuinglien,  et  moins  Anabaptiste : 
Je  suis  de  Diea  par  son  Filz  Jesus  Christ 

Je  suis  celuy  qui  ay  fait  maint  escrit, 
Dont  un  seul  vers  on  n'en  sauroit  extraire. 
Qui  a  la  loi  divine  soit  contraire. 
Je  suis  cehiy,  qui  prens  plaisir,  et  peine 
A  louer  Clirist  et  la  mere  tant  pleine 
De  grace  infuse ;  et  pour  bien  Veprouver, 
On  Te  pourra  parmes  escrits  trouver. 
A  Monsieur  Bauchart,  Docteur  en  Theologie, 

**  I  am  neither  Lutheran  nor  Zuinglian ;  and  stiU  less  an  Anabaptist :  I 
am  of  God  by  his  Son  Jesus  Christ.  I  am  one  that  have  written  many  a 
poem ;  from  none  of  which  a  single  line  can  be  adduced  contrary  to  the 
divine  law.  I  am  one  whose  delight  and  whose  labour  it  is  to  exalt  my 
Saviour  and  his  all-gracious  Mother.  The  best  proof  of  this  may  be  found 
in  my  writings." 

From  his  verses  to  the  King,  writ-  gave  so  much  scandal  to  the  doctors 

ten  during  his  residence  at  Ferrara,  of  the  Sorbonne,  that  they  induced 

it  appears  that  he  thought  himself  in  the  King  to  prevent  him  from  conti- 

danger  of  being  put  to  the  stake  as  nuing  his  work, 

a  heretic.    The  arguments  which  he  Still  however  he  persisted  in  deli- 

uses  to  defend  himself  on  account  of  venng  his  sentiments  on  religion  with 

having  prohibited  books  in  his  pos-  such  freedom    as  to  keep  alive  the 

session,  are  much  the  same  as  Milton  resentment  of  his  enemies ;  and  he  at 

has  since  urged  on  a  similar  subject  last  found  it  necessary  to  remove  to 

in  his  Areopagitica.  Geneva.     Here  he  was   accused  of 

On  his  return  to  France  in  1536,  having  committed  some  gross  irregu« 

he  employed  himself  in   translating  larities  of  conduct,  of  which  I  am 

some  of   the    Psalms    into    French  willing  to  believe  him  innocent    He 

metre,  from  the  version  of  Vatable,  then  retired  to  Turin,  and  died  inpo« 

the  royal  professor  of  Hebrew,  which  verty  at  the  age  of  sixty. 


m^  TraJaHomA  LiUraHtre.  IPwc. 

TBADITIONAL  UTERATURE. 
No.  XIL 

MILES   COLTlllE^   THE   CUMBERLAND   MARINER. 

William  Glen  was  our  captain's  name, 

He  was  a  brisk  and  a  bold  young  man. 

As  brave  a  sailor  as  e*er  went  to  sea, 

And  he  was  bound  for  New  Barbarie. 

The  first  of  April  we  spread  our  saU 

To  a  low,  a  sweet,  and  a  pleasant  gale ; 

But  we  had  not  sailM  more  leagues  than  two. 

Till  the  slnr  grew  dark  and  the  tempest  blew, 

The  lightnmg  flashed,  and  loud  rof:r*d  the  sea. 

As  we  were  bound  for  New  Barbarie.  Old  Ballad. 

On  the  English  side  of  the  sea  of  great  severity  on  an  unsheltered 
Bolway  lies  a  long  line  of  flat  and  coast,  was  expected  either  to  de- 
unelevated  coast,  where  the  sea^  stroy  or  drive  him  from  his  abode, 
fowl  find  refuge  from  the  gun  of  the  but  he  braved  every  storm,  and  re- 
ibwler,  and  which,  save  the  head-  sisted  all  offers  of  food  or  raiment, 
land  and  the  deep  sea,  presents  but  The  first  winter  of  his  abode  was 
one  object  of  attraction,  namely,  the  one  of  prodigious  storm  and  infinite 
cottage  of  Miles  Colvine,  the  Cum-  hardship.  The  snow  lay  long  and  deep 
berland  mariner.  The  owner  of  this  on  the  ground,  the  ice  was  thick  on 
rude  dwelling,  once  a  seaman,  a  lake  ana  pool,  and  the  Solway  pre- 
soldier,  a  scholar,  and  a  gentleman,  sented  one  continual  scene  of  corn- 
was  shipwrecked  on  the  coast  about  motion  and  distress.  The  shore  was 
thirty  years  ago,  and  was  the  only  covered  with  the  wrecks  of  ships,  the 
living  soul  that  escaped  from  the  eddies  choaked  with  drownea  men, 
&tal  storm.  The  vessel  was  from  a  and  the  sea  itself  so  rough  and  bois- 
foreign  land,  and  somethmg  mysteri-  terous  that  the  fishermen  suspended 
ous  always  hung  over  her  fate  and  their  customary  labours,  and  sat 
the  destiny  of  her  crew.  The  con-  with  their  families  at  the  hearth-fire, 
duct  of  Miles  Colvine  was  less  likely  listening  to  the  sounding  of  the  surge, 
to  remove  than  confirm  suspicion,  and  relating  tales  of  maritime  disas- 
He  heard  all  enquiries  concerning  ter  and  shipwreck.  But  on  Miles 
the  ship  and  the  crew  in  perfect  Colvine  the  severe  and  continued 
tranquiUitv  and  silence,  and  once  only  storm  seemed  to  have  no  influence, 
he  deigned  to  answer,  when  a  shep-  He  ranged  Uie  shore,  coUecting  for 
herd  asked,  '^  was  it  the  blood  of  his  fire  Uie  wrecks  of  ships ;  he  com- 
beasts  I  saw  upon  the  deck?  " — ''  No,  niltted  his  nets  and  hooks  to  the  sea 
it  was  the  blood  of  men."  From  with  his  usual  skiU ;  and  having 
this  time  forward,  no  farther  inter-  found  a  drifted  boat,  which  belonged 
course  was  courted  by  the  peasantry,  to  some  unfortunate  vessel,  he  ob- 
and  he  was  allowed  to  construct  a  tained  command  over  the  element 
smaU  hut,  fence  it  round  with  a  wall  most  congenial  to  his  heart,  and 
of  loose  stone,  and  occupy  it,  without  wandered  about  on  the  bosom  of  the 
any  molestation.  He  seemed  anxi-  waters  noon  and  night,  more  like  a 
ous  to  shun  all  intercourse  with  hu-  troubled  spirit  than  a  human  being, 
man  beings,  and  sought  and  found  When  the  severity  of  winter  had 
his  subsistence  in  the  sea ;  for  it  was  passed  away,  and  sea-birds  laid  their 
the  common  remark  of  the  Allan  bay  e^;gs  in  the  sand,  the  mariner  remitted 
fishermen  that  no  man  dipped  a  his  excursions  at  sea,  and  commenced 
hook,  or  wetted  a  net,  between  Skin-  a  labour  which  surprised  many, 
vemess  and  ^aint  Bees,  with  greater  The  sea  shore,  or  that  portion  of  the 
skill  and  success.  In  this  sditude,  coast  which  lies  between  the  margin- 
exposed  to  every  storm  that  swept  of  the  sea  and  the  cultivated  land,  a 
the  beach  from  sea  or  land,  amid  re^on  of  shells,  and  drift  sand,  and 
much  seeming  wretchedness  and  pri-  pebbles,  has  ever  been  regarded  as 
vation,  he  resided  during  a  summer  a  kind  of  common,  and  the  right  of 
»nd  autumn:   winter,  a  season  of  suspending  nets,  bawling  boats  a- 


1BS1.3  ^^*  Cohin$,  thi  Cwmberkmd  Marmtr.  S9$ 

ground,   and  oonetructing  huts  for  saved  Ma^  Lawflon."    On  another 
the  summer  residence  of  the  fisher-  occasion^  I  was  hundnff  on  the  Scot* 
men^   has  never  been   disputed  bjr  tish  mountain  of  Criffel^  and  having 
the  natural  lord  of  those  thriftless  reached  its  siunmit  I  sat  down  to 
domains.      It  was  on   tills  debate-  look  around  on  the  fine  prospect  of 
able  ^ound,  between  the  barren  sea  sea  and  land  below  me,  and  take 
and  Vie  cultivated  fields  that  the  ma-  some  refreshment  At  a  little  distance 
riner  fixed  Ms  abode ;  but  it  soon  I  saw  somewhat  like  the  fififure  of  a 
appeared  that  he  wished  to  extend  human  beings  bedded  in  the  heath, 
his   possessions^    and    augment   his  and  lying  loddng  on  the  Solway  from 
household  accommodation.    He  con-  a  projecting  rodc^   so  still  and  mo- 
structed  a  larger  and  more  substan«  tionless    that   he  seemed  dead.     I 
tial  house^  with  equal  attention  to  went  near :  it  was  Miles  Colvine ;  he 
durability  and  neatness ;  he  fenced  seemed  unconscious  of  my  approach, 
off  the  sea  by  a  barrier  of  large  and,  looking  stedfastly  on  the  sea, 
stones^    and    scattered    around    ms  remained  fixed^  and  muttering,    tm 
dwelling  a  few  of  the  common  flowers  long  as  I  continued  on  the  mountain* 
which  Jove  to  blossom  near  the  sea  Indeed,  wherever  he  went  he  talked 
breeze.    The  smoke  of  his  chimney,  more  like  a  man  holding  communion 
and  the  unremitting   clank    of  his  with  his  own  mind,  than  one  sharing 
hammer   finishing   the  interior  ac«  his  thoughts  with  others,   and  the 
commodations,  were  seen  and  heard  general  purport  of  such  imperfect 
from  afar.    When  aU  this  was  con-  sentences  as  could    be    heard   wae 
eluded  he    launched   his  boat  and  that  he  had  vowed  many  men  should 
took  to  the  sea  again,  and  became  perish  for  someirreparable  wrong  they 
known  from  the  Mull  of  Gkdloway  to  nad  offered  to  a  lady.    Sometimee 
the  foot  of  Annan- water.  he  spoke  of  the  lady  as  his  wife,  or 
I  remember  the  first  time  that  ever  I  his  love,  and  the  men  he  had  doomed 
saw  him  was  in  the  market-place  of  to  destruction  as  the  lawless  crew 
Dumfries:  his  beard  seemed  of  more  of  his  own  vessel.    At  other  times 
than  a  year's  growth,  his  clothes,  once  he  addressed  his  seamen  as  spirits, 
rich    and    fine,    were    darned    and  whom  he  had  sent  to  be  tortured  for 
patched,   and    over    the    whole  he  wrongs  done  in  the  body,  and  his 
wore  a  kind  of  boat-cloak,  which,  lady  as  an  angel  that  still  visited  his 
fastened  round  his  neck,  descended  daily  dreams  and  his  nightly  visions, 
nigh  the  ground ;  but  all  this  penuij  Through  the  whole  the  cry  of  re* 
could  not  conceal  the  step  and  aur  venge,  and  the  sense  of  deep  injury, 
of  other  and  better  days.    He  sel-  were  heard  and  understood  by  sdl. 
dom  looked  in  the  face  of-  any  one«;        When    Miles  Colvine    had  fairly 
man  he  seemed  to  regard  with  an  finished  his  new  residence,  and  the 
eye  of  scorn,  and  even  deadly  ha-  fiowers  and  fruits  had  returned  to 
tred ;  but  on  women  he  looked  with  field  and  tree,  he  was  observed  to 
sofrness  and  regard,  and  when  he  launch  his  boat :  this  was  a  common 
happened  to  meet  a  mother  and  child  occurrence,  but  a  small  lair  of  sheep« 
he  gazed  on  them  with  something  skins,  a  lar  of  water,  and  some  dried 
of  settled  sorrow  and  affection.    He  fish,  called  kippered-salmon  by  the 
once  made  a  fidl  stop,  and  gazed  on  Scotch,  looked  like  preparation  for  a 
a  beautiful  giri  of  four  or  tve  years  long  journey.    The  journey  was  be^. 
old,  who  was  gathering  primroses  <m  gun,  for  he  was  seen  scudding  awa/ 
the  margin  of  the  Nith;  the  child,  southward,  by  the  light  of  the  star8> 
alarmed  at  his  uncouth  appearance,  and  no  more  was  seen  or  heard  of 
shrieked  and  feU  in  its  mght  into  him  for  some  time.    Day  after  day 
the  deep  stream ;  the  mariner  made  his  door  continued  shut,  his  chimney 
but  one  spring  from  the  bank  into  ceased  to  smoke,  and  his  nets  hung 
the  river, — saved  the  child,  replaced  unemployed.    At  length  the  revenue 
it  in  its  mother's  bosom,   and  re-  cutter  from  Saint  Bees   arrived  at 
sumed  his  journey,    apparentiy  im-  AUanbay,   to  land   a  cargo  of  fine 
conscious  that  he  had  done  aught  Hollands  which  the  officers  had  taken 
remarkable.      Ever    after    this    the  from  an  Irish  smuggler,  between  Car- 
children  of  Dumfries  pursued  him  rickfergus  and  the  Isle  of  Man.  They 
with  the  hue  and  cry,   '*  Eh !  come  had  been  terribly  alarmed,  they  said, 
and  see  the  wild  bearded  man,  who  on  their  way,  by  the  i^pcarance,  about 


A9d                         MUu  Cohime,  iki  Cumberltrnd  Mariner.  Cl^ec- 

the  third  watch  of  the  nlght^of  a  vist-  and  wUd^  now  hung  orderly  about 
bnaiy  boat,  navigated  by  a  bearded  his  neck  and  temples.  The  natural 
fiend,  which  scudded  with  supeniatu-  colour  was  bladc^  but  siiow-Avhite 
ral  swiftness  along  the  surface  of  the  locks  now  predominated ;  his  look 
water.  This  t:ilc,  with  all  the  vari-  was  hale,  but  sonowful,  and  he 
atlons  which  a  poetical  peasuntry  seemed  about  forty  years  of  age. 
readily  8uj)ply,  fcuuid  its  way  from  The  figure  of  the  creature  that  ac- 
cottage  to  hamlet,  and  from  hamlet  companied  him  was  much  too  tender 
to  hall.  Old  men  shook  tlicir  heads,  and  beautiful  to  last  long  in  a  situa- 
and  talked  of  the  exploits  of  the  great  tion  so  rude  and  unprotected  as  the 
fiend  b}'  sea  and  hmd,  and  wishinl  cottage  of  a  fisherman.  It  was  a  fe- 
that  good  might  happen  to  Old  Eng-  mole,  richly  dressed,  and  of  a  beauty 
land  from  the  visit  of  such  a  circum-  so  exquisite,  and  a  look  so  fiiU  of 
navigator.  Others,  who  were  wil-  sweetness  and  grace,  that  the  rude 
nng  to  believe  that  the  apparition  scene  around  was  not  wanted  to  ex- 
was  Miles  Colvine  on  a  coasting  alt  her  above  all  other  maidens  I 
Toyage,  seemed  no  less  ready  to  con-  had  ever  seen.  She  glided  about  the 
found  the  maritime  recluse  with  an  cottage,  arranging  the  various  ar- 
evil  being,  who  had  miu*dered  a  tides  of  furniture,  and  passing  two 
whole  ship's*  crew,  sunk  their  ship,  white  hands,  out-rivalling  the  fairest 
and  dwelt  on  the  coast  of  'f  canme  creations  of  the  sculptor,  over  the 
Cumberland,"  for  the  express  pur-  rude  chairs  and  tables,  and  every 
pose  of  raising  storms,  shaking  com,  moment  giving  a  glance  at  the  mari- 
and  making  unwedded  mothers  of  .  ner,  like  one  who  took  delight  in 
half  the  faur  damsels  between  Sark-  pleasing  him,  and  seemed  to  work 
foot  and  Saint  Bees.  Several  mis-  for  his  sake.  And  he  was  pleased.  I 
fortunes  of  the  latter  kind,  which  saw  him  smile,  and  no  one  had  ever 
happened  about  this  time,  confirmed  seen  him  smile  before ;  he  passed  his 
this  suspicion,  and  his  departure  hand  over  the  long  clustering  tresses 
firbm  the  coast  was  as  welcome  as  of  the  maiden  ;  caused  her  to  sit 
rain  to  the  farmer  after  a  long  down  beside  him,  and  looked  on  her 
drought.  face,  which  outgrowing  the  child 
About  a  fortnight  after  this  e-  had  not  yet  grown  uito  woman,  with 
Tent>  I  happened  to  be  on  a  moon-  a  look  of  affection^  and  reverence^ 
light    excursion    by   water,    as    far  and  joy. 

as  the  ruined  castle  of  Comlongan.  1  was  pondering  on  what  I  witness- 

i  was  accompanied  by  an  idle  fiiend  ed,  and  imagimng  an  interview  with 

or  two,   and,    on    our    return,    we  the  unhappy  mariner  and  his  beautiful 

allowed  the  receding  tide  to  carry  child,  for  such  his  companion  was^ 

ns  along  the  Cumberland  coast,  till  when  I  observed  the  latter  take  out 

we  came  nearly  opposite  the  cottage  a  small  musical  instrument  from  a 

of  Miles  Colvine.     As  we  directed  chest,  and  touching  its  well-ordered 

our  boat  to  the  shelter  of  a  small  strings  with  a  light  and  a  ready  hand, 

bank,  I  observed  a  light  glimmermg  she  played  several  of  the  simple  and 

in  the  mariner's  house,  and  landing  plaintive  airs  so  common  among  the 

and  approachhig  closer,  1  saw  plainly  peasantry  of  the  Scottish  and  English 

the  shadows  of  two  persons,  one  tall  coasts.    After  a  pause  she  resumed 

and  manly,  the  other  slim  and  sylph-  her  instrument,  and,  to  an  air  singu- 

like,   passing  and  repassing  on   the  larly  wild  and  melancholy,  sang  the 

wall.     I  soon  obtained  a  fairer  view,  following  ballad,    which   relates    to 

I  saw  the  mariner  himself,  his  dress  the  story  of  her  father's  and  mother's 

once  rude  and  sordid  was  replaced  misfortunes;   but    the  minstrel  has 

by  one  of  the  coarsest  materials,  but  observed  a  mystery  in  his  narrative 

remarkably  clean,  his  beard  was  re-  which  excites  suspicion  rather  than 

moved,  and  his  hair,  once  matted  gratifies  curiosity. 

O    MARINER,  O   MARINER. 
1. 

O  mariner,  O  mariner, 

^Vhen  will  our  gallant  men 
Make  our  cliffs  and  woodlands  ring 

With  their  homeward  hail  a^en ; 


1891-II  -fliC^  Cohfine,  the  CumherUmd  Marmtr.  WT 

Full  fifteen  paced  the  stately  deck. 

And  fifteen  stood  below^ 
And  maidens  waved  them  from  the  shore. 

With  hands  more  white  than  snow ; 
All  underneath  them  flash'd  the  wave. 

The  sun  laugh'd  out  aboon. 
Will  they  come  bounding  homeward. 

By  the  waning  of  yon  moon  ? 

2. 

O  maid^  the  moon  shines  lovely  down. 

The  stars  all  brightly  bum^ 
And  they  may  shine  till  doomsday  comes. 

Ere  your  true  love  return ; 
O'er  his  white  fore)iead  roll  the  waves. 

The  wind  sighs  lowne  and  low. 
And  the  cry  the  sea-fowl  uttereth 

Is  one  of  wail  and  woe ; 
So  wail  they  on,  1  tell  thee  maid. 

One  of  thy  tresses  dark 
Is  worth  all  the  souls  who  perish'd 

In  that  good  and  gallant  bark. 

3. 

O  mariner,  O  mariner. 

It's  whisper'd  in  the  hall. 
And  sung  upon  the  mountain  side 

Among  our  maidens  all. 
That  the  waves  which  fill  the  measure 

Of  that  wide  and  fatal  flood. 
Cannot  cleanse  the  decks  of  thy  good  ship 

Or  wash  thy  hands  from  blood ; 
And  sailors  meet,  and  shake  their  heads. 

And  ere  they  sunder  say, 
God  keep  us  from  Miles  Colvine, 

On  the  wide  and  watery  way. 

4. 

And  up  then  spoke  he,  MUes  Colvine, 

His  thigh  thus  smitinff  soon. 
By  all  that's  dark  aneath  the  deep, 
>  By  all  that's  bright  aboon. 
By  all  that's  blessed  on  the  earth. 

Or  blessed  on  the  flood. 
And  by  my  sharp  and  stalwart  blade 

That  revel'd  in  their  blood — 
I  could  not  spare  them ;  for  there  came 

My  loved  one's  spirit  nigh. 
With  a  shriek  of  joy  at  every  stroke 

That  doom'd  her  foes  to  die. 

5. 
''  O  mariner,  O  mariner. 

There  was  a  lovely  dame 
Went  down  with  thee  unto  the  deep. 

And  left  her  father's  hame  " — 
His  dark  eyes  like  a  thunder  cloud 
*  Did  rain  and  lis^hten  fast. 

And,  oh,  his  bold  and  martial  face 

All  grimly  grew  and  ghast: 
I  loved  her,  and  those  evil  men 

Wrong'd  her  as  far  we  ranged  ; 
But  were  ever  woman's  woes  or  wrongs 

More  fearfully  avenged? 


«9d  Mikt  Cohme,  ihi  Ownberhnd  Marimr.  CDee. 

The  ballad  had  proceeded  thus  flEur,  head  to  shriek  till  tha  shores  raiw, 
when  a  band  of  smugglers  from  the  and  pray  till  the  saints  grew  deaf; 
coasts  of  Ireland  and  Scotland^  unit-  ah^  my  hearties,  it  wouldn't  do.^— 
fang  the  reckless  desperation  of  the  Wbat  the  devil  holds  this  door? — 
former  with  the  craft  and  tact  of  the  stand  by  tiU  I  show  you  how  hand- 
latter,  attracted  by  the  secure  and  somely  111  pitch  it  against  the  walL 
naked  coast,  and  perhaps  by  the  lone-  Ah,  I  wish  you  had  seen  me  when 
ly  house,  which  presented  hope  of  I  upset  the  house  of  Ranald  Mul- 
plunder  with  little  appearance  of  re-  lagen,  in  Lurgen,  and  made  the  bon- 
aistance,  landed  to  tne  number  of  nlest  blaze  you  ever  saw  in  the  wide 
•even,  and  leaping  over  the  exterior  world,  at  all — at  aU."  And  setting 
wall,  seized  the  door  and  shook  it  his  shoulders  to  the  door,  he  thrust 
violently,  calling  loudly  for  admit-  with  all  his  might,  and  though  se- 
tance.  I  lay  down  with  my  two  conded  by  his  comrades,  who  seemed 
companions  behind  a  small  hedge  of  all  alike  eager  for  violence,  the  door 
funse,  to  see  the  issue  of  this  visit,  resisted  his  utmost  efforts.  "  Stand 
for  at  that  time  I  imaged  the  man-  back,  my  darlings,"  said  the  mls- 
ner  maintained  some  mysterious  cor-  ereant,  "  I'll  show  yon  a  trick  worth 
respondence  with  these  fierce  and  two  of  this ;  I'll  teach  you  how  we 
lawless  men.  ''  Open  the  door,"  bring  out  a  bonnie  lass  from  a  bolted 
said  one,  in  a  strong  Irish  accent,  chamber,  in  little  Ireland ; "  so  say- 
^'  or  by  the  powers  I'll  blow  your  ing,  he  proceeded  to  prime  a  pistol, 
cabin -to  peelmgs  of  potatoes  about  havuig  previously  hammered  the  flint 

Jour  ears,  my  darlings." — ''  Hout,  with  a  little  steel  cross,  curiously 
^atrick,  or  what's  your  name,"  said  chased  and  ornamented,  which  hie 
one  of  his  comrades,  in  Lowland  took  from  his  bosom.  ''Ah,"  said 
Scotch,  ''  ye  mauna  gang  that  he,  "  may  the  devil  cork  me  up  in 
rough  way  to  wark,  we  maun  speak  a  stone  bottle,  and  send  me  to  seek 
kindly  and  cannilie,  man,  till  we  out  the  latitude  of  the  lake  of  dark- 
get  in  our  hand,  and  then  we  can  ness,  if  I  don't  carve  up  that  old  he- 
take  it  a'  our  ain  way,  like  Willie  goat  into  relics ! — Now,  come  on, 
Wilson's  sow,  when  she  ran  off  with  my  early  boys — my  souls  of  boys ; 
the  knife  in  her  neck."  The  mariner,  ^e  boy  that  won't  do  as  I  do  de- 
on  hearing  this  dialogue,  prepared  serves  to  be  whipped  throiigh  Pur^ 
himself  for  resistance,  like  one  per-  gatory  with  the  tail  of  Saint  Patrick's 
fectly  well  acquainted  with  such  ren-  ass.  Thack  an'  thunder !  hell's  to 
counters.  With  a  sword  in  one  hand,  hinder  us  when  I  clap  my  pistol  un- 
a  cocked  pistol  in  the  other,  and  a  der  the  thatch."  In  a  moment  the 
brace  in  his  belt,  he  posted  himself  door  opened.  Miles  Colvine  stood  on 
behind  the  door,  and  in  a  low  voice  the  threshold,  a  cocked-pistol  in  his 
admonished  his  daughter  to  retire  right  hand,  his  sword  gleaming  in 
to  a  little  chamber  constructed  for  hu  left,  his  eyes  shooting  from  mem 
her  accommodation.  With  a  voice  a  fierce  dark  light,  but  his  manner 
which,  though  quivering  with  emo-  perfectly  calm  and  collected,  fie- 
tion,  lost  nothing  of  its  native  sweet-  nind  him  came  the  beautiful  form  of 
ness,  the  young  maiden  answered,  his  daughter,  with  a  bent  pistol  in 
''  Oh  let  me  be  near  you?— let  her  hand,  and  shuddering  from  head 
me  but  be  near  you  ?  " — Her  low  to  foot  at  the  immediate  peril  which 
and  gentle  voice  was  drowned  in  the  seemed  to  beset  her  father.  These 
wild  exclamations  of  one  of  the  maritime  desperadoes  started  back 
smugglers.  ''  Och,  my  dears,  let  us  at  this  sudden  apparition  of  an  armed 
breaik  the  door,  and  dap  a  red  turf  man,  and  even  their  miscreant  lead- 
to  the  roof,  and  all  to  give  me  light  er,  forward  as  he  was,  recoiled  a 
to  see  to  Idss  this  maiden  with  the  pace  or  two.  The  mariner  eyed  him 
sweet  voice.  By  the  holy  poker  that  for  a  moment,  and  mW,  "  Did  my 
stirred  the  turf-fire  beneath  the  first  sword  then  do  its  work  dovenly,  and 
potatoe,  I  have  not  been  within  seven  did  the  deep  sea  not  devour  thee, 
acres  broad  of  a  woman  since  we  thou  immeasurable  villain  ?  but  God 
sailed  with  Miles  Colvine's  lady. —  has  given  thee  back  to  earth,  to  be- 
And  by  the  bagpiper  she  was  a  come  a  warning  how  sure  and  how 
bouncer,  and  a  pretty  din  she  made  certain  just  vengeance  is."  And  leap- 
about  it  after  all^  and  took  it  into  bar  ing  ou  him  as  he  spdce,  I  saw  toe 


18f  1-3  ^^^^  Colvinif  tht  CmnbiHand  Marmtr^  699 

Sistol  flashy  and  the  gleam  of  the  Idnds  wldch  the  Solway  affords.  A 
ascending  sword^  in  almost  the  small  bed  stood  near  the  chimney, 
same  instant  I  instantly  started  swelled  with  the  feathers  of  sea-fowl, 
up  with  my  companions,  and  the  and  hillocked  high  with  quilts  and 
smugglers,  perceiving  this  sudden  re-  mantles,  from  beneath  wluch  some 
tnforcement,  carried  off  their  com-  linen  looked  out,  only  rivalled  in 
panion,  groaning,  and  cursing,  and  whiteness  by  the  snow.  A  very 
praying;  and  pushing  their  boat  small  chamber  was  constructed  at 
from  &e  shore,  vanished  along  the  the  farther  end,  into  which  May 
misty  bosom  of  the  summer  sea.  Colvine  disappeared  for  a  moment  to 
I  found  Miles  Colvine  standing  on  re-a4just  her  dress,  and,  perhaps, 
the  threshold  of  his  house,  and  his  add  some  other  of  those  artincial  at-  , 
daughter  on  her  knees  beside  him.  tractions  which  women  always  bring 
He  knew  me,  for  we  had  often  passed  in  to  the  aid  of  their  natiu-al  charms, 
each  other  on  the  beach  and  on  the  The  mariner  seated  himself,  motioned 
sea,  and  he  was  aware  that  I  was  a  me  to  a  seat,  over  which  a  sheep- 
friend,  for  I  had  endeavoured  in  vain  skin  was  Uirown,  while  a  lamp,  fed 
to  oblige  him  in  his  forlorn  state  plentifuUy  with  oil,  and  suspended 
with  little  acts  of  kindness.  "  Come  from  the  roof,  difiused  light  over  the 
bither,  sir,"  said  the  mariner,  "  I  apartment.  Nor  was  the  place  de- 
have  to  thank  you  for  ^d  this  night."  voted  to  brute  comfort  alone :  several 
He  paused  for  a  moment,  and  then  books,  among  which  I  observed  Ro- 
said,  in  a  lower  tone,  '^  I  know  your  binson  Crusoe,  and  Homer's  Odyssey 
faith  is  not  my  faith,  and  that  your  in  Greek,  with  a  curious  collection 
life  is  not  embittered  with  what  has  of  northern  legendary  ballads,  were 
embittered  mine.  But  tell  me,  sir,  scattered  about,  and  a  shepherd's 
tell  me,  do  you  believe  that  the  events  pipe  and  a  fiddle  were  there  to  bring 
of  our  life  are  ordained,  for  what  hath  music  to  assist  in  the  dissipation  of 
happened  to  night  seems  of  a  wise  melancholy  thought.  May  Colvine 
Being's  ordering."  '*  Surely,  sir,"  I  now  came  forth  from  her  little  cham- 
said,  "  God  knoweth  aU  things,  pre-  ber,  with  an  increase  of  loveliness, 
sent  and  to  come,  but  whether  he  such  as  a  rose  appears  when  refresh- 
permits  evil  deeds  to  be  wrought,  or  ed  in  dew.  She  had  laid  aside  the 
ordains  good  ones  to  be  done"—  snood  of  silk  and  pearl  which  en- 
^*  Enough,  enough,"  said  the  mari-  closed  her  hair,  and  the  curling  luxu<* 
ner,  "  May  Colvine,  my  love,  trim  riance  of  her  ringlets  descended  over 
thy  father's  shealing,  and  set  the  her  shoulders,  while  her  white  tem- 
supper-table  in  array,  for  it  is  or-  pies,  and  whiter  neck,  were  seen  ' 
darned  that  our  deliverers  shall  rest  through  the  waving  fleece  which  fell 
with  us,  and  break  bread  at  our  so  profusely  over  Uiem.  Her  father 
board;  so  come  in,  Francis  Forster,"  gazed  on  her  like  one  who  recals  the 
And  into  the  mariner's  cottage  we  lovelv  past  in  the  beautiful  present, 
walked,  not  unawed  by  the  presence  and  his  thoughts  had  flitted  to  other 
of  a  beinff  of  whose  temper  and  cou-  days  and  remoter  climes,  for  after  a 
rage  we  had  seen  such  a  proof.  brief  reverie  he  said,  '*  Come,  my 
If  the  exterior  of  the  cottage  was  love,  the  vessel  is  ready,  the  mari- 
rude  and  unskilfully  built,  the  interior  ners  aboard,  the  sails  spread  to  the 
was  wonderfully  commodious  and  wind,  and  we  must  pass  the  haunted 
neat  The  floor  was  laid  of  drifted  ship  headland  before  the  moon  goes  down." 
timber,  and  the  walls  were  hung  with  The  maiden  meanwhile  had  filled 
nets  as  with  tapestry,  and  fish-spears  the  supper  board  with  such  coarse 
and  gaff-hooks  of  steel,  sharp  and  fare  as  the  cabin  afforded,  and  ad- 
bright,  were  pouped  like  weapons  for  dressuig  her  father  said,  '*  Sir,  the 
battle  in  a  chieftain's  hall  of  old.  The  table  is  prepared,  your  guests  are 
fruits  of  the  fisherman's  skill  were  waiting,  and  will  expect  you  to  bless 
every  where  visible ;  the  chimney-  the  fare  wtdch  is  set  before  Uiem.'* 
mantle,  a  beam  of  wood  which  ex-  The  mariner  laid  his  hat  aside,  and 
tended  from  side  to  side  of  the  cot-  sitting  in  his  place,  after  the  manner 
tage,  was  covered  with  kippered  sal-  of  the  Presbyterians,  said — "Thou 
mon,  large,  and  red,  and  savoury,  who  spreadest  thy  table  on  the  deep 
end  various  kegs  were  filled  with  waters,  and  rainest  down  abundance 
falted  fish  of  the  many  excellent  hi  the  descHrt  places^  lAake  this  coarw 


000  Miiei  Cohftne,  the  Cumberland  Mariner.  p>ec. 

food  seem  saTOury  and  delicate  unto  former  metai^  the  gafai  of  a  illative 
these  three  men  and  this  tender  vir-  who  had  shared  with  the  Bucca- 
gin, — ^but  my  hands,  on  which  the  neers  hi  the  plunder  of  iPanamo.  I 
blood  of  man  yet  reeks  unatoned  for,  had  also  been  wedded  for  a  num- 
may  not  presume  to  touch  blessed  ber  of  years,  my  wife  was  young 
food."  And  spreading  the  fold  of  his  and  beautiful,  and  our  daughter,  an 
mantle  over  his  face,  and  stooping  only  child,  my  own  May  Colvine, 
down,  he  appeared  to  busy  himself  here  where  she  sits,  was  in  her 
in  mental  devotion,  while,  tasting  the  thirteenth  year,  with  a  frame  that 
supper  set  before  us,  and  obeying  the  seemed  much  too  delicate  to  survive 
mute  invitation  of  the  maiden  to  a  the  disasters  she  has  since  been 
glass  of  water,  we  complied  with  all  doomed  to  meet.  We  were  coun- 
the  forms  which  this  extraordinary  selled  to  carry  her  to  warmer  di- 
audience  seemed  to  impose  upon  us.  mates,  and  were  preparing  for  our 
After  this  was  past,  the  young  woman  voyage,  and  my  wife  was  ready  to 
took  up  one  of  the  instruments,  and  accompany  me,  when  a  large  smug- 
singing  as  she  played,  with  inexpres-  gUng  cutter  cast  anchor  in  a  deep 
sible  sweetness  and  ffrace,  her  father  woody  bay  which  belonged  to  my 
ffradually  uncovered  nis  face,  his  looks  estate,  and  as  1  sat  on  the  top  of 
began  to  brighten,  and  uttering  a  deep  my  house,  lookhig  towards  the  sea, 
sigh,  he  waved  his  hand,  the  minstrelsy  a  person  in  a  naval  dress  came  and 
ceased,  and  he  thus  addressed  us : —  accosted  me.  He  was,  he  said,  the 
'*  I  was  not  always  an  unhappy  captain  of  the  Free  trader  lying  in  the 
man — I  had  fair  domains,  a  stately  bay,  with  a  cargo  of  choice  wine, 
house,  a  beauteous  wife,  and  a  sweet  and  his  mariners  were  bold  lads  and 
daughter:  but  it  is  not  what  we  have,  true,  had  periled  themselves  freely 
but  what  we  enjoy,  that  blesseth  by  land  and  water,  and  often  ex- 
man's  heart,  and  makes  him  as  one  perienced  the  protection  of  Miles 
of  the  anffels.  1  dwelt  on  a  wild  sea-  Colvine's  bay,  and  the  hospitality  of 
coast,  full  of  woods  and  caverns,  the  his  menials.  They  had  heard  of  my 
haunt  of  a  banditti  of  smugglers,  intention  to  carry  my  wife  and 
those  fierce,  and  vulgar,  and  intract-  daughter  to  a  more  genial  climate^ 
able  spirits,  who  find  subsistence  in  and,  if  we  wished  to  touch  at  Lisbon, 
fraud  and  violence,  and  from  a  con-  or  to  go  to  any  of  the  islands  where 
tinned  perseverance  in  hostility  to  Europeans  seek  for  health,  they 
human  law,  become  daily  more  hard-  would  give  us  a  passage,  for  they 
ened  of  heart  and  fierce  of  nature,  honoured  us  next  to  commerce  with- 

1  was  young  then,  and  romantic,  out  law  or  restraint.  But  I  must 
and  though  I  did  not  approve  of  the  tell  you,  that  the  chief  of  this  band, 
course  of  these  men's  lives,  there  ap-  knowing  my  love  for  marvellous 
peared  glimpses  of  generosity,  and  tales,  hinted,  that  he  had  men  on 
courage,  and  fortitude,  about  them,  board,  who,  to  the  traditionary  lore 
which  shed  a  halo  over  a  life  of  im-  of  their  maritime  ancestors,  added 
morality  and  crime.  I  protected  their  own  adventures  and  deeds ;  and 
them  not,  neither  did  I  associate  could,  with  the  romantic  ballads  of 
with  them ;  but  they  soon  saw  in  Denmark  and  Sweden,  mingle  the 
the  passive  manner  in  which  I  re-  Troubadour  tales  of  France,  the 
garded  their  nocturnal  intercourse  Moorish  legends  of  Spain,  and  the 
with  the  coast,  and  the  ready  and  singular  narratives  which  survive 
deUghted  ear  which  I  lent  to  the  among  the  peasantry  on  my  native 
narratives  of  their  adventures  by  sea  coast.  To  soothe  and  propitiate  my 
and  land,  that  they  had  nothing  to  wife  he  had  recourse  to  another 
fear  and  much  to  hope.  Their  con-  charm ;  from  the  pocket  of  a  long 
fidence  increased,  and  their  numbers  boat-cloak  he  procluc^  a  mantle  of 
augmented,  and  they  soon  found  a  tlic  most  precious  fabric,  and  spread- 
leader  capable  of  givnig  an  aim  to  all  ing  it  out  before  her,  with  all  its 
their  movemehts,  and  who  brought  rich  variety  of  colour,  and  Eastern 
something  like  regular  craft  and  abi-  profusion  of  ornament,  offered  it  as 
lity  to  their  counsels.  an  humble  present  from  liimself  and 

I  was  reputed  rich,  and  was  rich ;  his  mariners.     I  need  not  prolong 

my   treasures  were   mostly  of  gold  this  part  of  my  narrative,  we  cm- 

aiid  silver   plate,  and  bar«   ot  \}tie  VtoVL^^  ^V  V4(\U^ht)  and  standing  out 


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1091.]]  MtZff  Coltnne,  the  Cumberland  Marian.  601 

of  the  bay^  dropped  anchor  till  mom-    treated^  I  U6ed  force,  cmd  though  I  was 
ing  dawn.    The  captain  sat  armed    armed  by  anger  and  despair,  with  al-> 
beside  us ;  this  excited  no  suspicion,    most  supernatural  might,  the    door 
for  he  went  commonly  armed,  and    withstood  all  my  efforts.    But  why 
related  adventures  of  a  trying  and  re-    should  1  dwell  upon  a  scene  of  such 
markable  kind  which  had  befallen  him    unutterable  misery?  What  1  endured, 
on  foreign  shores,  with  a  liveliness,    and  *what  the  woman  1  loved  and 
and  a  kind  of  maritime  grace,  which    adored  suffered,  are  fit   only  to  be 
were  perfectly  captivating.   All  night    imagined,  not,  surely,  to  be  spoken, 
we  heard  overhead  the  tramp  and  the     Her  wrongs  were  remembered,  and 
din  of  sailors  passing  and  repassing,    her  shrieks  numbered  by  a  power 
and  with  the  grey  of  the  morning  we    far  more  terrible  than   man,    and  a 
plucked  up  ouranchor,  spread  our  sails    certain  doom  and  deplorable  death 
to  a  shrill  wind,  shot  away  seaward,     was  pronounced  against  them,  at  the 
and  my  native  land  vanished  from  my    moment  their  joy  was  fullest, 
view.    All  was  life  and  gladness,  we        The    evening  passed    away,    and 
danced  and   we  sang  on  deck,  and    morning  came,  and  through  a  little 
drained  cups    of  the  purest  wine ;     wicket  which  looked  upon  the  sea,  the 
while  the  breeze  favoured  us,  and  the    light  showed  me  that  my  chamber  was 
sky  remained  unclouded  and  serene.      the  treasure-room  of  the  pirates,  for 
In    about  fifteen  days  the  spice    such  they  were,  as  well  as  smugglers ; 
groves  of  one    of  the    Portuguese    at  the  same  moment  a  hole  opened 
islands  appeared  before  us,  and  as    above,  and  a  piece  of  bread  and  an 
the  sun  was  settings  it  was  resolved    antique  silver  cup  filled  with  wine^ 
we  should  remain  at  the  entrance  of    were  lowered  down.     Amid  the  mi- 
a  bay  till  day-light.  We  were  crowd-    sery  of  my  situation  it  seemed  but  a 
ed  on  the  deck,  looking  on  the  green    light  evil  that  I  recoe^ized  the  silver 
and   beauteous  land,    and  a  gentle    vessel  to  be  part  of  the  treasure  I 
seaward  wind  wafted  the  perfume  of    had  left  at  home,  and  in  seeking  for 
the  forest  about  us.     My  wife  was    a  weapon  to  force  the  wicket  I  found 
then  in  the  bloom  of  youth  and  beau-    that  my  whole  riches,  in  sold  as  well 
ty,  full  of  health,  and  life,  and  love;    as  silver,  had  been  seized  and  put  on 
and  as  she  stood  leaning  on  my  arm,    board.     I  could  now  measure  the 
the    sailors    smoothed    their    rough    extent  of  my  calamity,  and  prepared 
looks,  and  re&ained  from  curses,  so    myself  for  a  fate,  which,  among  such 
much   were    they    touched    by  her    miscreants,  could  not  be  deemed  far 
beauty  ;  but  this  awe  lasted  but  a    distant.    The  morning  was  not  much 
little  while.     The  captain  was  merry    advanced  when  the  sun  dipped  at  once 
far  beyond  his  usual  measure  of  de-    into  a  dark  and  tempestuous  ocean 
light,  and  drauied  one  wine  cup  af-    of  clouds,  the  wind  began  to  whistle 
ter  another  to  my  wife's  health  and    shriller  and  shriller  among  our  sails, 
mine ;    he  vowed  I   was  as  a  god    and  the  sea,  upturned  by  suddeu  and 
among  his  men,  and  that  my  wife    heavy  gusts  of  wind,  showed  as  far 
was  reverenced  as  a  divinity.    ''  But    as  the  eye  could  reach,  the  dark  and 
come,"  said  he,   "  Miles  Colvine,  I    tremendous  furrows  so  fatal  to  ma- 
have  a  curious  and  a  cunning  thing    riners.    The  wind  was  from  the  land, 
to  show  you,  which  you  alone  deserve    and  I  could  both  see  and  feel  that  the 
to  see ;  I  got  it  among  the  Moors,    vessel  was  unable  to  gain  the  har« 
so  come,  and  come  alone." — I  rose    bour,  and  had  sought  security  from 
and  followed  him,  for  my  curiosity    the  approaching  tempest  by  standing 
was  unbounded,    he  conducted  me    out  to  sea.    I  heard  the  wind  wax 
below,  and  opening  a  small  wicket    louder,  and  saw  the  billows  roll,  with 
in  the  wall  of  his  cabin  with  a  key,    a  joy  that  arises  from  the  hope  of  re- 
ushered  me  in,  and  closing  it  sud-    venge:  the  sky  became  darker,  tlie 
denly  upon  me,  locked  it,  and  then  I    sea  flashed  over  the  decks,  and '  the 
heard  him  bounding  up  the  stair  to    tempest    hurried    the    ship    onward 
the  deck.    I  stood  half  imagining  this    with  a  rapidity   which  alarmed  the 
to  be  a  jest,  or  something,  at  least,    sailors,  accustomed  as  they  were  to 
of  a  light  nature ;  but  shriek  after    the  element.     The  seams  of  the  ves- 
shriek  of  my  wife,  uttered  in  the  pier-    sel  began  to  admit  the  sea,  and  every- 
cing  agony  of  anguish  and  despair,    where  S3rmptoms    appeared    of   her 
soon  undeceived  me.    I  called,  I  en-    immediate  destruction. 


€OSt                        Miki  Cohme,  the  CutiAerittmi  Marimer.                    [[Dtc 

I  heard  a  oomrenatimi  over  head    for  the  hour  is  at  hand,  and  as  sore 
I  shall  never  forget    '^  I  tell  you,"    as   I  hate  sb,   and  love  immcMtid 
aaid    a  voice   io    lowland   Scotch,  happiness,  I  shall  help  jou.**    I  took 
''  good  can  never  come  of  such  evil  the  sword  and  followed  in  silence, 
as    your    captain     and    you    have  and  coming  on  deck,  I  beheld  a  scene 
wrought ;  had  you  taken  Miles  Col-  which  the  hope  of  sure  and  immedi- 
vine's    gold   and    silver    alone .  the  ate  revenge  rendered   inexpressiblj 
sin  had  been  but  small,  and  a  grey-  sweet.    The  captain  and  five  sailors, 
headed     repentance     might     have  though  nearly  overcome  with  wine, 
mended  all.    But  the  bonnie  lady !  wefe  seated  on  deck ;  the  remainder 
her  voice  has  been  heard  to-day,  and  of  the  crew  had  retir^  below;  some 
tremble  all   you    that  touched   her  shouted,  some  sang,  all  bla«)hemed, 
aweet  body,  for  here  has  come  an  and  one  loud  din   of  cursmg    and 
avenging  tempest    The  sea  wiU  soon  carousal  echoed   £Eir  and  wide:  the 
devour  us,  and  hot  hell  will  hold  us ;  mingled  clamour  that  ascended  fiom 
mad  the  mother  who  bore,  and  the  this  scene  of  wickedness    and  de- 
wife  who  loved  me,  and  the  bonnie  bauchery    partook  of  all   the    evil 
habes  I  have  nursed  on  my  knee,  will  qualities  ot  debased  minds  and  the 
behold  me  no  more ;  and  all  for  be-  most  infamous  pursuits,  and  cannot 
ing  in  company  with  such  hell-hounds  be  described.    INscord  had  its  fiiU 
«s  you."    A  voice  replied  to  all  this,  share  in  the  conference  on  deck  be- 
hk  a  tone  too   low  and  suppressed  tween  the  captain  and  his  confede- 
to  be  audible ;  and  the  Scotchman  rates;  they  were  debating  about  then- 
answered  again.      '^  Lo,  look,   did  shares  in  the  plunder  of  my  house, 
ever  eyes  behold  such  a  sight,  all  '^  Share !  by  my  saul,  man,"  said  & 
around  us  the  sea  is  smooth  as  glass,  Scottish  sailor  to  the  captain,  ''  your 
and  other  ships  pass  by  us  under  a  share  in  Miles  Colvine  s  pure  gold 
gentle  breeze,  without  a  wetted  sail,  can  be  but  small ;  one  hour  of  his 
but  we !   the  anger  of  heaven  has  sweet  lady,  a  hundred  leagues  fiiom 
found  us,  for  on  us  the  thick  tempest  land,  was  worth  all  the  gold  that 
beats,  and  the  evil-one  is  pursuing  us  ever  shone."-^'^  I  shall  share  all  fidr* 
to  destruction.    O  thou  eternal  villain  ly,"  said  the  captain,  laying  his  hand 
— captain,  shall  I  call  thee  no  more  on  the  hilt  of  his  cutlas,  "  and  fint  I 
— and  you !— you   fifteen  wretches,  shall    share    thy  scoundrel    carcase 
who  shared  with  him  in  his  crime,  among  the  fishes  of  the  sea,  if  I  hear 
make  you  ready,  for  that  storm  will  such  a  word  again.    Did  I  plan  the 
neither  leave  you,  nor  forsake  you,  fflorious  plot  of  carrying  away  ahe 
till  you  are  buried  in  the  ocean."    At  lair  lady  and  her  lord's  treasure,  ta 
the  very  moment  when  ruin  seemed  share  either  with  such  a  Scotch  saw- 
inevitable  the  tempest    ceased,   the  ney  as  thee  ? "    The  wrath  of  the 
douds  passed  away,    and  the    de-  Scotchman  burnt  on  his  brow,   far 
acending  sun  shone  brightly  down,  redder  than  the  flush  of  the  wine  he 
making  the  shoreless  waters  sparkle  had  drunk.    '^  Fiend  seethe  my  aaul 
as  far  as  the  eye  could  reach.    No  in  his  kettles  and  cauldron,   if  ye 
bounds  were  now  set  to  the  joy  of  taste  na'  cauld  iron  for  this ! " — And 
the  crew;  they  crowded  the  deck,  out  came   his  cutlas  as  he   rooke. 
made  a  circle  round  several  vessels  '^  That's  my  hearty  Caledonian,    said 
of  wine  and  baskets  of  biscuit,  an<l  one  of  his  comrades,  '^  give  him  a 
before  the  twilight  had  passed  away  touch  of  the  toasting  iron ;  didn't  he 
a  few  only  were  capable  of  guiding  give  a  blow  to  the  head  of  my  mo- 
the  vessel.      The  night  grew  very  ther's  own  son,  this  blessed  morning, 
dark,  and  as  I  sat  in  utter  despair  I  for  only  playing  pluck  at  the  lady  a 
heard  the  same  fiiendly  voice,  that  I  garment      Ah,    give  him   the  cold 
had  so  lately  heard,    say,   "  Miles  piece  of  steel,  my  hearty."    A  blow 
Colvine,  put  your  trust  in  him  who  fi*om  the  captain's  cutlaS  was  the  an- 
can  still  the  tempest,   the  hour  is  swer  to  this ;  several  drunkards  drew 
come."      In    a  moment  the  wicket  their  swords,  and  ill-directed  blows, 
opened,    and  the  same  voice  said,  and  inefiectual  stabs,  were  given  and 
^'  Take  this  sword,  and  come  with  received  in  the  dark.     "  Now/'  said 
me.     If  you  have  courage  to  avenge  my  sailor,  laying  his  hand  on  mine, 
the  miseries  and  the  death  of  your  to  stay  me  till  1  received  his  admo- 
i!>eautiful  and  wretched  wife,  come,  nition,  "  say  not  one  word^  fiHr  worda 


1621.;]                                    M^  First  Flay:.  Ma 

slay  not,  but  glide  in  aikiong  tfaem  urged  onward  hf.  a   strong  wind> 

like  a  spirit ;  thrust  your  blade,  for  scudded  with  supernatural  swiftness 

aiiger    strikes^    but    revenge   stabs,  through  the  midnight  waters.     We 

and  I  will  secure  the  gangway  and  had  entered  the  6olway  sea,  when 

iight  along  with  you."    I  heard  and  the  storm,  augrnenting  every  moment> 

obeyed,    and   gliding  among  them,  carried  us  rapidly  along,  and  when 

thrust    one    of   them    through    and  opposite  Allanbay,  a  whirlwind  seiz^i- 

through ;    a    second,    and    a   third  ing  our  ship  by  the  rigging  whirled 

dropped,    ere  they    saw    who    was  her  fairly  round,  and  down  she  went 

among    them.        The     captain   at-  head  foremost.    £ven  in  this  moment 

tempted  to  draw  a  pistol,   but  my  of  extreme  peril,  I  shall  never  forget 

sword,  and  my  friend's,  entered  at  the  figure  tnat,  couched  among  the 

hack  and  bosom  ;  and  though  two  slain,  started  to  its  feet  before  me, 

yet  remained  unhurt,  I  struck  my  in  health  and  unhurt     There  is  a 

sword  a  second    time  through  the  fate  in  all  things :  it  was  that  fiend  in 

bosom  of  my  mortal  enemy,  as  he  human  form  whom  I  slew  to-night, 

lay  beneath  me ;  and  the  last  expir-  Revenge  is  sweetest  when  it  comes 

ing  glance  of  his  eye  was  a  look  unhoped  for.    As  we  sank,  ajpassing 

worth  remembering.     Ere  this  was  vessel  saved  my  pretty  May  (Jolvine» 

accomplished,   the  other  two  were  her  murdered  mother's  image,  and 

both  lying  with  their   companions,  her  wretched  father's  love,  and  saved 

I  have  freouently  imagined  that  a  too    the*  heroic    sailor;    while    the 

^roness  ana  strength,  more  than  my  drunken  wretches  went  to  the  bot« 

0¥m,    were  given    me    during  this  tom,  without  the  chance  of  swimniing 

desperate  encounter.    Meanwhile  the  for  an  existence  they  deserved  not  to 

-remainder  of  the  crew  below  set  no  prolong." 

bounds  to  their  merriment  and  shout-  Such  was  the  narrative  of  Miles 

ing,  and  seemed,  as  my  Scottish  friend  Colvine.    He  has  been  dead  for  seve« 

remarked,  ordained  to  die  by  my  hand,  ral  years,  and  thous^  his  daughter 

since  their  clamour,  by  drowning  the  wedded  the  man  who  saved  her  fa« 

^oans  of  their  comrades,  prevented  ther  and  her,  he  refused  to  forsake 

them  from  providing  for  thdr  safety,  the  sight  of   the  Sol  way    and  the 

We  £E^tenea  the  cabin  door,  and  ban-  sound  of  its  waters,  and  was  found 

ricaded  the  gangway,  keeping  watch  at  his  cottage  door  cold  asid  stifi^ 

with  pistol  and  sword,  with  Uie  hope  with  his  eyes  open  and  looking  8e»« 

of  seeing  some  friendly  shore,  or  a  ward. 

<oo«ipiPSionate  sail,  while  the  vessel,  Lammerlea,  CumberkneU 


■■I  ■■       I L 


MY  FIRST  PLAYi 

At  the  north  end  of  Russia-court  from  the  stillness  of  which  I  was 

there  yet  stands  a  portal,  of  son^e  taught  to  prognosticate  the  desired 

architectural     pretensions,     though  cessation!     I  seem  to  remember  the 

reduced     to    humble    use,    serving  last  spurt,  and  the  glee  with  which  I 

at  present  for  an  entrance  to  a  wine  ran  to  announce  it. 

vault.    This  okl  door- way,   if  you  We  went  with  orders,  which  my 

are  young,    reader,    you   may    not  godfather  F.  had  sent  us.    He  kept 

know  was  the  identical  pit  entrance  the  oil  shop  (now  Davies  s)  at  the 

to  Old  DriiMT^-Oarrick's  Druiy— all  corner  of  Featherstone-buildings,  in 

of  it  that  is  left.    I  never  pass  it  Holbprn.    F.  was  a  tail  grave  per-^ 

without  shaki&g  ponae    forty   years  son,  lofty  in  speech,  and  had  preteiw 

from  off  my  shotilder?,  recurring  tp  sions  above  his  rank.    He  associated 

the  evening  when  I  passed  through  in  those  days  with  John  Palmer,  the 

it  to  see  my  Jirst  plav.    The  after-  comedian,  whose  gait  and  bearing 

noon  had  been  wet,  and  the  condition  he  seemed,  to  copy ;  if  John  (which 

.of  our  going  (the  elder  folks  and  my-  is  quite  as  likely)  did  not  rather  bor- 

self)  was,  that  the  rain  should  cease,  row  somewhat  of  his  manner  from 

With  what  a  beating  heart  did   I  my  godfather.     He  was  also  known 

Watch  from  the  window  the  puddles,  to,  and  visited  by,  Sheridan.    It  was 

Vol,  IV.  «  Y 


^4  My  First  Play.  El>ec. 


to  his  house  in  Holbom  that  ^oung  and  I  strode  (shaSi  I  confess  the  .  _ 

Brinsley  brought   his  first  wife  on  nity?)  with  larger  paces  over  mj 

her   elopement    with    him    from    a  allotment  of  three  quarters  of  an  acre> 

l>oarding-school  at  Bath — the  beau-  with  its  commodious  mansion  in  the 

tiful  Maria  Linley.    M v  parents  were  midst,  with  the  feeling  of  an  English 

present  (over  a  ouadrille  table^  when  freeholder  that  all  betwixt  sky  and 

«e  arrived  in  tne  evening  with  his  centre  was  my  own.      The  estate 

harmonious  charge.-^From  either  of  has  passed  into  more  prudent  handa, 

these  connexions  it  may  be  inferred  and  nothing  but  an  Agrarian  can  re- 

that  my  godfather  could  command  store  it. 

an  order  for    the    then  Drury-lane  In  those  days  were  pit  orders.  Be- 

theatre  at  pleasure — and,  indeed,  a  shrew  the    uncomfortable    manager 

Sretty  liberal  issue  of  those  cheap  who  abolished  them ! — with  one  of 

illets,  in  Brinsley's  easy  autograph,  these  we  went      I  remember    the 

I  have  heard  him  say  was  the  sole  waiting  at  the  door— not  that  whiiii 

•remuneration  which  he  had  received  is  left — but  between  that  and  an  io- 

for  many  years'  nifhtly  illumination  ner  door  in  sheltei>-0  when  shall  I 

of  the  orchestra  and  various  avenues  be  such  an  expectant  again  .<*-with 

•f  that  theatre-— and  he  was  content  the  cry  of  nonpareils,  an  indispen- 

it  should  be  so.    The  honour  of  She-  sible  play-house  accompaniment  in 

ridan's  &miliarity— or  supposed  fa-  those  days.    As  near  as  I  can  recci^ 

miliari^ — was   better  to  my    god-  lect,    the  fashionable  pronunciation 

fiither  than  money.  of  the  theatrical    fruitereaaes    then 

F.  was  the  most  gentlemanly  of  was,  '^  Chase  some  oranges,  chase 

'oilmen;   grandiloquent,  yet  courte-  some  numparels,  chasea  oill  of  the 

ous.    His  delivery  of  the  commonest  play ;"-— chase  jiro  chuse.    But  when 

matters  of  fact  was  Ciceronian.    He  we  got  in,  and  I  beheld  the  green 

-had  two  Latin  words  almost  con-  curtain  that  veiled  a  heaven  to  my 

'atantly  in  his  mouth  (how  odd  sounds  imagination,  which  was  soon  to  be 

-Latin  from  an  oilman  s  lips  !),  which  disclosed— ^the  breathless  anticipa- 

my  better  knowledge  since  has  en-  tions  I  endured !    I  had  seen  aome- 

abled  me  to  correct.    In  strict  pro-  ^ing  li^e  it  in  the  plate  prefixed 

nunciation  they  should    have  been  to  Troilus  and  Cressida,  in  Howe's 

sounded    vice    versA — ^but    in    those  Shakspeare — ^the  tent  scene  with  Dl- 

*70ung  years  they  impressed  me  with  omede — and  a  sight  of  that  plate  can 

more  awe  than  they  would  now  do  always  bring  back  in  a  measure  the 

read  aright  from  Seneca  or  Varro —  ieeling  of  that  evening.— -The  boxes 

in  his  own  peculiar  pronunciation,  at  that  time,  full   of  well-dresaid 

monosyllabicaily  elaborated,  or  An-  women  of  quality,  projected  over  the 

glicizc^,    into  something  like   verse  pit ;  and  the  pilasters  reaching  down 

verse.    By  an  imposing  manner,  and  were  adorned  with  a  glistering  sub- 

the  help  of  these  distorted  syllables,  stance  (I  know  not  what)  under  glass 

he  climbed  (but  that  was  little^  to  (as  it  seemed),  resembling — a  home- 

the  highest  parochial  honours  wnich  ly  fancy-^but  I  judged  it  to  be  sufar- 

St.  Andrew's  has  to  bestow.  candy — yet,  to  my  raised  imagma- 

He    is  dead — and    thus    much  I  tion,  divested  of  its  homelier  qualities, 

thought  due  to  his  memory,   both  it  appeared  a  glorified  candy ! — Thii 

for  my  first  orders  (little  wondrous  orchestra   lights    at    length    arose, 

talismans! — slight  keys,  and  insignifi-  those    *' fair  Auroras!"    Once  the 

cant  to  outward  sight,  but  opening  to  beU  sounded.    It  was  to  ring  out 

me  more  than  Arabian  paradises !)  yet  once  again — and,   incapable  of 

and  moreover,  that  by  his  testamen*  the  anticipation,  I  reposed  my  shut 

tary  beneficence  I  came  into  posses-  eyes  in  a  sort  of  resignation  upon  the 

sion    of  the    only    landed    property  maternal  lap.     It    rang  the   second 

which  I  could  ever  call  my  own —  time.    The  curtain  drew  up — I  was 

situate  near  the  road- way  village  of  not  past  sLx  years  old— «nd  the  play 

pleasant  Puckeridge,    in    Hertford-  was  Artaxerxes ! 

shire.    When  I  journeyed  down  to  I  had  dabbled  a  Kttle  in  the  Uni- 

take  possession,  and  planted  foot  on  versal  History— the  ancient  part  of 

my  own  ground,  the  stately  habits  it— and  here  was  the  court  of  Persia^ 

of  the  donor  descended  upon    me.  It  was  being  admitted  to  a  sight  of 


1991.;]                                       My  First  PUiy.  005 

the  past.    I  took  no  propor  interest  I  saw  these  plays  in  the  season 

in  the  action  going  on,  for  I  under*  1781-S,     when  I  was  IVom  six  to 

stood  not  its  import— but  I  lieard  tlie  seven  years  old.    After  the  interven- 

word  Darius,  and  I  was  in  the  midst  tion  of  six  or  seven  other  years  (for 

of  Daniel.    All  feeling  was  absorbed  at  school  all  play-going  was  inhi- 

in  vision.    Gorgeous  vests,  gardens,  bited)  I  again  entered  tlie  doors  of  a 

rilaces,  princesses,  passed  before  me.  theatre.  That  old  Artaxerzes  even- 
knew  not  players.  I  was  m  Persepo-  ing  had  never  done  ringing  m  my 
lis  for  the  tune ;  and  the  burning  idol  fancy.  1  expected  the  same  feelings 
of  their  devotions  was  as  if  the  sun  it-  to  come  again  with  the  same  occa- 
self  should  have  been  brought  down  sion.  But  we  differ  from  ourselves 
to  minister  at  the  sacrificial  altar,  less  at  sixty  and  sixteen^  than  the 
I  took  those  significations  to  be  latter  does  from  six.  In  that  inter- 
something  more  than  elemental  fires,  val  what  had  I  not  lost !  At  the 
Hariequin'slnvasionfollowed;  where,  first  period  I  knew  nothing,  under- 
1  remember,  the  transformation  of  stood  nothing,  discriminated  nothing, 
the  magistrates   into  reverend  bel-  1  felt  all,  loved  all,  wondered  all — 

dams  seemed  to  me  a  piece  of  grave  ^^  nouriahed,  I  could  not  t«dl  how- 
historic  justice,  and  the  taylor  carry- 
ing his  own  head,  to  be  as  sober  a  t  had  left  the  temple  a  devotee,  and 
Verity  as  the  legend  of  St.  Denys.  was    returned    a   rationalist.     The 

The  next  play  to  which  I  was  taken  same  things  were  there  materially  ; 

was  the  Laay  of  the  Manor,  of  which,  but  the  emblem,  the  reference,  was 

Willi  the  exception  of  some  scenery,  gone ! — The  green  curtain  was  no 

Very  faint  traces  are  left  in  my  me-  longer  a  veil,   drawn  between  two 

mory.    It  was  followed  by  a  panto-  worlds,  the  unfolding  of  which  was 

mime,  called  Lun's  Ghost — a  sadric  to  bring  back  past  a^es,  to  present 

touch,  I  apprehend,  upon  Rich,  not  **  a   royal    ghost,"«— but   a    certain 

long  since  oead — ^but  to  my  appre-  quantity  of  green  baize,  which  was 

hension  (too  sincere  for  satire),  Lun  to  separate  tne  audience  for  a  g^ven 

was  as  remote  a  piece  of  antiquity  as  time  irom  certain  of  their  fellow-men 

Lud— the  father  of  a  line  of  Harle-  who  were  to  come  forward  and  pre« 

quins— transmitting   his   dagger    of  tend  those  parts.    The  lights — the 

lath  (the  wooden  sceptre)  through  orchestra  lignts—came  up  a  clumsy 

counuess  ages.    I  saw  the  primeval  machinery.    The  first  ring,   and  the 

Motley  come  from  his  silent  tomb  in  second  ring,  was  now  but  a  trick  of 

a  ghastly  vest  of  white  patch-work,  the  prompter's  beU — which  had  been, 

fike  uie  apparition  of  a  dead  rainbow,  like  the  note  of  the  cuckoo,  a  phantom 

So  Harleouins  (thought  1)  look  when  of  a  voice,  no  hand  seen  or  guessed 

they  are  dead.  at  which  miidstered  to  its  warning. 

My  third  play  followed  in  quick  sue-  The  actors  were  men  and  women 
cession.  It  was  the  Way  of  me  World,  painted.  I  thought  the  fault  was  in 
I  think  I  must  have  sat  at  it  as  grave  them ;  but  it  was  in  myself,  and  the 
as  a  judge ;  for,  I  remember,  the  hys-  alteration  which  those  many  centu- 
teric  afTectations  of  good  Lady  Wish-  ries— of  six  short  twelvemonths- 
fort  afiTected  me  like  some  solemn  tra-  had  wrought  in  mc. — Perhaps  it  was 
gic  passion.  Robinson  Crusoe  fol-  fortunate  for  mc  tliat  the  play  of  the 
lowed;  in  which  Crusoe,  man  Friday,  evening  was  but  an  indifferent  co- 
and  the  parrot,  were  as  good  and  au-  medy,  as  it  gave  me  time  to  crop 
theiitic  as  in  the  story. — The  clown-  some  unreasonable  expectations, 
ery  and  pantaloonery  of  these  panto-  which  might  have  interfered  with 
mimes  have  clean  passed  out  of  my  the  genuine  emotions  with  which 
head.  I  believe,  I  no  more  laughed  (with  unmixed  perception)  I  was 
at  them,  than  at  the  same  age  I  soon  after  enabled  to  enter  upon  the 
should  have  been  disposed  to  laugh  first  appearance  to  me  of  Mrs.  Sid- 
at  the  grotesque  Gothic  heads  (seem-  dons  m  Isabella.  Comparison  and 
ing  to  me  then  replcSte  with  devout  retrospection  soon  vielded  to  the  pre- 
meaning)  that  gape,  and  grin,  in  sent  attraction  of  the  scene ;  and  the 
stone  around  the  inside  of  the  old  theatre  became  to  me,  upon  a  new 
Round  Church  (my  church)  of  the  stock,  the  most  delightful  of  recrea- 
Tcinplars.  tions.                                      Elia. 

«Y2 


606  John  Paul  Frederick  Richter.  QDcc, 


JOHN  PAUL  FREDERICK  RICHTER. 


— — —  Vlrum,  ex  hodiernis  Transrfaenanis,  quern  ego  pne  opteris 
stupeo,  et  qui  locum  prinripu  in  litteris  Gennanicis  mereatur  jure :  de 
quo  spero  quod  mVii  gradas  agetis,utpotc  nomen  ejus,  hactenus  inauditum 
per  nostras  Athenas,  nunc  paiam  apud  vos  proferend — Ubros  vero  iipe- 
ciodssimi  argumenti  in  usum  veniaculi  lectoris  dvitate  posthac  donaturo. 
Quod  si  me  fefellerit  opinio  quam  de  iUo  habeo,  sdads  nusquam  gentium 
reperiii  inter  Teutonicos  sciiptores  qui  possit  penitus  approbari. —  TrehelL 
PoUio  Cinter  HUtorug  Augiutce  Seripiores :  It.  CaMubouiy  Far.  liiOSy 
4/0.  p.  274)  ex  editume  Gratmerlens'u 

Gnumercy  Oct.  18,  1821. 

My    Dear    F. — ^You   ask   xne   to  adequately  representative  of  the  iq-^ 

cBrect  you  generally  in  yoiir  choice  tellectual  power  of  a  whole  nation  ; 

of  German  authors;  secondly^   and  none   which  has    attested    its    own 

especially,  among  those  authors  to  power  by  influencing  the  modes  of 

mune    my    favourite.     In    such    an  thinking,  acting,  educating^  through 

ocean   as  German    literature,    your  a  long   tract    of  centuries.      They 

first  request  is  of  too  wide  a  compass  have    no    book   on    which  the    na- 

for  a  letter ;  and  I  am  not  sorry  tnat,  tional  mind  has  adequately  acted  ; 

by  leaving  it  untouched,  and  reserv-  none,  which  has  re-acted,    for  snj 

uig  it  for  some  future  conversation,  great  end,  upon  the  national  mind. 

I  shall  add  one  moment  (in  the  Ian-  We  English  have    mighty  authors, 

guage  of  dynamics)  to  the  attrac-  almost,  I  might  say,  almighty  au- 

tions  of  friendship,    and  the    local  thors,    in    whom    (to    speak    by  a 

attractions  of  my  residence ; — uisuf-  scholastic  term)  the  national  mind  is 

ficient,  as  it  seems,  of  themselves,  to  contained    eminenter;    that  is^    vir- 

draw    you  so  far  northwards  from  tually  contained    in    its  principles: 

London.    Come,   therefore,  dear  F.,  and  reciprocally  these  abstracts  of  the 

bring  thy  ugly  countenance  to  the  English  mind  continue,  in  spite  d[ 

lakes ;  and  I  will  engrail  such  Ger-  many  counteracting  forces,  to  mould 

roan  youth  and  vigour  on  thy  Eng-  and  modulate  the  national   tone  of 

lish  tnmk,  that  henceforwards  thou  thought;  I  do  not  say  directly,  for 

flhalt  bear  excellent  fruit.    I  suppose,  you  will  object,    that  they   are  not 

F.,  you  know  that  the  Golden  Pip-  sufficiently  studied ;   but  indirectly, 

pin  is  now  almost,  if  not  quite,  ex-  inasmuch  as  the  hundreds  m  eveiy 

tinct  in  England :  and  why  ?  Clearly  generation,  who  influence  their  con- 

from  want  of  some  exotic,  but  con-  temporary  millions,  have  them>«elTes 

genial,  inoculation.      So  it  is  with  derived  an  original  influence    from 

literatures  of  whatsoever  land ;  un-  these    books. —  The    planet  Jupiter^ 

less  crossed  by  some  other  of  differ-  according  to  the  speculations  of  a 

ent  breed,  they  all  tend  to  super-  great  German  philosopher,    is  just 

annuation.      Thence   comes  it  that  now  coming  into  ^  habitable  condi* 

the  French  literature  is  now  in  the  tion :  its  primeval  man  is,  perhaps^ 

last    stage    of   phthisis  —  dotage —  now  in  his  Paradise;    the  history, 

palsy,  or  whatever  image  will  best  ex-  the  poetry,  the  woes  of  Jupiter,  aie 

press  the  most  abject  state  of  senile  now  in  their  cradle.     Suppose  then, 

— (senile  ?  no !  of  anile)— imbecility,  that  this  Jovian  man  were  allowed 

Its  constitution,  as  you  well  know,  to  come  down  upon  our  earth,   to 

was,    in  its  best  days,  marrowless  take  an  inquest  among  us,  and  to  caU 

and  without  nerve ;  its  youlh  with-  us- nation  by  nation — to  a  solemn 

out  hope,  and  its  manhood  without  audit  on  the  question  of  our  intellec- 

dignity.     For  it  is  remarkable,  that  tual  efforts  and  triumphs.       What 

to  the  French  people  only,   of  all  could  the  earth  say  for  herself?     For 

nations  that  have  any  literature  at  our  parts,  we  should  take  him  inta 

all,  has  it  been,  or  can  it  be,  justly  Westminster  Abbey :  and,  standk^ 

objected— that  they  have  ''no  pa-  upon  the  ancestral  dust  of  Englam^ 

ramount  book ;"  none,  that  is  to  say,  we  should  present  him    with    two 

If  Inch  stands  out    as  a  monument  volumes  ^K}nc    containing    Hamlet^ 


1821.]]                            John  Pmul  Frederick  Richier.  607 

Lear^   and  Othello;    the  other  con-  influence   of  Kant's  great  work. — 
taining"    Paradise  Lost.      This,    we  Change  of  any  kind  Was  good  for 
should  say,    this  is  what  we  have  Germany.     One  truth  wag  clear- 
achieved:    these   are  our  Pyramids.  Whatever  was,  was  bad.     And  the 
But  what  could  France  present  him?  evidence  of  this  appears  on  the  face 
■  and  where  ?     VVTiy,  her  best  ofTerhig  of  the  literature.    Before  1789  good 
must    be   presented  in  a  Boudoir :  authors  were  rare  in  Germany :  since 
tlie  impudence  even  of  a  Frenchman  then  they  are  so  numerous^  that  m 
would  not  dare  to  connect  the  sane-  any  sketch  of  their  literature  all  in- 
tities  of  religious  feeling  with  any  dividual  notice  becomes  impossible : 
book   in  his  language :  the  wildest  you  must  confine  yourself  to  favour* 
vanity   could  not  pretend  to  show  ite  authors,  or  notice  them  by  classes, 
the  correlate  of  Paradise  Lost.    To  And  this  leads  me  to  your  question 
fipeak  in  a  language  suitable  to  a  —Who  is  mt;  favourite  author  ?-^Mj 
Jovian  visitor,   that  is,  in  the  Ian-  answer  is,  that  I  have  three  favour- 
giiage  of  astronomy,  our  books  would  ites :  and  those  are  Kant,  Schiller^ 
appear  to  him  as  two  heavenly  bodies  and  John  Paul  Richter.    But  setting 
ot  the  first  magnitude,  whoseofWoc/,  Kant  aside,  as  hardly  belonging  to 
the  cycle  and  tne  revolution  or  whose  the  litcraturty   in  the  true  meaning 
orbit,  were  too  vast  to  be  calculated:  of  that  word, — I  have,  you  see,  two. 
whilst  the  very  best  of  France  could  In  what  respect  there  is  any  afiinity 
be  regarded  as  no  more  than  satel-  between  them,  I  will  notice  before 
lites  fitted  to  move  about  some  cen-  I  conclude.     For  the  present,  I  shall 
tral  body  of  insignificant  size.     Now  observe  only,    that  in  the  case  of 
whence  comes  this  poverty  of  the  Schiller,  I  love  his  works  chiefly  be- 
Frcnch  literature  ?  Manifestly  hence,  cause  I  venerate  the  memory  of  the 
that  it   is  too  intensely  steeped  in  man :  whereas,  in  the  case  of  Rich- 
French  manners  to  admit  of  any  influ-  ter,  my  veneration  and  affection  for 
^nces  from  without :  it  has  rejected  aU  the  man  is  founded  wholly  on  my 
alliance  with  exotic  literature ;  and  knowledge  of  his  works.     This  dis* 
like   some  royal  families,  or  like  a  tinction  will  point  out  Richter  as  the 
particidar    valley    in     this    county^  most  eligible  author  for  your  present 
from  intermarrying  too  exclusively  purpose.     In  point  of  originality,  in- 
dn  their  own  narrow  circle,  it  is  now  deed,  there  caimot  arise  a  question 
on  its  last  legs ;  and  will  soon  go  out  between  the  pretensions  of  Richter 
like  a  farthing  rushlight.  and  those  of  any  other  German  au- 
Having  this  horrid  example  before  thor   whatsoever.     He  is  no  man's 
our  eyes,  what  should  we  £nglish  representative  but  his  own  :  nor  do  I 
do  ?      Why,    evidently    we    should  think  that  he  will  ever  have  a  sue- 
cidtivate  an  intercourse  with    that  cessor.     Of  his  style  of  writing,  it 
literature  of  Europe  which  has  most  may  be  said,  with  an  emphatic  and 
of  a  juvenile  constitution.    Now  that  almost  exclusive  propriety,  that  ex- 
is  beyond  all  doubt  the  German.     I  cept  it  proceeds  in  a  spirit  of  perfect 
do  not  so  much  insist  on  the  present  freedom  it  cannot  exist ;  unless  mov- 
<?xcellence  of  the  Grerman  literature ;  ing  from  an  impulse  self-derived  it 
{though,  poetry  apart,   the  current  cannot  move  at  all.    What  then  it 
•literature  of  Germany  appears  to  me  his  style  of  writing?     WTiat  are  its 
by  much  the  best  in  Europe:)  what  general    oharacteristics ?«— These    I 
weighs  most  with  me  is  the  promise  will  endeavour  to  describe  with  8u& 
and  assurance  of  future  excellence  ficient  circumstantiality  to  meet  your 
held    out    by    the    originality    and  present  wants:  premising  only  that 
masculine  strength  of  tliought  which  I   call   him    frequently    John  Paul, 
has  moidded  the  German  mind  since  without  adding  his  surname,    both 
the    time    of  Kant.     Whatever   be  because  all  Germany  gives  him  that 
thought  of  the  existing  authors,  it  is  a[ipeilatioii,  as  an  expression  of  a£- 
clear  that  a  mighty  power  has  been  at  fection  for  his  person,  and  because 
work  in  the  German  mind  since  the  he  has  himself  sometimes  assumed  it 
French  revolution,  which  happily  co-  in  the  title-pages  of  his  works, 
incidcd  in  point  of  time*  with  the  First,    the   characteristic  distinc- 

*  The  Cridk  der  Reinen  Vemunft  wm  published  about  five  years  before  the  Frendi 
£eyoludoi\9  but  lay  uiinoliced  in  the  publisher's  warehouse  for  four  or  five  vean. 


\ 


606                               JdAn  FiBud  Frederick  Richier.  i^Dee. 

tlon  of  Paul  Richter,  amongst  Ger-  reconciled  with  the  other:  but,  9dly, 
man  authors,  I  will  yenture  to  add  itwasthedeath^notonlyofaman^but 
amongst  modem  authors  feneraliy,  is  also  of  a  Falstaff :  and  we  could  not 
the  two-headed  power  which  he  pos-  but  require  that  the  description  diould 
gesses  over  the  pathetic  and  the  hu-  revive  the  image  and  features  of  so  me* 
morous:     or,   rather,  let  me  say  at  morable  a  character ;  if  not,  whyde- 
once,  what  I  have  often  felt  to  be  scribe  it  at  all  ?     The  understanding 
true,  and  could  (I  thhik^  at  a  fitting  would  as  little  bear  to  forget  that  it 
opportimity    prove   to  ue   so,    this  was  the  death-bed  of  a  Falst^,  as 
power  is  not  two-headed,  but  a  one*  the  heart   and  affections  to  forget 
beaded  Janus  with  two  faces : — the  that  it  was  the  death-bed  of  a  fellow 
pathetic  and  the  humorous  are  but  creature.     Lastly,  the  description  Is 
different  phases  of  the  same  orb ;  ffiven,  not  by  Uie  poet  speaking  in 
they  assist  each  other,  melt  indis-  his  own  universal  language,  but  by 
cemibly  into  each  other,  and  often  Mrs.  Quickly, — a  character  as  indi<» 
shine  each  through  each  like  layers  vidually   pourtrayed,    and    as    well 
of  coloured  chrystals  placed  one  be-  known  to  us,  as  the  subject  of  her 
hind  another.    Take,  as  an  illustra-  description.     Let   me    recapitulate : 
tion,  Mrs.  Quickly 's  account  of  Fal-  first,  it  was  to  be  pathetic,  as  relating 
stafi^s  death : — ^hore  there  were  three  to  a  man :    Sdly,  humorous,  as  re- 
thinks to  be  accomplished ;  first,  the  lating  to  Falstaff :   Sdly,  humorous 
death  of  a  human  being  was  to  be  in  another  style,  as  coming  from  Mrs. 
described;    of  necessity,    therefore.  Quickly.  —  These    were    difSculties 
to    be   described    pathetically :    for  rather  greater  than  those  of  levelling 
death  being  one  of  those  events  which  hills,  filling  up  vallies,  and  arrang- 
call  up  the  pure  generalities  of  hu-  ing  trees  in  picturesque  groupes :  yet 
man  nature,  and  remove  to  the  back*  Capability  Brown  was  allowed    to 
ground  all  uidividualities,   whether  exclaim,  on  surveying  a  conquest  of 
of  life  or  character,  the  mind  would  his  in  this  walk  of  art-^^'  Aye !  none 
not  in  any  case  endure  to  have  it  but  your  Browns  and  your  G         Al- 
treated  with  levity:  so  that,  if  any  mightiescandosuch  things  as  these." 
circumstances  of  humour  are  intro-  Much  more  then  might  tlus  irreve*r 
duced  by  the  poetic  painter,   they  rent  speech  be  indulged  to  the  gr»- 
roust  be  such  as  will  olend  and  fall  titude  of  our  veneration   for  ^ak« 
into  harmony  with  the  ruling  passion  sp^are,  on  witnessing  such  triumphs 
of  the  scene :  and,  by  the  way,  com-  of  his  art.    The  simple  words — "  tmd 
bining  it  with  the  fact,  that  humor-  a'  babbled  of  green  Jields,"  I  should 
OU0  circumstances  often   have  been  imagine,   must  have  been  read  by 
introduced  into  death-scenes,    both  many   a   thousand  with  tears    and 
actual  and  imaginary, — this  remark  smiles  at  the  same  instant ;  I  mean, 
of  itself  yields  a  proof  that  there  if  connecting    them    with    a  previous 
a  humour  which  is  in  alliance  with  knowledge  of  Falstaff  and  of  Mrs. 
pathos.     How  else  could  we  have  Quickly.    Such  then  being  demon- 
borne  the  jests  of  Sir  Thomas  Moore  strably  the  possibility  of  blending,  or 
after  his  condemnation,    which,    as  fusuig,  as  it  were,   the  elements  of 
jests,  would  have  been  unseasonable  pathos  and  of  humour^-and  compos- 
from  any  body  else :  but  being  felt  in  mg  out  of  their  union  a  third  me- 
him  to  have  a  root  in  his  character,  tal  sui  generis  (as  Corinthian  brass, 
they  take  the  dignity  of  humorous  you  know,  is  said  to  have  been  the 
traits ;  and  do,  in  £act,  deepen  the  product  of  all  other  metals,  from  the 
pathos.    So  again,  mere  naivete,  or  confluence  of  melted  statues,  &c.  at 
mrchness,  when  it  is  felt  to  flow  out  the  burning  of  Corinth)  ; — I  cannot 
of  the  cheerfulness  of  resignation,  be-  but  consider  John  Paul  Kichter  as  by 
comes  humorous,  and  at  the  same  far  the  most  eminent  artist  in  that 
time,  becomes  pathetic :  as,  for  in-  way  since  the  time  of  Shakspeare.-^ 
stance.  Lady  Jane  Gray's  remark  on  Wliat  ?    you  will  say,  greater  than 
the  scaffold — "  I  have  but  a  little  Sterne  ?  —  I    answer,    y«,     to    my 
neck,"  &c.    But  to  return :  the  death  thinking ;  and  1  could  give  some  ar- 
of  Falstaff,  as  the  death  of  a  man,  guments  and  illustrations  in  support 
was  in  the  first  place  to  be  described  of  this  judgment.      But   1   am   not 
with  pathos,  and  if  with  humour,  no  anxious  to  establish  my  own  pre- 
pfberwise  than  as  the  one  could  be  ference,  as  founded  on  any  thing  of 


1881.3                          ^okn  Paul  Frederick  fiithicr.  409 

better  authority  than  my  idioeyo-  all  attempts  to  illustrate,  or  express 
cracy^  or  more  permanent,  if  yoa  It  adequately  by  images  borrowed 
choose  to  think  so,  than  my  own  from  Uie  natural  world,  from  the 
caprice.  motions  of  beasts,  birds,  insects,  &c. 
Secondly,  Judffe  as  you  will  on  from  the  leaps  of  tigers  or  leopards^ 
this  last  point,  that  is,  on  the  com-  from  the  gamboling  and  tumbung  of 
parative  pretensions  of  Sterne  and  kittens,  the  antics  of  monkeys,  or  the 
Kichter  to  the  epolia  opima  in  Uie  running  of  antelopes  and  ostriches, 
fields  of  pathos  and  of  humour ;  yet  &c.are  baffled,  confounded,  and  made 
in  one  pretension  he  not  only  leaves  ridiculous,  by  the  enormous  and 
Sterne  at  an  infinite  distance  in  the  over-mastering  superiority  of  im«i 
rear,  but  really,  for  my  part,  I  pression  left  by  the  thing  illustrated, 
cease  to  ask  who  it  is  tnat  he  The  rapid,  but  uniform  motions  of 
leaves  behind  him,  for  I  begin  to  the  heavenly  bodies,  serve  well 
think  with  myself,  who  it  is  that  he  enough  to  typify  the  grand  and  con-i 
approaches.  If  a  man  could  reach  tinuous  motions  of  the  Miltonic 
Venus  or  Mercmry,  we  should  not  mind.  But  the  wild,  giddy,  fantas- 
aay  he  has  advanced  to  a  great  dis-  tic,  capricious,  incalciuable,  spring- 
tauce  from  the  earth :  we  should  say,  ing,  vaulting,  tumbling,  dancing, 
he  is  very  near  to  the  sun.  So  also,  if  waltzing,  caprioling,  pirouetting, 
in  any  thing  a  man  approaches  Shak-  sky-rod^eting  of  the  chamois,  the 
speare,  or  does  but  remind  us  of  harlequin,  the  Vestris,  the  storm- 
him,  all  other  honours  are  swallowed  loving  raven — the  raven?  no,  the  lark, 
up  in  that :  a  relation  of  inferiority  (for  often  he  ascends  '^  singin?  up  to 
to  him  is  a  more  enviable  distinction  heaven's  gates,"  but  like  tne  lark  he 
than  all  degrees  of  superiority  to  dwells  upon  the  earth,)  in  short,  of 
others,  the  rear  of  his  splendours  a  the  Proteus,  the  Ariel,  the  Mercury, 
more  eminent  post  than  the  supreme  the  monster — John  Paul,  can  be  com« 
station  in  the  van  of  all  others.  I  pared  to  nothing  in  heaven  or  earth, 
have  already  mentioned  one  quality  or  the  waters  under  the  earth,  ex« 
of  excellence,  viz.  the  interpenetra-  cent  to  the  motions  of  the  same  fa« 
tion**  of  the  humorous  and  the  pathe-  culty  as  existing  in  Shakspeare.^— 
tic,  common  to  Shakspeare  and  John  Perhaps,  meteorology  may  hereafter 
Paul :  but  this,  apart  from  its  quai^  furnish  us  with  some  adequate  ana« 
tity  or  degree,  implies  no  more  of  a  logon  or  adumbration  of  its  multitu- 
partidpation  in  Shakspearian  excel-  dinous  activity:  hereafter,  observe: 
lence,  than  the  possession  of  wit,  for,  as  to  lightning,  or  any  thing  we 
judgment,  good  sense,  &c.  which,  in  know  at  present,  it  pants  after  Uiem 
some  degree  or  other,  must  be  com-  ''  in  vain,"  in  company  with  that 
mou  to  all  authors  of  any  merit  at  pursy  old  gentleman  Time,f  as  paint* 
all.  Thus  far  I  have  already  said,  ed  by  Dr.  Johnson.  To  say  the  truth, 
that  I  would  not  contest  the  point  John  Paul's  intellect — his  faculty  of 
of  precedence  with  the  admirers  of  catching  at  a  glance  all  the  relations 
Sterne :  but,  in  the  claim  I  now  ad-  of  objects,  both  the  grand,  the 
vance  for  Richter,  which  respects  a  lovely,  the  ludicrous,  and  the  fan- 
question  ofde^e,  I  cannot  allow  of  tastic,— is  painfully  and  almost  mor- 
any  competition  at  all  from  that  bidly  active :  there  is  no  respite,  no 
quarter.  What  then  is  it  that  I  claim?  repose,  allowed — no,  not  for*  a  mo« 
—Briefly,  an  activity  of  understand-  ment,  in  some  of  his  works,  nor 
ing,  so  restless  and  indefatigable  that  whilst  you  can  say  Jack  Robinson, 


*  Inlerpenetration : — ^thii  word  is  fhnn  the  mint  of  Mr.  Cokiidge  t  and,  as  it  seema 
to  me  a  very  ^^  laudable  **  word  (as  sorffeona  say  of  put)  I  mean  to  patnmize  it ;  and 
beg  to  recommend  it  to  my  friends  and  me  public  in  generaL — By  the  way,  the  public, 
of  whose  stupidity  I  have  often  reason  to  complain,  does  not  seem  to  understand  it : — ^tbe 
prefix  inter  has  the  force  of  the  French  enire^  in  such  words  as  s'entrelacer :  reciprom 
col  penetration  is  the  meaning :  as  if  a  black  colour  should  enter  a  crimson  one,  yd  not 
keep  itself  distinct ;  but,  bemg  in  turn  pervaded  by  the  crimson,  each  should  diffuse 
itseu  through  the  other. 

•f  ^^  And  panting  Time  toil'd  after  him  in  vain.** 
So  that,  according  to  the  Doctor,  i^hakspeore  performed  a  match  agunst  Time ;  and> 
being  backed  by  Nature,  it  seems  he  won  it. 


dlO  J^n  Ficmi  Fndtrkk  RiMa% 

And,  hy  the  whf,  a  sort  of  name-  the  true  deriyatUm  of  this  difficoHy, 

«ake  of  this  Mr.  Koblnsou^  viz.  Jack-  that  it  has  often  been  said  to  nie,  nm 

o'-the-lanthom^  comes  as  near  to  a  an  Englishman,  *'  What !    can  yon 

semblance  of  John  Paul  as  any  body  read  John  Paul?" — meaning  to  aay, 

I  know.      Shakspeare  htmself   has  can  you  read  such  difficult  German  ^ 

fVen  us  some  account  of  Jack :  and  Doubtless^  in  some  small  proportion;^ 
assure  you,  that  the  same  account  the  mere  language  and  style  are  ren 
will  serve  for  Jack  Paul  Richter,  sponsible  for  his  difficulty :  and,  in  a 
One  of  his  books  ( Vortchule  der  Aes^  sense  somewhat  different,  applying 
ihetik)  is  absolutely  so  surcharged  it  to  a  mastery  over  the  langua^  in 
with  quicksilver,  Uiat  I  expect  to  which  he  writes,  the  expression  of 
see  it  leap  off  the  table  as  often  as  Quinctilian  in  respect  to  die  student 
it  is  laid  there ;  and  therefore,  to  of  Cicero  may  be  transferred  to  the 
prevent  accidents,  I  usually  load  it  student  of  John  Paul  :-^'^  Ille  se  pro- 
with  the  works  of  our  good  friend  fecisse  sciat,  cui  Cicero  valde  pla^ 
—  ~  Esq.  and  FRS.  In  fact,  cebit :  "  he  may  rest  assured  that  he 
so  exuberant  is  this  perilous  gas  of  has  made  a  competent  progress  in 
wit  in  John  Paul,  that,  if  his  works  the  Grerman  language  who  can  read 
do  not  explode, — at  any  rate,  I  think  Paul  Richter.  Indeed  he  is  a  sort 
John  Paul  himself  will  blow  up  one  of  proof  author  in  this  respect ;  a 
of  these  days.  It  must  be  dangerous  man,  wno  can  <'  construe  "  him,  can- 
to bring  a  candle  too  near  him:  not  be  stopped  by  any  difficulties 
many  persons,  especially  half-pay  of-  purely  verbal.  But,  after  all,  these 
ficers,  have  lately  *'  gone  off,"*  by  verbal  obscurities  are  but  the  neces- 
inconsiderately  blowing  out  their  bed-  sary  result  and  product  of  his  style 
candle.  They  were  loaded  with  a  of  thinking ;  the  nhnbleness  of  his 
different  sort  of  spirit,  it  is  true:  transitions  often  makes  him  ellipti- 
but  I  am  sure  there  can  be  none  oal :  the  vast  expansion  and  discur- 
more  inflammable  than  that  of  John  siveness  in  hb  range  of  notice  and 
Paul !  To  be  serious,  however,  and  observation,  carries  him  into  every 
to  return  from  chasing  this  Will-o'-  department  and  nook  of  human  life, 
the- wisp,  there  cannot  be  a  more  of  science,  of  art,  and  of  literature ; 
valuable  endowment  tq  a  writer  of  whence  comes  a  proportionably  ex- 
inordinate  sensibility,  than  this  inor-  tensive  vocabulary,  and  a  prodigious 
dinate  agility  of  the  understanding ;  compass  of  idiomatic  phraseology  : 
the  active  faculty  balances  the  pas-  and  finally,  the  fineness,  and  evan-* 
sive ;  and  without  such  a  balance,  escent  brilliancy  of  his  oblique  glan- 
there  is  great  risk  of  falling  into  a  ces  and  surface-skimming  allusions, 
sickly  tone  of  maudlm  sentimentality,  often  fling  but  half  a  meaning  on 
from  which  Sterne  cannot  be  pro-  the  mind;  and  one  is  puzzled  to 
pounced  wholly  free,~and  still  less  make  out  its  complement,  ffemee 
a  later  author  of  pathetic  tales,  whose  it  is,  that  is  to  say,  from  hb  mode 
name  I  omit.  By  the  way,  I  must  of  presenting  things,  •  his  lyrical 
observe,  that  it  is  this  fiery,  meteoric,  style  of  connexion,  and  the  prodi- 
Bcintillating,  corruscating  power  of  ffious  fund  of  knowledge  on  wMch 
John  Paid,  which  is  the  true  found-  ne  draws  for  his  illustrations  and  his 
ation  of  his  frequent  obscuritv.  You  images,  that  his  obscurity  arises. 
will  find  that  he  is  reputed  the  most  And  these  are  causes  which  must 
difficult  of  all  German  authors ;  and  afiect  his  own  countrymen  no  less 
many  Crermaus  are  so  little  aware  of  than  foreigners.-<"-Further  than    aa 

*  Of  which  the  most  tremendous  case  I  have  met  with  was  this  i;  and,  as  I  greatly 
desire  to  believe  so  good  a  story,  I  should  be  more  easy  in  mind  if  I  knew  that  any 
body  dse  had  ever  bdieved  it.  In  die  year  1818,  an  Irishman,  and  a  great  lover  of 
whiskey,  persisted  obsdnatdy,  though  often  warned  of  his  error,  in  attempting  to  blow 
out  a  candle :  the  candle,  however,  blew  out  the  Irishman :  and  the  fbUowing  result 
was  sworn  to  before  the  Owoncr.  The  Irishman  sbot  off  like  a  Con^vc  rocket,  passed 
with  the  velocity  of  a  twenty-four-pounder  dirough  I  know  not  how  many  stories, 
ascended  to  the  ^^  highest  heaven  of  invention,*'  viz. — to  the  garrets,  where  slept  a  tailor 
and  Ilia  wife.  Feat])er  beds,  which  stop  cannon-balls,  gave  way  before  the  liishnuoi^s 
skull :  he  passed  like  a  gimblet  through  two  mattrasses,  a  feather  bed,  &c.,  and  stood 
grinning  at  the  tailor  and  his  wifc^  without  his  legs,  however,  which  he  hod  left  b^i^ 
Uim  la  die  second  floor. 


.1891.;]                          JoAn  Pttui  Frfderiek  RieMer.  iHi 

these  oau0efl  must  oooaskmaDj  prc^  — »'■  ooat;  or  Hke  the  dvdpt^fuw 
duce    a  corresponding  difficulty  of  vfiKairiML  the  multitudinous  lauffhiii^ 
diction^  I  know  of  no  reason  why  an  of  the  ocean  under  the  glancing  Tights 
Englishman  should  be  thought  spe-  of  sun-beams ;  or  like  a  feu  de  joie 
cially  concerned  in  his  obscurity,  or  of  fire-works :    in  fact,   John  Paul's 
less  able  to  find  his  way  through  it  works  are  the  galaxy  of  the  German 
than  any  German.    But  just  the  same  literary  firmament.     I  defy  a  man  to 
-mistake  is  commonly  made  about  Lt-  lay  his  hand  on  that  sentence  which 
cophron :    he  is  represented  as  the  is  not  vital  and  ebuHient  with  wh. 
•most  difficult  of  all  Greek  authors.  What  is  wit  ?    We  are  told  that  it 
Meantime,  as  far  as  language  is  con-  is  the  perception  of  resemblances; 
corned,  he  is  one  of  the  easiest: — some  whilst  the  perception  of  difTerences^ 
peculiar  words  he  has,    I  acknow-  we  are  requested  to  believe,  is  reserved 
ledge,  but  it  is  not  single  words  that  for  anoUier  faculty.    Very  profound 
constitute  verbal  obscurity ;  it  is  the  distinction  no  doubt ;  but  very  sense- 
construction,  synthesis,  composition,  less  for  all  that.    I  shall  not  here 
fU'rangement,  and  involution  of  words,  attempt  a  definition  of  wit:  but  I 
which  only  can  obstruct  the  reader :  will  just  mention  what  I  conceive  to 
now  in  these  parts  of  style  Lycophron  be  one  of  the  distinctions  between 
is  remarkably  lucid.      Where  then  wit  and  humour,  viz.— that  whilst 
}ies  his  reputed  darkness  ?    Purely  in  wit  is  a  purely  intellectual   thing, 
this, — that,  by  way  of  colouring  the  into  every  act  of  the  humorous  mood 
Myle  with  the  sullen  hues  of  prophe-  there  is  an  iniluz  of  the  moral  na« 
tic  vision,  Cassandra  is  made  to  de-  ture :  rays,  direct  or  refracted,  firom 
scribe  all  those  on  whom  the  fates  of  the  will  and  the  affections,  from  the 
Troy  hinged,  by  enigmatic  periphra-  disposition  and  the  temperament,  en- 
ses,  oftentimes  drawn  from  the  most  ter  into  all  humour :  and  thence  it  Is, 
•obscure  incidents  in  their  lives :  just  that  humour  is  of  a  diffusive  qua* 
as  if  I  should  describe  Cromwell  by  lity,  pervading  an  entire  course  of 
the   expression,   *'  unfortunate  tamer  thoughts ;  whilst  wit — because  it  has 
of  horses,"  because  he  once  nearly  no  existence  apart  from  certain  lo- 
broke  his  neck  in  Hyde-Park,  when  gical  relations  of  a  thought  which 
driving  four-hi-hand ;  or  should  de-  are  definitely  assignable,  and  can  be 
«cribe  a  noble  lord  of  the  last  century  counted  even,  is  always  punctually 
as   "  the  roaster  of  men"   because,  concentrated  within  the  circle  of' a 
when  a  member    of  the  Hell-fire-  few  words.  On  this  account,  I  would 
cJub,  he  actuallv  tied  a  poor  man  to  not  advise  you  to  read  those  of  John 
the  spit;   and,  having  spitted  him,  Paul's  works  which  are  the  wittiest; 
proceeded  to  roast  him.*  but  those  which  are    more   distin- 
Third.   You  will  naturally  collect  guished  for  their  humour.    You  will 
from  the  account  here  given  of  John  thus  see  more  of  the  man.     In  a  fii- 
i^auFs  activity  of  understanding  and  ture  letter  I  will  send  you  a  list  of 
fancy,  that  over  and  aliove  his  fau-  the  whole  distributed  into  classes, 
mour,  he  must  have  an  overflowhig  Fourthly  and  finally,  let  me  tell 
opulence  of   wit.— In  fact  he  has.  you  what  it  is  that  has  fixed  John 
Cfn  this  earth  of  ours  (I  know  no-  Paul    in  my  esteem  and  affection, 
thing  about  the  books  in  Jupiter,  Did  you  ever  look  into  that  sickening 
where  Kant  has  proved  that  the  au-  heap  of  abortions— the  Ireland  For- 
thors  will  be  far  abler  than  any  poor  geries  ?     In  one  of  these  (Deed  of 
Terra  Filius,  such  as  Shakspeare  or  Trust  to  John  Hemynges)  he  makes 
Milton,)  but  on  this  poor  earth  of  Shakspeare  say,    as  his   reason  for 
ours,  I  am  acquainted  with  no  book  bavin?  assigned  to  a  friend  such  and 
of  such  unintermitthig  and  brilliant  such  duties  usually  confided  to  law- 
wit  as  his  Vorschule  der  Aesthetik  :  it  ycrs — that  he  had  "  founde  muche 
glitters  like  the    stars  on   a  frosty  wickcdnesse  amongste  those  of  the 
night;   or  like  the  stars  on  Count  la  we."    On  this^  Mr.  Malonc^  whose 


•  ''^Proceeded  to  roast  hini,— yes:  but  did  he  roast  him?"  Really  I  can't  say. 
Some  people  like  their  mutton  underdone;  and  Lord might  like  his  man  under- 
done. ^UI  I  know  of  the  sequel  is,  that  Ae  sun  expressed  no  horror  at  this  Thyesteaa 
-cookery,  which  might  be  because  he  had  set  two  hours  before :  but  the  Sun  newspaper 
did,  when  it  rose  supic  nij^ta  softer  (pts  it  always  does)  at  aizo*ckK:k  in  die  cveniDg. 


Mi                                 j0hK  Paul  Frederick  RkkUr,  [[Dec 

indignatimi  waf  justly  roused  to  see  the  manner  of  eopducting   such   a 

Shaitspeare's  name  borrowed  to  coun-  cause:    for  you  will  no  where  find 

tenance  such  loathsome  and  stupid  that  they  take  any  indecent  liberties, 

vulgarity,  expresses  himself  *  with  of  a  personal  sort,  with  those  princes 

much  £eelinff :  and  I  confess  that,  for  whose  governments  they  most  ab- 

my  part,  that  passage  alone,  with-  horred.     Though  safe  enough  from 

out  the  innumerable  marks  of  grossest  their  vengeance,  they  never  forgot  in 

forgery  which  stare  upon  one  in  every  their  indignation,  as  patriots  and  as 

word,  would  have  been  quite  suffi-  philosophers,  the  respect  due  to  the 

dent  to  expose  the  whole  as  a  base  rank  oi  others,  or  to  themselves  as 

and  most  childish  imposture.    For,  scholars,  and  the  favourites  of  their 

so  far  was  Shakspeare  from  any  ca«  country.   Some  other  modem  authors 

pability  of  leaving    behind   him    a  of  Grermany  mav  he  great  writers : 

malignant  libel  on  a  whole  body  of  but  Frederick  Schiller  and  John  Paul 

learned  men,  that,  among  sdl  writers  lUchter  1   shall    always  view  with 

of  every  age,  he  stands  forward  as  the  feelings  due  to  great  men. 

the  one  who  looked  moat  benignanUy,  p„,  ^y^^          „t         j^^  p,  ^^^ 

and    with    the   most  fraUrnal  eye,  ^^y    „,^  ^^,5^^^  „g  ^„  ^ 
upon  all  tlie  ways  of  men,   however 

weak  or  foolish.     From  every  sort  of  Most  faithfuUy  yours, 

vice  and  infirmity  he  drew  nutriment  Geasmeeiensis  Teutonizans. 
for  his  philosophic  mind.     It  is  to 

the  honour  of  John  Paul,  that  in  this,  _ 
as  in  other  respects,  he  constantly 

reminds  me  of  Shakspeare.  Every  P.  S.  You  will  observe  in  my 
where  a  spirit  of  kindness  prevails :  motto  from  Trcbcllius  PoUio,  that  I 
his  satire  is  every  where  playful,  annoimce  an  intention  of  translating 
delicate,  and  clad  in  smiles ;  never  a  few  Anakcta  Pavlina  into  English  : 
bitter,  scornful,  or  malignant.  But  two  specimens  chosen  at  random 
this  is  not  all.  I  could  produce  many  from  the  Fiefrtl-Jahre  I  subjoin :  they 
passages  from  Shakspeare,  which  were  adopted  hastily,  and  translated 
■bow  that,  if  his  anger  was  ever  hastily;  and  can  do  little  towards 
roused,  it  was  against  the  abuses  of  exhibiting,  in  its  full  proportions,  a 
the  time :  not  mere  political  abuses,  mind  so  various  as  that  of  John  Paul, 
but  those  that  had  a  deeper  root,  and  In  my  next  letter  I  will  send  you  a 
dishonoured  human  nature.  Here  better  selection,  and  executed  in  a 
again  the  resemblance  holds  in  John  style  of  translation  more  correspond- 
Paul ;  and  this  is  the  point  in  which  in^  to  the  merits  of  my  brilliant 
I  said  that  I  would  notice  a  bond  of  onginal.  Once  ^ain,  however,  let 
affinity  between  him  and  Schiller,  me  remind  you  of  the  extraordinary 
Both  were  intolerant  haters  of  ignoble  difficulties  which  beset  the  task ; 
tilings,  though  placable  towards  the  difficulties  of  apprehending  the  sense 
ignoble  men.  Both  yearned,  according  in  many  cases,  difficulties  of  express- 
to  their  diffisrent  temperaments,  for  ing  it  in  all. — ^But  why  need  I  say 
a  happier  state  of  things:  I  mean  this  to  you,  who  in  six  weeks  will 
for  human  nature  generaUy,  and,  in  a  be  able  to  judge  for  yourself  upou 

E>litical  sense,  for  Germany.  To  his  all  points  connected  with  German  li- 
test years,  Schiller,  when  suffering  terature ;  and  to  unite  with  me  and 
imder  bodily  decay  and  anguish,  was  others  hi  furnishing  an  Anthology  in 
|m  earnest  contender  f  for  whatever  our  own  language,  better  reflecting, 
promised  to  elevate  human  nature,  by  absolute  specimens,  the  character 
imd  bore  emphatic  witness  against  the  ristics  of  the  most  eminent  German 
evils  of  the  time.  John  Paul,  who  writers,  than  all  merely  analytic 
still  lives,  is  of  a  gentler  nature :  but  evolutions  of  style  and  manner  could 
his  aspirations  tend  to  the  same  pomt,  ever  do.  Every  man  shall  take  his 
though  expressed  in  a  milder  and  own  favourite :  mine,  in  any  case,  is 
more  hopeful  spirit.  With  all  this,  to  be  Paul  Rich  ten— but  1  talk  too 
however,  tliey  give  a  rare  lesson  on  much :  so  "  manum  de  tabula." 


•  Inquiry,  &c.  p.  279. 

t  Goethe  has  lately  {Morpholo^^  p,  108.    Zxccytrr  heft)  recurred  to  his 
tJODf  with  bcbilkr,  in  a  way  which  places  himself  in  rather  en  uafavoarable  contrMt. 


iail.3  Tkn  JS4ifp^  Lift  of  a  PaHih  Print  m  Swtde*.  §tM 

THE  HAPPY  LIFE  OF  A  PARieH  PRIEST  IN  SWEDEN. 

FROM    RICHTER« 

Sweden  apart>  the  condition  of  a  tinged  with  the  colours  of  youth  bj 

parish  priest  is  in  itself  sufficiently  the    rosy   morning-lustre ;    and   the 

happy :  in  Sweden^  theii>  much  more  priest,  as  he  looks  away  from  them 

80.      There  he  enjoys  summer  and  to  mother  earth  lying  in  the  sleep  of 

winter  pure  and  unalloyed  by  any  winter,  and  to  the  church-yard,  where 

tedious    interruptions:    a    Swedish  the  flowers  and  the  men  are  all  io 

fipring,  which  is  always  a  late  one,  is  their  graves  to^ether^  might  secretly 

no  repetition,  in  a  lower  key,  of  the  exclaim  with  the  poet: — "  Upon  the 

harshness  of  winter,  but  anticipates^  dead  mother^   in    peace  ana    uttei^ 

and  is  a  prelibation  of  perfect  sum-  gloom,  are  reposing  the  dead  chil- 

mer, — ^laden  with  blossoms,— radiant  uren.    After  a  time,  uprises  the  ever- 

with  the  lily  and  the  rose :  insomuch,  lasting  sun ;  and  the  mother  starta 

that  a  Swedish  summer-night  repre-  up  at  the  summons  of  the  heavenlj 

^ents  implicitly  one  half  of  Italy,  and  dawn  with  a  resurrection  of  her  an-* 

a  winter-night  one  half  of  the  world  cient  bloom :— And  her  children  p^- 

beside.  Yes :  but  they  must  wait  awhile." 

I  will  begin  with  winter,  and  I  will  At  home  he  is  awaited  by  a  warm 
suppose  it  to  be  Christmas.  The  study,  and  a  "  long-levelled  rule  "  of 
priest,  whom  we  shall  imagine  to  be  sun-light  upon  the  book-clad  wall, 
a  German,  and  summoned  from  the  The  afternoon  he  spends  delight- 
southern  climate  of  Germany  upon  fully ;  for,  having  before  him  such  a 
presentation  to  the  church  of  a  Swe«  perfect  flower-stand  of  pleasures,  he 
dish  hamlet  lying  in  a  high  polar  lati-  scarcely  knows  where  he  should  set- 
iude,  rises  in  cheerfulness  about  seven  tie.  Supposing  it  to  be  Christmas-i 
o'clock  in  the  morning ;  and  till  half  day,  he  preaches  again :  he  preaches 
past  nine  he  burns  his  lamp.  At  on  a  subject  which  calls  up  imaffes  of 
nine  o'clock,  the  stars  are  still  shin-  the  beauteous  eastem-lano,  or  of  eter- 
ing,  and  the  unclouded  moon  even  nity.  By  this  time,  twilight  and 
yet  longer.  This  prolongation  of  gloom  prevail  through  the  church  i 
starrlight  into  the  forenoon  is  to  only  a  couple  of  wax  lights  upon  the 
him  delightful ;  for  he  is  a  German^  altar  throw  wondrous  and  mightj 
and  has  a  sense  of  something  mar-  shadows  through  the  aisles :  tfaie 
veUous  in  a  starry  forenoon.  Me-  angel  that  hangs  down  from  the  roof 
thinks,  I  behold  the  priest  and  his  above  the  baptismal  font,  is  awoke 
tlock  moving  towards  tne  church  with  into  a  solemn  life  by  the  shadows  and 
lanterns:  the  lights  dispersed  amongst  the  rays,  and  seems  almost  in  the  act  of 
the  crowd  connect  the  congregation  ascension :  through  the  windows,  the 
into  the  appearance  of  some  domestic  stars  or  the  moon  are  beginning  to 
£^roupe  or  larger  household,  and  carry  peer  :  aloft,  in  the  pulpit,  which  If 
the  priest  back  to  his  childish  years  now  hid  in  gloom,  tne  priest  is  in^ 
jduring  the  winter  season  and  Christ-  flamed  and  possessed  by  the  sacred 
mas  matins,  when  every  hand  bore  burthen  of  glad  tidings  which  he  is 
its  candle.  Arrived  at  the  pulpit,  he  announcing :  he  is  lost  and  insensible 
declares  to  his  audience  the  plidn  to  all  besides ;  and  from  amidst  the 
truth,  word  for  word,  as  it  stands  in  darkness  which  surrounds  him,  he 
the  Gospel :  in  the  presence  of  God,  pours  down  his  thunders,  with  tears 
all  intellectual  pretensions  are  called  and  agitation,  reasoning  of  future 
upon  to  be  silent;  the  very  reason  worlds,  and  of  the  heaven  of  hea- 
ceases  to  be  reasonable ;  nor  is  any  vens,  and  whatsoever  else  can  most 
thing  reasonable  in  the  siffht  of  God  powerfully  shake  the  heart  and  the 
but  a  sincere  and  upright  heart.  afiections. 

*•♦•*♦♦  Descending  from  his  pulpit  in  these 

Just  as  he  and  his  flock  are  is-  holy  fervours,  he  now,  perhaps,  takes 

suing  from   the    church  the   bright  a  walk:  it  is  about  four  o'clock:  and 

Christmas    sun    ascends   above   the  he  walks  beneath   a  sky  lit  up  by 

horizon,  and  shoots  his  beams  up-  the    shifting    northern    lights,  that 

on  their  faces.    The  old  men,  who  to  his  eye    appear  but   an  Aurora 

are   mimerous  in   Sweden,  are  all  striking  upwards  from   the  eternal 


i 


•14  Th§  H^tpjp^  Life  of  a  Parish  Priest  in  Swddek.  Z^^* 

morning  of  the  0outh^  or  as  a  forest    that  he  is  in  Sweden  by  the  time  that 
composed  of  saintly  thickets^    like    his  lamp  is  brought  in ;  and  then,  in- 
the  fiery  bushes  of  Moses,  that  are    deed,  he  will  be  somewhat  discon- 

round  about  the  throne  of  God.  certed  to  recognize  his  study  in  what 

Thus,  if  it  be  the  afternoon  of  had  now  shaped  itself  to  his  fancy  as 
Christmas  day :  but,  if  it  be  any  other  a  room  in  some  foreign  land.  How- 
afternoon,  visitors,  perhaps,  come  ever,  if  he  would  pursue  this  airy 
and  bring  their  well<bred,   grown-    creation,  he  need  but  Kght  at  his 

up  daughters ;   like  the  fashionable  lamp  a  wax-candle-end,  to  gain   a 

world  in  London,  he  dines  at  sun-  glimpse  through  the  whole  evening 

Bet ;    that   is    to   say,   like  the .  un-  mto  that  world  of  fashion  and  snlen- 

fashionable    world    of   London,    he  dour,  from  which  he  purchased  the 

dines  at  two  o'clock ;  and  he  drinks  said  wax-candle-end.     For  I  should 

coffee  by  moonlight ;  and  the  par-  suppose,  that  at  the  coiu-t  of  Stock- 

feonage-housc  becomes  an  enchanted  holm,  as  elsewhere,  there  must  be 

palace    of   pleasure   gleaming   with  candle-ends   to   be    bought    of   the 

twilight,  star-light,  and  moon-light,  state-footmen. 

Or,  perhaps,    he  goes  over  to  the  But  now,  afler  the  lapse   of  half 

schoolmaster,  who  is  teaching  his  af-  a  year,  all  at  once  there  strikes  upon 

temoon  school :  there,  by  the  candle-  his  heart  something  more  beautiful 

light,  he  gathers  round  his  knees  all  than  Italy,  where  the  sun  sets  so 

the  scholars,  as  if — being  the  children  much  earlier  in  summer-time  than  it 

of  his  spiritual  children — the/  must  does  at  our  Swedish   hamlet :   and 

therefore  be  his  own  grand-children;  what  is  that?  It  is  the  longest  day, 

and  with  delightfiil  words  he  wins  with  the  rich  freight  that  it  carries  in 

their  attention,  and  pours  knowledge  its  boKom,  and  leading  by  the  hand 

into  their  docile  hearts.  the  early  dawn  blushnig  with  rosy 

All  these  pleasures  failing,  he  may  light,  and  melodious  with  the  caroling 
pace  up  and  down  in  his  library  al-  of  larks  at  one  o'clock  in  the  mom- 
ready,  by  three  o'clock,  gloomy  with  ing.  Before  two,  that  is,  at  sun-rise, 
twilight,  but  fitfully  enlivened  by  a  the  elegant  party  that  we  mentioned 

flowing  fire,  and  steadily  by  the  last  winter  arrive  in  gay  clothing 
right  moonlight;  and  he  needs  do  no  at  the  parsonage;  for  they  are  bound 
more  than  taste  nt  every  turn  of  his  on  a  little  excursion  of  pleasure  in 
walk  a  little  orange  marmalade*— to  company  with  the  priest.  At  two 
call  up  images  of  beautiful  Italy,  and  o'clock  they  are  in  motion ;  at  which 
Its  gardens,  and  orange  groves,  be-  time  all  the  flowers  are  glittering, 
fore  all  his  five  senses,  and  as  it  were,  and  the  forests  are  gleaming  with  the 
to  the  very  tip  of  his  tongue.  Look-  mighty  light.  The  warm  sun  threatens 
ms  at  the  moon,  he  will  not  fail  to  re-  them  with  no  storm  nor  thimder 
collect  that  the  very  same  silver  disk  showers;  for  both  are  rare  in  Sweden, 
hangs  at  the  very  same  moment  be-  The  priest,  in  common  with  the  rest 
tween  the  branches  of  the  laurels  in  of  the  company,  is  attired  in  the  cos- 
Italy.  It  will  delight  him  to  consider  tume  of  Sweden  ;  he  wears  his  short 
that  the  £olian  harp,  and  the  lark,  jacket  with  a  broad  scarf,  his  short 
and  indeeti  music  of  all  kinds,  and  cloak  above  that,  his  round  hat  with 
the  stars,  and  children,  are  just  the  floating  plumes,  and  shoes  tied  with 
same  in  hot  climates  and  in  cold,  bright  ribbons :  like  the  rest  of  the 
And  when  the  post-boy,  that  rides  men,  he  resembles  a  Spanish  knight, 
m  with  news  from  Italy,  winds  his  or  a  proven9al,  or  other  man  of  the 
horn  through  the  hamlet,  and  with  a  south  ;  more  especially  when  he 
few  simple  notes  raises  up  on  the  and  his  gay  company  are  seen  flying 
frozen  window  of  his  study  a  vision  through  the  lofty  foliage  luxuriant 
of  flowery  realms;  and  when  he  plays  with  blossom,  that  within  so  short  a 
r,,with  treasured  leaves  of  roses  and  of  period  of  weeks  has  shot  forth  from 
lilies  from  some  departed  summer,  or  the  garden  plots  and  the  iiake^l 
with  the  plumes  of  a  bird  of  Para-  boughs. 

dise,  the  memorial  of  some  distant  That  a  longest  day  like  this, 
friend;  whon  fiirther,  his  heart  is  bearing  such  a  cornucopia  of  sun- 
moved  by  til?  magnificent  sounds  of  shine,  of  cloudless  ether,  of  buds  and 
Lady-day,  Sallad- season.  Cherry-  hells,  of  blossoms  and  of  leisure, 
time,  Trinity-Sundavs,  the  rose  of  should  pass  away  more  rapidly  thaii 
June,  &c,  how  can  lie  fall  lo  fer^  ^^%i^Qt\«R^>-^V&ViQt  dil^ctilt  to  8U|»- 


1091.;]         ne  Loii  Wm  and  Tettdmtni^ihi  Souu  of  Weeping.  6t« 

pose.    As  early  as  eight  o'clock  in  the  ber   away  in  beautiful  bowers  tto 

eFening  the  party  breaks  up ;  the  auH  brief,  warm  hours  until  the  re-appear*^ 

is  now  burning'  more  gently  over  the  ance  of  the  sun.    This  proposal  w 

half-closed     sleepy   flowers:     about  generally  adopted:  and  the  garden 

nine  he  has  mitigated  his  rays>  and  is  occupied :  many  a  lovely  pair  are 

is  beheld  bathuig  as  it  were  naked  in  making  believe  to  sleep^  but,  in  fact, 

the  blue   depths  of  heaven :    about  are  holding  each  other  by  the  hand, 

ten,  at  which  hour  the  company  re-  The  happy  priest  walks  up  and  down 

assemble  at  the  parsonage,  the  priest  through    the     parterres.      Coolnefl» 

is  deeply  moved,  for  throughout  the  comes,  and  a  few  stars.    His  night* 

hamlet,  though  the  tepid  sun,  now  violets    and  gillyflowers  open    and. 

sunk  to  the  horizon,  is  still  sheddinff  breathe  out  their  powerful  odours, 

a  sullen  glow  upon  the  cottages  and  To  the  north,  from  the  eternal  mom^ 

the  window  panes,  every  thing  re-  ing  of  the  pole,  exhales  as  it  were  a 

poses    in    profoundest    silence    and  golden  dawn.    The  priest  thinks  of 

sleep :  the  birds  even  are  all  slum-  the  village  of  his  childhood  far  awa^f 

bering  in  the  golden  summits  of  the  in  Germany ;  he  thinks  of  the  Kfe  of 

woods :  and  at  last,  the  solitary  sua  man,  his  hopes,  and  his  aspirations : 

himself  sets,  like  a  moen,  amidst  the  and  he  is  cakn  and  at  peace  with 

universal  quiet  of  nature.     To  our  himself.    Then  all  at  once  starts  u|r 

priest,  walking  in  his  romantic  dress,  the   morning  sun  in   his    freshnesiu 

It    seems   as    though   rosy-coloured  Some  there  are  in  the  garden  would, 

realms  were  laid  open,  in  which  fai-  fain  confound  it  with  the  evening  sun> 

ries  and  spirits  range ;  and  he  would  and  close  their  eyes  again :  but  the 

scarcely  feel  an  emotion  of  wonder,  if,  larks  betray  aU,    and  waken   eveix 

in  this  hour  of  golden  vision,  his  bro-  sleeper  from  bower  to  bower, 
ther,   who   ran  away  in  childhood.        Then   again    begin    pleasure  and 

should  suddenly  present  himself  as  morning  in  their  pomp  of  radiance  ; 

one  alighting  from  some   blooming  -—and  dmost  I  could  persuade  myself 

heaven  of  enchantment.  to  delineate  the  coiu-se  of  this  daj 

The  priest  will  not  allow  his  com-  also,  though  it  difiers  from  its  prede^ 

pany  to  depart :  he  detains  them  in  cesser  hardly  by  so  much  as  tlie  leaf 

the  parsonage  garden, — where,  says  of  a  rose-bud. 
he,  every  one  that  chooses  may  slum- 


LAST  M'ILL  AND  TESTA3IENT— THE  HOUSE  OF  WEEPING. 

FROM    RICHTEE. 

Since  the  day  when  the  town  of  Has-  hopes,  however,  were  but  faint  and 

lau  first  became  the  seat  of  a  court,  no  weakly;   for  they  could  not  repose 

man  could  remember  that  any  one  any  extraordinary  confidence  in  hia 

event  in  its  annals  (always  excepting  good  faith — not  only  because,  in  all 

the  birth  ofthc  hereditary  prince)  had  cases,    he  conducted    h'ls   affairs  in 

been  looked  for  with  so  anxious  a  cu-  a  disuiterested  spirit,    and    with    a 

riosity  as  the  opening  of  the  last  will  perverse  obstinacy  of  moral  princi-» 

and  testament  lefl  by  Van  der  Kabel.  pie,    whereas     his    seven    relativea 

This  Van  der  Kabel  might  be  styled  were  mere  novices,  and  young  be- 

the  Haslau  Croesus ;  and  his  whole  ginners  in  the  trade  of  morality, — ^but 

life  might  be  termed,  according  to  also  because,  in  all  these  moral  extras 

the  pleasure  of  the  wits,  one  long  fes-  vaffances  of  his  (so  distressing  to  the 

tival  of  God-sends,  or  a  daily  wash-  feelings  of  the  sincere  rascal),    he 

ing  of  golden  sands,  nightly  impreg-  thought  proper  to  be  very  satiricaJ, 

nated  by  golden  showers  of  Danae.  '  and  had  Lis  heart  so  fuU  of  odd  ca« 

Seven, distant  surviving  relatives  of  prices,  tricks,  and  snares,  for  unsuspi- w^ 

seven  distant  relatives  deceased,  of  cious  scoundrels,  that  (as  they  all 

the  said  Van  der  Kabel,  entertained  said)  no  man,  who  was  but  raw  in 

some  little  hopes  of  a  place  amongst  the  art  of  virtue,  could  deal  with 

his  legatees,  grounded  upon  an  as-  him,  or  place  any  reliance  upon  his 

surance  which  he  had  made,  *'  that  intentions.    Indeed  the  covert  lauffh- 

upon  his  oath  he  would  not  fail  to  ter  which  played  about  his  temples^ 

renumber  tkem  bk  his  wilL"    These  and  the  Dedsetto  tones  of  his  sneering 


«ia              y%9  Idiii  WiM  aitd  Tefidmeni'-ihe  HomM  of  W^ipmg.  C&te* 

irotoe^  Kxnewliat  weakened  the  ad-  office  of  the  Oouncll^  to  the  ooundU 

TantageouB   impression   which   was  chamber :  both  were  exhibited  in  itv* 

nadeoy  the  noble  composition  of  liis  tation  to  the  members  of  the  councU 

filce^  and  by  a  pair  of  large  hands,  and  the  heirs,   in  order  that  they 

from  which  were  daily  dropping  fa-  might  see  the  privy  seal  of  the  town 

TOurs  little  and  great,  benefit-nights,  impressed  upon  them :  the  registrr- 

Christmas-boxes,     and     new-year's  of-consignment,   indorsed  upon  toe 

gifts :  for  this  reason  it  was  that,  by  schedule,    was   read    aloud    to  the 

the  whole  flock  of  birds  who  sought  seven  heirs  by  the  town-clerk :  and 

shelter  in  his  boughs,   and  who  fed  by    that  registry  it  was  notified  to 

and  built  their  nests  on  him,  as  on  them,   that   the   deceased   had    ac- 

any  wild  service-tree,  he  was,  not-  tually  consigned  the  schedule  to  the 

withstanding,  reputed  a  secret  ma-  magistrate,  and  entrusted  it  to  the 

gazme  of  springes ;  and  they  were  oorporation-chest ;  and  that  on  the 

scarce  able  to  find  eyes  for  the  visU  day  of  consignment  he  was  still  of 

hie  berries  which  fed  them,  ba,  their  sound    mind  :-*-finally,     the     seren 

scrutiny  after  the  supposed  gossamer  seals,  which  he  had  himself  affixed 

snares.  to  the  instrument,  were  found  un- 

In  the  interval  between  two  apo-  brdcen.      These  preliminaries  gone 

plectic  fits  he  had  drawn  up  his  will,  through,  it  was  now  (but  not  until 

and  had  deposited  it  with  the  ma-  a  brief  registry  of  all  these  forms  had 

tfistrate.      When  he    was   just    at  been  drawn  up  by  the  town-clerk) 

Uie  point  of  death  he  transrerred  to  lawful,  in  God  s  name,  that  the  will 

the  seven  presumptive  heirs  the  cer-  should  be  opened  and  read  aloud  by 

tificate    of  this  deposit ;   and  even  Mr.  Mayor,  word  for  word  as  fol- 

then  said,  in  his  old  tone — how  far  lows : — 

it  was  from  his  expectation,  that  by  '*  I    Van  der  Kabel,  on  this  7th  of 

any    such  anticipation    of  his    ap-  May,  1 79-,  being  in  my  house,  at  Haa- 

proaching  decease,  he  could  at  all  lau,  situate   in  Doe--street,   delirer 

depress  Uie  spirits  of  men  so  steady  and  make  known  mis  for  my  last 

and  sedate,  whom,  for  his  own  part,  will ;  and  without  many  millions  of 

he  would  much  rather  regard  in  the  words ;  notwithstanding  I  have  been 

light  of  laughing  than  of  weeping  both  a  German  notary,  and  a  Dutch 

heirs :    to    which  remark   one  only  schoolmaster.   Howsoever  I  may  di^ 

of  the  whole  number,  namely,   Mr.  grace  my  old  professions  by  this  par- 

Harprecht,    inspector-of-police,    re-  simony  of  words,  I  believe  myseu  to 

plied  as  a  cool  ironist  to  a  bitter  be  so  far  at    home  in  the  art  and 

one — "  that  the  total  amoimt  of  con-  calling  of  a  notary,  ihat  I  am  com- 

cem  and  of  interest,    which  might  petent  to  act  for  myself  as  a  testator 

severally  belong    to  them   in  such  m  due  form,  and  as  a  regular  devisor 

a  loss,  was  not  (they  were  sincerely  of  property. 

sorry  it  was  not)  in  their  own  power  ''It  is  a  custom  with  testators  to 

to  determine."  premise  the  moving  causes  of  their 

At  length  the  time  is  come  when  wills.    These,  in  my  case,  as  in  most 

the   seven   heirs   have  made    their  others,    are   regard  for    my    happy 

appearance  at  the  town-hall,    with  departure,   and  for  the  disposal  of 

their  certificate-of-deposit ;  videlicet,  the    succession    to    my    property — 

the  ecclesiastical  councillor  Glantz  ;  which,  by  the  way,  is  the  object  of 

Harprecht,  the  inspector-of-police ;  a  tender  passion  in  various  quarters. 

Neupeter,     the     court-agent ;     the  To  say  any  thuig  about  my  funeral, 

court-fiscal.    Knoll;    Pasvogcl,    the  and  all  that— would  be  absurd  and 

bookseller ;  the  reader  of  the  mom-  stupid.     This,  and  what  shape  my 

ing  lecture.    Flacks;  and   Monsieur  remains  shall  take,   let  the  eternal 

FUtte,  from  Alsace.  Solemnly,  and  in  sun  settle  above,  not  in  any  gloomy 

^  due  form,  they  demanded  of  the  ma-  winter,  but  in  some  of  his  most  ver- 

gistrate  the  schedule  of  eflfects  con-  dant  springs. 

signed  to  him  bv  the  late  Kabel,  and  "  As  to  those  charitable  founda- 

the  opening  of  his  will.   The  principal  tions,  and  memorial  institutions  of  be- 

executor  of  this  will  was  Mr.  Mayor  nevolence,  about  which  notaries  are  so 

himself:  the  sub-executors  were  the  much  occupied,  iu  my  case  I  appoint 

rest  of  the  town-council.  Thereupon,  as  follows :  to  three  thousand  of  my 

without  delay,  the  schedule  ana  iVie  v^>oc  townsmen,   of  every  class,    I 

will  were  fetched  from  the  tegi«Xet*  ^t&\^  V^X  V^  ««ni^  t3»siIms  of  I1<k 


rins,  which  sum  I  will  that,  on  tiie  vitated  downwards  into  the  dimen* 

annirersary  of  my  death,  they  shall  sions  of  a  patriarchal  heard :  and  the 

spend  joviaUy  in  feasting,  upon  the  town-council   could   distingidsh    an 

town  common,  where  they  are  pre-  assortment  of  audible  reproaches  to 

viously  to  pitch  their  camp,  unless  the  memory  of  Mr.  Ka!)€l,  such  as 

the  military  camp  of  his  Serene  High-  prig,    rascal,    profane   wretch,    &c. 

ness  be  already  pitched  there,  in  pre-  But  the  Mayor  motioned  with  his 

parationfor  the  reviews:  and  when  the  hand;  and  immediately  the  Fiscal 

gala  is  ended,  I  would  have  them  cut  and  the  bookseller  recomposed  their 

up  the  tents  into  clothes.  Item,  to  all  features  and  set  their  faces  like  so 

the  school-masters  ui  our  principa-  many  traps,  with  springs,  and  triffw 

lity  I  bequeath  one  golden  Angus-  gers,  all  at  iidl  cock,  that  they  might 

tus.    Item,  to  the  Jews  of  this  place  catch  every  syllabic ;  and  then,  with 

I  bequeath  my  pew    in    the    high  a  gravity  Uiat  cost  him  some  efforts^ 

church.— As  I  would  wish  that  my  his  worship  read  on  as  follows: — 

will  should  be  divided  into  clauses,  '^  clause  hi. 

this  is  to  be  considered  the  first.  ''  Excepting  always,  and  be  it  ex- 

"  CLAUSE  II.  cepted,  my  present  house  in  Dog* 

''  Amonffst  the  important  offices  of  street :  which  house,  by  virtue  of  tms 

a  will,  it  IS  universally  agreed  to  be  third   clause,  is  to  descend  and  to 

one,    that    from    amongst  the  pre-  pass  in  full  property,  just  as  it  now 

sumptive  and  presumptuous  expeo-  stands,  to  that  one  of  my  seven  re« 

tants,  it  should  name  those  who  ar^,  latives  above-mentioned,  who  shaU, 

and  those  who  are  not,  to  succeed  to  within  the  space  of  one   half  hour 

the  inheritance ;  that  it  should  create  (to  be  computed  from  the  recithig  of 

heirs,  and  should  destroy  them.    In  this  clause),  shed,  to  the  memory  of 

conformity  to  this  notion,  I  give  and  me   his   departed   kinsman,    sooner 

bequeath  to  Mr.  Glantz,   the  coun-  than  the  other  six  competitors,  one, 

cillor  for  ecclesiastical  affairs;  as  also  or,  if  possible,  a  couple  of  tears,  hi 

to  Mr.  Knoll,  the  exchequer  officer;  the  presence  of  a  respectable  magi»- 

likewise  to  Mr.  Peter  Neupeter,  the  trate,    who  is  to  make  a  protocol 

court-agent ;  item  to  Mr.  Harprecht,  thereof.    Shoidd,    however,   all  re^ 

director  of  police;    furthermore  to  main  dry^   in  that  case,   the  house 

Mr.  Flacks,  the  morning  lecturer ;  in  must  lapse    to  the  heir    general-r- 

like  manner  to  the  court-bookseUer,  whom  I  shall  proceed  to  name." 

Mr.  Pasvogel ;  and  finally,  to  Mon«  Here  Mr«  Mayor  closed  the  will : 

ueurFlitte,— nothing:  not  so  much  doubtless,    he    observed,    the    con- 

because  they  have  no  just  claims  dition  annexed  to  the  bequest  was 

upon  me — standing,  as  they  do,  in  an  umumal  one,  but  yet,  in  no  re« 

the  remotest  possible  degree  of  con-  spcct  contrary  to  law :  to  him  that 

sanguinity ;  nor  again,  because  they  wept  the  first  the  court  was  bound 

are,  for  the  most   part,   themselves  to    adjudge  the  house:    and   then, 

rich  enough  to  leave  handsome  in-  placing    his  watch   on   the    session 

heritances;  as  because  I  am  assured,  table,  the  pointers  of  which  indicated 

indeed  I  have  it  from  their  own  lips,  that  it  was  now  just  half  past  eleven, 

that  they  entertain  a  far  stronger  re-  he  calmly  sat  down — ^that  he  might 

gard  for  my  insignificant  person  than  duly  mtness,  in  his  official  character 

n>r  my  splendid  property ;  my  body,  of  executor,  assisted  by  the  whole 

therefore,  or  as  large  a  share  of  it  as  court  of  aldermen,  who  should  be 

they  can  get,  I  bequeath  to  them."  the  first  to  produce  the  requisite  tear 

At  this  point,    seven  faces,   like  or  tears  on  behalf  of  the  testator, 

those  of  the    seven  sleepers,    gra-  That  since  the  terraqueous  globe 

dually  elongated  into  preternatural  has  moved   or   existed,    there    can 

extent.   The  ecclesiastical  councillor,  ever    have   met    a    more    lugubri- 

a    young  man,   but  already  famous  ous  congress,  or  one  more  out  of 

throughout  Germany  for  his  sermons  temper  and   enraged   than   this    of 

printed  or  preached,  was  especially  Seven  United  Provinces,  as  it  were, 

aggrieved    by    such    ofiTensive    per-  all  dry  and  all  confederated  for  the 

sonality:     Monsieur    Flitte    rapped  purpose  of  weeping, — I  suppose  no 

out  a  curse  that  rattled  even  in  the  impartial   judge  will    believe.      At 
ears    of    magistracy:    the    chin    of    first  some  invaluable  minutes  were 

Flacks,   the  morning  lecturer,   gra-  lost  in  piure  confusion  of  mind,  in 


618              JULast  Will  and  2r«item«a^--<^  Souse  if  Wle^pingi  \!P6^ 

aitoniishinent,  and  Sn  peala  of  laugb-  and  in  this  waj  of  going  to  work^* 

ter :    the    congress  found  itself  too  he  had  fair  expectations  that  in  the 

suddenly  translated  mto  the  condi-  end   he   should  brew  something   or. 

tk>n  of  Uie  dug  to  which,  iu  the  very  other :   as  yet>  however,  he  looked 

moment  of  his  keenest  assault  upon  very  much  like  a  dog  who  is  slowly 

some  oLject    of  his  appetites,   the  licking  oif  an  emetic  which  the  Pari-' 

£end  cried  out — Halt  1   whereupon,  sian  surgeon  Demet  has  administered 

standing  up,  as  he  was,  on  his  hind  by  smearing  it  on  his  nose :  time, — 

legs,  his  teeth  grinning,  and  snarl-  gentlemen,  time  was  required  for  the 

iug  with  the  fury  of  desire,  he  halted  operation. 

and    remained   petrified  :•— from  the  Monsieur  Flitte,  from  Alsace^  fair* 

graspings  of  hope,  however  distant,  ly  danced  up  and  down  the  Sessions- 

to  the  necessity  of  weeping  for  a  chamber :  with  bursts  of  laughter  he 

wager,  the  congress  found  the  tran-  surveyed    th€    rueful    faces   around 

sition  too  abrupt  and  harsh.  him  :  he  confessed  that  he  was.  not 

One  thing  was  evident  to  all — ^that  the  richest  among  them ;  but  for  the 

for  a  shower  that  was  to  come  down  whole  city  of  Strasburg  and  Alsace  lor 

at  such  a  full  gallop,  for  a  baptism  boot,  he  was  not  the  man  that  could 

of  the  eyes  to  l>e  performed  at  such  or  would  weep  on  such  a  merry  ocCtL" 

a  hunting  pace,  it  was  vain  to  think  sion.   He  went  on  with  his  unseason-r 

of  raising  up  any  pure  water  of  grief :  able  laughter  and    indecent    mirth^ 

no  hydraulics  could  effect  this :  yet  untilHarprecht,  the  Police  Inspector, 

in  twenty-six   minutes  (four  unfor-  looked  at  him  very  significantly,  and 

tunately  were  already  gone),  in  one  said — that  perhaps  Monsieur  flatter* 

way  or  other,  perhaps,  some  busi«  ed  himself  that  he  might  by  means  of 

ness  might  be  done.  laughter,  squeeze  or  express  tke  teaitf 

''Was  there  ever  such  a  cursed  act,"  required  from  the  well-known  Meibc 

said  the  merchant  Neupeter,  ''  such  mian-glands,  the  caruncula,  &c.  and 

a  piece  of  buffoonery  enjoined  by  any  might, tlms  piratically  provide  himself 

man  of  sense  and  discretion  ?  For  my  with  surreptitious  rain;*  but  in  that- 

part,  I  can't  understand  what   the  case,  he  must  remind  him  that  he 

d— 1  it  means."   However,  he  under-  could  no  more  win  the  day  with  any 

■tood  thus  much,  that  a  house  was  sqch  secretions,  than  he  could  carrr 

by  possibility  floating  in  his  purse  to  accomit  a  course  of  sneezes  or  wi£i 

upon  a  tear :  and  that  was  enough  to  fully  blowing  his  nose ;   a  channel 

cause  a  violent  irritation  in  his  lachry-  into  which  it  was  well  known  that 

mal  glands.  very  many  tears,  far  more  than  were 

Knoll,  the  fiscal,  was  screwing  up,  now  wanted,  flowed  out  of  the  eyes 

twisting,  and  distorting  his  features  through  the  nasal  duct ;    more  in« 

pretty  much  in  the  style  of  a  poor  deed,  by  a  good  deal,  than  were  erer 

artisan    on   Saturday  night,    whom  known  to  flow  downwards   to    the 

some  fellow- workman  is  bari^^-ously  bottom  of  most  pews  at  a  fVmeral 

razoring  and  scraping  by  the  light  of  sermon.    Monsieur  Flitte  of  Alsace, 

a  cobler's  candle:    furious  was  his  however,  protested  that  he  was  laugfa«« 

wrath  at  this  abuse  and  profanation  ing  out  of  pure  fun,  and  for  his  own 

of  the  title  lAut  Will  and  Ttstameni:  amusement ;  and,  upon  his  honour, 

and  at  one  time,  poor  soul !  he  was  with  no  vherior  views, 

near  enough  to  tears — of  vexation.  The  inspector,  on  his  side,  being* 

The     wily    bookseller,    Pasvogel,  pretty  well  acquainted  witii  the  hope-r 

without    loss   of   time,    sate    down  less  condition  of  his  own  dephlegma-' 

quietly  to  business :  he  ran  through  tised  heart,  endeavoured  to  force  into 

a  cursoty  retrospect  of  all  the  woHks  his  eyes  something  that  mi^t  noeet 

any  ways  moving  or  alTecting,  that  the  occasion  by  staring  with  them 

he  had  himself  either  published  or  wide  open  and  in  a  state  of  rigid  ex-* 

sold  on  commission ; — took  a  flying  pansion. 

survey  of  the  Pathetic  in  general:  The mondng-lecturer Flacks, look-r 


*  In  the  original,  the  word  is  Fenstcr^schweiss,  vindow-swest;  L  e.  (as  the  tranda-r 
tor  understands  the  pasnap)  Monsieur  FUttc  was  suspected  of  a  design  to  swindle  the 
company,  by  exhibidog  hu  two  windows  streamiog  with  spuriinis  moiatare,  sodi  as  boar 
host  prodaoet  on  the  windows  when  mdted  by  the  heat  of  the  room,  rather  than  wilk 
that  ^uine  and  unadulteiaud  itux  wiich  Mr.  Kabcl  demanded. 


ed  like  a  Jew  b«ggar  mounted  on  a  all.  Flacks  tra<  the  only  one  who 
6ta|lion  which  Is  runntng  aWay  with  conthiued  to  make  way :  he  kept 
him :  meantime,  what  by  domestic  steadily  before  his  mind  the  following 
tribulations,  what  by  those  ^e  wit-  little  extempore  assortment  of  ob- 
nessed  at  his  own  lecture,  his  heart  jects : — Van  der  Kabel's  good  aiid 
was  furnished  with  such  a  promising  beneficent  acts;— the  old  petticoats^ 
bank  of  heavy  laden  clouds  that  he  so  worn  and  tattered,  and  the  grey 
could  ea^y  have  delivered  upon  the  hair  of  his  female  congregation  at 
spot  the  main  quantity  of  water  re-  morning  service ;  Lazarus  with  his 
quired,  had  it  not  been  for  the  house  dogs ;  nis  own  long  coffin  ;  innume- 
which  floated  on  the  top  of  the  storm;  rable  decapitations;  the  Sorrows  of 
and  which.  Just  as  all  was  ready,  came  Werter ;  a  miniature  field  of  battle  ; 
driving  in  with  the  tide,  too  gay  and  and  finaJly,  himself  and  his  own  me- 
ffladsome  a  spectacle  not  to  banish  laucholy  condition  at  this  moment, 
nis  ffloom,  and  thus  fairly  dammed  itself  enough  to  melt  any  heart,  con- 
up  the  waters.  demned  as  he  waa  in  the  bloom  of 
The  ecclenastical  councillor,-«-who  youth,  by  the  second  clause  of  Van 
had  become  acquainted  with  Ms  own  der  Kabel's  will,  to  tribulation,  and 
nature  by  his  long  experience  in  tears,  and  struggles: — ^Well  done, 
preaching  funeral  sermons,  and  ser-  Flacks !  Three  strokes  more  with  the 
mons  on  the  new  year,  and  knew  pump-handle,  and  the  water  is  pump- 
full  well  that  he  was  himself  always  ed  up — and  the  house  along  with  it. 
the  first  person,  and  frequently  the  Meantime  Glantz,  the  ecclesiasti- 
last,  to  be  affected  by  the  pathos  of  cal  councillor,  proceeded  hi  his  pa» 
his  own  eloquence,'-HM>w  rose  wiUi  thetic  harangue : — "  Oh,  Kabel,  my 
dignified  solemnity,  on  seeing  himself  Kabel,"  he  Maculated,  and  almost 
and  the  others  hanging  so  long  by  the  wept  with  joy  at  the  near  approach 
dry  n^,  and  addressed  the  chamber:  of  his  tears,  ''the  time  shall  come 
—No  man,  he  said,  who  had  read  his  that  by  the  side  of  thy  loving  breast, 
printed  works,  cmild  fiul  to  know  covered  with  earth,  mine  alio  shall 
that  he  carried  a  heart  about  him  as  lie  mouldering  and  in  cor — *' 
well  as  other  people;  and  a  heart,  he  — ruption,  he  would  have  said:  but 
would  add,  that  nad  occasion  to  re*  Flacks,  starting  up  in  trouble,  and 
press  such  holy  testimonies  of  its  with  eyes  at  that  moment  overfiow* 
tenderness  as  tears,  lest  he  should  kig,  threw  a  hasty  glance  around 
thereby  draw  too  heavily  on  the  sym-  him,  and  said, — "  with  submission, 
pathies  and  the  purses  of  his  fellow-  gentlemen,  to  the  best  of  my  belief  I 
men,  rather  than  elaborately  to  pro-  am  weeping;"  then  sitting  dovm, 
yoke  them  by  stimulants  for  any  se-  with  |^at  satisfaction  he  allowed 
cpndary  views,  or  to  serve  an  indirect  the  tears  to  stream  down  his  face  ; 
purpose  of  his  own:  "  this  heart,"  that  done,  he  soon  recovered  his 
aaia  he,    ''has   already  shed  tears  cheerfulness  and  Ids  aridity.  Glantz, 

eit  they  were  shed  secretly),   for  the  councillor,  thus  saw  the  prize 

bel  was  my  firiend:"  and,  so  say-  fished  away  before  his  eyes, — those 

ing,  he  paused  for  a  moment  and  very   eyes   which   he  had   already 

looked  about  him.  brought  into  an  Aecessit,*  or  inchoate 

With  pleasure  he  observed,  that  all  state  of  humidity :  this  vexed  him : 

were  sdU  sitting  as  dry  as  corks :  in«  and  his  mortification  was  the  greater 

deed,    at   this   particular    moment.  On  thinking  of  his  own  pathetic  exer- 

when  he  himself  by  interrupting  their  Uons,  and  the  abortive  appetite  for 

several  water-woKs  had  made  them  the  prize  which  he  had  thus  uttered 

furiously  angry,  it  might  as  well  have  In  words  as  ineffectual  as  his  own 

been  expected  that  crocodiles,  fiJlow*  sermons :   and,  at  this  moment,  he 

deer,  elephants,  witohes,  or  ravens,  was  ready  to  weep  for  spite*— and 

should  weep  for  Van  der  Kabelj  as  "to  weep  the  more  because  he  wept 

his  presumptive  heirs.    Among  tiiem  in  vain."  As  to  Flacks,  a  protocol  was 

*  To  the  Efl^iah  readerit  may  be  neoesaary  to  aaEplain,  that  in  the  Cootineiital  Uni- 
vflBBliea,  &c.  wheu^a  Buccession  of  prises  ia  oObred,  graduated  accordiDg  to  the  degrees  of 
ment,  the  elliptical  finrmula  of  '*  AccetsU  *'  denotes  thti  second  prise :  and  hence,  where 
only  aiin^  prise  is  ofeed,  the  socond  dqgiee  of  merit  may  piepedy  be  expressed  by 
the  term  hett  used.    - 

Vot.  IV.  9Z 


620  Tabk'Talk.  -  ZP^^ 

immediately  drawn  up  of  his  watery  Giant z    congratulated  Flflcks    very 

compliance  with  the  will  of  Tan  der  warmly ;  and  observed,  witli  a  raul- 

Kabel :    and  the  messuage  in   Dog  ing  air,  that  possibly  be  bad  himself 

Street  was  knocked  down  to  him  for  lent  him  a  helping  hand  by  bis  pathc- 

ever.     The  Mayor  adjndcjed  it  to  the  tic  address.     As  to  the  others,  the 

poor  devil  with  all  his  heart ;  indeed,  separation  between  them  and  Flacks 

this  was  the  first  occasion  ever  known  was  too  palpable,  in  the  mortifying' 

in  the    principality    of   Ilaslau,   on  distinction  oi  uyet  and  rfry, — to  allow 

which  the  tears  of  a  schoolmaster  and  of  any  cordiality  between  them  ;  and 

a  curate  had  converted  themselves —  they  stood  aloof  therefore :  but  they 

not  hito  mere  ainber  that  incloses  staid  to  hear  the  rest  of  the    will, 

only  a  worthless  insect,  like  the  tears  which  they  now  awaited  in  a  state  oC 

of  the  Ileliades,  but,  like  those  of  tlic  anxious  agitation, 
goddess    Freia,    into     heavy    gold. 


TABLE-TALK. 
No.  XIIL 

ON    THE    SPIRIT    OF    PARTISANSHIP. 

I   HAVE  in  my   time  known  few  pcarances,  to  fickleness  of  purpose, 

thorough  partisans ;  at  least  on  my  or  to  natural  timidity  and  weiEikneas 

6wn   side  of  the  question.     I  con-  of  nerve. 

Ceive,  however,  that  the  honestest        There  is  nothing  more  contemptible 

and  strongest-minded  men  have  been  than   party-spirit  in    one    point    of 

so.    In  general,  interest,  fear,  vanity,  view ;  and  yet  it  sccmd  inseparable 

the  love    of  contradiction,    even   a  in   practice    from   public    principle. 

scnipulous  regard  to  truth  and  jus-  You  cannot  support  measures  unless 

tice,  come  to  divert  them  from  the  you  support  men; — ^you  cannot  carry 

popular  cause.    It  is  a  character  that  any  point  or  maintain  any  system, 

requires  very  opposite  and  almost  in-  without  acting  in  concert   with  o- 

compatible  qualities— reason  and  pre-  thers.     In  theory,  it  is  all  very  welL 

judice,  a  passionate  attachment  found-  We  may   refine  in  our  distinctions, 

ed  on  an  abstract  idea.    He  who  can  and  elevate  our  language   to  what 

take  up  a  speculative  question,  and  point  we  please.    But  in  carrying  the 

pursue  it  with  the  same  zeal  and  un-  most  soimding  words  and  stateliest 

shaken  constancy  that  he  does  his  propositions    into    effect,    we    must 

immediate  interests  or  private  ani-  make  use  of  the  instrumentality  of 

mosities,  he  who  is  as  faithful  to  his  men ;  and  some  of  the  alloy  and  im- 

principlcs  as  he  is  to  himself,  is  the  perfection  of  the  means  may  insi- 

tnie  partisan.    I  do  not  here  speak  nuate  itself  into  the  end.     If  we  do 

of  the  bigot,   or  the  mercenary  or  not  go  all  lengths  with  those   who 

cowardly  tool  of  a  party.    There  are  are  embarked  with  us  in  the  same 

flenty  of  this  description  of  persons  views ;  if  we  are  not  hearty  in  the 

a  considerable  majority  of  the  inha-  defence  of  their  interests  and  mo- 

bitants  of  every  country')  —who  are  tives ;  if  we  are  not  fully  in  their  con- 

*'  ever   strong    upon    the    stronger  fidence  and  they  in  ours ;  if  we  do 

side,"  staimch,  thorough-paced  stick-  not  ingraft  on  the  stock  of  public 

lers    for    their   passions  and  preju-  virtue  the  charities  and  sentiments 

dices,  and  who  stand  by  their  party  of  private  affection  and  esteem ;   if 

as  long  as  their  party  can  stand  by  the  hustie  and  anxiety  and  irritation 

them.     I  speak  of  those  who  espouse  of   the    state- affairs   do    not  kindle 

a  cause  from  liberal  motives  and  with  hito  the  glow  of  friendship  as  well 

liberal  views,  and  of  the  obstacles  as  patriotism  ;  if  we  look  distant,  sus- 

that  are  so  oflen  found  to  relax  their  picious,  lukewarm  at  one  another ;  if 

pfTseverance    or    impair  their  zeal,  we   criticise,  carp  at,   pry  into  the 

Tlicso    may,    I    think,   be    reduced  conduct  of  our  party  with  watchful, 

chielly  to  the  heads  of  obligations  to  jealous  eyes ;  it  is  to  be  feared  we 

friends,  of  vanity,   or  the  desire  of  shall  play  the  game  into  the  enemy's 

the  lead  and  distinction,  to  an  over-  hands,  and  not  co-operate  together 

squeamish  delicacy  in  regard  to  a])-  for  the  common  good  with   SiX  the 


1891.3  Tahk'Talk.  691 

gteaidineflft  and  cordiality  that  might  or  to  whom  he  was  opposed,  than 
be-  .^ftohed.  On  the  other  hand^  if  they  deserved.  He  was  the  creature 
we  lend  ourselves  to  the  foibles  and  of  •  temperament  and  sympathy,  and 
weaknesses  of  our  friends ;  if  we  sufi  sufTcred  his  feelmgs  to  be  played 
fer  ourselves  to  be  implicated  in  their  upon,  and  to  get  the  better  of  his 
intrigues,  their  scrambles  and  bar*  principles,  which  were  not  of  the 
gainings  for  place  and  power ;  if  we  most  rigid  kind — not  "  stuff  o'  the 
Satter  their  mistakes,  and  not  only  conscience."  With  all  tlie  power  of 
screen  them  from  the  eyes  of  others  the  crown^  and  all  the  strong*holds  of 
but  are  blind  to  them  ourselves ;  if  prejudice  and  venality  opposed  to 
we  compromise  a  great  principle  in  uim^  ^^  instead  of  a  softness  coming 
the  softness  of  a  womanish  friend-  over  the  heart  of  a  man^"  he  should 
ship ;  if  we  entangle  ourselves  in  (in  such  a  situation^  have  '^  turned 
needless  family-ties ;  if  we  sell  our-  to  the  stroke  his  adamantine  scales 
selves  to  the  vices  of  a  patron,  or  that  feared  no  discipline  of  human 
become  the  mouth-piece  and  echo  of  hands,"  and  made  it  a  struggle  nd 
a  coterie ;  we  shall  be  in  that  case  intemeeionem  on  the  one  side,  as  it 
slaves  of  a  faction,  not  servants  of  was  on  the  other.  There  was  no 
the  public,  nor  shall  we  long  have  a  place  for  moderation,  much  less  for 
spark  of  the  old  Roman  or  the  old  nuckstering  and  trimming.  Mr. 
English  vutue  left.  Good-nature,  Burke  saw  the  thing  right  enough, 
conviviality,  hospitality^  habits  of  It  was  a  question  about  a  principle  — 
ac(]uaintance  and  regard,  favours  re-  about  the  existence  or  exthiction  of 
ceived  or  conferred,  spirit  and  elo«  human  rights  in  the  abstract  He 
queiice  to  defend  a  friend  when  press-  was  on  the  side  of  legitimate  slu- 
ed hard  ufion,  courtesy  and  good  very ;  Mr.  Fox  on  that  of  natural  li- 
breeding,  are  one  thhig — patriotism,  berty.  That  was  no  reason  he  should 
Urmness  of  principle^  are  another*  be  less  bold  or  jealous  in  her  defence. 
The-  true  patriot  knows  when  to  liecause  he  had  every  thing  to  con- 
inake  each  of  these  in  turn  give  way  tend  against.  But  he  made  too  many 
to  or  control  the  other,  in  further*  coalitions,  too  many  compromises 
ancc  of  the  common  good,  jiist  as  the  with  flattery,  with  friendship,  (to 
accomplished  courtier  makes  all  other  say  nothing  of  the  baits  of  power) 
interests^  friendships,  cabab,  resent-  not  to  falter  and  be  defeated  at  last 
inents,  recondliatiotisj  subservient  to  in  the  noble  stand  he  had  made  for 
his  attachment  to  the  person  of  the  the  principles  of  freedom, 
king.  He  has  the  welfare  of  his  Another  sort  arc  as -much  too  cap- 
coimtry,  the  cause  of  mankind  at  timis  and  precise,  as  these  arc  lax 
heart,  and  makes  that  the  scale  in  and  ctf///A/tf  in  •  their  notions  of  politi- 
which  all  other  motives  are  weighed  cal  warfare.  Their  fault  is  an  over- 
as  in  a  balance.  With  this  hiward  weening  egotism,  as  that  of  the 
prompter,  he  knows  when  to  speak  former  was  too  great  a  facility  of 
and  when  to  hold  his  tongue,  when  temper.  They  wUl  have  every  thit)g 
to  temporise,  and  when  to  throw  their  own  way  to  the  minutest  tittle, 
away  the  scabbard,  when  to  make  or  they  cannot  think  of  giving  it  their 
men  of  service  to  principles,  and  sanction  and  support.  The  cause 
when  to  make  principles  the  sole  con-  must  come  to  theta,  they  will  not  go 
dition  of  popularity,— Clearly  as  well  to  the  cause.  They  stand  upon  ihtir 
as  if  he  had  a  title  or  a  pension  de-  punctilio.  They  have  a  character  at 
pending  ui  reversion  on  his  success :  stake,  which  is  dearer  to  them  than 
for  it  is  true  that  "  in  their  generation  the  whole  world.  They  have-  an  idea 
the  children  of  this  world  are  wiser  of  perfect  truth  aiid  beauty  in  their 
than  the  cliildren  of  the  light."— In  own  minds,  the  contemplation  of 
my  opinion,  Charles  Fox  had  too  which  is  a  never-failing  source  of  de- 
much  of  what  we  mean  by  '*  the  light  and  consolation  to  them, 
milk  of  human  kindness "  to  be  a  „„  ,  ,  .  ..  ^ 
practical  statesman,  particulariy  in  ^^*'"«^*  '"^  *°*^  "'°°"  '*'"*  "*  ^*^  ^^  ^ 
critical  times,  and  with  a  cause  of                     ' 

infinite  magnitude  at  stake.  He  was  and  which  they  will  not  soil  by  mix- 
too  easy  a  friend,  and  too  generous  ing  it  up  with  the  iufinuities  of  any 
an  enemy.  He  was  willing  to  think  cause  or  any  party.  They  will  not, 
better  or  those  with  whom  he  ai^,  ''  to  do  a  great  right,  do  a  liule 
5  «Z2 


wrong."  They  will  lei  the  loft^  pO-  minde,  a  fnolftd  tflipethlrty  wUdi 
lar  inscribed  to  human  liberty  tall  to  they  prefer  to  both  oontendiog-  rar* 
the  ground  sooner  than  extend  a  fin«  ties.  It  may  be  so  ;  but  neith^  they 
ger  to  save  it»  on  account  of  the  dust  nor  we  can  get  it  We  must  have 
and  cobwebs  that  cling  to  it  It  is  one  of  the  two  things  imposed  upon 
not  this  ffreat  and  mighty  olgect  thej  us^  not  by  choice  but  by  hard  neofs* 
are  thinking  of  all  the  time^  but  then:  sity.  ''  Our  bane  and  antidote  are 
own  fantastic  reputation  and  pimj  both  before  us: "  and  if  we  do  aoT- 
pretensions.  While  the  world  is  thing  to  neglect  the  one^  we  justly 
tumbling  about  our  ears>  and  the  last  incur  the  heavy^  intolerable^  unre- 
hold  of  liberty,  the  ark  containing  deemed  penalty  of  the  other.  If  our 
our  birth-rightj  the  only  possible  bar-  pride  is  stunff,  if  we  hare  recoyed  m 
rier  against  barefaced  tyranny,  is  tot-  olow  or  the  lie  In  our  own  persons^ 
terinff — instead  of  setting  the  engines  we  know  well  enough  what  to  do: 
and  Uie  mortal  instruments  at  work  our  blood  is  up,  we  have  an  actual 
to  prop  it,  and  fighting  in  the  trenches  fedling  and  ol^ject  to  satisfy;  and  we 
to  the  last  drop,  they  are  washing  are  not  to  be  diverted  from  our  pur- 
their  hands  of  all  imaginary  imper-  pose  by  sophistry  or  mere  words, 
fections,  and  loolung  in  the  glass  of  The  quarrel  is  personal  to  ourselves  ; 
their  own  vanity,  with  an  air  of  heigh-  and  we  feel  the  whole  stress  of  it, 
tened  self-complacency.  Alasl  they  rousing  every  faculty  and  strainfaij^ 
do  not  foresee  the  fatal  consequences  ;  every  nerve.  But  if  the  quarrel  is 
they  have  an  eye  only  to  themselves,  general  to  mankind ;  if  it  is  one  in 
While  all  the  power,  the  prejudice,  which  the  rights,  freedom,  hopes,  and 
and  ignorance  of  mankind  are  drawn  happiness  of  the  whole  world  are  em* 
up  in  deadly  array  against  the  ad-  barbed ;  if  we  see  the  dignity  of  our 
vance  of  Iruth  and  justice,  they  owe  common  nature  prostrate,  trampled 
it  to  themselves,  forsooth !  to  state  upon  and  mangled  before  the  brute 
the  naked  merits  of  the  question  image  of  power,  this  gives  us  little 
(heat  and  passion  apart^  and  pick  concern ;  our  reason  may  disapprove^ 
out  all  the  taidts  of  whicn  their  own  but  our  passion^  our  pitjudkea,  an 
party  hat  been  guilty,  to  filng  as  a  not  toucned;  930A  thcmore  our  na- 
make-weight  into  the  adversary's  son,  our  humanity^  our  abstract  lovt 
scale  of  uiuneaaured  abuse  and  ese*  of  right  (not  ''  acrewMi  to  the  itkfc* 
oration.  They  will  not  take  their  hig  place"  by  sone  paltry  intemt  of 
ready  stand  by  the  side  of  him  who  our  own)  are eaidly  satisfied  withany 
was  ''  the  very  arm  and  burgonet  of  hoUow  professions  of  good-wifl,  or  piii 
man,"  and  Kke  a  demi-adas,  could  off  with  vague  excuses,  or  stamered 
alone  prop  a  dedining  world,  because  with  open  defiance.  We  are  iiere» 
for  themselves  they  have  some  oh-  where  a  principle  only  is  in  danger, 
jections  to  the  individual  instrument,  at  leisure  to  calculate  consequences, 
and  they  think  principles  more  im-  prudently  for  ourselvei^  or  fajour- 
portant  than  persons.  No,  they  think  ably  for  others :  were  it  a  point  of 
persons  of  more  consequence  than  honour  (we  think  the  honour  of  ha- 
principles,  and  themselves  most  of  man  nature  is  not  our  honour,  that 
all.  They  injure  the  principle,  its  disgrace  is  not  our  disgrace  — 
through  the  person  most  able  to  pro-  we  are  not  the  rabble  I)  we  should 
tect  it  They  betray  the  cause  by  throw  connderatioa  and  compassion 
not  defending  it  as  it  is  attacked,  tooth  to  the  dogs,  and  cr^r — ^'Away  to 
and  nail,  might  and  main,  without  Heaven  respective  lenity,  and  fire- 
excepdon  and  without  remorse.  When  eved  fuij  be  my  conduct  now !  "*  But 
everv  thing  is  at  stake,  dear  and  va-  charity  is  cold.  We  are  the  dupea 
luable  to  man,  as  man ;  when  there  is  of  the  flatteries  of  our  opponents,  oe« 
but  the  o^e  dreadful  alternative  of  cause  we  are  indififercnt  to  our  own 
entire  loss,  or  final  recovery  of  ol^ect:  we  stand  in  awe  of  their 
truth  and  freedom,  it  is  no  time  to  threats,  because  in  the  absence  of 
stand  upon  trifles  and  moot-points  ;  passion  we  are  tender  of  our  persons. 
that  great  object  is  to  be  secured  They  beat  us  in  courage  and  in  in- 
first,  and  at  all  hazards.  tellect,  because  we  have  nothing  but 

„   .      A  .              .    .     «     .  the  common  irood  to  sharpen  our  fa- 

Enuie  .flfceuon  Mometh  n»er  hand..  ^^  „,  g^dour  vrlU  ;^y  hare 

But  there  ia  a  thiid  tlung  in  their  no  leu  m  •Itenatlre  io  ticw  than 


1691.3  TMt^Taik. 

to  be  tfnwmtrollBd  mastera  of  mai^    tlie  tneani'  of  tudoMdliMr  in  their 

kind,  or  to  be  hurled  from  hlgb»—        ende,   becauie   those  ends  are  not 

_  _,    .     .-  bare-faced  riolcnce  and  wroiiff.    It 

IMS  bZ^j  r^  "'t*t  «•  ^f  •«  «d  thiU  a  m«.  h« 

«•«-"/  n  j^^Ij^  jq  knock  me  on  the  head  on 

They  do  not  celebrate  the  triumphs  the  highway^  and  that  I  am  only  to 
of  theb*  enemies  as  their  own :  it  is  use  mildness  and  persuasion  in  re- 
with  them  a  more  feeUng  disputa^  tum^  as  best  suited  to  the  justice  of 
tion.  They  never  me  an  inch  of  my  cause;  as  that  I  am  not  to  retaliate 
ground  that  they  can  keep ;  they  keep  and  make  reprisals  on  the  common 
all  that  they  can  get ;  they  mAe  no  enemies  of  mankind  in  their  own 
concessions  that  can  redound  to  their  style  and  mode  of  execution.  Is  not 
own  discredit ;  they  assume  all  that    a  man  to  defend  his  liberty^  or  the  ii« 

makes  for  them;  if  they  pause^  it  is  berties  of  his  fellow-men^  as  strenu- 
to  ffain  time ;  if  they  offer  terms^  it  is  ously  and  remorselessly  as  he  would 
to  oreak  them :  they  keep  no  faith  his  life  or  hn  purse  ?  Men  are  Quak- 
with  enemies:  if  you  relax  in  your    ers  in  political  principle^  Turks  and 

exertions,  they  persevere  the  more :  Jews  in  private  conscience, 
if  3rou  make  new  ^orts,  they  redou*        The  whole  is   an  error,    arising 

ble  theirsw    MHiile  they  give  no  quar*  from    confounding    the    ^stinction 

ter,  vou  stand  upon  mere  ceremony,  between  theory   and   practice,    be« 

While  they  are  cutting  your  throat,  tween  the  still-liie  of  letters  and  the 

or  putting  the  gag  in  your  mouth,  tug  and  onset  of  contendhig  frictions, 

you  talk  of  no&ing  but   lilierality,  I  mijg^ht  recommend  to  our  political 

freedom  of  enquiry,  and  douee  Atcmo-  mediators  the    advice  whicn  Henw 

flsf^.    Their  object  is  to  destroy  you,  ry  V.  addressed  to  his  soldiers  on  a 

jour  olject  is  to  spare  them— to  treat  oitical  occasion. 

^  according  to  your  own  fended  Ih  peace  there'i  nothing  so  becomes  »  man 

digmtv.    They  have  sense  and  spirit  JLm  modest  BtilhieBs  and  humility; 

enough  to  take  all  advantages  that  But  when  the  blast  of  war  Uowa  in  our 
wiH  frirther  their  cauter  you  have  ean, 

pedantry  and  pariUanfanitr  enough  l^o  imitate  die  adimi  of  die  tiaer; 

to  mndertake  the  defence  of  yours,  m  Stiftn  the  siiiews,  tommoo  «p  ibe  blood,' 

order  to  defeat  it   Itis  the^ffbrence  IW«g«M«  <Wr  natut  with  haid^miirM 

between  thaeflBdent  and  the  ineffi.  _.     ,™9'i  .^^ 

cient,'  and  this  ttnfai  lesolfes  itself  7^.       .?*'^fu!™*^J  ,.   ^ 

intothe  diifef«ne?Wif«en  a  specQ.  }^n^:!S^^r^f^J'^^ 

lative  proposlUon  and  a  practical  in-  ^^    wh^f^^^  bww  oer- 

^^.^,'      .V*       ^     ^  ^  .^  As  fearfuDy  aa  dodi  a  gafled  rock 

One  thing  that  makes  tyrants  bold  O'erhang  and  jutty  hb  confounded  base, 

is,  that  they  have  the  power  to  jus-  SwillM  with  the  wild  and  waatefU  ocean  t 

tify  their'  wrong:  They  lay  their  Now  set  the  teeth,  and  stretch  the  nostrils 
hands  upon  the  sword,  and  ask  who  wide; 

will  dispute  their  commands.  Tiie  Hdd  hard  the  breath,  and  bend  up  every 
friends  of  justice  and  humanity  have  ■!""* 
not  in  general  this  ark  of  confidence  Tohii  fell  height 
to  recur  to,  and  can  oidy  appeal  to  So,  in  speculation,  refine  as  much 
reason  and  propriety.'  They  oppose  as  vou  please,  intellectually  and  mo- 
power  on  the  plea  of  right  reason  rallv  speaking,  and  you  may  do  it 
and  conscience ;  ^  aiid  shall  they,  in  with  advantage.  Reason  is  then  the 
pursuance  of  their  daims,  violate  In  instrument  you  use,  and  vou  cannot 
the  smallest  tittle  what  is  due  to  raise  the  standard  of  perfection  you 
truth  and  justice  ?  So  that  the  one  fix  upon  and  propose  to  others  too 
have  no  law  but  their  wills,  and  the  high,  or  proceed  widi  too  much  can- 
abtolute  extent  d  their  authority,  in  dmir  and  moderation  in  the  advance- 
attaining  or  securing  their  ends,  be-  ment  of  truth :  but  in  practice,  you 
cause  they  make  no  pretensions  to  have  not  your  choice  of  ends  or 
scrupulous  delicacy:  the  others  are  means.  You  have  two  things  to  de- 
coofied  and  cabined  in,  bv  aU  sorts  dde  between,  the  extreme,  probably, 
of  nice  investigations  in  pnilosophy,  of  an  evil  and  a  considerable  good,  and 
and  misgiviiM  of  the  moral  sense  ;  if  vou  will  not  make  your  mind  up  to 
thfC  i^  i»«  dapiivad  or  curtailed  oC  taketbobett  of  thatwo  widiall  Ha 


694  TabU'Tdlk.  ZP^' 

disadvantages  and  draw-backs,  you  world  at  large^  is  egregiottsly  to  over* 

must  be  contented  to  take  the  worst :  rate  their  docility  or  our  own  powers 

for  as  you  cannot  alter  the  state  of  of  persuasion. 

the  conflicting  parties  who  are  car-  It  is  the  same  want  of  a  centripe- 
rying  their  point  by  force,  or  dictate  tal  force,  of  a  ruling  passion,  of  a 
what  is  best  by  a  word  speaking ;  moral  instinct  of  union  and  co-ope- 
so  by  finding  fault  with  the  attain-  ration  for  a  general  purpose,  that 
able  good,  and  throwing  cold  water  on  makes  men  fly  off  into  knots  aiid  Cmv 
it,  you  add  fiiel  to  your  enemy's  cou-  tions,  and  each  set  up  ibr  the  leader 
rage  and  assist  his  success.  '^  Those  of  a  party  himself.  Where  there  ii 
who  are  not  for  us  are  against  us."  a  strong  feeling  of  interest  at  wotk. 
You  create  a  diversion  in  bis  favour,  it  reconciles  and  conibmes  the  most 
by  distracting  and  enervating  men's  discordant  materials,  and  fits  them 
minds,  as  much  as  by  questioning  the  to  their  place  in  the  social  machine. 
general's  orders,  or  drawing  off  a  But  in  tne  conduct  and  support  of 
strong  detachment  in  the  heat  of  a  the  public  good,  we  see  '*  nothing 
battle.  Political,  is  like  military  war-  but  vanity,  chaotic  vanity/'  There 
fare.  There  are  but  two  sides,  and  is  no  forbearance,  no  self-denial,  no 
after  you  have  once  chosen  your  par-  magnanimity  of  proceeding.  Every 
ty,  it  will  not  do  to  stand  in  the  mid-  one  is  seeking  his  own  aggrandize- 
way,  and  say  you  like  neither.  There  ment,  or  to  supplant  his  neighbour, 
is  no  other  to  like,  in  the  eye  of  com-  instead  of  advancing  the  papular 
mon  sense,  or  in  the  practical  and  in-  cause.  It  is  because  thej  nave  no 
evi table  result  of  the  thing.  As  ac-  real  regard  for  it  but  as  it  serves  as 
tive  partisans,  we  must  take  up  with  a  stalking-horse  to  their  ambition, 
the  best  we  can  get  in  the  circum-  restless  inquietude,  or  love  of  cabaL 
stances,  and  defend  it  with  all  our  They  abuse  and  vilify  their  own 
might  agauist  a  worse  cause  (which  party,  just  as  they  do  the  Mintstert. 
will  prevail,  if  this  does  not)  instead  «,,„,. 

of  "letUng  our  frail  thoughts  dally  ?*?f°?'^;f.^'^°*'"L^^!t^T*  ,. 

with    faint    sunnise;"- or,    while  And  shakes  his  empty  noddle  at  hw  brotho: 

dreaming  of  an  ideal  perfection,  we  John  Bull  does  not  aim  so  malicious- 
shall  find  ourselves  surprised  into  ly,  or  hit  so  hard  at  Whigs  and  Re- 
thc  train,  and  gracing  the  triumph,  of  formers,  as  Oobbett.  The  reason  is, 
the  common  enemy.  It  i^  sufficient  that  a  very  large  proportion  of  these 
ifour  objects  and  principles  are  soimd  Marplots  and  regenerators  of  the 
and  disinterested.  If  wc  were  en-  world  are  actuated  by  no  love  of 
gaged  in  a  friendly  contest,  where  their  species  or  zeal  for  a  general 
integrity  and  fair  dealing  were  the  question,  but  by  envy,  malice,  and 
order  of  the  day,  our  means  might  be  all  uncharitableness.  They  are  dis- 
as  unimpeachable  as  our  ends ;  but  contented  with  themselves  and  with 
in  a  struggle  with  the  passions,  inte-  every  thing  about  them.  They  object 
rests,  and  prejudices  of  men,  right  to,  they  dissent  from  every  measure. 
reason,  pure  intention,  arc  hardly  Nothing  pleases  their  fastidious 
competent  to  carry  us  through :  we  tastes.  For  want  of  something  to 
want  another  stimulus.  The  vices  exercise  their  ill  humour  and  trouble- 
may  be  opposed  to  each  other  some-  some  officiousness  upon,  they  abuse 
times  with  advantage  and  propriety,  the  Government : — when  they  are 
A  little  of  the  alloy  of  human  frailty  baulked  or  tired  of  this  they  fall  foul 
may  be  allowed  to  lend  its  aid  to  the  of  one  another.  The  slightest  slip  or 
service  of  humanity ;  and  if  we  have  difference  of  opinion  is  never  for- 
only  so  much  obstinacy  or  insensibi-  given,  but  gives  birth  to  a  deadly 
lity  as  enables  us  to  persevere  in  the  feud.  Touch  but  their  petty  self-im- 
path  of  public  duty  with  more  deter-  portance,  and  out  comes  a  flaming 
mination  and  effect,  both  our  motives  denunciation  of  their  own  cabal,  and 
mid  conduct  will  be  above  the  ordi-  all  they  know  alx>ut  the  individuals 
nary  standard  of  political  morality,  composing  it.  Tlas  is  not  patriotism. 
To  sujppose  that  we  can  do  much  but  spleen — but  wantof  somethingrto 
more  than  this,  or  that  we  can  set  up  do  andto  talk  about— of  sense,  hooes- 
our  individual  opinion  of  what  is  best  ty,  and  feeling.  To  wreak  their 
in  itself,  or  of  the  best  means  of  at-  spite  on  an  indmdual,  they  will  ruin 
taifling  it,  and  be  Viitened  tA  Vf  the  tne  cause,  and  scrre  up  the  frted 


and  idol  of  the  people  diced  and  car-  haps  the  success  of  their  earlr  prin- 
bonadoed^  a  delicious  morsel  to  the  ciplcs  might  have  reconciled  ihcm  to 
other  side.  There  is  a  strange  want  their  embarrassing  monotony.  Few 
of  keepmg  in  this.  They  are  true  persons  have  strength  and  siinplicity 
neither  to  themselves  nor  to  their  prin-  t)f  mind  (without  some  additional 
cSples.  The  Reformers  are  in  gene-  inducement)  to  be  always  harping  on 
raJ,  it  must  be  confessed,  an  ill-con-  the  same  string,  or  to  put  up  with 
ditioned  set;  and  they  should  be  the  legitimate  variety  to  be  found  in 
tM  of  this  infinnity  that  most  easi-  an  abstract  principle,  applicable  to 
ly  besets  them.  When  they  find  all  emergencies.  They  like  change- 
their  gall  and  bitterness  overflowing  able  silks  better  than  homesmm.  A 
on  the  very  persons  who  take  the  lead,    sensible  man  once  mentioned  to  me 

and  deservedly  take  the  lead,  in  their    his    having    called    on  -—  that 

affairs,  for  some  slight  flaw  or  mis-  morning,  who  entertained  him  with 
understanding,  they  should  be  taught  "a  tirade  against  the  Bourbons  for  two 
to  hold  their  tongues,  or  be  drummed  hours ;  but  he  said  he  did  not  at  all 
out  of  the  regiment  as  spies  and  in-  feel  convinced  that  he  might  not 
formers.  have  been  writing  Ultra-royalist  pa- 
Trimming,   and  want  of  spirit  to    ragraphs  for  the ,  just  before 

declare  the  honest  truth,  arise  in  he  came,  in  their  favour,  and  only 
part  from  the  same  source.  When  a  shifted  his  side  of  the  argument,  as  a 
man  is  not  thoroughly  convinced  of  man  who  is  tired  of  lying  too  long  on 
an  opinion,  or  where  he  does  not  feel  one  side  of  his  body  is  glad  to  turn 
a  deep  interest  in  it,  he  does  not  like  to  the  other.  There  was  much  shrewd- 
to  make  himself  obnoxious  by  avow-  ness,  but  equal  probability  in  this 
ing  it ;  is  willing  to  make  all  the  al-    conjecture. 

Igwance  he  can  for  difference  of  sen-  I  think  the  spirit  of  partisanship  is 
timent,  and  consults  his  own  safety  of  use  in  a  point  of  view  that  has  not 
by  retiring  from  a  sinking  cause,  been  distinctly  adverted  to.  It  sl'tvcs 
This  is  the  very  time  w^hen  the  ge-  as  a  conductor  to  carry  oiF  our  anti- 
nuhie  partisan,  who  has  a  rooted  at-  pathies  and  ill-blood  in  a  ({uarter  and 
tachment  to  a  principle,  and  feels  it  a  manner  that  is  least  hurtful  to  the 
'as  a  part  of  himself,  finds  himself  general  weal.  A  thorough  partisan 
most  called  upon  to  come  forward  in  is  a  good  hater ;  but  he  hates  only 
its  support.  His  anxiety  for  truth  one  side  of  a  question,  and  that 
and  justice  leaves  him  in  no  fear  for  the  outside.  His  bigotry  throws  hu- 
faimself,  and  the  sincerity  of  his  mo-  man  nature  into  strong  light  and 
tives  makes  him  regardless  of  cen-  shade  ;  he  has  his*  sympathies  as  well 
sure  or  obloquy.  His  profession  of  as  antipathies ;  it  is  not  all  black  or 
hearty  devotion  to  freedom  was  not  a  dull  drab-colour.  He  does  not  ge- 
an  ebullition  called  forth  by  the  sun-  neralise  in  his  contempt  or  disgust, 
shine  of  prosperity,  a  lure  for  po-  or  proceed  from  individuals  to  uni- 
pularity  and  public  favour;  and  vcrsals.  He  lays  the  faults  and  vices 
when  these  desert  it,  he  still  main-  of  mankind  to  the  account  of  sects 
tains  his  post  with  his  integrity,  and  parties,  creeds  and  classes.  Man 
There  is  a  natural  thnidity  of  mind  in  hnnself  is  a  good  sort  of  animal, 
also,  which  can  never  go  the  whole  It  is  the  being  a  Tory  or  a  Whig  (as 
length  of  any  opinion,  but  is  always  it  may  happen)  that  makes  a  man  a 
interlarding  its  qualified  assent  with  knave  or  fool ;  but  then  we  hardly 
unmeaning  buts  and  ifs ;  as  there  is  a  look  upon  him  as  of  the  same  spe- 
levity  and  discursiveness  of  imagi-  cios  with  ourselves.  Kings  are  not 
nation  which  cannot  settle  finally  in  arbitrary,  or  priests  hypocritical,  be^ 
any  belief,  and  requires  a  succession  cause  they  are  men,  but  because  they 
of  glancing  views,  topics,  and  oppo-  arc  kings  and  priests.  We  form  cer- 
aite  conclusions,  to  satisfy  its  appetite  tain  nominal  abstractions  of  these 
for  intellectual  variety.  I  have  known  classes,  which  the  more  we  dislike 
persons  leave  the  cause  of  independ-  them,  the  less  natural  do  they  seem, 
ence  and  freedom,  not  because  they  and  leave  the  general  character  of  the 
found  it  miprofitable,  but  because  species  untouched,  or  act  as  a  foil  to 
they  found  it  flat  and  stale  for  want  it.  There  is  nothing  that  is  a  irreater 
of  novelty.  At  the  same  time,  inter-  damper  to  party  spirit  than  to  sng- 
<!8t  is  a  great  stimulator ;  afid  per-    gest  that  the  errors  and  cnomiities  of 


faott^  sidei-aiiM  from  certain  Inherent  the  vices' and  eitort  of  eaaniple  ind 
depositions,  common  to  the  species.  Institution^  mankind  ure  (on  thi* 
It  shocks  the  liberal  and  enlightened  principle^  only  a  little  lower  than  the 
among  us,  to  suppose  that  under  any  angels :  it  is  false  doetrfaie  and  ab- 
circumstances  they  could  become  bi-  8u^d  pr^dices  that  make  demons  of 
gotSy  tools,  persecutors.  They  wipe  them.  The  only  original  sfai  ia  dtf* 
Bieir  hands  clean  of  all  such  asper^  iering  in  opinion  with  us :  of  that 
sions.  There  is  a  great  guljph  of  pre-  they  are  curable  like  any  ooeaaioDal 
judice  and  passion  placed  between  disorder,  and  the  man  comes  out, 
us  and  our  opponents ;  and  this  is  from  beneath  the  husk  of  his  party 
interpreted  into  a  natural  barrier  and  and  prejudices,  pure  and  immaculate, 
separation  of  sentiment  and  feeling.  Make  proselytes  of  them,  let  them 
^'  Our  withers  are  unwrung."  Burke  come  over  to  our  way  of  thinkin|^y 
represented  modem  revolutionists  to  and  they  are  a  different  race  of  hann 
Imnself,  under  the  equivocal  simill*  quite.  This  is  to  be  effected  by  tae 
tude  of  '^  green-eyed,  spring-nailed^  rorce  of  argument  and  the  progress 
▼elvet-pawed  philosophers,  whether  of  knowledge.  It  is  well,  it  is  per- 
going  on  two  legs  or  on  four;"  and  fectly  well.  We  cast  the  slougn  of 
Uius  removed  to  a  distance  from  his  our  Wees  with  the'  sUbb<rfMh  of  our 
own  person  all  the  ill  attributes  party;  a  Refinrm  in  Parliament  would 
with  which  he  had  complimented  Danish  all  knavery  and  folly  from  the 
the  thorough-bred  metaphysician,  land.  It  Is  not  the  same  wretched 
B^  comparing  the  plausible  qualities  little  mischievous  animal,  man,  that 
of  a  Minister  of  state  to  the  sleekness  is  alike  mider  all  denominations  end 
of  the  panther,  I  myself  seem  to  all  systems,  and  in  whom  diilerent 
have  no  more  affinity  with  that  situations  and  notions  only  bring 
whole  genus,  than  with  the  whiskers  out  ^Ufferent  Inherent,  inconigibw 
and  claws  of  that  formidable  and  vices  and  propensities ;  but  the  pro- 
Spirited  animal.  Bishop  Taylor  used  frssions  and  the  theory  being  changed 
to  reprimand  his  rising  pride  by  for  the  one,  which  we  think  the  only 
saying  at  the '  sight  of  a  repny-  true  and  infallible  one,  the  whole 
bate,  **  There  goes  my  wicked  world,  by  the  mere  removal  of  our 
self:"  we  do  not  apply  the  same  arbitrary  prejudices  and  modee  of 
method  politically,  and  say  ''  There  thinking,  would  become  as  rincete^ 
ffoes  my  Tory  or  my  Jacobin  self."  as  benevolent,  as  independent  and  as 
We  suppose  the  two  things  incom-  worthy  people  ta  we  are!  To  hate 
pa^ble.  The  Cahrinist  damns  the  and  proscribe  half  the  spedea  under 
Arminian,  the  Protestant  the  Papist,  varied  pretexts  and  nicknames^ 
&c.  but  it  is  not  for  a  difference  of  seems,  therefore,  the  only  way  to  en* 
nature,  but  an  opposition  of  opinion*  tertain  a  good  opinion  of  oarsetTes 
The  spirit  of  parti^eanship  is  not  a  and  mankind  in  general, 
spirit  of  our  misanthropy^    But  for  T. 


CONTINUATION  OP  PR.  JOHNSONS 

%i\it^  of  t^  l^oed^ 

No.IL 

SIR  WILUAH  JONES. 

The  life  of  Sir  William  Jones  has  ton  beside,  have  traced  his  descent, 

been    written    bv  his   friend   Lord  at  least  In  a  maternal  line,  from  the 

Teignmouth  with   that  nUinnteness  ancient  princes  of  Wales.    But  what 

which  the  character  of  so  illustrious  distinguished  him  much  more  was, 

and  extraordinary  a  man  deserved,  that  he  had  attained  so  great  a  pro* 

He  was  bom  In  London  on  the  twen*  ficiency  in  the  study  of  mathcnia- 

ty-eighth  of  Sq)teniber,  1746.    His  tics  as  to  become  a  teacher  of  that 

father,    whose    Christian    name    he  branch  of  science  in  the  English  me« 

bore,  althotigh  sprung  immediately  tropolis,  under  the  patronage  of  Sir 

from  a  race  of  yeomen  in  Anglesea,  Isaac  Newton,  and  rose  to  such  re- 

#0iild  TSty  likeinviy  aCinAyfO-Eii*  ^tattoo  by  his  writrngs,  that  kt  at* 


tneted  the  nodoo  and  ettdemof  tlM  alone;  and  wet  ffOMmad  onijr  in  ooo* 

powerftil  and  the  learned,  and  waa  aequence  of  the  alann  given  to  the 

admitted    to   the   hitimacy    of  the  senrants  by  hia  shrieka.    At  another 

Earls  of   Hardwicke  and  Maodea-  time^  his  eye  was  nearly  put  out  by 

field ;  Lord  Parker,  President  of  the  one  of  the  hooks  of  his  dress,  as  lie 

Royal  Society;  Halley;  Mead;  and  was  struggling  under  the  hands  of 

Samuel  Johnson^By  his  wife>  Mary,  the  domestic  who  was  putting  on  hia 

the  dai^maJfTna  cabinet-miaker  in  clothes.      From  the  meets  of  thia 

London,  he  had  two  sons,   one  of  ii^jury  his  sight  never  completely  ie« 

whom  died  an  infant,  and  a  daujaph-  covered. 

ter.    In  three  years  after  the  burth  In  his  fifth  year  he  reeled   a 

of  the  remaining  son,  the  father  him«  strong  impression  fin»n  reading  the 

self  died,  and  left  Uie  two  children  twentieth  chapter  of  the  Apocalypse. 

to  the  protection  of  their  mother.  The  man  must  have  a  cold  imagui»« 

An  extraordinary  mark  of  her  pre-  tion  who  would  deny  that  this  cft« 

aeoce  of  mind  sufficiently  indicated  sual  influence  might  have  first  dia« 

how  capable  this  mother  was  of  eze-  closed  not  only  the  lofty  and  wdent 

«uthig  the  difficult  duly  hnposed  oa  spirit,  but  even  that  insatiable  love 

her  by  his  decease*   Doctor  Mead  cf  learning,  by  which  he  was  ahet* 

had  pronounced  his  case^  which  was  wards  distinguished  above  all  hia 

a.  polypus  on  the  heart,  to  be  a  hope-  contemporaries.    Amidst  the  geneial 

less  one;  and  her  anxious  precau-  proscription  of  reading  adaj^cd  to 

tions  to  hinder  the  fatal  intelligenoe  excite  wonder,  that  germ  of  know- 

from  reaching  him  were  on  the  point  ledge,    in  the  minds  of  our  dnl- 

af  being  debated  by  the  arrival  of  a  dren,  it  is  lucky  that  the  Bible  ia 

letter  of  condolence  and  consolation  still  left  them, 

from  an  injudicious  but  well-meao-  At  the  endf  of  hia  seventh  year  he 

ing  friend,  when,  on  discovering  its  was  placed  under  the  tuition  of  Dr. 

piurport,  she  had  sufficient  address  to  Thackeray,  the  master  of  Harrow 

substitute  the  lively  dictates  of  her  school;  but  had  not  been  there  two 

own  invention  for  the  real  contents  vears  before  a  fracture  of  his  thiffh- 

of  the  epistle,  and  by  thia  affection-  bone,  that  happened  in  a  scramble, 

ate  delusion  not  merdy  to  satiafjr  the  among  hia  play-fellows,  occasioned 

ciuiosity  but  to  cheer  the  spirits  of  another  suspension  of  hia   studies, 

her  dying  husband.  During  the  twelvemonth  which  he 

So  great  was  her  solicitude  fd€  now  passed  at  home  with  his  mother, 

the  improvement  of  her  son,  that  he  became  so  conversant  with  several 

she  declined  the  pressing  instances  writers  in  hia  own  language,  eape- 

of  the  Countess  of  Macclesfield  to  dally  Dryden  and  Pope,  that  he  set 

reside  under  her  roof,  lest  she  should  himself  about  making  imitationa  of 

be  hindered  from  attending  exdu^  them. 

sively    to    thatt  which    was    now  On  his  return  to  Harrow,  no  aU 

become  her  main  concern.    To  the  lowance  was  made  for  the  inevitable 

many  inauiries  which  the  early  vi-  consequences  of  this  interruption:  he 

vacity  ot  the  boy  prompted  him  to  was  replaced  in  the  class  with  those 

put  to  her,  the  invariable  answer  she  boys  whose  classical   learning  had 

returned  was,  read,   and  yon  mil  been  progressive  while  his  was  sta- 

know.    This  assurance,  added  to  the  tionary,  or  rather  retrograde,  and  un- 

other   means   of  instruction,    from  merited  chastisement  was  inflicted 

which  her  fondness,  or  more  probably  on  him  for  his  inferiori^  to  those 

her  discernment,  induced  her  to  ex-  with  whom  he  had  wanted  the  means 

dude  every  species  of  severity,  were  of  maintainia|^   an   aquali^.     Im- 

ao  efficacious  that  in  his  fourth  year  polled  either  by  fear,  by  shame,  or 

he  was  able  to  read  at  sight  any  book  oy  emulatioq,  he  laboured  hard  in 

in  his  own  language.    Two  accidenta  private  to  repair  his  losses  ;  of  boa 

occurred  to  hinder  this   rapid   ad^  own  accord   recurred  to  tiM  rudi- 

vanoement  from  proceeding.    Once  menta  of  the  /grammar ;  and  was  to 

he  narrowlv  escaped  beinff  consumed  diHffent  that  £e  qieedily  outstripped 

by  flames  from  having  fallen  into  the  all  his  juvenile  competitors, 

fire,  while  endeavouring    to  scrape  In  his  twdfth  year  he  entered  into 

down  some  soot  from  the  chimney  a  scheme  for  representing  a  play  in 

of  a  room  in  which  ha  ha4  baan  left  covtfunctioQ  witti  hia  ai£ooUallowa| 


Lim^MP6H9^8irWmtomJimei.  ^Pee. 

but  insteiid  of  seeking  his  Dr&tnatis  hi  imKatSon  of  the  ancienlfly  arepiint- 
Personse  among  the  heroes  of  Homer,  ed    among   his    works.      A    yotmg 
as  Pope  had  done  in  his  boyhood,  scholar  who  should  now  glance  his 
Jones,  by  a  remarkable  effort  of  me-  eye  over  the  first  chapter,  contain- 
mory,  committed  to  paper  what  he  ing  speeches  from   8hakspeare  and 
retained  of  Shakspeare  s   Tempest,  Addison's  Cato  translated  mto  Greek 
which  he  had  read  at  his  mother's ;  iambics  on  the  model  of  the  Three 
and  himself   sustained  the  part  of  Tragedians,  would  put  aside  the  re- 
Prospeto  in  that  Comedy.     Mean-  mainder  with  a  smile  of  complacency 
while  his  poetical  faculty  did  not  lie  at  the  improvement  which  has  since 
doitnant.     He  turned  into  £nglish  been  made  in   this  species  of  task 
▼erse  all  Virgil's  Eclogues  and  seve-  wider  the  auspices  of  Forson. 
ral  of  Ovid's  Epistles ;  and  wrote  a        His  mother  was  urged  by  several 
Tragedy  on  the  fable  of  Meleager,  of  the  legal  profession,  who  interest- 
which  was  acted  during  the  holi£iys  ed  themselves  in  his  welfare,  to  place 
by  himself  and  his  comrades,  and  in  him  in  the  office  of  a  special  {deader; 
which  he  sustained  the  character  of  but  considerations  of  prudence,  which 
the  hero.    A  short  specimen  of  the  represented  to  her  that  the  course  of 
drama  is  preserved.    The  language  education  necessary  to  qualify  him 
brinffs  to  our  recollection  that  of  tne  for  the  practice  of  the  law  was  ex- 
Mock  Tracedy  in  Hamlet.  -ceedingly  expensive  and  the  advan- 
When  the  other  boys  were  at  their  tages  remote,  hindered  her  front  ac- 
aports,  Jones  continued  to  linger  over  quiescing  m  their  recommendation; 
has  book,  or,  if  he  mingled  in  their  at  the  same  time  that  his  own  in- 
di versions,  his  favourite  objects  were  dination  and  the  earnest  wishes  of 
still  uppermost  in  his  thoughts;  he  his   master  concurred  in    favour  of 
directed  his  playmates  to  divide  the  prosecuting  his  studies   at   college. 
fields  into  compartments  to  which  he  Which  of  Uie  two  universities  should 
gave  the  names  of  the  several  Gre-  have  the  credit  of  perfecting  instruc- 
cian  republics ;  allotted  to  each  their  tion    thus  auspiciously  commenced 
political  station ;   and  "  wielding  at  was  the  next  suoject  of  debate.     But 
will  the  fierce  democracies,"  arranged  the  advice  of  Dr.  Glasse,  then  a  pri- 
the  complicated   concerns  of  peace  vate  tutor  at  Harrow,  prevailing  over 
and  war,  attack  and  defence^  coun-  that  of  the  head  master,  who^  by  a 
cils,    harangues,  and    negociations.  natural  partiality  for  the  place  of  his 
Dr.  Thackeray  was  compelled  to  own  own  education  woidd  have  given  the 
that  "  if  his  pupil  were  left  naked  preference  to  Cambridge,  he  was  in 
and  friendless  on  Salisbury  plain,  he  17f»4  admitted  of  University  College 
would  yet  find  his  way  to  tame  and  in  Oxford,  whither  his  mother  deter- 
■jriches."  mined  to  remove  her  residence,  either 
On  the  resignation  of  that  master,  for  the  purpose  of  siipcrintending  his 
•die  management  of  die  school  devolv-  health  and  morals,  or  of  enjoying  the 
^  on  Dr.  Sumner,  by  whom  Jones,  society  of  so  excellent  a  son. 
then  in  his  fifteenth  year,  was  pard-        Before  quitting  school  he  present- 
cularly  distinguished.    Such  was  his  ed  to  his  friend  Pamell,  nephew  of 
aeal,  that  he  devoted  whole  nights  to  the  poet,  and  afterwards  Chancellor 
atudy;  and,  not  contented  with  ap-  of  the  Exchequer  in  Ireland,  a  mnnu- 
plying  himself  at  school  to  the  clas^  script  volume  of  English  verses,  con- 
sical  languages,  and  during  the  va-  sistnig,  among  other  pieces,  of  that 
■cadons  to  the  Italian  and  French,  he  essay    which    some   years   after  he 
attained  Hebrew  enough  to  enable  moulded  into  his  Arcadia;    and    of 
him  to  read  the  psalms  in  the  origi-  translations  from  Sophocles,  Theocri- 
-nal,    and  made  himself  acquainted  tus,  and  Horace.     If  the  encourage- 
with  the  Arabic  character.  Strangers,  ment  of  Dr.  Sumner  had  not  been 
who  visited  Harrow,  frequcndy  in-     overruled  by  the  dissuasion    of  his 
quired  for  him  by  the  appellation  of    more  cautious  friends,  he  would  have 
the  great  scholar*  committed  to  the  press  his  Greek  and 
^  Some  of  his  compositions  from  this  Latin  composition^,  among  which  was 
time  to  his  twentieth  year,   which  a  Comedy  in  imitation  of  the  style 
he  collected  and   cndded   Limon,*  of  Aristophanes,  entided  Mormo. 

*  Au|m2»^  a  meadow.   . 


1881.]]  Lh9$  tif  ih9  PMU.-^Sir  WiUiam  Jones.  •  '  029 

Like  many  other  lads,  whose  !»-  a  peasant,  he  gave  himself  the  cduc»- 
lents  have  unfolded  in  all  their  luxu-  tion  of  a  prince." 
riance  under  the  kindness  of  an  in-  The  year  after  his  entrance  at  col- 
dulgent  master,  he  experienced  a  lege,  he  accepted  a  proposal  that  was 
sudden  chill  at  his  first  transplanta-  made  him  to  undertake  the  educa- 
tion into  academic  soil.  His  reason  tion  of  Lord  Altliorpe,  then  a  child 
was  perplexed  amid  the  intricacies  ahout  seven  years'  old ;  and  for  that 
of  the  scnool  logic^  and  his  taste  re-  purpose  spent  much  of  his  time  at 
volted  by  the  barbarous  language  Wimbledon,  where  he  composed 
that  enveloped  it.  many  of  his  English  poems,  and  stu- 

On  the  31st  of  October  he  was    died  attentively  the  Hebrew  Bible, 
unanimously  elected  to  one  of  the    particularly  the  prophetical  writings, 
four    scholarships    founde<l    by    Sir    and  the  book  of  Job. 
Simon  Bennet    But  as  he  had  three        In  the  summer  of  1766,  a  fellowship 
seniors,  his  prospect  of  a  fellowship    of  University  College  unexpectedly 
was  distant ;  and  he  was  anxious  to    became  vacant ;  and  being  conferred 
free    his    mother    from    the    incon*    on  Jones,  secured  him  the  enjoyment 
venience  of  contributing  to  his  sup-    of  that  independence  which  he  had 
port.     His  disgust  for  the  University,    so  much  desired.     With  independ- 
nowever,  was  fortunately  not  of  long    ence  he  seems  to  have  been  satis- 
continuance.    The  college  tutors  re-    fied;  for,  on  his  return  to  Wimbledon, 
lieved  him  from  an  useless  and  irk-    he  declined  an  oiFer  made  him  by 
some    attendance  on  their  lectures,    the  Duke  of  Grafton,  then  first  Lord 
and  judiciouslv  left  the  employment    of  the  Treasiuy,  of  the  place  of  in- 
of  his  time  at  his  own  disposal.    He    terpreter  for  eastern  languages.    The 
turned  it  to  a  good  account  in  perus-    same    answer    which   conveyed   his 
ing  the  principal  Greek  historians  and    refusal     recommended    in     earnest 
poets,   togethef  with  the  whole    of    terms  his  fnend  Mirza  as  one  fitted 
Lucian  and  of  Plato ;  writing  notes,    to  perform  the  duties  of  the  office, 
and  exercising  himself  in  imitations    but  the  application  remained  umio- 
of  his  favourite  authors  as  he  went    ticed ;  and  he  regretted  that  his  in- 
on.    In  order  to  facilitate  his  acqui-    experience  in  such  matters  had  pre- 
sition  of  the  Arabic  tongue,    more    vented  him  from  adoptinj?  the  expe- 
particularly  with  regard  to  its  pro-    dient  of  nominally  acceptmg  the  cm- 
nunciation,  he  engaged  a  native  of    ployment  for  himself  and  consigning 
Aleppo,  named  Mirza,  whom  he  met    the  profits  of  it  to  the  Syrian, 
with  in  London,  to  accompany  him        In    1767  he  began  his  treatise  De 
to  Oxford,  and  employed  him  in  re-    Poesi  Asiatica,  ontheplanofLowth's 
translathig  the  Arabian  Nights'  £n-    Pnclectiones,  and  composed  a  Persian 
tertainments  into  tlieir  original  Ian-    ^ammar  for  the  use  of  a  school-fel- 
guage,  whilst  he  wrote  out  the  ver-    low,  who  was  about  to  go  to  India, 
sion  himself  as  the  other  dictated,  and    His  usual  course  of  study  was  for  a 
corrected    the    hiaccuracies   by  the    short  time  interrupted  by  an  attend- 
help  of  a  grammar  and  lexicon.    The    ance  on  Earl  Spencer,  the  father  of 
affinity  which  he  discovered  between    his  pupil,  to  Spa.    The  ardour  of  his 
this  language  and  the  modem  Per-    curiosity  as  a  linguist    made    him 
sian,  induced  him  to  extend  his  re-    eladly  seize  the  opportunity  afforded 
searches  to  the  latter  dialect ;   and    him  by  this  expedition  of  obtaining 
he  thus  laid  the  foundation  of  his  ex-    some  knowledge  of  German.     Nor 
traordinary  knowledge  in  oriental  li-    was  he  so  indinerent  to  slighter  ac- 
terature.  complishments  as  not  to  avail  him- 

During  the  vacations  he  usually  selfof  the  instructions  of  a  celebrated 
resorted  to  London,  where  he  was  as-  dancing  master  at  Aix-la-Chapclle. 
siduous  in  his  attendance  on  the  He  ha^  before  taken  lessons  from 
schools  of  Angelo,  for  the  sake  ofac-  Gallini  in  that  trifling  art.  From  a 
complishing  himself  in  the  manly  ex-  pensioner  at  Chelsea  he  had  learnt 
ercises  of  fencing  and  riding;  and,  at  the  use  of  the  broadsword.  He  af- 
home,  directed  his  attention  to  mo-  terwards  made  an  attempt,  in  which, 
deni  languages,  and  familiarised  him-  however,  he  does  not  seem  to  have 
self  with  the  best  writers  in  Italian,  persevered,  to  become  a  performer  on 
Spanish,  and  Portuguese :  ^'  thus,"  the  national  instrument  of  his  fore- 
he  ohaerved,  »  with  the  fortune  of   fathers,  the  harp.     Ambition  of  suck 


ftflDUf  «ttaiDinenet  featfndA  ut  of  wfth  tile  blbd  tdohMry  <)f  a  ioircr,  lie 
what  Ss  related  concerning  the  Adml-    exalted  abore  thoie  of  Greece  and 
rable  Crichton,  and  Pico  of  Miran-    Rorne^  was  further  strengthened  by 
dola.  his  intercourse  with  an  illustriims  Iih 
Christian   the   Seyeuth,    King  of   reigner  whom  thc^  had  almost    as 
Denmark,    who  in  1768  was  on  a  much  captiTated.    The  person^,  with 
▼isit  to  this  countiTj  had  brought    whom  this  similarity  of  taste  c(m»- 
with  him  a  Persian  histery  of  Nadir  nected  him,  was  Charks  Rericzki, 
Shah  in  manuscript,  which  he  was  afterwards  imperial  minister  at  War- 
desirous  to  hare  translated  from  that  saw,  and  ambassador  at  the  £nglisk 
language  into  the  French.    On  this  court  with  the  title  of  Comnt.    Their 
occasion  Jones  was  applied  to  by  correspondence,  which  turns  prind* 
one  of  the  under  secretaries  to  the  pally  on  the  object  of  their  cammoa 
Ihike   of  Grafton,    to   gratify    the  pursuit,  and  b  written  in  the  French 
wishes  of  the  Danish  monarch.    The  and  Latin  languages,  commenced  in 
task  was  so  little  to  his  mind  that  he  1768.    At  this  time  he  took  bis  de« 
would  have  excused  himself  from  eiw  gree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts, 
gaging  in  it  j  and   he   accordingly  In  the  summer  of  the  ensuing  year, 
suggested  Migor  Dow,  a  gentleman  Jones  accompanied  his  pupil  to  the 
already  distinguished  by  his  trans-  school  at  Harrow.    Durmg  his  resi* 
lations  from  the  Persic,  as  one  fit  to  dence  there  he  transcribed  his  Per* 
he  employed ;  but  he  likewise  plead-  sian  grammar.    He  had  already  he* 
hig  his  other  numerous  occupations  gun  a  dictionary  of  that  lanraagey 
as  a  reason  for  not  undertaking  this,  with  illustrations   of  the    prmcipal 
and  the  application  to  Jones  behiff  words   from   celebrated   writers,   • 
renewed,  with  an  intimation  that  it  work  of  rast  labour,  wluch  he  rt^ 
would  be  disgraceiid  to  the  country  solved  not  to  prosecute  wKhout  the 
if  the  King  soould  be  compelled  to  assurance  of  an  adequate  remuiier»- ' 
take  the  manuscript  into  France,  he  tion  from  the  East  India  Company. 
was  at  length  stimulated  to  a  conn  At  the  entreaty  of  Dr.  Gl^ae,  he 
pliance.      At   the   expiration  of  a  now  dedicated  some  portion  of  Ua 
twehremonth,  during  which  interval  time  to  religious  inquuy.    The  r»- 
it  had  been  more  than  once  eageriy  suit  was  a  conviction  of  the  truth  o£ 
demanded,    the   work  was   accom-  Christianltv,  in  his  belief  of  wldch» 
phshed.    The  publication  of  it  was  it  is  said,  be  had  hitherto  been  un* 
completed  in  1770,  and  forty  copies  confirmed.    In  the  winter  he  made ' 
were    transmitted  to   the  court   of  a   second   ^^t    to    the    Continettt 
Denmark.     To  the  history  was  ap-  whh  tlie  family  of  his  noble  fMitrovu 
pended  a  treatise  on  Oriental  poetry;  After  a  longer  stay  at  Paris  than  waft 
written  also  in  French.    One  of  the  agreeable  to  him,  tiiey  passed  down 
chief  difficulties   imposed   on    the  the  Rhine  to  Lyons,  aiia  thence  pro* 
tranriator  had  been  the  necessity  of  ceeded   by  Marseilles,    Frejns,  and ' 
using  that  language  in  the  version,  Antibes,    to  I^ce.     At  the  last  of 
of  which  it  could  not  be  expected  these  places  they  resided  long  enoui^ 
that  he  should  possess  an  entire  com-  to  allow  of  hb  returning  to  his  stu- 
mand ;   but  to  obviate  this  incon-  dies,  which  were  divided  between  the 
Tenience,  he  called  in  the  dd  of  a  arts  of  music  and  painting;  the  tnm^ 
Frenchman  who  corrected  the  inac-  thonatics ;   and  military  tactics, — a 
curacies  in   the  diction.    Christian  science  of  which  he  thought  no  Bri- 
expremed  himself  well  satisfied  with  ton  could,  without  disgrace,  be  igno< 
the  manner  in  which  his  intentiona  rant    He  also  wrote  a  treatise  on 
had  been  fulfilled:  but  a  diploma,  education;    and   began   a  trasedy, 
constituting  the  translator  a  member  entitled  Soliman,  on  the  muraer  of 
of  the  Royal  Society  at  Ck)penhagen,  the  4011  of  that  monarch  by  the  trea- 
tog^etheri^th  an  eaihnest  recommen*  chery  of  his  step-mother.    Of  die 
dation  of  him  to  the  regard  of  his  latter,  altiiough  it  appears  frnm  ooe 
own  sovereign,  were  the  sole  rewards  of  his  letters  that  he  had  completed 
of  his  labour.    Of  the  history  he  af-  it,  no  traces  were  found  among  his 
terwards  published  an  abridgment  in  papers,  except  a  prefatory  discourse 
Eiu^lirii.  too  unfinishiKi  to  meet  the  puUie  eTe« 
The  predSectiNMi  he  had  conceived  The  subject  has   been  treated    bj 
for  09  MnMi  of  the  J^aat,  whoii^  Champfott,  a  lata  IVcndi  fnrHer^  s«d 


1881.3  Lkm  if  Urn  JMi^Ar  WUHam  Jmm.  081 

oneoftliebettainoDgRaclMrtflchooL  ftckm of eMfeem  iBanilBg 0?eiiftiaIly 

In  a  play  called  Mustapha  and  Zeaiw  prored  of  ringular  ienrice  to  him  in 

gir.    I  do  not  recollect,  and  have  not  Ida  juridical  capacity, 
now  the  means  of  ascerUuniiig,  whe-        In  1771  he  published  in  French  a 

ther  that  fine  dramat  the  Solimano  of  pamphlet  in  answer  to  Anquetil  du 

Prospero  Bonarelli,  is  (bunded  on  thft  Perron's  Attack  on  the  University  of 

same  tragic  incident  in  the  Turkish  Oxford,  hi  the  discourse  prefixed  to 

History.  his  '' Zfaid-Avesta;"  and  entered  on 

An  excursion  which  he  had  medi-  **  A  History  of  the  Turks,"  the  in- 

tated  to  Florence,  Rome,  and  Naples,  troduction  to  which  was  printed,  bat 

ha  was  under  the  necessity  of  post-  not  nuide  public  till  after  his  death* 

poninff  to  a  fiiture  occasion.    On  his  He  had  a  design  to  apply  for  the  of- 

wayHMuJE  he  direrged  to  Geneva,  in  fice  of  minister  at  ConstanthM>|^,  in 

hopes  of  seeing  Voltaire ;  but  was  the  event  of  a  termination  of  the  war 

disappointed,  as  the  Frenchman  ex-  with   Russia,    and   looked   forward 

cused  himself,  on  account  of  age  and  with  eagerness  to  an  o[)portunity  of 

sickness,    firoro    conversing    with   a  contemplating  the  Turkish  roannenr 

stranger.    At  Paris  he  succeeded  by  at  their  soiuxe.    A  smaU  vcrfume  of 

the  help  of  some  previous  knowledge  his    poems,    consisting    chiefly    of 

of    the  Chinese  character,    and  by  translations  from  the  Bastem  lan« 

means  of  Couplet's  Version  of  the  guages,  with  two  prose  dissertationa- 

Works  of  Confucius,  in  construing  a  annexed,  made  their  appearance  in 

poem  by  that  writer,  from  a  selection  the  following  year,    when   he  was 

in  the  king's  library,  and  sent  a  lite-  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  So- 

ral  version  of  it  to  his  friend  Re-  ciety.    From  the  preface  to  the  po-r 

viczkL     From   the  French  Capital  ems,  it  appears  that  his  relish  for  the 
the  party .  returned  through  ^>a  to  .  Greek  ana  Roman  writers  had  now 

England.     During  their  wort  resi-  returned;   and  that  he  justly   re-^ 

dence  at  Spa  he  uetched  the  plan  of  garded  them  as  the  standard  of  true 

an  epic  poem,  on  the  discovery  of  taste.    His  terms  not  having  been 

Britain  by  the  Prince  of  Tvre.    The  regularly    kept   in    the    University^ 

suggestion  and  advice  of  us  firiends,  (where   hb  mother  and  sister  had 

who  thought  that  abilities  and  at*  still  omtinued  to  reride)  he  did  not 

tauiments  like  his  required  a  more  take  his  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 

extensive  sphere  of  action  than  was  till  the  Easter  of  1773*    In  the  Ja-^ 

afibrded  them  by  the  discharge  of  his  nuary  following  he  was  called  to  the 

duties  as  a  private  tutor,  strengths  bar.    At  the  conclusion  of  the  preface 

ened,  probably,  by  a  consciousness  of  to  his  Commentaries  de  Poesi  Asi- 

his  own  power,  induced  him  to  relin-  atica,  published  at  this  period,  he  an«. 

quish  that  employment,  and  hence-  nounces  his  determination  to  auit  the 

forward  to  apply  himself  to  the  study  service  of  the  muses,  and  apply  him-» 

and  practice  of  the  law.    An  almost  self  entirely  to  his  professioniil  stu- 

enthusiastic  admiration  of  the  legal  dies.    In  a  letter  to  Revicski,  of  Fe« 

institutions  of  his  own  country,  a  bruary,  1775,  wa  find  hfan  declaring 

pure  and  ardent  sseal  for  civil  liberty,  that  he  no  longer  intended  to  soKcii 

and  an   eminent  indqiendence  and  the  embassy  to  Constantkiople.  This 

uprightness  of  mind,  were  qualifica-  year  he  attended  the  sprint  circuit, 

tions  that  rendered  this  destination  of  and  sessions  at  Oxford ;  and  the  next 

his  talents  not  less  derirable  in  a  was  appointed  one  of  the  commis* 

public  view  than  it  was  with  refer-  sioners  of  bankrupts,  and  was  to  be 

ence  to  his  individual  interests.    He  found  regularly  as  a  legal  practitioner 

accordingly  entered  himself  a  mem«  in  Westminster  HalL    At  the  same 

ber  of  the  Temple,  on  the  J  9th  of  time,  that  he  might  not  lose  sight  of 

September,  1770.    To  faculties  of  so  classical  literature,  he  was  assiduous 

comprehensive  a  grasp,  the  abandon-  in  his  peruwd  of  the  Grecian  orators, 

ment  of  his  phindorical  researches  and  employed  himself  in  a  version  of 

was  not  indispeiisaUe  for  the  sue-  tiie  Orations  of  Isous;  nor  does  he 

cessful  prosecution  of  his  new  pur-  appear  to  have  broken  ofif  his  corres- 

sidt.    Variety  was  perhaps  even  a  pondcoce   with   leaned  foreigners, 

necessary  aliment  of  nis  active  mind,  among   whom    were   the   voungeet 

which  without  it  might  have  drooped  Schultens,  and  G.  8.  Miohaeus.   The 

and  languished.    Indeed^  the  culU^  troadiilioiictflmus^  which  mMtrt  to 


68^>  lA9t9^^Ui0Poets.^r^ir  William  Jon^s*.  ZP^e. 


be  executed  with  fidelity,  was  pub-  idng  of  June,  suggested  the  fmblii 

lulled  10  1779,  with  a  d^icadon  to  tion  of  this  tract.    In  the  autumn  of 

Earl  Bathurst,  in  which  he  declares  this  year  he  made  a  journey  to  Pa- 

*'  his  Lordship  to  hare  been  his  great-  ris^  as  he  had  done  the  preceding 

est,  his  only  benefactor."     His  late  summer.    During  a  fortnight's  resi- 

appouitment    is   the    obligation     to  dence  in  that  capital,  he  attended 

which  he  refers.  some  causes  at  the  Palais ;  obtained 

A  vacancy  had  now  occurred  on  access  to  a  fine  manuscript  m  th» 
the  bench  at  Fort  William,  in  Ben-  royal  library,  which  opened  to  him 
ffal ;  and  Jones  was  regarded  by  a  nearer  insight  into  the  manners  of 
his  brethren  at  the  bar  as  the  fittest  the  ancient  Arabians ;  and  mingled 
pe^cson  to  occupy  that  station.  The  in  the  society  of  as  many  of  the 
pi^trouage  of  tne  minister,  however,  American  leaders  as  he  could  faU  in 
was  requisite  to  this  office;  and  with,  purposing  to  collect  materials 
the  violent  measures  which  govern*  for  a  future  history  of  their  unhappy 
ment  had  lately  adopted,  with  re-  ecmtest  with  the  mother  country,  la 
apect  to  the  American  .Colonies,  were  the  midst  of  this  keen  pursuit  of  pro- 
fiir  firom  being  such  as  accorded  tessional  and  literary  eminence  he 
with  his  notions  of  freedom  and.  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  his  mother, 
justice.  He  was  resolved  that  no  who  had  lived  long  enough  to  see 
consideration  should  induce  him  to  her  tenderness  and  assiduity  in  the 
surrender  the  independence  of  his  conduct  of  his  education  amply  re- 
judgment  on  this,  or  any  other  na-  warded. 

tlonal  topic.  "  If  the  minister,"  says  An  Essay  on  the  Law  of  Bail- 
he,  in  one  of  his  letters  to  his  pupil,  ments,  and  the  translation  of  an  Ara- 
Lord  Althorpe,  *'  be  offended  at  the  bian  Poem  on  the  Mohammedan 
style  in  which  I  have  spoken,  do  Law  of  Succession  to  the  Property 
speak,  and  will  speak  of  public  af-  of  Intestates,  to  the  latter  of  which 
lairs,  and  on  that  account,  shall  re-  undertakings  he  was  incited  by  his 
fuse  to  give  me  the  judgeship,  I  shall  views  of  preferment  in  the  East,  tes-* 
not  l>e  at  all  mortified,  having  already  tified  his  industry  in  the  pursuit  of 
a  very  decent  competence  without  a  his  legal  studies ;  while  on  the  other 
debt,  or  a  care  of  any  kind/'  His  pa-  hand,  several  short  poems  evinced, 
triotic  feehngs  displayed  themselves  from  time  to  time,  his  Intended  re- 
in a  Latin  Ode  to  Liberty,  published  linquishment  of  the  tuneful  art  to 
in  March,  1780,  imder  the  title  of  be  either  impracticable  or  unneces* 
Julii  Melesigoiii  ad  Libertatem,  an  sary* 

assumed  name,  formed  by  an  ana-        In  the  summer  of  17S2  the  inter* 

gram  of  his  own  in  Latin.  ests  of  one  of  his  clients  led  htm 

The  resignation  of  Sir  Robert  again  to  Paris,  firom  whence  he  re- 
Newdigate,  one  of  the  members  re-  turned  by  the  circuitous  route  of 
turned  to  .parliament  for  the  Univer-  Normandy,  and  the  United  Pkx>vinces. 
sity  of  Oxiord,  in.  the  meantime,  in-  In  the  spring  of  this  year  he  had 
duced  several  members  of  that  leara-  become  a  member  of  the  Society  for 
ed  body,  who  were  friendly  to  Jones,  Constitutional  Information.  A  more 
to  turn  their  eyes  towards  him  as  equal  representation  of  the  pec^le  in 
their  future  representative.  The  parliament  was  at  this  time  the  suh- 
choice  of  a  candidate  uudistinguish-  ject  of  general  discussion,  and  he  did 
ed  by  birth  or  riches,  and  recom-  not  fail  to  stand  fon^-ard  as  the  stre- 
mended  solely  by  his  integrity,  ta-  nuous  champion  of  a  measure  which 
lents,  and  learning,  would  hare  re-  seemed  likely  to  infuse  new  spirit 
fleeted  the  highest  honour  on  his  con-  and  vigour  into  our  constitutional 
stituents ;  but  many  being  found  to  liberties.  His  sentiments  were  pub- 
be  disinclined  to  his  interest,  it  was  licly  professed  in  a  speech  before  the 
thought  more  prudent  to  relinquish  meeting  assembled  at  the  London' 
the  canvass.  He  published  in  July  a  Tavern,  on  the  28th  of  May ;  and  lie 
small  pamphlet,  entitled,  an  Enquiry  afterwards  gave  a  wider  currency  to 
into  the  Legal  Mode  of  suppressing  them  from  tlie  press.  He  muntained 
Riots,  with  a  constitutional  Plan  of  that  the  representation  ought  to  be 
future  Defence.  The  insurrection  nearly  equal  and  universal ;  an  opi- 
which  had  for  some  days  disgraced  nion  in  which  few  would  now  be 
the  British  metropolis,  at  the  b<^-  found  to  comcide  ;  and  which,  if  he 


had  lived  a  little  ■  longer,  be  would       4.  Tniaitioii»  oofieen4ag  fh«  Pdugp. 

probal)ly  himself  have  acknowledged    ^   - .  , .     -, .. .  ...^ ^  ,       . 

to  be  erroneous.     At  Paris,  he  had       ;>•  Modem  Pohtics,  and  Geography  of 

written  a  Dialogue  between  a  Fanner  "fS  Mode  of  Governing  Bengal. 

and  a  Country    GenUeman   on   the  Arithmetic  and  GeomeSy,  anf  Mixed 

Principles  of  Government,  aiid  it  wa#  g^^^^,  ^^  ^^  Asiarics. 

published  by  the  Society.     A  biU  ot  q   Medicine,  Chemistry,  Surgery,  a&A 

indictment    was   found   agamst  the  Anatomy,  of  the  Indians. 

Dean  of  St.  Asaph,  whose  sister  he  9.  Natural  PxoductioM  of  India.. 

afterwards    married,   for  an  edition  10.  Poetry,  Rhetoxic,  and  Morality  of 

printed  in  Wales ;  and  Jones  avowed  Ana. 

hunself  the  author.  1 1.  Mu»w  of  Ac  Eastern  Nations, 

In  the  beginning  of  1783  appear-  12.  The   Shi^King,    or    300   Chinese 

ed  his  translation  of  the  seven  Ara-  Odes.  ,^    ^       ^         ,     .  «, .,  ,      4 

Koems,  suspended  in  the  temple  ^^jThe  best  Account,  of  Thibet  and 

at  IVfecca  about  the  commencement  ^^  ^^  Manufactures,  Agricultuit, 

of  the  sixth  centunr.  ^^  Commerce  of  India. 

In  the  March  of  this  year,  he  was  15   j^^^  Constitution  contained  in  the 

gratified  by  the  long  desired  appomt-  Defteri  Alem^ri,  and  Ayein  AcbarL 

ment  to  the   office  of  judge  in  the  le.  Mahratta  Constitution, 

supreme  court  of  judicature,  at  Fort-  _ 

WiUiam,  in  Bengal,  which  was  ob-  ^^  ^^   ^^^  ^^  ^^^  ^  ^ 

tained  for  him  through  the  interest  of  ^u^-  in  Arabicf                     • 

Lord  Ashburton ;    and  he  received  ^^  pubhsh  Law  Tracts,  m  Persian  at 

the    honour   of  knighthood   usually  Arabic. 

conferred  on  that  occasion.     The  di-  jo  print  and  publish  the  Psalms  of  Di- 
visions   among  his   political  friends  vid,  in  Persian  Verse, 
after  the  decease   of  that  excellent  To  compose,  if  God  grant  me  life, 
nobleman,  tlie  Marquis  of  Rocking-  1.  Elements  of  the  Laws  of  Engknd. 
ham,  afforded  him  an  additional  mo-  Modd— the  EsMty  on  Baihnent.    Arist 

tive  for  wishhig  to  be  employed  at  a    ^   ^^V-  /.  .1.    a       •       ^r- 

distance  from  his  country,  which  he    2.  The  Histoi^  of  the  American  War. 

no  longer  hoped  to  see  bU^db^  ^^^^^^^^^'u^J^^^ 
their  exertions.    He  was  immediately  ^^  Constitutioi  of  England, 

afterwards   united    to    Anna  Mana         Machmery.    Hindu  Gods. 
Shipley,  the  daughter  of  the  Bishop         Model— Homer, 

of  St.  Asaph,  a  learned  and  liberal  4.  Speeches,  Pohtical  and  Forensic 

E relate.    His  attachment  to  this  lady         Model— Demosthenes, 

ad  been  of  long  continuance,  and  he  5.  Dialogues,  Philosophical  and  Historical^ 
had  been  waiting  only  for  an  honour-         Models-Plato, 

able  independence   before  he  could  C  Letters, 
resolve  to  johi  tiie  fortunes  of  one  so         Model— Demosthenes  and  Plato, 
tenderly  beloved  to  his  own.  In  the  course  of  the  voyage   Uia 

Sir  William  Jones  embarked  for  vessel  touched  at  Madeira;  and  in 

the  Kast  in  April,  1783.    It  is  im-  ten  weeks  after  quitting  Cape  Verd 

possible  not  to  sympathise  with  the  Islands  arrived  at  that  of  Hinzuan 

feeluigs  of  a  scholar  about  to  visit  or  Joanna,  of  which  he  has  left  a 

places  over  which  his  studies  had  yery  lively  and  pleasing  description* 
thrown  the  charm  of  a  mysterious        In  September  he  landed  at   Cal- 

interest ;   to    explore  treasures  that  cutta ;  and  before  the  conclusion  of 

had  rested  as  yet   in    darknesa   to  the  year,  entered  on  the  performance 

European  eyes ;  and  to  approach  the  of  his  judicial  function,   and    deli? 

imagined  cradle  of  human  science  vered  his  first  charge  to  the  grand 

and  art.    During  his  voyage  he  made  jury,  on  the  opening  of  the  sessioiia. 

the  followuig  memoranda  of  objects  This  address  was  such  as  not  to  dia- 

for  his  inquiry,  and  of  works  to  be  appoint  the  high  expectations  that 

begun  or  executed  during  his  resi-  had  been  formed  of  him  before  hif 

dence  in  Asia.  arrival. 

1.  The  Laws  of  the  Hindus  and  Ma-        It  was  evident  tiiat  the  leisure,  or 
hommedans.  perhaps  even  the  undivided  attention 

2.  The  History  of  the  Ancient  World,  and  labour  of  no  one  man,  could  have 

3.  Proofs  and  lUustratioos  of  bcripture.  sufficed  foe  protecuting  re^archet  so 


ezlenclre  and  arduoat  as  dioae  he    Oujah,  odelmledattibahMI-flMe 
had  mariced  out  for  himaelf.  The  bb^    of  the  philosopher  Boudh>  and  tii0 
MMnation  of    others  in  this   design    resort  of  Hindu  pilgrims  from    all 
was  Uie  ohyious  method  of  remedy-    parts  of  the  East ;  and  retomed  bj 
ing  the  difficulty.    At  his  suggestion,    Gour,  formerly  the  residence  of  the 
accordingly^  an  institution    was,  in    sovereigns  of  BengaL    During'  thb 
January,  179i,  framed  as  closely  as    Journey  he  laboured  for    some  tiose 
possible  on  the  model  of  the  Royal    under  a  fit  of  illness  that  had  neariy 
Society  in  London;  and  the  presi-    terminated  his  life.    Tet  no  aoancr 
dency  was  offiered  to  Mr.  Hastings,    did  he  become  a  convaleacent  than 
then  Goremor-general  in  India,  who    he  applied  himself  to  the  study  of 
not  only  was  a  liberal  encourager  of    botany,    and  composed  a   metrfeal 
Persian  and  Sanscrit  literature,  but    tale,  entitled  The  Eodianted  Fruit, 
had  made  himself  a  proficient  in  the    or  Hindu  Wife ;  and  a  Treatiae  oo 
former  of  these  languages  at  a  time    the  Gods  of  Greece,  Italy,  and  India; 
when  its  importance  had  not  been    the  latter  of  which  he  communicaited 
duly  appreciated;    and   was    fami-    to  the  Society.     He  had  not  beea 
liarW  versed  in  the  common  dialects    many  months  settled  after  his  return 
of  BengaL    That  gentleman,  how-    to  Calcutta,  when  he  found  the  de« 
ever,  declining  the  honour,  and  re-    mand  made  on  him  ibr  his  company, 
commending  tiiat  it  should  be  con-    by  the  neighbourhood  of  that  plac^ 
ferred  on  the  proposer  of  the  scheme,    so  fire^uent  as  to  produce  a  trouUe- 
he  was  consequently  elected  presi-    some  mtemiption  to  the  course  of 
dent      The    names   of  Chambers,    his  literary  engagements.     Hethete- 
Gladwyn,  Hamilton,   and   Wilkins,    fore  looked  out  for  a  sitoafioo  mme 
among  others,  evince  that  it  was  not    secluded,  to  which  he  might  betake 
dUfficiut  for  Mm  to  find  coa4jutors.    himself  during  the  temporaiy  ccasa 
Ho#  well  the  institution  has  answer-    tions  of  his  official  duties  ;  and  nmde 
ed  the  ends  for  which  it  was  formed    choice  of  Chrishnanagur,  at  the  dia« 
the  public  has  seen  in  the  Asiatic    tance  of  about  fifty  miles,  whSch>  be» 
Resc^uxhes.  sides  a  dry  soil  and  pure  air^  |ioi« 

A  thorough  acquaintance  with  the  sessed  an  additional  recommenda* 
religion  and  literature  of  India  ap-  tion  in  its  vicinity  to  a  Hindn  Col* 
peared  to  be  attainable  through  no  lege.  Indeed  he  omitted  no  uc 
other  medium  than  a  knowledge  of  that  could  tend  to  facilitate  hia 
the  Sanscrit;  and  he  therefore  ap-  quaintance  with  the  learning'  j 
plied  himself  without  delay  to  the  ao-  manners  of  the  natives.  A  consjdeiw 
quisition  of  that  language.  It  was  not  able  portion  of  his  income  waa  set 
long  before  he  found  uat  his  health  aside  for  the  purpose  of  sirpportli^ 
would  oblige  him  to  some  restriction  their  sdiolars,  whom  he  engaged  finr 
in  the  intended  prosecution  of  his    his  instruction. 

In  a  letter  written  a  few        The  administration  of  justice 


sraoies.    in  a  lener  wrreien  a  lew        i  ne  aammiscrauon  oi  jusace  waa 

davs  after  his  arrival  in  India,  he  frequently  intemtpted  by  the  want 

informs  one  of  his  friends  that  ''as  of  mtegrity  hi  the  Puadita,  or  ex* 

long  as  he  stays  In  India,  he  does  not  pounders  of  the  statutes.    To  pre* 

expect  to  be  free  from  a  bad  diges-  vent  theposslUlit^of  sach  deoeptioo, 

tion,    the  morbus  litcratonim ;   for  this  upnght  magistrate  undertook  to 

which  there  is  hardly  any  remedv  comoiie   and    translate   a   body    of 

but  absdiienoe  finom  too  much  food,  Hinau  and  Mohammedan  laws^  and 

literary  and  culinary.     I  rise,"  he  to  form  a  digest  of  them  hi  iasitation 

adds,  ''before  the  sun,  and  bathe  of  that  of  the  Roman  law  framed 

after  a  gentle  ride ;  my  diet  is  light  bv  the  order  of  the  Bmperor  JuatS« 

and  naring,  and  I  go  early  to  rest;  man.    The  mmd  can  scaredy  con* 

yet  the  activity  of  my  mind  is  too  template  a  plan  of  utility  more  vast 

strong  ibr  my  constitution,   though  or  splendid  than  one  whidi  aimed  at 

natuimlly  not  infirm ;  and  I  must  be  preserving  the  fountain  of  rtt^it  un* 

satisfied  with  a  valetudinarian  state  contaminated  for  twenty  mifllona  of 

of  health."  ^  All  these  precautions,  people.  During  the  period  d  sesdona 

however,    did   not  avau  to  secure  and  term,  when  his  attendance  waa 

him  firom  violent  and  reiterated  at-  required  at  Calcutta,  he  usually  i«» 

tacks.    In  178i  he  travelled  to  the  sided  on  the  banks  of  the  Gangea, 

city  of  Benaias^  by  the  route  of  five  miles  from  the  court. 


1S81.3  Lives  of  the  PoeU.^Sir  WiUiam  iTones.  635 

In  1785  a  periodical  work,  called  tical  parts  of  the  Bible  are  translated, 

tbe  Asiatic  Miscellany,    which  has  into,  would,   I  think,  *  be  the  most 

been  erroneously  attributed   to  the  valuable  transfer  that  our  language 

Asiatic  Society,  was  undertaken  at  is  now  capable    of  reccivhig    from 

Calcutta]  and  to  the  first  two  vo-  foreign  tongues, 
lumes,  which  appeared  in  that  and        In   1787  he  flattered  himself  that 

the  foUowing  year,   he  contributed  his  constitution  had  overcome    the 

six  hymns  addressed  to  Iliudu  de-  climate ;  but  his  apprehensions  were 

ities;   a   literal   version    of  twenty  awakened  for   the  health    of  Lady 

tales  and  fables  of  Nizami,  expressly  Jones,  to  which  it  had  been  yet  more 

designed  for  the  help  of  students  in  unfavourable ;    and  he  resolved,    if 

the  Persian  language;    and  several  some  amendment    did    not    appear 

smaller  pieces.  likely,  to  urge  her  return  to  her  na« 

A  resolution,  which  had  passed  the  tive  country ;  preferring,  he  said,  the 

Board  of  the  Executive  Government  pang  of  separation  for  five  or  six 

of  Bengjd^  for  altering  the  mode  of  years,    to    the    anguish,    which    he 

paying  the  salaries  of  the  judges,  should  hardly  survive,  of  losing  her. 
produced  from  him  a  very  spirited        At  tlie  beginning  of  1789  appeared 

remonstrance.     The  affair,  however,  the    first  volume    of  the    Society's 

Beems  to  have  been  misconceived  by  Researches,  selected  by  the  President, 

himself  and    his    brethren    on    the  Two  other  volumes  followed  during 

Bench ;  and  on  its  l)eing  explained  his  life-time,  and  a  fourth  was  ready 

the  usual  harmony  was  restored.   At  for  the  press  at  the  time  of  his  de« 

the  commencement  of  1786,    while  cease. 

this  matter  was  pending,  he  made  a  In  the  same  year  he  published  his 
voyage  to  Chatigan,  the  boundary  of  version  of  an  ancient  Indian  drama  of 
the  .British  dominions  in  Bengal  Calidas,  entitled  fiacontala,  or  the 
towards  the  east  In  this  ^Indian  Fatal  Ring;  a  wild  and  beautifiil 
Montpelier,"  where  he  describes  *^  the  composition,  which  makes  us  desire 
hillocks  covered  with  pepper  vines,  to  sec  more  by  the  same  writer,  wiio 
and  sparkliiig  with  blossoms  of  the  hat  been  termed  theShakspeare  of  In- 
cofiee  tree,"  in  addition  to  his  other  dia,  and  who  lived  in  the  last  century 
literary  researches  he  twice  perused  before  the  Christian  era.  The  doubts 
the  poem  of  Ferdausi,  consisting  of  suggested  by  the  critics  in  England, 
above  sixty  thousand  couplets.  This  concerning  the  authenticity  of  this 
he  conndered  to  be  an  epic  poem  as  Work,  he  considered  as  scarcely  dc«> 
majestic  and  entire  as  the  Iliad  ;  and  serving  of  a  serious  reply, 
thought  the  outline  of  it  related  to  a  In  his  discourses,  delivered  before 
single  hero,  Kliosrau,  (the  Cyrus  of  the  Bodety,  he  discusses  the  origin 
Herodotus  andXcnophon),  whom,as  of  the  several  nations  which  inhabit 
he  says,  *'  the  Asiadcks,  convershig  the  great  continent  of  Asia,  together 
with  the  Father  of  European  History^  with  its  bonlercrs,  tnoinitoinccrs,  and 
described  according  to  their  popular  islanders ;  points  out  the  advantages 
traditions  by  his  true  name,  which  to  be  derived  from  the  concurrent  re- 
the  Greek  •  alphabet  could  not  ex-  searches  of  the  members  of  the  Bo- 
press."  A  nearer  acquaintance  with  cicty,  amongst  which  the  confinn.i- 
the  great  eoic  bard  of  Persia  had  tion  of  the  Mosaic  account  of  tl»e 
now  taught  liim  therefore  to  retract  'primitive  world  is  justly  hisisted  on 
the  assertion  he  had  made  in  his  is  the  most  important :  and  enlarges 
Commentary  on  Asiatic  Poetry,  that  6n  the  philosophy  of'^  the  Asiatic^. 
"  the  hero,  as  it  is  called,  of  the  Besides  several  other  essayd,  parti- 
poem,  was  that  well  known  Hercules  cular  dissertations  are  allotted  to  the 
of  the  Persians,  named  Rnilem ;  al-  subjeets  of  the  Indian  ehnn^lo^ ; 
though  there  arc  several  other  hei  the  antiquity  of  their  Jiodlac,  Which 
roes,  or  warriors,  to  each  of  whmn  he  maintains  not  to  have'beeii  formed 
their  own  particular  glory  is  assign-  from  the  Greeks  or  Arabs;  the  lite^. 
cd."  At  the  time  of  writing  this,  he  rature  of  the  Hindus ;  and  the  mn- 
had  an  intention,  if  leisure  should  be  slcid  modes  used  by  that  i>eoj)le, 
allowed  him,  of  translating  the  whole  In  the  course  of  the  tet  two  yenrs 
work.  A  version  of  Fenlausi^  either  he  edited  tlie  Persian  porm  by  1  Ia- 
in verse  unfettered  by  rhyme,  or  in  tcfi,  of  LalR  and  Mi:j»w>n,  tlw  Pe- 
mch  numerous  prose  as  the  prophc-  trarch  and  Laura  of  the  Orientals, 

Vor.  IV.  3  A 


636                       Lives  of  the  Poeis. — Sir  WiBiiin  Janes.  [[Dte.* 

The  book  was  published  at  his  own  an  inflammation  in  thie  liyer.    Tliff 

cost ;  and  the  profits  of  the  sale  apr  disorder  was^  howerer,  soon  disco* 

propriated  to  the  relief  of  insolvent  yered  by  the  penetration  of  the  phy* 

debtors  in  the  goal  at  Calcutta.  sician  who  alter  two  or  three  days 

In  1793  Lady  Jones^  to  whose  was  called  in  to  his  assbtance ;  but  it 
constitution^  naturally  a  weak  one,  had  then  advanced  too  far  to  yield  to 
the  climate  continued  still  unpropi-  the  efficacy  of  the  medicines  usually 
tious,  embarked  for  England.  The  prescribed^  and  they  were  adminls- 
physicians  had  long  recommended  a  tered  in  vain.  The  progress  of  the 
return  to  Europe  as  necessary  for  the  complaint  was  uncommonly  rapid^ 
restoration  of  her  health,  or  rather  as  and  terminated  fatally  oil  the  527tn  of 
the  only  means  of  preserving  her  April,  1794.  On  the  morning  of  that 
life ;  but  her  unwillingness  to  quit  dav^  his  attendants,  alarmed  at  the 
her  husband  had  hitherto  retained  evident  symptoms  of  approaching 
her  in  India.  His  ea&pemess  to  ac-  dissolution,  came  precipitately  to  ^B 
complish  his  great  object  of  pre-  the  friend  who  has  now  the  melan- 
pariug  the  Code  of  Laws  for  the  choly  task  of  recording  the  moumiijl 
natives  would  not  suffer  him  to  ac-  event :  not  a  moment  was  lost  in  re- 
company  her.  He  hoped,  however,  pairing  to  his  house.  He  was  Iyin| 
that  by  the  ensuing  year  he  should  on  a  bed,  in  a  posture  of  meditanal^ 
have  ejcecuted  his  design ;  and  giving  and  the  only  symptom  of  remalniiy 
up  the  intenUon  he  had  had  of  making  life  was  a  small  degree  of  motion  ia 
a  circuit  through  Persia  and  China  the  heart,  which  after  a  few  seconds 
on  his  return,  he  determined  to  ceased,  and  he  expired  without  # 
foUow  her  then  without  any  devia-  pang  or  groan.  His  bodily  suffering 
tion  from  his  course.  In  the  begin*  nrom  the  complacency  of  las  feature^ 
ning  of  1794  he  published  a  trans-  and  the  ease  of  his  attitude,  cpolft 
lation  of  the  Ordinances  of  Menu,  not  have  been  severe ;  and  his  mSni 
on  which  he  had  been  long  em«  must  have  derived  consolation  fioi 
ployed,  and  which  may  be  regarded  those  sources  where  he  had  been  il 
as  iuitiatory  to  his  more  copious  pan-  the  habit  of  seeking  it,  and  where 
dect.  alone  in  our  last  moments  it  can  be 

The  last  twenty  years  of  his  life  found."     *^  The  funeral  ceremony,* 

he  proposed   passing  in  a  studious  adds  his  noble   biographer,    '*  was 

retreat  after  nis  return  to  England ;  performed    on     the    following    day, 

and  had  even  commissioned  one  of  with  the  honours  due  to  his  puN 

his  friends  to  look  out  for  a  pleasant  lie  station ;   and  the  numerous  at- 

country-house  in  Middlesex,  with  a  tendance    of  the    most    respectable 

garden,  and  ground  to  pasture  his  British   inhabitants  of   Calcutta  ^ 

cattle.  vinccd  their  sorrow  for  his  loss,  and 

But  this  prospect  of  future  ease  their  respect  for  his  memory.  The 
and  enjoyment  was  not  to  be  rea-  Pundits  who  were  hi  the  habit  of  a(- 
lized.  The  event,  which  put  an  un-  tending  him,  when  I  saw  them  at  a 
expected  end  both  to  that  and  to  his  public  durbar,  a  few  days  after  that 
important  scheme  for  the  public  ad-  melancholy  event,  could  neither  re- 
vantage,  cannot  be  so  well  related  strain  their  tears  for  his  loss,  nor  Jind 
as  in  the  words  of  Lord  Teignmouth.  terms  to  express  their  adrairatiod  M 
*'  On  the  20th  of  April,  or  nearly  about  the  wonderful  progress  which  he  liad 
that  date,  after  prolonging  his  walk  made  in  the  sciences  which  they  pro- 
to  a  late  hour,  during  which  he  had  fessed." 

imprudently  remained  in  conversa-  A  domestic  affliction  of   the  se- 

tion   in  an  unwholesome    situation,  verest  kind  was  spared  him  by  his 

he  called  upou  the  writer  of  these  removal  from  life.    Eight  years  after 

sheets,  and  complained  of  agueish  that  event,  his  sister,  who  was  nuuw 

symptoms,  mentioning  his  intention  ried  to  an  opulent  merchant  retired 

of  taking  some  medicine,  and  repeat-  from  business,  perished  miserahly,  m 

ing  jocularly  an  old  proverb,   that  consequence  ot  her  clothes   having 

"  an  ague  in  the  spring  is  medicine  taken  fire. 

for  a  king."    He  had  no  suspicion  at  His  large  collection  of  Sanscrit, 

the  time  of  the  real  nature  of  his  in-  Arabic,    and    other  eastern    mani^ 

disposition,  which  proved  in  fact  to  scripts,  was  presented  by  liis  widow 

be  a  complainl  comtnow  m  l^ew^,  v^  Vcl<^  13U)>^al  Society.    A  catalogue 


IMI.;]                 Lwu  6fUm  Fbeis.'-^Sir  WiiUemk  JoneM.  997 

M  them^  compiled'  bf  Mr.  WilkloA^  UnlTenity  College^  Qtfard,  ky  hady^ 

it  inserted  in  his  works.                     :  Jones^  with  the  following  inscription : 

-   The  foUowing  list  of  desiderata  m.s.                           , 

wa»  found  among  hio  papers,  afte.  Q.uiJJS'iJ'lfiK.SS'lI'^rjSSe.j.nm 

bis  decease.  M»guk  comnUvit  gloriA. 

f  n^;.  Inirenium  in  illo  cnt  scientiaram  omniiim  capax». 

.»       ..     •          x«u».          ^  _  ,.      .  DlBcipllnisque  optimls  dlllgentlMlin^  ezcolttim.  ■ 

The  Ancient  Aeograpfajr  or  India,  &c.  Knt  IndDlas  ad  virtntem  eximia. 

from  the  PiuAaM.  £^  ^  JostiUA,  Libertate»  Religtone  riadlcaiuli 

A    Botaniol    Detaipdan    of    Indian  Qnl«inld  Mtem^ifi'leJel  iwoertnm 

Plants,  nom  the  Coshas,  &c.  CoatiUb.£xemplo,  Anctoiitate  Tinu  promoren^ 

A  Grammar  of  the  Sanwrrit  Langaage,  'R?i?"^!f?j5!.?''i2?j'!^^ 

^_      ti>   *  •                                         o  -0  »  Etiam  nunc  tnetur  acque  omat. 

from  Jraumi.  FnetUuiUMimam  hnoc  Tiraniy 

A  Dictionary  of  the  Sanscrit  Language,  Ci»n  a  proviocU  Bengam, 

AMD  thirty-two  origbud  Vocbnlarie.  ud  ."^piU^iSlStbtiST" 

NimctL  Beditom  In  patriam  medltaretor. 

On  the  ancient  Music  of  the  Indians.  ^  ^  ,    lumtnti%morbij\%opDret^u 

On  ^  Medical  Substttieea  of  India,  ^'^•'^»'^^J%^S\?iSb^.  ^^^^'"' 

and  die  Indian  Art  of  Medidne.  Ipse  ollm  loeiiu  iDcIarulnet* 

On  the  PhikMOohv  of  the  Andent  In*  loUfdeinmeinoria^potiMimiun  coaMrvaretor. 

J.                             "^^  HoDorarmm  hoc  monumentum 

oans.  Anna  MarU  filia  Joaatbaii  Shipley,  Bpia.  Aiaph. 

A  Tramlation  of  the  Vlda.  Coi^agiiao,  B. M. 

On  Ancient  Indian  Geometry,  Astro-  m    ^i.              ^'^'    a         ^^  s      k 

nomy,  and  Algehra.  ,To  the  name  of  poet,  as  it  impMes 

A  Translation  of  the  Purinas.  the  possession  of  an  faiventive  faculty, 

Transktion  of  the  Mah&bharat,  and  8lr  William  Jones  has  but  little  pre- 

k4m4yan.  tension.      He  borrows  much;    and 

On  die  Indian  Theatre,  &c.  ftc  what  he  takes  he  seldom  makes  bet« 

On  the  Indian  Comtdladons,  with  their  ter.    Yet  some  porUon  of  sweetness 

Mythology,  from  the  Puriuiaa.  and  elegance  must  be  allowed  Wm. 

The  History  of  India,  before  the  Ma.  jn  the  hymns  to  the  Hindu  deities, 

faoo^dw   Ck)Qqaea^  from  the  Sanaoit  ^he  imagery,  which  is  derived  chiefly 

tJaebmir  I"*toHC8.  ^^  horn  Eastern  sources,  is  novel  and, 

Tb.  H.M0.7  or  Aidn.  bdbn  MohMu  'i*"^^-    That  add^wed  to  Kara- 

iQ^            '  yena  is  in  a  stram  of  smgular  mag- 

A  Tranalatbn  of  the  Hamisa.  nificcnce.     The  description.   In  the 

A  Translation  of  HarirL  fourth  stanza,  of  the  creative  power 

A  TransUdon  of  die  F&cahatil  Khn-  or  intelligence,  issuing  from  the  pri- 

laflL    Of  the  C&fiah.  mal  germ  of  being,  and  questioning 

Persia.  itself   as  to  its  own  faculties,   has 

The  History  of  Persia,  from  andiorities  somethmg  in   it  that  fills  the  mind 

•In  Saaserit,  Arabic,  Greds,  Tnrfciih,  Per-  ^^h  wonder. 

***Sii!rS^*p^il!!°ffSjj^«;    *.«».u*iJi  What  four-formM  godhead  came, 

inSSJT                                  translated  i(,rith  «a«ftil  stole  and  bSmy  diadem? 

A  Dicdonaiy  of  pore  Pe^ia.w^eh-1.  ^^^TB^r^'^'in  ^^ 

Chma.  „    538*^  A        ^i.'            a^ 

Tfsnsladon  of  die  Shi-cmg.  "•  ^»  '*r  "*^  his  eyes  fi»- 

1^TertofCan.fti4«i,veiMlytr«i..  gat  whilJ?Ci^Uiiibe«mght, 

Tartarv  One  plain  he  saw  of  living  waters  Uue^ 

AHisloryof  die^ffNad0ns,diiefly  ^  Th«  qmng  nor  saw  nor  kn^ 

of  die  MoLu  and  OdmianTft^^  ^en  m  h^  parent  .tolk  agam  retired, 

Turkish  andPersian.  ^^  Widiresdess  pain  for  ages  he  mquired 

Aum»u«>uirwN»i.  What  wcre  his  powcrs,  by  whom,  and 

By  an  unanimous  vote  of  the  East  ^by,  oonfm'd? 

India  Company  Directors,    it  was  -^^h  doubts  pcrplcx*d,  widi  keen  hnpatii. 

resolved,  that  a  cenotaph,   with    a  eoce  find, 

suitable  inscription,  should  be  raised  He  itose,  and  rising  heard 

to  his  memory  in  St  Paul's  Cathe-  Th' unknown,  aUinowing  word, 

dral ;  and  that  a  statue  of  him  should  Brahma !  no  more  in  vain  research  persist, 

be  sent  to  Bengal,  for  the  purpose  My  veil  diou  canst  not  move.— Go,  bid  all 

of  being  placed  there  in  a  proper  si-  worlds  cxisu 

tuatk>n.  To  the  hymns  be  sul^oins  the  nnt 

A  mommient  has  also  been  elected  Nemean  ode  of  Pindar,  *'  not  ofily,*' 

to  his  memory  in  the  aali^di^  «f  h^  Mys*  ''  in  tfaaa^ne  .MMim  •» 


638  Lives  of  the  PoeU.^Sir  WUUam  Jwn.  ZP^f^ 

nearly  as  po8sibIe>  but  almost  word  with  the  ingenuousness^  of  a  friend 

for  word   with  the  original;  those  and  a   scholar^   are   still  appaient* 

epithets  and  phrases  only  being  ne-  He  takes  up  implicitly  with  that  m- 

cessarily  added   which  are   printed  complete  and  partial,    though  Teiy 

in   Italic  letters."    Whoever  will  be  ingenious  system,  which  Burke  had 

at  the  trouble  of  comparing  him  with  lately  put  forth  in  his  essay  on  tibe 

Pindar  will  see  how  i^  he  is  from  Sublime  and  BeautiiiiL    He  has  sup* 

fulfilling  this  promise.  ported  that  writer's  definition  of  fieau* 

Of  the  Palace  of  Fortune,  an  In-  ty  by  a  quotation  from  Hermoffene^ 

dian  tale,  the  conclusion  is  unexpect-  A  better  confirmation  of  his  Uieory 

ed  and  affecting.  might  have  been  adduced  from  tkta 

The  Persian  song  from  Hafez  is  Plulebus  of  Plato,  in  which  Socrabet 

one  of  those  pieces  that,  by  a  name-  makes  the  same  distinction  as  our 

less  charm,  &sten  themselves  on  the  eloquent  countryman  has   taken  %» 

memory.  much  pains  to  establish  between  that 

In  the  Caissa,  or  poem  on  Chess,  sensation    which     accompanies    the 

he  is  not  minute  enough  to  gratify  a  removal  of  pain  or  danger,  and  wluch^ 

lover  of  the  game,  and  too  particular  he  calls  delight — and  positive  plea- 

to  please  one  who  reads  it  for  the  sure.* 

poetry.    The  former  will  prefer  the        As  the  work,  however,  of  a  yoong* 

Dcacchia  Ludus  of  Vida,  ot  which  it  man,  the  commentary  was  such  as 

is  a  professed  imitation ;  and  the  lat-  justly  to  raise  high  expectations  of 

ter  will  be  satisfied  with  the  few  the  writer. 

spirited  lines  which    the    Abbe  de        His  style  in  English  prose,  wheie 

Lillehas  introduced  into  his  L'Honime  he  had  most  improved  it,  that  is,  la 

des  Champs,  on  this  subject.     Vi-  his  discourses  delivered  in  IncLia  oa 

da's  poem  is  a  surprising  instance  of  Asiatic  History  and   Literature,   ii 

difiiculty  overcome,  in  the  manner  opulent  without  being  superfluous; 

with  which  he  has  moulded  the  phra-  dignified,   yet   not  pompous   or  in- 

seology  of  the  classics  to  a  purpose  flated.     He  appears  intent  only  oa 

apparently  alien  from  it ;  and  he  has  conveying    to   others    the    result  of 

made  his  mythology  agreeable,  tri-  his  own  mquiries  and  reflections  oa 

vial  as  it  is,  by  the  skill  with  which  the  most  important  topics  in  as  per- 

it  is  managed.    But  I  find  that  both  spicuous  a  manner  as  possible ;  and 

the  Caissa,  and  the  Arcadia,  which  the  embellishments  of  diction  come 

is  taken  from  a  paper  in  the  Guar-  to  him  unbidden  and  unsought.     His 

dian,  were  done,  as  the  author  says,  prolixity  does  not  weary,    nor  his 

at  the  age  of  16  or  17  years,  and  learning  embarrass,  the   reader.    K 

were  saved  from  the  fire  in  preference  he  had  been  more  elaborate,  he  might 

to  a  great  many  others,  because  they  have  induced  a  suspicion  of  artifice ; 

seemed  more  correctly  versified  than  if  he  had  been  less  so,  the  weiahti- 

the  rest.     It  is,  therefore,  hardly  fair  ness  of  his  matter  would  seem  to  nave 

to  judge  them  very  strictly.  been  scarcely  enough  considered. 

His  Latin  commentary  on  Asiatic        But  he  has  higher  claims  to  the 

poetry  is  more  valuable  for  the  ex-  gratitude  of  his  country,  and  of  man- 

traots  from  the  Persian  and  Arabic  kind,  than  either  prose  or  poetry  can 

poets,  which  he  has  brought  together  give.    His  steady  zeal  in  the  cause 

m  it,  than    to  be    commended  for  of  liberty,  and  justice,  and  truth,  is 

any  thing  else  that  it  contains,   or  above  all  praise ;  and  will  leave  his 

for  the  style  in  which  it  is  written,  name  among  the  few 

Certain  marks  of  hurry  in  the  com-  quos  ffquoB  amavit 

Sisition,  which  his  old  school-fellow,  Jupiter,  aut  axdens  crexit  ad  cchera  vxitiis» 

octor  Parr,  had  intimated  to  him  Di'sgeniti. 

*  *AX«)9c7f  SflTu  T/>a;,  (w  loixparig^  MroXo/ilSavow,  ipOwg  Ttg  Siatyooir  aa  ;  ISL  To;-  wsft  -n  rJk 
w>Ji  \tyifxt»x  "j^jJLXToiy  xo}  irtpi  roi  cy^fiara,  xoH  run  ifffxSn  rif  nXMagt  »al  rks  nh 
^tfyyciw,  xeu  Sa*  rk;  i>htaf  aaouffhiroue  rj^iila  x«)  dtXt/jrovf,  rif  vXii^oJccif  alv^titks  Mul 
ihias  xoAapxg  Xi/TMy  w^patitiwat.  *•*'  What  pleasures  then,  Socrates,  may  one  juKtly  cob- 
dude^  to  be  true  ones  ? — Soc.  Those  which  regard  both  such  colours  as  are  acoountad 
beautiful ;  and  figures ;  and  many  smella  and  sounds ;  and  whatsoever  things,  when  they 
are  absent,  we  neither  fed  the  want  of,  nor  arc  uneasy  for ;  but  when  present,  ve  fed 
and  enjoy  without  any  Tmxtaxe  of  uneasiness.**  He  then  goes  on  to  cxemf^ify  thaw  tnia 
pIsMawi  ia  fwntt  cdtowa^  bju   CmR^agE^^\>«Bje^^M4. 


1691.^  Saochuij  or  the  JPirai€i.  039 

LEISURE  HOUB& 
No.  IV. 

BACCHUS,   Om  THE  FIEATE8* 

From  the  Homeric  Hymns* 

I  MUST  beseecli  my  numerous  read-  ture^  and  the  fall  in  the  back,  are  ez« 

«rs  (or,  in  other  words,  the  readers  of  quisite ;  there  is  nothing  sharp,  no* 

the  LiO'ndon)  that  they  will  not  take  tning  angular ;  all  is  smooth  in  out- 

their   notion   of   Bacchus   from  the  line:   but  neither  is  there  anything 

«quab  personage  who  counterfeits  his  gross  or  puffy ;  nothing  reminding  us 

presence  over   the  door  of   a    spi«  of  ''  a  tun  of  man."    This  apparent- 

rit-shop.       If    their    memory,    in  ly  resembles  the  statue  at  the  villa 

its  range  of  association,  should  un-  Albani,    over    which    Winkclmann* 

luckily  light  on  that  blubber-cheeked  shed  tears  because  it  had  been  once 

urchin,  with  a  belly  like  the  tun  on  mutilated.    That  also  leans  against 

which  he  squats  astride,  they  will  in-  a  tree,  but  it  is  twisted  round  with 

fallibly  take  the  part  of  the  Pirates^  ivy  and  the  folds  of  a  serpent;  and 

and  this  will  be  a  serious  injury  to  the  drapery,  which  in  the  same  man- 

the  poetical  justice  of  the  fable.     If,  ner  is  thrown  over  it,  has  fallen  down 

however,  they  go  astray  in  this  mat-  as  low  as  the  waist,  instead  of  de- 

ter  it  is  no  rault  of  theirs ;  for  must  cendin^  at  once  from  the  shoulders, 

prodigious  pains  have  been  taken  in  and  it  is  the  trailing  folds,  that  would 

Pantheons  without  number  to   per-  otherwise  sweep  the  ground,  which 

vert  their  classical  knowledge,  and  are  gathered  up  and  disposed  so  as 

debauch  their  taste  as  connoissevirs.  to  rest  on  the  branch.    Of  the  bellff 

I  remember  in  a  certain  Mr.  Tooke,  of  this  statue  it  is  remarked,  that  no 

there  was  a  print  of  the  god  of  wine,  figure  of  the  antique  more  perfectly 

a  sort  of  Daniel  Lambert  in  mytholo-  conveys  the  idea  of  what  Anacreon 

Sr— a  lump  of  porpoise  obesity,  trun-  meant  by  a  belly  like  that  of  Bac- 
ed  along  in  a  car,  which,  very  an-  chus.  So  much  for  the  modem  tra- 
propriately,  resembled  a  tub.  \y  e  dition.  It  is  remarkable,  that  some 
used  to  daub  him  over  lake-colour ;  statues  of  Apollo  are  placed  in  this 
and  give  him  eyes  like  black-heart  posture,  leaiung  against  a  tree,  but 
cherries.  This  feat  in  the  art  of  with  a  swan  at  his  feet,  and  they 
design  might  possibly  have  been  in-  very  much  resemble  those  of  Bao- 
tended  to  disgust  school-boys  with  chus  in  the  physiognomy  and  shape : 
the  vice  of  tippling ;  but  it  was  a  in  fact,  they  were  often  confounded 
horrible  outra^  on  the  figure  which  together,  and  Macrobius  tells  us, 
I  have  at  this  moment  l>efore  my  that  the  one  Grod  was  frequently  ve» 
eyes,  in  a  plaster  cast ;  leaning  wiu  nerated  in  the  form  of  the  other.  (Sa- 
easy  indolence  t>f  composure  against  turn.  1.  4,  c.  18.)  ^'  Painters  and  poets 
the  stump  of  a  tree,  over  which  the  our  indulgence  claim,"  says  Horace  in 
panther's  hide  has  straggled  from  his  Francis's  version  of  him;  their  claim 
shoulders,  and  hangs  loosely  down  should  not  be  allowed  by  me,  in  this 
with  the  head  and  paws  conspicuous:  instance  at  least:  what  sacrilegious 
the  legs  are  crossed,  in  the  manner  buffoonery !  to  confound  this  twin 
peculiar  to  the  statues  of  Bacchus  personification  of  the  Sun  in  Ariet 
and  Apollo ;  the  fingers  are  pressing  (symbolized  by  his  horns)  with  an 
the  stops  of  a  tlute  which  he  applies  Olvmpian  jolly  companion ;  a  lord  of 
to  his  lips :  the  head,  with  the  hair  goblet-misrule,  and  a  patron  of  to- 
short  and  curled,  retahu  the  air  of  pers !  It  is  the  same  groveling  dege- 
boyhood,  while  the  limbs  have  the  neracy  of  sentiment  which  has  de- 
flower and  fulness  of  adolescence :  graded  the  emblem  of  elemental  fire 
the  folds  and  indentations  of  the  into  a  sooty  limping  blacksmith,  and 
flesh,  induced  by  the  natural  curva-  that  of  the  prolific  energy  of  nature 
turc  of  the  body  in  its  leaning  pos-  into  a  wrinkled  and  beamed  old  man 


*  nisiory  of  die  Art  of  Antiquity ;  of  which  there  is  a  French  tianslatioa  by  Hpbec. 


( 


640  Bacchus,  or  the  I*mtie$* 

with  ffoaU'  feet    What  a  different  a  tunic  reaching  only  to    the  ....««, 

idea   Horace  himself  concdiTed  of  and  girt  about  the  breast  and   the 

him,  notwithstanding  Juvenal's  aft-  slender   waist  ^th  two  ffirdles  at 

sertion,  ('^  satur  est  cum  dicit  Ho-  some  distance  from  each  other,  holda 

ratius  Eve!  7 — 62")  when  he  feigns  up  in  his  left  hand  a  wand  encircled 

himself  breaking  in  upon  him  una^  with  grapes.    He  has  hia  Hebris  or 

wares  among  "  remote  rocks,"  and  fawn's  sidn  on  his  shoulders,  and  a- 

finds   him   uttering   oracles  to  the  bove  it  a  mantle,  and  hia  eotkumi,  or 

nymphs!  while  not  only  the  foimtuns  buskins,  on  his  leffs.    The  image  of 

are  gushing  with  wine,  but  the  rivu-  a  young  girl  stands  beside  him  an  a 

lets  run  milk,  and  honey  drops  from  pedestal ;  one  of  the  Hkyades,  -per* 

the  oaks!  From  the  cabinet  figures  haps.    What  elastic  youth,  what  a 

of  the  babe  Bacchus  one  would  be  spirited  air  of  poetic  digmty  in  titt 

tempted  to  conjecture  that  a  colossal  turn  of  the  head,  the  elevation  of  the 

infant  had  been  mistaken  for  a  full*  eyes,  and  the  firm,    vigorous,  and 

grown  God;  and  that  some  blunder-  well-planted  attitude!   Then  again, 

mg  artist  had  tra;isferred  to  a  form  there    is   the  triumph    of   Bacchus^ 

of  mature  age  the  dimpled  rotundity  plate  156,  where  he  appears  in  his 

of  visage  and  prominency  of  figure,  sw-ma,  or  trailing  robe,   riding  on  a 

by  which  it  was  meant  to  describe  chariot  like  a  throne,  drawn  by  fbar 

the  form  of  tender  childhood.    How-  centaurs,  that  ^>ring  dififerent  ways 

ever  this  be,  our  elementary  systems  in  order  to  give  you  a  full  view  if 

of  mythology  faithfully  transmit  the  the   migestic   youth,    who    '^  tuns 

deception,  and  keep  the  gin-shop  in  and  winds  them"  at  his   pleasure: 

countenance.    They  are  not  merely  while    Abiadne  nts    pleased   and 

*'  adorned  with  sculptures,"  ^as  the  secure  beside  him.    Who  would  due 

title-page    to  the   lolio    edition    of  to  talk  of  ids  red  face  ?  Once  more, 

Dryden  s  Virgil  has  it,)  after  the  Sir  r— there  are  ;two  heads  hi  plate  1€I2, 

Tunbelly    Clumsy    model,    but  the  which  might  be  mistaken  for  those  of 

libel  in  the  text  connives  at  the  cari-  women.     Both    Spence  and   WitaM' 

cature   in   the    print.    The    artists,  moan,  indeed,  describe  the  youth  sf 

however,  are  redeeming  their  cha«  Bacchus  as  distinguished  from  that 

racter;  and,  what  is  somewhat  odd,  of  ApoUo  by  its  greater  effemimaen, 

are  leaving  the  dialogue- writers  in  the  These  gems  have  a  picturesque  heai- 

hirch.      Here  is,  for  instance,  Mr.  gear,  not  unlike  that  of  some  of  the 

Hmi,  who  has  put  out  a  clever  little  savage   women   in    the    South    Sea 

book,  entitled   the  New  Pantheon ;  Islands.    The  miira  or  fillet,  *^^wpf^ 

and  he  ^'  keeps  the  word  of  promise  with  two  gems,  binds  the  brow,  and 

to  the  hope"  in  the  neat  outline  en*  the  broad  leaves  of  the  vine,  disposed 

graving;  out  in  the  text,  we  have  fan-fa^on,  and* the  iaaer  leaf  turadl 

the  old  story  put  into  the  mouth  of  towards  vou,  spread  up  at  the  hack 

the  pupil  in  answer  to  the  question,  part  of  the  hettl,  and  iorm  a  sort  sf 

"  how  was  he  represented  ?"  *'  Some*  tiara,  which  leaves  the  humriant  hair 

times  as  an  aged  man*  with  a  vene-  visible  on  the  top ;  dusters  of  grapes 

rable  beard ;   (it  should  have  been  are  dropping  down  from  the  tempks 

stated  that  this  was  the  Indian  Bac*  below  the  ears,  where  they  fltmimr 

chus,    whose  marches,  like  Napo*  the  appearance  of  fantastic  ear-rings : 

Icon's,    did  not  allow  him  time  to  the  half  of  the  bosom  is  bared,  Ske 

Mhitve;)  but  more  frequently^ (here  the  breast  of  an  Amazon.    No  bloai^ 

it  comes)  as  a  young  man  with  homs,  ing" ;  no  puffing  up.    Mr.  Hort  will 

SL  red  face,  a,  bod^  bloated  and  puffed  turn  the  poets  upon  me:    he    w31 

up  !  "    Mr.  Hort  is  a  very  sennble  point,  perhaps,  to  Dryden  s  feast : 
man,  and  we  do  reckon  on  his  eras-  The  jolfy  God  in  triumph  rvmn 

•ng  this  piece  of  scandal  from  his  Flauh'd  with  n  purpk  gncc 

very  next  edition.     Let  him  look  at  Uoiitkom%huh«neMt /accf 

the    piece  of   Roman   sculpture   in  as  he  does  over  the  liquor-shop :  I 

Montfaucon,  plate  151,  where  Bao-  give  him  Dbyden  ;  but  I  have  £o- 

chus,  crowned  with  vine-leaves,  in  aiPinss  on  m^  side. 


*  The  heads  of  the  Indian  Bacchus  represent  a  youthfiU  fiice*  with  a  DioidiaJ  laisth 
of  bMid:  the  IbrehMMl  is  crowned  with  4-lsaves.  ^ 


j^l,]]  Bacchus,  or  the  Pirates.  641 

Arop  TO  ftiv  trtitfi,  &c. 

But  thou  art  not  in  form  tviBiglitly,  stranger ! 
Such  as  may  win  the  wotncin,  for  whose  take 
Thou  comest  fo'  Thebes  :*  for  that  long  hair  of  thine 
Flows  dowrt,  not  shorn  to'foil  ike  wrestler's  gripe ; 
Even  o'er  ^y  cheeks  poiir'd  loose>  and  full  of  love. 
Thy  skin  tiirough  delicate  care  is  ctear'COfnfXcxum'd  ; 
For  not  beneath  the  sunbeams^  but  the  shade. 
Thou  layest  nets  for  Venus  with  thy  beauty. 

Speech  qf  Pentheus,  Bacchw,  453. 

A  similar  description  of  Bacchus  is  given  in  the  fourth  book  of  the 
Endymion  of  Keats ;  the  work  of  a  poet,  "  sweet  mlken  floweret  fading 
timdessly." 

Within  his  car,  aloft,  young  Bacchus  stood. 
Trifling  his  iry-dart,  in  dancing  mood, 

\y  itib  sidelong  laugfamg ; 
And  little  rills  of  crimson  wine  imbued 
His  plump  white  arms,  and  shoulders,  enough  white 

For  Venus'  pearly  bite : 
And  near  hiih  rode  Siienus  on  his  ass. 
Felted  with  flowers  as  he  on  did  pass 

TipsUy  Quaffing. 

I  think  it  is  now. time  for  Bacchus  to  make  his  enMe^ 

THB   HYMN. 

Of  Bacchus,  son  of  glorious  Semele, 
How  he  appear'd  besiae  the  barren  sea 
Upon  a  jtitcng  crag,  I  now  shaill  dpeak : 
He  seem'd  a  youth,  the  down  ui>on  his  cheek ; 
The  locks,  tliat  dropp'd  in  dusters  round  his  head, 
Gleam'drayen-black,  &nd  nodded  with  his  tread ; 
His  nervous  shoulders  broad  a  purple  mantle  spread. 
Anon  there  sphmg  from  the  sh^'s  banks  of  oars 
Some  Tuscan  pirates ;  leaping  on  the  shores 
Through  the  bladE-surfaced  oeep,  IQ-doom'd,  unwise; 
They  look'd  upon  hkn,  and  wUh  winking  eyes 
And  interchanging  nods,  upon  him  strait 
Sprang,  and  on  ship-board  nurried  him  elate. 
They  raid  he  ^as  of  noUe  kings  the  son. 
And  fain  would  bind  the  tifhteninff  shackles  on. 
They  held  him  nbt :  the  mthes  tm  ofl^,  and  lay, 
Dropt  from  his  arms  and  ankles,  far  away. 
He  sate,  and  smiled;  and  in  his  eyeballs  bright 
There  sw«n  a  glory  of  csrulean  fight. 

The  steersman  recognized  that  beaming  eye. 
And  to  his  comrades  calfd  with  warning  cry  ; 
'*^  Bl-frited  men !  what  strength-excelling  Uod 
Seize  ye  to  bind  ?  The  eihlp,  that  on  Its  road 
PHed  Uie  lithe  sail,  sinks  powerless  with  the  load : 
ApoUo  of  the  silver  bow  is  he. 
Or  Jove  himself^  or  Neptune  Of  the  sea. 
His  bears  no  semblance  to  a  mortal's  face ; 
In  aspect  like'th'  Olympus-dwelling  race. 
Be  quick— dismiss  lum  on  the  solid  land. 
Nor  dare  to  touch  him  with  constraining  hand ; 
Lest,  if  in  aught  incensed,  he  call  the  sweep 
Of  baffling  blasts  and  eddies  of  the  deep." 
The  clflef  with  thwart  reply—"  Wretch  I  catch  the  wind  ! 
Hoist  sail,  set  every  rope,  the  work  for  men  to  mind: 
iE^ypt,  I  trust,  or  Cyprus,  if  I  please. 
This  youth  shall  visits  or  the  polar  seas^ 


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} 


Ml  Baechui,  or  the  PiraUs* 

Or  climes  beyond;  in  time  he  shall  unfold 

His  friends,  his  kinsmen,  and  his  stores  of  gold. 

Kind  Fortune  in  our  way  has  thrown  the  prize." — 

He  rears  the  mast  and  sail ;  the  crew  supplies 

Each  ready  rope :  a  fresh  and  steady  gale 

Blows  in  the  centre  of  the  heaving  sail : — 

"VVlien  miracles  appear'd ;  as  o'er  the  tide 

The  bounding  vessel  dipp'd  her  sable  side, 

Sweet-llavour'd  wine  in  rills  came  purling  red. 

And  clouds  of  odour  all  ambrosian  shed : 

They  gazed  with  looks  astonied,  blank,  and  dead : 

Upon  the  top-most  yards  a  broad  vine  clung 

Trail'd  here  and  there :  the  crapes  in  clusters  hung  : 

Round  the  slim  mast  the  ivy  s  blacker  green 

CurVd  flowering  up,  with  berries  gemm'd  between  : 

Wreath'd  foliage  garlanded  each  thong-loop'd  oar : 

They  saw  and  calr  d,  "  Ho  I  pilot,  m^e  for  shore  I  ** 

When  in  their  eyes  the  God  transform'd  appear'd  ; 

A  lion  on  the  topmost  deck  he  rear'd 

](lis  shape,  and  roar'd :  in  mid-ship  suddenly^ 

By  every  sisn  a  bear,  he  ramp'd  on  high. 

And  shook  his  shaggy  neck :  again  the  prow 

A  lion  watch'd,  and  scowl'd,  and  glared  below. 

They  to  the  poop  fled  thronging  and,  astounded^ 

The  wiser  steersman  in  their  fear  surrounded. 

Keen-springing  at  a  bound  he  grasp'd  the  chief; 

They  saw,  they  leap'd,  impatient  of  relief ; 

From  death  within  they  reckless  plunged  without : 

The  blessed  sea  received  their  hurried  rout : 

Dolphins,  they  cleft  with  finny  oafs  the  tide  ;* 

The  God  the  steersman  held,  and  gracious  cried^ 

'^  Good  pilot !  in  my  grateful  soul  confide ! 

I  am  the  shouting  Bacchus,  bom  from  love 

Of  Cadmus*  daughter  when  embraced  by  Jove." 

Hail !  boy  of  Mr-eyed  Semele  !  may  none 
Build  the  sweet  rhyme  forgetful  of  her  son  !— 

The  readers  of  that  delightful  book,  real  shapes  that  are  grouped  aroonJ 
the  Metamorphoses,  wul  recollect  the  feet  of  Bacchus,  and  .the  digni* 
that  Ovid  has  taken  up  the  same  fied  attitude  of  the  God  with  his 
story.  He  has  treated  it  with  more  thyrsus,  exceed  infinitely  in  pictu- 
of  dramatic  effect,  and  the  part  which  resque  taste,  and  unafiTected  subli- 
Bacchus  plays  has  more  of  strata-  mity,  the  roaring  and  rampinc^  ma- 
gem,  and  more  of  malice.  I  ques«  chinery  of  the  brute-transfomied  hero 
tion  whether  the  dallying  dissimula-  of  the  hymn :  although  it  must  be 
tlon  of  the  one  partakes  so  much  of  allowed  that  the  being  now  a  bear, 
the  romantic  and  supernatural,  as  and  now  a  lion,  and  in  different  parts 
the  serene  immobility  and  deriding  of  the  ship,  is *a  stroke  well  conceived 
silence  of  the  other.  WTierc  the  God  to  exempUfy  the  ubiquity  of  a  divinity, 
reveals  himself,  however,  Ovid  is  Perhaps  the  reader  may  like  to  judge 
superior  to  the  Homerida.     The  un<*  for  himself. 

METAMORPHOSES,    III.  X.  649. 

The  specious  God,  as  if  the  fraud  but  now 

Flash  d  on  his  sense,  gazed  from  the  crooked  prow 

O'er  the  wide  prospect  of  the  seas,  and  shed 

Apparent  tears :  ''  O  mariners  I "  he  said, 

"  Not  this  the  promised  shore,  the  prayed  for  land— 

What  act  of  mine  deserved  it  at  your  hand  ?       * 


*  This  is  an  Ovidian  refinement  on  the  original ;  but  it  vovlef  foist  itself 


Where  is  the  boast  if  je>  to  manhood  growi^ 
Deceive  a  boy  ?  the  many  mocking  one  ?  '* 

I  felt  mine  eyes  already  fill,  but  they 
Laugh'd  at  my  tears,  and  dashed  with  oars  the  spray : 
By  him,  the  Grod  himself,  I  swear  to  thee> 
(Nor  is  there  God  more  prompt  to  hear  than  he,) 
So  true  the  wonders  which  my  tongue  shall  tell^ 
As  that  my  words  all  common  faith  exceL 
In  the  mid-sea  the  ship  was  felt  to  stand. 
As  if  within  the  dock  it  press'd  the  sand. 
Amazed  they  lash  their  oars  and  hoist  the  sail. 
And  strive  to  win  their  course  by  wave  and  gale« 
Twined  ivy-sprays  the  tangled  oars  enring. 
And  round  the  sails  with  drooping  berries  cling: 
The  grapes  in  clusters  on  his  temples  nod ; 
Shrouded  in  vines  he  shakes  the  javelin  of  the  God  ; 
Tigers  around  and  shadowy  lynxes  He, 
Ami  moitled  panthers  grim  are  crouching  nigh. 

AH  IDLES. 


A  BOILED  PIG. 


A  Colonel  of  militia,  of  some  note 

For  portly  strut,  a  flaming  martinet, 
To  government  yclep'd  of  petticoat 

Did  homage ;  though  'twould  put  him  in  a  fret 
To  whisper,  that  Madame  la  Cohnelle 
From  the  famed  Wife  of  Bath  would  bear  the  bell. 

The  Major  was  a  wag,  demure  and  sly. 

And  oft  insidiously  would  jest  upon  it; 
And  say  that  in  the  twinkle  of  an  eye 

He  read  the  case ;  the  sovereign  wore  the  bonnet ; 
*'  Nay  now,"  said  he,  and  look'd  most  grave  and  bigj 
*'  You  dare  not  ask  your  friends  to  a  boiVd  Pig!" 

"  I'd  have  you.  Sir,  to  know  (my  wife  she  knows  it) 
That  in  my  own  house  I  am  lord  and  master  ; 

Depend  upon't,  shell  never  ask  who  chose  it, 
Boitd  Pig  I'll  have,  or  to  the  door  I  cast  her : 

Major,  you  have  carte  blancltc;  invite  to  dine 

Whatever  friends  you  wish,  as  I  shall  mine." 

What  pass'd  at  home  is  all  behind  the  curtain-^ 

Prayer  jocular,  or  meek  solicitation. 
That  the  good  lady  gave  consent,  is  cert^n. 

Pleased  doubtless  with  the  soft  expostulation : 
Piqued  too  this  fleering  M^jor  should  run  riot. 
Nor  let  her  wear  the  pantaloons  in  quiet. 

The  day  tirrived ;  and  all  the  usual  set. 

With  friends  from  ten  miles  round,  be  sure,  were  there : 
New  Stuh  and  silver-paper'd  epaulette 

Then  saw  the  light ;  and  Martins  jetty  glare 
Smooth'd  neat-toed  Hoby :  all  were  usher'd  in. 
And  made  their  leg,  with  something  of  a  grm. 

Dinner  announced,  the  Major  led  the  I^ady; 

She  smirking,  he  all  shrugg'd  humility ; 
Captain  and  Ensign,  at  the  sound  of  ''  ready," 

With  scuffling  slide  of  rude  gentility 
Went  shouldering  through  the  door,  and  down  the  stair  ; 
The  Colonel  wa£Ued  last^  the  blithest  there. 


f^  Sketpht^  on  ths  JIEfioad*  f^^ 

All  seated^  q|i;epnab  expecta^  Bf^te 

On  every  phiz  of  would«be  imconcejn  ; 
The  Migor's  servant  in  a  napkin  pat 

Had  tupk'd  a  pig>  juat  roaikd  to  a  turn : 
He,  to  the  kitchen  divixig  with  the  fish, 
loigg'd  bu«x,;tUl  the  bouyivaB  in  the  cUsh. 

Then  brisk  he  wafted  it  along ;  and,  ranghig 

The  stairs  with  heediiil  glances  up  and  down^ 
The  boitd  and  roasted  grunters  interchanffing. 

Full  fairly  eam'd  the  Major's  promised  crown  ; 
Clapp'd  on  die  cover,  snug  as  heart  could  wish/ 
Stalk'd  up  the  table,  and  set  down  the  dish. 

"  No,  Thomas!"  quoth  the  Colonel ;  '^  Thomas,  no  I** 

(And  lus  che^  buidbi'd  '  convivial  roff^-red'), 
'^  Take,  take  it  to  your  master  there  below  ; 

'Tis  better  at  the  bottom  than  the  head: 
Come,  Major  !-^you  shall  see  with  your  own  eyes ; 
Lift  up  the  cover ;  come,  come,  show  your  prize  I " 

**  Unmerciful,  indeed  1 "  the  Migor  cried. 

With  a  mock  candour  and  a  vanquish'd  air ; 
«  Well— If  I  must,  r "  and  da£rd  the  tin  ande  ; 

The  laughers  roar'd ;  with  flush,  and  gasp,  and  stare^ 
Out  burst  the  Colonel,  half  a  squeak,  half  yell, 
"  Roasted  at  last,  by  all  the  devils  in  Hell ! " 

His  eyes  reproachful  in  the  socket  rpU'd 

Upon  the  wife,  who  sate,  like  Th^,  by,hiip  ; 
But  not  a  muscle  of  her  features  told 

If  she  had  meant  to  please  him  or  deny  him ; 
Resolved  that  she,  at  least,  would  not  be  teazed^ 
Nay— -and,  perhaps,  not  very  much  displeased. 

The  Migor  sate  with  cucumber  composure. 

And  grave  coxnpassionating  length  of  face. 
As  though  he  felt  for  this  imtoward  disclosure. 

Proof  ocular  of  the  suspected  case. 
And  wish'd  ten  thousand  times  he  had  been  foil'd,-* 
^'  Come,  Colonel !  never  mind — u^e'U  call  iticiTdJ 


99 


SKETCHES  ON  THE  ROAD. 
No.  V. 


In  our  last  letter*  we  brought  you  pleased  us  most,  was  the  prettiness 

to  Genoa,  in  which  city  we  shall  not  — let  us  see,  aye,  prettiness  will  do, 

detain  you  long,  for  we  have  gone  of  the  women ;  their  heads  are  like 

far  since  we  wrote,  and  as  we  nave  those  of  Guido's  JVladonnas.     Few 

for  some  time  indulged  in  our  old  cities  of  the  same  size  can  make  a 

and  habitual  vice,  idleness,  we  shall  brighter  display  of  female    charms 

be  compelled    to  hurry  you  alon^  than  Genoa  aoes  on  the  morning  pro- 

with  more  than  usual  haste.     We  menade,  after  mass  on  feast  days,  in 

begin  then  with  Genoa,   and  pray  the  Strada  Balbi  or  Strada  Nuova. 

you  not  to    pish!  or  pshaw!  mpst  The  ladies  are  commonlv  habited  in 

grave   and  reverend  Signor,    if  we  a  costume  which  resembles  that  of 

confess  that  what  struck  us  first,  and  Andalusia,  and  is ,  pairticularly  neat. 


•  Sm  Noyembo;^  No.  X^UI,  PKe,495. 


l^Stl.^  SkdehMt  am  the  Mood.  €0 

and  modegt^  and  pretty ;  Imt  what    by  a  low,   bargain-driving  dupofli* 
shall  we  say  of  the  men  who  acconw    tion:  at  the  Opera,  one  night,  we  wera 
pany  them  r  Husbands,  Cicisbeos,  or    sitting  in  the  box  of  a  young  ladv*, 
first  cousins — the  varlets   are  such    handsome,  rich,  and  noble,  who,  m 
mean-looking,     ill-dressed    fdlows,    the  nuddle  of  the  performance,  ob-> 
that  one  might  suppose  them  to  be    serving  a  French  Marckand  in  tha 
the  laddes'vuets;  and  when  one  mixes    pit,  beckoned  him  to  come  to  her; 
with  them  in  society,  their  manners    and,  on  his  entering  the  box,  began 
are  not  calculated    to   remove  the    chaffering  about  the  prices  of  some 
impression  left  by  their  appearance,    silks  and  shawls :   we,  who,  more's 
The  Genoese  are  commonly  accused    the  pity !  are  quite  novices  in  the  art^ 
of  cupidity  and  avarice,  and  the  ao-    were  really  astonished  at  the  codneta 
cusation  is  not  unjust :  from  high  to    and  dexterity  with  which  she  cqii« 
low,  they  are  greedv  to  gain,  and    trived  to  make  the  Frenchman  lower 
vigilant  to  keep ;  theur  thrift  is  sor*    his  demand ;  at  length,  however,  he 
did,  and  they  do  not  blush  to  save    would  yield  no  further,  the  difference 
and  spare  even  to  meanness.    This    between  what  she  offered  and  what 
disposition  seems  to  be  inveterate,    he  asked  was  a  mere  trifle,  but  n^ 
for  it  does  not  forsake  them  in  the    ther  of  them  would  budge :    when 
social  hour.   We  were  invited,  with    the  fair  dame  found   all  her  m»« 
some  other  foreigners,  to  dine  with  a    nceuvres  ineffectual  her  tranquiUitj 
Genoese  of  distinction,  who  certainly    forsook  her,  she  burst  out  into  vuImt 
could  not  plead  a  narrow  revenue  in    violence,  called  the  poor  fellow  Vo^ 
excuse  of  his  parsimony.    The  table    Uur  and  Brigand,  and  almost  thrust 
was  laid  in  a  spacious  saloon,  paved    him  out  of  the  box.    There  were  two 
with    marble,  richly  adorned    with    other  ladies  present,  who  did  not  seem 
painting,  and  gilding,  and  Venetian    to  feel  either  shame  or  surprise  at 
mirrors    which  were  placed  almost    this  transaction,  but  on  the  contrary, 
all  round,  and  reached  from  the  ceil*    took  every  opportunity  to  assist  their 
ing  to  the  floor ;  the  ladies  were  ele-    friend  with  an  argument.    It  is  poa- 
gantly  dressed,  and  the  servants  had    sible,  that  observing  this  mercenarr 
on  their  finest  liveries.    The  appear*    dispoution  in  the  Genoese,    whi^ 
ance  of  the  gentlemen  was  far  less    forces  itself  upon  every  stranger's  at- 
respectable  than  that  of  English  me-    tention,  people  have  sometimes  as- 
c^nics  in  their  Sunday  doUies ;  the    suraed  consequences  which  the  facta 
master  of  the  house  wore  an  old-fa-    wiU  not  warrant, 
shioned  old   blue  coat,  with  brass        The  common  accusation  of  disho- 
buttons,  a  black  silk  waistcoat,  black    nesty  which   one    traveller  repeata 
neck-handkerchief,  nankeen  breeches,    after  another,  is,  we  apprehend,  as 
and  top-boots  I   The  meagre  dinner    little  deserved  by  the  Genoese  as  by 
corresponded  marvellously  Ul  with    any  other  Italians.    Quotations  from 
the  splendour  of  the  apartment  and    Virgil  or  Dante  are  very  little  to  the 
the  finery  of  the  fair  ffuests,  but  for    purpose,  let  us  look   at  the   facta, 
the  men  it  was  good  enough ;   we    The  Genoese  are  commonly  esteemed 
could  get  a  much  oetter  one  in  Paris    as  very  honest  servants  all  over  Italy^ 
for  two  francs ;  it  was  poor  in  quan-    and  in  Gibraltar  the  porters  are  com- 
tity,   and  ordinary  in  quality;   we    posed  of  the  natives  of  Genoa  and 
drankcommon  wine,  and  had  but  lit-    those  of  Barbary.    The  boatmen  at 
tie  even  of  that.    With  the  dessert,    the  same  place  are  always  Genoese, 
however,  one  lonely  melancholy  hot-    and  they  are  considered  very  honest 
tie  of  French  wine  was  produced,    fellows.    The  circumstance  mention- 
out   of  compliment  to  the  English    ed  by  Forsyth,  that  *'  native  porters 
there,  who  were  at  table.  The  whole    are  excluded  from  the  Porto  Franco,** 
was  hiurried    off  with  unmannerlv    (the  magazines  of  goods,  and  place 
haste,  and  after  dinner  a  cup  of  cot-    where  business  is  transacted,  &c.) 
fee  and  a  little  sip  of  Rosouo  broke    is  not  the  effect  of  suspicion  but  con- 
up  the  company.  venience.      The  Bergamasque  por- 
The  characters  of  men  necessarily    ters  have  existed  as  a  conn'atemitj 
influence  the  characters  of  women,    from  the  earliest  period  of  Genoese 
and  therefore  we  were  not  surprised    commerce :  all  the  money  which  they 
to  find  that  the  pretty,  poetical-look-    earn  is  paid  to  their  Capi,  by  whom 
ing  ladies  of  Genoa  were  unpoetized    they  are  governed  according  to  cer- 


646  Sketches  on  the  Roadm 

tifln  peculiar  laws  which  exist  among  indifferent  sanare  (Flazxa  del  An* 
themselves :  tiicy  support  one   ano-  nonziata).    Tliese  are  the  only  pro* 
ther  in  sickness  or  other  distress,  and  menadable  streets  inGenoa^'bat  thcj 
admit  none  into  their  community  but  are  indeed  fine :   they  consiat  of  a 
those  who  are  bom  at  Bergamo ;  in  long  succesnon  of  stately   palaces;, 
consequence    of    which    rule,    the  bearing  the  soimding  names  ^  of  their 
wives  of  Uiose  men  are  often  sent  to  ancient    proprietors,    as    Durmszo, 
Bergamo  wlien  the  time  of  their  deli«  Baibi^    Serra,  Negroni,   Doria,   &c 
▼eiT  approaches,  in  order  tliat  their  The   gorgeous  saloon  in  the  Serim 
children  may  inherit  tiie  privilege  of  Palace  is  perhaps  unequalled  in  the 
exercising  the  national  vocation.    It  world,  but  how  contemptible  it  is  to 
requires  a  tolerable  share  of  credu«  allow  the  Custode  to  beg  money  of 
lity  to  suppose  that  children  bred  and  visitors! — It   degrades  the  splendid 
taught  in  Genoa  will  remain  honest  wonder  to  a  show.    There  are  some 
because  they  were  bom  in  Bergamo,  of  the  most  impudent   beggars   in 
and  we  believe  no  one  thinks  ^any  Genoa  we  ever  met  with ;  in  one  of 
such  thing :  the  porters  are  found  to  the  churches  we  were  dodged  about 
be  more  manageable  and  more  ser«  for  half  an  hour  by  a  ragged  priest, 
viceable  as  a  body,  than  they  would  who  forced  us  to  listen  to  his  stupid 
be  while  existing  as  scattered  and  explanations  of  the  pictures^  ardu* 
unconnected  individuals;  for  this rea^  tecture,  &c.    and    wEen    we    went 
son,  advantage  is  taken  of  this  union  away  begged  us  to  give  him  some 
which  has  resulted  from  chance,  or  money  to  buy  a  cigar  !~^The  palaces 
from    very    remote    circumstances,  of  Genoa  are  generally  bedaubed  on 
and  the  Bergamasqiies  arc  protected  the  outside  with  painted   columns, 
and  encouraged.     These  men  expe-*  pilasters,  cornices,  &c. :  to  us  it  ap* 
rienced  very  severe  distress  during  pears,  that  if  modem  poverty  or  ra« 
the  latter  period  of  the  French  go-  pacity  have  stripped  these  aristocra* 
Temment,  from  the  many  obstmc-  tical  mansions  of  their  marble  fronts,  it 
tions  laid  in  the  way  of  commerce ;  would  be  better  to  see  the  plain  8tuc« 
they  contrived,  however,  to  exist,  and  co,  or  even  the  bare  walls,  than  these 
may  possibly  some  day  regain  their  shabby  apologies  for  ancient   mag- 
ancient  prosperity.    The  rule  which  nificcnce,  these  phantoms  of  glories 
*'  excludes  from  this  free  port  the  that  are  gone.    There  is  an  air   of 
clergy,  the  military,  and  women,  as  neglect  and  desertion  in  almost  all 
persons  who   may  pilfer,   but   who  the  palaces,  which  indeed   are    ge* 
cannot  be  searched,'   still  exists,  but  nerallv  "  a  world  too  wide"  for  the 
is  not  much  attended  to :  the  same  shrunken  circumstances  of  their  pre- 
mie would  be  as  useful  and  applica*  sent  possessors.    The  pictures   that 
ble  to  other  cities  as  to  (xenoa.  once  crowded  every  edifice  are  near- 
We  should  not  have  spent  so  many  ly  all  gone ;  we  saw  little  in  the  way 
words  on  this  subject,  but  as  we  have  of  the  Fine  Arts  that  we  remember 
spoken  freely  of  the  meanness  of  the  now,  except  the  Basso  Relievo  of  the 
Genoese,  we  thought  it  but  fair  to  Virgine  Acidolorata,  by  Michael  An- 
defend  them  on  a  point  in  which  we  gelo,    which   is  in  the  Albergo  de' 
believe  they  have  been  slandered ;  in-  Poveri.    This  divine  piece  we  shall 
deed,  we  are  always  happy  when  we  never  forget,    we  hope  at  least  wre 
can  wipe  off  an   opprobrium  from  never  shful, — nay,  we  are  sure   we 
any  set  of  men ;  it  is  ever  pleasant  to  never  can,  for  it  must  rush  into  oiur 
show  that  there  is  not  quite  so  little  minds,    whenever    any    thing    shall 
virtue  in  the  world  as  was  supposed,  wake  a  tender  and  solemn  emotion 
With  respect  to  the  scenery  we  have  within  us.    We  never  felt  more  forw 
but  little  to  say:   Genoa,  notwith-  cibly  the  immeasureableness  of  the 
standing  its  long  list  of  palaces,  has  gulf  which   lies  between  excellence 
only  two  fine   streets,   Nuova    and  and  mediocrity,  than  when  our  guide, 
Balbi ;  indeed,  they  may  be  consit  tired  with  our  long  stay,  drew  us  on 
dered  as  one,  for  they  run  nearly  in  and    pointed   out  anoUier    piece    of 
aline,  and  are  only  interrupted  by  an  sculpture,  a  thing  by  Puget,  a  statue 

•  The  large  nquare  '*  Piazza  ddl*  Acqua  Verde,**  at  the  end  of  the  Stndm  Balbi, 
Diight  be  convcrtiid  into  a  fine  parade ;  at  prcoent  it  is  almost  exdusivdj  the  rexHt  of 
the  vulgar. 


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#f  the  Virgin  asoendinff  to  heaveii»  the  view  if  curious  and  highly  pio« 
with  a  group  of  angels  oeneath  her.  turesque ;   we    got  into  one  of  the 
The  Albergo  is  a  majestic  buildings  turrets,  or  watch-boxes^  that  project 
and  looks  more  like  the  palace  of  an  from  the  parapets,  and  amused  our- 
£mperor  than  a  poor-house  and  hos-  selves  for  half  an  hour  in  peeping 
pital.    Of  its  domestic  economy  we  through    the   eyelets  or  loop-holes, 
can  say  little  or  nothing ;   it  is  of  We  saw  far  below  the  winding  valley 
course  well  fiimished  with  the  usual  ofPolcevera,thickly  set  with  villages, 
mummery  of  Catholic  superstition,  and  churches,  and  clustering  villas; 
•uch  as   tawdry  Madonnas    in    the  we  traced  for  a  long  way  the  road  by 
extaciea  of  beatitude,  and  ill-carved  which  we  had  descended  from  the 
crucifixes.  Bocchetta  to    Genoa,    and,   with  a 
At  Genoa  one  does  not,  of  course,  backward    glance,    contentedly  ran 
escape  the  usual  abomination  of  Ita-  over  the  groups  of  broad  and  leafy 
Han  filth ;  a  wide  dark  hall  on  the  chesnut-trees  which  we  had  passed  on 
basement  story  of  the  Doria  palace  is  our  way.    We  afterwards  strolled  for 
converted  into  a  public  Cloaca,  al-  an  hour  along  these  extensive  walls, 
though,  as  it  is  used  as  a  common  the  repeated  labours  of  the  Genoese 
passage,  the  disgusting  stench  must  Republic  at  diflferent  periods.*     In 
be  an  hoiu-ly  nuisance,  to  say  nothing  many  places  they  are  raised  on  the 
of  the  scandal  of  thus  polluting  the  brinx  of  precipices,  and  many  of  the 
palace  of  the  greatest  man  whom  turrets  hang  over  black  and  shadowy 
Genoa  ever  produced :  but  what  can  ravines.      Time  has  laid  his   hand 
be  expected  from  the  people  of  a  city  upon  them,  and  the  weather  has  been 
where  ^'  Luoghi  communi  all'   In-  busy  to  sap  and  to  destroy;  here  and 
glese,"  is  written  up  in  the  public  there  they  are  almost  in  ruins,  but 
streets,  as  a  special  recommendation  the  most  important  parts  are  under 
of  this  or  that  Albergo.    The  great-  repair,    and     a    strong    fortress   is 
est    enjoyment   which    we    had    at  newly  added  to  the  works.    'From 
Genoa  was  in  ascending  the  fortified  the     necessity    of    occupying     the 
mountains  against  which    the    city  heights,  the  Genoese  have  been  com- 
leans;  from  tJne  lofty  peak  of  the  bat-  pelied  to  extend  the  line  of  fortifica^ 
tery  of  the  Sperone,  the  view  is  de-  tion  so  far  as  to  render  it  weak ;  it 
lightful ;  we  saw  the  mura  triplicata,  would  require  an  army  to  man  the 
which  incloses  the  city,  running  along  works.      We  did  not  see   a   single 
the  chain  of  hills  on  which  we  stood,  piece  of  artillery,  indeed  we  believe 
The  view  on  every  side  is  delightful ;  no  one  has  seen  a  cannon  up  here 
on  the  right,  we  looked  down  upon  since  Grenoa  was  taken  by  the  £n- 
the  lofty  fanale  or  lighthouse,  and  glish,  and  we  apprehend  the  works 
on  the  beautiful  Riviera  di  Ponente ;  will  never  be  fumbhed  until  Genoa 
on  the  left,  on  the  pleasant  suburbs  falls  into  stronger  hands  than  those 
of  Albaro,   on  gentle  hills  covered  of  the  King  of  Sardinia.     We  de- 
with  villas,  and  on  the  o^er  equally  scended  from  these  romantic  heights 
fine  coast  or  Riviera  di  Levanti :  be-  with  regret,  a  regret  to  which  travel- 
fore  us  lay  the  close  shining  nuiss  of  lers  are  particularly  exposed ;  their 
the  city  and  the  port,  and  beyond  the  pleasures  are  in  constant  ebb;  beauty 
far  stretching  sea,  ruffled  by  a  gentle  and  grandeur  appear  before  them, 
breeze,  and  now  and  then  streaked  but  in  a  short  hour  they  pass  away, 
by  a  passing  vessel,  or  shadowed  by  like  the  wonders  of  a  dream,  per- 
a  drittiug  cloud.    A  Corsican  senti-  haps  never  to  return,  and  heaviness 
nel,  whom  we  met  on  the  hill,  told  comes  over  the  heart  when  we  bid 
us  that  sometimes    on   a    fine  day  farewel    even  to  insensible   objects 
the  mountains  of  his  native  island  which  we  shall  see  no  more.    In  the 
might  be  seen ;  he  said,  he  had  often  evening,  however,  over  a  chirping 
seen  them  while  doing  duty  in  that  bottle  of  buon  vino  dtAiti,  we  forgot 
lonely  spot:  the  poor  fellow  spoke  our  momentary  pensiveness,  and  were 
with  a  good  deal  of  feeling.    The  very  busily  and  veir  merrily  employ- 
natives  of  islands  are  certaimy  more  ed  in  discoursing  of  the  odd  ups  and 
attached  to  tneir  country  than  con-  downs  of  this  workday  world,  when 
t«n«ntal    people.)     Behind  the  hills  the  captain   of  the  Sparanzello  iii 


•  They  were  ftttshedia  the  year  1&36L 


which  we  had  agireed  to  take  otir  rendered  anj  olject  distxnct;  loiiy 
passage  to  Naples^  came  to  tell  us  we  black  lines  traversed  the  citj,  inter- 
must  get  ready  immediately,  as  the  sected  occasionally  by  broad  gaps, 
wind  was  fair,  and  he  had  determined  and  sometimes  the  straining  ere 
to  sail  out  that  evening :  we  had  no  might  distiniruish  a  tower,  or  toe 
time  to  lose ;  our  things  lay  dispersed  broad  front  oi  a  palace.  The  moon- 
about  in  the  most  picturesque  con-  tains  behind  looked  almost  like  GloBd% 
iusion,  on  the  floor,  on  the  beds,  on  and  described  a  dim  and  fimtastic 
tables,  on  chairs ;  the  very  genius  of  line  in  the  air,  but  little  darker  tlum 
disorder  could  hardly  have  arranged  the  sky.  These  mountains  are  the 
our  effects  in  positions  more  unfa-  first  of  the  Apennine  chiun  ;  Gemw 
▼ourable  to  haste,  so  of  course  in  they  lies  just  at  their  feet,  and  is  hence 
went,  pell  mell,  as  chance  directed,  called  Porta  d'  Italra.  As  night  came 
shoes  into  breeches,  shirts  into  hats,  on,  the  lights  in  the  city  grew  more 
and  stockings  into  waistcoat  pockets :  bright ;  but  as  we  sailed  away,  they 
it  was  an  awful  scene ;  the  sailors  seemed  to  sink  one  after  another  into 
tfwore  dreadfully  that  the  port  would  the  sea,  until  nothing  but  the  flaming 
be  shut,  while  we  were  crying, —  Lantema  was  visible.  The  confusion 
'^^Vhere's  Eustace?  Where's  Forsyth?  on  board   at  length  subsided;    the 

Where's  the  book  of  roads?  D n  captain  had  retired  below  deck,  and 

the  book  of  roads,  I've  lost  my  shirt,  the  sailors,  muffled  up  in  their  hood- 
Give  me  the  pistols  and  the  telescope,  ed  capotes,  were  sittmg  or  lying  a- 
Where  ? — upon  the  comer,"  Ike*    In  bout,  idle  and  silent.    A  steady  land* 
half  an  hour  we  contrived  to  cram  wind  sprang  up,  we  went  on  rapidly, 
every  thing  in,  iant  bien  que  tnal;  and  all  was  "  calm  as  a  midnight 
some  sailors  took  charge  of  our  port-  sleep."    Nothing  disturbed  the  atill- 
manteau,  and  we  ran  down  to  the  ness  and  silence  of  the  hour,  except 
quay.  the  shrinking  waters  which  plashed 
On  passing  the  barrier,  we  had  and  murmured  beneath  our  keel,  and 
to  pay  the  customary  tax   to    the  now  and  then  leaped  up  in  sudden 
impromptu  honesty  of  the  sentinel,  spray.     Our  fellow-passenger  was  a 
and  then  getting  into  a  boat,  as  soon  young  German,   he   spoke    English 
as  we  had  manoeuvred  through  the  pretty  well,  and  we  entered  into  con- 
throng  of  wherries  and  lighters,  we  versation.    He  had  taken  a  passage 
saw  our  vessel  steering  out,  her  an-  on  board  a  Genoese  vessel  several 
gular  sail  and  scanty  rigging  faintly  days  before ;  the  vessel  sailed  out, 
relieved  against  the  darkening  sky.  but  was  obliged  to  put  back,  on  ac- 
The  water  foamed  with  our  oars,  and  count  of  contrary  wmds ;  on  return- 
in  a  little  time  we  reached  the  vessel,  ing  to  the  port  he  was  apprehended 
scrambled  up  the  side,  and  got  fairly  by  an  order  from  the  government, 
on  board,  and  while  we  were  dis-  and  thrown  into  a  prison  among  fe^ 
charging  the  boat  the  captain  ar-  Ions ;  and  a  few  papers,  letters  of  in- 
rived,  bringing    with   him    another  troduction,  private  notes,  &c.  all  which 
passenger.     Oh  I   Babel,  what  was  he  had  upon  his  person,  were  seiced 
thy  confhsion,    compared  with  the  and  inspected.    As  he  considered  he 
uproar  which  took  place  on  board  must  have  been  apprehended  in  coo- 
the  *'  Ban  Guiseppe,'  when  its  com-  sequence  of  some  mistake,  and  ex« 
mander,  Don  Guiseppe  Russo,    ar*  pected  he  should  be  set  free  the  next 
rived  ?  The  sailors  ran  up  and  down,  morning,  he  took  only  a  night-bag'  of 
yelling  in  unintelligible  Neapolitan ;  clothes  with  him  on  shore,  and  suf^ 
a  lamp  was  placed  in  the  bows,  and  fered  his  trunks  to  remain  on  board 
the  sails  spread;  the  wind  blew  in  the  vessel,    which    sailed  the   next 
noisy  eusts,  the  cordage  rattled,  and  morning  for  Naples.     He  had  the 
the  old  vessel  groaned  heavilv  as  she  misfortune  to  be  the  subject  of  n 
hulled  to  and  fro.    While  this  was  petty  state  in  Germany,  which  could 
passing,  we  seated  ourselves  on  a  not  compel  the  respect  of  the  Ma- 
coil  of  ropes,  to  gaze  on  the  scene  jesty  of  Sardiuia,  and  which  had  no 
which  seemed  to  retreat  before  us,  stationary  Consul,  nor  Charg^  d'Af- 
and  on  which  the  thickest  shadows  falres  at  Genoa ;  his  remonstrances 
of  night  were  now  settling.    A  thou-  were  consequently  unheeded,  the  hl- 
sand  lights  were  burning  in  Genoa,  spection  of  his  papers  was  carried  on 
hut  the  feeble  UluudnaUoii  Bcarcal^  very  leisiirely/  and  when  he  was  at 


—                                  ■         ■  •                    •         • 

length  liberated,  no  iqpology  was  of-  fbwl,  and  about  three  pounds  of 
fered  for  the  ignomhiious  manner  in  meat,  and  that  when  that  was  con*^ 
which  he  had  been  treated,  and  no  sumed  he  would  be  obliged  to  con- 
compensation  made  for  the  inconve-  tent  himself  with  dirty   macaroni, 
Tuence  and  expense  to  which  he  had  and  indifibrent  cheese,  coarse  breads 
been  wantonly,  or  at  least  unneces-  and  bad  wine,  he  thought  it  adyisa- 
sarily  subjected.    We  spent  an  hour  ble  to  cancel  that  part  of  his  agree-^ 
in  conversation,  and  then  prepared  ment,  and  to  mess  with  us.    The 
to  descend,  but  we  found  the  captain  crew  consisted  of  nine  men  and  a 
was    Tery    busily  employed  below,  boy,  numerically  enough  to  manag6 
and  was  not  y^t  prepared  to  receive  a  vessel  of  ten  trnies  her  burden,  but 
ns.    We  now  all  at  once  heard  a  to  idle  and  spiritless,  so  extenuated  bj^ 
^reat  noise  of  hammering,  chopphig,  bad  living,  that  the^  were  mere  sh^ 
swearing,  &c.  and  we  be^an  to  sus«  dows  of  men.    Theu"  allowance  waS 
pect,  what  we  afterwards  found  to  be  three  coarse  biscuits,  about  the  co« 
true,  that  the  captain,  fully  aware  lour  of  logwood,  per  day,  and  per^ 
that  if  we  once  got  to  sea  we  should  haps  about  a  bottle   and  a  half  of 
have  no  resource  but  hard  wordtf,  wine,  always  bad,  and  always  adul* 
however  he  might  slight  the  promises  terated ;  never  meat  or  fish,  or  ma- 
he  had  made  to  provide  us  with  all  caroni,  unless  they  were  in  port.  The 
necessary  accommodations  for  sleep-  greater  part   of  these  poor  fellows 
Ing,  had  thought  proper  to  interpret  were  made  tame  to  fortune's  blows ; 
the  agreement  in  his  own  way ;  for  but  one  among  them,  hight  Ste&no^ 
no  words,  the  windy  breath  of  mor-  was    a  person   of  no  small  conse- 
tal  man,  could  disturb  the  equanimity  quence  on  board  the  San  Guiseppe, 
of  Don  Guiseppe  Russo,  when  op-  as  he  officiated  in  the  triple  capa- 
posed  to  the  nope  of  gain.    On  de-  city  of  steward,  captain's  clerk,  and 
scending  to  the  cabin,  we  found  some  spy.    The  captain  himself  stood  in 
rough  and  dirty  planks  laid  across  some  fear  of  Stefano,  for  he  had  not 
oars  placed  honzontally ;  their  iron  received   the  least  tincture   of  the 
points  being  driven  into  the  sides  of  polite   accomplishments  of  reading^, 
the  vessel,  and  Uieir  opposite  extre-  writing,  and  arithmetic,  and  conse^ 
mides  being  fastened  by  ropes  to  the  quentfy  was  very  much  in  the  power 
deck.    Over  the  plants  was  laid  4  of  his  learned  clerk;  besides  this^ 
folded  sail  cloth,  to  serve  at  once  as  Stefano  was  necessarily  privy  to  cer^ 
mattrass  and  coverlet.    As  the  cap-  tain  smuggling  transactions,  which 
tain  had  no  more  sail  cloth  to  spare  oiur  honest  captain  carried  on  in  ad- 
than  what  sufficed  for  us,  the  youn^  dition  to  his  ostensible  and  lawful  oc- 
German  was  supplied  with  a  sailor  s  cupation.    The  only  one  of  the  crew 
capote,  which  was  a  means  of  intro-  who  did  not  care  for  the  captain,  nor 
ducing  him  to  a  pretty  good  number  for  Stefano,  was  Guiseppe,  a  maistre 
of  those  amiable  creatures  familiar  to  Carbonari ;  this    dignity,  which    is 
man,  and  signifying  love,  as  Master  now  contemptible,  was  at  that  time 
William  Shakspeare  saith.     As  we  respected  and  feared ;  and  Guiseppe 
supposed  the  inconvenience  would  be  made  an  hourly  parade  of  it ;  he  nas 
of  short  duration,  and  knew  it  was  of  probably  before   now   atoned  by   a 
no  use  to  compldn,  we  determined  public  whipping  for  his  triumph  then. 
to  put  up  with  it  as  well  as  we  could.  After  winding  around   the  devioua 
The   captain   had  informed  us  the  and  beautiful  shore  for  two  days,  we 
voya^  would  not  be  more  than  five  arrived  at  Leghorn,  and  our  captain 
or  SIX  days  at  the  utmost,  and  in  thought  proper  to  put  in  there,  though 
laying  in  our  provisions  we  had  cal-  he  thereoy  lost  a  wind  that  would 
ccdated  for  seven  or  eiffht,  supposing  probably  have    taken    us  to  Civita 
that  it  would  certainly  be  enough,  Vecchia.    We  went  on  shore,  were 
or  that  if,  by  accident,  the  voyage  as  usual  examined  at  the  health  of- 
should  be  drawn  out  to  greater  length,  fice,  and  then  permitted  to  enter  the 
the  captain  would  supply  us  with  at  town.     We  strolled  about    for    an 
least  common  necessaries.    The  Ger-  hour,    took    some    coffee,  and  then 
man  had  stipulated  that  the  captain  went  to  a  furnished    lodging,  just 
should  furnish  his  meals,  but  finding  within  the  barrier.    The  next  mom- 
that  the  whole  supplementary  stock  ing,    aflter   breakfast,  we   went  on 
of  the  captain's  cabin  contistea  of  one  board  the  yessel,  where  we  found 


6^  Sketches  cm  the  Road.  CP^^ 


€iie  man  and  a  boy ;  the  other  sailors    it  what  is  music?     It  is  cold 
and  the  captain  were  on  shore.    We    dead,  like  the  statue  of  old,  i 
returned  to  the  city,  took  another    first    finished    from    the     sculptor'a 
stupid  stroll,  and  at  an  early  hour  re-    chisel ;   but  with  it,  it   is  like  the 
paired  to  the  Trattoria  dell'  Orso,    same  statue  when  the  god  had  girca 
where  we  consumed  three  or  four    it  motion,  and  warmth^  and  life.     lo 
hours  in  eating  and  chat ;  after  which    public  singers,  this  source  of  beauty 
we  went  to  the  Cafe  to  drink  punch,    is  dried  up,  is  exhausted  ;  their  feel- 
and  play  chess.     In  the  moninig  we    ings  are  blunted  by  the  drudgery  of 
were  on  board  again,  but  the  vessel    constant  and  laborious  practice ;  they 
was  now  drawn  into  the  inner  har-    supply  the  place  of  enthusiasm  by 
bour,  as  though  intending  to  lie  there    affectation,  and,  ceasing-  to  feel  them- 
for  some  time ;  we  could  not  find  the    selves,    soon  cease  to   make   other* 
captain,  nor  learn  at  what  time  he    feel;  they  may  astonish^   they  may 
proposed  to  sail.    On  returning  to    even  delight,  but  the  power  to  "  take 
the  city,  the  German  met  with  an    the  prisoned  soul,  and  lap  it  in  Ely- 
acquaintance,    who  took  us  to   his    slum,"    is   lost,  we  apprehend,  for 
house,  where  we  amused  ourselves    ever.      At  this  same    time,    ItaUan 
for  some  time  with  cards,  and  after    manner  has  a  heavy  fault;  it  is  toa 
that,  two  young  women  sang  some    voluptuous,  it  pampers   the  animal 
songs  and  duets,    accompanied  by    sense  of  pleasure,  it  intoxicates  the 
their  guitars;  their  voices  were  not    feelings,  it  is  a '' continual dissolutioa 
equal  to  their  skill,  but  the  whole    and  thaw  "  of  that  reserve  which  b 
enect  was  very  agreeable.    The  ele-    the  guard  of  female  virtue.     Sonc 
gance  and  airiness  of  Italian  vocal    and  dance,  the  luxury  of  sound  and 
music  are  looked  for  in  vain  in  the    the  luxury  of  motion,  both  of  which 
music  of  other  nations.    Italian  song    the  Italians  are  immoderately  fond  of, 
has  a  grace,  a  pathos,  peculiar  to  it-    are  stimulants  which  continually  urge 
aeif ;  it  flows  as  it  were  without  ef-    them  to  break  down  the  defences  that 
fort  from  the  lips,  rising  or  falHng  in    should  stand  between  the  sexes.     Of 
sighing    slides,    and  sprinkled  with    these,  the  second  is  the  most  import- 
emphatic  appoggiaturas,  now  sinking    ant,  but  both  would  probably  be  in- 
into  a  low  murmur,  now  swelling    operative  without   the  aid  of  other 
into  firmness  and  vigour ;  and  it  is    causes.    It  is  very  likely  we   ^lall 
admirably  assisted  by  the  throbbing    have  occasion  to  return  to  this  sub- 
arpeggios,  the  full  or  feeble  chords,    ject,   and  we  shall  then  consider  it 
and  the  silken  notes  of  the  indolent    more  largely;   at  present   we   shall 
guitar.       It  is  much  to  be  wished    only  add,  that  the  guitar  seems  pe- 
that  the  rough  and  naked  force  of    culiarly  adapted  for  those  amateurs 
northern  music  could  be  dulcified  by    who  have  but  little  time   to  spare, 
the  sweetness,  and  adorned  by  the    who  have  some  voice,  and  who  study 
smiling  graces  of  the  southern  lyre,    music  rather  as  a  pleasure  than   as 
or  that  English  sinffers  could  at  least    an  art.    It  is  agreeable  in  its  tone,  it 
catch  the  magic  of  Italian  manner ;    is  elegant  in  its  position,  it  may  be 
the  kindling  eye,  the  slight  but  ex-    practised  when  we  are  idle,  or  when 
pressive  gesture,  the  voice  swelling,    we  are  ill,  and  its  facility  must,  of 
or  failing,  or  pausing  on  the  final  ca-    course,  recomiucnd  it  to  many.    iilu-> 
deuce;  expressing,  and  communica-    sic  is  too  commonly  the    grave  of 
tuig  that  deep  emotion  which  makes    time,  and  for  ourselves  we  have  low 
us  fancy  that  music    is   the   natu-    entertained  the  opinion,  that  difficult 
ral  lan^i^uage  of  the  gentler  passions,    instruments  should  be  lefl  to  profes- 
This  enthusiasm,  which  never  sup-    sors ;  for  we  camiot  forget  that,  how- 
poses  any  ear    can   be    indifierent,    ever  beautiful  music  may  be,  there 
gives  a  force,  a  freedom,  a  beauty,  in    are  other  things  far  more  beautiful, 
short  a  magic  charm,  to  the  most    and  of  far  more  lasting  importance. 
simple  and  to  the  most  complex  la-        AVe  now  return  to  our  tale :  The 
hours  of  the  muse ;  it  sinks  into  the    next  day,  hearing  no  news  of  the  cap- 
heart  like  a  spell,  it  seizes  the  atten-    tain  nor  of  the  vessel,  and  lounging 
tion,  it  seduces  us  into  sympathy,  and    idly  about,   having  indeed  nothing 
locks  up  every  critical  and  unfriendly    to  do,   after  we  had  despatched  our 
feeling.     This    enthusiasm    is,   per-    breakfast,  we  chanced  to  remember 
haj)s,  a  giil  of  the  skies,  but  without    we  were  not  far  from   Pisa.      We 


|0SL;]  Weiimintier  Abbey.  «A1^ 

were  sauntering  ann  in  arm^  up  and  aaoertain  whether  the  German  would' 

down  the   square  before  the  grover-  accompany  us ;  and  that  point  settled ' 

nor's  house  at  Uie  time> but  when  we  in  the  affirmative^  we  set  off  as  fast' 

thought  of  that^  we  formed  ourselves  as  we  could  walk,  and  in  about  four 

suddenly  into  an  equilateral  triangle;,  hours  arrived  at  Pisa, 
and  came  to  a  momentary  stand,  to 


WESTMINSTER  ABBEY. 


With  glistering  spires  md  pinnacles  adorn'd, 

Which  now  the  rning  sangilds  with  his  beams.    Milton. 

If  I  were  to  distinguish  briefly  be-  about  abstract  and  remote   things  * 

tween  GreeJc  and  Gothic  architecture,  when  we  cannot  comprehend  what  ii. 

I  would  say  the  one  appeals  to  Uie  visual,  palpable^  and  present  to  us. 

reason,  and  the  other  to  the  passions  The   old   bald   verger    might  have; 

of  men.    It  requires  knowledge  and  overthrown  Calvin  himself  under  thia 

judgment,  therefore,  to  appreciate  the  glorious  canopy  of  Catholicism.    It 

excellence   of    Greek    architecture ;  is  not  to  me  extraordinary,  that  the 

whereas  Gothic  architecture  declares  Romish  religion  so  lonr  held  sove* 

its  own  excellence  by  taking  firm  reign  sway  over  the  passions  of  maiw 

hold  on  the  passions  and  Imagina-  kind,  aided,    as  it  was,  by  all  the 

tion^  while  the  will  and  the  judgment  pomp  of  worship,  and  pride  of  art 

are  inactive,  or  overpowered.    Whe-  and  intellect,  but  that  its  influence 

ther  this  effect  were  specially  sought  was  ever  shaken.    That  north  wiq- 

after  or  not  in  the  design  of  our  old  dow  alone,  with  its  rich  tracery,  and 

cathedrals,  they  have  it  in  a  most  delicate  muUions,  and  superb  colour-* 

extraordinary  clegree.    A  vast,  end«  ing,  casting  "  a  little  glooming  light, 

less,  Gothic  cathedral,  with  its  aisle,  much  like  a  shade,"  has  made  more 

and  side  aisles,  and  transepts,  and  converts,   and  upborne  more  trem-« 

chapels,  and  altars ;  with  its  million  bling  faiths,  than  all  the  volumes  of 

of  shafts  and  buttresses,  and  pinna-  Bellarmine  put  together.  That  Miltoa 

cits,  and  flnials ;  and  had  an  intense  consciousness  of  this, 

Many  sabtin  eompassings,  ^  "  ^}^  religious  lightj'  is  conclu^ 

As  babinries  and  ptnnades,^  W^c  evidence :— it  is  a  phrase  that  all 

Imageries  and  tobemades ;  the  abstract  poetry  and  imagination 

Its  deep  plomb-lme  of  channelled  pil-  ^"  ^*  ^^'^^/.^  "^^5'  ^^.^^^  ^^ 

lars,  iU  "high  embowed  roof,"  its  wm  personal  feeling,  and  nothuigdse. 

shadowy   inc&tfaictness,   has  bowed  )^.*^^f  ^^""J?  ^to  an  elabo- 

dow^n^  Lre  necks  in   idolatry  than  "^tfeVtlSi^^^^^^^ 

ing ;  withiWAt  tracing  its  long  pillared 

—crew,  who  under  names  of  old  re.  luales,  its  height,  its  perspective,  ita 

^J^i  vastness,  up  to  the  sublime,  we  ac- 

^iis,Isis^ruis  and  thar  tram,  knowledge  it  at  the  very  threshold. 

fS^ lE^      ^         ""^^  Had  Bmie,  in  describing  the  sublime, 

^^  been  describing  the  particular  feeling 

Wherever  there  is  perception  and  of  one  just  entering  here,  he  could 

aensation,  an  eye  to  see,  and  a  ca-  not  have  done  it  more  exactly :  "  the 

pacity   to  feel,   there  is  knowledge  mind  is  so  entirely  filled  with  its  ob^ 

enough  for  Gothic  architecture.    En-  ject,  that  it    camiot   entertain   any 

ter  the  west  dodr  of  Westminster  other,  nor,  by  consequence,  reason  on 

Abbey,  and  the  mind  is  subdued  in  a  that  object  which  employs  it." 

moment.    We  make  our  bow  to  old  With  all  this  admitted,  it  may  be 

superstitions,  and  have  a  respectful  asked,  is    a  Gothic  cathedral  finer 

admiration  of  the  first  reverend  ab-  than  a  Greek  temple  ?  Oh  no !  It  is 

surdity  that  offers  itself;  there  is  no  another  thing.    There  is  no  parallel, 

questioning,  no  discussion,  no  cavil-  no  similitude,  no  point  of  agreement 

img;  it  suits  not  with  our  humour,  whence  we  could  begin  comparison. 

We  are  in  no  disposition  to  dispute  Their  purpose^  aim,  aud  «^cellence» 

Vol,  IV.  3  B 


6MI  WntminHtt  Abbey i 

are  entirely  diiluict    Ouradmiratkm  tiiiguiihable :  we  meet  with  «Gnck 

«f  Gfeek    architecture  growi   with  portico,  a  Greek  cohimiij  a  Greek  c»i 

our  growth ;   we  have  the  vantage  pital,  or  aome  part  of  Greek  aicfai* 

<iC  it ;  we  comprehend  its  simplicity^  tecture,  building,  or  jiut   biiilt»  ai 

its  unity,  its  excellence;  and  never  every  turning.    With  our   feelin§i^ 

ciq>ect  to  see  it  equalled.    But  Go-  therefore,  a  Gredk  temple  ia  not  ne^ 

thic  architecture   hath  the  vantage  cessarily  associated  with  great  an- 

of  us ;    our  admiration   cannot  in-  tiquity ;  whereas  a  Gothic  cathedral 

crease,  for  our  knowledge  does  not ;  is  not  only  of  very  great  age,  but 

and  we  never  think  about  any  thing  seems  to  have  outlived   the    cap^ 

equalling  it,  for  we  never  had  any  bilities  of  the  waild» 

Btandard  to  measure  it  by.    In  dc^  There  can  be  nothing  really  old 

^dinff   between  them,  we  are  like  that  is  not  separated  from  us  by  a 

Gamck  in  that  fine  picture  of  Sir  long   intervid   of  wmrjmf  nauMn^ 

Joshua's;  our  reason  and  judgment  customs,  habits,  andopinums ;  thov 

may  incline  one  way,  but  dien  we  must   be  a  chasm  between   ua;   a 

are  pidled  the  other  without  reason  breaking  off  of  all  connexiQa  and  as* 

ar  apology.  sodation  between  it  and  ouradwes ; 

ProfesMonal  architects  have  a  thou«  it  must  be  passed  awa^,  and  Qntk 

mood  objections  against  Gothic  arohi-  architeeture  is  yet  passing. 

tscture,  which  nothing  but  Gothic  ar-  A  chroneiogtcai  table  will  not  d» 

dutecture  itself  can  reply  to.    If  it  cide  the  antiquity  of  a  thing ;  tbsi 

were  mere  licentiousness  and  extra-  depends  on  a  tnonsand  other  circiav- 

Tagance,*  **  without  just  proportion  stances  beskles  its  age,    and  nisM 

ar  beauty,"  how  is  it  that  it  has  out-  only  in  our  individual  l*Maiw|»    mA 

fived  a  thousand  years,  and  gives  opinions;  an  old  book,  an  wd  •»• 

rimise  to  outlive  a  second  ^  How  is  thor,  an  old  statue,  an  old  linllilii^ 
that  these  objectors  can  never  even  an  old  man,  are  all  of  dSUEenaft 
equal  it,  nay,  can  never  do  any  thing  ages  to  di£Ebrent  people  ;  a  gM  jutt 
like  it  in  outward  resemblance?  How  entered  on-  her  teens  looka  rarweid 
came  the  greatest  of  them  to-  stick  to  unmarried  twoity  as  hopelm 
Ms  ungaiidy,  incongruous  towers  as  age ;  whereas  we  all  know  ^'  a  siokly 
m  crowning  ornament  to  those  old  boy"  meant*  with  Thenas  Ihnr,  s 
elegancies  at  the  westera  entrance  of  son  of  eighty-six,  infina,  drriipii, 
UMb  Abbey ?  imbecile,  womout  in  mind  and  body. 
It  has  been  well  observed^  that  In  fact,  it  signifies  not  to  the  anti- 
Gothic  architeeture  is  much  older  in  quity  of  any  thina,  that  it  atretck 
eur  imagination  than  its  actual  chro-  out  a  long  line  of  existence  to  the 
asology,  or  a  Grreek  temple  of  three  creation  of  the  world ;  the  gieai 
times  its  antiquity.  The  fact  appears  earth  below,  and  the  blue  heavcai 
to  be,  that  it  is  really  older  in  our  as*  above  us,  are  horn  the  first ;  but  ns 
aociations  and  feeluig,  where  akmt  man  had  ever  the  same  conaciousnsv 
^miiqwtff  exitt^^at  all.  This  very  Ah*  of  their  sreat  age,  no  man  ever  ftk 
2>ey  is  not  only  500  years  old,  but  subdued  by  them  as  he  would  befiwe 
there  is  nothing  like  it  in  existence,  the  lone  pyramids  at  Gizeh,  or  in  the 
ef  less  reverend  antiquity.  Greek  wilderness  of  the  ruins  of  Hekatom- 
temples  are  of  yesterday.  The  Ian-  pylos.  Smce  we  know  not  that  the 
them  of  Demosthenes  has  sprung  up  days  of  the  earth  are  nunrbeivd,  or 
under  the  new  street  act ;  and  the  know  not  their  number,  it  mmf  be  in 
Templeof  the  Winds-is  now  building,  its  youth,  its  pristine  vigour,  ki 
1  hear,  in  St  Pancras  church :  lul  prime  and  lustihood.  We  see  it  iob 
our  architecture  is  Greek,  or  a  cor^  stinct  with  life— the  same  that  k 
Tuption  bearing  some  palpable  rela-  was  it  is—there  is  no  change,  no 
tion  to  it ;  it  is  as  familiar  to  us  as  decays-Oman's  foot  is  still  eemuuie  ta 
our  household  ftimiture,  in  which  it — ^it  is  the  same  scene  of  busy  coa- 
aome  ornament  of  it  is  usually  dls-    tention — the  common  table,  and  the 

*  Sir  Chrittopher  Wren  wu  so  determined  to  attrilnite  sll  to  dumee  sad  neeesrity, 
that  he  aicribet  the  mulliont  and  rich  tneery,  that  were  intiodaccd  ialo  wfaidowi  ■bset 
the  time  of  Bdwaid  the  First,  «<  fbr  the  better  fizhig  in  of  glass,  whkh  thai  hr^ysn  IS 
be  used,*' ahhoagfa  it  Is  istitliHiorily  pioved,  that  gUw  was iaoish^ 


ODttmoQ  gniTey— but  before  thoM  p7*  down  our  minda   ani  ipints,    and 

nunidi>  or  amidtt  thoae  ruins,  all  listen  with  subdued  and  rererentiai 

tkat  waa   connected    with  them   is  passion  to  their  noiaelesaadoionitionsu 

gone,  and  for  ever-^hat  waa  crowd-  Besides,  in  the  great  aides,  and  the 

ed  with  living  men  is  silent  and  de«  open  transept,  we  are  reminded,  nol^ 

adate^the  very  earth  seems  there  to  of  the  corruptible^  but  of  the  incor- 

haire  grown  old,  and  outlived  its  pur-  ruptible.     Mind   knows  nothing    of 

p0SQ^    ^  mortality :  it  is  erer  fresh,  ever  en- 

Burke,  whose  opinion  of  architec-  during ;  Shakspeare,  and  Milton,  and 

tore  is  worth  that  of  a  dozen  profess*  Spenser,   and  Newton,  and  Locke, 

ed  architect's,  ofcgecta  to  the  ground  and  Dryden,  and  Pope,  have  a  livinr 

plan  of  our  old  cathedrals.    But  a  Ijeing  in  our  hearts.  If  we  would  read 

theory  is  as  pngudidal  to  truth  as  a  philosophy  from  tombstones,  we  shall 

definition,  and  the   cross  happened  find  it  where  birth,  or  fortune,  or  ex- 

not  to  agree  with  his  order  of  sue-  trinsic  circumstance,  have  given  a 

oesaion    and    uniformity;    &ct    and  splendour  and  a  gk>ry  to  nothingness  ; 

ftsHng,  however,  drew  from  liho  this  where  men  that  have  played  a  distiiKi 

limitation,  "  at  least  I  imagine  it  is  guished  part  in  life's  pageant— occu- 

BOt  so  proper  for  the  outside ; "  Olid  pied  a  vast  portion  of  the  thought 

thus  qualified,   every  man's  expe-  •nd  homage  of  the  living  world—- 

rience  will  admit  its  truth.    The  ab-  bave  sunk  into  the  **  cold  oblivion" 

rapt  angles  of  the  cross  cut  ofiTsome-  of  the  grave ;  in  contemplating  the 

thmg  from  the  real  dimensions  and  monuments  to    the    *'  illustrissimo, 

magnitude  of  the  exterior,  seen  from  sapientissimo,  et  bellicacisshno;"  m 

what  point  it  may,  without  any  com-  poring  over  an  antiquarian  record,  as 

ptnsatmg  advantage ;  but  in  the  in-  1  bave  done,  to  learn  who  lay,  "  to 

tarior,  no  theory  can  blind  us  to  the  dumb  ibrgetfulness  a  prev,"  under 

lialpable  effect :  it  adds  to  the  vast-  ^ui  unfinished  tomb  with  initial  let* 

neasi  the  indlstfaictness,  the  incom-  ters,  and  find  it  was  a  queen ;  these 

piehensibllity,  and  consequently  to  are  the  things  that  speak  eloquently, 

our  astonishment ;  we  catch  glimpses  and  to  the  heart,  and  teach  us  to 

of  two  large  and  proportionate  aivi-  hope  for  immortality  from  something 

aions  that  possibly  equal  in  magni-  within  ourselves ;  and  therefore  teai£. 

tude  the  aisle  we  stand  in ;  they  are,  us  well,  and  to  some  attainable  good, 
what  Borke  desires  in  architecture,  a        There  are  many  many  hours  of  our 

deception  that   makes  the  building  lives,  when  "  from  the  worid's  in- 

nNwe  extended  than  it  is ;  a  '*  kind  cumbrance  we  would  ourselves  aa* 

of  artificial  infinity,"  in  which,  in-  mU,"  would 

dtod,  consists  the  real  sublimity  of  a  Phime  our  forthcrt,  and  let  giovcur  wiiigSs 

§0thic  cathedral.  That  ia  tbe  viriaut  bosde  of  rewrt 

But  there  are  higher  and  more  en-  Ate  all— to  raffled— 

during  speculations  connected  with  and  these  chapels  are  the  woods  and 

this  Abbev,  than  the  contemplation  silent  places  of  the  *'  tower'd  city." 

of  its  glorious  selfl    It  is  a  dull  and  But  shut  out  from  them,  as  we  have 

cold  imagination  indeed  that  needs  but  too  lonff  been,  by  the  peparadons 
churches,  or  the  monitory  voices  of    for  the  delayed  coronation,  I  han^ 

tombstones,  to   awaken    its    moral  grown  familiar  with   the  neglected 

aensibility ;  but  it  is  not  possible  to  cloisters  of  this  venerable  pile,  and 

walk  here,  surrounded  by  Uie  last  here  too  found  food  for  highest  spe- 

memorialsof  so  many  foregone  ages,  culation.  Here,  in  an  obscure  comer, 

without     awakened     ana     intense  lie  the  mouldered  ashes  of  the  very 

thought    The  glare  and  polish  of  a  men  tiiat,  in  the  solemnity  and  nomp 

modem    tomb    suits   not    with   the  of  the  Roman  church,  hallowea  the 

wmctity  and  reverence  of  a  lonely  foundation  stone  of  the  mighty  fa- 

eontemplation  ;  its  pomp,  its  gilding,  brie  that  for  so  many  centuries  hatli 

its  fhesfaness,  its  direct  apped  to  us,  ouietly  entombed  them ;  and  here  are 

foil  of  their  professed  object;  and  hi  tneir  predecessors;  the  old  even  oi' 

the  great  aisle  and  open  transept  we  their  time— ^ere  they  are,  the  splen- 

4ure    **  too  much  i'the  sun;"     the  dour  of  one,  the  luxury  of  another, 

woiid'a  eye  is  on  us ;  but  in  the  quiet  the  austerity  and  severe  morality  of 

•edusion  of  the    chapels,   we  bow  a  third,  equally  forgotten ;  their  very 

SB9 


^4  Wesimiiuter  Abbey.  [!>«•• 

names  to  be  sought  for  in  worm-  and  with  what  a  resolved  spirit  did  I 
«eaten  records ;  their  monuments  de«  trace  over  its  obscure  and  deftioed 
faced ;  the  high-raised  and  the  deep-  characters^  before  *I  had  certain^ 
sunken  effigies  equally  smooth  and  enough  to  say,  Peace  be  with  thee^ 
polished>  by  the  passing  feet  of  sue-  Aphra !  In  the  stirring  buatk  of 
ceeding  generations.  Here  lies  Ger-  living  men  thou  art  forgotten  ;  but 
rasius  de  Blois !  a  name  not  readily  to  the  eye  of  contemplation,  the  io- 
^rgotten  by  suffering  England:— a  telligence  of  all  ages  is  wanting  to 
king's  son,  that  seven  hundred  years  perfect  the  long  stream  of  intellectual 
_.gone  by  waa- endowed  with  form  light  that  runs  upwards  to  the  first 
.  and  pulsation ;  lived  in  splendour,  records  of  existence ;  and  the  world 
and  luxurious  enjoyment-— honoured,  neither  is,  nor  has  been,  so  prodigal 
served  on  the  knee ;  with  a  most  of  genius,  that  it  may  let  thee  be 
quick  and  delicate  sense  of  his  high  forgotten :  ''  we  have  enough  to  do 
birth  and  fortune — here  he  lies  de-  to  make  up  ourselves  from  present 
spised  or  forgotten;  and  the  giant  and  passed  times,  and  the  whole 
stone,  that  was  to  secure  an  immor-  stage  of  things  scarce  serveth  for  our 
>iality  to  his  name,   nick-named  in    instruction." 

cnockery.  Beside  him  rests  the  mitred        If  the    publicity  of  the  c^loistcft 

Laurentius !  a  proud  man,  and  in  life    detract  something  from  their  enjoy- 

speciallv  honoured      What  are  his    ment,  how  much  matter  does   that 

prized  honours  worth  now  }  A  nick-    publicity  minister  to  our  philosophy. 

name  !  The  very  ensigns  of  his  glory    They  have  nothing  of  the  glare  and 

and  office,  so  entreated  for,  so  che-    rawness  of  a  common  thoroughfare; 

rished,  and  so  linked  and  intertwined    the  passengers  are  '*  few  and  far  be- 

with  human  weakness  as  to  be  cha-    tween;"  the  very  light  comes  sha- 

ractered    on    his   grave,  now  serve    dowed  to  us  through  the  tracery «( 

only  to  give  that  grave  a  character,    its  enclosing  screen ;  and   the  daik 

and  the  proud  priest  passes  for  the    gloom  of  the  walls  has  a  mellowiqg 

kmg's  shepherd.     And  here  rest  in    influence;   the   lawned   priest,   pi«> 

equal  oblivion  the  honoured  of  other    ceded  by  the  verger  and  his  maoe— 

and  later  generations.    Specially,  in-    the  reverend  age  and  white  hairs  of 

deed,  but  not  so  honoured !  '^  Juxta    the  old  man  stumbling  to  his  few  ksl 

deposits  sunt  Reliquife,"  as  his  epi-    prayers — the  thoughtless  indifierenoe 

taph  woidd  have  recorded,  of  one    of  manhood,  that  is  staid  by  the  fresb- 

whosenamc  has  passed  down  to  us    turned   earth,  for  a  new   habitant^ 

in  a  proverb  for  wit  and  humour — a    and  for  ever, and  passes  on;  the  l<Htcr- 

name  that  is  ^et  assumed  as  an  earn-    ing  and  reluctant  pacing  of  the  boft 

est  and  promise  of  what  is  brilliant    to  the  adjoining  college — vary,  butdt 

— of  a  roan  of  various  and  extensive    not  change  the  scene;  and  even  the 

learning,  though  his  learning  is  little    noisy  and  tumultuous  rush  of  these 

suspected ;  our  familiar  friend,  Tom    game  boys,  dismissed,  has  speculatioa 

Browne,  lies  here  without  even  a  hie    in  it : 

jacet !    And  here  in  equal  silence  imd    ^        ^  ^^^^^  ^^^ 

obscurity  rests  another,  who,  if  his    p^y  ^^  ^^  pastime,  jumps  along  hy  him, 

living   reputation    had    less    of   the    And  never  suys  to  greet  him. 

splendour  and  pomp  of  the  mighty 

of  the  earth,  had,  in  the  little  world        Here  they  are,  full  of  life,  of  joj-- 
that  circumscribed  his  ambition,  a    ousness;    gliding   along    without    a 
more  palpable  and  indisputable  pre-    thought  of  our  common  doom,  as  if 
eminence  than  is  given  even  to  ex-    their  youth  were  an  Immortal  dower: 
alted  services,  or  greater  excellence ;    here  they  are!  but  how  soon  will  thej 
hut  it  is  the  tenure  of  his  bond  that    be  toiling  through  *'  the   perplexed 
the  reputation  of  a  "poor  player"    paths"  of  the  world  of  business — how 
dies  with  him,  and  the  world   and    soon  here   *'  quietly  inum'd,"    and 
Thomas  Betterton  are  even.    Near    how    soon    after     foi^otten,    *'  the 
adjoining,  ^^-ith  one  solitary  letter  of    greater  part  being  as    though  they 
her  name  alone  distinguishable,  rests    had  not  been,  found  in  the  register  oT 
Aphra  Behn.      How  long  and   pa-    God,  not  in  the  records  of  man." 
tiently  did  I  measure  these  clobters,  Tbubma* 


IBSn.^  C.  Fan  Vinkboams,  his  Dognuu  fir  Dilettamtu  €^S 

C  mm  ^tnItbomn$r,  ^^  SDositiojs^  for  SDilcttanti. 

No.  III. 

THE    amateur's   BOUDOIR^    OH   A    TI8IT    TO   JANUS. 

Here  from  the  mould  to  conscious  being  start 

Those  finer  forms,  the  miracles  of  art ; 

Here  chosen  gems,  imprest  on  sulphur,  shine, 

Tliat  slept  for  ages  in  a  second  mine ; 

And  here  the  faithful  graver  dares  to  trace 

A  Michael's  grandeur,  and  a  Raphaels  grace ! 

Thy  gallery,  Florence !  gilds  my  humble  walls, 

And  my  low  roof  the  Vatican  recals  !  Rogert, 

And  wot  you  what  it  is  that  we  all  here,  that  are  come  to  hear  you,  will 
reauest  at  your  hands  ? 

No  verily,  but  I  shall  know  it  when  you  have  told  me. 

Marry,  this  it  is :  that  3rou  would  now,  in  this  rehearsal  of  yours,  lay 
aside  all  by^mattcrt  and  ncedleti  preambles^  as  toudiing  the  description  of 
fidr  meadows,  pleasant,  shades ;  of  the  crawling  and  winding  ivie ;  of  rils 
issuing  from  fountaines  running  round  about ;  and  such  like  common- 
places, that  many  love  to  insert, — Plutarch*t  Moraliy  by  HoUatuL 

"  Then,  if  I  understand  your  aim  Volpatos,  Mullers^  Longhis>  &c.    If 

rightly  —  (which   you'll   excuse    my  he  resists^  he  is  more  than  mortal. — 

thinking  a  little  misty  sometimes)^  Alas  !  he  does  not.    He  buys  prints^ 

you  propose  to  furnish  incipient  but  one,  two^  and  three !  throws  down 

true  amateurs  with  a  sketch  of  a  chal-  the  amount  with  desperation,  refuses 

cographic  selection^  illustrative  of  all  all  offers  of  porterage^  dashes  home 

styles  having  any  affinity  to  the  fancy  by  the  shortest  ways^  views  with  un- 

and  Imagination ;  which  plan  or  ske-  mixed  delight  his  acquisitions  for  two 

leton  may  be  afterwards  nllcd  up  or  minutes^  and  then  regrets  the  absence 

not   at  pleasure.  —  Now,   Mynneer  of  ''  those  other  two,  which  indeed 

V,  your  present  method  of  dilating  were  quite  companions."    The  fever 

on  one  painter  for  five  or  six  pages  rises  high,  he  bolts  an  early  dinner, 

together,  will  hardly  carry  your  pu-  and  gulps  down  an  additional  quan« 

pib  to  the  end  of  their  foundation  in  tity  of  nitlammation  in  a  vehicle  of 

three  years ;  by  which  time  one  half  port.     Now,  loving  brother  or  sister  f 

of  them  may  be  dead,  and  the  sur-  The  fetters !  The  manacles ! 

vivors    disgusted    with     ungratified  Bind  them  around  his  hands ;  with  all  thy 

longings.     There  is  another  objec-  fbrce, 

tion  ;  suppose  some  one  of  tasteful  Strike,  nail  them  fast,  drive  them  into  the 

mind,  but  uncorresponding  purse,  has  wall: 

allotted   twenty  guineas  to  the  fine  Strike  harder,  strain  them,  let  them  not  re- 
arts— (which     sum  you  know  very  hix; 

well,  though  Janus  would  lift  up  his  M"   ^^  wiU  work  unthought  of  ways 

eyebrows,  is  sufficient  for  good  ster-  t'escapc.            PotUr'*  JEschylus. 

luff  prints   from  the   chief  pencils.  While  I  speak  he  is  gone,  he  is 

including  some  plaister  copies  from  flown.    Ah!    will  no  friendly  pick* 

the  antique,   and  the  most  elegant  pocket  knock  him  across  the  shins? 

sulphurs  from  Tassie's  Greek  gems),  — No !— His  finders  spread  over  the 

this  person  is  unhappy  enough  to  en-  slippery  lock, — the  fatal  door  opens 

ter  the  web  of  your  harangues; — to  —and  under  the  white  flame  of  gas 

a  certainty,  like  other  flies,  he  is  fas-  his  ruin  is  accomplished.    The  — * 

driated,  spell  bound.    His  course  is  Number  of  Dogmas  (Michel  An- 

constrained  to  Colnaghi's :  modestly  gklo)  appears  with    a   maddening* 

aod  coyly  at  first  dotn  he  inquire  for  list — over  which  he,  wretched!  spends 

a  #11^^  subject  from  Correffgio,  or  heavy  sighs  instead  of  light  sove- 

GiuKo,    and    the    panting  shopman  reiffiis ! 

hiirls  on  the  extra  strong  table  whole  You,  my  Comey,feel  this  case  inti- 

ekphantint  portfolios  !  !  teeming  with  mately,  imd  therefore  will  remedy  it 


6M  C.  Fas  Vmkbooms,  kis  Dogmoi  fit  IXUikmiL  pte* 

forthwith^  as  far  as  iu  you  lies^  by  aired ;  I  have'nt  been  in  it  these  two 

giying,  in  this  third  number,  the  pre-  mouths— and  tell  me  what  you  think 

paratory  outline  which  :;huuld  have  of  that  buhl  cabinet ;  it  came  from 

preceded  your  series  of  more  detailctl  Ld. 's  sale,  who  you'know  was 

accounts.     I  am  aware  that  thiu  out-  a  great  connoisseur : — and  here  is  a 

line   would  require    much  weighing  jewel!    This  is   a  brick f  from  the 

and    considering,  seemingly  inconi-  dwelling  of  the   Pre-adamites — ^from 

patiole  with  the  mlvanced  stage  of  the  palace  of  Giamschid!    Istakar! 

the  month ;  but  I  believe  a  walk  to  Observe  the  severity  and  simple  ma- 

our  idle  Janus's  would  spare  your  ju-  jesty  of  the  old  Persian   head  im- 

dicial    powers    any    trouble.      You  pressed  on  its  surface,  the  stiff  curls 

know  his  boudoir.   The  Ar^umcHi  of  of  the  beard,  and  the  peculiar  bob- 

hU  Collection  y  as  he  terms  it.     What  wig  style  of  the  hair!  Talkuig  of  hair 

think  you  of  a  description  of  its  prin-  how   io  you  like  my  new  dop  ? — 

cipal  contents.^    He  seldom  sits  tlicre  Here,  Neptune!"  and  forthwith,  in 

except  of  an  evening,  so  you  will  I)e  size  and  colour  very  like   a   white 

more  undisturbed  than  at  home,  your  bear,  that  animal  lounged  from  his 

readers  will  be  anuised,    and  W —  lair  behind  the  screen,  and  plunged 

flattered— Come!  he  is  not  very  well,  his  nose    uito   his    master's    lap.^ — 

and  will  thank  you  for  the   visit."  "  Show  us    your    paw^    old    man ! 

So  said  my  respected  friend  S  *  *  *  *  Look  at  the  webbed  toes !  riffht  New- 

as  he  concluded  his  breakfast  witli  a  foundland — there's  muscle  H— by  the 

phit  of  boiling  cocoa,  after  smashing  bye,  mentioning  muscle,  I've  a  ge- 

m  tlic  little  ends  of  two  exhausted  uuine  bit  of  lerra  Cotta  from  the 

egg-shells.      His  notion    struck   me  hand  of  M.  Angelo,  his  clay  sketch 

as  a  lucky  hit. — Therefore  have  the  for  the  Aurora  on  the  tomb  of  L^ 

kindness,  reader,  to  ^find  ifuurscif  (as  renzo  di  Medici ;  of  which  you  have 

the  French  advertisements  have  it)  tlie  large  dot  print,  by  Mad"«*  Dudsa^ 

at  our  croney's  bronzed  knocker,  at  9«.  6//.    That  fine  suit  of  fluted  Mr* 

the  sound  of  which  feet  shuffle  over  mour  is  new  to  you,  I  believe,  ^lok* 

the  stone  hall,  speeding—  booms  .^  It's  German,  of  about  1307. 

.     .    ,.  ^.       ....      . .       -.  Dr,  Rusty,  who  is  armour-mad,  ot 

Apnr  di  G^auo  d  chiuso  tcmpio.-!r«*o.  ^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^  ^^^  .^^  ^^^  j  ^^^j^^  ^^ 

The  deity  of  the  place  was  in  )mrt  with  it  for  double.  It  i/lujirtrates 
his  study,  lolling  on  a  well  squabl>ed  Sintram  !  A  grand  idea  I  —  apro- 
sofa,  by  the  side  of  a  blazing  fire  ;  pos,  this  romantic  Idyll  of  Fouf|ti^y 
his  back  guanlcd  from  the  draft  by  a  *  The  Siege  of  Ancona'  here,  in  OI- 
large  folding  Indian  screen,  and  his  lier's  Miscellany  is  very  congenially 
face  from  the  flame  by  a  pole  do.  of  translated  by  Mr.  H  *  *  *,  who,  I  un- 
yellow  silk  and  rosewood.  Beside  derstund,  is  about  to  introduce  to  us 
him  was  placed  a  small  ridged  table  two  more  of  the  Baron's  most  inte- 
of  French  manufacture,  where  lay  resting  tales,  as  companions  to  his 
his  snuff-box,  and  several  antique  version  of  Shitram.  He  is  the  author 
cameos  and  intaglios,  which  he  had  of  a  very  deep,  thorough- going,  high- 
just  been  examinuig  with  a  magni-  flyhig  article,  in  the  German  taste,  on 
fier ;  one,  a  head  of  Alexander  on  the  (lerman  drama,  which,  to  under* 
an  onyx  of  two  strata,  he  still  retain-  stand,  you  must  read  with  rather 
ed,  declaring  it  to  be  the  undoulited  more  attention  than  one  does  l^Ir. 
work  of— I  forget  who.  My  reciuest  Sou  they 's  articles  in  the  Quarterly. 
was  immediately  granted,  and  ths  It  is  a  good  touch-stone  for  clear 
servant  ordered  to  light  the  fire  in  his  heads.^  We  are  to  have  something 
master's  sanctum. — ''  But  sit  down  from  this  gentleman  in  the  next  Ihr- 
a  miimte  till  the  place  gets  a  little  raison  of  the  Miscellany,  which  I  ar- 


-f  The  curious  reader  will  find  lome  socount  of  Uii»FcTaepolitan  bcick  ia  dlie  Arrhps 
logia  some  nine  yean  back. 

f  Take  this  fragment,  by  Novalis  (Von  Ilardcnbuis^)  quoted  in  tfas  same  «rtide«  as 
a  Bpecimen.  **  The  woild  <^  a  tale  it  the  one  diametriciJly  opposed  to  the  wodd  of  truth, 
and  for  this  very  reason  as  thoioughlv  rimilar  to  it  as  chaos  is  nmHsr  to  the  perfect 
ereation.  In  the  future  world  everything  is  as  in  the  former  wofld,  yet  altoacdier  other- 
wise :  Che  future  world  is  the  rational  chaos ;  tiie  chaos  dwt  has  pciwuated  mdf,  that  is 
vitbin  ilsdf  and  wiihoat  iiwlf ! ! '* 


L. 


imfi.2              arm^Wkikkmmi,  hisZhgnuiifirJUkngKii,  Uf 

dently  expect.  Mr.  Soane,  who  made  the  Wlad,  (see  our  No.  for  September 

BO  many  alterations  in  Undine^  (sim«  p.  323.)  and  thouffh  our  faith  and  ra« 

ply  entitled  by  him  a  Tale  from  the  verence  for  holy  things  are  too  stead- 

German)  and  modestly  regretted  that  fiutly  anchored  to  fear  the  impotent 

he  had  not  made  more,  has  just  com-  puffs  of  doubt  and  mockery,  yet  It 

pleted  a  translation  of  Fouqu^'s  SSn-  is  as  well   to    afford  no  handle  to 

ger-liebe>  in  the  preface  to  which  he  the  nlly  admirers  of  such  puddle* 

attempts  to  be  rather  sharp  on  the  atirrers    as  — —  and                ■ 

English  Sintram ;  but  his  criticism  windy    inconsistent    minds !    whidt 

is  flippant,  and  his  wit  ill-natured,  can  gorge  whole  such  palpably  ab» 

Mr.S.  is  likewise  engaged,  or  ought  to  aurd  ravings  as  the  creation  of  this 

be  so,  in  die  arduous  tuk  of  pouring  all-perfect  world  by  chance,  thouck 

the  poetry  of  Goethe  from  a  German  they  cannot  conceive  a  paltoy  buifiU 

into  an  English  vessel — I  have  S9  ing,  like  St.  Paul's  or  St.  Peter's,  to 

pages  of  it  (the  Faust)  here  in  print,  have  arisen  from  the  efforts  of  the 

wherein  he  appears  to  have  succeed-  same  able  workman.  This  is,  indeeC^ 

ed  so   far  unexpectedly  well.     No  to  strain  at  a  gnat  and  swallow  a 

doubt  the  veneraole  John  Wolfgang's  camel.    For  my  own  part  I  regard 

inspection  of  his  MS.  has  been  of  ma-  this  offensive  8cenc,f  as  some  consider 

terial  utiHty,  and  will  give  his  under-  it,  in  the  same  light  as  the  caprices 

•taking  consequence  in  the  eyes  of  the  of  the  Abbot    of   Unreason.      The 

puMic."-- ^'  Allow  me  to  look  at  those  Lord  of  it  is  not  mt/  Lord ;  he  is  sim<» 

sheets.  Ah  !  this  is  a  very  good  idea,  ply  the  deity  of  a  fairy  tale.    In  the 

the  inserting  the  original  on  one  side  works  of  several  authors,  ironies  are 

in  oblong  quarto  so  as  to  bind  with  put  into  the  mouths  of  even  the  hu* 

the  genuine  etchings.    So,  Soane  has  man  actors :  in  Faust,  the  evil  one 

turned    die    sadly    pleasing  Ottava  himself  is,  as  he  ought  to  be,  their 

Itima  dedication,  or  address,  in  the  sole  utterer.    The  language  of  the 

'Spenserian  stanza.     I  am  afraid  he  wretched  hero    is    very  mfferent— 

has  caught  the  vxilgar  notion,  that    hark!  *^ Margartf.  So  then!  you 

the  verse  in  which  Tasso  sang  the  believe    nothing?— *-/Vi«j/iur.     Do 

woes  of  Erroinia  is  more  adapted  for  not  construe  my  words  so  ill,  charm* 

the  ludicrous  dian  the  pathetic :  he  in^  creature !    Who  can  name  the 

should  read     Fairfax,    or  the  lust  deity,  and  say,  I  comprehend  him  ? 

canto    of  Merivale's  Orlando,    and  Who  can  feel,  and  not  believe  in  him^ 

acorn  the  censure  of  the   Duncery,  Does  not  Heaven  descend  to  form  a 

However,  he  makes  amends  by  giv«  canopy  over  our  heads  ?  Is  not  the 

ing  the  Induction,  which  is  full  of  earth  immovable  under  mir  feet  ?  Do 

Tery  just  satire  on  common    play-  not   the   eternal     stars,    from  their 

goers    and    play  -  writers.      Listen,  spheres  on  high,  look  down  on  us 

§•***!  how  it  ends, — Manager  lo-  with  love  ?"   (>i  which  passage  Mad. 

vquitiir^—  de  Sta^l  observes  that,  ''  the  author 

--             „            ^               ,               ,  here  shows  the  necessity  of  a  firm  and 

Upon  our  Gemian  stage,  you  know,  each  ^^^^^^^  ^,.^f^  ^„^  ^^^„  ^^^^^  ^y^^ 

Whatc'er'his  fancy  dicutes.    Sp«e  not  nature  has  created  good   and  kmd, 

^g^                               '^  are  not  the  less  capable  of  the  most 

For  scenery  or  m«:hincry  to-day.  ^^^^^  aberrations  when  this  support  is 

Make  use  of  Heaven^s  great  and  lesser  wanting  to  them." 

Kght;  But  we  shall  discourse  this  toge- 

Be  lavish  of  the  stars ;  of  water,  fire,  ther  more  at  large  some  future  ds^  : 

Ro^  heasts,  and  birds,  there  is  no  scar-  Boosey  has  published  a  very  pleasliip 

^^'  abstract  of  this  Labyrinthine  poem. 

Thus  bring  into  our  narrow  house  of  wood  with  copious  and  sufficicntiy  faithful 

Cmtiim  •  orde,  and,  with  camoous  speed,  versions  m  blank  verse, which,  maugre 

Sr         "  *^    the  earth  to  ^^c  apology  in  the  preface,  can  ^ 

the  English  reader  no  very  satismo* 

1    am   afraid  the   "  Prologue    in  tory  idea  of  this  Drama,  written  m 

Heaven"  is  going  rather  too  near  the  the  most  varied  metres,  prindpallv 

wind  for  the  good  folks  who  sins  sa-  liivmed,  and  which  is  eeseutially  IrtC^ 

cred  melodies  to  the  tune  of  Mol/ 1"  cal,  both  hi  conception  and  ezecutUNu 

t  TUi<0MSptiieiighfiiBlcdteiitamlaM»«iDm9thepalU^ 


«M                  arm  FmOoomt,  ki$ Dognmt fir DikimiL-.  ZP^' 

HowertTy  as  "  the  preceding  pre-  lished  by  Messrs.  Rodwell  and  If  an> 

iude"   (so  the  tniducteur  elegantly  tin ;  and  1  know  you  hsre  it,  for  I 

•has  it),  and  the  'prologue,'  are  oinit-  saw  your  name  down  for  the  lane 

ted.  It  is  more  appropriate  to  the  mere  paper,  my  lad!    And  when  ycMiva 

Ikshionable  seekers  of  semi-instruc-  about  it,  you  may  as  well  bru^  up 

tive  amusement ;  while  its  riral,  by  Dewint  about  his  Landscapes  hi  the 

•Mr.  Soane,  will  better  satisfy  the  in-  Tyrol,  engraTed  by  clever  W.  Cooka: 

^sitire  and  thoughtful  student  in  —1  want  to  know  whether  they  are 

'poetry  who  may  be  guiltless  of  Ger-  to  proceed  beyond  the  first  nuoibcr 

•man.    Our  Doctor's  aspirations  and  or  not— and  look !  did  you  crer  aee  a 

incantations  in  the  first  scene,  begin-  thmg  copied  so  accurately,  and  with 

•ning  where  he  opens  the  book  at  the  so  much  feelmg,  as  this  brilliant  little 

■^gnof  Microcosmos,  "Ha!  welche  print  by  Scriven,  after  Hilton's  natural 

*Wonne  fiieszt  in  diesem  Blick,"  &c.  and  characteristic  portrait  of  Claie? 

'4own  to  "  Ich  hifijt,  bin  Faust,  bin  — what  life  in  the  eyes !  what  ardent 

•dehies  gleicheii !"  have  mure  fervour  thirst  for  excellence,  and  what  llexi- 

•and  impetuositv  in  Soane ;  but  the  bility  and  susceptibility  to  outward 

<cade!ice  of  the  'Earth-Spirit's  mystic  impressions  in  the  quivering  lips!  ob- 

etrain,   "  In  Liebensfluthen,  im  Tha-  serve  tlie  thiffh  caught  up  unconsci- 

tensturm,  &c."  is  better  felt  iu  Boo-  ously  by  the  hand !  it  does  Hilten's 

•ey's  prettily  printed  8ro.  penetration  credit  to  have  arrested 

that  most  unsophisticated  and  speak- 

J?/«ri/.— In  the  floods  of  life,  in  the  tem-  i„g  action.    Now  set  off  with  you  to 

*T       ^Pftoo^***®"'  your  den,  and  let  your  pen  fly;  figs 

Up  and  down  I  rave ;  ^^  j,^^^  ^^  pheasanU  come  up  pre- 

^untulliX:^-  S  •  •  •  •  will  suy !  Don't  diake  yc^ 
A  changing  strife—  l^ead,  for  you  must,  and  you  skali! 
A  kindling  life—  A  fig  for  the  Doctor !  We'll  sing  OU 
■At  die  ruftding  loom  of  Time  I  have  trod,  Eose^  and  brandish  the  old  East  India 
And  fashioued  the  living  vesture  of  God.  in  style — Fa  Presto  I  and  don't  tum- 
ble over  my  Hookah"'^ 
Whenever  I  begin  I  can  go  on  read- 
ing  the  litUe  Almaine  square  l«ino.  Now  Mister  W^ 
aU  day,  but  at  present  '  I  must  «,  For  whom  I  wnte, 
£ry  some  fish,'  as  the  honest  French-  follow  me  through  this  carpeted  pas- 
man  said,  ill  his  ambition  to  use  the  sage,  down  these  seven  steps!  oon't 
JSnglish  tongue  with  unhallowed  fa-  stop  to.  look  at  that  rusty  shirt  of 
miliarity  —  so  S****l  I   bequeath  mail,  nor  at  the  modem  gaudy  stain- 
;you  to  Jaims,  who  will  show  you  the  ed  glass  which  shuts  out  slII   back 
.simple  and  beautiful  groups  in   his  view,   but  forwards,   into  this  door 
very  tali  copy  of  the  Htfpnervtoma-'  with  the  gilt  mouldings.     Now,  what 
chia  r Aldus,   1499):    and    don't  be  say  you  to  Janus's  Bounoia?  Bless 
tumeu    aside    by  their    smatch    of  us,  who's  in  the  house  ?  here's  a  gold 
Andrea  Mantegna,   for  your  oracle  pairofscissars!  and  some  silk  sKreds. 
Stothard  admires  them  highly,  I  can  Umph  !  the  place  is  wonderfully  aired 
promise  you.    Good  day  !  I  shall  not  in  so  short  a  time !  but,  '*  let  us  take 
come  out  till  I  have  finbhed  my  Ca-  an  uivention  of  Master  Janus's  de- 
.TALoouE  Raisoxxee."     "  But  stop!  fccts,"  beginning  with  a  small  plan 
halt,    stand !    My  dear  V.  V.    you  of  the  room.     First  then,  it  u  an  oc- 
would  oblige  me  much  by  noticing  tagon  of  about  thirteen  feet  diameter, 
a  series  of  l^iews  on  the  river  Dari^  aiid  full  sixteen  in  hei^t;  into  which 
iry  /*.  Lewis,    Here !  take  them  with  the  light  streams  through  rosy  panes 
you,  and  hold  the  volume  some  two  in  the  dome  top— other  windows  it 
feet  frpm  your  nose  when  you  exa-  hath  none.    You  may  fancy  yourself 
.mine  it.     Hoim  Moor,  pi.  1.  has  a  in  utter  solitude,  for  not  a  sound  from 
:Tery  fine  cut- throat  sort  of  efl^ect: —  the  street  reaches  here.    Two  doors 
and  wh^  haven't  you  praised  Dewuit's  hath  it,  concealed  with  bright  blue 
.romanuc 'Sicilian  Scenery  ?  '  It  is  by  silk  drapery,  bordered  with  crinwon 
.iar  the  best  series  of  that  nature  pub-  velvet  and  barbaric  fringe.     Tlie  <^ 

i  BfwifTysfAaBlfir  Part.  38  Pistil  fblks»^8fclo 


lanj            C  Wm  WhMmiu,  to  JkgmoB  fi^JMHHmiL  fit 

polite  door  to  that  by  which  we  en-  coitume,  S0&)    The  subtMueni.w* 
terad  leads,  through  a  limilar  pa»-  semblage  formed  by  Sir  W.  Haaul* 
aage,  to  a  tmall  conservatory ;  where  ton,  ana  published  by  Tischbcio,  with 
jto  read  a  good  romance  on  a  shiny  the  remarks  and  explanations  of  lit- 
day  in  February  may  rank  among  the  linsky.     (Napoli,  1791>  4  toIs.  foi. 
|)est  of  sensual  pleasures.    The  walls  840  outlines,  18  guineas.)  MiUengea's 
are  corered  with  a  very  rich  ciimson  **  Vtues  Qrecs,"  (Rome,  1803,  7/.  17* 
■French  paper,  formed  into  panneb  imported   by    Messrs.  Rodwell  and 
and  compartments  with  gold  mould-  Martin.   60  plates  fol.  copied  from 
ings ;  and  the  oak  floor  is  spread  with  the    originals    with    very  rare   axid 
a  glowing  Persian  carpet.    A  sweep-  praise- worthy    accuracy.)     **  Mur« 
ing  Ottoman,  matching  the  curtains  phy's  Baiaiha"  folio.    **  L'Antichite 
in  hue,  dFers  its  elastic  cushions  to  di  Ercolano."      (Napoli,   1747,  &cw 
the   voluptuary,    opposite  the   fire-  9  vols.  fol.  a  fuie  copy  may  now  be 
place ;  on  either  siae  of  which  stand  had   for  less  than  40/.     This  work 
marble  slabbed  chiffonieres,  contain-  was  copied  in  a  smaller  size  by  Piroliy 
ing  such  embellislied  books  as  Wicar's  in  6  vols.  4to.  Roma,  1789  ;  about  18 
*^  Galerie  de  Florence,  et  du  Palais  guineas.)    M^ior  Smith's  '^  Old  En* 
Pitti."     (Grand   in  fol.  1789— 1813.  glish  Costume.^'  (fol.  coloured  plates^ 
Paris,  about  30/.  imported  by  Rod-  15/.)      Strutt's  laborious  works  on 
wdl  and  Martin.    By  far  the  most  the  same  subject ;  the  "  Ancient  Ar« 
comprehensive  of   the  modem  gal-  mour"  of  that  *  fine  fat  fodjel  wight' 
leries,  uicluding  pictures,  statues,  and  Captain  Chrose ;  and  Flaxman's  Homer 
the  finest  gems.)  Couch^'s  *'  Galerie  Hesiod,  and  .^schylus. 
du  Palais  royal. '  (3  vols.  fol.  Paris,  The   aforesaid    slabs   sustain  ae- 
1786 — 1808,  354  pruits,  about  30/.)  veral    very    fine    specimens   of  the 
'**  Malvasia's  Claustro  di  S.  Michele  Raffaelle  china,  particularly  a  grand 
in  Bosco  di  Bolognn."  (foL  Bologna,  dish  with  the  marriage  of  Cupid  and 
.1696,  80  etchings,  after  the  best  pic-  Psyche,  of  which  there  is  a  credita- 
tures  of  Ludovico  Carracci,  Lionello  ble  print,  by  the  Maitre  au  di  (see 
Spada,  &c.  8/.  8#.)  Rubens's  <'  Gale-  Bartsch.   vol.  xv.   p.  810.   no.  38) ; 
rie  du    Luxembourg."     (iinp.     fol.  some  curious  brown-biscuit  teapots^ 
Paris,  1710,  27  plates,  by  Duchange,  fiUagree- worked;  and  other  crockery, 
Edelinck,    Picart,    and    B.  Audraii,  both    cracknell    and    green    dragam, 
from  5  to  10  guineas,  according  to  which  show   their    possessor's  am- 
the  impressions.    The  modem  book  pie  range  of  taste  and  antiquarian 
.  under  the  same  title,  Paris,  1808,  is  science.    An  agreeable  chaos  occu- 
vastly  inferior.)  Lc  Febre's  selections  pies  tlie  broad  mantle-piece,  consist* 
from  the  Frescos  of  Titian  and  Paolo  mg  of  paper-nautili,  king  humming- 
Veronese,  (fol.  Venice,  1680,  51  etch-  birds  in  spirits,    ffigantic  moths,  a 
ings,    about   3    guhieas.)      Filhol's  noble  Podilu-ius  butterfly,   a  small 
"  Galerie    du     Mus^    Napoleon."  volume   of  "  Heures,"   cased   in   a 
(imp.  8vo.  10  vols.  Paris,  1804,  &c.  "kvver"  of  solid  silver  gilt,  wrouffht 
740  beautifully  executed  plates,  30/.)  with    quaint  devices,    and   studned 
^'  Recueil   D'£stafnpes,  &c.    dit    le  with  small  brillianto  and  rubies,  sup- 
Cabinet  de  Crozat."  (8  vols.  imp.  fol.  posed,  on  good  authority,   to  have 
Paris,  1729—48,  188  prints  from  the  belonged  to  the  unfortunate  and  in- 
works  of  Penigino,  Rafiaello,  Giulio,  discreet   Anne    Boleyn.    Cheek    by 
Garofolo,  Caravaggio,  Titian,  Paolo  jowl   to   this,    squato  a  little  ugly 
Veronese,      Tintoretto,      Gior^one,  monster,  a  Lar,  perhaps,  dug  up  in 
Schiavone,  Guiseppiiio,  Pemzzi,  and  the  sunny  fields  of  corn-bearing  8L- 
Girolamo  Mutiano,  13/.  Large  paper,  cily,  who  irrins   eternally  at  a  lan- 
m   fine   condition,  85/.)    "  Dtibois-  guishuig    dark-locked    beautv,    in- 
Maissonneuve's  Peintures  des  Vases  serted,  by  the  surprising  pencil  of  P^ 
Antiques,  by  Millin."    (Paris,  1808  titot,  hi  an  oval  seven-eighths  of  an 
^10,  8  vols.  imp.  fol.  about  15  gui-  inch  in  height,  set  in  a  rich-chased- 
neas  plain,  and  30  coloured.)     The  gold-Louis  quatorze  snuff  box.  That 
scarce    and    valuable    collection    of  mouldy    bit  of  corroded  brass,  no 
Vases^  by  D'Hancarville.    (Naples,  bigger  than  one's  oldest  finger,  is  a 
1766,  &C.  4  vols  fol.  400  plates  and  Hercules  with  the  snake-and-damael- 
upwards,  coloured ;   a  mass  of  ele-  guarded  apples ;  deemed  by  the  cog- 
gant  and   unaffected  attitudes  and  nototnti    to  equal    in   ftupendoua 


i 


tit  C  Wm  WhMoomt,  te  Dogmmjkr  MUtHmtii,  X!P^ 


tftfeMlh  -ttiA  gruideur  any  of  tiie  amiet  we  flieima  knAiiM,  _^ 

hmS   minikin    sublimities   in  Mr.  ei^t  bronses,  by  the  famoM  JtA 

fflme  Knight's  collection  of  bronzes:  di  Bologna;  four  finom  the  mtiqo^ 

apd  imshapely,  sweet  yowig  lady!  and    four    from   his   own    tlraigiii 

as  you  seem  to  think  this  humble  These  contrast  not  unpleasantly  iriljh 

earthen  Ismp,  it  once  gave  light  to  the  pale  gleam  of  two  noble  Ckrka 

Ihe  gay  Qointia  Sabella !    8ee>  on  its  Crucifixi,  one  carved  hi  iroty,  te 

Md  you  may  trace  the  figure  of  a  other  moulded  in  wax^  derated  over 

lemaley  who  holds  wandering  Love  the   opposite   doors.— -Our    fiieni^ 

mupended.  by    the    wings ! — ^Round  gilt-poled  screen,  I  griere  to  say^  la 

the  sides  of  that  fictile  vase,  uxorious  modem ;  however,  he  haa  the  pn^ 

Cephalus,t  clad  in  the  modest  single  mise  of  one  woriced  in  chenQle  by 

mantle,  (to  use  a  phrase  of  the  zea-  the  fair  hand  of  Pompadour^— The 

lous  Latimer)  his  orows  shaded  with  large  circular  kingwood  table  ia  ia 

die  broad  petasus,  and  ffrasjnng  in  the  same  predicament;  but  then  it 

Ins  hand  two  brass-headed  spears,  is  Parisian,  and  the  bohl  feHage  ia 

flies,  but  with  retorted  head,  from  really  very  tastily  fancied ;  bendcs^ 

4be  outstretched  arms  of  a  winged  it  is  generally  hidden  by  the  silver 

Aurora.     Do  not  the    motion    and  inkstand,  the  citron-morocco  papca- 

giace  of  thb  composition  excuse  the  f(^io  (the  tooling  of  whidi,  by  Lewi^ 

urimown    artist's     litde    vanity    in  cost,  I  know,  twelve  guineas!)  aoA 

atsniping  it  kaao7  ?  i — But  let  us  go  some  sprinkle  of  books  like  the  pre* 

an.    Here  is  the  calf  of  an  antique  sent. — Xviiat  are  they  by  the  wayf 

leg,  with  the  gastrocnenuus  muscle  Barry  Cornwall's    Dramatic  Soenei^ 

finely  pronoun^d !— That  barbarous  open  at  ^*  the  Dream ;  "«-«ye,  that** 

weapon,  as  it  may  be  termed,  is  a  one  of  his  hardest  blows — Thomaa 

Norman  "  prycke  "  spur—and    be-  Taylor's  '^  Commentary  on  Proclua;^ 

tween  it  and  the  sacrificial  instni-  — *'  Howlcglass ;"  —  **  Bates's   Ftt» 

ment,   you  have  a   gold  medal    of  neral  Sermon    for  Mr.  Baxter ;"-» 

Otho,  and  a  silver  one  of  Julius  the  Adelung's  "  Mithridate,**  and  Sc^we* 

Third.-— Those  enamelled  watch  cases  ighcuser's  folio  Herodotus.     Mercy 

are  esteemed  great  curiosities,  and  upon  us,  this  is  Janus's  Jumble  wn 

ao  is  the  engraved  broken  patera,  a    vengeance!      Now  seat  yourself 

which  I  am  confident  is  Phoenician,  in    that  remarkably    soft-cuahioBed 

**I  should  entreat  your  attention  to  Grecian    chair !    rest  both    leet  on 

lluit  Scarabteus  in  green  paste,  and  the  azure  foot-stool,  and  amuse  you^ 

that  superb  altissimo  relievo  on  cor-  self  with    examining   those    double 

fielian, -Jupiter  JEgiochus,   but  that  ranges  of  prints,  so  ffaily  framed  in 

I  am  pressed  for  time ;  so  let  us  de-  rosewood,  or  polished  oak,  whilst  I 

spatch  the  remaining  vanities  of  this  note  down  the  most  notable^ — Pint 

retreat  quickly.    At  each  of  the  right  is  the  *  Delphic  Sybil  of  M.  Angdo^ 

t  In  '^  a  Petite  Palace  of  Pettie  bis  Pleasure,**  the  aigument  to  the  legend  ef  this 
^essalian  king  oommences  thus : — **  Cephalus,  a  lustie  young  gaOauBt,  and  Proem  a 
bcautifun  girie,  both  of  the  Duke  of  Venice^  courts  &c!  ! 

X  This  esqpreasion,  so  common  on  fine  vases,  is  conceived  bv  the  hasty  MiDin  to  leftr 
io  one  of  the  personages  depicted,  instead  of  the  painting  itaelr;  and  m  order  to  smt  ihia 
fimcy,  he  hooks  me  on  the  KE4>AAOZ  to  the  adjective,  and  translates  hia  combiBaOou 
^  Cipkale  hcam  I!  "  when  the  proper  designatioo  is  nndoubtedfy  L*Aiumc  et  CqriiaW 
"-- C*est  beau. 


The  articles  having  a  star  prefixed,  form  (widi  Pcrier*s  leoncs  et  ^  p  .,.  .,,  «^ 

folio,  Paris,  1545,  1/.  U.)    Kide^s  Ureek  Vasea  (imp.  Oro.  1/.  U  82  plM),  a  faw 

select  imprcsaions  from  Tasste*s  Gems,  to  be  enumerated  hereafter,  ^nt  pUsin  ham, 

the  AnUque,  viz.  the  Apollo,  the  Fighting  Gladiator,  the  Sleeping  Henwmhradiie^ 

^  Grecian  Shroherdcss,  (La  Venus  de  belles  fesses),  and  the  fr^mental  Vcnoa  or 

IXone  in  iSb^  Bntish  Museum),  a  small,  but  moat  coDiprehensive  aasembli^  of  tiba 

fine  nts,  the  whole  cost  of  which  would  not  exceed  twenty  guineas!    Thougjhi  widi 

s^gard  to  die  dioioe  of  matteny  I  am  decided,  it  is  by  no  means  my  wiA  to  tie  ercfj 

ana  down  to  my  choice  of  smhjects  ;  for  which  reason  I  hare  offered  scfvccai  ochcss,  per- 

Jiaps  equaUy  good,  though  I  fear  hardly  so  reasonable.    Indeed,  if  itwrnpoariUe  ^ 

.«ie  to  T^ace  die  prints  tfaemsdves  (as  I  wish  I  could  do)  before  the  eyes  of  my  ^1^  ~ 

^flatteaqg  readers,  they  would  be  agvetably  soiprissd  to  fiad  what  fiaa  Aohii 

hsd  for  a  asmparativdy  tnfliiig  son. 


f  ydpato.  10s.  6d.)  panting  with  the  lirast,  and  tiie  shifting  flath  of  atetf 
divine  afflatus,  wluch  expands  her  brealdng  tlurough  a  brown  shroud  df 
nighty  limbs  to  a  jet  grander  d&r  dust  in  the  direction  of  Pisa.  From 
mansion.  See  "  how  she  toils  in  the  nalced  chief  who  shoots  his  sanw 
troublous  extacy ! "  whUe  Divination,  mons  through  histlddc  beard  over  thr 
like  a  deep  warm  mist,  swells  surff-  vext  waters,  "  ererr  age  of  human 
inr  round  her.  If  you  feel  not  the  anlity,  every  attitude,  every  feature 
sublimity  of  this  glorious  creature,  of  alarm,  haste,  hurry,  exertion,  and 
shrink  with  wordless  shame  into  your  eagerness,  burst  into  90  many  raj^ 
nutshell-mind,  most  pitiful  cocknev !  like  sparks  flying  from  the  hammer, 
and  dare  not  lift  your  eyes  to  the  Poussin,  in  his  Sacrament  of  Bq^ 
*Sistina  fresco,  where,  to  use  the  tism,  has  but  faintly  imitated  that 
eloquent  language  of  FuseU,  in  his  '  grim  feature  '  (the  bald-stringy- 
thira  Lecture,  p.  126.  Sd  edition,  muscled  veteran,  crowned  with  oak 
"  The  Creator,  borne  on  a  group  of  leaves),  who  with  breath  held,  cheeks 
attendant  spirits,  the  personified  contracted,  and  starting  temporal 
powers  of  omnipotence,  moves  on  veins,  drives  his  wet  leg  througn  the 
towards  his  last,  best  worif,  the  lord  scrooping  hosen.— Yet  tms  print,  fiery 
of  his  creation.  The  immortal  spark,  as  it  is,  is  stiU  but  the  shadow  of  a 
issuing  from  his  extended  arm,  clec-  shade,  a  copy  by  Schiavonnetti,  fram 
trifies  the  new-formed  being,  M'ho^  a  painting  by  Mr.  Howard,  after  a 
tremblingly  alive,  half  raised,  half  re-  small  copy  of  Bastiano  San  Gallo,  re- 
clined, hastens  to  meet  his  Maker."  duccd  from  the  original  sketch  for  a 
(Cunego>  5s.) — You  must  remember  large  picture,  of  which  the  group  be- 
a  few  years  ago,  at  the  British  In-  fore  us  was  to  have  constituted  out  a 
stitution  (it  hung  in  the  north  room,  part. 

on  the  left  hand  side  as  you  came  up  *  Giorgione's   ^'  Pastorale  "   (Nic* 

stairs),  a  small  picture,  by  Marcello  I>upuy,sculpt.6«.)  consists  of  a  partie 

Venusti,  from  the  design  of  M.  An-  quarr^,    in    a  meadow  very  savom 

gelo,    which  excited  great  attention  rotts  with  sweet  herbs  and  scented 

at  the  time   (the  ex-animate  body  of  flowers,    and  vmbrous  with  oranae 

Christy  supported  on  the  lap  of  his  and  cedar  trees,  who  inight  well  oe 

modier  by  two  wingless  chenibim).  taken  for  our  old  friends  railostratus^ 

There  is  Bonasone's  very  scarce  and  Lauretta,   Pampinea,    and    Dioneus 

delicate  print  of  it  (3  to  12  guineas) ;  (which   last    slender-loined    gallant 

and  a  brilliant  impression,  matchless  seems  tuning  his  rebeck  to  the  can* 

ill  condition,  having  '^  three  inches  "  zonet  *'  If  love  were  free  from  Jea^ 

of  clear  unwashed  orginal  margin ! ! !  §  lovsy  ")  save  that  more  wlute  skm  is 

— Next  to  it  is  Louis  Schiavoinietti's  discovered  than  might  befit  such  de- 

masteriy  finished  etching  of  that  ce-  corous  ladies.    Nevertheless,  in  point 

lebrated  perfonnance,  which,  <by  the  of  site,  there  is  much  resemblance, 

united   testimony    of   contemporary  — Lo !    the  marble  fountain,  round 

writers,  and  the  evident  traces  of  its  the  which  they  gathered  to  relate 

imitation   scattered  over  the  works  those  tales,— and  yonder  its  over* 

of  contemporary  artists'  (that  scouii-  flowing  water  *'  streaming  along  the 

'drcl  Bandinelli  s  St.  Lawrence,  ||  to  meadows   by    secret   passages    and 

wit),  '  contributed  alone  more  to  the  channels,   very  fair  and  artificially 

restoration  of  art,  and  the  revolution  made ;  running  swiftly  thence  down 

of  style,  than  the  united  efforts  of  the  towards  the  plain,  but  before  it  ar» 

two  centuries  that  preceded  it:'   I  rives  thither^  driving,  with  its  rapid 

mean  the  *  Cartoon  of  Pisa  (IOj.  6</.  current,    two    goodly    mills;"    and 

folio  size),  which  represents  a  baud  though  I   see  neither  '^  the  coneva 

of  Florentuie  soldiers  hurrying  from  and  hares  tripping  about,"  nor  "  the 

their    bath    in     '^  Amo's    pleasant  little    voung    hinds    feeding    every 

stream,"   at  the  call  of  the  fierce  where,  *  yet  truly  "  the  goats  browze 

g  The  late  Loxd  Webb  8«nuour  paid,  not  long  befiyrc  his  death,  40^  for  M.  An- 
lonio^s  Pamniui,  with  a  five  inch  maigin  !^I  have  an  ezceUcBt  impresBion  (perfect)  df 
the  lame,  which  ooit  9L 

||  That  muldtiidinoiii  eompOHtion,  or  rather  diatractioR,  ao  wdl  engraved  by  M.  An- 

tomo,  in  letum  for  the  repeal  of  the  decree  of  banishment :  which  repeal  was  procond 
HuMjglitfae good oOfessiir dM siM  Baeeia. 


Uft  C,  Fm  FiMooms,  his  Dogmat  fir  DUettmii.  [J>ee. 

on  the  herbs  without  strife  or  warriiu^  •  «  «  •  •  • 

together;"  those  vme  aiid  almond  So ssTing she embmoed hnn,  •  • 

covered  groutid-plots,  sweeping  down  *    ,  *       *    "**^  ^"^"^  **"■*  **  ^  ^* 

torn  the  mountains,"  whereon  the  sun  5.  .  ^  ?"^"*^»  "i^.***^  **  **^'' 

looks  so  hoUy,  do  grow  less  and  less  ^**^""'^  dupleaiurejbr  her  take,  or  deaih. 

by  variable  degree,  as  in  theatres :"  In  the  background,  beyond  the 
and  in  the  right  hand  distance  is  the  broad  leaves  of  the  bower,  the  ange. 
breezy  lake,  '^  containing  such  huge  He  guards  wind  through  the  air  to 
ihoals  of  fish."— I  observe  vou  don't  heaven,  "  mute  and  sad  for  man." 
relish'Buniet's  Rembrandt-like  etch-  The  print,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  though 
ing  after  that  great  master's  *  Bal-  laboriously  copied,  has  a  square, 
MeHifi  Batfuhtbw,  (1/.  Us.  6d.)  but  hard,  clumsy  look,  not  perceptible  in 
I  tiunk  you  will  stomach  tlie  com-  the  richly  impasted  picture, 
cuttbg,  and  small-tootli-comb  work  I  need  hardly  name  U^atteau  as 
better  after  glancing  over  Jauus's  the  inventor  of  that  most  piquant 
eulopum  on  it,  in  the  3d  or  4th  scene  (*  Le  Bosquet  de  Bacchus.  Co- 
Nuinber  of  the  London  Magazine:  chin,  sculpt.  5«.)  though  you  may 
perhaps  that  masterpiece  of  C.  Mar-  not  so  immediately  distinguiah  its 
ratti  *  (the  same  story,  Audeii  Aerd.  companion  (*  Les  agremens  de  la 
7#.)  is  more  germane  to  your  ideas  of  cainpagnc.  Joiiillain,  sculpt.  6s,)  to 
Uriah's  wife.  Fuseli  (a  despiser,  of  be  the  production  of  Lancret,  his 
course,  of  the  insipid  Carlo)  pro-  clever  imitator.  Did  you  ever  meet 
nounces  this  picture  to  be  ''a  work  with  such  nice,  pleasant,  good-for-no- 
of  which  it  IS  easier  to  feel  than  to  thing  people  ?  Turn  away  from  them 
describe  the  charms ;  which  has  no  to  that  melting,  gliding,  awkward, 
rival ;  and  seems  to  preclude  all  hope  graceful,  affected,  easy,  pure,  volup- 
of  equal  success  in  any  future  at-  tuous,  heavy,  airy,  perfect,  faulty, 
tempt." — There  is  Veronese's  *  Leda  irresistible  group,  the  refined  Panne- 
(Romanet.  U.)  formerly  a  blazing  giano's  *  St.  Margaret,  Virgin,  Bam- 
star  in  the  Orleans  collection,  after-  bino,  St.  Jerome,  St  Petrouio,  and 
wards  exhibited  at  the  Lyceum ;  a  an  angvl ;  painted  for  the  altar  of 
charming  picture,  at  once  striking  and  St.  Margaret's  church,  Bologna.  It 
harmonious  in  effect ;  which,  besides  was  once  slightly  engraved  by  Bona* 
the  usual  freshness  and  delicacy  of  sone,  and  lately  in  a  delicate  and  sen- 
Paolo's  pencil,  possesses  a  truth  of  timeiital  gusto  by  Rosaspiiia,  (ISs.) 
passionate  expression  not  surpassed  a  better,  because  a  more  pauiter* 
by  the  leaders  of  expres^iiion's  own  like,  burin  than  the  exquisite  Beppo 
peculiar  school — the  Iloinan.  By  the  Lon|?hi. — Massard's  larse  print  from 
ondi»ion  of  the  swan,  and  the  intro-  Oiulio  Romano  (2/.  S2f.) — turn  your 
duction  of  a  shadowy  liand,  round-  chair  round,  if  you  please !— has  not 
anded  Leda  has  been  converted  by  yet  met  with  its  due  share  of  regard : 
Fuseli  into  '  Shi  receiving  the  keys  it  represents  the  Muses  as 

of  Hell-irates ;'   a  dashing  recollec-  They  lighdy  leap  in  dance 

tion  struck  out  while  tlie  original  was  With  delicate  feet ;  who  having  duly  b«thed 

hot  in   his   mind.     Those  strenuous  Tlieir  tender  bodies  in  Penuesaan  »ticama, 

frimeval  forms  (*  Fuseli's  Adam  and  1"  springs  that  gushM  fitah  from  the  oour- 
Ive,  1/.  1j.  Haughton),  embody  the  scr'shoof, 

pathetic  and  heartfelt  lines  of  Milton,  P'  ^^^  Olmms'  waters,  many  a  tune 

when  Adam,  after  the  fatal  lapse  of  iT*?  *'  ^voMt  ridge  of  Helicon, 

Eve,  declares  that  the  enemy  T^JlfS^J  "^^J^T  ^""  "^i 

^  And  smite  the  earth  with  8trDng<.reboand- 

Me  with  thee  hath  ruined  ;  for  with  thee  ti,-,^  i,?..!-..    -^i.  ^       .^  , 

Certain  my  resolution  is  to  die.  ^*"'*  y«f^%  f«th  tumaltuoua,  and  en. 

Hovf  can  I  Ih-r  vilhout  thrc  ?  how  foreso  ti":.!.  *u^5^     •  ^   ^  •     *t.  • 

Thy  iiweet  convert.  «,d  lovo  «>  ^.  Midi  the  deep  nu«t  of  air,  they  on  w«d  pwa 


flesh,  „«^  . 

of  my  bone  thou  art,  and  from  thy  (Volpato,!/.  Il5.6<f.)  it  would  bold  us 

■'ate  a  day,  and  then  retain  us  still :  we 

-Mine  never  ihall  be  parted,  blin  or  woe.  must  likewise  pasf  over  for  the  preaent 


Rubens's  tumultuous  *  Lion  Hunt,  Lamb's  fiivourite^    "  Lady  Blanche 

(BoIswert>  1/.  IQf.   The  ne  plus  ultra  and.  the  Abbess/'  commonly  called 

of  engravings,)  and  his  •  Hay-field  «  Vanitas  et   Modestia/'    (Campa- 

after  a  Shower,  with  the  Rainbow,  neUa,  lOi.  6ef.)  for  I  foresee  that  this 

{ditto,  7s.  ed.)  to  Poussin's  *  Poly-  Dogma  wiU  occasion  a  considerable 

phemus  piping   on    the  Mountain;  call  for  them— let  them,  therefore, 

(Baudet,  15«.  one  out  of  a  set  of  be  ready — A  dozen  of  Foster's  some^ 

eight,)  the  picture  which  suggested  what  too  black  gramre  *  La  Mai* 

to  L.  Hunt  a  very  pretty  passage  in  tresse  du  Titian  (17.  Ss.)  may  be 

his  Rimini;   and    to    Mr.  Cornwall  ordered  at  the  same  time.»Also,  they 

some  lines,  commencing  will  scratch  together  some  dean  copies 

of  *  the  Descent  from  the  Cross,  by 


*  Virgin  of  tne  Hocks,   (Iiesnoyers,  reggio.    uiuiio  liomanos  *Kape  of 

1/.  lU,6d.  or  S/.  2f.)  celebrated  by  Hylas,    {6s.)    M.  Angelo's    *  Joe^ 

Ae  lines  of  Charles  Lamb,  resembling  ( Volpato,  lOs.  6d.)  and  Domeiddii^ 

so  much  the  early  hymns  of  Milton,  no's  *  Communion    of  St   Jeromei 

(Jaco.  Frey,  7s.  or  Ss.  far  superior 

WhUc  young  John  runs  to  greet  to  the  despicable  piece  of  mere  mc- 

The  greater  mfant  8  fedt,  &c  chanism,    by  TardieuV—Now,   my 

Works,  vol.  u  p.  61.  ^^^,  compinion,  havLft  nearly  gi 
But,  fine  as  it  is,  how  vastly  in-  through  our  job,  we  wiU  turn  to  the 
ferior  to  that  larger  proof  without  — *'  The  dinner's  'pon  table.  Sir ! " 
the  engrarer's  name!  (The  Virgin  "  Very  well,  William!" 
seated  on  the  lap  of  St  Ann,  stretrh-  P.  S.  on  the  following  morning.— 
ing  out  her  arms  towards  the  never-  Among  my  starred  articles  I  omitted 
equalled  group  of  the  Child  and  to  insert  Correggio's  beauteously  di« 
Lamb.  91. 9s.)  A  singular  and  puz-  vine,  and  heart^thawing  conception 
zling  composition,  painted,  as  it  is  be-  of  our  incarnate  Lord,  whose  mortal 
lieved,  by  Salaino,  after  the  cartoon  limbs,  exuding  the  faint  sweat  of 
of  Leonardo ;  an  engraving  which  I  agony,  and  dyed  m  blood  from  the 
would  part  with  last,  of  all  this  little  vrhistling  scourge  and  the  spinT 
collection.  Of  the  similar  subject  crown,  are  thrust  staggering  with 
by  it  (Anker  Smith,  sculpt,  after  the  weakness  before  that  yelling  sea  of 
famous  drawing  in  the  Royal  Aca-  worse  than  wolfish  cruelty.  Let 
demy,  I2s.)  Vasari  says,  *'  that  for  some  of  our  pert,  because  ignorant, 
two  days,  people  of  all  sorts,  men  would-be  Deists,  give  half  as  much 
and  women,  young  and  old,  resorted  attention  to  this  print,  and  the  ac- 
to  Leonardos  house,  to  see  this  companyinf  simple  recital  of  St. 
wonderful  performance,  as  if  they  Marx,  as  Uiey  do,  or  pretend  to  do, 
had  been  going  to  a  solemn  feast '  (which  is  nearer  the  truth)  to  the 
The  fickle  artist,  however,  never  neadless  Byssus,  and  they  will  feel 
went  beyond  the  aJcetch ;  from  which  the  long-dried  fountain  of  sweet  wa- 
a  picture  was  afterwards  made  by  ters  spnng  again  in  their  hearts. 
Bernardino  Luini,  his  pupil,  known  The  ensuing  list  of  most  interest- 
by  the  print  in  Filhol's  Mus^  Napo-  ing  plates  from  Filhol's  Musee  Na« 
leon.  Vol.  L— I  advise  Coluaghi  and  p<3eon,  at  Is.  6dL  a  piece,  may,  with 
Molteno  to  import  a  few  impressions  the  excess  of  some  4«.  be  comprised 
immediately  or  those  beautinil  plates  in  the  proposed  90  guinea  collection, 
from  Da  Vinci,  '*  The  Magdalen  which,  if  purdhased  with  a  little  cau- 
with  the  alabaster  cruse,"  (Dilexit  tion  and  ready  money,  will  consist 
midtum.  Ricdani,  lOs.  6d.)  and  Miss  of  very  good  impressions : — 

Painters.  Subjects.  Engravers. 

Saochi, St  Romuald, Dambrun. 

Potter, Animaux  dsns  une  Priarie« Duparc. 

M.  A.  CazBvaggio,  ..Christ  au  Tombeau, Bovinet 

Titian, Hetro  Martire, Do. 

Antique  Statue, Eras  (L* Amour  Grec), Massard, 

Pouarin, lL*Edncation  de  Bacchus, Niquet. 


JMMMNM^IMM  JBUf  Mi  XUit:^  [^te; 


Pktt*  Bntolomo^. .  ••8ti  luKy.  »•  •«  •  •  •••]jMBlmBi« 

RabflDi, ^. .  Vcans  «i  Adous, , «.....;.  .VJIIiny. 

Tfate, .....Fnaebl ^ Bratroib 

SttlTiBeh Portnil  d«  FoMfte, JDa^ofe. 

PkNalM,  LaVUtMMmcUkViMgBitTwyfiiM....^ PigKi^ 

l>flpmikhi— ,■ LeConcen, ••..OmaU 

BdSvio, CbriitmToiiibeM^cdkdtlieRaffiriiddl8«to,.aCMiMrdL 

Oncffiio, LeMariaa;ede8te.Citfaeniie, Bo. 

FifflBc!<?doiie, Miit.ecyena«,....« HeiiMu 

ItiAKIb, Lft  Vierge  an  Dmattiie, <..... Pi^eoc 

WtftffemMiB, Depwt  pom  la  dune  du  Faueon, Niqaat; 


MxiA  now,  ny  puiAIsy  I  will  d*  a  day»   smunoM,    utileis   better  en- 

firy  hiAdfome  thing ;  for  il  any  of  ffaged,  witii  my  Tery  best  toons  tm, 

jm,  1Mb9  wett  of  the  Strand,  ¥riU  deUTer  liy  jvd^MBt^  mtaa^  oq  aU 

mmucm  me  a  roaat  leg  of  flmttoii  and  natters  conneelod  wiw  iagU^  pait, 

IfMatoes,  a  glaai  of  good  port,  and  present,  and  to  codnu — Witness  our 

nirt  air  ftoni  a  pi«tty  lady,  mar-*  hand,  fireni  our  pownn^gr^an  msr# 

sisd  ot  flbigle',  I  willy  at  a   three  roooo  eteiap  JMgiie. 


nfitATiONS  ofF  pmlMs  xlii  and  XUII. 

YKvi  I. 

As  the  hart,  ?^Hh  eager  looks, 
Fsnleth  for  the  wkter^broeks, 
0e  ray  soul,  athint  for  Thee, 
Pteits  the  lirhig  Ckxi  to  see; 
When, O  whenl  withmiallear. 
Lord,  shall  1 1»  Thee  draw  nair^ 

Tears  my  food  by  night,  hj  d»y. 
Grief  consumes  my  sttengtn  away. 
While  his  craft  the  tempter  plies  j 
"  Where  is  now  thy  God?  ''^he  cries : 
This  would  sink  me  to  despair. 
But  I  pour  my  soul  in  prayer. 

For  in  happier  times  I  went 
Where  the  multitude  frequent ; 
I  with  them  was  wont  to  bring 
Hom^  to  thy  courts,  my  Kmg; 
I  with  them  was  wont  to  raise 
Festal  hynms  on  holy  days. 

Why  art  thou  cast  down,  my  soul  ? 
God,  thy  God,  shall  nmke  thee  whole; 
Why  art  thou  disquieted? 
God  flAiatt  lift  thy  fallen  head^ 
And  his  eountenance  benign 
Be  the  sarmg  health  of  th&e. 

Part  II. 

Hearken,  Lord,  to  my  complaints. 
For  my  soul  within  me  faints  ; 
Thee,  far  off,  I  call  to  mind. 
In  the  land  I  left  behind. 
Where  the  streams  of  Jordan  How, 
Where  the  heights  of  H vmon  igiow. 


UHCI 


Tempest^toss'd,  my  failing  bark 
Founders  on  th»  ocean  dant; 
Def  p  to  deep  around  me  csila. 
In  tne  rush  of  waiterftdli ; 
.  While  I  plunge  to  lower  caves, 
Overw bdm'd  with  all  thy  WfiTet* 

Oboe  the  mondng^s  ea^estBtffat 
Brought  thy  mercy  to  my  ngnt ; 
^d  my  wakeful  song  was  heaid 
Later  than  the  evening  bird : 
Hsudi  the  Lord  ioiy  prayers  forgot  ^ 
]>oth  he  sconif  or  hear  thesa  n«il* 

Why^  my  soul,  art  thou  perplez'd  ? 
Why  wkh  fdthless  trouble  vex'd? 
Hope  in  God,  whose  paving  name 
Thou  dbalt  joyfuDy  proclaim. 
For  his  countenance  shall  shiae 
Through  the  clouds  that  davken  thine. 

Paet  IIL 

Judgs  me^  Lord^  ia  righttousiiesi; 
Plead  fbrine  in  m  diitiMa; 
Good  and  aMfdfol  Thau  arfy 
Bind  thia  Meediog,  biokeft  heart ; 
Cast  me  not  dea|Miidlng  henee> 
Be  thy  love  mytconfidsnoa. 

Send  thy  iigHtaad  truth  to  fidda 
Me>  tooprane  to  tbrn  aaide> 
Oa  thy  holy  hiB  t»  reil^ 
In  thy  tabemadea  blesi^d; 
There  ta  God,  my  chiaAtfl  jfOf,- 
F^aisa  shall  aU  my  panRerfteflOfrfoy* 

Why,  my  soul,  art  thdu  dismayed? 
Why  of  earth,  or  hell  afraid  ? 
Trust  in  God;— ^Bsdain  to  yield, 
WhOe  o'er  thee  He  casts  his  sMeld, 
And  his  countenance  dlriae 
Sheds  the  fight  of  heaven  on  tlune. 

JSh^pild,  Oct.  SI,  I88L 


SdNNKT. 


Wx  wrestle  wil&oiir  fiUe,  like  men  coadimn'd 

To  die  if  conaner'd.    Glaiiator«fike^ 

We  watch  and  ward;,  or  opportunely  sirlka: 
Meanwlnle  our  puny  eflbrts  are  contcnm'd 
B^lhe  great  foe,  who  strides  akmg,  uBStanni'd 

Jlr  Ocean  at  the  bav  of  sword  or  pike. 

Westeer  for  bliss,  but  still  oiur  boat  obti^fue 
fihoola  past  the  port  where  Hope  sits  diadem'd. 
Foob  to  contend  t  yet  stemia  Hke  giants  riaa 

Over  eadi  other'a  ahoiddera,  as  to  peer 
At  their  next  vktfan  ;  and  some  loved  one  eiief 

For  aucoousr,  till  the  heart  nigh  breaka  to  hear; 
Still  must  wv  pause  ?-»0!  happy  they,  aoA  wiic^ 

TPho  drift  lndiftiaMl.to  Hopa  or  Feat* 


The 


THE  DRAMA. 
No.  XXIIL 


Take  my  counsdl,  that  is,  neuer  to  meddle  with  Plft|m,  tot  Um  aie  m 
people  mightilj  bdoued :  I  hatue  knowne  one  of  *em  in  priion  flor  tiw 
miuden,  and  yet  *8cap*d  Soot*firee :  Know  diis.  Sir,  diat  as  tliey  are  nB0R|r 
Jouiall  Lads,  all  men  loae,  esteeme,  and  hdpe  them,  especially  if  diejr 
be  the  Kings  Players,  and  idl  of  them  in  their  fashion  and  gaiba  an  Chn- 
tle-manJike.        Don  Quixote, 

Trb  old  way  of  sitting  in  council  station  in  the  stage  box,  found  her 
on  theatricals  has  considerable  in-  delivery  clear,  but  somewhat  too 
oooreniences.  In  the  first  place,  it  ranting ;  the  which  was  loudly  de- 
ls difficult  to  say  when  the  attend-  nied  by  those  In  the  upper  circles  and 
ancM  are  full  enough  to  form  a  quo-  gallery,  with  such  terms  as  ''  weak, 
nun  of  we.  For  a  singular  substan-  tame,  thin,  reedy,  school-giiliah,* 
tire  to  assume  a  plural  pronoun  &c*  &c.  The  obsenrer  on  t£e  O.  P. 
wmild  be  ridiculous ;  there  is  some-  side  (where  Mrs.  Haller  enters)  in- 
tidng  pragmatical  in  a  judicial  duet,  formed  his  ''  right  honourable  ex« 
{''  I  think  so,  and  so  does  Mr.  B."}  cellency,"  the  president,  that  she 
and  the  gracious  number,  or  number  scarcely  adranced  through  the  flies 
of  the  graces,  is  not  always  to  be  befbre  she  stopped,  unaEle  to  pro- 
adueTcd.  Next,  supposing  that  a  ceed;  but  his  opponent,  who  like- 
decent  coach  load  of  committee  is  wise  lost  his  half  of  the  stage  behind 
delivered  through  the  double  scarlet  the  proscenium,  begged  to  be  ex- 
door,  it  by  no  means  follows  that  cused,  but  really  he  was  positive 
the  Aristoties  do  obtain  seats  in  the  that  Miss  B.  walked  completely  over 
same  box,  or  even  in  the  same  tier ;  to  the  P.  S.  before  she  manifested 
and  out  of  this  diversity  of  location,  symptoms  of  alarm.  The  galleriaa 
there  frequendy  springs  a  diversity  declared  that  her  nose  was  long  ;  the 
of  opinion.  To  let  the  reader  behina  pittite  that  it  was  short.  Some  cried 
the  scenes  a  little,  he  must  be  in-  she  was  brown,  and  some  she  was 
fonned  that  the  above  difficulties  fair — the  logomachy  raged  mightily, 
have  nearly  prevented  any  report  on  and  the  passengers  were  beginnii^to 


the  performance  of  Miss  Bakewell  as  look  up  at  the  windows,  when  Vir- 
the  Strangeress  (Thursday,  15th).  nl's  old  man  appeared  in  the  shape  (d 
In  spice  of  mugginess  and  mud,  ru-    Mr.  W.    Our  president,  with  infinite 


mours  (since  discovered  to  be  erro-  promptitude,  called  silence,  and  de- 

nsous)  of  Mr.  Young's  tutorage  in-  manded  W.'s  post,  and  visual  means. 

duced  a  pretty  strong  muster,  which  The  answer  was  like  one  of  the  rid^ 

dispersed  itself  in  the  pit,  tiie  two  dies   in  the  Old  Lady's  Magazine. 

shilling  gallery,  and  No.  52  of  the  '' Two  thirds  up  the  pit,  a  centre  seat, 

dkess  circle.    Some  accidents,  here-  and  an  opera  glass !"    Exactly  the 

after  to  be  narrated,  brought  twelve  thinff !  We  shafi  expect  your  account 

o'clock  in  contact  with  the  finale  of  to-night,  also  your  s  {to  Mr»  Stage 

Figaro,  which  ominous  conjunction.  Box).     *'  Gentiemen  of  the  councd, 

strengthened  by   a  rainy  night,  oc-  I  have  the  honour  to  wbh  you  all 

casioned  a  gain  to  certain  coachmen  good  morning."     Here  ensueth  the 

of  5#.  and  a  loss  to  the  New-street  amalgamation    of  the  two  notices. 

oyster  opener  of  12j.  lawful  coin  of  The  pit  was  filled  completely,  and  re- 

this  realm.  An  early  meeting,  however,  spectably,  but  the  boxes  were  thin, 

took  place  next  morning,  at  the  in-  and  by  no  means  well  dressed — to 

valid  president's,  when  a  very  few  judge  by  the  names  in  the  plan  of 

words  discovered  an  entanglement  of  the  house,  no  curiosity  was  excited 

conflicting  judgments,   as  desperate  among  the  fashionables  fif  any)  now 

as  that  of  Agramante's  camp.     The  in  town.    The  bills  haa  not  aidver- 

^lery  critic,  who  tooked  doitm  on  the  tised    Mrs.  Haller,  by    "  a   young 

air  apple  of  disco  rd,  pronounced  her  lady,  her  first  appearance   on    thi:^ 

short;  while  Zoilus,  of  the  pit,  view-  stage!"    (which  has  an    attraction 

itut  her  from  below,  affirmed  her  to  be  about  it  from  its  mystery)  but  plain 

tan :  again,  he  who  had  taken  hb  Miss  BskewelL  in  usual  med  types. 


From  this-  we  concluded  tbat  littb  aware  of  this^  and  to  relax  a  littler 

expectation  of  her  success  prevailed  perhaps  it  was  nervous  exhaustioii* 

in  the  manager's  room— it  was  just  Be  it  as  it  will,  she  gave  us  none  oi 

to  be  an  appearanct,  and  no  mone—  that  passionate  distress  which  wm 

we  were  right.    The  play  was  cast  the  lite  blood  of  Miss  0!Neil's  Coum^ 

as  usual,  with  the  exceptiGn  of  Mea^  tess.^  There  was  a  grief,  but  it  wa« 

i\owM,  as  Peter ;  Mr.  Young  present*  a  grief  comm^  ilfaui  ;  re8tr«uued  b|r 

ing  the  khid  ciuJcold;  and  jolly  Mr«  the   presfruce   of  spectators,     Miaf 

Egerton,  the  friencily  Hussar  Baron.;  CXNeil  acknowledged  no  conventional 

lion-faced  Mr.  Farley^  the  wet  nurse  trainmel»«-without  noise  or  rant,  ^ft 

of  melo  drames^  was  quite  as  rum*  luxuriated  in  grief— 4t  possessed  has 

bustious  as  ever  in  francis ;   Mrs^  wholly ;  there  was  a  sort  of  volup* 

Gibbs  as  coarse   as   Mr*  Colman's  tuousness  in  her  utter  abandonment 

*^  Pandora "  in  Charlotte ;   and  the  to  the  only  consolation  now  left  her—* 

admirable   Emery's     Solomon   Qjnd  tears.    And  how  full  and  plenteous^ 

nMHit  was  richly  pompositous.  did  these  stream  forth  I  They  wera 

By  the  assistance  of  Chapman^  as  not  like  Miltou's^  ^^  instructed^"  but 

old  Tobias,  matters  went  on  calmly  wild  and  free  as  air ;  she  seemed 

enough,  till  the  entrance   of  Mrs-  almoat  to  dissolve  in  them,  and  vat 

HaUerin  the  second  scene.    (It  was  they  blotted  not  her  loveliness^  but 

not  so  in  the  time  of  the  venerable  increased  it,  as  spring  showers  freshen 

Murray,  who  drove  the  whole  house  the  rose.     We  have  often  read  of 

to  their  white  cambric ;  but  let  that  this  in  pretty  verses,  but  never  saw 

pass.)    Those  who  have  never  faced  it  except  in  Miss  O'Neil,  and  in  th^ 

an  audience  of  any  kind,  for  any  pur-  Magdiuens  of  Correggio.    Her  onljr 

pose,  can  hardly  sympathise  with  the  fault,  if  we  may  say  so,  was  an  ex^ 

sinkings  and  flutterings  of  those  few  cess  of  pathos ;    she  went  beyond 

seconds,  while  the  candidate,  readv  Kotzebue's  conceptions  of  the  melt* 

at  the  door,  awaits  the  cue  to  rush  ing  power  of  penitent  beauty,  and 

before  the  well-meant  but  alarming  made  the  wronged  but  doating  bus* 

tempest    of   encouragement    which  band  appear    more  of   the  antique 

seems  shaken  like  a  hail-storm  from  stoical  Uoman    than   the   morbidix 

every  bench  and  rafter  against  the  sentimental  German.    In  actual  lifi^ 

aspirant-^the  breath  comes  tluck;  the  no  merely  custom-founded  resolutioa 

votoe,  like  Macbeth's  amen,  *^  sticks  couM  have  stood  against  her  unex* 

in  the  throat ; "  cold  dews  seize  the  tenuating  meekness — she  would  havfi 

extremities,  aad  burning  flushes  the  slain  it  instantly  with  her  tears;  and 

cheeks— the  knees  bend,  and  the  eye  in  the  theatrical  representation,  tha 

reels,  y  Now  ! "  the  Rubicon  is  past  protraction  of  the  scene  became  to« 

—.she  is  before  the  glaring  lamps,  painful.    Pity  for  the  Stranger's  in^ 

trembles  violently,  staggers  towarda  juries  changed  to  impatience  at  his 

a  friendly  arm — she  wiU  faint !  No—  torturing    squeamishness,     in    thua 

an  uncontrollable  burst  of  tears  re-  tossing  away  the  happiness  of  two 

iieves  the  fiiU  throat— <tiU  the  tones  hearts*     *^  Zounds,   man  I "    said  a 

are  feeble,  but  the  confident  air  of  friend   who   had  been  winkuig  his 

Peter  assures  her  a  little,  and  her  ear  eyes,  taking  snuff,  blowing  his  nose^ 

begins  to  catch  tlic  proper  pitch  ^  aad  performing  other  little  attempts 

the  house— she  will  come    out  yet  at  indifference  till  he  could  bear  it 

more,  presently !    Herein  we  were  no  longer,  ''  Zounds,  man !  take  her 

disappointed.     Miss  Bakewell  made  in  your  arms,  and  make  an  end,  or 

no  farther  improvement  the  whole  we  must  fire  the  house  to  prevent 

evening.    She  was  graceful  and  wo-  being  drowned  I"  And  yet  the  fare* 

manly,  with  a  certain  air  of  natural  wel  meeting  was  not  half  over.    We 

dignity ;  the  character  was  well  un-  are  not  jo  afiected  by  the  penual  of 

derstood,  and  she  conunitted  no  im-  this  drama,  and  therefore,  though  it 

propriety,  either  in  gesture  or  deli-  may  sound  paradoxically,  we  esteem 

very ;  but  an  evident  want  of  vocal  Miss  B.  as  the  better  Countess  Ade^^ 

power,  adequate  to  pervade  so  large  laide,  because  she  is  the  worse, 
a  space,  prevented  her  from  striking        Miss    Bakewell   appears  younger 

any  decided  blow  on  the  feelings  of  than  Miss  Dance,  and  though  aha 

the  audience.     To  our  notion,  she  has   played    frequently   in   country 

seemed  towards  the  coodusioii  to  be  theatres,  the  buwuu  m  the  staga  k 

Vol.  IV.  SC  ^ 


TheDmmm.  t?'*K. 

by  no  means  familiar  to  her.    Her  hear  me  out."     Stramgrr.    ''  Fwo^ 

figure    and  face   were  both   worth  ceed!"   As  the  distreaa  of  the  tale 

ahowing->  yet  she  had  a  pretty  reluo-  heightens  he  asaumea  a  gre«ter  hard* 

tance  to  approach  the  lamps;  and,  ness  and  severity,  and  •ecuaea  tht 

when  the  scene  demanded  it,  either  benevolent  Frauds  of  intereated  mft* 

through  inexperience  or  timidity,  she  tives ;  treating  him  aa  an  hnpeitinent 

hesitated  till  handed  forward  by  Mr.  spy,  he  delivers  himself  from  him  faj 

£^e^on,  who,  d  propos,  had  dressed  a  pretended  errand,  and  inatantly  ■«• 

his  hair  and  countenance  into  a  simi-  lieves  plenteously  hia  heart  and  the 

litude  of  the  King,  or  Elliston.    In  a|^  peasant    Yoimff  did  not  quite 

case    another    Mris.    Haller    should  give  us  this  ;  he  is,  inaeed,  ▼ehemeot 

shortly  arise,  we  must  hint  that  un-  at  times,  which  is  good,  but  he  wanted 

covered  locks,  curled  and  arranged  the  covering  of  acrimony  and  ayste- 

by  the  seducing  skill  of  Mr.  Truefit,*  matic    peevishness.     It  aeema  aa  if 

are  not  in  unison  either   with    the  his  temper  was  too  amiable  and  aoft 

housekeeper  or  the  Magdalen.     Mrs.  to  give  such  feelings  any  place  under 

Siddons  always  wore  a  plain  turban  any  circumstances,  though    he  can 

m  this  part;  so  did  the  little-vain  display  a  generous  warmth.     It  ia 

O'Neil,  though  she  had  fair  ringlets,  much  to  be  wished  that  thia  graoeftd 

and  a  beautimlly  shaped  head.  actor  would  temper  some  of  hia  stage* 

Mr.  Young    enacts   the  Stranger  starts;   the  vulgar  may   dap   tlwir 

with  as  little  affectation,  and  in  as  hands  as  thoughtlessly  as   he  doei^ 

matter-of-fact  a  way,  as  we  believe  but  the  judicious  grieve, — and  Mr. 

it  is  possible  for  him  to  do ;  but  he  Youn?  is  not  a  man  for  the  vulgar. 
wants  something  of  that  pithy  bit-        A  uttle  more  meditation,  and  a 

temess  which  was  in  his  predecessor,  little  more  ambition,  would  refine  Ida 

and  u  in  the   original    character.t  powers  to  a  very  keen  edge.     We  do 

The  real,  settled  misanthrope  would  not  require  him  to  give  up  hia  ride  ia 

no  doubt  be  cold,  for  "  his  heart  is  a  the  Park,  for  it  is  beneficial  to  Us 

shut  sepulchre,"  but   the  unhappy  health,  but  perhaps  if  the  piano  wcra 

Count  is  ^'  philanthropos :"  he  wres-  touched  more  for  relaxation  than  em* 

ties   stoutly,   indeed,    to  become  a  ployment— ^— 

hater,  because  he  has  au  indistinct  Twice  has  Mr.  Meadowa  present* 
feeling,  as  if  he  owed  it  '*  to  his  dig-  ed  himself  to  our  critical  fire,^-hii 
nity  as  a  man,  but  the  warm  flame  Baron  Altradoff,  in  the  Exile,  was 
dispels  the  cold  vapours,  and  his  just  exactly  nothing,  and  he  omitted 
counterfeiting  deceives  himself  but  the  song  wherein  Liston  directs  the 
partially,  others  not  at  all.  Aware  instrumental  accompanimenta.  The 
of  this  failure,  and  incapable  to  re-  old  Times  says,  "  hia  Peter  proved 
trieve  it  by  action,  he  redoubles  his  that  laughter  may  be  excited  without 
attention  to  manner.  He  keeps  a  buffoonery;"  for  our  parts  ire  aay  no* 
watch  on  his  own  words,  and  those  thing,  lest  we  two  should  da^  id 
of  his  servant.  Heis  tremblingly  alive  our  opinion.  Mrs.  Gibbs  waa,  if  poa- 
to  a  suspicion  of  humanity,  and,  like  sible,  more  abominably  natural  than 
Goldsmith's  man  in  black,  is  fero-  ever  in  Charlotte,  and  made  us  loa|r 
ciously  .  charitable.  We  are  much  very  much  for  the  intellectual  Misa 
mistaken  if  these  Remarks  are  not  con-  Kelly — would  that  she  were  at  Co- 
firmed  by  the  first  act.  On  the  night  vent  Garden  !  what  a  treat  of  tean 
before  he  had  silenced  Francis  in  the  we  should  have  to  hear  her  and  Ma- 
midst  of  his  little  story  of  Tobias ;  cready  together  in  some  auch  piece 
the  man  pays  a  most  disagreeable  of  homely  pathos  as  Heywood's 
obedience  ;  and  after  waiting  m  vain  "  Woman  killed  with  kindness." 
for  a  voluntarv  re-commencement,  — "  There  you  should  see  a  passion, 
the  master  is  obliged  to  demand  it.  there  you  should  see  a  passion !" 
Stranger — (^after  a  jMuseA  *'  You  But  let  us  memorise  the  Siuiday  wig 
were  speakmg  last  night,  —i^ramrw.  of  Solomon,  and  that  most  Arcadian 
''Of  the  old  countryman  ?  "  Stranger,  of  Sunday  coats,  made,  as  we  take  it, 
'^  Aye .' "  Francis.  "  You  would  not  of  Brussels  carpeting,   which  looks 

♦  The  worthy  fHscur  of  this  House. 

t  This  perhaps,  is  not  a  correct  term  to  apply  to  any  of  Kotzebue*s  Dipmatis  Ptt* 
aooai  fin-  tK^^  »^T!tnri^ finntitm  hrhartlittls  nr  nothing  nf  rtunrfglwainn 


imO  ^nkff  Zhrama. 

just  like  a  vast  sallad  of  cos-lettuces  recollect  ever  seeing  him  put  on  suck 

and  the  whitest  cdery !    But  here  an  angry  fitting  &ce.    He  spolce  of 

comes  that  little  round  nightingale^  duty,  but  m  a  way  as  if  to  enforce 

Mrs.  Liston;  wad  belund  her  stands  rather  than  to  render  it;  and  some* 

Miss  Beaumont  wiUi  her  guitar,  as  what  cavalierly  hinted  that  "  it  was 

pretty  and  as  good  a  gin  as  ever  not  customary  for  an  audience    to 

stepped  on  Norwesian  wM>d.    Listen,  command  a  play/'— true,  it  is  not 

— ^A  gentleman  of  a  learned  educa-  customary !    out  it  has  been  often 

tion  kept  a  school  at  — — .    Seve*  done — and  if  with  less  frequency  dur- 

ral  circumstances,  of  no  importance  ing  the  last  season,  it  was  l)ecause 

here,  rotted  the  foundations  on  which  the  audiences,  spite  of  Macready  and 

he  trusted  to  erect  a  permanent  she!-  Charles  Kemble,  never  derived  ez« 

ter  for  his  family:   nis  spirit  gave  citement  enough  from  the   **  pUtH* 

way,  matters  became  worse,  and  he  tudes "  wherein  these  excellent  ao« 

dfed  prematurely— leaving  his  chil-  tors  were  doomed  to  flounder. — Mr.: 

dren  neirs  of  nothing  but  some  un-  Fawcett  seemed  doubtful  as  to  the 

avoidable  debts.    One  of  them  ob-  wishes  of  the  rioters,  and  left  the 

tained  at  Covent  Garden  through  her  stage :   but  a  hurricane    of   hisses, 

musical  talents  a  salary,  liberal  as  howls,  catcalls,  and  sticks,  after  re» 

the  treasury  could  afiord,  but  still  ducing  the  fine  Overture  of  the  Bar- 

sufficienUy  scanty,  considering  the  va-  ber  of  Seville  and  its  exordial  sere- 

rious  claims  made  on   the    private  nade  to  pantomime,   satisfied  liim, 

pocket  of  the  female  performers.    By  and  he  gave  out    *'  The  Stranger,'* 

management  hardly  to  be  conceived,  but  without  specifying  time.* — *'  Be« 

this  young  creature  actually  laid  by,  gin  again,  begin  again,"  was  now  the 

in  the  space  of  sixteen  months,  a  sum  cry,  imd  Liston,  in  his  own  courteous 

which'  put  it  in  her  power,  without  manner,  tripped  off  through  the  side 

foreign  aid,    to  appear    among  her  scene,  followed  by  the  alarmed  and 

gayer  associates  in  «11  the  ornaments  plump  Mr.  Pyne !    who  herein  com- 

so  naturally  dear  to  women.     And  mitted  a   singular  faux-pas,  as  he 

even  this  would  have  been  creditable  himself  is  the  prologue  of  the  piece* 

to  her— but  it  was  not  set  apart  for  Alas !  alas !  we  saw — wc  saw  him 

any  such  purpose.    A  tradesman  at  grasped  by  the  red  right  hand  of  the 

— — —  was  a  few  days  a^o  desired  nirious  manager,  and  whirled  in  again 

to  write  a  receipt  for  a  bill  of  thirty  before  us  like  a  shot  out  of  a  sauce- 

pounds  due  to  him  by  the  late  Dr.  pan  !  Afterwards  we  saw  Mr.  Jones 

hm^m  • — |jg  ^1^  gg^  2Q^  ^g  money  m  the  pretty  Spanish  dress  which 

was  paid  down.  On  the  same  day,  does  but  justice  to  his  clean  made 
payment  of  another  outstanding  ac-  limbs.  This  gentieman  looks  and 
count  was  tendered  to  Mr.  '  ratUes  like  gay  nve-and-twenty ;  and 
an  eminent  surgeon  in  the  same  yet  we  have  some  idea  that  he  is 
place,  who,  in  the  royal  spirit  of  his  rather  more.  His  vivacity  efler- 
patron  god,  Ava^  AtroXXwi/,  refused  vesces  in  the  warmth  of  the  friendly 
It  I — It  was  the  daughter  of  the  un-  faces  before  him,  like  Champagne  be* 
fortunate  ^ntieman  who  offered  this  fore  a  fire ;  bang  goes  the  cork,  mid 
pious  sacnfice  to  his  memory,  and  it  files  all  over  the  house — but  no ! 
this  daughter  was  —  Miss  Beau-  sour  French  wine  is  an  unworthy 
MONT !  comparison— -his  solid  worth  is  better 
When  the  curtain  dropt  there  a-  typified  by  that  unapproachable  in- 
rose  a  mighty  strife  between  cries  of  vention,  Welch  ale  !  Nevertheless, 
"  the  Stranger!"  and  "  No  !  No  I "  notwithstandJuff  (as  law  parchments 
Mr.  Fawcett,  dressed  in  red  and  black  run)  we  are  a  littie  uneasy  for  him 
colours,  '^  which,  as  we  construe  co-  in  his  forthcoming  part  of  Valentine 
lours,"  painted  his  temporary  temper  in  the  Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona.f 
to  the  lire,  walked  forth.    We  cannot  Perhaps  he  might  as  well  exchange 


•  It  was  repeated  Thundsy  the  22d. 

+  Shortly  to  be  revived,  with  new  songK,  dresien,  «ccnery,  galas,  and  f&tes  of  the  most 
•pleodid  description.  Oentlemen,  have  a  care  of  your  buttons !  Ladies,  look  that  your 
laces  hs  strong  I  for  liston  plays  Lsonoe ! 

3C8 


(SBfe  The  DramM. 


cteraeten  with  Mr*  Abbott,  who  cau  wante  into  the  fumidl,  aft  if  «e 

look  grave  before  the  scenes^  though  irresolute   whether   to  eater  or  i^ 

not  bc^iud  tiiem^  as  it  is  rumoured,  turn.    "  Come  oa  a  little  faster^  if 

The  interestuig  Miss  M^  Tree  is  you  please/' says  the  money-taker*, 
^wly  recorering  from  a  debilHy^        They   manage    tlieae   things  dm 

caused^  in  great  measure,  by  the  mis>  ferently  in   the  Ganleo. — It  waals 

td^es  of  her  physicians:  she,'however,  but  ten  minutes  to  half  past  six*  sal 

acted  aod  sang  most  excellently  well  those  who  are  waiting  besin  to  ftna 

InRosina;  her  mellow  tones  sweep  close    columns. — Here    tney    tpui 

round  you,  rich  and  deep    as    the  right  and  left,  thickening  the  fladqr 

odours  of  evening.    She  bi^ns  to  be  masses  at  the  three  doors. — Lo !  tla 

4mce  again   familiar  with    her   un-  Bow-street  officials  stalk  arouad  wilk 

imown  friends  in  the  boxes  and  pit,  conscious  dignity — hark!    it  is  tkr 


4vho  endeavoured,  on  her  re-appear-  voice  of  that. active  veteran, 

aace  in  Viola,  to  make  her  assurance  son.. — "  Take  care  of  jtHir  pochall^ 

4oubly  sure:   their  warm  wdoome  ladies  and  gentlemen  !  take  jmrikm 

was  too  much  for  her  faint  nervea—  hr  care,  I  say!  tuck  in  your  asal^ 

Imt  voice  died,  and  she  nearly  sank,  gentlemen!  look  sbaip^   goin^  in!" 

—Abbott,   w^  was  watching  her.  Now — what    a    shufflbi|i;^    of   shut 

kindly  and  promptly  stepped  on  the  steppng  shoes  over  tlie  atone  flow— 

atage,  and  explained  h^  distress —  in  they  pour-  continuoua — the  sloa 

ake  could  not,  however,  proceed  in  ate  scaled  by  the  foremost,  and  sU» 

her  song.    Miss  Tree's  delicate  figure  lings  and  oaths  are  thrown,  about  j 

<aaBtend8    sweetly  with   her    boaey  — now>  the  wave    sweeps   osi    aaw 

'wice;   there  is  a  dclieiouai  dispute  the    refluent  tide  loaes  momentay 

Jbetween   the  harmony  ef  her  notes  ground:    some  exhort,    '^  Keep  19 

and  the  harmony  of  her  pcDpostima  there  ^"  others  dehort;  ''  Don't  akaie 

What  amateiu*  of  fine  umns,.  mh^  bakind  ao  1 "  See  those  unhappy  Jioyb* 

has  had  the  good  luck  to  see  herrin  nyi  Batas,  who  have  been  aqueeiei 

Pfailidel,  will  ever  foiget?«—WeiiBiat  without   the    current.       How    dicf 

look  backwards  a  moment,  asid.4btn  stnaggie.  to  weather  the  baluitcadi^ 

walk  over  to  Mr.  Elliston'a.  wikile  the  toil-drops  fall   fitm  thdr 

Saturday,  the  10th».  was    daathM  hrosss'like  rain^ — Heie  a  pale  fiigii^ 

guished  by  a  damnatiottitf^TherdanH  teicd-  girl,  gasping  for  breath,  leaks 

nee  was  entitled  the  Veaiaon.Pasty^—  inqrfonngly  at  ho*  arm^pinioned  &» 

both  the  men  and  woaven-joooks,.  to  tiler,    who,   black  in  the   fkce  fraa 

wit,  Mr.  Blancfaard,  MniLdstoa^JVin  pressure,  tells  her  ^'  not  to  mind;* 

Jones,    Mrs.  Chatterlyv    and)  Mrs.  while  a  good-natured  old  stager  i^ 

Gibbs,    did  their.  possMsi   but  the  sires  her  to  push  aaainst  him,  and 

meat  was  fiy4ik>w<i,  and  the  crust  ease  her  chest. — ^'  Madam,"  says  a 

rancid. — The  town-  ought  to  be  put  smartly    dressed   young    man  to  a 

in  possession  of  theiauthor's  name,  to  roundabout   dame    from   the  Mino* 

the  end,  that  if  he*should  chance  to  ries,  '<  I  am  extremd^  grieved  that 

enter  a  room,,  the  ladies,  and  the  de«  it  is  not  in  my  {K>wer  to  preveat  m 

cent,  may  be  requested  to  leave.  ribs  from  phiching  your  elbow,     u 

Db.u&y>lan£. — Two,    four^    six,  you  could  contrive  to  extract  it  pr^ 

eight,     twelve,     sixteen,    eighteen,  sently," — ''  Now  Sir,    as  quick  wm 

twenty-one,  two,  three— 4>nly  twen*  you  can,"  says  the  keen  Mr.          «  ^ 

^three  people  at  the  pit-door,  and  '^  Take  up  your  check !     Now  Sir, 

the  clock  on  the  half-hour's  chime,  for  how   many?     Get  your  money 

I   have    mistaken    the   night — No!  ready,  ladies  and  gentlemen  J  Thcr^ 

^^Ut.Kzavi's  fourth  ajppearetnce  this  Sir."— "  What    sort    of     nNNn?"— 

Mmson  I !      Tliis  evening,    Monday,  ''  Good  standing  room  yet !  "—and 


Nov.   19,    his   Migesty's   servants"  this  is  often  our  luck  after  waiting  a 

(save  his  Grace  to  be  so  ill  served)  quarter  of  an   hour   in    the  windy 

"  will  perform  Shakspeare's  tragedy  arcades. 

of  Othello.     Othello  Mr.  Kean  ! !  ^'  Far  otherwise  last  night — we  walk- 

'^  By  day  and  night,  but  this  is  won-  ed  hither    and   thither,    where    we 

drous   strange."— The   bolts    shake,  listeil,  before  we  chose  a  centre  scat 

the  doors  open,  and  in  they  biu-st !  on  the  fifth  row.    The  pit  did  fill. 

Not  a  bit  of  it — but  we  crawl  for-  however,  before  half  pric^ ;  hut  tht 


1891.^  nt  Drama.  eH 

boxes  were  poorly  attended^  and  the  goldsmith's  work^  and  liis  medal^  ha| 
alips  were  completely  eropty  the  triple-piled  relvet  cloak  of  peace^  Ub 
whole  eyening^.  The  house  looked  '^  Florentine  dotfa  o'  silver  jerkla/' 
cheerless  and  cold,  and  it  was  so;  slashed  and  decorated  with  knots  of 
we  fairly  shivered  when  tlie  curtain  ribbons ;  or  an  inlaid  corslet  of  M i* 
drew  up,  and  long  before  it  had  Ian  steel.  The  fashion  of  his  sword 
dropped  were  sneezing  violently.*  hilt  shall  march  with  his  fierce  Vene» 
Mr.  Cooper  got  through  lago  very  tian  cap,  and  sharp  tiidstcd  musta^ 
creditably,  and  made  no  "  damnable  chios ;— his  hosen  shall  be  silk,  his 
faces ;"  but  his  maimer  of  rousing  ample  breeches  Damascene,  anfl  the 
Othello's  poisonous  drop,  in  the  third  gilt  dagger  of  most  express  workman- 
act,  wanted  more  art  to  give  it  ship.  These  things,  however,  are 
colour.  It  was  not  artless,  but  dog-  recondite.  As  it  is,  CMssio  and  lago 
matical ;  his  siispicions  did  not  ooze  look  like  militia  doctors,  who  put  on 
from  him,  but  poured  out  hi  a  good  their  regimentals  seldom— but  that 
set  style — he  was  rhetorical  and  di-  Mr.  Kean  should  consent  to  have  the 
dactic.  The  two  speeches,  **  Good  Venetian  generalissimo  rendered  per- 
name  in  man^"  and  *'  O  beware,  my  fecdy  ludicrous,  by  a  Cavalry's  k(it» 
lord,  of  jealousy,"  had  not  the  least  tie-drummer's  frippery,  is  almost  In* 
resemblance  to  a  natural  exposition  credible.  We  laugh  at  Holbein'* 
of  thoughts  suggested  by  unlooked-  Abraham  attired  like  Harry  the 
for  manifestations  on  the  part  of  the  £ighth,  yet  tolerate  absunlities  quite 
Moor  (to  give  them  the  which  Is  as  gross.  "  But,  {lerfaaps,  the  ap« 
certauily  lago's  cue)  ;  they  were  most  propriate  costume  is  more  imbeconiM 
naked,  well-chewed  aphorisms,  phi-  nig  than  the  usual  one ! "  That's 
losophical  maxims ;  not  nets  to  en-  unpossible— Mr.  Kean  already  looln 
tangle  the  understanding  or  the  round-shouldered  and  hump-backed  ^ 
senses,  but  springes  to  catch  wood-  and  any  change  must  be  for  the  bet* 
cooks.  Mr.  Cooper  is  not  likely  to  ter :  but  it  so  chances  that  correct- 
see  this ;  Kean  is :  and  we  admonish  ness  would  here  ensure  grace,  and 
him,  that  his  affecting  exclamation  give  the  little  man  height  and  im- 
*'  O,  misery,"  thus  loses  half  its  portancc.  Surely  then,  it  is  as  well 
effect— -We  do  not  pity  the  victim  to  be  right  as  wrong.  Miss  Smith- 
of  a  cunnuig  knave,  out  despise  the  son,  who  is  a  very  goodly-figured 
dupe  of  a  clumsy  impostor. — ^Mr.  ffirl,  when  she  keeps  her  shoulder 
Cooper's  villaui  wanted  poignancy,  down,  repeated  the  words  of  Desdfe- 
bitterness,  subtlety,  and  insidious-  mona  as  well  as  could  be  expected ; 
ness :  not  that  he  should  frown  and  — and  Mrs.  Egerton  was  far  too 
wink  his  eye  at  the  audience,  and  coarse  and  loud  in  Emilia.  "  Gentle 
grin  ghastly  smiles,  which  no  one  Willy's"  Emilia  was  a  Venetian 
else  is  to  see  but  those  who  paid  lath/  with  a  rolling  eye,  and  a  moist 
their  money  for  it — No !  4irs  est  celare  palm — but  we  forget,  the  manager^! 
artem,  lago's  works  shall  unfold  copies  have  it  otherwise.  Of  Kean^s 
lago,  not  lago's  words.  Without  noble  Moor  it  is  almost  idle  to  speak, 
*'  converting  him  uito  a  pattern  of  after  the  acute  critiques  of  Hazlitt : 
comic  gaiety,  and  good  humour,"  he  in  our  next  number  we  shall  wire* 
may  throw  over  the  part  more  of  the  draw  some  of  his  compact  cubic 
firee,  off-hand  assurance  of  the  Sofda^  thoughts,  and  make  a  few  observi- 
do,  which  passes  for  an  honest  blunt-  tions  on  the  mingle  mangle  which  is 
ness.  This  is  by  no  means  incon-  presented  to  play-goers,  under  the 
sistent  with  the  most  accomplished  name  of  Shakspeare's  Othello ! 
artifice,  as  we  know.  But  Cooper  The  Cobourg,  Adelphi,  (well 
must  not  take  his  notions  of  the  Ita-  worth  any  person's  attention)  the 
lian  Ancient  from  a  Comet  of  the  Olympic,  and  the  West  London,  will 
Life  Guards  (we  beg  pardon,  a  Sub-  shordy  be  honoured  with  our  notices, 
lieutenant).  The  general's  standard  From  the  bills  of  the  last-mentioned 
was  formerly  a  man  of  high  consi-  theatre,  by  the  way,  we  have  ^ 
deration,  either  for  worth  or  rank,  thered  several  curious  pieces  of  in* 
He  should  have  his  gold  chains  of  formation— for  instance,  that  Dryden 


Factl 


479                                          Eeport  of  Mmic.  PVc. 

fired  two  thousand  two  hundred  and  chronology,   antimudefl^    and  ortbo- 

finty-two  years  agone ;  that  he  wrote  graphy,  as  well  Englishy  as  Greek.* — 

a  i»ay  called  OEAinrs,  and  that  it  His  name  is  Amherst ;  and  he  was 

was  received  nightly  at  Athens^  with  particularly  well  damned  at  Corent 

tile  most  rapturous  shouts !  The  ma-  Garden,   about  two  years  ba^,  in 

miger  has  thrown  out  several  other  Lee's  Alexander. 
tniamens  towards  a  reformation  in 


REPORT  OF  MUSIC. 
No.  XXII. 


Incidents  in  the  musical  world  Catalani,7ti;flii/ /o  Afar Jfir».&i/f»ofi."' 
are  now  of  rare  occurrence.  Specu-  The  mortified  Frenchman  immedi* 
lations  as  to  the  probabilities  of  next  ately  applied  to  Monsieur  C.  N.  B. 
season,  and  preparations  for  the  Cam-  to  make  the  enquirer  sensible  of  the 
paiffn,  furnish  all  the  banquet  upon  magnificent  powers  and  acquirements 
which  hungry  enquirers  are  hivited  of  Madame  Catalan! ;  unfortunately, 
to'feed ;  and  these>  like  the  legendary  however^  the  musician  spoke  English 
entertainments  of  fairy  lore,  are  but  (he  said)  vith  such  difificuity,  as  to 
too  apt  to  vanish,  or  to  change  their  render  explanation,  through  him,  rm- 
form,  ere  we  can  approach  to  satisfy  passible.  But  who  can  hear  and  see 
ourselves  with  the  delicacies  they  Madame  Catalani,  and  not  find  ex- 
present.                                               '  cuse  for  the  pride  of  the  husband,  in 

Where    Madame    Catalani   is    to  the  possession  of  so  lovely,  so  supe- 

take  up  her  head  quarters,  is  a  ques-  rior  a  creature  ?  There  is,  too,  another 

tion  of  some  moment.    It  was  not  in  fact,    wliich  outweighs  an   hundred 

her  intention  (o/t  dit)    to  accept  of  such  as  the  former.     After  singing  at 

any  connexion   with   the  Opera  ex-  a  large  engagement  for  Mr.  Loder,  a 

cept  as  a  principal ;  and  it  is  known  violinist,  who  takes  equal  rank  with 

that  her  negotiation  for  the  manage-  the  first  musicians  of  the  country,  for 

ment,  in  conjiyiction  with  Mr.  Har-  his  ability  both  as  a  leader    and  a 

ris,  of  Covent  Garden  Theatre,  has  player,  she  returned  to  him  the  whole 

terminated  without  the  wished  con-  sum,  in  token  of  her  respect  for  his 

chision.     The  King's  Theatre  being  talents  and  character, 
let  to  Mr.  Ehers,  the  interesting  doubt        The   French  paper,  L'Etoilr,  has 

arises  whether  she  will  or  will  not  attacked  that  ^art  of  the  account  of 

appear  in  that  situation    where  she  her  travels  which  relates  to  France, 

IS  most  captivating.     We  are  told,  in  some  important  particulars.     The 

also,  Uint  she  has  asked  the  appa-  £ditor  states,  that  the  salary  she  re- 

rently  enormous  sum  of  2,000/.  for  ceived  from  the  government  is  un- 

her  assistance  at  the  Covent  Garden  derrated,  inasmuch  as  her  year  was 

Oratorios,  and  that  her  engagement  only  seven  months,  and  that  she  did 

is  not  yet  decided.     In  the  mean-  not  engage  either  Mr.  Spontini  as  a 

while,  she  has  been  singing  at  Con-  composer,  nor  Italian  singers.     The 

certs  at  Bath,  which  have  been  very  females  were  English  TMrs.  Dickons, 

fully  attended ;  but  the  sweet  facility  Miss  Fearon,  and  Maaame  Vestris), 

of  Mrs.  Salmon  is  reported  to  have  and  the  men  French  and  Spaniards, 

outrivalled  her  grander  attributes  in  Moreover  he  declares  she  did  not  re- 

the  public  favour.    An  anecdote  is  linquish  the  theatre  Italien,  but  was 

told  of  a  lady,  who  not  being  able  to  dismissed  for  unsatisfactory  manage- 

obtain    admittance,    applied    to    M.  ment. 

Vallebreipie   (not  knowing  his  con-        Miss  M.  Tree,  and  Miss  Ilallande, 

nexion  with   Af  adame  Catalani)    to  have  both,  we  are  happy  to  find,  suf- 

Erocurc  her  admission.     Mr.  Valle-  ficiently  recovered  from  indisposition 

reqiie,  with  his  known  attachment  to  resume  their  public  engagements, 

to  the  qualities  of  his  wife,  assured  Miss  Wilson,  it  is  said,  goes  to  Italy 

the  fair  solicitor,  that  such  were  the  for  improvement.     Mr.  Braham  has 

prodigious  attractions  of  Madame  Cn-  refused  a  very  lucrative  offer  to  vlstt 

talani,  that  he  feared  it  would  be  ini-  America.     He  is  right,  if  he  considts 

possible  to  gratify  her  wishes.  ''  O !"  his  reputation,  and  would  be  perha|M 

said  the  lady,  "  but  i  don't  care  about  more  ^so  to  retire  from  pubUc 


1891.;]  Report  tf  Mtuk.  67S 

altogether^  to  avoid  the  lamentable  A  gaudy  frontispiece  is  prefixed^  con- 

nectacle  of  a  great  artist  displaying  nsting  of  the  crown^    sword,    and 

his  powers  in  their  decline.  sceptre,  connectuiff  by  a  ribband  the 

We  have  heard  that  a  concert,  in  Irish  harp,  wreathed  with  flowers, 
opposition  to  the  Philharmonic,  is  On  this  is  inserted,  in  Irish  charac- 
meditated  by  certain  members  of  the  ters,  "  We  hail  our  dear  and  be- 
profession  connected  with  a  great  loved  Sovereign  with  a  himdred 
musical  institution.  We  hope,  for  the  thousand  welcomes,"  and  the  whole 
honour  of  the  professional  character,  is  surrounded  with  rays  dispersing 
that  this  is  not  true,  since  such  an  clouds.  There  is  next  a  second  frontis- 
4^position  could  only  grow  out  of  its  piece  (illustrating  that  the  Irish  can- 
own  proper  bowels,  the  Pliilharmo-  not  have  too  much  of  a  good  thing^, 
nic  including  almost  every  professor  with  a  portrait  of  George  the  Fourtn. 
of  distinguished  reputation.  No  con-  Then  follows  the  music.  The  intro- 
cert  was  ever  conducted  with  more  duction  is  obviously  imitative,  and 
real  credit  to  its  founders,  support-  we  perceive  the  various  noises  that 
ers,  and  directors,  with  more  libera*  saluted  the  royal  ear  on  his  arrival 
Uty,  or  with  more  unprejudiced,  or  to  be  the  object  of  this  finely  descrip- 
more  genuine  desire  lor  the  exaJta-  tive  passage,  which  is  concluded  by 
tion  of  the  art,  than  the  Philhnrmo-  a  flourish  of  trumpets,  to  mark  the 
nic ;  and  we  should  be  sorry  to  see  presence  of  Majesty.  The  Grand 
its  great  and  noble  purposes  contra-  Coronation  March  succeeds,  which 
vened  by  the  cabals,  acerbities,  and  is  a  collection  of  as  many  scrambling 
Jealousies,  which  have  been,  but  too  absurdities  as  can  be  collected  toge- 
oflen,  justly  the  reproach  of  musical  ther  in  such  a  space,  indicative,  no 
men.  doubt,  of  the  author's  vile  disloyal 

Three  haiuisome  volumes  of  the  thoughts  concerning  the  late  august 
Tocal  melodies  of  Scotland  have  ap-  ceremonies,  which  the  wicked  sa- 
peared,  under  the  title  of  the  Scot-  tirist  points  still  more  severely,  bv 
tbh  Minstrel,  to  which  is  prefixed  a  following  it  up  with  Last  Nights 
short,  but  interesting,  preface,  re-  Dream,  one  of  the  dullest  and  drow- 
lating  to  the  origin  of  the  national  siest  tunes  ever  produced  —  an- 
music  of  that  country.  The  selec-  cient  and  melancholy — as  if  Royal 
tion  appears  to  have  been  made  with  dreams  could  be  made  of  such  stuff! 
great  care.  It  is  very  comprehen-  But  what  marks  the  radical  inten- 
sive, including  about  three  hundred  tions  of  this  unhappy  wag  is  the 
4K>ngs,  and,  of  course,  all  the  most  conclusion,  which  tic  calls  King 
pleasing  and  popular.  Such  a  col-  George  the  Fourth's  Grand  March, 
ttction  must  necessarily  embrace  a  composed  by  a  child  of  Jive  years  old. 
vastdealofthetraditionary  history  of  For  shame,  Mr.  Composer,  is  this 
manners  and  events;  now  made  doub-  Irish  Loyalty  ?  The  Kind's  Grand 
ly  interesting  by  time,  and  by  trie  March  was  composed  by  children  of 
curiosity  which  has  lately  been  a  larger  growth,  we  are  quite  sure 
drawn  towards  that  country  by  the  from  internal  evidence, 
glowing  pictures  of  the  great  novelist  Phcenix  Park,  a  grand  diverti- 
and  poet,  if  these  be  not  alter  et  mento,  composed  on  the  occasion  of 
idem,  as  the  internal  evidence  of  his  his  Majesty's  visit  to  Ireland,  is  a 
works  leads  us  to  believe.  loyal  effusion.    This  is  about  as  good 

With   the  exception  of  arran^  as  the  general  run  of  such  things, 

ments,  the  most  important  of  which  but  (in  compliance,  no  doubt,  with 

are  the  airs  in  Rosshii's  II  Barbiere  the  enthusiasm  of  the  time)  more 

di  Siviglia,  by  Latour;  Mchul's  Over-  showv  and  noisy  than  substantial  or 

ture  WiY  Irato,  bv  Rimbault;  and  excellent. 

Handel's  Hailstone  Chorus  (as  a  duet).        The  eleventh  number  of  the  Qua- 

by  Burrowes,   not  more  than  three  drille  Rondos,  by  Bochsa,  is  hardly 

or  four  oomjpositions  have  appeared  equal  to  the  general  tenour  of  that 

(worthy  notice)  since  our  last.    One  musician's  composition  in  this  lighteil: 

of  these,  however,  is  a  curious  spe-  species. 

cimen  of  humour.    It  is  pubhshea  at        The  only  vocal  piece  is  a  Glee,  by 

Dublin,  and  called  a  Grand  Royal  Mr.  J.  Foy,  jun.  upon  the  words  in 

Diperiimento,    and    can    be    neither  the  Monasterv,    Merrily   swim    we. 

more  nor  less  than  a  musical  mysti-  It  is  dramatic,  and  not  devoid  of 

fication  of  the  Royal  Vbit  to  Ireland,  imagination. 


j0M  Pepular  Rciro^ect  of  PkilMOfhy  and  Sciemee.  CBie. 

JPOPULAR  BSTKOSPECT  OF  TH£  PBOORE88  OF  PUUiOSOPHT 

AND  SCIENCE. 

FoftJifEiLLT  at  wftft  esteemed  cxtrcmdy  sophy.    And  alt— we  boldly  Mj,  aD  ikb 

unphilosophical,  aiul  tlie  very  iniiiimU  of  has  been  done  by  mnbing  vtilitt  dK 

.  321  breeding   in  scholarship,   to  vulgarise  main  d>jcct  of  ■dmtific  punuit,  and  W 

■cknce  by  xendering  it  intelligible  or  use-  rejecting  and  seomin^  away  all  kaoM 

ibl.    Pythagoras,  Socrates,  and  Aristotle,  jargon,  and  the  theories  of  dreamily  spa- 

■lupt  their  grandest  speculaidons  masked  in  culation. 

symbols  of  mystery,  for  the  sole  use  of  fiu        To  promolgate  in  tbe  most  intdligpik, 

'Tourlte  disciples ;  and  in  modem  times,  na-  brief,    and  popular  fbnn,  whatever  shdl 

•  tnral  philosophers,    chemists,    and    phy-  appear  to  us  usiefbl  or  worthy  to  be  knoam, 

.»cians,  have,  in  this,  often  followed  the  and  to  expose  whatever  may  wear  die  m* 

.atns  of  their  ancient  masters.     In   the  pect  of  unfoonded  pretcnsioii,  or 

csuier  ages,  indeed,^-by  many  so  igno-  nonsense,  will  be  toe  aim  of  the 

nntly  praised, — pliilosophy   was  a  most  which   we   now  offer,    and   shall 

.useless  and  idle  study  ;  inapplicable  to  any  onally  continue.     Our  wish  is  to 

earthly  purpose^  except,  perhaps,  to  ezer-  a  comprehensive,   biid^s^ye   \itm  of  sD 

cise  the  beads  of  a  hw  devoted  visionaries,  that  is    now  doing  by   philosophers  sad 

nrho  were  looked  upon  by  the  rest  of  the  nien  of  science;   to  give   an  idea  of  te 

world  cither  as  tinged  with  lunacy,  or  as  most   recent   improvementa,    as    vdl_  as 

having  unhallowed  intercourse   with   evil  changes  of  retrogression,  to  our  mere 


spirits.     Nor  was   this  wonderful,  while    rary  readers,  and  those  who  have  not  lei- 
piiiksophy  was  confined  to  the  cloister  and     sure  to  peruse  the  volumiiious 


the  study,  and  walked  not  abroad  among  Journals  and  Transactiona  duly  [iiiTilMi 

the  men  of  the  world,  except  when  vailed  ing.    We  shall  thus  also  g:ive  phikMopbot 

in  «^fj-Vppf  and  mystery.  themselves  an  opportunity  of  seeing  thdr 

Among  other  mifi^ty  achievements,  the  labours  fidriy  estmiated  l^  the  hi^  stand- 

.'TSESS  has  dispelled  much  of  this  arti-  ard  of  utility,  by  keeping  whidi  cnnaisialy 

£cial  darkness, — ^broken  down  the  imper-  before  us,  we  hope  we  shall  be  able  tosiav 

tinent  barriers  of  the  schools,  and  torn  the  clear  of  all  party-spirit  and  partiality. 

Weil  of  mystery  from  the  face  of  learned  geoLoov. 

ignorance,  and  solemn  stupidity.     Science        We  shall  begin  with  the  almost  new  and 

snd  philosophy,  the  pursuit  of  which  was  lomaatic  science  of  Geology,  the  object  tf 

'ibrmerly  little  better  than  an  apology  for  it  is  to  investigate  the  structure  of  d» 

'  jgnorance  and  idleness,  have  now  become  globe,  and  the  rocks,  &c.,  which  fompSK 

"ttseful  snd  popular,  and  begin  to  be  do-  its  exterior ;  for  of  the  interior  little  em 

inestieated  in  cveiy  family  drele,  from  die  be  known,  except  that  die  nearer  the  csa- 

-peasant's    cottage   to   the  palace  of   the  tre   the  more  dense  and  weighty  are  the 

lirince.     Within  a  few  years,  a  complete  materials    composing    it,    which 

xevolution  has  thus  been  effected  in  almost  therefore,  as  hss  beoi  supposed,  be 

every  bnuich  of  human  inquiry  and  con-  air  or  water.    Geology  is,  at  present, 

.Irivance.      The  principles  of  husbandry,  haps  the  most  fashionable  of  the 

gardening,  and  mining,  are  hence  becoming  and  the  number  of  able  men  now  devolsd 

every  day  better  known,  and  the  practical  to  the  study  must  soon  bring  it  to  gsoU 

lesults  arc  quite  wonderful.    Besides,  our  advancement.     The  moat  useful  depait- 

hsU^,   our  theatres,   and  our  streets,  are  ments  of  this  science  are  those  which  la- 

iRost  splendidly  illuminated  with  gss ;  *  late  to  mining  for  metals,  cmI,  locfc  sb1I» 

«ur  edifices  are  protected  from  the  stroke  of  and   alum ;  to  the  comparative  ability  if 

the  thunderbolt ;  our  weightiest  madiinery,  stones  to  withstand  the  weather  ;  and,  aaa- 

amd  even  our  ships,  areput  in  motion  by  the  logons  to  this,  the  cnimbHog  of  lOcks,  vd 

otesm  of  water ;  our  miners  are  shielded  the  nature  of  the  soil  which  they  psodnoe. 

fiom  the  formerly  destructive  explosions  of  On  these  subjects  we  have  diaew-crisi 

aubterranean  vapours ;  f  in  short,  we  can-  facts  published  almost  daihr,  but 

sot  name  a  department  of  human  oonvc-  here  find  room  for  an  intdhgible  a 

nience  which  has  not  lately  received  the  The  more  general  principles  of  the 

most  essential  improvement  ftom  philo-  sie  employed  in  mvestigating  the  age  t£ 


*  Cocoanut  oil,  for  producing  gas  for  family  use,  is  proposed  by  If esm.  Taylar 
BlaitiBeau.    It  is  withoat  smell,  yields  a  veiy  bright  flame,  and  is  eetwwiiical. 

-f  A  Mr.  Lester  says,  the  safety  lamp  is  a  dragOH  that  lures  Ae-miasc  to  dss 
l^  gjiinng  him  confidence  to  isoK  in  the  midst  of  fire  damp ;  but  aAadiag  so 
J^ht,  diat  be  is  ofbn  tempted  to  open  the  skreen,  and  the  sunomidiiig  gas 
and  kills  him.    There  is,  wedoubt  not)  soma  trath  in  tbik    JUr.  LaMer  hsa 
m  iBoda  «f  dfumimg  qf  the  firs  dnnp. 


fMt  ^  FUlimophg  and  SeUaee.  <T« 

ilin4a-  ■>)<],  hm^ouUiu  cjali.  Sir  J.  £.  Bmitli; 

■  iiwd  bj  boC  utility  ii  ibe  vcij  lut  object  which 

.IS,  OT  bjr  thoe  fflntlcniai  lecm  inclined  to  punua. 

[  hu  been  The  fiirmitig   of    c^viiiaiu   Uid  iiub.din> 

iho  tdtoet,  siona,  and  the  idle  practice  of   mikiBg 

Ingunh  tea  name*,  and  drawing  up  iuele»  and  uiimita 

at  in  lodu  dciciipliaai  of  flowen,  leavei,  &c  tsam 

a  teat  would  the  lolc  punuit  of  all  eminenl  bolaniati. 

n&m.     Mr.  Somctimei,  indeed,  lliej  find  a  i|iue  an- 

—  : , ^  (j,j  utility  of  a 


•Mi  himielf 


indk  eotaiatf.  andphysiolosy,  but  thii  i* 

jiud  anbadded  PhfiiotogiCBl,  or  lather  useful  bManj, 

;  and  Vioenn,  ii  nqudly  advaaciug,  under  the  care  of  ibe 

,:lad  Cuvier  and  Hoiticultiiral  Society,  and  bv  the  talents  of 

',  have  bean  de<  Hr.  Knight,  who  deierrea  the  highest  cro- 

^  to  belong  to  a  dit   for  bin  cxperimetiti  on  the  food  of 

h,  fhnn  ita  gnat  plants,  and  on  the  lipening  and  piopaga' 

t  li^nd.    Itianow  tion  of  fruits.    Jlr.  Uriunmond  also  baa 

Una  that  ii  ia  the  made   the   intemling  discovery,    that  the 

oaiTDially,  though  giceu  inoaaea,  luiown  by  the  amimon  nanu 


■If  tooted  fabulous,  of  rrvw  tilk,  no  frequently 
I  w  twenty.jhiee  feet  walls,  dccayi^d  mo,  b 
of  tha  boties  m^  be     ground,  and  stagnant  wi 


183,  N>  8>     We  need  suppcacd  by  Linnaius,  Hedvig,  and  oUietl, 
-~                                 li^  of  finding  in  aorae  a  particular  sort  of  moss,  called  by  them 
*.                                .  Aa  skeletons  ef  cm-  eci^finv,  but  are  metely  the  youn);  planla 
,iic*,  or  eroi  that  of  the  of  the  pint  mim,  and  other*  of  a  nimilar 
i.  kind.     This  is  intelligible  enough,  and  ia 
:lSULoaY.  ""P')"    P""'"'    *"?  ''"  "S™'*^"  experi- 
-■                               iMi  nnit  WBtthy  of  no-  """i  but  what  are  we  now  to  make  of 
mm.  at  oresmL  is  die  am-  >•«  "nraeroua  -pedes  of    anfir-.a    na. 
cf  M.  Mohs,  of  Freybeig,  nutely  described  and  figured  in  our  booki  • 
*  Aa  odebratad  Warner,  »  zootooT. 
am  rf  new  namea,  extteme.  ^,  i„„  ,„  „joid,  under  Mn  depan- 
and  kaglAg  ;  a  awnbinalion  „aw,  the  aame  decline  of  the  lyilmi  af 
LadB.    and    Tentomc.      We  UQ„cua  a*  we  have   just  mcnticned  ra. 
IHO  PioAaan  JameaoD    and  -etdiig  botany.    Lamarc,  a  French  Ba- 
la lading  then  aid  to  the  pro.  „„,ii,t,  djacoveied  that    inaecB,  and  ae- 
•f  Ibeae  baibuisms.  ^g^  „,!,„  of  the  low  perfect  animah, 
_                 amjacuntific  journal  announcea  di«fer  ftom  quadmpeds,  Mrds,  and  fiihei 
^               mj  of  new  minerals  ;   hut  we  ;„  ,„i^  dcstitule  of  a  spine  or  b«:k  bone  ; 
«-                Jly  Tcnr  ac^deal  a.    to  the  ge.  ,„d    tuner,    another  Vreneh   avaal,    ol 
^             4a  of  Iheae  nordciea  w  frajuently  -™t  industry  and  talent,  took  up  the  Wnl, 
^  OUT  nodee;  for  we  can  often  HT-  ^rf  made  it  the  basis  of  a  new  arrange- 
^       .Meraiuiety  tomakeoutadis.  Mat.  which  bids  fait,  we  think,  to  supers 
—V          ttneitWjthatitoidoitify  thceia-  „de  the  precise  and  nninterealing  system 
— .    -iw«nlwith.peaea^n«d,  known.  ^  Lin„,i^     And,  if  we  must  han  a 
■^■^  ^  ™i  6r  enMlip^  (Ann.  PhiL  iL  i^^^^td  amy  of  barbarously  compounded 
W^  .J  fl»t  Mr-J.  Deuthai  has  found  a  „,^    f„  uumJ,,    that    of    Curiet    ia 
t,^^Miiiianl  ■ibstanw,  and  u  hiiif  cnguged  ^,j^  ,„^  „^,^  than  the  "  tooth  and 
^^  jl<  ><M%w.     It  would,   we   Ihmk,  „^j«    ^^  ^  th,  S„^^  ^i^  mj^ 
^^^  bMn  tun*  enoui^  to  call  It  new  after  tf^  , hale  a  auadmped,  and  ranks  the  bat 
^l^analjTMWaa completed.  ^,  ^^  „„^i„  thTTrde.  of  things,  be- 
^h                            BOTAXT.  cause  of  the  way  in  which  it  sutkle*   the 
^^    The  ato^  of  Botany,  lately  so  fa^don-  young  bats. 
^^41*,  a  TalhcT  on  the  decline,  owing,  we  Under  the  head  of  Geology,  we  have  at 


^  WKK  ao  ioabt,  to  the  great  minuteneta,  Summering's  woitdetful  disctne^  of  the 
Mdth«abailiilalMRcnneH,af  thcLinnaan  andoit  dt^ton-  The  discovny  of  the  uni. 
qpten.  Tbia  ayuem,  whidi  was  for  many  com  of  our  royal  arms,  which  is  said  so 
have  been  recently  made  in  Thibet,  by 
H^ioi  Latter,  and  in  Southern  Afiic*. by 
Mr.  Campbell,  will  tend  much  to  weaken 
oar  faith  in  the  dogmatiian  of  uataralitta, 
and  to  put  nun  ^dit  in  hiatoiT,  though 
it  dunid  be  cmtgnptiinasly  called  fabu. 
lotM.    The  newly  JiscotaMMusnaliad*. 


•76 


Popuht  Retrotpect  ijf  PhUa$opl^  and  Sciemet* 


•cribed  by  Major  Latter,  exactly  as  we  dark  renecting  the  agenti  bj 

have  80  often  seen  it  figfured, — with  the  trie,  galTanic,  and   magnetir 

body  of  a  fine  fbnned  horse,  and  a  sinsle  piodoced.    (K  one  thfaig  wc  are  vciy  Cm^ 

bom  in  its  forehead.    We  shall  examine  tain,   that  tbcte  W&ts  sre  not  fliudi  m 

the  evidence  of  this  discovery  most  sera-  they  are  often  fbcmhly  denaminated ;  or 

pukusly,  as    soon  as  it  comes  before  us  if,  forMNMh,  they  must  be  called  ao,  w 

more  in  detaiL    M.  Latreille,  a  French  na-  must  call  upon  those  who  choa  use  the 

tnndist  of  some  eminence,  has,  in  imita«  term  for  a  new  defiditioo.      At  the  faamd 

tion,  as  we  suppose,  of  Humboldt*s  geo-  of  being  thought  credulous,  we  would  inftr 

graphy  of  plants,  given  a  ytrj  brief  sketdi  from  M.  Oc»ted*s  diaorrerj,  that  Aot 

of  the  geographical  distribution  of  insects,  may  be  something  real  in  anfanai  m^gnr* 

This  is  a  subject  of  g^reat  curiosity,  but  tism,  for  bdiering  in  wbtch  we  have  not 

there  are  few  facts  ^et  ascertained  respect-  spared    to  ridioile  the  creduli^  of   dw 

iiig  it,  from  the  want  of  general  observa-  (iezmans.     The  efficacy  of  dtectricirf  il« 

tioos  by  coUeetoTs,  those  personages  bemg  sdf,  in  curing  disease,  has   lately  nDca 

usually  much  more  anxious  to  aod  a  spe-  into   disrepute,    though  the   ftcts  of  iti 

cimen  to  their  box,  than  to  record  any  power  are  strongly  established  on  tbe  eti- 

thing  concerning  iu  habits  or  its  history,  dence  of  some  of  the  most  diwringniahfd 

M.  Latreille,  however,  thinks  he  can  prove  names  in  the  profession.     Two  tow  aia- 

that  warm  and  cold  countries  have  scarcely  gular   cases  occurred  recently.      One  is 

aay  insects  in  common,  and  also  that  under  given  on  the  authority  of  Professor  Ofaa- 

the  same  parallels,  in  countries  which  are  sted,  of  a  num  who  had  a  paralytic  aliac. 

distant,  the  species  are  entirely  different,  tion  of  the  £ue  and  eye,  and  being  sKgbdy 

This  conclusion  does  not  at  all  correspond  struck  during  a  thunder  storm,  was,  in  eoo- 

with  what  Humboldt  found  to  hold  in  the  sequence,  completely  cured.  ( Amer.  Journ. 

vegetable  kingdom,    namely,  that  nearly  of  Science,  iiL  100.)    A  similar  care  w» 

the  same  spcdcs  flourish  in  the  most  dis-  effected  at  Perth,  on  a  man  who  had  bcoi 

tant  countries,  when  the  climate  and  tem-  troubled  fbr  sevoal  years  with  a  tremahw 

perature  are  the  same.  affection  of  his  whole  body,   whkfa  was 

METEOBOLOGY.  complctdy  removed  by  the  shock  he  r^ 

If  we  were  to  estimate  the  advancement  <*«^^  during  a  thunder   storm.      These 

of  a  science  by   the  number  of  iU  ob-  ^*^'"  "*  ^Prt°y^<>f  recwd,  and  Aould  in- 

Mn'crs,  we  should  say  that  meteorology  is  ^^^  ^  profession  to  give  electricity,  and 

making  rapid  progress  towards  perfection.  *T*9  n;«gn«risin,  a  more  accurate  and  6ir 


perfection. 
Except,  however,  the  nomenclature  of  the 
douds  by  Mr.  Howard,  of  which  we  gave 
an  account  in  our  number  fbr  September, 
and  the  experiments  of  Dr.  Wells  on 
dew,  we  recollect  nothing  which  merits 
the  name  of  a  great  or  important  disco- 
reiy  in  the  science.     Mr.  Farey  has  lately 


trial  than  perh^is  has  yet  been  dene. 

OPTICS. 

The  polarisation  of  light,  as  it  is  caOed, 
has  for  several  years  engaged  almost  die 
undivided  attention  of  opticians ;  and  Dr. 
Brewster  hss  been  so  industrious  in  cne- 
rimenting  and  collecting  facts,  that  he  has 


proposed  a  method  of  studying  the  nature  formed  an  entire  system  of  mineralogy  on 

of  the  phenomena  of  falling  stars,  which,  the  basis  of  polarization  alone.     We  wait 

we  doubt  not,  might  help  to  fill  up  a  cx>-  with  some  anxiety  for  its  publication.    Mr. 

lumn  of  a  meteorological  uble,  could  he  J.  W.  Hersdid  has  distmguished  hhnadf 


meteorologist,    would   sit  for    two  hours    laminse,  or  plates,  has  been  frequently  im- 

every  night,  with  his  eye  fixed  on  a  central    pugned,  and,  we  think,  with  suooess.     If 

atar,   ready  the  instant  he  should  see  a      ' 

fining  star  to  call  out  ^^  mark  "  to  his  as- 

•istant.     It  would,  we  conceive,  be  more 

productive  in  the  way  of   discovery,  to 

sweep  the  sky  for  comets. 

ELECTaiCITT  AMD  MAOVETISM. 

We  cUm  these  together,  because  the 
only  thing  new  of  any  importance  re- 
specting either,  is  the  very  interesting  dis- 
covery of  their  connexion,  by  M.  Ocnted, 
of  Copenhagen,  whose  experiments  have 
been  repeated  by  Sir  H.  Davy,  and  several 
other  British  philosophers  of  distinction. 
The  subject  may  be  considered  as  still  m 
its  infkncT,  but  wc  sanguinely  anticipate 
that  it  will  terminate  in  some  great  prac- 
tical result.    We  aie  very  mudi  in  the 


the  experiments,  however,  of  Mr.  Chatl- 
ton  (Ann.  PhiL  it  182,  N.  S.)  be  conecC, 
colours  may,  in  some  cases,  such  as  in  ena- 
melling, be  produced  by  mecbaniGBl  divi- 
sion and  communication. 

ASTROVOMT. 

We  may  consider  thb  as  one  of  tlfei 
more  perfect  sciences,  in  whidi  we 
scarcdy  hope  fbr  much  that  is  new. 
that  Uiere  tt  nothing  remuning  to  be 
covered,  but  because  it  has  been  ao  long 
systematically  cultivated  and  tan^t,  that 
tne  mind  of  the  astronomer  is  kept  tcij 
mudi  in  leading  strings  ftaok  his  dcfa* 
ence  to  great  names,  and  his  impHat  ooiw 
fidenee  in  mathematical  results.  A  little 
sccptioHB,  R^cdiDg  leoeiTsd  opmioai  Uk 


180 1. H 


Popular  Retrospect  of  Philotophy  and  Scienee. 


en 


•cknee,  is  often,  howerer,  of  much  utilitj 
in  leading  to  discoreries,  or  in  eonfinning 
by  new  wid  coUalend  proof  what  it  already 
known ;  and  though  it  ii  rather  a  danger- 
amn  instrument  in  unskilful  hands^  it  is  pe- 
culiarly adapted  to  men  of  talent.  Sir  K. 
Phillipft,  we  peroeiTf,  has  been  wielding 
thb  weapon  againxt  the  Newtonian  system, 
and  has  brought  some  plausible,  though 
not  very  novel  objections  against  the  sup- 
posed infallible  doctrines  of  gravitation, 
attraction,  centrifugal  and  centripetal  force, 
inertia,  and  the  celestial  vacuum  on 
which  Newton  founded  his  sublime  edifice. 
Sir  Richard,  however,  like  many  otlier  ob- 
jectorK,  con  pull  down  more  dexterously 
than  he  can  re-build ;  his  proposed  system 
of  motion  being  in  many  parts  very  extra- 
vagant.— Col.  Beaufoy,  we  perceive,  has 
inferred  from  some  observationx  on  the  im- 
mersion of  the  satellites  of  Jupiter  that  the 
moon  has  no  atmosphere,  or,  at  lea<t,  it  is 
not  like  that  of  tlie  earth,  lliis  is  not  a 
new  conjecture. 


w 

with  himsdf  to  the  timci  of  oU,  vliai 
**  the  sublimf  speculations  **  of  Epicnnis, 
&c  who  derived  all  things  from  one  kind 
of  matter,  were  the  only  science  recog- 
nised. Wc  thmk  the  Royal  Society 
showed  their  good  sense  in  rejecting  dicse 
baseless  problems,  and  we  would  advise 
3Ir.  Herapath,  if  he  should  again  feel  in- 
clined to  cxcrdse  himself  in  system-build* 
inff,  to  lay  first  a  sure  foundation,  without 
which  even  mathematics  are  false  and 
vain. 

It  is  refreshing  to  the  mind  to  turn 
from  Herapath *s  u»clesA  reveries  to  the 
practical  inventions  which  arc  now  so  nu- 
merous. Among  these,  we  may  mention 
the  great  improvements  making  in  the  con- 
struction of  chain  bridges,  in  which  (Cap- 
tain Brown,  the  inventor  of  the  chain 
cable,  has  been  so  sncccssfuL  One  great 
advantage  of  such  biidgcfl  is  their  cheap- 
ness ;  and  another,  that  they  can  be  con- 
structed over  a  width  of  water  whert 
bridges  of  masonry  could  not  be  attempted. 

>fEC]I  WICil  CIIXa31I8TR z ■ 

A  Mr.  Herapath  hai*  come  ambitiously  Since  Uie  discovery  of  iodine,  there  hM 

forward  with  some  baseless  nuthematical  ^i^P"  nothing  deicrving  of  much  notice  in 

dreams,  by  which  he  pretends  to  give  a  «iis  saencc.     Our  experimenters  are,  in^ 

more  satisfactory,  that  is,  a  more  mecha-  ^i^cd,  sufficiently  numerous,  and  many  «r 

nical    account    of  attraction,  gravitation,  them  Imve  formerly  obtained  high  distinc- 

heat,  Ac.  than  has  been  hiUierto  publislied.  *»«'*»  "^  discovery ;  but  their  labours  seem 

His  problems,  we  doubt  not,  are  executed  "*>^  ^  ]>«  ^^^  »»»'«  *^f^^S  '*»">  ^ 

with  accuracy,  and  the  resulu,  being  ma-  "^^^  »  f^^  y<^a«  "go-,.  l^»e  rage  for  uai- 

themaUcal,  may  bring  irresistible  convic  ^^^^  ^^  unimportant  disunctions,  a&d  ftr 

tion  to  hlM  mind ;  hut  we  are  accustomed,  P*7  ^f  ^  designate  thews,  has  widely 

in  all  cases  of  pretended  proof,  to  begin  infected  thows  who  arc  desirous  of  &ine; 

with  an  examination  of  the  premises ;  and  the  conti^on  havmg  most  probably  pused 

the  premises  of  Air.  Herapath  we  find  to  ^  ^^^ein  from  our  natural  hisUmans.     \i  e 

be  wUd,  visionary,  and,  withal,  very  dum-  ^"^^^  »"  this  spint,  analyses  of  the  cxcre- 

sy.     His  leading  principle  is  «'  Let  it  be  »'*^nt  of  a  serpent,  by  Mr.  Edmund  Ilaij, 

granted,  that  matter  u  composed  of  inert,  »;'*V?    "^^  "^'      f  ^  ?"  V^'  ^J  T*' 

massy,  periecdy  hard,  indesirucUble  atoms,  •'•.  -^^^T  ?  *nd  we  have  the  French  che. 

incapable  of  receiving  any  change,"  and  ""*^,  analysing  opium,  and  henbane,  and 

admitting    "  of   no   breaking,    splitting,  belladonna,  and  hemlock,  and  discovering 

shattering,  or  any  impression  whatever."  '"'«'  substances,  which  were,  for  the  moit 

Tliis  extraordinary  demand  on  our  credu-  P*"»  formerly  known  under  different  ai- 

Uty  is  followed  by  numerous  others  of  the  P«^  ^^  different  names.    A  meraphy- 

hamc  stamp,  which  he  says  he  has  put  in  '^  «y«cm— a  little  more  intelligible  than 

the  form  of  postulates,  -'  to  avoid  being  Mr.  Herapath's,  but  obscured  by  symbols, 

obliged  to  esublish  them  by  direct  demon-  J!"  W  been  forming  by  Daltoo,  Bern. 

stration."     In  the  world-making  days  of  ?»»»♦  Thomson,  and  others;  but  though  U 

Thales  and  Anaximandcr,  all  this  might,  "."upported  by  the  greatest  names,  we 

perhaps,  have  sounded  very  grand  and  im-  !^»°*  ^^  *^tiUty  very  questionable,  even  if 

p«>sing,    but  air.  Herapath  must  be  very  JlJ*""®  a«nonstrated  to  be  accurately  true, 

sanguine,  if  he  hopes  to  make  sudi  an-  The  new  discovery  of  the  connection  be- 

ticiue  dreams  as  these  be  now  listened  to  ^J'^  electricity  and  magnetism  has  in. 

with  any  patience.  We  know  nothing,  so  far  <*"<=«»  «»"«  chemists  to  apply  the  magnet 

as  our  own  experience  goes,  of  ^i  iu  ^ruc-  to  analysis ;  and  we  anxiously  wait  die  ». 

ral,  nor  alomM  of  matter  in  /reucral,  which  ^^^     "'"^  it  have  any  eflcct  in  altering 

are  not  oxygen,  iron,  flint,  lime,  soda,  or  ^^  present  view  of  the  decomposition  of 

something  wmihir ;  and  we  have  been  too  ^^f '  ^bu:h  was  the  original  basis  of  our 

oAen    bewildered  by    metaphysicians    to  cstabhshed  system  ? 
trust  to  their   nonsensical    definitions   of  metaphysics  and  ethics. 

matter  in  general,  which  is  not,  as  they         These  studies  are  now  become  exceed- 

^"8K«^    to  be  found  in  any  particubur  ingly   unfashionable,  and  it  would  oonsa- 

booy,  but  in  all  the  substanceM  around  us.  quently  be  contrary  to  all  we  know  of  hn 

Mr.  Henpath  is  for  noaking  us  retrograde  man  nature  to  expect  mudi  progress  to  b 


678  Tapdar  Mttrospeci  of  PhUo9ophy  amd  Sciemct,  [[Dec. 


mkk  in  theoi.    The  publicatioo,  however,  hw  eridendy  no  duxn.    We  cheerfully  x- 

of  the  lectures  of  the  Lute  Dr.  Urown,  htt  ootd  to  him,  however,  the  merit  of  beu^  * 

nrptised  ui  most  unexpectedly  with  not  pleasing  writer, 

only  grcmt  originality,  but,    what  ii  of  education. 

much  greater  momiait,  with  more  clearness  The  new  lystcm  of  educatiaa  introdBced 

of  thinking,  and  more  utility  of  applica-  by  Bell  and  Lancairter,  is  said  to  be  rapidly 

tion,  tluui  we  had  ever  contemplated.     Dr.  extending  in  ahnoit  every  part  of  the  chi- 

Brown  has  fearlessly  pulled  down  former  lizc-d  wodd.     We  have  to  record  one  mos 

systems,  but  he  has  no  less  dexterously  re-  marked   exception   to  this, — its  compku 

Iwilt  a  Mmple  and  (wonderful  to  say)  an  failure  iu  ScoUaud.     Thia   very  scakiag 

intelligible  and  practical  system  of  meta-  fact  has,  we  have  reaaoo  to  bdUevc,  besD 

physics,     lie  has  shown  most  clearly,  that  industriously  ooneealod  fran  the  En^ish 

the  dreams  of  Dr.  ll«id,  tliough  advocated  public  by  Uie  fnenda  of  the  aystrm  ;  but 

by  the  superficial  eloquence  of  Mr.  Stew-  wc  pledge  outmIvcs  for  its   truth.     The 

art,  are  baseless  and  vain ;  and,  of  course,  opulent  and  public  spirited  niercha&tt  if 

that  Mr.  Stewart's  elements,  however  pret-  Glasgow  erected  four  very  Urge  sdioob  io 

tfly    written,  and  however  extravagantly  those  parts  of  the  rity  and  auburb*  wboe 

praised  by  the  friendly  critics  of  the  north,  they  seemed  most  to  be  wanted ;  and  a 

contain  nothing  which  was  not  borrowed  first  they  were  crowded ;  but  no  litde  saiii- 

fiom  I>r.  Reid,  though  Dr.  Reid  had  abso-  faction  did  ihej  give,  though  conducted  \^ 

lately  nothing  worth  borrowing ;  his  chief  most  able  teachers  fiiom  parent  schools  is 

work  being  full  of  gross  mistucs  and  mis-  London,   that  in  one  or  two  yean  tbty 

conceptions.     Vet  what  is  more  common  were  toully  desertod,  and  have  now  ben 

than  to  hear  31  r.  Stewart  called  tike  great-  converted  to  other  purposes.     One  b  la 

cat  metaphysician  and  moralist  of  the  age  ?  for  a  3Iethodi!»t  chapeU  and  one,  we  be- 

The    theory  of   31  r.   Alison,   concerning  licvc,  siill  lingers  on,  but  under  a  chao^ 

beauty  and  sublimity,  has  also  fallen  be-  of  syxteni.     In  Avr,  Aberdeen,  and  Lcith, 

fan  the    sweeping  pen    of   Dr.   Brown,  there  are  three  still  languidly  kept  up ;  tat 

Ibough  he  has  not  deigned  to  hint  even  at  tliose  in  Edinburgh,  *    Paisley,   &c  beA 

Ae  exLHtcnoe  of  this  *'  profound  and  ori-  public  and  private,  have  been,  if  we  m>> 

^inal  thinker,**  as  he  has  been  most  ludi-  take  not,  wholly  abandoned.     What  ha 

cnmsly  called   by  his  friend  Mr.  Jeffrey,  been  the  cause  of  this  ?    Simply,  it  ip. 

Our  readera  may  recollect,  that  Dr.  Brown  pears  to  us,  that  the  original  Soots  ifyMB, 

fint  obtained  distinction  by  his  ma.sterly  followed  in  the  parodiial  schools,  b  noR 

fcmarks  on  the  Zoonomia  of  Darwin,  and  efficient,   hecamte   it    requires   more  Hm 

in  this  maturcr  work  we   can  still  easily  from  the  piiptL    M'emay  lay  it  down,  ii- 

trace  Iiis  obligations  to  that  original  but  deed,  an  iDControvcrtible,  that  what  is  warn 

ianciful  theory.  learned,  is  generally  as  soon  forgotten ;  ai 

AVe  have  before  us  the  second  part  of  sy.stems  of  education  which  pretend  » tc* 

the  Dissertation  on  the  f  listory  of  3Ieta-  coniplish  pupils  in  half  the  usual  timti  ize. 

physics,  by  Air.  Stewart,  puhliMhcd  in  the  and  must  be  gross  impoaitions,  and  cxi* 

Supplement  to  the  Encyclopuxlia  Britan-  trary  to  tlie  known  principles   of  homm 

iiica.     It  is,  like  the  other  part,  rather  tc-  nature.     The  system  of  Bell,   or  of  lao* 

dious  and  proKing,  and  loaded  with  notes,  caster,  however,  is  admirable  for  mcrel^f 

the  sweepings  of  his  oommim-place  book,  teaching    the    alphabet,      the    accideMC 

which  he  foimd  it  was  beyond  his  inge-  and    the  first  fimr  rulea   of   arithmetic; 

nuity  to  interweave  with  his  text.     He  has  but  there   we   conceive  its    utility  steps, 

cautiously  abstained  from  giving  any  sketch  and    must    be    supplied   by  one  less  ux- 

of  the  iuiprovements  introduced  by  Ih-.  chanical.    We  would,  therefore,  advocsce 

Reid, — for  these,  as  well  as  his  own  la-  most    strenuously    the    support  of  thcK 

hours,  would  have  dwindled  into  inbignifi-  school* ;  and  it  indicates  a  growing  spsrit 

cance  af^  tlie  complete  exposure  of  his  of  cirilization  that  the>'  are  so  rapidly  in- 

Iiretensions  by  Dr.  Brown.      lie  has  re-  creasing  where  schools  were  formerly  un- 

uctantly  admitted,  howo'cr,  that  Dr.  Reid  known  ;  but  wc  anxiously  look  forward  tn 

was  very  imperfectly  acquainted  with  the  the  period  when  the  population  of  \SBrope 

metaphysics  of  his  own  age.    AVe  nay  ap-  will  he  sufficiently  advanced  in  infortiiatioo 

penr  to  some  to  have  here  done  injustice  to  and  iniprovement  to  see — as  the  popolaet 

Mr.  Stewart.     Wc  retort  the  accusation  on  in  Scotland  have  seen — that  this  applauded 

bin  friends,  who  have  lauded  him  as  a  pro-  system  can  carry  pupils  but  a  little  way 
Ibund  philosopher,  to  which  character  he     bejrond  mere  elementary  knowledge. 

R. 

*  In  the  High-street,  of  Edinburgh  tlie  system  of  tuition  by  monitors  is  partiaDj 
adopted ;  but  this  has  always  been  more  or  less  practised  in  Scotland,  as  well  as  ibe 
system  of  emulation  by  taking  places. 


Mn.U  Jktkmt  of  Foreign  amdlkmeatk  QctrnmnUi.  iff 


MONTHLY  REGISTER. 


ABSTRACT  OF  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCSB. 

On  the  8th  of  Oetober,  our  last  treasury  has  found  in  thft  person  of 

iBtelligeuce,  dated  Epirus,   arrived  Bardacchi  a  most  efficient  supporter; 

from  the  Greeks.    Those,  noble  peo*  one  would  almost  imagine^  that  im. 

pie  are  sUll    engaged  in  the  giori-  the  spirit  of  the  old  pirate  there  wm 

0U8  struggle  against  their  oppressors^  somethmg  congenial  to  the  advancof 

who  are  so  zealous  in  the  attempt  to  ment  of  freedom  and  glory.     Thic 

rivet  their  fetters.    We  have  lately  man,  who  formerly  commainded  the 

seen  the  eloquence  of  the  scholar,  and  flotiUa  of  Lambro8>  which  was  coii# 

the  bold  and  animated  description  sumed  in  1787>  is  now  a  Greek  meii^ 

of  the   poet,    nobly    and    naturally  chant.    It  is  said,  that  he  has  for* 

enlisted    in  their  service.    But  we  warded  to  the  senate  of  Calamata- « 

regret  to  say,  that  even  the  genius  sum  of  1>500,000  francs,  to  asaiflt 

of  a  Byron,  and  the  learned  industry  the  emancipation  of  the  Grecian  proiv 

of  a  Lempriere,  have  hitherto  failed  vinces.      The   accounts  relative   to^ 

to  attracting  the  contributions  of  the  the   revolt    of  Candia  are  various^ 

British  penile.    The  minds  of  the  All,  however,  a^ree  as  to  themod» 

lew,  however,  must  feel  a  deep  in<»  in  which  it  originated.    The  Hydri^ 

terest  in  the  success    of  a  country  otes  despatched  to  Candia  a  numbev 

toi  wUch  freedom  owes  so  vast  a  of  active  and  intelligent  agents,  and 

debt  of  obligation.     At  the  period  they  soon  succeeded  in  exciting  a 

to   which    we   have  just    re&rred,  strong  feeling  in  the  minds  and  hearts 

Ghnchid  Facha  was  stiU  before  Uie  of  alT  who  heard  them.    The  Sphan* 

Castle  of  the  Lake,  where  All  Pacha  ciotes,    an  independent  tribe   inluk- 

Goatiuued,  and  the  troops  of  Omchid,  biting  the  wild  valleys  of  Mount  Ida^ 

who    besieged    the    fortress,    were  first  rose  in  vindication  of  the  prl« 

tiieiiiflelves  comp^tely  blockaded  by  vileges  of  Greece.    The  feeling  nat 

the  snow,  the  floodsj  and  the  army  since   extended    very    considerably 

of  the  chief  of  Souli ;  the  latter,  too,  throughout  the  island,    though   ita 

were  equally  blockaded  by  the  Ot-  fortified  points  are. still  in  the  power 

toman  fleet,  and  the  TurUsh  forces  of  the  Turks, 
occupying  the  fortresses  along  the        The  rise  of  Mexico  to  an  indepeiH 

coast  of  Eplrus.    It  was  by  an  al-  dent  state,    with   an    imperial    so* 

most,  romantic  incident  that  Tripo*  vereign,  cannot  be  viewed  with  ii»» 

liaoa  fell  into  the  power  of  Greece,  difference  by-  our  readers.    Royalista 

The  only  fortified,  portion    of  this  and  insurgents  have  united  in  the 

town  is  the  castlo^   and  tlus  point  declaration  of    independence  which 

the  Turks  occupied,  while  the  Greeks  was  promulgated  on    the    24th    of 

were  contented  with  simply  preserve  August.     The    sovereignty    of  the 

mg  a  distant  blockade.    Uuring  the  new  empire  is  offered,  in  the  first 

Uu^  festivals  of  the  Bairam,  and  at  place,    to  Ferdinand    the    Seventh^ 

a  I  moment  when  the  Turkish  garri-  and,  in  the  event  of  his  refusal,  then 

sen  was  sleeping,  a  Greek  captain,  to  each  member  of  his  family  in  suo« 

named  Petro,    scaled  the  ramparts  cession,  according  to  seniority.    To 

in  silence,   and  hoisted  the  flag  of  the  offer,    however,    is  attached  a 

Greece.    At  the  sight  of  their  stan-  condition  almost  tantamount  to  ex«« 

dard,  the  Greeks,  supposing  the  castie  elusion,  namely,   the  personal  resi-« 

had  surrendered,   hastened    to    the  dence   of  the  new  sovereign  in  his 

gate,     which     was    but    carelessly  trans-atlantic  dominions.     The  first 

closed,  and  entered  without  striking  article  in  the  new  constitution  of  this 

a- single  blow !    The  dismayed  Turks  cradle   of   South   American    libert]^ 

lastantiy    and    eagerly    capitulated,  would  be  very  likely  to  invite  the 

and  the  fortress  is  now  in  the  pos-  tender  sympatiiy  of  the  ''  beloved  '* 

session  of  the  Greeks.    The  patnotic  legitimate ;  it  declares,  that  the  Ro^ 


680  AMraei  of  Foreign  and  Domutk  Ocemrrmem.  [[Deft 

man  Catholic  religion  shall  be  the  things  there  can  be  but  little  left  for 
established  religion  of  the  empire,  the  vortex  of  taxation.  In  the  mean 
and  that  none  other  shall  be  ioleraUd  in  time,  the  factions  in  the  metro- 
Ae  country.  polls  are  oontribuUng  their  mite  to 
We  are  happy  to  have  it  in  our  the  national  discontent.  The  statue 
power  to  state,  that  the  fever  in  of  King  >\llliaro,  in  College  Greeo, 
Spain  is  on  the  decline:  a  dispute  was  decorated  with  its  party  trap- 
has  arisen  amongst  the  French  phy-  pings  on  the  4th  of  Xovember  at 
sicians  who  have  visited  Barcelona,  usual,  in  utter  defiance  of  a  nominal 
as  to  the  fact  of  its  being  conta-  prohibition  from  some  police  magis- 
gious.  One  of  these  humane  men  trates ;  and  one  of  the  most  violent  of 
Sad  very  nearly  fallen  a  victim  to  the  the  lodges  is  said  to  have  gone  so  £0* 
disease ;  he  is,  however,  declared  as  to  have  toasted  the  King's  health 
eonvalescent.  with  inverted  glasses.  We  obseire 
We  gave  in  our  last  a  melancholv  that  some  foolish  miscreants  attempt- 
outline  of  the  disturbances  which  ed  to  introduce  this  factious  spirit 
ensued  in  Ireland  immediately  on  into  London,  by  dressings  out  in  li- 
the King's  departure,  and  truly  sorry  milar  drapery,  on  the  same  day,  tlie 
are  we  to  be  obliged  now  to  confirm  statue  in  St.  James's  Square  !  Tlus 
and  enlarge  the  statement.  There  experiment,  however,  was  met  by 
appears  to  be  a  general  and  simulta-  the  characteristic  raod  sense  of  tbe 
neous  excitement  which  looks  very  English  people,  and  treated  with  tbe 
like  the  effect  of  organization.  The  contempt  it  merited.  It  is  a  strance 
south  is,  however,  the  chief  seat  of  fanaticism  hi  loyalty  which  woiud 
the  disturbance;  and  there  the  au-  attempt  to  revive  amongst  us  the 
dacity  of  the  disaffected  is  carried  to  days  of  Lord  George  Gordon.  We 
such  a  height,  as  completely  to  over-  confess  we  had  hoped  for  better  day« 
awe  even  the  gentry  of  the  country,  in  Ireland  after  all  the  uproar  of 
who  have,  in  almost  every  instance,  conciliation  which  so  lately  stunned 
surrendered  their  arms  on  demand,  us ;  but  it  is  only  a  fresh  proof,  if 
The  murderers  of  Mr.  Going  are  still  anv  were  wanting,  that  the  most  vo- 
undiscovered,  notwithstanding  the  citerous  are  generally  the  least  sis* 
large  reward  offered  by  government  cere,  and  that  the  faith  was  more  ge- 
fbr  their  apprehension.  Indeed  the  nerbus  than  rational  which  belicred 
offer  has  been  met  only  by  menaces  that  the  asperities  of  ages  could  he 
and  outrage.  smoothed  down  in  a  moment*  ' 
The  oath  by  which  the  peasantry  His  Majesty  has  returned  fionr  k 
are  bound  is  said  to  be  to  the  fol-  his  Continental  tour,  we  are  happy  j 
lowing  effect :  '^  No  rent,  no  tithes,  to  say,  in  good  health  and  spirits.  * 
no  taxes;"  a  concise,  but  at  the  His  illness  was  of  short  duration, 
same  time,  a  most  comprehensive  and  on  his  recovery,  the  whole  po- 
dassification  of  the  grievances  under  pulation  of  Hanover  crowded  about 
which  Ireland  labours.  The  first  the  palace  of  Herrenhausen  to  con* 
item  must  naturally  startle  an  £ng-  gratulate  him.  The  popular  national 
lishmoii ;  but  perhaps  his  wonder  air  of  ''  Landesvator,  Schutz,  and  | 
would  cease  at  the  idea  of  the  pay-  Rather,"  (the  country's  father,  pro- 
ment  of  rent  being  considered  griev-  tector,  and  counsellor)  was  played 
ous  by  a  people  who  seldom  see  the  and  sung  by  the  assembled  multi- 
faces  of  tneir  landlords,  whose  vcr}"  tude.  His  Mtgesty  was  so  murh 
existence  they  ascertain  only  by  the  gratified,  that  he  showed  himself  at 
London  newspapers,  and  feel  through  an  open  window  of  the  palace,  and 
the  rapacity  of  their  representative  addressed  them  to  the  following  ef- 
agents.  The  tithe  system,  particu-  feet:  "I  am  recovered,  and  rejoice 
larly  us  carried  on  at  present,  also  that  I  can  be  again  among  my  Hano- 
operates  oppressively  on  a  popula-  verians,  from  which  I  have  l>een  im- 
tion  the  vast  nijyority  of  which  is  happily  hindered  by  my  illness.  I 
Catholic ;  and  who  have  thus  out  of  regret  all  the  trouble  they  have  given  ! 
Ihclr  scanty  means  to  support  the  themselves,  and  thank  them  for  it.  I  \ 
Otablishment  of  two  churches.  It  gratefidly  acknowledge  the  love  and 
X)Uows  as  a  corollary,  that  when  attachment  of  my  Hanoverians.  1 
I  eiU  and  Uthes  swallow  almor^t  every  have  always  been  a  Hanoverian.    I 


I. 


IMl.^  Jhttraei  rf  Foire^  amd  Jhrnuik  Oeemrreiteei.  091 

will  lire  end   die   a  ^Hanoverian.**  of  considering  the  nature  of  offences 

The  King  was  met  at'  Calais  by  the  against  the  JBank,  and  their  conse» 

Duke  D'AuKOuleme^  who  kissed  him  quences.    It  is  high  time  that  some 

on  the  che&  after  the  Continental  step  of  this  kind  should  be  taken,  not 

fashion :  when  lus  Majesty  landed  at  only  in  cases  of  forgery,  but  with 

Ramsgate,  he  saluted  the  cheeks  of  respect  to  our  criminal  code  altoge*' 

the  Princess  Esterhazy  after  the  same  then     Every   month    convinces    ua 

fashion.      His  Majesty  has  held  a  more  and   more  that  the  policy  of 

levee  since,  at  wluch  the  new  civic  Draco  was  a  bad  one. 
authorities  attended  in  ereat  state,        Messrs.  Weaver,  Shackle,^  and  Ar* 

widi  a  congratulatory  address  from  rowsmith,have  received  the  judgment 

the  Corporation  on  his  return ;  he  re-  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  for  a 

eeived  them  most   graciously,  and  scandalous  libel  on  the  memory  of  the 

with  great  courtesy,  expressed  his  late  Lady  Wrottesley,  of  Staffordshire: 

regret  to  the  Lord  Mayor  that  his  their  sentence  was  nine  months  im- 

absence    prevented    him  from   par-  prisonment  in  the  King's  Bench,  and 

taking  of  the  Corporation  hospitiuity  fines  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to 

on  the  9th  of  November.     Imme-  1100/.  . 

diately  after  the  levee  he  set  off  for  The  depreciation  of  every  article 
Brighton,  between  which  place  and  of  provision  in  the  country  markets 
Windsor  Cottage  it  is  understood  he  is  surprising,  and  the  farmers  are 
means  to  pass  the  Christmas :  ru-  naturally  loud  in  their  lamentations; 
mour  says,  that  his  retirement  will  we  may  expect  to  see  the  table  ol 
be  occupied  with  arrangements  for  a  the  House  or  Commons  groaning  un- 
neditated  change  of  ministry,  which  der  the  petitions  of  the  Agriculturistf 
is  to  include  Lord  Wellesley  and  the  next  session.  The  following  are 
Grenville's ;  we  aive  this,  however,  some  of  the  instances  which  have  been 
merely  as  one  of  the  mi  dits  of  Uie  publickly  stated.  At  Newbury  mar- 
day.  It  is  also  rumoured,  that  Mr.  Ket,  fourteen  fine  pigs,  nine  weeks  old. 
Canning  is  to  succeed  the  Marquis  of  were  sold  for  the  sum  of  17j.  6</.  beinf 
Hastings  in  the  government  of  India.  \s.  Sd.  each,  and  the  seller  returned 
Some  definitive  arrangement,  how-  Is.  to  the  buyer  for  luck !  A  fine  sovf 
ever,  may  with  certainty  be  calcu-  and  eleven  pigs  (her  second  litter) 
lated  on  before  the  meeting  of  par-  were  disposed  of  in  Speenhamlana 
liament,  which  is  fixed  for  the  27th  for  1/.  lOs.  6d,  Not  two  years  agq„ 
of  January.  a  sow  with  a  similar  litter  was  sold 
It  is  with  feelings  of  infinite  re-  in  Newbury  market  for  7/.  Fine 
ipret,  that  we  announce  the  execu-  large  fowls  are  selling  in  Plymouth 
don  of  no  less  than  sixteen  unfortunate  market  at  I6d.  a  pair,  and  the  prime- 
Cellow-creatures  since  our  last.  Some  pieces  of  beef  and  mutton  at  from  3ii. 
#f  these  excited  great  commiseration,  to  4c/.  a  pound.  Peace,  it  seems, 
juid  more  particularly  the  case  of  a  per-  has  not  brought  a  golden  age  to  the 
son  of  the  name  of  Cadman,  who,  vrith  farmers. 

his  wife,  pleaded  guilty  to  offences        A  proclamation  has  appeared  for 
against  the  Bank  of  England.    Cad-  the  issue  of  a  new  coinage  of  farthings 
man,  it  appears,  had,  on  his  apprehen-  from  the  Mint, 
don,  made  all  the  discoveries  in  his        Last  week  a  letter  was  sent  in  ds- 
power  to  the  Bank,  and  did  so,  as  he  spair  from  the  post  oflSce  to  the  Bri- 
said  on  the  scaffold,  from  some  hopes  tish  Museum,  in  order  that,  if  pos- 
of  mercy    which  were  held  out  to  sible,   its  direction  might  be  deci- 
ham.     His  wife  was  respited.     Cad-  phered.    It  ran  literally  as  folIoWs— 
man  had  received  a  good  educadon,  '*  Al,  Sua  Excellenza, 
and  had  even  brought  out  some  po-  Sromfridevi — " 
pular  dramatic    nieces    at    Sadler's  A  committee  sat,  and  after  long  de- 
Wells,  with  which  establishment  he  liberation,  Mr.  Vansittart  suggested 
was  for  some  time  connected.    His  that  it  mi^ht  be  for  Sir  Humphrey 
fate  has  suggested  the    idea   of  a  Davy,    which  turned  out  to  be  the 
meeting  in  the  «ty,  for  the  purpose  case. 


mnU^Mmrwgn. 


CD«e. 


BIRTHS. 


Obi.  18.  At  TVlDtteid-ha)!.   Ewez,  tlie  Udf  of 
Sir  GcoriCe  J>euvs,  Bart,  a  m>b. 

—  AtArbuthnot-nooff,  Vltconntess  Arbuthnot,  a 
■on. 

—  Iat«Iy,  at  Pencnden-bcatb  Cottage,  tlit  Lady  of 
Coloarl  Cuyler,  a  too. 

24.  The  lady  of  Justinian  Alston,  £>q.  of  Udrll 

Castle.  Bedfordshire,  a  danghter. 
39.  InGn-atCamberland-street,  Lady  MTarlane, 

a  daoffiiter. 
37.  In  GrMVtf oor-place.  Lady  Emily  Dnuumond*  a 

daughter. 

—  At  Darham,  the  lady  of  Samoel  Spronle.  Esq. 
MD.  Meilil>er  of  the  Medical  Board,  Bombay,  a 
■on. 

39.  At  her  faonse.  In  Parlc-place,  St.  Jamesl.  VIs- 
eooatess  Craoboome,  a  son  and  heir. 

—  At  Han  welt  Paddock,  the  lady  of  the  Ker.  Dr. 
Bond,  adanjrhter. 

-•  At  l>enfiMd4)ouM,  near  Hunjrerfonl,  the  lady  of 

the  Rev.  G.  Porchcr,  a  daughter. 
9L  AC  Bath,  the  lady  of  Joseph  Ashly  Gaitskell, 

Esq.  2^1  L>.  a  son. 

—  At  Twickenham,  the  lady  of  the  Rev.T.  Halls, 
a  son. 

Nov.  1.   At  Chlnffford-hatch.  Essex,  the  lady  of 

Ralpli  llicardo,  Esq.  a  daughter. 
8.  At  Beauiinster-bonse,  l>on»et,  Lady  Emily  Steele, 

asooaiidlieir. 
4.  In  York-placu.theladyofWm.  WrixonBecher 

E«|.  ^11*.  a  daughter. 
d.  At  Cliecierton,  near  Cambridge,  the  lady  o 

Thoi.  Taylor,  Esq.  a  daughter. 

7.  In  Hill.sin!eC  the  lad-  of  N.  W.  Kidley  Col. 
borne,  Esq.  MP.  adamchter. 

8.  In  Portland-place,  the  lady  of  H.  S.  Northcote, 
EKq.  a  son. 

9l  In  South  Aodlev-street,  the  lady  of  W.  L. 
Hugheii,  Esq.  MP.  a  son. 

—  In  Guilfbn[.strert,  the  lady  of  Wm.  P.  HI. 
eluupds.Esq.  asoa. 

10.  In  Moutarne-street,  Porlman-£qaare,  thehon. 

Mrs.  Anthony  Denny,  a  dBi;9hter. 
13.  At  Sharpham.  Devonshire,  the  lady  of  John 

Bantard,  Esq.  MP.  C^L  Koval  Navy,  a  son. 

—  In  rheslerfield.alreet,  MayftOr,  the  lady  of  J, 
H.  Draeon,  Esq.  a  son. 

14w  In  York-place,  Portman-yqvare,  the  lau^  of 
Jo«eph  Hvme,  Esq.  MP.  a  daughter. 

—  At  iithajpden,  In  Sarrey,  the  lady  of  Archibald 
Little.  Esq.  a  son. 

U.  At  Highbary-park,  Mrs.  Darlilson,  a  daughter. 

IN    SCOTLAND. 

At  Edinburgh,  the  lady  of  Sir  William  Janline, 
Bart,  of  Applegarth,  a  daughter. 

IN   IEELJlND. 

In  Harcou It-street,  Dublin,  the  Countess  of  Erro), 

a  daugtiter. 
la  Vrederick-etreet,  Dublin,  at  IbeDovager  Conn- 

tess  of  Westme8th*s,  Lady  Elisabeth  Dawson,  a 

son. 
At  Cork,  the  lady  of  .MiOor-Gen.  Sir  John  Lambert, 

a  dauirliler. 
At  Dublin,  at  the  Khrht  Hoa.St.  Geoiye  Daly^, 

tiie  lady  of  the  Rev.  Arthur  Knox,  a  da^cliter. 
^UDro^heda,  the  lady  of  Henry  .Metcalfe,  Esq.  MP. 

a  con  and  heir. 
At  the  seat  of  the  Earl  of  Famham,  near  (  aran, 

the  lady  of  James  Saonderson,   Kst^.    US,  a 

daughter. 
At  Limerick,  the  lady  of  the  Hon.  John  Maisey, 

a  son. 

ABROAD. 

At  I.aacannc,  the  lady  of  Capt.  CunlilTe  Owen, 

KN.  u  son. 
At  lk>iilo,'no-snr-Sclne,  Lady  Jane  IJndsey  Car- 

nfisiu,  a  son. 

MARRIAGES. 

Oct.  22.  At  Walthamfitow,  .7.  W.  Freshfield.  Vmi, 
ofS'ukr  Ni'wington,  to  F.J. Sims,  of  Church. 
hilMiorise,  Wnlrham^totv,  eldest  daughter  of  the 
lnt*»  J.  Sim«,  Efsq.  of  that  place. 

i'J.  At  St.  .l:iiiicVj|.cliur<.lu  by  thn  Wrv.  Rolirrt 
.Moore,  Prcln-mliury  of  Cuntcrbunr,  Sir  \V..luhii- 
sroii"  H-ipe,  Ml».  one  of  the  Tx>Vt1s  of  the  .\(I- 
minilty,  to  the  Right  Hon.  Maria.  CountcM  uf 
Aihloiir.  sifter  to  Sir  Robert  Eden,  lijtrt.  of 
M  iudle&tone,  in  the  county  of  Durham. 


29.  At  SL  Georic**,  BIoMMbnn^  &fr.  HamMia. 
of  the  Theatre  Ko\-al,  Bath,  to  "M'um  Eilabclli 
Blanchard.  daairbter  of  Mr.  Btaucfaai<  of  *a 
Theatre  Koyal,  C-oreat  UmrAen. 

80.  At  Harlow.clinrch,  Lieut.-Col.  Johnson,  ci 
the  8Gkh  Krgt.to  Emma  Julia.  sef9oo4  daachtcffef 
W.  Sins.  Esq.  of  HabertVhall.  Emex. 

dl.  At  Walcot-church.  UatJi,  by  the  Hon.  and  Rcr. 
James  St.  Uger.  Hjchard  Smyth,  Es^.  of  BalK- 
natre.  High  hheriff  of  the  ooaaty  of  tt'alrrfeffl, 
to  the  Hon.  Harriet  St.  I^erer,  dnQghter  of  th« 
late,  and  sister  to  tiie  present  Viscooat  I>oac» 


Esq.  o(  Workworth.  to  Maty  Aanc,  yooaL.. 

daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Tfaoa.  Lyon,  of  Hat- 

ton-hoose.  near  Durham. 
Nov.  3.  At  St.  Jame»*s-chnreb.  the  Her.  CUarlct 

Crook,  Rector  oi  Bath,  to  Charlotte  .Mar> .  cidMC 

daogliter  and  co-beireM  of  the  late   Charles 

M'orthiugton,  Esq.  of  UncoIntMan,  and  laai- 

down  CreAoent,  ifalh. 
0.  At  Croom-ehnreh,  bv  the  Rer.  Rdnvd  Naib. 

Hugh  Massy.  Ees.  eWest  sou  of  the  Hon.  G. 

E.  Afassy,  of  Kivenwialr,  to  Mary  Anne,  onlv 

daughter  of  Robert   HandiBr.  Esq.  of  Chervr 

Gi-ove.  in  the  county  of  Llinorick. 
13.  At  Carlisle,   ^iir  Frederick  Triese  Monhea4 

Bart,  of  Derwent-iodge,  Camberlaad,  toJaac, 

second  daughter  of  Hobert  Warwick,  Esq.  el 

Warwick-hall,  in  the  same  county. 

—  At  St.  .Vlban**,  Woo^.-slreet,  the  Rev.  Geetiv 
Edward  lieckwith,  to  Elisabeth  Jaae,  oalyehiM 
of  J.  Haubury,  i-Isq.  of  Laytoastoae^  in  tha 
connty  of  Essex. 

1-1.  At  Felbridge.park.Sas8ex.  by  Special  llrriss, 
the  Hon.  General  Frederick  St.  Joha.  to  Coia- 
line  Elizabeth  Parsons,  yooiisettdaashtcrefdia 
late  J.  Parnons,  Em, 

—  Charles  Henry  Pugiira,  Esq.  of  Ken^iaetOL 
to  Miss  Holfonl,  daughter  of  Charica  Uolte^ 
Eeq.  of  Hampetead. 

Id.  At  SL  Paneraa^hnrch,  Llent-CoL  A.  Hagr. 
of  the  Hon.  E.  I.  Company^  terrlee.  to  Agntk 
dangbter  of  Wm.  Diawiddie,  Eaq.  of  " 
Crescent. 

—  .At  St.  Ceont\  Hanover-squaFr,  John 
TThomas,  Esq.  to  y —  ■"=——»-   -»—  - 
terofWm.  yems,___. ^ 

—  At  Marylebone-chnrch,  the  KeT.  Geo. 
Howmaii,  of  Shlplake,  OxCDfdahlre.  to  Jim 
Sarah  Wightwick.  eldest  dauffhter  or  the  laia 
John  Witfhtwick  Kuighlle\-,  Eisq.  of  Offiehaich 
Bury,  \lVwickshiK. 

17.  At  Marylebone*church,  Joeephua  J.  P.  Keat 
rick.  Era.  of  ITpper  Marylebooe-Mmt,  la 
FhuieesMary,  only  daughter  of  the  latcjaan 
DodsLEsc. 

20.  At  Hackney,  Alex.  Hutchison,  E%q,  ofPrtCN 
head,  Aberdeenshire,  to  Aaae,  ehmtdaafktsr 
of  Al^x.  HntchiMo,  Esq.  of  Lower  Claphaai. 

—  .At  Melksliam,  by  the  Rer.  Charles  Ttafiiell, 
Henry,  youngest  eon  of  the  Hoa.  Cohmel  Sef^ 
mour,  to  Cliarlotte.  youngest  daaghtcr  uf  tat 
Inte  Sir  Samuel  Whltcombe. 

21.  At  St  Lawrence,  In  the  Isih  oTThanet,  tka 
Rev.  James  Volant  Va«hon,  son  of  Admiral  Va- 
sbOD,  to  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  the  late  Chrli-' 
topher  Mayhen,  Esq.  of  RanMgate,  aad  aicce  aC 
Thomas  (jarret,*  £m|>  of  Nctber-coart. 

—  At  Bridlln|(ton  church,  by  the  Venerab!e  fVaiicte 
Wrancliam,  Arehdeaoon  of  Clerelaud,  JaBta 
Randall,  Jon.  of  lron|Eate,Tower«hUi,  Loadoa, 
to  Ann,  widow  of  the  late  Win.  l^adtrr  foC 
the  merchanta*ier\'lce},BridllngtbBClHaf,S'aw« 
shhv. 

IN   SCOTLAND. 

At  F/dinbnrgh,  by  the  Rev.  Bishop  Sand  ford,  Wat. 

Herriesktr,  Esq.  to  Madallae,  daairfatei-  ol  tha 

lute  Colonel  Klccart  Hepbnme,  of  Kicrarton. 
At  Edinburgh,  Captain  .Alex.  Goraon,  RN.  to  Mary 

Elizabeth,  only  daughter  of  the  late  Sir  Eciim 

Gordon,  Bart,  of  Pwk. 

IRELAND. 

At  TanrsMny^hnrch,  in  the  county  of  Loaclhfd. 
Sir  George  Ralph  Fethcrslone.  F^rt.  MP.  for  thai 
count^Vto  Frances Eliz-ibeth  .Solly,  eldet.?  dauJr- 
ter  of  Mrs.  Jessop,  and  of  the  late  Richaid 
Solly,  K»q.  of  York.place,  Bedfot4-»qalln^.  Loo- 
don,  and  grand-daughter  of  Sir  F.  Flood,  Uait, 


1881.;] 


■■  Wmphilla,  Hip  Snear  Klrhom,  the  l>nkc 
itCnrr,  (•ricce  of  »i  Emolft.  Purof  Frai'w, 
wd  UrwiiK  Pf  Snib,  lo  Hla  Mirlt  Jlil  sa, 
diini;b>iir  al  (tic  Hsu.  Csloail  tlnlT  Ui'laD, 
■ad  lini  cmiilii  of  tbe  umtta  VlMoaRlDUIiim 

At  ik.PiM>.iuii  Cbmli.  C»n.  brDnHar-ff. 
.  eldw^ta^nroTHsliantUiuR, 


Ij  M^fW 


S«^iir.  I 


■n^btrr  of  iht  Hon.  KoU.  Kcp. 

riUsli  Ambuudoi^  CbiMl.  tha 
tle-UuiiiT.  u  KIJ»,  wMow  «r 

'Did  ItrriDE, 


«ii.  of  Siirrendea 


DEATHS. 

OcLff.  MIuMoanbilB,  alaur  u  tbc  I.onl  Biiliop 

12.  At  bcc  hinur,  RlRK'-itrHl.  Duh,  IaIt  TyiU, 
rtlkt  er  Sir  John  Tvdil.  Uun.  uf  LamWtso, 

OHMR^CMmtT.  IfHUlll. 
—  At  Brtlrj.Mmit,  Miiftiirilaliire,  lied  70,  I.«:lf 


IHiplli,  awl  *lio  by  hh  ngMoni  OtmiM,  boUi 
•nRMUUl  Md  *iiiu«r. 
II.  At  l-:MiiiKU>H  Vaik,  Wanrkkihln,  atn  k 
Hhon  ilium,  is  litt  iln  jnt,  Ijidy  ^llubdli 

VoT.  I.  Albcr  tfdJnicc,*!  llann>b,Su*n.  In 
h«r  BM  nu,  l>ln.  PnuUijr  J«d*i,  tbr  luinr. 

TlriiK  SI  the  oiiitKo  duiriinn  vl  ibit  liu  htr, 
tStam  Jsnlui,  Cliancdliir  of  Ibc  UioMU  sf ' 
I'hichHin',  and  iniid.diinihlcr  »( ibc  lata  Dt. 
hoatn,  Ubhbp  o?  tbfuniF  UiPCrie. 
L  Al  h(f  leal,  to  Hi-rtfWd.hliT,  Si™.  All™.  <tt 
DeTDnihlr«-pliicF.  relict  ol  tlid  Uttf  Admlnl 

-  In  CDiDbfrlsnildtn'rt,  S.  NoiUla  rjmtlnc, 
Iblnl  diimiirr  M  [h<  lulc  Joiin  llDTkr,  Eh.  lad 
nwai  utat  to  lb;  Knri  if  CatlltBiiliic. 
l;Ai  (Voydon.  Hiddcnlv.  la  lil>B3d  tnr.  William 
Bnulihair  Ulinlon,  iii.  of  liii  hill" —  "- 
Willi  of  BichiHiwr. 
'. Atlicii»ur,lallK  .... 
diiabihil1U!i»i,Ui<V 
I  tail  nitb  rru^iof. 


lion,  &4.  of  liii  M 

Clicai  at  Balli,  altn  alttK 
■    ■-  •■    inlE«T. 


Hon.  nnc  Mallba,  oueof  bit  aUjnin  Dvpatr 
M'slcnauD  foi  Ibe  U'al  BIdlag  of  tin  Caaa^ 

—  At  .\ttifl.-Jd-ho(iK,  ant  Msnlifleld,  In  The  snii 
y*iir  of  im  avc.  hue  Webb  Herlocli.  &n.  tli* 

p7orsSjrf.-iJ^Bi,i?;B.^"iSi;."fcr  ,i?';rK",^';"«ed7.l''SS.";ai5{,!'.!?i^ 

oMihlre.  ,,,„,.,.        lattWm.Jolllfft.Fjq.  MP.&rPKtrvneM. 

-,  l'r"v.  V™Ii^°KCB?^MiI.Vrl  of  llie     '*'  "''?"  *-'""'''•  ''•I-  ''  "llbwonli,  WHt^ 


^ud 

—  BrtdreRaod.  Umbrtli,  Sophia,  vUt  ofDntld 
AllBa.  Vmi.  licpaiF  Conimliunr  Gcnrn]  tuhlj 
lUjatft  rone*  and  of  )>oitabello,  neir£dln. 

Se.  Anierhonre,  la  WeTiroDth.itrrFt.  I^T  Ha- 
milton. wMov  of  Sir  J.  Mainllton.  Bart.  Mid  aio. 
tbsr  orslr  Cbuict  KnnllloD.  Hart.  Mrr-Umi- 
nl  and  l.'o>erni>r  ol  Niwleundland.  and  of  iilr 
Bdvard  HwBlllBa,  Hut.  Hear  Adinlml  and 
KCB. 

v.  At  Ko^Tle^  la  bit  7«b  jai,  Rdtfud  H^br, 
MD.  BBC  of  llll  Atdf  rinrn  of  Hint  Cilv.  Or. 
Kbrtn  waa  bom  at  Clu|wbeat.  In  l^aimaliire,  In 
I7t>,  and  at  as  early  a^e  became  a  pnpll  of  Ibe 
teiebtated  Dr.  FiliUler-  Ua  bla  FntnuKcialo 
llft.h«  wtlKd  at  Norwicb,  vbm  Ik  apuHlit; 
dWi^aUitd  hlBHcIf  tef  Mi  aaprrlor  4lcnu, 
wbkb  Hoeared  fbr  bin  geacral  «(«Hi.  Auuuuf 
hit  piMtoatoiia)  wrhluta,  hit  itark  on  Ulnlaa 
Haaionliaic  tt  Uglily  ralnaed  i>t  mfdlcnl 
lani  aad  ua  eabwd  ibroiwfa  aertnu  (dliioiu, 
■poo  one  of  vlilcli  hawDvcuipluyedbutaalion 
tliaa  preVlom  lo  bli  dcUh.  Lallrriv,  nucii  of 
hit  aitroHoii  wu  dntoicdto  airkniinnl  itu. 
dla.rrUU(cnii'blrtapar«lihi.'  Mldbbnloaa 
or  twa  *«rk>.  rii.  Holkbaai  aad  Iti  Acrbial. 
tor^  and  Ac  Tranilatbin  of  a  woik  rdiittg  u 
the  tUI*  of  .tKrlL'BlInn,  ta  llalf ,  Aan  ihe  Kreotli 
ofM.iliatenniTltu.  Ai  a  nuMraO,  hsWM 
hlrtll  e«««Ft  br  hia  Mlaw^diau.  IM  tb« 
n*l  and  lalnirltT  wUh  wlildi  he  aunlbnl  bla 
dnik*.  and  irliinnH  uany  iIhihc,  pnrticnlarly 
aa  fei  Bi  relRIrd  tollir  mana^ni-iil  of  tbe  Uourl 
bf  (ionrdlan*  fur  Ibc  relief  of  tlie  uiar. 

S.  Atllawllih,  Inlili^Hthyi-Br.nHrratonraiid 

(ioB,  JamH  Uroh^ne,  juji.  E^.  of  litigiitoa, 

—  AlhiikaniF,  in  Hide  Pork  Conier,J<iliD  Wer- 
ner, Kaq.  mmimhaf  llibiTTianaUaililnila 
fer  HuCmMt  of  MMibtn. 

I«telr  at  Uliltikax-u,  aod  Bl.  U(.  Uilthr* 
Kpcr,  onaoCllKSvclelTarFric.idii.  TMoin- 
guW  rbancln'  ainuHd  rij  bii  rronoiay  a  tmj 
cuiHldenbh:  loltunr,  bat  wu  »  pii»>!iiioaiaiiii. 


aud;<. 
— l^KBciekld  Ixylvr.^mr.JoHpIiNIclioiai 

Snilb,  £»«.  lata  of  Upper  fa'sllfbrd-atrect,  Rni. 

Mll«|iire,  ■Itrr  si  tllntti  of  eijihiyean. 
'."  In  Cimbertand-piacif.  Ni!w  Rud,  afpd  7D.  ilia 

Hon.  kin  Mlll.RlIel  of  the  late  Juba  Milt,  Em. 

ofNoiuuMe,  ForlBfiiilrr. 
13.  M<'hmFr-le-i(Rt>,l>iirhBni,inbcr£Di1i  vear, 

Mn.  WniUierlT,  rrllel  of  thi'  Uilr  Mr.  Kilkanl 

Weuhnty.of'lnnlea.himfr.intlirriu.iet'niuiy; 


ber  CompHiT 


\t  MnJ.'d 


U.' Alu'ifiihUBrMaiT.  Iba  nilr  of  EiIir.SketnlT, 

Em.  of  Slockvrrll  Cannon,  Sarifj. 
LV  Allittaeat,  Fnn-lioi*it,  nrar  Durtnantb,  nnd 

?i,  I'butei  Havnc.  Eid.  Llaiit  -Coloael  of  ibe 

North  l)e»n  UllltiL 
—  Al  IfflcbaUiouH,  Donit,  Ihr  Bt.  lion.  laOw 

Aiur!laTnncliaid.itir..<if  W.Tn'iwl;ard,  Kiq. 

teal  Earl  of  Olanriiarde,  of  I'liiiumiu  CBith^ 
lrrlao.1.  . 

lA.  Al  Ilia  hoaie  in  Ynrk-ttreel,  PortmaD-aqnait, 
Uftl7B,IIa>i'riill<.T,Kd.]. 

17.  Al  bl>hDu'(,»t.  Jmarulrrel.  rnrklnrhnni. 
BHe.  awMiinlir  of  api^n.  In  bla  m  jnr, 
ittr  Adiairal  Uoraev,  nui.  tUtu  ton  of  tba 
leimcd  Bttit  eleniul  blaTorlaa  of  niatie.  The 
Adnibul  hud  dieliaaOB  of  accanmnlu  Limt; 
C»ib1u  Cook,  In  tha  tvo  lial  of^klt  cotrr. 

elaic  aad  InipDrtaM  msvfef.  Ho  wta  anr  of 
Boai  ideuliliii  (iminiplwri  of  ILlj  noiiiiry, 
a*  li  erMeut  fmn  hh  ralniililr  and  laboiiona 
wBrk,lhe  Hiiturjr  af  "—--•■ " "- 


acconal  ■[  (ht  EaUrm  Karl 


I,  kc.   Af  BD 


in(,  lint 


tvreatnl,  hnfiK-,  .......^....-^-. 

U.  Ailil««vi,'niDrniiiB-bu1i.lliicki,lnlilii;i;Lh 

war,  )lirTLoBi«aSlvpgTitI,r,krI. 
—  .\I  »ri>dlB|l,  Kilwanliicull  n-arinr,  V^,^  Inlr  oiia 

•rihi-  Haant  af  CnninilxliHirn  at  ralli^iiir. 
33.  AtbkhonnlnItoxi;li->4aw,lhF infill IIai. 

Hlr  Jiunra  Mwiffierd,  Im-  <  oM  ('lilrrJurlln-  of 


a'lbi 


V  Itvyid  f. 


■a*.  I>l|.  Ibllljitlir  of 


684 


EuUsiattieal  Preftrmenti-^AgrkuUural  Report. 


CDec. 


He  received  an  elcnnt  and  clasilcal  edncarion, 
beinf^  iateiided  for  the  Medical  ProfeMion.  After 
completiof  hU  studies,  he  made  scTcral  voyages 
iu  the  capacity  of  Surgeon  to  a  vessel ;  but  re- 
linquishinsr  this  occupation  for  that  vf  the 
Stafe,  he  maile  his  first  ap]w»aronce  at  York, 
in  1775,  aud  aftcm'iinlH  iK'nonncU  witli  great 
success  OD  various  proviurial  boanls,  until 
17!^,  when  he  came  out  at  ('ovent  (iurden,  in 
the  character  of  Shylock,  aud  for  a  number  of 

J  ears  contiuued  to  perform  at  that  Theatre.  He 
as  left  one  son  aud  one  daucrhtcr.  the  latter  is 
Mrs.  H.  Siddons,  the  Proprietor  of  tlie  Theatre 
Koyal,  EdinburKh,  of  which  her  brother,  Mr. 
W.  Murray,  is  the  Acting  Maniurer. 

At  Aberdeen,  in  his  80th  year,  John  F.wen,  E*q. 
who,  besides  various  sums  be<|ueathe(l  to  the 
charities  of  that  city,  has  left  tlie  hulli  of  liis 
property  to  the  Maiffstrales  and  (Mrnry  of  Mon- 
&ofe,  for  tlie  purpose  of  foundinir  an  Hospital, 
viuiilar  to  (W)rdun*s  Hospital  at  Aberdeen,  for 
the  maintenance  and  education  of  lioys. 

At  Omily.  Caithness.  Captain  Donald  Sinclair, 
late  of  the  9(Hh  Kegt.  of  Foot. 

IN   ISELAKD. 

In  (ireat  l>enmark.«treet,  Dublin,  after  sIt  days 
illness.  Sir  Huirh  Nuirent,  Bart,  of  Italliulongh, 
County  of  WeKtincHth,  in  his  Klst  vrar. 

At  Dublin,  Dr.  Uarrett,  Vice  Prorost  of  Trinity 
College. 


At  Bnsbv  Park,  CODDtf  of  WIcklov.  Ihc  Ii«u 

Mrs,  HowanL 

ABKOAD. 

AtCaea,  in  Normandy.  lUlpb  Slilnaer  G«w1anf, 

Esq.  formerly  of  the  Coantv  of  I>«rtiam. 
At  l/oodeanah.  East  Indies,  CapC.  licorge  Badnrr 

Blanc,  of  the  Englneera. 
At  Calcutta,  Jas.  A.  Simpson.  Esq.  Cleri-  9i\ht 

Crown,  a  Protonotary,  and  Exauiiner  of  the  Ss- 

preme  Court. 
At  Jersey,  John  Trelawney.  Esq.  eldest  son  of  the 

Kev.  Sir  Harry  Trelawney.  Hart,  of  Tkrlawocv. 
At  Sens,  in  France,  Francea,  ElUabctfa,  yoooM«t 

dau}rhter  of  Sir  Abrahiim  Elton,  Bart,  of  Clirve- 

don  Court,  Somerse'shirr. 
At  llume,  aired  .09,  the  lit.  Rer.  Dr.  RobL  Watt. 

JM«hop  of  the  Roman    Catliolic  Choccltcs  if 

Vaterford  and  T.i«more. 
At  Ghent,  Wm.  Wltson,  Esq. 

LOWOEVITF. 

In  Woollev*!  Hospital.  Nottint^ham,  In  (he  lOfn 
year  of  her  axe,  Sarali  Peet,  midovr.  Her  bos- 
band  was  uumv  years  modeller,  ami  »iiver  fr«e- 
der  to  Abtiah  Miller,  Esn.  an  einiiirnt  Jeweller 
of  that  place,  in  whoae  time  nrarlv  .'*Uii  prrsoos 
were  employed  in  that  barinrsa  thV  re.  The  de- 
ceased retained  the  perfect  use  of  all  her  ftc^i- 
tleii,  and  could  sec  to  thread  a  needle  to  the  du- 
of  her  death. 

At  Twickenham,  In  her  106th  year,  Mary  BritlnL 


ECCLESIASTICAL  PREFERMENTS,  &c 


The  Bev.  Mr.  Champney,  to  the  Living  of  Bads- 
worth,  near  Pontefract,  vacant  bv  the  death  of  the 
Rev.  Sir  T.  Horton,  IJart.— The"  Bev.  C.  Miller, 
MA.  of  Magdalen  College,  Oxfonl,  appoiut<Ni 
Chaphiin  to  the  Countess  of  Rodeii.— The  Kcv.  J. 
Fkyrer,  late  of  Clare  Hall.  Camliridirf.  collated  lo 
the  Vicarage  of  St.  Teath.  Cornwall,  bv  fhe  Bishop 
of  Exeter.— Tlie  Bev.  C.  Kimt'ilrv.  Ll-B.  Vic;ir  of 
North  (-liflon.  appointed  Chup'ain  U*  (he  .Marmiis 
of  Exeter.— The  Hcv.  (M^urirrHani'v  Vachcll,  HA. 
of  St.  Petcrni,  Cainbridtft',  appointed  one  of  the 
Marquis  of  Salisburv's  Ilonieiitic  ChuplaiiiK.— The 
Bev-  Thomas  Pirkthall,  I  urate  and  l^ctur.r  of 
Waltham  Abbey,  EssfV.  collated  by  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Ix>udon  to  the  Vicarage  ot  Bruvboum, 
Herts.— The  Kcv.  X'alentine  ElliR,  Rector  of  Par- 
nanliston,  Suffulk,  to  the  I/Ivio^  of  Walton,  Cuun- 
ty  of  Buckingham.— The  Kev.  Henry  Fnrdell,  of 
fit  Johul^  Cambridge,  aud  Prebendary  of  Ely,  to 


the  Rectory  of  Tyd,  St.  Gilea,  in  the  Isle  of  Klv, 
vacant  by  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Hinothv  Mai- 
thews.— Tlie  Rev.  J.  H.  Roae,  MA.  of  TrinitT  Col- 
lege, Cambridjjre,  and  of  MarcKfield,  i>n»sez.  m- 
sented  by  the  Archbli»hop  of  Cantrrbnry,  to  tl>e 
Mrarare  of  Horsham,  vacant  by  the  deidb  of  the 
Bov.  Mr.  JanieMu. 

CA^lBKlDlJE.-«Tlie  Rnr.  J.  Hallowell.  MJl 
Fellow  of  Christ's  Colle^fe,  Is  appointed  Pi»> 
Praetor  for  the  ensuing  year.— The  Her.  Wm.  lUs- 
sell,  of  St.  John's,  admitted  MA.— I»r.  Jaka 
Chirke  Whitfield.  Urcaniet  of  Herelorti  Calhr- 
dral,  and  furmerly  Oruanist  of  Trinity  a^d  &. 
John*«  CoUeireft.  elected  Professor  of  Mu'flc,  fa  Ifee 
room  of  the  late  Dr.  HaKue. 

The  SulOect  of  the  Norri«!an  Prize  Essay  for  the 
present  year  is  :— "  The  Internal  Fcu/rwcr  */  f^ 
i>trtNe  Origin  </  tke  Ckrtttian  MteUgiom," 


AGRICULTURAL  REPORT. 


The  capital  parts  of  agricultural  cm- 
ploynicut  and  produce  at  this  season  are  all 
wcU  performed  and  pnmiLsing.  M'hcat  has 
seldom  been  sown  under  more  favourable 
circumstances,  generally  speaking,  and  in 
moat  districts,  tliu  plant  is  up  and  l(K)king 
yigorously.  The  drier  soils  have  had  a 
slight  superiority  over  the  heavier  lands, 
but  all  may  be  said  to  have  got  the  seed  in 
as  advantageously  as  in  any  t'unner  season. 
The  turnips  arc  excellent  and  the  after 
grass  abundant.  Potatoes  fail  in  some 
counties  to  a  considerable  extent,  ))ut  in 
others  (OxfonlHhire  particularly)  tliey  arc 
more  than  an  average  crop. 

The  various  i'uirs  have  been  supplied 
with  immense  stock  of  all  descriptions,  .ind 
the  natural  conscipience  of  the  glut  has 
been  further  depression.  The  eiR-ct  Is  felt, 
indeed,  in  most  of  the  pro\-incial  ninrkcts, 
and  such  a  fall  iu  many  articles  of  Provi- 
lioo  18  described  in  several  of  the  pro\ia« 


dal  papers,  as  must  be  ruincms  to  the 
grower,  however  beneficial  to  the  other 
classes  of  the  community.  Pigs  of  nine 
weeks  old  are  stated  to  have  been  sold  at 
Newbury  for  eighteen  pence  a  piece,  and 
cattle  in  Smithiield  (prime  cutters)  at 
3#.  (jtl,  per  stone  of  eight  pounds,  on  the 
last  market  day.  The  supply  of  wheat 
has  been  also  superabundant.  For  aooie 
weeks  Uigether  the  influx  coastways  to 
]\Iark  Lane  has  been  consideraUj'  nxire 
than  the  whole  average  of  foreign  and  £cu 
glish  supply  when  the  Porta  were  o|>en. 

All  the  county  reports  are  Ailed  with 
complaints,  and  agriculture  must  be  the 
most  extraordinary  of  all  trades,  if  the  pre- 
sent  depression  be  not  attended  with  wide 
and  sweeping  ruin.  For  very  many  years 
past,  and  with  only  one  or  two  ezrepdoBs, 
till  182(>,  the  price  of  agricultural  produce 
wus  lUO  per  cent,  higher  tfaan  at  picsoit, 
and  oiUai  even  cooBdenUy  toon,    \YhMi 


1831.3 


on  the  Weaihtf*. 


68$ 


pther  trade  then  oould  stAiid  under  alots  of  A  piece  of  pUte,  of  the  vahie  of  twenty 
one  half  of  its  whole  returns,  not  of  its  guineas,  given  by  Sir  Jdin  Walter  PoUen, 
profits,  but  of  its  whole  retums,  as  fann-  loart  MP. ;  for  the  best  cultivated  farm,  con- 
ing now  does  ?  The  landlord  and  the  der-  sisting  of  300  acres  and  upwards,  and  oc« 
gyman  are  in  a  vast  number  of  instances  cupied  by  a  tenant  at  rack  rent,  and  nuu 
foregoing  from  a  fifth  to  a  fourth  part  of  nagcd  upon  any  system,  to  Mr.  Richard 
then  diums,  and  such  reductions  roust  be  Baily,  at  Alresford. 
fuiiversaL  But  while  the  same  amounts  of  A  piece  of  plate^  of  the  value  of  twenty 
taxation  are  rigorously  exacted,  it  must  be  guineas,  given  by  John  Fleming,  Esq* 
matter  of  extreme  doubt,  whether  the  hmd-  MP.  to  Sfr.  Webb,  of  Lea,  near  Rom« 
ed  interest  can  bear  up  against  the  pres-  s^,  for  the  sreatest  number  of  live  stock 
sure ;  and  the  evil  is  aggravated  by  the  de-  of  all  descriptions,  working  horses  except- 
Btruction  first  falling  upon  the  small  capital  ed,  maintained  during  the  course  of  the 
of  the  operative  man,  by  whom  loss  can  yfar,  ending  Jmie  1,  1821,  in  the  best 
least  easily  be  borne.  It  is  stated  that  mi-  condition,  in  proportion  to  the  soil,  and 
nisters  have  resolved  upon  a  reduction  of  with  the  fewest  losses  by  death,  upon  an 
the  rate,  at  which  importation  is  to  be  per-  araf)le  farm  of  not  less  than  100  acres, 
mitted,  to  seventy  shillings  per  quarter,  in  with  the  smallest  proportion  of  common 
lieu  of  eighty,  and  are  determmcd  upon  down,permanentpasture,  or  water  meadow, 
admitting    foreign   wheat  under   a   duty  annexed  thereto. 

of  twenty  shillings  per  quarter.     The  ef-        A  piece  of  plate,  of  the  value  of  twenty 

feet  of  such  a  regulation  will  only  be  to  re-  guineas,  given  by  Sir  T.  F.   Ueathcote, 

duce  the  price  to  an  average  of  about  fifty-  Bart,  for  the  greatest  breadth  of  turnips^ 

seven  shillings  per  quarter,  the  cost  of  the  in  proportion  to  the  whole  land  occupied, 

grain,  transmit,  and  duty,  to  England.  We  and  cultivated  in  the  best  manner  ;  regard 

are  persuaded  that  no  artificial  regulations  being  had  to  the  quality  of  the  soil,  on  a 

will  serve  the  turn.  farm  of  300  acres,  and  upwards ;  by  a  t»- 

At  the  autumnal  meeting  of  the  Hamp-  nant  at  rack  rent,  to  Mr.  Dennis  Batt,  of 

shire  Agricultural  Society,  the  following  Pittlcworth,  near  Stockbridge. 
premiums  were  awarded.  A  piece  of  plate,  of  the  value  of  ten  gui- 

A  piece  of  plate  of  the  value  of  60  neas,  given  by  W.  Chute,  Esq.  to  a  com- 

guineas  was  given  by  the  president.  Sir  petitor  for  the  above  premium,  second  in 

Thomas  Baring,  Bart.  MP.  for  the  best  merit,  Mr.  H.  Digweed,  of  Chawton. 
cultivated  farm,  on  the  alternate  system  of        A  piece  of  plate,  of  the  value  of  ten  gui- 

husbandry,  consisting  of  500  acres  and  up-  neas,  given  by  John  Blagrove,  Esq.  of 

wards,  and  occupied  by  a  tenant  at  rack  Great  Abshot,  near  Titchfield,  vice-presi* 

rent,  and  was  adjudged  to  Mr.  William  dent,  to  the  occupier  of  a  farm  in  Hants, 

Pain,  of  Mitcheldeven.  for  the  greatest  breadth  of  artificial  green 

A  piece  of  plate  of  the  value  of  20  gui-  crops,  applicable  to  the  use  of  man  or  live 

neas,  given  by  Sir  T.  F.  Heathcote,  BarL  stock,  cultivated  in  the  best  manner,  spe- 

for  the  best  cultivated  farm,  on  the  alter-  cifying  the  quality  of  soil,  and  as  near  as 

nate   system   of  husbandry,  consisting  of  may  be  the  weight  of  such  crops,  on  a  farm 

less  than  500  acres,  and  occupied  by  a  te-  of  not  less  than  a  hundred  acres,  and  not 

rumt  at  rack  rent,  to  Mr.  James  CJomdy,  exceeding  400  acres,  to  Mr.  Richard  Uinz- 

of  Otterboume.  man,  of  Chilling. 


OBSERVATIONS  ON  THE  WEATHER, 


FOR  OCTOBEB,  1821. 


GENERAL   REFORT. 


Naval  Academy^  Gotport, 


The  weather  this  month  has  been  very 
changeable,  yet  the  number  of  fine  and 
dear  dajrs  exceeds  the  overcast  and  rainy 
by  three.  The  great  space  described  by 
the  fluctuations  of  the  mercury  in  the  ba- 
rometer often  happens  in  wet  and  variable 
months  like  the  present.  Although  the 
depression  in  the  mean  temperature  of  the 
air  is  8^  lower  than  last  month ;  yet  the 
mean  of  this  month  is  more  Uian  4}^ 
hitler  than  in  October,  1820.  Spring 
water  is  nearly  of  the  same  temperature  as 
at  the  latter  end  of  last  month. 


The  fall  of  rain  and  hail  here,  on  the 
20th,  2l8t,  22d,  and  23rd  instant,  was 
nearly  3  inches  in  depth,  which,  from  a 
comparison  of  our  Meteorological  Journal 
for  the  last  7  years,  appears  to  be  unprece- 
dented in  the  same  period  of  time ;  and  we 
have  already  had  4  inches  more  than  fell  in 
the  preceding  year. 

The  difference  between  the  state  of  the 
weather  in  this  latitude,  and  in  that  of  Scot* 
land  and  its  vicinity  (a  distance  of  only  5®) 
is  remarkable ;  as  there  it  is  reported  to 
have  been  uncommonly  dry,  while  we  n« 
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€86  OhHrtHUumi  on  iht  Weather.  QDe& 

ocivod  rerjr  heavy  rains  that  have  overflown    halot,  24  meteon  Cwme  of   tfaem  vidr 
the  low  kmds.  trauiM),  b  perfect  xminbows,   and  5  •trocv 

The  atmospheric  and  meteoric  phtno^  gales  of  wmd,  or  dajrs  on  which  thej*  hm 
mcna  that  have  come  withm  our  obscrva-  prcviuled,  namely,  2  fix>m  SC  and  3  from 
tion  tliis  month,  are  3  parheiia,  3  lunar     8\V. 

DAILY  SE HARKS. 

October  1.  Fair,  with  passing  beds  of        17-  An  overcaat  aky,  except  two  faona 
Cirrtts  and  nascent  Cumuli :  a  dear  sky,     in  the  afternoon  :  rain  in  the  night, 
and  some  dew  by  night  18.  A  sunny  morning,  in  the  carif  psit 

2.  The  lighter  modifications  of  clouds,  of  which  the  rudiments  <^  nascoit  Cvnifit 
nearly  all  over  the  visible  sky,  very  red  at  sailing  beneath  the  minimit  of  PoitidovB- 
sunrise  and  sunset — a  fine  calm  day  and  hill,  had  a  pretty  appearance :  PM.  onr- 
night,   and  much  gossamer  fiying  m  the  cast  with  Cumwlowtraiusm 

direction  of  the  wind  in  long  filaments,         19-  Cahn  and  overcaat,  except  one  lax 

which  dazzled  in  the  sunshine  40  or  60  in  the  evening. 

feet  above  the  houses.  20.  A  rapid  depreadon  of  die  mcirsr 

3.  Drizzling  rain,  and  a  brisk  wind  near-  in  the  barometer,  with  rain  and  *»mI^  ai 
ly  all  day  and  night  a  strong  gale  from  tlie  S\V.^  against  vokb 

4.  A  rainy  day  and  night,  and  a  strong  a  flight  of  swallows  laboured  very  mnc^  ■  I 
gale  fVom  SW.  a  rainbow :  plumose  Cirrus  migrating  towards -the  SJS.  in  the  moncu^  \ 
and  Cirrocumulus  appeared  a  short  time  in  4  small  meteors  appeared  in  the  evenir.|;.  \ 
the  afternoon.  21.  AM.   fine  between   the  Aawm  d  ' 

6.  AM.  fair:  sliowcry  in  the  afternoon,  rain  and  hail;   and   on^  rainbow:  fH   - 

and  a  clear  sky  by  night,  with  a  copious  frequent  heavy  stoims  of  rain  and  hail  c^ 

fall  of  dew.  gether. 

6.  Sunshine  and  clouds,  and  a  moist  air         22.  A  showery  day  and  night 3  pRfat   ' 

in  the  day :  cloudy  by  night,  and  a  little  rainbows,  1  parhelion  at  the  top  of  psita 

dew.  a  solar  halo,  and  3  small  meteoxv. 

7*  A  fine  calm  day :  an  overcast  sky  and        23.  Rain  and  wind    nearly  all  dsy:  ^  - 

rain  by  night  small  meteors  in  the  eriaaing,  and  vue^  I 

8.  The  day  as  the  preceding :  a  cloud-  beds  of  Cirrostratut  by  ni^L  I 

less  night  and  much  dew.     The  last  brood        24.  A  Stratus  early,  ansing  by  enp-   r 

of  chimney  swaUows  migrated  to-day,  with  ration  from  the  great    fhU   of  run  hr   • 

the  advantage  of   a  brisk  N^V.  breeze,  during  tlie  last  four  days.     AM.  an  <mh 

making  their  stay  in  this  neighbourhood  5  cast  sky :    PM.  fine,    with    some  v»ii^ 

months  and  3  weeks,  which  u  longer  than  clouds  at  intervah  :  3  small  meteors.  x£* 

nsuol,  influenced  perhaps  by  the  high  tern-  very  hca%7  dew  in  the  night, 
perature  of  the  air  last  month.  25.  Two  parhelia^  one  to  the  niB^if^ 

0.  A  slif^ht  hoar-frost  in  the  grass-fields  sun  at  a  (quarter  before  8  A 31.  thedkcc 

before  sunri.se,  being  the  lirst  wc  have  seen  the  opposite  side  at  a  quarter  past  C  H^ 

this  autumn. — A  Stratus  eoily,  followed  of  uieui  distant  from  liis  ccntxv  22*^  i^'- 

by  a  fair  day  and  night     A  corona  and  a  and  situated  in  a  mixture  of  pa»!dnf  orr- 

smaU  green  halo  around  the  moon  in  the  cumulative   and    cirrostnitivc    rknidw^ 

evening,  and  a  moderate  gale  from  SE.  overcast  hky  soon  followed  :   PM.  C-mucK 

10.  A  fiiir  day,  with  small  Cumuli  only  showers  of  light  rain, 
panting  in  tlie  direction  of  the  wind :  Cu-        2(i.  A31.  fine  after  the  fug  dL«peno!: 
viulostrati  and  a  gale  from  tlic  same  quar-  PAI.  a  shrouded  sky. 
ter  by  niglit  27-  Overcast,    some   lijrht   rain,  sdJ  » 

11.  A  rainy  day,  and  a  fme  night    The  vcrj'  damp  air. 
azure  sky  was  unusually  tranKporent  in  the         2H.  Overcast  and  very  humid  :  Ma^ii:- 
evening,  p«)bably  increa^scd  by  reflection  of  in  the  afternoon  ;  a   clear   sky  anii  iiiJ<i 
the  full  moon's  light  from  the  low  cirrocu-  dew  by  night. 

nmlative  clouds,  wiiich  were  regularly  pass-         20.  Fair,  with  lofty  Cumuli   &f.4i> 

ing  over  in  extensive  hetls.  teors  ap]>cared  in  tlie  evcninir,  two  U  i*-' 

12  and  13.  Fair  days;  and  a  clear  sky  witli  very  long  trains,  of  which  rtc  u^ 

by  night  sccnded  from  near  Polaris,  tiie  other  j*>«^ 

14.  AM.  faint   sunshine    throupli    the  between  Castor  and  Pollux,  and  arp»vf' 

clouds :  PM.  overc^ist,  cahn,  and  a  large  to  meet  with  considerable  inflection  ixir:- 

halo  in  tlie  evening.  diately  that  it  entered  an  attcnuate<l  cli*u* 


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•88  Commercial  Report.  ZP^* 

COMMERCIAL  REPORT. 

{London^  Nov.  21.) 

We  have  no  partinilar  remarks  to  make  public  sales,  announced  for  the  l(kh,  »• 

thb  month,  beyond  those  wliich  arc  more  mounted  to  6,000  bags  ;  these  sales,  how- 

naturally  placed  under  the  respccdve  heads,  ever,  went  offsteafily  at  the  fall  prices  of  the 

There  appears,  if  we  may  trust  the  news-  preceding  week  ;  and  in  some  instwiees,  lA 

paper  accounts,  to  be  a  considerable  im-  advance  was  obtained  on  the  loiwer  deiaip- 

provement  in  the  manufacturing  districts,  tion  of  American  cottcm. 


The    Leeds    Alercury  states,    that  from         Sugar. — The  reduction  in  the 

the  return  of  the  woollen  manufacture  of  sugars  about  the  time  of  our  la»t  repoit, 

the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  for  the  had  the  effect  of  attracting   imiwiilinMt 

quarter  ending  30th  of  September,  it  is  purchaseis;  extensive  sales 'bj  private 


ascertained  that  the  quantity  of  goods  ma-     tract  were  made,  but  without  anj  imiiHS 
nufactured  within  that  period  exceeds  the     diate  influence  on  the  prices.      The 


most  flourishing  quarter  in  the  memory  of    mand,  however,  continuing   to  be 

man.  and  considerable,  has  led  to  an  iuipiuw^. 


The  Third  Report  of  the  Committee  of  ment  in  3Inscovades  ;  the  stocks 
the  House  of  Commons,  on  the  foreign  rapidly,  on  account  of  the  large  weekly  da- 
trade  of  the  country,  is  published.  It  re-  liveries  for  home  conaumptioa,  the  hoklen 
latcs  to  the  trade  with  China,  and  agrees  have  become  more  firm ;  few  sup^dies  are 
with  that  of  the  liords,  in  expressing  an  expected,  and  it  is  generally  believed  that 
opinion  that  some  degree  of  liberty  might  prices  will  improve  considenihly,  espedaly 
be  allowed  to  British  subjects,  with  respect  towards  die  springK^ 
to  the  tea  trade,  without  at  all  infringing  The  refined  mivkeHias  not  cxperieoeeA 
on  the  monopoly  of  the  East  India  Com-  any  considerable  variation  ;  for  though  die 
pany,  which  the  committee  considers  it  as  demand  for  home  consumption  has  bea 
absohitely  necessary  to  maintain  unim-  extennvc,  the  advanced  season  for  expoct, 
paired.                                   *  and  the  limited  demand  for  shipping,  have 

Co//off.-— The  cotton  market  has  been  made  the  holders  rather  anxious  to  cfitct 
heavy  for  this  month  past :  the  unfavour-  sales,  and  a  small  reduction  in  the  ysaem 
able  state  of  the  Liverpool  and  Manchester  has  been  submitted  to ;  this  reductkm  ap. 
markets,  after  our  last  report,  tended  much  peared  last  week  to  facilitate  sales,  and  st- 
to  decrease  the  demand ;  but  tlie  sellers  veral  export  houses  purchased  freely.  TIh 
were,  however,  not  inclined  to  come  forward  shipping  houses  coiitinue  to  inquire  ate 
at  any  reduction,  with  the  exception  of  refined  goods  deliverable  in  spring;  tot 
some  holders  of  India  cottons ;  the  sales  they  cannot  obtain  contracts  at  the  prexot 
have,  of  course,  been  very  limited.  In  prices ;  only  a  considerable  parcel  of  cnudi- 
the  course  of  last  week,  the  reports  from  ed  sugars  is  reported  to  be  contracted  ftr, 
the  country  still  continuing  unfavourable,  deliverable  eariy  in  the  year,  at  prices 
and  the  East  India  descriptions  having  rather  higher  than  the  market  currency, 
been  so  long  depressed,  the  holders  evinced  Foreign  sugars  have  been  in  a  very  de- 
much  disposition  to  effect  sales  ;  in  several  pressed  state,  and  almost  wholly  neglected. 
instances,  the  late  India  House  prices  were  At  a  sale  at  the  India  House,  on  the  3lit 
accepted,  and  one  parcel  of  Surats  was  re-  of  October,  sugars  of  fine  quality  went  fot 
ported  to  have  been  sold  at  a  reduction  of  2t.  to  4«.  higlier  than  the  prev-ious  pricey 
%d.  per  lb.  The  purchases  in  the  course  of  in  consequence  of  the  scarcity  of  West  In- 
la«;t  week  were  only  about  500  bags  ;  viz.  dia  sugars  with  colour.  The  following  b 
200  Bengals,  very  ordinary,  b^d.  and  h\d,  tlie  favourable  report  of  the  market,  for  the 
good  r>|<i.  and  Ty\d, ;  200  Surats,  very  or-  week  ending  the  120th  instamu  The  de- 
dinary  and  leafy,  6|[</.  to  ^ld, ;  good  fair,  G3 ;  mand  for  good  and  fine  sugars  greatly  im- 
Sea  islands,  good  fair,  17^.  to  good  10^.  in  proved  last  week,  and,  as  these  descrq>- 
bond ;  50  H  V.  Carriacou,  10|^.  duty  |)aid.  tions  are  scarce,  the  holders  were  firm,  and 

Wc  again  notice  the  great  decrease  in  obtained  an  advance  of  from  Ix.  to  2jr.;  the 

the  quantity  of  East  India  cottim  imported  inferior  brown  descriptions  were  in  more 

in  the  first  ten  months  of  this  year,  as  com-  request  at  prices  a  shade  higher, 

pared  with  the  same  period  last  year ;  viz.  This  forenoon  the  demand  for  Moseo- 

from  45,080  bales  in  1820,  to  23,710  in  vades  continues  general  and  rather  exten- 

1821.    The  stock  on  the  1st  of  November,  sive :  the  good  sugars  sell  readily  at  the 

1820,  was  210,000 bales;  and  on  the  Ist  advance  we  have  stated;   the  brown  d^ 

of  Nov.  1821,  100,115  bales.  scriptions,   which  have  hung  hea\'ily 


The  Liverpool  market  has  also  been  Ian-     hand  for  a  series  of  weeks,  co  oflT  freely  at 


prospect 

last  week  is  the  most  favourable :  there  had     improvement  in  sugars*     The  estimafeJ 
beta  a  fair  demand  {ot  cnlVaiL)  ^bo^i^  thA    lahi  to-day  an  90OO  hhdk 


1691.3                                    CiAmnerciai  Report.  689 

Average  prices  of  Sugar  by  Gazette  :-^  and  then  to  3^  per  puncheon,  and  thehhd. 

October     27- 30«.  Ti^^.  2d.     It  is  expected  that  this  great  reduc« 

November  l\ 28#.  9^^.  tion  in  the  rent  will  tempt  speculators  to 

10 29s.  4^d.  come  forward.     The  market  continued  to 

17  ........  20s,  l^d.  improve  last  week,   purcha.sers  could  not 

24 buy  on  such  low  tenns  as  formerly,  and 

Coffee* — The  market  has  been  steady  and  generally   the    holders    were    exceedingly 

improving  during  tlie  last  four  weejcs.    The  firm,   anticipating  higher  prices,    as  the 

languid  appearance  of  the  market  towards  quantity  expected  is  trivial,  and  the  im- 

the  close  of  last  month  having  caused  a  ports  next  season,  on  account  of  the  fiulure 

Kuspen«ion  of  public  sales,  the  demand  by  of  the  crops  of  sugar  in  Jam^ca,  will  un« 

private  contract  immediately  revived,  and  doubtedly  be  limited.     The  public  sale  of 

pale.  St.  Domingo  in  bags  realised  102«.  Friday,  147  puncheons  Jamaica,  attracted 

in  casks  \00m.     This  induced  the  bringing  nmch  attention,  on   account  of   the  fine 

forward  of  three  public  sales  on  the  30tn  quality  of  the  rum,  and  being  a  favourite 

ult.  consisting  of  240  casks  British  Plan-  mark : — 27  to  30  O.  P.  sold  at  2i.  bd»  to 

Ution,  2(J7  bags  St.  Domingo ;  a  great  pro-  2s.  OW.;  32  to  33  ditto  at  2f.  *id.  to  2s,  8d. 

portion  of  tlie  former  fine:  fine  ordinary  The  remainder  of  the  sale  was  rum  of  an 

Dominica  sold  at  107«>  to  lOlif.Gd.i  the  uncommon   strength,    .')0   O.  P.  sold  at 

few  lots  of  ordinary  Jamaica  in  the  sale  3f.  GJ. ;    average  of    45  O.   P.   2s.   9J. 

went  3«.  to  bs.  per  cwt.  higher  than  any  to  3«.      Brandies  have  continued  to  ad« 

previoos  prices  ;  good  ordinary,  which  had  vancc  for  some  weeks,  and  we  must  again 

been  previously  sold  at  diis,  to  98«.  realised  quote  an  improvement  of  4^.  to  Gd.  per 

101#.  to  I03f.     There  was  no  alteration  in  gallon.     The  public  sale  of  rum  yesterday 

the  prices  of  any  other  description  of  coffee;  forenoon  sold  at  full  prices  ;  it  consisted  of 

inrdinary  St.  Domingo  sold  at  98s  (id,  the  177  puncheons  Jamaica,  chiefly  of  good 

good  quality  in  bags  was  taken  in  at  102«.;  quality — 1 1  to  13  O.  P.  at  1^.  (id.  to  Is.  7d,i 

Dominica  supported  the  previous  prices.  25  to  27  ditto  at  1^.  Ud.  to  is.  lid.;  28  to 

In  the  course  of  the  following  week  the  30  ditto  at  2s.  to  2s.  ^. 

public  sales  amounted  to  823  casks,  and  Hemp.,  /Va-r,  and  Tattoxt. — The  tallow 

824  bags,  which  all  sold  freely  at  tlie  late  market  has  been  in  a  very  depressed  state^ 

advance,  and  oonaiderable  private  contracts  and  has  declined  in  price.     The  prices  of 

were  reported  at  the  same  sales.    Only  one  hemp  have  continued  to  advance,  the  de- 

pnblie  sale  of  127  casks  Jamaica  and  Do-  mand  being  considerable,  and  the  imports 

minica  being  brought  forward  on  tbe  6th  appearing  inadequate.    Flax  also  is  mora 

instant,  an  advance  of  2s.  to  3«.  per  cwU  in  demand. 

was  obtained ;  the  market  was  very  firm,  Tobacco. — The  demand  is  good,    and 

and  the  qualities  suitable  for  home  con-  prices  have  advanced, 

munption,  being  much  inquired  after  and  Indigo— Is  at  a  premium  of  2d.  to  3d* 

acarce,  commanded  high  prices.     In  the  per  lb.  on  the  prices  of  the  East  India  sale, 

following  week  the   same  description  of  Corn. — The  armexed  table  will  show 

coffee,   of  which  about    460  casks  were  that  the  opinion  which  we  have  all  along 

brought  forward  in  public  sale,  again  ad-  expressed  on  the  improbability  of  the  ave- 

Yanced  from  2s.  to  3«.  per  cwt.     Little  was  rage  price  of  wheat  rising,  so  as  to  admit 

done  in  foreign  and  other  descriptions,  not  foreign  wheat  in  the  year  1821,  are  con« 

adapted  to  home  ecmsumption,  and  their  firmed. 

prices  did  not  vary.     The  public  sales  of  The  aggregate  averages  of  com  for  the 

coffee,  after  Tuesday,  last  week,  consisted  last  six  weeks,  which  regulate  Foreign  im« 

of  410  casks,  and  298  bags ;   the  whole  port,  are — 


aold  freely,  and  generally  at  prices  ]«.  to  Wheat  58jr.  Sd. 

2s.  higher,  particularly  the  good  ordinary  Kye      2^s.  bd. 

dean  Jamaica,  which  continues  in  great  Barley  20s.\0d. 


Oats  21.r.  M. 
Beans3U.  2d. 
Peas  32«.  Id. 


request  for  home  consumption,  a  consider-        AU  descriptions  of  foreign  com  continue 

Able  parcel  realised  102r.  6<2.    and   103f.  prohibited,  and  grain  from  the  British  co- 

JSt.  lX>mingo  in  casks,  fair  quality,  realised  lonies  of  North  America  is  also  excluded. 
lOOx.  6jr.  and  101«.  very  ordinary  08#.  Oils. — ^The  common  oils  are  exceedingly 

The  public  sales  of  coffee  yesterday  after-  heavy,  and  there  appears  very  little  de- 
noon  consisted  of  101  casks  1  bag,  Deme-  mand  for  export;  Greenland  is  dull  at  re- 
ran and  Berbice  descriptions ;  middling  duced  prices.  A  cargo  of  Southern  has 
eold  122*.  to  124«.  good  middling  130'.;  been  sold  at  about  20/. — ^A  cargo  of  Sperm 
one  lot  of  ordinary  to  good  ordinary  Ja-  and  Head  Matter  sold  so  low  as  bll. — lin- 
maica  lOOi.  Generally  the  coffee  market  seed  oil  iH  higher,  and  will  be  scarce,  on 
may  be  reported  steady ;  the  former  prices  account  of  the  short  supply  of  seed.  Rape 
fully  supported,  but  little  business  doing,  is  without  variation. 
•except  for  the  home  trade.  Spices,— Ytossi    India    Company*s    sale 

Rntiu  Brandy  ^and  Hollands. — The  West  12th  inst — Saltpetre,  1,000  tona,  compa- 

India  Dock  Company  have  loweced  the  n^*s,  taxed  at  26«.  passed,   no  buyen; 

lent  from  Id.  per  pundieoQ  weekly  to  M.  ditto  640  tons,  pri?ate  tiwle,  add  SKbb  « 


690  Cammereial  Meport.  D'bc* 

Sftff. ;  pq>per,  401  bags  private  trade,  sold  shipa  ledking  freights,  from  which  not  qbIj 

GitL  a  ^d.;  ditto   white,  15  ba^^  ditto,  many  otders  received  during  the  nimmcT 

I4{<2.  a  Ui^l, :  cinnamon,  3.>4  bales,  firM  remained  unexecuted,  but  even  aoaoe  gocda 

qualit}',  tixcd  at  Gr.  s.)kl  at  (if.  \^l.tl^lS.^^J.  which  had  been  already  purchased  have 

— 204  boles  taken  in ;  ditto  'M\G  bales  se-  been  left  here.     The  little  buainesK  that 

cond  qualiiy,  taxetl  at  i)s.  sold  at  5i.  Id.  a  our  Russdans  have  done,  and  the  grest  pe* 

fit.  2d 5-il  bales  taken  in;  cloves,  102  cunisry  enibamMsment  which  many  hjive 

bags  private  trade,  sold  Ss.  bd.  a  '6*.  Id. ;  in  consequence  espcrienccd,  has  gradually 

mace,  02  casks,  first  quality,  taxed  at  b».  depressed  the  prices  of  most  of  cmr  pioduce. 

sold  5jr.  Id.  138  casks  taken  in;  nutmegs.  Foreign  goods  have  presented  a  stiD  more 

^  casks  ungarblcd,  taxed  at  3*.  (\d.  sold  unfavourable  result,  and  the  greater  put 

3t.  ^d.  461  casks  taken  in ;  ditto  private  will  probably  remain  in  the  wazefaouses  till 

trade,  3s.  Td.  a  4«.   la. ;    cassia  li^n^ca,  next  year;  as  for  many  articles  not  even 

61,  \0s.  a  Hi.   li. ;    cassia   buds,    Uil.   a  an  ofler  is  to  be  obtained.     Among  the 

17/-  lOf. ;  ginger,  Qjt.  (id.  a  IDs.  Gd. ;  sago,  colonial  goods  imported  are  3000  cheats  of 

2B».  a  31«. ;  oildf  cinnamon,  bd.  a  Gd.  Havannidi  and  liKN)  chests  of  Branl  sn- 

The  first  quality  cinnamon  is  scarce ;  the  gars;  200  hhds.  of  refined  ;  also  402  pipes, 

stock  of  cinnamon  in  the  warehouses  is  es-  100  hhds.  45  casks  and  3,-iOO  bottlesof  va- 

timatedat710,0001bs.    Cloves  at  105,000  rious  wines. 

bs. ;    stock  of  mace  17D,000  lbs.;   nut-         Nothing  certain  can  be  smd  at  present 

m^  935,000  lbs.  respecting  our  contract  prices  fiir  next  yeu; 

■  probably,  they  will  be  Tery  reasonable,  for 

FonriGX  Commerce.  mostof  our  articles,  at  the  beginning,  and  it 

Riga.,  lUth  Oct. — Flu.v  was  to  be  had  it  may  therefore  be  advisable  to  scndovdezs 

on  rather  lower  terms,  ]\Iaricnburg  crown  sooner  than  usual.     We   cannot  3ret  say 

at  43^  r. ;  ditto  cut,  38^ ;  Thiesenhausen  what  goods  we  have  orcr  ;  the   chief  ar- 

and    Druiania    Had  itzcr  white,    44^  r. ;  tides  are  estimated  as  follows.      Talbw, 

Badstub  cut,  37i  to  37  r. ;  Kistcn  Three-  about    20,(N)0  poods  ;    Linseed.    50,0(Xt 

band  at  20  r. — Htinp  more  in  demand,  and  chetwerts ;  M'heat  about  85,000  chctweTt»; 

oar  stock  incon^dcrable;   prices,  Ukraine  Tar,  about  20,000  barrels;   Pitch,  aboac 

dean,  102  r. ;  Outshot,  85  r. ;  Pass  75  r. ;  8,000  barrels. 

Polish  dean,  112  to  1 15  r. ;  Outshot,  88  StoHtholm^  30th  Oct, — It  seems  that  tlie 
to  00  r. ;  Pass  78  to  8i)r.— //rm/7  0<7,  not  Com  sent  bv  the  directors  of  the  Royal  Ma- 
to  be  had  under  100  r. — Potashes.,  almost  gazines  to  the  Mediterranean,  promises  tti 
entirely  dearcd  oft';  the  last  price  paid  for  be  aMended  with  loss  instead  of  the  profit 
good  Polish  was  lO{*r. —  Tuliav.,  white  that  was  expected.  Mr.  Askelof  writes 
crown,  143 r.  offered;  held  at  145r.;  yel-  ftom  Florence,  that  he  intends  to  ware- 
low  crown  last  sold  at  142r. ;  for  Soap-  house  the  Com.  Acooiding  to  the  ac- 
boilers  i:i;)r.  are  asked Com,  nothing  counts  of  the  Directors  of  the  Koyal  Ma- 
doing,  aoJ  the  following  prices  arc  there-  gazines,  they  lost  31,500  dollars,  Swedish 
fore  nominal.  Courland  wheat,  100  to  Banco,  on  18,415  tons  of  Oats  exported  las: 
120 r.;  Kye,  (of  115  to  1H>  lbs)  6'Or. ;  year  to  England. 

Barley  (of  100  lbs.)  50r. ;  llusnan  Oats         Coi»mkaffi-ru,  &/  Nov — The  last  sapply 

(of  74  to  7^'  lbs.)  43  to  50  r.  of  Indigo  recei\-ed  tliis  year,  consisting  c( 

There  is  a  total  sta^ation  in  colonial  16  chests  of  middling  and  tine  riolet*  have 

produce  of  ever}'  description.     The  ])ricc8  been  sold  in  public  aucrion  at  hifdi  prices, 

of  Salt  arc  rather  firmer,  52  r.  arc  paid  for  viz.  7  marks  14  shillings   to  tt  mariLs  15 

fit.  Cbes.  shillings  banco. 

20///  Oit. — No  cl;ani^;e  has  taken  ])lace         Jlumhurf^h^  \Oth  JViw.  —  Cotton^   de- 

in  the  state  of  our  n^.arkc^,  only  tliat  sow-  mand  moderate  and  prices   unchanged 

ing  Linseed  has  risen  considcraMy ;  and  we  Cojfir.  The  demand  being  still  ir.co?:»i\Wr- 

have  not  even  a  good  choice,  because  tiie  able  it  Ls  difHcult  for  the  prices  to  keep  up, 

greater  part  lu  tlit*  M>nl  hiuught  fiom  the  and  some  parcels,  especially  of  inferior  di?- 

interior  is   for   crushing:;,    and  ttie  quan-  scriptions,  have  already  been  sold  at  a  re- 

tity   of  sou-ing  Linseed  liitherio  brought  ductioUi — Dyi  hiff  vnods.  Blue  and  yellnw 

being  beyoi'id  all  cxj^eetailon  small,   and  more  in  demand,  and  the  former  rising  in 

also  of  imiiirerent  (luality;    10  to  lOj^r.  price. — /n/i/^ffo  continues  to  be  in  great  n?- 

have  already  bc-en  paid,  and  even  at  diis  quest,  and  tlie  advanced  prices  are  wiUiri;. 

price  tlicrcr.Te  nmic  buyers  ti'.an  sellvrs.  ingly  paid. — Sjnccf,  no  demand  except  tV>r 

Arvhnnfrcl^    2\Uu   Sept. — Hitherto  151  pepper 7Vc,  prices  low  and  demand  tri- 

ships  liave  cleared  out  from  this  port;  fling. — Supar.  But  little  has  been  doir.^  in 
some  others  arc  expccteil,  but  if  they  do  our  refined  this  week,  and  the  prices  of  "the 
not  socn  arrive,  they  will  hardly  be  dis-  inferior  descriptions  have  in  con5ei]uence 
patched  tills  year.  given  way  a  little.  Large  parctls  of  I  Jam- 
In  comparison  with  fom^er  years,  we  bro  treacle  have  been  purchased  for  expor- 
have  dons  but  very  little  this  season,  and  tation  to  Prussia,  which  has  caused  a  Kud- 
what  lias  tended  still  n:ore  to  dimijush  den  and  considerable  rise  in  the  prices 
our  bulcs  was,  the  alinubi  entire  want  of  Raw  sugars  are  very  dull,  and  very  little 


l^Sl.;]                         Worhi  Preparing  fir  Pubkeatum.  991 

has  been  dooe  in  them,  with  the  exception  neral  is  finner,  and  yesterday  1  Hd.  was 

of  a  pretty  hurge  parcel  of  gbod  BaMa  at  paid  for  ordinary  St.  Domingo,  for  good 

5|rf.  ordinary  in  casks  llfi.   and  for  a  large 

\^h  Nov. — Last  Saturday  11^^*   were  parcel  of   good    ordinary  Ctoloury  Btmi 

in  vain  offered  for  pale  ordinary  St.  Do-  ll^d, 
zningo  Coffee;  since  then  this  artide  in  ge- 


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James  Fergusson,    of    Newman -street,  steel  with  brass  or  copper,  or  copper  allayed 

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Thomas  lices,  jun.     of   Birmingham,  or  making  trusses  for  the  cure  of  ruptures 

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Oct  18th. 


BANKRUPTS  IN  ENGLAND. 

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rarp''nter.     [Jonef,  34,    Great  Mary-Ie«bone- 

Ort.  27.— Hamber,  W.,  T.  Bury,  and  T.  Cochran,  utreet.  T. 

Ifoyton,   I^ncaster,   calico«prioten.     [Milne*  Gcrmaiui*.  G.  Coninierr,iHl*road.  morclmnf.  [Bow- 

Templf!.    C.  man.  Union -court.  Old  Browl-fitrf  rt.    T. 

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Hul;  J.  Bradford,  Wlitt,  ibopkeeper.      [Dur, 

2),  Gnildfonl-srri'ot.    V. 
Howonl,  C.  T.  Haftlev.Wintne>\  Soutbampton, 

sun^eou.     [Vnuujr, Polaml-istri'it.    T. 
Ste|^n<on,  K.  (^ottiughuin,  Yurk,  and  R.  Hart, 

Sculcoatcs,    York,     lucrchauta.      [Scholficid, 

Hull,   C. 
Wlllcock,  J.  S.  and  T.  J.  Titterton.  Thcoba'.d^u 

jraiad,  Kcd  Liun-«nnare,  coach-makers.  [Kobios, 

LincoIn*»-inn-ticids.    T. 

Oct.  80.    Cable,  W.  Aldebnrj?h.  SufTolk,  I.aker. 

[Carprntrr,  .1,  KnrnlviilVlnn,  Holborn.    ('. 
OobHuk,  (•.  ('hcxtiTl'icM,  l>rrbv,  wine-inerchant. 

rLowf*,  Taiifii'ld-court.Toin'pIe.    0. 
Hm,  T.   riist  .St.   Liiwri-nco,    Devon,   bctcher. 

[Brutton,  .V«,  old  Hruad-stroct.    0. 
Hnlie.  S.  Nori:i£rfiani,  sillvcr-smith.     [Chippin- 

dalc,  (iriMt  Qiieen->lrcft.    C. 
JoIIcy,  N.  (Ui.iriiiii.cr<»s-s,   p<»nlterer.      [Burton, 

2ft,  New  North-strcft.  Rel  Lion-sqn:ire.   T. 
lAwrenc.  (i.   Evcshani,  Worct'^ter,    victnaller. 

[B<nl^^lold,  r»,  Ronvcric-slreet,  Floct.s'.rect.    C. 
Snilth,   K.     IluWiicn,     York,     tj^llow-cUandlcr. 

[Lowndes,  Ked  l.iuo-s^uare.    C. 

Nov.  3.    Baker,  W.  Lloyd's  Coflri'o-honpe,  insnr- 

ancc-brokrr.  fWariie,"!!,  Loadfuhall-strect.  T. 
Blnckc;:,  J.M.  Minnrii-5,  liay->a!esman.    (,Lo»ter, 

New.court.  (.'nit«lu'«l  Fri.ir>.    T. 
Bricrbt,  K.  sen.  ;J,  N;i.s?ati-pl:;re,  (.'ommorcial-road, 

babtrUafber.      [, Faucet,   Jewin-btreet,  Alders- 

fote-titreet.    T. 
Butlio,  T.  Baker-i-tri*et,    Mary-lr-bone,   apothe- 
cary.   [Fielder,  l>ul;e-*tr('i't,'(fr(wvenor-Mi.  T. 
Casn,  T.  V\':iro.  Hi-rtl'urd,   cum -dealer.     [Bond, 

Ware.  Herts.  T. 
CBflbrd,  K.   (Miuuoery-laDe,  broker.      [Haynes, 

10.  Mark-Line.    T. 
Clauie,  J.   fainbenrell,    Ttaker.      [Lee,  Three 

Crown-S'.jnari*.  SouUiw.irk.    T. 
Dalton.  F.  Wahifidd.   York.    li«iuor-inerchaut. 

[Stncker,  Now  I{o-«weI1-^ourt.    C 
Decble.  F..  II.  \Vi«Il>ork-strp<'t,  (':iTendi«h-s<pare, 

npliolstvrer.     [riiim<T,  H-i,  Uediurd-row.     V. 
iDffraiii,  T.    Lower  Thanif^-sire.n,    (ishiuoiiu:er. 

[Lans,  107.  Fonchun:li.sin-et.    T. 
M'(?Hrtv,  .1.  S  r.in<i,   wine-morcliaut.    [Kearsey, 

116,  lJish-)p>jrati*-!'troi't.    T. 
Morrift,     W.    Wrllrlose-siiuare,    tavcrn-krcpcr. 

[Wl>lcv,  \\  cnrlo>e-s.juarf.   T. 
Neweonil>,  F.  S.  (iadshill,  Kent,  dealer.  [Kichard- 

Mn,  Wal brook.    T. 
Newman.  J.    Clerkenwcll,   brewer.    [Ellis,  U, 

Soathampton-buildiniTti,  Chancery-lane.    T. 
OldiDjr,  J.    0--.I  (.'l!ani,'e,    stationer.      [Freeman, 

Coleman-«trect.    T. 
Puvoos,  T.   Ca<i!e-Flreet,     Holborn,    Je\i'cller. 

[Willianiii,  ('hanoer)--laue.    T. 
PwPtfr,  J.  Watliusrton,  Norfolk,  dealer.      [Ew- 

iMUik.    27 1    North   Auiley-street,    Grosvenor- 

■qnare.    ('. 
Fowell,  J.  «cn.  Windsor,  Berks,  tailor.    [Downen, 

7,  Fiirnival'»-inu.    T. 
Robinson.  J.   Nichola^-Iane,  merrluut.    [Xind, 

Thruifinortou-itrt  et.    T. 
Saiotmarc.  J.  J.  and  F/.  .M.  A.  na7«\in.  RatclifT- 

row,  Citv-ro?ul,  rertifiorsi.    [Ix'^tcr,  New-cunit, 

Cmtchwl  Friar*.    T. 
Stirlioir,  J.  and  W.  SiirMnj:.  Copthnll-cfurt,  incr- 

Chams.     [Uonniillon,  llri'ivJ-'i'refr.    T. 
Tovey,  F.  K.    F'att  stn'et,  I^imbV-Condnit-Mreet, 
merchant,    rtire^sun,  An^el-courr,  Thio-j^i]ior- 
U>n-»treet.    T. 
Towler,  T.  and.f.  Towler,  Wakefif  !d.  York,  wool- 

ftUM)ler.<i.    JKvre,  (iray*!»-inn-si|i:are.    C. 
Tarncr,  .).   I'lai'l-strfct,  l*ail'lin::ton.  cliiiiainao. 

[Urchani,  4,  fi'ra>S-iiiii-s.|uare.    T. 
Mnrent,    \V.    oi.l-roail,    Me^Miev,     rope-maker. 

[<hrnje,  (  liun-h-row,  S'rpnev.    T. 
Wvehrrlf '■.  \\ .  Tr  fniiMt,  S,i  I  up,  farmer.  [Chejter, 
2i,  Siaplc-iun,  floil.-oru.    i'. 

Not.  6.    Baker,  W.    Tvrehiir<t,   5lu«>;ex,  blaek- 

imith.    j;All('n.  17.  Cliir»..il*s-inn.    C. 
Damon.  \\ .  Nortlnvich.  (  h/jtrr,  grocer.    [Jolin, 

HaUirrare-pla-'e,  Tt  rnpli*.    C. 
€nimp,  ,1.  Coventry,  Uioui'j-.-crivoner.     [I.o.jjf, 

(JniyN-inn.    C. 
£mbl«tu(i.  M.  »*»iith  Shield*;.  |)iirliaiii.  wine-in.-r- 

ch::nt.     ^\';m>1i-"  i!:r.\?en,  ;U,  ,li)!iu-sUiot,  Lt  !- 

fi»rd-r«\r.    C. 

(Hbfrou,  T.  Juii.  and  J.  Eavens,  Liverpool,  fchi|>- 


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bread  baker.    tChefter«  9,  Scapl«-lns,  Rolbora. 

C. 
Heppenstall,   J.    Doncaater,   York,    anicnlnural 

inachine-niaker.    [Lerer,  Giuy*s-inD.    C. 
Lloyd,  C.  Thetford,  Norfolk,   bookseller.    [Xel- 

Kon,  7.  Barnan(*s-lnn,  Holborn.    C. 
Smith,  W.  Plymootb-dock,  Deron,  cablnec-ouker. 

[I>arke,  lied  Lion  {:i]nare.    C*. 
SneUrove,  R.  Warnimrcamp,  SoMCT,  woolslapler. 

[Freeman,  Coleman-ttreet.    C. 
Tavlor,   F.    AdlinirtoD,   Lancaster,    shopkeever. 

[Gaskell,  Wipan.    C. 
Tea^dale,  T.  Newincton,   J^iirrer,    UDen.4inper, 

[(iate«,  38,  Cateatdn-gtreel.    T. 
I'frarte,  i>.  de,   Wiliion-streec.   Finsbary-winare, 

merdiant.  [Cole,  13,  Broad-street-bnil-Hiiiir*.  T. 
White,  S.  U.  Edinifley  eotton-mill»,  Nottinxbam, 

cotton-spinner.  '  [Barber,  55.  Holborn.    C 

Nov.  10.    Alexander,  1.  Old  Bailey,  coach -ma^trr. 

[Kai>9>en,  Crown-coart,  .Aldersi^r^Ktreet.    T. 
Autffl,  J.Scuk-oates.  York,  block-maker.  [Rosser, 

llartlettV-bnildincs,  Holborn.    C. 
Arthur,  T.  Neath,  (ilamoryan,  shopkeeper.  [Poole. 

12,  CirayM-inn-iuiQare.    C. 
Atkin.>on,'T.  W  ailinir-street,  warehooseman.  [Ro- 

binsiou.  XI,  WalbnK>k.    T. 
Austin,  H.  de  B.   Northumberland-Ftreet,  Marr- 

ie-bone,    bricklaver.       [Curlon,     Hitrh-stret^ 

.Mary-le-boue.    T. 
Blytli,  J.  Newcastle-nnder-Lnno,  StaflTorU,  draper. 

[Adliofrton,  Bedfonl-row.  *C. 
Buimer,  S.  Oxfunl-fitreet,  woollen -draper.    [Far- 

ren,  KintcN  iVrmN-yarJ,  <'vleiuaii.«treet.  T. 
Cameron,  C.  I.  finiyVinn-Iano,  Holborn,  harJ- 

warewan.    [MiK$,  4,  New  Nonh-strcet.   Red 

Lion-siiuarc.    T. 
Card,  J.   Rtzroy-pquare,  merchant.      [Kcarsey, 

BUhopsgate-stroet.    T. 
Chandler,  C.    East  Stunehoniw,   Peron,  mastrr- 

mariner.    [Haine,  Temple.    C. 
Flower,  li.  York,  victnaller.     [Malker,  2l».  Lla- 

coln*s-inn-fio!dA.    C. 
Forbc*,  J.  and  H.  Nash,  Oxford-street,  chemisti. 

[Cuttle.  Alderniiml>ury.    T. 
Forstcr,   C.   K.    Marirate,   Kent,    coal-nierchaot. 

[Uovs  Mar«'!itc.    C. 
Gelsthon*,  J.  MolynenT-«treet,  Mary-Ie-l»one,  car- 
penter.     [Uu»»en,    Crown-court,     .Aldervfate- 

(ifreet.    T. 
Hall,  T.   Ea^le-strcet,  Red  Lioo.siinarr,  coach. 

maker,    [l^wledtre,  Temple-cliauibcrs,  Falcoo- 

court,  Fleet-ntreet. 
Hartley,  K.  Penrith,  Cnniberlaml,  hardwareman. 

[Capes,  (iniv*<i-inn.    C. 
Huhlife,  M.  'funbridsre,  Kent,  victualler.    [Ptkl- 

mer,  Boilfordrow.    T. 
Johnson,,!.  Sculcoates,  York,  corn-factor.     [Ro^. 

»er,  Burtlett'«-l»uiMinir»,  HollK)m.    C. 
Kt>tland,  T.  and  J.  Adams,  Birmingham,    mer* 

chantR.  [Nu.tin,  Frederlck*«-p]aGe,iHd  Jewrv.  C. 
Kni^tit,J.  Mile  EniUroad,  builder.     [Smith. iJaf- 

siiichall-^trcet.    T.  ■ 
Lake,  \V.  Liverpool,  merchant.    [Chester,  Sy  Sta- 
ple-inn.   C. 
Pool,   W.  iSmith-strcct,   (-lerkonwcU,   roal -mer- 
chant.      [Iluswn,     Crowu-cuurt,     A!iicr»^'ate- 

Ptreet.    T. 
Riovlinii,J.  and  J.  Evans,  I>eice»ter-sqtiare,  tiillor«. 

[I>awi's,  Ani'el.court,  Tliru'-''iiiorton--itrrrt.    T. 
Trivhom,  R.  Wickliam,  Siniihampton.  plumber. 

[V^■(»o<lw■ar■l,  'roken-hon-o-vuril,  I^thbtir. .    t  . 

Wilklnhojj,»l.  Hi-'h-street,  ^V'ap;■i!lL^  oil-nil- r».*lijur. 
[Cnwins,  lr<l,  Hii-li-slrert,  MiiulwcM.    T, 

Nov.  \X  Ej-I:?n,  J.  Stan-s'-'ati'-street,  Lambetli, 
s'.j.tiT.  [Riv/crs,  Maucli':»ti-r-baii-liii.;s,  Wi-jt- 
minster.    T. 

Hall,  t,'.  (i.  and  H.  B.  Hall,  r,rO'!v»»nor->5treft 
\\Vs»t,  I'itniico,  carpenter*.  [Ki>jt,  CliiVonl"*- 
inn.    T. 

Miliar,  A.  Can'lL'an-p^ace,  VauKh;ill-ro:>  !..<«r7.-v, 
oiliuau.  [Wiiliauii,  (jra)Viuu-pi:;ce,  Hol- 
born.   T. 


m;i  L.;u..->'i:n;ri',  i  I  .ii-'irii.     ^  , 

Couj»\<, .L  ViVoM  •,  Ml■n•^)I\i,  tauocr.     [Dajs.  -jj. 
tiuilOwni-hlreet.    C.  •-        *      ' 


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BankmpU'^eqMitiraiioM^Fjoreign  Exchange. 


eoA 


Coop«r.  W.Liverpool,  draper.  [Blackstock,  King*! 
Bench-walk,  Temple.    C. 

DavitUon,  T.  aD<I  J.  MilUiran,  I^iverpool,  mer- 
chant a.     r:\ilMDfrtuD,  Ikdfunl-row.    C. 

Eyre,  SV.  Cockspar-street,  Chorint^-croKfi,  tmnk- 
maker.  [Carlou,  Hijfrb •street,  Mary>Ie-l)OBe.  T. 

Gasre,  iA.  A.  Liverpool,  tailor.  [Taylor,  9,  Kingt 
Bench-walk,  Tfmplf.    C. 

Gotobed,  W.  Stretbam,  Isle  of  Elv,  Cambridf(e, 
batcher.  rFrancis,  1,  New  lk>swelI*court,  Carey- 
itreet.   (f. 

Graham,  Sir  R.  London,  bart.  J.  Railton,  Man- 
chetter,  J.  Railton,  and  J.  Young.  London,  mer- 
chants. [Holton,  Austin-friars.    C. 

Green,  it.  J.  Green,  and  8.  (!reen,  Sheflield,  mer- 
chants. rWUson,  16,  (ireville-strcet,  Hatton- 
garden.    C. 

Hardon,  L.  and  J.  K.  Hendy,  Wclbeck-street, 
Cfavendish-sqnare,  auctioneers.  [Hutchinson, 
Crown-coart,  Threadncedle-gtreet.    T. 

KIppen,  D.  New-roud,  i'ancras,  timber-merchant 
[Jones,  10,  Hniusvvick-«quare.    T. 

Kmner,  W.  and  S.  Kinner.  Notbinir-hil],  staire- 
cosch  proprietors.    [Hull,  Chiswell-strect.  T. 

Matthew>,T.  Hijrh  HuU>orn, linen-draper.  [Swain 
Fredcrick.*s-place.  Old  Jewry.    T.  * 

Moody,  J.  Jun.  Et^hatii,  Surrey,  coach-maste^ 
[Isaacson,  9,  Broail-cuurt,  Long  Arre.    T. 

Murray,  J.  Parkhead,  Cumbcriandv  buttcr-dcaicr. 
[Addison,  Staple-Inn.    C. 

Needham,  R.  Queeu's-bnildiri^fi,  Rrompton-road, 
silter-smith.  [Shelton.Old  liuitey.  T. 

Nortbcote,  H.  J.  Lime-street,  wiue-mercbant.- 
[RirketL  Cloak-lane.  T. 

Kallston,  J.  North Sliieldii,  Northnmberland,  nhip- 
owuer.     [Niud,  Thruiimorton-Rtrect.    T. 

Richardson,  F.  (.'heap-side,  wareliunseman.  [Greg- 
son,  An^rl-co'irt,  Tliro^morton -street.  T. 

RohinAou,  W.and  K.  HobiiiK>n,  Worthing;,  Suissex, 
common-carriers.  [Smith,  €,  New  UasiughalU 
street.    C. 

Sanders,  J.  M.  (pswich,  Suffolk,  ironmonger. 
[Clarke,  lOJ),  Cnanccry-lane.    C. 

Scott,  ('.  Stoke-upon-Trent,  earthenware-mann- 
factnrer.     [Rarher.  Fetter-lane.    C. 

Sherwin.J.  it urileni, Stafford, ironmonger.  [Wool- 
ston,  turnival*a-inn.    C. 

Simlsterf  J.   R.  Simister,  and  J.  Simister,  Bir- 


mingham, botton-makers.  [Clarke,  109,  Chan- 
cery-lane.   C. 

Spencer,  T.  Gray*s-inn-lanc,  livery  stable-keeper. 
[Tebbntt,  Gray»».lnn.8quare.    T. 

Streets,  W.  Aldermanbunr,  Kalloon-mannfaetarer. 
f  Webster,  Qneen-street,  Cheapside.    T. 

Tills,  \V.  sen.  .Mistley,  K^seT,  merchant.  [Stevens, 
10,  little  St.  Thomas  Apostle.    C. 

Twigg,  J.  Cheaptiide,  warehouseman.  [Lester, 
New-court,  Crntched-friars.  T. 

Nov.  20.    Bentley,  J.  r.urtain-roa<i.  hardwareman. 

[Pike,  New  noswell-court,  Carey-street.    T. 
Bingham,  R   (ionipert,  clerk.    [Cook,  Clement's. 

inn,  New  Chambers.    C. 
Burrel,  J.  Newcastle-upou-Tyne,  merchant.  [Bell, 

Bow  I'hurch-ynrd.    C. 
Haudsword,  H.  (ireat  Win  cheater -street.  Broad- 

St.  merchant.   [I^^'er,  i,  New-coort,  Cruichcd- 

friars.    T. 
Meadway,  R.  Beaminster, Dorset,  batcher. [Holme, 

New-inn.    C. 
MoHS,  T.   V'auxhnll,  Snrrey,   porter.     [Henson, 

Bouvr.rle-street,  Fleet-street.    T. 
Savery,  (!.   .South  KiTord,   Devon,    lime-bumer. 

[Ko'v,4,  Austin  Friare     C. 
Ward,  J.  London,  importer.    [Browne,  79,  Lower 

ThauiitH-Ktreet.    T. 
Wood,  J.  Birmingham,  broker.    [Holme,  New* 

inn.    C. 

SCOTCH  SEQUESTRATIONS. 

Gazeite^Oct.  27  to  Nov.  20. 

Anderson,  M'Cnlloch,  and  Co.  merchants,  Glas- 
gow. 

Steiihonse.  A.  and  G.  Stonhouse,  merchants,  Leith. 

Rankin,  R.  merchant,  Edinburgh. 

Skinner,  T.  merehant,  (OMn-iburgh. 

Balfour,  E.  merchant,  Stirling-. 

Culler,  J.  cattle-dealer,  J-orfar. 

Aitken,  A.  mauofacturer,  Glasgow. 

Sutherland,  J.  merchant,  Nairn. 

Foreman,  G.  and  A.  Bnchanan,  merchants,  Ster. 
linir. 

Sword,  J.  Inn.  merchant.  ii\i\»sow. 

Smith,  J.jun.  merchant,  Ahcniecn. 

Sinclair,  G.  merchant,  Stromuess. 


COURSES  OF  FOREIGN  EXCHANGE  AT 

OH 

Paris. 
21  Nov. 

1 

Hambni^. 
13  Nov. 

Amstenlam 

ICNov. 

Vienna. 
8  Nov. 

Nnrembere 
12  Nov.  ■ 

Berlin. 
1«  Nov. 

Naples 
6  Nov. 

Leipsig. 
2  Nov. 

Rremea 
12. Nov. 

London  ... 

Paris 

Hamburg . 
Amsterdam 
Vienna.... 
Franckfort. 
Augsburg . 

Oenoa 

licipsig.... 
liCghom... 
liisbon .  ... 

Cadiz 

Naples. ... 
Bilboa.  ... 
Madrid. ... 
Oporto.... 

25-50 

1»4} 
50| 

251 

250 
470 

512 

550 

16-55 

440 

15-55 

15-fw 

500 

30-8 
25]i 

107J 

14C| 

I47i 
147i 

82i 
148 

88 

37 
92^ 

93i 
37i 

41-7 

504 

35g 

30^ 

:$o^ 

30^ 
92i 

99i 

41i 
104 

84 

104 

104^ 

414 

10-4 
118 
144} 
134 

J)9J 
991 

1 
I 

fl.  10-10 
fr.  119 
145J 
135^ 
40 
100 
99i 

99J 

I54i 

142 

104| 

1041 

104} 

104} 

585 
22-80 
41-80 
40-75 
57-90 

57-40 
1905 

118 
49i 

C-19i 

80 
140} 
135| 
994 
100 
lOOJ 

1 

016 

133} 
1224 

COURSES  OF  FOREIGN  EXCHANGE  AT 


ON 


Franckfort. 
!.'» Nov. 


Brr<»1;;w. 
7  Nov 


Christiana.  rerrr»bnnf.     RIea. 
:\\  Oct.    I    2<;  Oct.    I  29  Oct. 


.Antwerp, Mnflrid.  i  Lisbon. 
i;»  Nov.  I  H  Nov.  !    1  Nov. 


London  

PariM 

Hamburg.... 
Amsterdam  . 


I 


152} 

140^ 
135} 


GenoA I      "~ 


7-34        - 

—       40  Sp. 


1584 
141} 


189 


9'§ 
100} 

H 


n 

40.0i 

374 

51}  1 

31 

101 

545 

«& 

8 

— 

39 

9j 

34J 

— 

43} 

2i 

— 

800 

MARKETS. 


.16-  6 


COURSE  OF  EXCHANGE. 

From  OcU  26  to  Nov.  20. 

Amsteidam,  a  F 12-15.. 12-14 

IMtto  at  sight 12-12.. 12-11 

Rotterdam,  2U 12-16.. 12-16 

Antwerp 12-8  ..12-  7 

Hamburgh,  2i  U 38-0  ..37-  8 

Altoiia,2iU 38-1  ..37-9 

Paris,  3  days'  sight 25-70. .  25-00 

IMtto. .2U    26-0  ..25-90 

Bourdeaux    26-0  .  .25-90 

FiankfortonthcMainI  |r  *7 

ejcm r ' 

Petersburg,  rble,  3  Us.. . .  .84.  .9 

Viemia,  eh  flo.  2  M 10-22..  10-18 

Trieste  ditto 10-22. .  10-18 

Madrid,  effective 36 

Cadiz,  effective 36 

BOboa 35} 

Barcelona 35^ 

Seville 354 

Gibraltar 30| 

Leghorn 47 

Ctenoa 43| 

Venice,  ItaL  Liv. 27-60 

Halta 45 

Naples 394 

Palermo,  per  oz 118 

lisbon 50 

Oporto 50 

Rio  Janeiro  47  ..49 

Bahia 62  ..50 

Dublin 8i 

Cork 9 


PRICES  OF  BULLION. 
At  per  Ounce, 

£,  s,     d,      £,    t,  d, 

Portugal  gold,  in  coin  0    0    0  ..0    0  0 

Fordgn  {^d,  in  bars  3  17  IO4..O    0  0 

New  doubloons....  3  13    6  ..3  13  9 

NewdoUars 0    4    9i..O    0  0 

Silver,  in  ban,  stand.  0    4  11  ..0    0  0 

The  above  Tables  contain  the  highest 
and  the  lowest  prices. 

Average  Price  of  Raw  Sugar^    exclusive 
of  Duty ^  29*.  Oi. 

Bread. 

Highest  price  of  the  best  wheaten  bread 
in  London  Vld.  the  quartern  loaf. 


Potatoes  per  Ton  in  Spitalfelds, 

Kidneys  ...  .£3     0  0  to  4     0  0 

Champions  ...  2  10  0  to  4     0  0 

Oxnobles 2    0  0  to  2  10  0 

Apples 2    7  0  to  3  10  0 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  COBN 

IV  THE  TWELVE  MARITIME  DISTRICTS^ 

By  the  Quarter  of  8  Winchester  Buahebs 
from  the  Returns  in  the  Weeks  ending 


20 
Wheat58  4 
Rye  -  26  10 
Barley  31  2 
Oats  20  b 
Beans  32  2 
PeM     32    3 


Oct.     Oct. 
27 


56 
26 
29 
21 
29 
32 


Nov. 
3 

3  55     ] 
5  24 

4  26 
1  20 

5  28 


Nov.     ^ox. 


10 
55     2 

4|27  6 
7  26  3 
i;i9  11 
1  26  11 


5  38  10  32     1 


17 
55     4 


24 
25 
19 
28 
30 


4 
9 
8 
3 

7 


Com  and  Pulse  imported  into  the  Port  of 
London  from  Oct  26,  to  Nov.  19. 


English  I   Irish 


Wheat    38,983 
Barley      4,504 


Oats 

Rye 

Beans 

Pease 

Malt 


25,909 

:i85 

8,984 

5,032 


2,000 
230 
10,490 
95 


Foreign 
8,620 
4,115 

10,806 


Total 
49,015 

8,839 
49,996 

425 

8,984 

5,432 


12,604  Qrs.;  Flour  .37,189  Sacks. 
Foreign  Flour  —  barrds. 

Price  of  Hops  per  act,  in  the  Borough, 
Kent,  New  bags  . .  .40*.  to    86*. 

Sussex,  ditto 40*.  to    6<>«. 

Essex,  ditto 00*.  to    00*. 

Yearling  Ban <K)*.  to    UO*. 

Kent,  New  Pockets  45*.  to    fKM. 

Sussex,  ditto 40*.  to    65*. 

Ks6cx,  ditto 40*.  to    65«. 

Famhaui,  ditto 160*.  to  IRO*. 

Inferior 105*.  to  140*. 


Average  Price  per  Load  of 
Hay,  Cloiwr,  Strav, 

£,   s,     £,  s.    £.  *.  £,    M,    jC.  *.    £.    s» 

Smithfcld. 
3    0to4    0..4    Oto5    0..1     8tol   19 

JVhitechapch 
3    3to4    0..3  10to5    0..1     8tol!6 

St,  Jameses, 
3    0to4    8. .3  lOtoo    0..1     7tol  16 

Meat  by  Carcase^  per  Stone  of  lUb,  at 
Newgate. — Beef 2*.     0</.  to  3*.     Oi 

Mutton.. 2*.  10</.  to  3*.  10</. 

Veal.... 3*.     Od.  to  5*.     0</. 

Pork 2*.     8J.  to  4*.     8tf. 

lianib . .  .0*.     OJL  to  0*.     0^. 
LcadenfiatLJRcei.,,,2s.  ^0d.  to  3*.     Gif. 

3Iutton..2*.  10</.  to  3*.  iOdL 

Veal 3*.  10 J.  to  5*.     8tf. 

Pork ...  .2*.     0</.  to  4*.     6<f. 

Lamb...O*.     0^.  to  0*.     0dm 


Cattle  sold 


sold  at   Smithfcld  from  Oct,   26, 
to  Nov.  19,  both  inclusive. 
Beasts.        Calves.  Sheep.       Pii^ 

14,138  1,652  89,770       1,490 

HIGHEST  AND  LOWEST  PRICES  OF  COALS  (IN  THE  POOL), 

In  each  A^'eck,  from  Oct.  29  to  Nov.  19. 
Oct.  29.  Soy.  5.  Nov.  12.  Nov.  19. 

*.  d,  s.  d.  t,  d.  s.  d.  s.  d,  s.  d,  s.  d.  *.  d. 
Newcastle.  33  0  lo  4o  0  I  36  0  to  45  9  I  38  6  to  42  6  i  40  6  to  44  (» 
Sunderland 36  6  to  41  0\%*l  ^\o4^  ^\\\  Q\o43  6  [  38  0  to  39  0 


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